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Welcome back to the Friday Night Drive
Podcast. I am Kyle Neighbors along

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with my co host Steve Susy.
Here, we're ready to get you set

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for Week six. It's incredible to
think that we're already after this week,

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going to be two thirds of the
way through the high school football season.

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SEUs Yeah, I mean hard,
hard to settle, settle in with that

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fact when you consider, you know
how it feels like it was maybe just

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a week or two ago that we
were just starting this thing. I know,

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it just once you hit the accelerator, it just seems to keep going

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faster and faster. And we got
a loaded, absolutely loaded Week six slate

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to talk about today. But we're
gonna have Michael Dweljack and Joe's even to

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join us first. Then Susan,
I would get into the full week at

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I'm gonna go ahead and bring Michael
and because we've got a lot to get

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to today, and we're gonna start
with the Catholic League in East Suburban Catholic

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Conference, where last week we got
a real good look at just exactly how

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I see Catholic and Weed and Saint
Francis are going to measure up against some

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of the top talent in this conference. Michael and they both perform better than

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I think really anyone outside of the
maybe those programs expected. Yeah, I

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mean both Icy Catholic and Saint Francis
have really shows that they've been able to

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compete in this mega conference. I
mean I see Catholic bet Ben at thirty

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four to nine to beat naz in
overtime and then kept up and be you

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know Maris, which was a really
impressive win in my eyes. You know

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both you know, a thirty three
player team like Icy Catholic going against a

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team like Maris that has around eighty
one hundred kids on their roster. That's

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really impressive. And during my notebook
this week, I caught up with Icy

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Catholic coach Bill Kraft and he talked
about how, you know, they're getting

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to the point of not being able
to physically be able to compete, you

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know with these teams. You know, they got thirty three guys, and

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they've got guys going two ways,
and you've got you know, teams like

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Maris and even Naz who have guys
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have, and this league is so
brutal. So it's been a really interesting

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thing to watch Icy Catholic and Saint
Francis too. You know, they beat

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Saint Lawrence, who's who's having a
rebound year this year, forty three to

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twenty eight. They lost to Fenwick
by one point, and they came back

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to beat Juliet Catholic this past week
thirty three to twenty eight. So I

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mean both teams have really shown that
they can compete against the conference, but

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I'm really interested to see do they
have what it takes to keep up in

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the fence where you know you can
start off really well in this conference,

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and a lot of teams have.
I in my statistics that I put together

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this week, a lot of teams
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the first five weeks of the season. It's what happens in the second half

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of the season when you got to
keep up every single week playing against the

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best in the state. They're really
determined you know how good you're going to

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be in this conference. You can
find that statistical notebook and break down from

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Michael over at Friday Night Drive dot
com. You can also follow Michael on

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x at m DWO Jack ninety four
and he's also on Instagram and threads.

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Now, Michael, now that we're
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first off, before we head over
to some of this prize teams, let's

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hit on your the matchup you get
this week or just real quick because going

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back to Icy Catholic, they're coming
off that when against Maris, it doesn't

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get any easier. You're gonna get
to see an icy Catholic team, as

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you said, with thirty three kids
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That's next week. Oh, that's
next week. I'm sorry, you're well,

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then I'm gonna cut that out.
Who do you have this week?

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I got Juliet Catholic and Marris.
Okay, That's why I'm getting confused,

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because those are the two teams that
lost last week. I'm thinking of Okay,

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coming back down in three two one, all right, Michael. Now

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that we're five weeks into or five
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I think it's it's we got a
large enough sample size that we can start

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to look through some of these teams
in the CCL E SCC. Who would

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you label as maybe the surprises of
the of the season so far? Other

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than you know, I wouldn't say
that I'm terribly surprised that I see Catholic

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in Saint Francis have been able to
compete the way they have. But obviously

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there were some questions as to how
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adjust to the conference. But I
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about are both Montini and Saint Lawrence. I think Montini, you know,

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they're five and no best starts since
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like in the state championship game that
year. But you know, talking

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to that program before the season,
we heard a lot from the coaching staff

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about you know, Montini being being
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playing at the level we want to
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resources we need. COVID kind of
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and I think you're starting to see
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really put together a strong season.
They've played some pretty good teams so far

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this year, so that five of
those start is really good. And they've

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got two playmakers Alex Murray and George
A. Say, who are really able

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to really run things for the Broncos
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an offense that has actually been pretty
impressive. Montini as a plus eighty five

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point differentials so far this season.
So Montini has been able to show that

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they're able to compete with a lot
of teams, and I'm really interested to

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see how they're able to do that
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Now that they essentially have a playoff
birth guaranteed. And Saint Lawrence is really

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interesting to meet too. There four
and one right now, want to know

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in the White and he's also in
the White. But Saint Lawrence has been

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a team where it's been one of
those situations where you know, coach am

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Neeson has been developing guys ever since
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the senior classes is you know,
first freshman class and they've been growing along

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the way. And Saint Lawrence has
shown that they've got the playmakers, They've

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got the guys. Aaron Ball is
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He's doing a lot of great things
as a playmaker for that team. So,

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you know, both Montini and Saint
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Carmel, I don't know if you'd
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mean, Susan and I talked about
at the beginning, you know, at

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the preseason podcast. We expect them
to be good. I didn't expect them

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to hold up with Mount Carmel as
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But I think Carmo is definitely also
another team that maybe not as much

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of a surprise, but someone who
kind of deserves to uh have its name

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out there. You can see Michael
checking in with Live Live with Friday Night

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Drive on Friday evening from eight to
eleven PM with host Jake Barnolston and Steve

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Susi. Uh you this week,
Michael, you'll be covering Joliet Catholic and

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Maris. What are you thinking about
this matchup? I think this matchup,

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you know, Maris is one in
four so far, oh and one in

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the green. Joliet Catholic is three
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I think both teams essentially it's not
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as a must win game for Maris. But Joliet Catholic doesn't need to win

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this game. But I think this
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to have. Joliet Catholic already at
three and two trying to prove that it

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deserves to be, you know,
in those top twenty polls and those you

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know, upper echelon teams, and
this would be a really good test for

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them traveling to Maris. And Maris
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schedule. I think she said in
one of the sweets that they have one

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of the tougher schedules in the season
in the in the state. But you

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know, Maris has had it.
They've been growing a lot. Like I

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said earlier, they've only got a
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So this is a really big matchup
for both teams, especially Maris.

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You know they need to win out
to make the playoffs. But for Joliet,

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because well they need to show that
they can compete against the Class eight

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eight team travel to Chicago, you
know, do all that stuff, and

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compete against the talent to defense in
an offense as well. So you know,

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the records might not look great for
this matchup, but you know it

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has a lot of interesting storylines and
a lot of you know, things that

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could really impact what happens here as
we head into the last three of the

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season. All right, well,
thank you for joining us this morning.

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Michael, all right, have it
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Valley Conference and I'll matchup between Richmond
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Now we got Joe Stevenson joining us
here to talk about everything in mckenry

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County football. Joe, how you
doing. I'm doing well, doing real

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well. You got a good one
on Friday night between Carry Grove and Prairie

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Ridge, with Kerry Grove going down
and scoring in the final minute of the

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game, only to miss the extra
point. Prairie Ridge hangs on in the

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rivalry matchup twenty one to twenty.
That's just that's how pr Carry Grove games

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should come down to the wire.
Gal. Yeah. Even Pretty Ridge coach

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Chris Shrimp after they scored with two
oh nine to go, he just he's

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and his defense had played so well
on that and he says, you just

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kind of knew that that's what it
was gonna come down to, that they

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were going to go down and score. And you know, it was kudos

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to Carry Grove because Pretty Ridge in
this game had the ball for thirty four

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minutes and thirty three seconds. Okay, that's a forty eight minute game.

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So they had the ball almost They
possessed the ball almost three quarters of that

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game. And and Carry Grove going
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Yet there they are right there,
that close to going to overtime against

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a really, really good team.
And it says a lot about the battle

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and Carry Grove. But I love
you know, I've seen Prey Ridge three

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times now against South Huntley and Carry
Grove, and I really like the way

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this team plays. They get long
drives. The defense has been again as

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far as like really meaningful touchdowns.
I'm talking about like when the you know

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the game is close. In five
games, pray Ridge has given up one

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defensive touchdown the second half last week
there was there were two touchdowns, but

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one of them was Andrew Prio from
Terry Grove taking the kickoff ninety five yards

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for touchdowns. Feeling I was gonna
say, coach Chris trap oh rap prayer

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Ridge. Probably not that I'm not
listening watching Tyler Facey rip up and down

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the field to set an NFL records
fun, but you know, being able

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to get some defensive stops this year, I'm guessing coach Chris Trump's feeling a

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little bit better with the way the
defensive playing compared to last year. Oh.

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Absolutely. And you know it's funny. You know, after the game

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there were a lot of a lot
of alumni there and and Tyler Vasey,

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who's up at Whitewater, which is
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of them who was there, and
one of the assistant coaches after the game

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said, Hey, Tyler, see
what we could do that as you graduated,

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we can actually have long drives because
they had one drive of I think

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they had two drives that were like
eight minutes long the other night, the

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one, the one that they scored
the winning touchdown was was like eight minutes

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plus. And they did that against
Hontley at the end too, they had

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one about nine minutes. So yeah, it actually can work out in your

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favor in a way. Yeah,
predict I mean you heard three clouds or

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three yards and a cloud at dusk. I mean that is kind of what

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the triple option offense is supposed to
be. So get up there. I

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mean, how many how many twenty
yard plus touchdown runs and Tyler vasy have

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last year? I don't remember,
but I had he had fifty two I

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think for the year or something like
that, and I would guess that most

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of those were more than more than
twenty. Yeah, it's crazy, crazy

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stats. Yeah, all right,
Well let's let's move on to this week.

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And we got a match up between
Richmond Burden and Morris. This was

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a game that if you remember last
year, we talked about a lot.

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We were really excited for this game, and Richmond Burton took care of business

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I believe thirty four to seven.
Yeah, thirty one to seven. It

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was one to seven, it was
twenty four to nothing. And and Morris

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actually i think got a turnover in
a short field and was able to go

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in and score, and you thought, oh, well are they gonna now

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Now Richmond wouldn't have hapen And they
went right back and scored. And then

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their their defense was really good.
Yeah, they they handled them. And

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Morris at that point was ranked number
one in five A. Weren't they SEUs

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I believe last year, And and
yeah, Richmond really really took care of

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them pretty good. So I'm sure
that I'm sure that game didn't sit well

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with the Morris players. And I
think this again has the potential to be

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a really good game. Morris is
Morris is three and Richmond is four right

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in four A this week? Yes, so absolutely, yeah, I mean

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yeah, which which which pupp is
that that has thoughts on Richmond Burton?

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Sorry, that is Willie. She
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giving her pick for Richmond Burton.
Morris and I'll pin you on this spot,

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Joe, who are you taking in
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this was a really difficult game to
pick. You know that Richmond Burton's going

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on the road this time, and
you know, different teams. I just

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can't get past last year, you
know, and how well Richmond and played

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and and so I picked Richmond Burton
in this game. But I'm expecting it

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to be a really good game and
a lot closer than last year. Again,

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I love the way Richmond plays because
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big hammer with Braxton Nelison, like
two hundred and twenty pounds at fullback and

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he's leading our area and rushing right
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And Jack Martin's is a is a
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He doesn't get the ball a lot, but when he does, he takes

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her a long way, and then
that defense is really good. One more

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question for Joe before we get out
of here. Make sure you follow Joe

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on Twitter at NWA Underscore Joe Prepson. You can find all of Joe's content

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at Friday Night Drive dot com and
at and NW Herald dot com. Joe,

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you get a fun game on Friday
between Hope Academy and Assumes. I'm

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gonna ask you for your opinion.
I Hope here in a second, but

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Joe, Hope Academy and Mary and
Central, this is certainly a to that

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I can't recall. Have these two
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They have not. I didn't think
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definitely a unique matchup and one that
I'm really interested to see how it plays

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out on Friday. Yes, I
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the first time that they met.
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they met. Yeah, and it
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And you know, Marion has kind
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CCC coming up here in the last
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Both those teams getting votes in one
A and Wheaton Academy getting votes in four

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A. So we'll we'll get a
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is. And Marian has to at
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know, the Hurricanes are still playing
for the They're right in the thick of

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that conference title race without a loss
in the Chicagoland Christian Conference right now.

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Yeah, and sus there's been some
swagger from Hope this year. It's a

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good program. What are you hearing
about this team? You know, it's

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it's an interesting team. It's just
last year I feel like they had a

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lot of explosiveness with head coach sun
Judah Mallett, who's now at Iowa.

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I didn't know how much they'd be
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last year. They did have quite
a few players back. Their quarterback Eddie

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Jenkins Junior, is kind of a
really talented run pass type of guy who

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is tough to kind of rain in, you know. But the thing that

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kind of opened my eyes with this
year's version of the team is their ability

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to, you know, pick up
that win over Wheaton Academy. Early in

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the year, I worried about Hope
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or not they'd be able to match
up with some of the I guess,

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you know, big programs in the
conference, if that makes a lot of

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sense. These are smaller programs.
But there's differences between a you know,

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a one eight team and a four
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terms of, you know, the
ability to maybe not have quite as many

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guys going both ways. But that
win kind of stepped up to me and

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said, you know, Hope's probably
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the pack team in this conference,
is what I thought before the year,

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and I think they're legitimately in the
mix to potentially win it. So this

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is a pivotal game for both teams. In that quest, I think sus

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I was looking at their stats and
they don't. It doesn't look like they

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throw the ball a lot, but
boy, when they do, they throw

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it a long way. They must
have some good speed because they got four

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guys averaging twenty yards per catch or
better. Yeah, it's definitely it's definitely

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a home run type of offense that
they run. And Hope, you know,

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if you're you're going to score touchdowns
with this this the Eagles it's usually

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going to be a double digit number
on the Artish total. This is definitely

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not the kind of team that's putting
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eighty two yard drive on you.
They're gonna they're gonna look to attack at

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almost every given opportunity. All right, Joe, well, thanks for joining

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us. Enjoy Week six man,
all right, great guys, chetch you

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support. Okay, welcome back now
to the Friday Night Drive Podcast. I

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am Kyle Neighbors along with Steve SUSI, sus, We're gonna hit on a

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few games here before we wrap it
up and get ready for Week six.

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Josh Welgi and Jake Barleston hit on
this game in the Western Western Suburbs edition

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of the Friday Night Drive Podcast.
But I'd be remiss not to mention the

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hundred and fifth meeting this week between
Batavia and Geneva. Batavia at four and

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one heading to five and Old Geneva. I'm really looking forward to seeing this

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one suits Yeah, me too.
And it's one of those situations when you

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look at what Geneva has done this
year, really really putting together a solid

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campaign. But for them, I
mean, this is a huge rivalry game

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and it's a game that they have
not performed exceptionally well in over the last

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decade or so, So you know, for them, they want to step

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up and prove that they belong in
this conversation as either the top or one

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of the top teams in the duqueing
and to do that, that road always

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goes directly through when you play Batavia
and how you do in that game.

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So it's a it's a measuring stick
stick game for Geneva. They've already proven

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they're a very good team, they're
five and oh they've done that, But

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now how good is this Geneva team
are they should do they belong in that

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conversation of a top ten program in
the state right now or are they not

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quite there yet? And I think
this game will tell us a lot in

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answering those two questions, we got
a matchup between two five and O team.

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We got a lot of good matchups
this week, and this one is

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near the top of my list SEUs
with Dowters Grove North and York matching up

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here at five and oh. You
got Dotters Grove North coming off a seven

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win season a second round playoff appearance
last year. The Trojans looked really good

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off to this five and oh start
with a win over Glenbard West kind of,

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and we can Saint Francis as the
two really one big ones that stand

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out so far. York is just
really doing well all season long. Here,

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I'm taking York to win this game. Shu's I really really like the

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Dukes. I think the bigger question
for me here and maybe I'm gonna just

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make wrong. Maybe the Trojans will
pull it up. But I want to

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see how close downs Grove North keeps
this game because I'm trying to figure out

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right now, like is this a
team that can make it deep into the

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playoffs pass the second round this year? You know, it's it's a very

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interesting game on a lot of perspectives. I feel like, you know,

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while York has really kind of rambled
through the early portion of their season.

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You know, they've they had a
good schedule to start the year. There

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are some marquee names on there,
but some of those teams that they've beaten

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so far, maybe you're not performing
at the level that I think a lot

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of people anticipated that they would.
So I don't know. I don't think

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there's I don't think there's a really
you look at it here. I don't

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know if there's a maybe about it. You're right, I mean they one

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and four, one and four,
two and three, one and four,

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one and four, But you're talking
about against teams like NAZ Glenn Brooks House,

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start of the year, Oak Park, River Forest in Sale Central.

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So yeah, so have they had
a test? I mean, that's kind

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of what I'm asking right now,
is you know, is York. I

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think your's a very good football team, don't get me wrong, but at

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this point in time, I think
there are very few, you know,

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golden stars you can give them for
the opposition that they've played so far in

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terms of a quality wins on their
schedule. I don't doubt that they can

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earn those. It's just that I
don't think they've had them yet so,

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and I think this is an opportunity
for them to kind of, you know,

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pick up a win over a program
that is obviously performing well, kind

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of at their optimum level, I
think. And this is a good team.

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I don't think they're getting quite possibly
the recognition that they deserve to be,

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kind of getting lost in the clutter
of York being so good. So

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I'm sure Downer Drove North wants to
prove that they belong in the in the

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conversation for winning that conference title.
Obviously, these are the two favorites now

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after the way things have gone through
the first five weeks. Yes, absolutely,

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these are the two favorites. You
look back now Glenbard West or Doner

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Northward thirty one seven win over Glenbard
West. York here with an interesting three

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week stretch now would excuse me with
Downers Grove North, Glenbard West and Lion

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before closing out the regular season would
provide the West. Uh sus, Let's

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go ahead and move on. Though. There are a bunch of five and

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old matchups this week. We mentioned
Richmond, Burden and Morris earlier. Any

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others that you're really paying close attention
to this week? You know there are

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a couple in smaller school divisions that
I'm interested in. Lena Winslow is playing

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Duran Pecatonica this week. It's one. Those are two of the three teams

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that are still undefeated in the Northwest
Upstate. A line I along with forreston

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that should that should I favor Lena
in that game. I always favor Lena

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in pretty much every game they play, but I'll be interested to see how

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that factors out. I mean,
the fun thing about this week when you

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look at it across statewide, there
are six games this week where five and

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oh teams playing another five and oh
team. But on top of that,

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there's another thirteen games where a five
and oh team is playing a four and

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one team. So we've got nearly
twenty games where obviously two teams are playing

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each other that are playing at the
top of their game right now. And

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I talked about it with you briefly
early in the week about how loaded Week

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six is. I mean, I
keep a board over here to my right.

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You can't see it, obviously we're
talking on a podcast, but where

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I keep the games that are interesting
to me over the course of that week.

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I keep a kind of like a
notepad over there. There's usually about

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thirty games on the board that I
just want to kind of keep an eye

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on see what's going on with them. On Friday night. There are sixty

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two games on that board this week, so I mean that kind of speaks

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to the depth and quality of the
matchups of this week. It's really really

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crazy. I'm looking here at the
new Page Valley Conference and talking about we

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get a rivalry matchup here this week
between Naperville Central and Naperville North at North

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Central College where that game's usually played
in front of a huge crowd. Naperville

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Central comes in at four and one, Naperville North at three and two.

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I'm trying to make the determination here
when you start looking at comparative results,

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and I'm trying to figure it out
how I think this conference plays out.

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Suits you got Naperville Central at the
top, Niqua Valley just took the loss

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of Naperville Central, but Niqua Valley
also beat Naperville North. So I'm sitting

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here going well as Central far and
away better than the rest of this conference.

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And I'm not so sure that because
I still like Naporville North, and

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I even though Niqua Valley is now
at two and three. Yeah, I

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think the Wildcats find a way to
pull it together here down the stretch.

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Suits Yeah, it's it's very interesting
when you kind of look at the du

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page from top to bottom. You
know, Naporville North, in my opinion,

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is a really really good football team. You look at that record,

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it's three and two, but I
mean one of those losses is to Loyola

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in week two. You know,
they had that crazy win over Bowling Brook,

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you know, early in the year. I think it's a really really

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good football team, you know.
And Naperville Central is to their credit,

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they're doing what they need to do
there. I mean that lone loss coming

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to Lockport. But they've had some
I guess, some squeakers against some teams

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that you know, maybe are not
that you know, high profile on paper.

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I mean, barely beating Hinsdale Central, who's one and four to start

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the season, edging out Plainfield North, you know, six to three,

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Plainfield North below five hundred. To
their credit, the RedHawks are doing what

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they have to do to win.
But you know, pound for pound,

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are they better than Naperville North.
I don't know if they are. I

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mean, that's it's a Niqua Valley, I'll be honest, is probably one

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of the most confusing teams around to
me, you know, I just I

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really don't know how to gauge how
they're going to be on a week to

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week basis just kind of inconsistent all
over the place. I mean, you

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do you have to take into account
that, you know, the team with

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the worst record on their schedule that
they've played so far as Naperville North,

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that is than they're three and two
right now. I mean they've played Linkin

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Way East in week three, Oswego, Manuka, Naperville Central are the other

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teams on their schedule. Their schedule
thus far has been ridiculous. Obviously for

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them, it kind of makes a
downward shift now into being a little bit

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more reasonable the rest of the way. So that makes you believe that they're

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probably still a playoff team even though
they're two and three right now. But

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the path is there for them to
get to five wins. So but really

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kind of confusing on the grand scheme
of things, what you're going to get

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from from NIKU a week to week. I mean, just look at their

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season point total. They've scored forty
one points through five games and they're two

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and three. I mean they've been
They've They've given up almost twice as many

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points. Eighty two points is not
a bad point total will have given up

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this so far this year. But
when they only scored half, when you've

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only scored half as much, that
kind of speaks to the problems. So

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it's, you know, it's one
of those things when you look at their

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schedule, you look at who they've
played, but you still I can't get

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a good read on them at all. They're they're, like I said,

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one of the more confusing teams to
try to evaluate on a week to week

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basis because the results are just kind
of all over the map. Did Moments

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get rid of the redskin nickname?
No, I'm looking, so I went

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over one of the game that I
wanted to preview was Moments Alt four five

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and Moments, which shocking that they're
five and ozho one Salt four can.

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I just noticed I was just confirming
records, and I noticed the nickname listed

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on the HSA website has Moments Athletics
post in the football database and the HSA

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school directory. So yeah, if
if you notice, like with all of

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those schools, now that have American
mascots only one that they don't. They've

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never done anything, and in regards
to just kind of ignoring its existence as

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nicmas everybody else, they've kind of
like pulled them down. And I don't

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know if that was because somebody asked
them too, and they're just like,

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well, we're not gonna we're not
gonna fart around with them. But no,

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they didn't get rid of it.
Oh Okay, I just wondering if

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I'm like saying I went to school
there, grew up there, I'm like,

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how the hell did I miss that
nude? Okay, that makes that

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makes more sense, all right,
Well, so yeah, how about that

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moment Salt Fork matchup suits? Yeah? I mean it's it's one of those

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things when I look back at the
way I have kind of evaluated teams coming

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into the season and look at where
they're at right now. One of the

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big, you know, swing of
that ledger would be moments three and six

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last year to my understanding of what
they had returning talented but really kind of

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young and inexperienced, have an explosive
quarterback and Eric Castillo. But the biggest

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thing for me about moments this year
defense have really been throwing up some good

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defensive numbers against you know, some
some programs that are pretty decent. And

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the eye opening win for me was
over Westville. They won that game comfortably

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in Week three, Westville's only loss
of the season thus far. And Westville

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has beaten some of the teams that
they have coming up on their schedule,

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including this Salt Fork team. Westville
has already beaten those teams, so the

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path for moments to potentially win them
Vermillion Valley Conference is definitely there. And

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if you would have told me that
at the beginning of the season, I

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would have bent my head to the
side and looked at you funny, because

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I just didn't see that in the
cards every year. This might be a

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fun let's let's maybe do this on
Monday series. I'm gonna write this down

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to remember. I want to put
together a list of our like top five

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surprise team for the year two thirds
of the season, because well, met

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certainly is on that list, and
I want to say I'll offhand, I

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can't really think of anything, but
I'm sure if I start looking through stuff,

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I'll come up with it pretty quickly. So anyone who joined us on

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Monday for the Week six wrap up, we'll have that for you. But

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see as before we get out of
here, you got any final thoughts for

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us? You know, I talked
about it before. Just the sheer volume

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of really good football games this week
is something that we just don't ordinarily have.

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I mean, there's usually kind of
a balance of, Hey, you

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know, there's a couple of good
games over here and a couple of good

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games over there, but then there
are some that you know, really aren't

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all that exciting. But it seems
like all of the teams that have been

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off to a good start and you
know, have strong records at this point

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of the season, they're all congregating
against one another this week and that should

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make for just a fascinating week of
learning so much more about these teams and

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how they stack up. And you
know, we're two thirds of the way

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done with the regular season after this
week is completed, which seems crazy to

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me, But you know, it
definitely has been fun to this point,

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and I don't expect Week six to
me any different. All this sounds like

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a perfect reason to make sure that
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date on everything, and then into
next week, sus and I will be

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back to wrap up Week six.
We'll have our post week six playoff projecting.

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This is when it really starts to
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