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Speaker 5: Hey, welcome to the Friday Night Drive podcast.
Speaker 6: The West and South Quarterfinal quarterfinal playoff preview.
Speaker 5: That was a mouthful. That was a reason.
Speaker 6: I don't know why. Anyway, he's JT Penalty. I'm Eddie Carriffio.
Speaker 6: Thanks for joining us here and we should probably jump
Speaker 6: right into this, JT.
Speaker 5: We got a lot to go over this week.
Speaker 6: It's quarterfinals in the playoffs, you start up at five
Speaker 6: a work our way on down.
Speaker 2: If that makes sense to me, go big and then
Speaker 2: bring it home.
Speaker 6: And I'm not just saying that because we got to
Speaker 6: start with, you know, the school that I'm basically here
Speaker 6: for and then I can just take a little nap
Speaker 6: for the rest of the podcast. As usual, they just
Speaker 6: draw my eyes being open and use some AI for
Speaker 6: the podcast. It's very expensive to make it a peer
Speaker 6: I'm awake. This company a lot of money.
Speaker 1: So you're basically saying, like, any bad predictions after this
Speaker 1: first game is entirely as AI's fault.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and all the previous ones it was. It was
Speaker 5: the fake smart.
Speaker 6: So anyway, we'll start off with St. Francis Sycamore. This
Speaker 6: one's one pm Saturday. The official Friday night Drive pick
Speaker 6: is for Saint Francis. I may disagree with that, as
Speaker 6: we have established my track record may not be the greatest,
Speaker 6: but I really like Sycamore in this one. We can't
Speaker 6: call them the Spartans because they're both Spartans. But Sycamore
Speaker 6: has two wins under their belt against teams still in
Speaker 6: the quarterfinals.
Speaker 5: In five A.
Speaker 6: They haven't beaten Rachelle Morris on their way to a
Speaker 6: Interstate eight title. It's an intriguing matchup because it's the
Speaker 6: old really good offense versus really good defense, strong versus strong. Here,
Speaker 6: Saint Francis can put up some points, Sycamore don't let
Speaker 6: a lot of teams score. I think the interesting aspect
Speaker 6: of this game is Sycamore can force some turnovers, you know,
Speaker 6: and when you've got a team that's going to throw
Speaker 6: as much as Saint Francis does, it certainly opens up
Speaker 6: the interceptions, of which Sycamore has thirteen this year. So
Speaker 6: I think what Sant Francis does plays into all of
Speaker 6: sycamore strengths. So if Sycamore can ball control on offense,
Speaker 6: which they certainly have tried to this year, they've had
Speaker 6: some success running the ball, are really good running the
Speaker 6: last couple of games against the CPL teams they beat.
Speaker 5: I like this game for Sycamore.
Speaker 2: I'm with you on this. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And at this point, I mean, I hope no coaches
Speaker 1: I have won later where I kind of disagree with
Speaker 1: Seuss's pick later, and I hope and then one of
Speaker 1: the coaches that I get along great with and work
Speaker 1: with every year, and so I hope no one takes
Speaker 1: it personal when we're not. You know, at this point,
Speaker 1: everyone's a really good team, and you know, you're just
Speaker 1: kind of picking them based off what you've seen and
Speaker 1: kind of what matchups and head to heads and common
Speaker 1: opponents and sometimes just kind of the mood of things.
Speaker 1: This Sycamore team just, you know, it feels like every
Speaker 1: time they've won a lot of games in close fashion,
Speaker 1: they found a way to do that, and then here
Speaker 1: down the stretch, they found a way to just kind
Speaker 1: of dominate opponents. They've when it comes to winning football games,
Speaker 1: there's no way they haven't done it with defense, with offense.
Speaker 1: You know what they were able to do against Morris
Speaker 1: and Rochelle and I just I think the Sycamore team
Speaker 1: is a really tough out and obviously it's the quarterfinals,
Speaker 1: but I like their chances in this one, Eddie, I'm
Speaker 1: with you. I think they're a team that, you know,
Speaker 1: I would not be a bit surprised to see down
Speaker 1: at IU here in a.
Speaker 2: Couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, no, I mean they've definitely got the talent.
Speaker 6: I think the wrinkle with them getting that far comes
Speaker 6: with the next game. I think we're going to talk
Speaker 6: about here, and that is NAS is really really good.
Speaker 1: They're ahead, Yeah, yeah, Nazareth Academy. You know it's five
Speaker 1: a's in their half of the bracket. Five a's number.
Speaker 5: What is NAS pre seed?
Speaker 2: Three seed? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And lot and a lot of that, you know, is
Speaker 1: built off than the schedule they played during the regular season,
Speaker 1: as we saw it last year when they won a
Speaker 1: state championship after they snuck.
Speaker 2: In at four and five. Is that right?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so so, I mean, you know, they only have
Speaker 1: two losses this year against Rochelle and Rochelle team you
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. They only lost to Sycamore handled Morris handily,
Speaker 1: a team that's still alive in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: On the other half of the bracket.
Speaker 6: I I.
Speaker 1: You know, nas NASA is going to be a very
Speaker 1: tough team to beat, but I think Rochelle's proven to
Speaker 1: be that too. That's gonna be just I think, a
Speaker 1: fantastic game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, and I'm I'm I'd probably picked nass
Speaker 6: in it, but I'm I'm not going to be surprised
Speaker 6: if there's an upset. I mean, Rochelle again, ball control.
Speaker 6: That's the way to keep these high powered offenses off
Speaker 6: the field, you know, and Rochelle certainly controls the ball
Speaker 6: that Grant Gensler will run for one hundred thirty eight
Speaker 6: yards and like four touchdowns last week. You pick a
Speaker 6: guy every weekday, like two guys at one hundred yards.
Speaker 6: It's just a very good running team, ball control offense.
Speaker 6: And you know, I I definitely see I use this
Speaker 6: phrase kind of a lot packed in one of the players.
Speaker 5: But there's a blueprint I think that Rachelle can do
Speaker 5: to beat this team.
Speaker 6: And you know, I do think NAS comes out on
Speaker 6: top just because I think they're so loaded.
Speaker 5: But I mean, I'm not gonna, you know, drop my
Speaker 5: monocle into my bourbon if Rochelle wins.
Speaker 1: Never Yeah, and don't dismiss the fact that Rochelle's at home.
Speaker 1: They have that beautiful complex that they built a handful
Speaker 1: years ago. You know, it makes a big difference this
Speaker 1: time of year, you know, having full stands. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously guys is going to travel as well, they're fans,
Speaker 1: but you know, it makes a difference being at home,
Speaker 1: having that.
Speaker 2: Familiarity, you know.
Speaker 1: I I think and people have talked about and Rochelle
Speaker 1: actually is the higher seed here because they have one
Speaker 1: loss in NAS has two this season. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's the conversation that I've seen people have
Speaker 1: increasingly year after year after year as we get deeper
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, is should the IHSA look at some
Speaker 1: of these, who gets a home game in the semi
Speaker 1: finals or the quarterfinals.
Speaker 2: I don't mind the system as it is.
Speaker 1: I think sometimes maybe some common sense would be put in,
Speaker 1: But I mean, this is one where Rochelle should be
Speaker 1: the home team, and.
Speaker 2: I think it's an advantage for him. I think I'm
Speaker 2: with you.
Speaker 1: I think you have to think boyd Naz has an
Speaker 1: excellent shot in this one. I like Sycamore in the
Speaker 1: upset on the top half of this one, and just
Speaker 1: a heck of a game next week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, with the thing about the home games, I mean,
Speaker 6: obviously I have some thoughts, but do you want to
Speaker 6: point out that the North bracket here in five A, aside
Speaker 6: from an eight to nine upset Westinghouse beat Fossor I think,
Speaker 6: and that that was date and now I match up
Speaker 6: in the first round, it has been chalk, it's been
Speaker 6: the higher seed is won every game aside from that one.
Speaker 6: And that's not something you see given that the obviously
Speaker 6: the playoffs are determined by you know, mathematical strict structure formula,
Speaker 6: not like you said, that common sense or subjective element.
Speaker 5: What you call common sense someone else.
Speaker 6: Would call lunacy or certainly in my case, but so
Speaker 6: really weird to see see a bracket coach chalk for
Speaker 6: that long and of course the one that didn't go
Speaker 6: chalk is what resulted in Sycamore playing a road game
Speaker 6: in the second round and my first visit the new
Speaker 6: Rockney Stadium last week. But still chalk in the north half,
Speaker 6: which sidedly has not happened in the bottom half of
Speaker 6: the bracket.
Speaker 5: Professional segue, Thank you very much, an award that is
Speaker 5: a good one.
Speaker 1: Well, it's tough to get a you know, when you
Speaker 1: have programs like Morris and Joliet Catholic that you're dropping in,
Speaker 1: you kind of assume that chalk's gonna go away by
Speaker 1: both programs that play in you know, brutal conferences and
Speaker 1: do everything they can to schedule up and play bigger teams,
Speaker 1: tougher teams go out of state if they have to,
Speaker 1: which Morris did this year and and took a loss
Speaker 1: in Michigan. You know, so yeah, you're not going You're
Speaker 1: not gonna see chalk when things like this happen. Morris
Speaker 1: is a thirteen seed, has four losses this season. They
Speaker 1: have to go up to Gately in Chicago and visit
Speaker 1: a top seeded Morgan Park. And then on the other side,
Speaker 1: you know, we have number six seed Joliet Catholic and
Speaker 1: they'll be going to Peoria Stadium to play Peoria.
Speaker 2: High which is a two loss team.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we have I think, you know, starting with Morris,
Speaker 1: you know that this is you know, this is a
Speaker 1: challenge obviously when you're playing a top seeded team. Morgan
Speaker 1: Park seems every bit a number one seed. Everything they've done,
Speaker 1: they're they're ten and one this season. You know, they
Speaker 1: had a ten game stretch where they allowed thirteen points.
Speaker 2: You know that it's Chicago Public League.
Speaker 1: Teams to tend not to do particularly well in the
Speaker 1: playoffs when they come up with teams from outside the
Speaker 1: city or outside the Public League, I should say both,
Speaker 1: but this one is. Yeah, I think this is a
Speaker 1: team that's for real. I think the Mustangs are going
Speaker 1: to be a real challenge for Morris.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I'd love to you know, I've obviously
Speaker 6: been against Morris unsuccessfully a couple of times this year,
Speaker 6: but yeah, no, this definitely looks like a tough matchup.
Speaker 6: I mean, I could definitely see Morris getting the win here.
Speaker 6: I mean, it is Morgan Park, by the way, should
Speaker 6: point out the team that eliminated Sycamore last year in
Speaker 6: the in the second round of the playoffs accurately Stadium.
Speaker 6: I want to I think it was a one pm.
Speaker 6: In fact, I think Sandwich had the four pm game
Speaker 6: after that. I got a fun Here is reminiscing brought
Speaker 6: to you by.
Speaker 5: Yeah. No, it's it's it's gonna be a good game.
Speaker 6: I know that it's gonna I think it's gonna be
Speaker 6: one of these Byron style games that goes down to
Speaker 6: the you know, two one conversion at the end sort
Speaker 6: of thing.
Speaker 5: I think it's close. I mean again, then in my head,
Speaker 5: I'm picking Morgan Park.
Speaker 6: But you know again, this isn't a monocle dropping games.
Speaker 5: That's my phrase of the week. I'm seeing if we
Speaker 5: can catch on.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I know, you know Brady Warner, Morris's quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: he has lots of weapons to work with. He's a
Speaker 1: dynamic playmaker. I think the concern for Morris comes on
Speaker 1: that defensive side of the ball. They just haven't been
Speaker 1: the Morris team on defense that you've expected to see
Speaker 1: the last four weeks.
Speaker 2: They've given up. I had this. I added this to
Speaker 2: our preview.
Speaker 1: They give up forty two points to Sycamore, forty eight
Speaker 1: to Byron Center, which is that Michigan oponeent I mentioned
Speaker 1: twenty eight to Troy Triad in a playoff win, and
Speaker 1: then twenty last week to Highland. So on one hand
Speaker 1: you can say, well, it's trending downward, but on the
Speaker 1: other hand, that's given up a lot of points. And
Speaker 1: then Morgan Park conversely, you know, when you look at
Speaker 1: that matchup, I think they were held to sixteen points
Speaker 1: in their only loss of the season Week one.
Speaker 2: Since then, I'll just read this off real quick.
Speaker 1: This is their points per game score, twenty six, fifty
Speaker 1: four twenty not that impressive.
Speaker 2: I have fifty four and here we got fifty.
Speaker 1: Seven, forty eight, sixty two, forty two, thirty four, fifty
Speaker 1: five knocking on the door for five hundred points in
Speaker 1: the season. They're just a quarterback Marxist Thaxton. They have
Speaker 1: a running back Terrence Gurley. Just shredded Metamora last week,
Speaker 1: you know, and everyone knows Metamora has a fantastic football program.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that's your matchup where Morris has
Speaker 1: to play better football than they have. They have to
Speaker 1: they cannot allow what happened against Sycamore, what happened against Rochelle,
Speaker 1: what happened up in Michigan. They cannot allow their defense
Speaker 1: to give up a lot of points because Morris has
Speaker 1: the weapons to compete in a shootout, but they haven't
Speaker 1: really won a shootout, you know, they had that lost
Speaker 1: earlier this.
Speaker 2: Year to Peoria High, who we're going to talk to
Speaker 2: it talk about.
Speaker 5: In a second.
Speaker 1: So I think from I think Morris's path to victory is,
Speaker 1: you know, keeping this a respectable normal football score, you know,
Speaker 1: in the twenties, in the thirties, and not letting them
Speaker 1: be come an up and down the field shootout, because
Speaker 1: I think that's the type of game that Morgan Park's proven,
Speaker 1: you know, they can score with the best of them.
Speaker 6: Should also point out that Morris is about as healthy
Speaker 6: as it's been all year going into this one, so
Speaker 6: that also could make it the responsible for I mean,
Speaker 6: not all of the forty two points or forty eight
Speaker 6: points or whatever they were giving up, but certainly had
Speaker 6: a hand in some of that. I don't think it
Speaker 6: changes the outcome any of those games, but could be
Speaker 6: a factor in this one for sure.
Speaker 5: I think it was.
Speaker 6: Definitely a factor of last week too, So that's also
Speaker 6: worth pointing that out. As you pointed out Peory, Julia
Speaker 6: kathay werought a little bit outside of what we normally do.
Speaker 6: You want to talk about this one a.
Speaker 1: Little bit just for a quick second. I think it's
Speaker 1: worth it just because it's a great matchup. You know,
Speaker 1: we mentioned Peoria High one and we want to shoot out.
Speaker 1: You know, their coach, Tim Thornton resigned after fourteen years
Speaker 1: really just built a Peoria High team that you know,
Speaker 1: nobody wanted to play because they just not only did
Speaker 1: they win and just turn that program around to have
Speaker 1: you know, all kinds of success, but also they're they're
Speaker 1: just played football like nobody else.
Speaker 2: They're so up tempo.
Speaker 1: They had so many games that finished, you know, seventy
Speaker 1: four to sixty two or I'm sure they made all
Speaker 1: kinds of IHSA score agami's. They're and and they're they're
Speaker 1: that type of team again, even though you know, Tim
Speaker 1: Thornton resigned and took a coaching position in Florida. So
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a tough test for
Speaker 1: Joliet Catholic.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: Steve Susi's official Friday Night Drive pick is Jolie at Catholic.
Speaker 2: I think I'd go along with that.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna be you know, another team just like
Speaker 1: just like we said, with Morris really going to be
Speaker 1: tested on that defensive side of the football and offensive
Speaker 1: on the offensive side to keep up against a team
Speaker 1: that maybe doesn't put all their focus on defense. So
Speaker 1: you know, for me following closely, you know sports in
Speaker 1: the Morris Joliet area as well. You know, I'm really
Speaker 1: looking forward to a Julia Katholck Morris matchup. But they
Speaker 1: both got the works cut out for him this Saturday
Speaker 1: to get there.
Speaker 6: See I'm I'm the other way, and that would be
Speaker 6: a great matchup, by the way, but Peoria Morgan Park
Speaker 6: would be a game.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 6: That would be you want to talk about a score
Speaker 6: of garment, You're gonna have both teams hit one hundred.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know what you get, Like we said,
Speaker 1: you get to this point of the year and there
Speaker 1: really aren't any bad matchups. I think we got you know,
Speaker 1: a couple. Cinderella is still kicking around. I mean, if
Speaker 1: someone wanted to sit there and try and tell me
Speaker 1: that you know, well, you know, Morris is a thirteen
Speaker 1: seed there is Cinderella. I'm not accepting Morris as a
Speaker 1: Cinderella in any circumstance or anything.
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 1: There are a couple kicking around, but in almost all
Speaker 1: these classes, you're going to be talking about powerhouse against
Speaker 1: powerhouse matchups in the semi finals, which is what we want.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I wouldn't say Morris.
Speaker 6: I mean again, we went over how the seeds work,
Speaker 6: so even though they're a thirteen seed, I don't think
Speaker 6: it's once you traditionally think that was an NCAA thirteen
Speaker 6: seed getting to this point.
Speaker 5: So getting into the illegate.
Speaker 6: So we're gonna drove on down the fora for a minute,
Speaker 6: and this is a very interesting one that stretches from
Speaker 6: east to west with Dixon and Cole City.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Dixon ten and one, coal City nine and two.
Speaker 1: Cole City's two losses are to Morris and to a
Speaker 1: team we already talked about Morris and a team are
Speaker 1: about to talk about Wilmington, So obviously those are quality losses.
Speaker 1: I think coal City hung with Morris into the second
Speaker 1: half of their matchup, and then I covered their game
Speaker 1: with Wilmington, who twenty one to fourteen. Great football game
Speaker 1: could have gone either way, So no shame in Coal
Speaker 1: City's two losses. They get to be at home because
Speaker 1: of the system where even though they're the seventh seed
Speaker 1: and Dixon's the three, coal City's played one fewer home game,
Speaker 1: so Dixon has to hit the road and goes at
Speaker 1: Cole City. Which I know there's some people up in
Speaker 1: the Suk Valley area that don't quite understand the setup
Speaker 1: or agree with it. That's where I've heard a lot
Speaker 1: of chatter in the Dixon area. Why are we going
Speaker 1: to Coal City? But Cole City has a beautiful facility,
Speaker 1: so if Dixon has been there, though anyone who hasn't
Speaker 1: been there, they'll be treated well. Parking right there, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: But as for the actual football game, you know, this
Speaker 1: should be another great one. I know our Friday Night
Speaker 1: Drive pick is Dixon taking the Dukes, which this would
Speaker 1: be the first time Dixon's ever made it to.
Speaker 2: The state semifinals.
Speaker 1: This is this this year is their deepest run since
Speaker 1: making the four A quarterfinals in twenty seventeen. Dixon that
Speaker 1: one loss was to Byron on a two point conversion
Speaker 1: try and the closing seconds or whatever something like that.
Speaker 1: So I mean Dixon scored over five hundred points. We
Speaker 1: talked about Morgan Park and approaching five hundred and right
Speaker 1: off their ridiculous point totals. You know, Dixon's only been
Speaker 1: held under forty three times and those three times they scored.
Speaker 2: Thirty five, twenty eight and thirty five.
Speaker 1: So that's they have a potent offense, a good defense
Speaker 1: against a Cole City team that is perfectly happy winning
Speaker 1: a three zero football game against you. Cole City they
Speaker 1: can score if the opportunity is given there, but they'd
Speaker 1: love to take the air out of the ball. They
Speaker 1: love to put together fifteen play eight minute drives that
Speaker 1: end in a touchdown and you only get the ball
Speaker 1: twice and a half. And so that's all actively so
Speaker 1: interesting contrast to styles, and I think just a great
Speaker 1: football game here. If you made me pick this one,
Speaker 1: I would I would be hard pressed not to take
Speaker 1: Cole City just based on what I've seen them do
Speaker 1: this year, but obviously Dixon fantastic as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I'm leaning a little more toward Dixon,
Speaker 6: but you don't have to twint really hard to see
Speaker 6: the Cole City win. First of all, playing at home,
Speaker 6: which leads right into them being able to enforce their
Speaker 6: type of game. You know, they obviously, like you said,
Speaker 6: I want to take the air out of the Dixon offense.
Speaker 6: It's a lot easier to do with your home crowd
Speaker 6: behind you and everything. So that you know, you mentioned
Speaker 6: the home factor for Rochelle, I think for Cole City
Speaker 6: I could definitely be an advantage too, because teams are
Speaker 6: tried to make Dixon play their style of game and
Speaker 6: that has not worked this year.
Speaker 5: Dixon.
Speaker 6: Dixon plays their style and Dixon's going to make you
Speaker 6: score points to beat. That sort of game probably doesn't
Speaker 6: bode well for Cole City, I would imagine, But you know, yeah,
Speaker 6: if they can get the low scoring thing that no
Speaker 6: one's been able to do yet, But you know, that's
Speaker 6: why it's the quarterfinals, and that's why they play the game.
Speaker 6: So I would lean a little more toward Dixon, but
Speaker 6: I definitely see the path.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is the deepest coal City has been
Speaker 1: in the playoffs since twenty nineteen, was the last time
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Speaker 2: They have it all.
Speaker 1: Semifinals. Are they trying to get to the finals. But
Speaker 1: this is as deep as they've gone since since then.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, they haven't been to a state
Speaker 1: championship game in two thousand, since two thousand and four
Speaker 1: when they were the runners up in four A. So
Speaker 1: you know, Cole City powerhouse program. But kind of this
Speaker 1: is that stage where in recent years they've faltered. I
Speaker 1: think they have a great team. Landon Benson is one
Speaker 1: of the best all around football players I've ever covered
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, smaller half, you know, four
Speaker 1: eight to one A and you know, I'd put him
Speaker 1: up there with a lot of those five A six
Speaker 1: A kids that I've covered in the NIB twelve slash
Speaker 1: NCIC slash Interstate eight slash whatever it'll be named in
Speaker 1: three years.
Speaker 2: You know, I'd put him up there with any of
Speaker 2: those kids.
Speaker 1: He's just a fantastic football player at everything he does.
Speaker 1: You know, he kicks the extra points, he punts, he
Speaker 1: does everything. So really really interested to see this matchup.
Speaker 1: If for me, the key matchup here is can Cole
Speaker 1: City's defense, which is the way Cole City controls football
Speaker 1: games with their defense. Can their defense slow down hold
Speaker 1: Dixon to you know, two three touchdowns? You know, Dixon's
Speaker 1: never been held under twenty eight all year. I think
Speaker 1: if Dixon reaches thirty Cole Cities in trouble, I think
Speaker 1: dick Sin's path to victory is keeping Dixon you know,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. Ish understand they're going to get some, but
Speaker 1: control it, don't give them any possessions, and grind out
Speaker 1: a win.
Speaker 2: I think that's Coal City's path to victory.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, we spent a lot of time on
Speaker 5: this one.
Speaker 6: The one thing is if Coal City could end up
Speaker 6: with a defensive score, that's the sort of game where.
Speaker 5: Obviously Dixon didn't really turn the ball over.
Speaker 6: But Coal City's defense has got to be up in
Speaker 6: the top one of the top defenses Dixon has probably
Speaker 6: seen this year.
Speaker 5: Outside of a probably Byron or something.
Speaker 6: So that's always a big element if their defense can
Speaker 6: produce that way, which is always asking a lot for
Speaker 6: a defense. So I think that's good for four A.
Speaker 6: We can drop down to three A. You're gonna disagree
Speaker 6: with me in my three A assessment. I am now
Speaker 6: going to go on my long dissertation on three A.
Speaker 5: Montine is gonna win it all. Okay, I'm done. JT.
Speaker 6: Obviously you might feel a little different about the Montine
Speaker 6: Princeton game.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, Montini beating Byron that you
Speaker 1: know when you beat Byron and again another one that
Speaker 1: came down to the very end of the game goal
Speaker 1: line stand when you have you know, how if you
Speaker 1: beat Byron, how can you say that you're not the favorite.
Speaker 1: I think Montini has to be their nine and two team,
Speaker 1: the nine seed. They're going to Princeton, four seed, ten
Speaker 1: and one. Princeton, you know, other than one loss early
Speaker 1: in the season, has been has absolutely rolled.
Speaker 2: Everybody been fantastic.
Speaker 1: It's tough not to pick Montini in this one, but
Speaker 1: it's tough to pick against Princeton. One thing with Princeton,
Speaker 1: you know, they've been in the quarterfinals, year after year
Speaker 1: after year. This is five straight postseasons. I can't say
Speaker 1: five straight years because of the whole COVID thing, but
Speaker 1: five straight postseasons they've been to the quarterfinals.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: They've lost each of the last three years at home,
Speaker 1: so including last year to Montini. So you know, this
Speaker 1: is this is one where they you know, Princeton, this
Speaker 1: is one they've had. They were I'm sure they were
Speaker 1: hoping they'd get another chance to shot at redemption against
Speaker 1: Montinier and here it is. But you know, they've got
Speaker 1: their work cut out for him.
Speaker 5: Speaking of COVID, you need to test, Okay, Bud.
Speaker 2: Just coming off the cold. No, it's getting it's getting playoffs.
Speaker 2: So I'm getting my NFL film's.
Speaker 6: Voice going, yeah, I know, I'm I'm like I said,
Speaker 6: you know, Montini, that's you know, Princeton has had, like
Speaker 6: you said, uh, a heck of a season. But man, Mantini,
Speaker 6: even for the Byron wid definitely, you know, it's.
Speaker 5: Fortunately the multiplier hasn't kicked in.
Speaker 6: For them apparently, so they're they're in three A and yeah,
Speaker 6: so there we go. And again people might not like
Speaker 6: the home game thing. I I'd rather have a private
Speaker 6: school fix.
Speaker 1: But anyway, yeah, but you know what the uh, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of the way away. I would disagree with you
Speaker 1: on the state champ I'm not sure the state champion.
Speaker 1: And no disrespect to Southern Illinois because I don't know
Speaker 1: these teams. We don't see teams or very rarely do
Speaker 1: we have teams play against these teams. I think Dix
Speaker 1: had made a trip down south this year, Ottawa Marquette did,
Speaker 1: but I know very little about you know, met Nashville
Speaker 1: or Unity or Benton or Monticello, who are all in
Speaker 1: the bottom half of that bracket. So no disrespect to
Speaker 1: them when I say this, but I think your state
Speaker 1: champion comes from the North.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, just.
Speaker 1: Based off what I've seen and kind of scores and whatnot,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure it doesn't come from that other quarterfinal. Eddie,
Speaker 1: you got number two seed Wilmington undefeated at eleven and
Speaker 1: zero three seed dupek duran Pecatonica ten and one. I've
Speaker 1: had the pleasure of seeing both these teams here down
Speaker 1: the stretch of season. They are both outstanding Class three
Speaker 1: A football teams. Very different, very polar opposites, but very
Speaker 1: different football teams. I'm not sure, you know, whether it
Speaker 1: be Montini or if principles off the upset, they're going
Speaker 1: to have their hands full that next week in the
Speaker 1: semi finals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it seems to be the theme of the excuse me,
Speaker 6: the really powerful offense versus really powerful defense, with Wilmington
Speaker 6: playing the role the really powerful defense. Although do Pek's defense,
Speaker 6: as you could attest as well. I saw them Kingston
Speaker 6: in the first round of the playoffs do Peck, but
Speaker 6: you can test the well.
Speaker 5: The tw Pick defense also pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The one thing I would say that's interesting and that
Speaker 1: Seneca du Pec game in Week nine, which do Peck
Speaker 1: beat Seneca. I think Seneca out scored them thirteen to
Speaker 1: nothing in the third quarter to take the lead, and
Speaker 1: then do Peck out scored Seneca thirteen to nothing in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter to get the win or something like that.
Speaker 1: It might have been fifteen or but whatever the case is,
Speaker 1: you know. I the one thing that du Peck they
Speaker 1: did a good job against Seneca's running game, but they
Speaker 1: bit hard on fakes and they over pursued, and they
Speaker 1: let Seneca's full back just absolutely gash them for three
Speaker 1: long runs. I think there was a forty yarder that
Speaker 1: set up a touchdown. There was maybe like a seventy
Speaker 1: yarder that was a touchdown, and like another fifty yarder.
Speaker 1: And I find this ad Brody Rodemaker sent because fullback
Speaker 1: who's fantastic, you know, not your typical big bruising fullback.
Speaker 1: He's a bruiser, but he's got some legs on him too.
Speaker 2: He can go.
Speaker 1: If that's not something dou Peck has cleaned up. Wilmington
Speaker 1: runs fakes at least as well as Seneca, if not better.
Speaker 1: Wilmington out of a wing tea, Seneca runs that power tea.
Speaker 1: I'm very interested to see if Dupek gives up home
Speaker 1: run plays to Wilmington, how this game plays out, because
Speaker 1: that's really not what Wilmington likes to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: you never say no to a touchdown, although more recently
Speaker 1: as times late in games NFL players have which.
Speaker 5: I've yeah, you never say a touchdown.
Speaker 2: You never say no to a touchdown, especially in high
Speaker 2: school football. But I you know, I think.
Speaker 1: Wilmington would prefer to as I said with Cole City,
Speaker 1: I think Wilmington would prefer to take eight minutes off
Speaker 1: the clock and score, Especially Dupek has Cooper Hoffman, their quarterback,
Speaker 1: is just as good a small school football playmaker as
Speaker 1: I've ever seen at the Yeah, just is his ability
Speaker 1: to throw the deep ball, his ability to scramble. He
Speaker 1: barely ran it all until they needed it, and then
Speaker 1: he ran almost every play. Kind of reminded me of
Speaker 1: a Justin Herbert type that doesn't want to run, but
Speaker 1: he'll do it if he has to, and it's good
Speaker 1: at it when he does. But what really impressed me
Speaker 1: more of anything about him is the way he put
Speaker 1: his receivers in a position, you know, on little outpasses,
Speaker 1: little swings, little screens. Everyone was put right on their
Speaker 1: hands in stride, leading them away from a defender. Just
Speaker 1: kind of like that next level accuracy that you don't
Speaker 1: see a lot in high school. And I think if
Speaker 1: Wilmington is able to get those home run plays on
Speaker 1: the run game, which isn't really there Forte, but if
Speaker 1: Wilmington is getting those quick scores and giving Hoffman the
Speaker 1: ball a lot, you're gonna see Dupek. You're gonna see
Speaker 1: a player like Hoffman figure things out and put up
Speaker 1: some points against Wilmington. So I think this is a
Speaker 1: great game. Seuss's pick is Wilmington. If you made me pick,
Speaker 1: this is what I said earlier. I definitely hope Coach
Speaker 1: Reens doesn't take this the bad way. If you made
Speaker 1: me pick, just based on what I've seen of the
Speaker 1: two teams, I would take do Peck. I think it's
Speaker 1: a good football game either way.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I haven't seen Wilmington, but it's too hard for
Speaker 6: me to pick. I you know, to be it's a
Speaker 6: toss up game. A couple of things I want to
Speaker 6: point out. We got to keep this train moving. We
Speaker 6: still got two classes to get through. But two things
Speaker 6: I want to point out is that I think du
Speaker 6: Peck's issue with Seneca may not have been so much
Speaker 6: a do Peck issue, but Seneca doing very very well
Speaker 6: as Joa.
Speaker 5: Kingston also runs the wing tea.
Speaker 6: Now obviously not to the level apparently have Seneca or
Speaker 6: presumably Wilmington, but they did and I had no problems
Speaker 6: sussing out where the ball was and everything misdirection up
Speaker 6: Why it is heavy a part of Gk's plan, but
Speaker 6: it's still obviously they're just that's baked into the wing tea.
Speaker 6: So I think that's uh, like I said, more of
Speaker 6: a good thing for Seneca and Wilmington and not so
Speaker 6: much being necessarily one. The other thing, when you mentioned
Speaker 6: the south part of the bracket, you want to talk
Speaker 6: about Chalk, This would be decidedly not.
Speaker 5: You've got a nine, ten and six in there.
Speaker 6: That tends to especially given that the tenn seed is
Speaker 6: still eight and three, you know, six and three regular season.
Speaker 5: I think now I know.
Speaker 6: As much about Nashville Unity and Cello as you do,
Speaker 6: but or less, I would assume. But that seems to indicate, Yeah,
Speaker 6: maybe there's a lot of parody down there. Maybe there's
Speaker 6: not a high level team, just a lot of really
Speaker 6: good teams, and then you get the iron sharpening iron
Speaker 6: aspect of it.
Speaker 5: But you're still.
Speaker 6: Talking Montini or a team that beats Montini. So I'm
Speaker 6: I'm with you on the North. North is where the
Speaker 6: champ's going to come from. We know I'm never wrong.
Speaker 6: So which brings us to two A D. White and team.
Speaker 6: I don't know how much you know about Farmington. I
Speaker 6: guess you get to enlighten us, well, you know, just
Speaker 6: a little.
Speaker 1: Bit Farmington just kind of their reputation and what they've
Speaker 1: done this year, Farmington undefeated, the top.
Speaker 5: Seed, also really being the Farmers is like crazy.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, col Farmers at.
Speaker 1: Coal City Cohlers, Farmington Farmers. I like when people don't
Speaker 1: overthink it, you know. I I like the clever I
Speaker 1: like the clever Polo Marcos, but I also like the
Speaker 1: Farmington Farmers. I think it's fantastic. But you know, Farmington,
Speaker 1: you know, they score a ton of points, especially early
Speaker 1: on in the season, that's kind of tapered off a
Speaker 1: little bit. A lot of that's been the competition they've played.
Speaker 1: But it's been weird watching it because if you had
Speaker 1: one of those charts that has you know, they're scoring
Speaker 1: goals like this and their points allowed has gone like this,
Speaker 1: kind of they seem like one of those teams that
Speaker 1: just whatever they need to do to win the game,
Speaker 1: they do. I maybe, like, you know, use another NFL analogy,
Speaker 1: you know, like a Kansas City Chiefs where oh, Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: you know, isn't good this year statistically or whatever. They're
Speaker 1: not scoring a lot of points. Well, then they did defense. Well,
Speaker 1: the defense doesn't have their great Well, then they block
Speaker 1: a field goal. You know, Farmington just seems like one
Speaker 1: of those teams that you know has found a way
Speaker 1: to win. And you know, speaking of finding a way
Speaker 1: to win, you know, I mean Dwight. Steve Sussi messaged
Speaker 1: me after the game and it's like, what kind of
Speaker 1: voodoo are you doing with Dwhite.
Speaker 2: When you go cover them?
Speaker 1: Had coming off a fantastic game against Elmwood Brimfield twelve six.
Speaker 1: They won on a There's only three completed passes in
Speaker 1: the entire game and the winning past was a Touchdow.
Speaker 5: Are you on the Dwite bandwagon again this week? Are you?
Speaker 5: Are you at that one?
Speaker 2: I am not. I am not.
Speaker 1: I have Bill Frescos going there for for a Friday
Speaker 1: night drive, so he'll be there.
Speaker 2: You can follow him with updates. I might go there
Speaker 2: just to watch.
Speaker 1: I do not have a Saturday afternoon game as of
Speaker 1: right now, so might be there just as a spectator.
Speaker 1: It's an easy drive for me and man Dwight. Team's
Speaker 1: fun to watch, you know, a lot of just a goofy,
Speaker 1: goofy game.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Dwight basically gave up five yards and got a fourth
Speaker 1: time out in the second half is what it ended
Speaker 1: up being.
Speaker 2: The upshot of it all.
Speaker 1: The coach just said he thought the other team he
Speaker 1: thought Elm would have taken a time out, so he
Speaker 1: went out on the field and talked with his kids
Speaker 1: and they got to delay a game from the one
Speaker 1: yard line. That pushed him back to the city. But
Speaker 1: he got to call it two three plays while he
Speaker 1: was huddled up with his kids, and that's the second
Speaker 1: of those plays ended up being the game winner.
Speaker 5: So the greatest penalty of all time, it was.
Speaker 1: It was fantastic thought for sure it was on purpose.
Speaker 1: He's like, he's like, I'm a young coach MANU coach
Speaker 1: Matt Standard here.
Speaker 2: He's like, I'm pretty young. I'll learn from it. I
Speaker 2: thought they took a time out. I was kind of.
Speaker 1: Surprised no officials went over. It's like, hey, what are
Speaker 1: you doing on the field. You know they didn't take
Speaker 1: a time out. But sometimes you know, everyone's looking around
Speaker 1: thinking someone else is going to do something and just
Speaker 1: wondering what's going on. But it all worked out for Dwight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cinderella probably that's left in small school. Dwight number
Speaker 1: twelve seed. They're eight and three now, I'm sorry, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're eight and three now. Should be a great game.
Speaker 1: I think I think you have to think Farmington undefeated.
Speaker 1: And the one that really stuck out to me that
Speaker 1: would make me think Farmington's the favorite in this is
Speaker 1: you know this twelve this Elmwood Brimfield team that Dwight
Speaker 1: Gardner South Wilmington just beat twelve to six on a
Speaker 1: last minute play. They're in the same conference as Farmington,
Speaker 1: and Farmington beat them forty to nothing in week five.
Speaker 1: So if you're doing that common opponents and kind of
Speaker 1: doing that thing, you have to think Farmington maybe has
Speaker 1: a little more muscle than Dwight Gardner South Woomington this
Speaker 1: game and runs it off. But you know what, Dwight
Speaker 1: gets them at home. We talked about that before and
Speaker 1: we'll I'm sure they're perfectly happy to be in the
Speaker 1: quarterfinals for the first time in school history and take
Speaker 1: their chances.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I don't much that add on that one.
Speaker 6: I mean, Dwy's just playing with house money at this point,
Speaker 6: so always a dangerous proposition when you got a team
Speaker 6: with nothing to lose playing at home. But it certainly
Speaker 6: seems like on paper the Farmers that farm in Farmington
Speaker 6: probably the favorites. So one more thing I know we
Speaker 6: want to touch on really quick down in one A.
Speaker 5: And that is part of me.
Speaker 6: I can need about twenty five minutes to say this
Speaker 6: name Gibson City, Melvin Sibley. They have a win, they
Speaker 6: go to the win, Lena Winslowness in a once it
Speaker 6: a and U I see a show CI alphabet soup
Speaker 6: showdown there.
Speaker 1: You go, yep, and that other one that's playing with
Speaker 1: them in the quarterfinals that would match up with them
Speaker 1: the semifinals number twelve Galina seven and four and undefeated
Speaker 1: Leroy eleven and know.
Speaker 2: The top seed.
Speaker 1: And I only point this out because you know you
Speaker 1: pointed out in Class five A the Interstate eight and
Speaker 1: the CCL Green.
Speaker 5: Green Yes, which we actually didn't say it was in
Speaker 5: my notes.
Speaker 6: We didn't make it on here, but good point. It's
Speaker 6: the CCL Green I eight showdown.
Speaker 2: And the half of the bracket.
Speaker 1: And this is a yeah, this is a Heart of
Speaker 1: Central Illinois super Conference. That's the combination of the Central
Speaker 1: Illinois and the Heart of Illinois.
Speaker 2: This year was the first year they got together for football.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you got your Heart of Illinois, Heart of
Speaker 1: Central Illinois and your Northwest up state ALIINI. Both these
Speaker 1: matchups feature them against each other. And the only reason
Speaker 1: I mentioned this game. They're both a little outside of
Speaker 1: our what we normally talk about, although our teams reulb
Speaker 1: up against them a lot. Main reason I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring this one up is, you know, I know every
Speaker 1: year people talk about, especially in the summer leading up
Speaker 1: when we're doing our previews for Friday Night Drive. We
Speaker 1: preview almost every conference in the northern half of the state.
Speaker 1: Talk to the coaches players to watch. Here's the big games.
Speaker 1: It's really cool. I'm advertising something that happened in August,
Speaker 1: which is kind of dumb, but I'm advertising.
Speaker 5: Selling the preview. If you want to check, there's a
Speaker 5: magazine outside still still available for purchase.
Speaker 2: I assume beautiful magazine. You can look at how wrong
Speaker 2: we were and how right we were.
Speaker 1: But you know, one of the things with UH with
Speaker 1: when we do those that a lot of people talk about,
Speaker 1: you should do more with this conference. This is the
Speaker 1: power we had seven playoff teams last year we had
Speaker 1: and I always say to people, you know what, when
Speaker 1: you're picking out your Thanksgiving turkeys and looking at the
Speaker 1: date to thom, that's when you tell me.
Speaker 2: What what conferences are good?
Speaker 1: This matchup or like we talked about with the with
Speaker 1: the Catholicice Green and Interstate eight. When you get to
Speaker 1: this weekend and you have matchups like this where the
Speaker 1: entire half of a bracket is two T two conferences
Speaker 1: and off against each other, that's what I call a
Speaker 1: good high school football conference. You know that this is
Speaker 1: you don't have much better than the n U I
Speaker 1: C and h O C I now and not the
Speaker 1: h O I C.
Speaker 2: You don't have much better than them in small school football.
Speaker 2: And this points it out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think it's it speaks really well to
Speaker 6: the I eight for you know, a.
Speaker 5: Sixteen conference joining this party.
Speaker 6: You know, you're talking about you know, the Catholically, you're
Speaker 6: talking about you know, the n U I C.
Speaker 5: You're talking about the Wake or the whost C or both.
Speaker 6: And and you're throwing in a relatively I mean, I mean,
Speaker 6: let's face a young conference, even though obviously the name
Speaker 6: has been around, but throwing in a sixteen conference it
Speaker 6: speaks really high to what those teams have done. And
Speaker 6: not just more as Michelle and Sycamore, but obviously you
Speaker 6: know Caitlin getting into the postseason and just missing out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got half of the Interstate eight still playing
Speaker 1: yeah again, So so you know that that that's that
Speaker 1: tells you. That tells you everything you need to know
Speaker 1: about that conference all the times when you know we've
Speaker 1: written previews or talked with you know, coaches at.
Speaker 2: Ottawa or lp R Kane there like man, this conference late,
Speaker 2: you know yep.
Speaker 1: I mean it's proven out because they're going out and
Speaker 1: beating the crap out of people from other conferences too.
Speaker 1: So when you compare since the Thanksgiving Cranberries to Cranberry's,
Speaker 1: you know you're finding out which teams, which conferences are powerhouses.
Speaker 1: And no surprise, we talked about all year, the Interstate
Speaker 1: it's one of them, the heart of Central Illinois one
Speaker 1: of them. Then I see is one of them? This
Speaker 1: is this is not a surprise to anybody.
Speaker 6: I mean, the question is is Interstate they get a
Speaker 6: team into the next round At this point it's it's
Speaker 6: three pretty tough challenges. Three even on a relative scale
Speaker 6: for this point in the playoffs, it's pretty tough.
Speaker 2: So I would say has the best chance? Would you
Speaker 2: agree with that?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 6: I mean, like I said, I see the road for
Speaker 6: all three of them getting there.
Speaker 5: But I really like Sycamore.
Speaker 6: I think if they force some turnovers, they control the box,
Speaker 6: things that they've done all year, like even with their
Speaker 6: quote unquote problems running the ball, and I use the
Speaker 6: word problems in all the air quotes in the world.
Speaker 6: Even with those problems, that they still ran off so
Speaker 6: many long drives, twelve play sixteen play drives because they'll use.
Speaker 5: The short passing game effectively too.
Speaker 6: They can take the top off if they have to,
Speaker 6: but they can use the short passing game.
Speaker 5: They have multiple places they can run from.
Speaker 6: And even those problems that I'm going full doctor Evil
Speaker 6: at this point is three or four yards of carrick,
Speaker 6: which you know they're they're pretty consistent at least getting them.
Speaker 6: So I really like Sycamore's chances in this one, and
Speaker 6: I think they're gonna.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and seg right into our picks to click,
Speaker 1: because I believe you have an Interstate eight stand out
Speaker 1: as your pickup.
Speaker 6: I can just keep talking about Sycamore because I'm in
Speaker 6: the turnovers, because they have a lot of interceptionally said
Speaker 6: the thirteen this year part of your cats, five of
Speaker 6: them at defense back.
Speaker 5: And O'Donnell, I think he's been my pick to click prior.
Speaker 5: Uh he has three.
Speaker 6: Interception returns with a touchdown, four total interceptions. And he's
Speaker 6: a linebacker and I'm saying turnovers, I'm going with I'm
Speaker 6: gonna go with Cooper Body on this one. He's another linebacker.
Speaker 6: He has a pick six this year. He's a powerful,
Speaker 6: uh just linebacker and lay hits down and can force fumbles.
Speaker 6: I I think, uh, if he gets a turnover, I
Speaker 6: think Sycamore wins. So I'm gonna And plus he's been
Speaker 6: playing running back more and more. He's obviously reason linebackers are.
Speaker 6: Can imagine how that translates into Mackfield, especially with you
Speaker 6: know when they shrink it on down and run the
Speaker 6: more heavy set. So I'm going with Cooper Body. Is
Speaker 6: my click to pick yours.
Speaker 2: Mine's gonna be in Class three A. I could flip
Speaker 2: a coin here between.
Speaker 1: I think Wilmington if they're gonna win this game over
Speaker 1: du Pak I think it's gonna be a great game.
Speaker 1: And even if I think I would based on the
Speaker 1: games I saw, I'd give Dupeka slide edge. I think
Speaker 1: Wilmington's gonna have a very good game. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick a running back. Kyle Ferrell could be ferreal. I
Speaker 1: could also pick Ryan Kttman, who is the other featured
Speaker 1: back for Wilmington. They're almost the same guy. I think
Speaker 1: if you had to pick, you know, if you talk
Speaker 1: to the coach, I think maybe Ferrell's a little more
Speaker 1: physical and a tiny bit less explosive than Katman, and
Speaker 1: Katman's maybe a tiny bit more explosive and a tiny
Speaker 1: bit less physical. But they're both physical, they're both explosive,
Speaker 1: they're both great running backs. Picking one of them I
Speaker 1: could have flipped a coin on. I'm gonna take Kyle
Speaker 1: Ferrell today, just because I think that physicality is the
Speaker 1: advantage that Wilmington will have over du Peck up front.
Speaker 1: And if they're gonna win the game, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: because they are just beating up du Peck up front.
Speaker 1: So my pick to click will be Kyle Ferrell Wildcats
Speaker 1: running back and that which should be an awesome matchup.
Speaker 6: The Dwight standout for those of you that don't have
Speaker 6: the Dwight roster off hands. But yes, no, that'll I
Speaker 6: think that'll do it. I think I think we could
Speaker 6: call this a podcast. I think we're probably gonna call
Speaker 6: this the season. Well, we'll see how stuff shakes out,
Speaker 6: but I know we said that after last week and
Speaker 6: here we are this week. But definitely, as always has
Speaker 6: been a absolute pleasure.
Speaker 2: Ye love talking football with you, Eddie.
Speaker 1: Always a good time, hopefully you know, great to see
Speaker 1: so many of our teams still alive down here in
Speaker 1: the you know, Like like I've said, we call this,
Speaker 1: we jokingly call this the corn Cornfield Podcast, just because
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of you know, we're outside the suburb,
Speaker 1: which is most suburbs and a suburban area which most
Speaker 1: of Friday night drive centers on. So awesome that we
Speaker 1: still have so many teams not only alive, but so
Speaker 1: many great matchups. And I think I think we squeeze
Speaker 1: a few teams into the next round and you know,
Speaker 1: whether we're here to report on them or we hand
Speaker 1: it off to the mothership Friday Night Podcast. Either way,
Speaker 1: I think we have some great football coming down the stretch.
Speaker 5: Okay, well again, thanks all, thanks to y'all for listening.
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