001[Music] good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another edition of the holton meets coaches corner here at aces wild for week six football this week coming up with the east salton wood river oilers alex schlemmer and coach jermaine here with us again and coach jermaine man look at that it's okay we were just talking about coach jermaine coach horner with us this week coach coming off the loss with freeberg how's the mood this week in practice and what's the outlook for this week you're thinking uh well certainly the mood is uh i would say even more tense than what it was last week um i think the guys understand certainly the coaching staff understands backs are against the wall at this point with only uh four games remaining sitting at two and three um
002you wanna play in week ten this is a must so but but all in all a pretty decent a decent week of practice still recovering from a few a few injuries but i think our guys will be ready you know we're going to be facing a a team that kind of reminds me a lot of roxanna in a way in terms of their style power football and come right at you but what i think they are going to present that maybe we didn't see as much of it roxanna is their skilled kids are a little faster and a little more experienced their their skill kids are all back from last year and i expect that if our kids aren't ready um it's going to be something a little different than what maybe people might think
003if all they're doing is reading the records and and reading the newspaper yeah we'll get into this week's match up a little bit a little later on but talking about last week's game with freeburg freeburg starts off we knew it was going to be a hostile environment we knew it was going to be a fun environment i guess you could say loud they were doing their homecoming getting their state rings and everything and we came out i mean first quarter nothing really special freeburg started the scoring on 11-yard run nothing special we come out first thing second quarter mcconaughey gets a pass from vaguely for 80 yards tie it up 7-7 you're feeling good freeberg comes down scores again but then jared even called it he goes right before halftime coach warner's always got something
004up his pocket and up his sleeve you know he's going to have a trick play and we talked about the trick play if you will after the game and you know you're going into halftime 14 14. you're feeling pretty good you got that momentum that you had rolling with you we had a goal line stand again so the first half you couldn't have been too upset with how everything was going going in 14-14 yeah truth be told uh alex honestly uh i was prepared to be to feel good about going down at halftime down 14-6 honestly when we got the ball there with a minute 56 to go or whatever it was uh on that last drive before we scored uh the mindset was uh let's not do anything silly here and give them the
005ball back risking that you might be down 21-6 at halftime i thought it was going to be a mental victory for us at halftime even if we were down 14-6 and so but as it started to unfold uh and mcconaughey was doing his thing and dom was doing his thing you know a couple big plays got us in a position where now all of a sudden under a minute to go you're thinking well heck we might have a chance to score here so yeah we kind of reached in the bag of tricks a little bit and um you know the kids were able to execute it which was awesome and then and then on top of that to to get the end zone on two-point conversion to tie it up really gave us some momentum
006going at halftime and you know it didn't work out from there but certainly felt good about where we were at halftime so like you're saying it's a mental win you're knowing that you're getting the ball coming out after halftime so that's also on your mind too correct going into that final drive yeah absolutely and i think if you i mean i don't know i don't expect everybody to study the game we study it or to know the ins and outs of everything but you know when you when you uh when you compare uh maybe statistics but more importantly players returners all those kind of things and you look at it on paper fourteen to six at halftime was something we were gonna be okay with you know certainly uh they're pretty talented team and and
007we were worried that they were gonna maybe be able to have their way with us and so that's kind of where our mindset was so a preview of this week is blue jays week mcconaughey and vaguely played blue jays together back in the day mcconaughey was a quarterback so kind of a little bit of a reminiscent for those two whenever they were able to mcconaughey gets the touchdown to vaguely defensively another goal line stand though once again and that's coach germain talked last weekend ben don't break and that was another huge stop for us give us a little bit of momentum again give us a chance and defensively got to be pretty proud of what they did this week yeah i have been we've been extremely proud of the defense they're keeping us in ball
008games without a doubt and you know the bottom line is they're still on the field too much and uh you know i attribute a large portion of that to the offensive uh not being very productive throughout the course of the year and we just have to be more productive and and be more consistent we're you know we're good for one or two plays and then we look horrible for four plays and then we look good for three plays and we're bad for one more and we're just the consistency's not there and um you know part of that's youth and and uh but but you know you're in week six now so you can't use that as an excuse anymore and we just have to be more productive but the defense has done a great job
009to stop them on the goal line again and give us a chance at the end of the game and you know we got it down there but you know basically we're you know played with a quarterback the entire second third and fourth quarter who about you know had a half of a half of a hand if you will could barely throw the football which left you know left us being pretty one-dimensional and you know we're hoping he'll be able to recover and be good this week and defensively again gave up 250 yards rushing but you had uh two four six seven guys that got carried so when you're going into that you know you always talk about read your keys defensive line got to do their job linebackers got to do their job on their
010one touchdown that they scored towards the concession stand i believe that was their second or third touchdown second and that was another one you know just got to make the plays you had the guys in the right spot it came down our sideline could have forced him out and the guy just made a pretty good mood and kept his balance and got down the end zone yeah you know part of that there's there's a couple different ways to look at that it was you know we were in the right spots just not making plays and part of that is you got to tip your cap to them uh their their ability their strength their speed uh the other part of it is the number of kids we have going both ways you know you might
011be in the right spot but you know do you have what it takes at that point when you're that tired to be able to execute and make a tackle and that's kind of where we've been in a lot of these situations and we're just allowing them on the field too long and it wears kids down you know when you've got nine kids going both ways but again hey it is what it is it's what we have and that's what we have to work with and we're gonna try to do a better job and maybe get a few more kids in the game this week to give kids a rest and that final drive pretty much at the end of the game you're thinking man we got 98 yards i think we got the ball to
012two had about a minute and 20 left to go and you're thinking man we got a tall task ahead of us and all sudden you're down at the 30 and you're going oh we got a shot and on that play there they're playing cover four i think is what it was and like you said you had a quarterback with half a hand so props to you guys for getting at least down there and giving yourself a shot a lot of teams might look at the two-yard line and go well you know what it's a great game so props to the offense perhaps the defense giving you a chance and props to the offense of getting down there and giving yourself an even bigger yeah right yeah we you know we executed at that point in
013time when we needed to just wish we'd had a couple more timeouts i think it would have been different because if you know you get in a certain position like that especially when the clock's getting down under 20 seconds and you can't run the football you know you have to throw it and it makes it hard to be able to do that you got to be able to try to throw it and get out of bounds at the same time and you know at this level that's a little tougher they make it look easy on saturdays and sundays sometimes if only we all had an aaron rodgers on our team over tom brady yeah or half the receivers yeah all right folks well we're gonna send it to our first break when we come back
014we're going to talk week 6 football and we're going to talk our conference standings and conference schedules we'll be back with the holton meets coach's corner right after this welcome back ladies and gentlemen to the houlton meets coaches corner here at aces wild alex schlemmer and coach warner with us here tonight and coach looking at the conference standings here salem leading the way we're going to salem next week they're leading the way sitting at four and one greece central at four and one both teams two-and-oh in the conference columbia or freiburg rather three and two one-on-one in the conference columbia two and three one and one roxanna one and four wood river one and four both of them still searching for their first conference win and a little interesting to see salem up on the
015top of that but whenever they're scoring all the points they get that third third tiebreaker more or less and that's where they're up top yeah i've seen all these teams on film and uh you know salem like freeburg and um and brie central to an extent have a ton of guys returning from last year really no surprise to me um i i kind of i kind of felt like it would be a uh you know depending on what we would do with our lack of experience a three-horse race if you will beginning of the year so it's no surprise to me that that's where it's at uh salem's big and physical and we'll see that a couple weeks with a a three-year starter at wide receiver and a two-year starter quarterback so you know they've
016got some skill we've got to go there you know two hour bus ride but but all in all those three teams are very quality and um you know brie central and freeburger have already played so you know we'll see how the conference shapes out in the next couple weeks yeah all it takes you know we're not out of it sitting at one on one you've still got a shot of being a co-conference champ or something so like you said just see how it breaks up we got a win out there's no no denying that and you'd like to be that uh that get that five wins six wins get into the playoffs and heck you might be able to be a conference champ and get it for sherlock in there but yeah right gonna need
017a lot of help with that but going to this week's conference games columbia is going to be against east alton that'll be here at home salem goes to breeze central roxanna goes to freeberg so when you're looking at the schedule for this week what are you thinking is going to shape out i mean obviously you got that big that big match up there with salem at bree central yeah i think that'll be the the game to watch inside the conference um you know always tough to play at bree central and both those two teams are a lot alike they're big they're physical and they're well coached and that's the other thing both teams will be prepared um kind of a heavyweight heavyweight matchup 12 rounder i would say and really you know that'll be an
018interesting one to see who comes out on top but uh you know roxanna's still searching a little bit they've got a ton of young kids um you know primarily all sophomores and a few in juniors and then a few seniors kind of sprinkled in there but you know i think that's gonna be the game to watch for sure so now we go into this week we look at blue jay night to start the festivities and we had a video that we were showing uh today i believe it came out on the school website or facebook and everything and whenever you're watching that video it all starts down at the bottom and then it's got to work its way up to the varsity level so you got to give the credit down to those little guys
019and making their way up top yeah right i mean it's uh that's where it all starts that's where kids learn the game it's where kids learn to love the game it's where kids learn to hate the game maybe you know it but but they learn how the work ethic that it takes to be a football player so we love this week we love this night it was really a special night for us to get up there on tuesday and and say you know give some high fives and and watch these young kids and i know they enjoy it and uh they love to run through that tunnel man that's pretty cool for them to run through the tunnel out through the band and um that's where it all starts so it's it's fun it's a
020good week and i've already talked to a couple of the parents and they're like so what's this blue jay night and tail well they get to run through the tunnel and instantly the parents are like well that's awesome so something that uh blue jay parents if you're all watching come on out friday night i believe it's 6 30 is when they need to be there they'll lead the varsity team out onto the field to which we play east alton east alton's coming in at 1-4 playing eagles at two and three coach horner versus east alton coming in at six and one one loss came in 2004 on a 0-13 shutout you went to east alton do you remember anything about that game if coach jermaine were here he'd tell you everything that happened i don't
021remember a bunch but i do remember that coach gary carter was the guy who's their head coach at the time he's not murphy's burl uh good quality coach been around a long time um that if i remember right they were a tad bit more physical than what we were and we had a really hard time moving the football and uh they obviously were able to get in the end zone two more times than we did which which kind of uh you know you can't win if you don't score and uh and we didn't so uh that's been a long time ago though alex it's hard for me to remember that i did turn 50 this year you know it was many moons ago you turned 50 what are we talking about there so now that's
022the new 40 anyway yeah exactly so now our game plan coming into it this week you say they're going to be a physical team you said they were going to be a little bit on the bigger side so and now weather could also be a factor i've been watching that um i've got the rib war up here so i'm watching the i'm watching the rain and everything and they're saying it could be moving in on friday are you doing the wet ball drill or you just kind of no we haven't actually i've been i watched the weather last night and i'm counting on channel two being correct uh which that shame on me i guess but i'm counting on them coming in after midnight or so and hey if it's wet it's wet we'll uh
023we'll make do our kids have played in the rain before and we've got to line up and change our style a little bit we will and you know both teams have to play in it so it doesn't doesn't matter either way and and i think we'll be okay either way but we're going to stop their run they love run football you know always going to have a tight end in the game always going to have two backs in the back feel the wing back and um they're going to come right at you and then they got a couple gadgets off of it play action and all those kind of things we got to stay disciplined it's that simple this is one of those games that me and jared we we kind of hate calling because
024you're watching the guy to the left and also there's a reverse to the right so this is a major match up here for jermaine you know you always hear the guy say ball goes away backside a stay home kind of things like that so how are you going to get your guys to stay home i mean you know there's going to be a blunder here there yeah i think he'd tell you read your keys if you read your keys i mean you know it but but again that offense is designed to lull you to sleep enough that you you lose focus and your eyes are not in the right place it's all about training your eyes especially in the secondary you've got to train your eyes and if you train your eyes which we worked
025on all week long and you read your keys then you should know whenever it's passing when it's run and then the flip side of that is making sure that that the defensive ends and linebackers are doing the same thing because when you start looking into the backfield is when you start going to places where the ball's not because that's what those offenses are designed to do there's a lot of deception involved and uh if you don't raise your keys and do your assignment and not try to do something you're not coached to do that that's whenever you're playing from behind so now if we look at their defense what is our offense are they going to be big up front are they going to put seven in the box you thinking it depends on our
026formations but but certainly there'll be a six-man box for sure uh four down at least two linebackers depending on what we show them but they're um man we've seen them it's from a secondary standpoint we've seen them a couple different ways this year sometimes their corners could be 10 to 12 yards off even before the snap other times against other teams their their corners are up you know so we'll just have to see what they're doing we've got a plan to attack both and as long as we can throw the football i think they've got some holes but you know we've got to have time but they're big up front but i don't think we'll have a huge they're not going to be uh maybe as as a athletic as maybe moscuta or even waterloo
027but but as big as maybe alton marquette you know but maybe not move quite as well so you know uh we'll just see they could make some personnel changes too to try to put pressure on our quarterback now can you tell me the name of the new formation you guys put in this week with the two running backs next to vaguely and the pistol back or is that well we just called it t see okay now we're trying to think of a name we couldn't think of anything yeah well that made that one up on the fly you liked that didn't you yeah i created that one overnight actually it was it's an offshoot to uh maybe back whenever you played we used to run the formation where you had a running back on each
028side of you and also one in pistol okay it's the same formation doing the same stuff we just put two of them right next to one another and still doing the same kind of stuff off of it just wanted a little different look and felt like we could get guys there uh to the to the point of attack a little quicker and and and have a few plays mixed in there where we didn't have to pull lineman where we could run our power or our our uh you know our gts or whatever we were going to run and not have to use lyman to pull we just use those those two guys it's such a simple game isn't it yeah you know run the ball i think it's simple on the chalkboard i can beat
029anybody oh there you go fair enough all right well you got to go be an athletic director now so i think this is a a good spot to wrap it up and we'll see you friday night tomorrow night and let's hope we can get a victory over the oilers appreciate it thanks alex thank you all for listening to this week's edition of the holton meets coaches corner we'll see you tomorrow night at 6 30 from our own press box will be wired in it'll be good to go our producer here he's going to be happy and ready to rock in his own in his own stadium so we'll see you tomorrow night at 6 30 for the aces wild pregame show have a good night [Music] you