 Down on the field post game with Stevenson head coach Ed Hoddle the Mustangs victorious 19 to nothing over Delaware Valley coach I know you were saying during the week Online with Joe, you know, how big of a win it was to beat Weidner How much bigger is this win or how much more does this win mean to you guys to beat them? You know, I think it's a little bit special because we've never beaten them You know, it's been five long years I mean and they're traditionally a very very good football team and that was no different this week But you know hats off to our guys, you know defensively we played lights out all day You know offense got the hard yards when they needed to and we didn't make any big errors and teams and you know That's one of the things today that we were really concerned about with the wind was was potential errors in the kicking game And we were clean all day fortunately last year You guys had a chance to run out the clock on them You know it didn't go your way for the guys that played in that game last year How happy were they to you know have the lead this time and do everything to secure the victory? Well, I think you know it goes back to looking at what we did last year and looking at what we could do to You know to help ourselves today and that that's the most important part is is you know What can we do to affect the outcome of the game? So you know again, I know I keep saying this you guys probably tired of hearing it But it really is about what we're doing and how we take care of the football and how we perform on saturdays coach One of the areas where you had maybe you know the biggest turnovers linebackers You had great linebackers the last couple years You pretty much have four new starters from a year ago playing right now How impressive was their performance? Obviously you had mike Datu leading the way with a lot of tackles is a pitch shadowing darden all over the place He got that big tackle early in the game. You know the four or five guys that are rotating in there. They were just amazing today Yeah, you know that excuse me that you know that that goes to to their You know their tireless work ethic and and coaching and them taking the coaching and and again You know really being focused on what they need to do Um, you know this game plan was not an easy game plan from a defensive perspective If it was um, you know having a mobile quarterback is something that that can be problematic And you know coach johnson schemed it up, you know coach nelson and these guys executed Um, there was just an awesome thing to watch today. Was there a point in the game? Where you guys just knew that you know the defense was was playing out of their mind And was there maybe a turning point where you knew? Um from a coaching perspective you maybe didn't have to take as many risks offensively Just because the defense had shown that that it was going to be hard to score on them Yeah, I mean, you know, we talked about it at halftime You know, we talked about surviving the third quarter because we you know, we were going to kick into the wind Take the wind in the fourth quarter. So if we could come out of the third quarter Um, you know and still have the lead, you know, we we were going to feel pretty good about it And you know the remarkable thing about the game today was even when we had the wind in our face You know, I think we dominated field position again, you know, that's a huge statistic that that that You know really helped us you know to secure the win Was there any part of you that was fearful just as a head coach? You know, you've been on both sides of a lot of games, you know, it's 12 nothing But it felt like it could have been more you guys constantly had the ball starting in their territory You mentioned field position. Was there any part of you? It was like, man, you know, we should we should have been up three scores earlier Yeah, you know, again, I think it's um, you know, that's one of those things You know, you look at it and of course you worry about it, but you know defense playing the way it was You know, nobody got upset, you know, we talked about all week You know being calm in the moment and understanding that it isn't the last play It's the next play and our guys did a great job. You know a really fantastic job with that today This is a team that scored 100 points total in their last two games. Would you have ever imagined? You know, they weren't going to score today Um, you know, I try not to to speculate on scores, you know, who's going to score what? Um, you know, again, I know the work that goes into the defensive game plan I I know the work that goes in you know in practice from the guys. So, um They don't surprise me. Um, you know, but again It's one of those things that you you try not to think of that far ahead One aspect of this shutout coming into the game today, you guys only had three sacks on the season You had three more today and just constant pressure How are you guys able to get to the quarterback better today than you have all season? Well, I think we really challenged the defensive line, you know, this week in practice, um, you're looking at last week's film I don't think we played particularly well in that group Um, and they knew it and it's a mature group and it's a prideful group and they really took that challenge on head on And and really did a nice job today and and again, you know, you go back to You know, executing the game plan and and they did a great job all day long with that Coach, you guys are seven and oh now you have control of your own destiny to win the mac How do you guys approach that? We've got to go one on our next week. All right, coach Thank you very much. Congratulations and we'll see you in two weeks Could be a conference championship clincher, you know, if if if you go one and oh next week Got to go one and oh next week. All right. Thanks a lot coach huddle