 Hello and welcome to the Ed Hodel Show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Roy showing with students in head football coach Ed Hodel. And Coach, you were on the road for the 3rd straight Saturday last week. You went up to Kings and you were able to come away with a 38-17 win. Your 3rd straight road victory. Just kind of take us through the game and how it evolved. Definitely a slow start, you know, from our perspective. It was a situation where I think being on the road for 3 straight weeks took a little bit of a toll on us and we talked to the guys, obviously post game, that's not an excuse. We want to come out of the locker room with our best football and play that way. It took us a little while to get rolling and they responded. It was a homecoming game for those guys and they were certainly excited to be playing. But fortunately for us, we made plays when we needed to make plays and we're able to come out with a win. You were able to go in half time up. And one of the things that I noticed the last couple of weeks is that you've been able to score right before the half and then come out and start the 3rd quarter, usually because you have the ball and start again. So you're scoring on both sides of the half and obviously that's huge when you're trying to build a lead or trying to maintain a lead. Absolutely. And looking at our 2-minute drives in each of the last closing minutes of the first half, that's significant. I think that's indicative of what we do in practice. We practice 2-minute at least twice a week and the guys taking the coaching from practice to the field and I think it's also a byproduct of some of the experience that we have on the field as well. I also think that the defense plays a big part of that and we talked about that Monday. When we do do 2-minute, it's good v. good in practice. It's 1s versus 1s and it's very up tempo, it's very fast and I think that allows us to be a little bit more effective in that 2-minute offense. Yeah, absolutely. That preparation playing against such a stout defense obviously helps when you're trying to move the ball. And certainly the other thing the offense on Saturday is we have to sustain some very long drives. I mean, I know you had a drive in the fourth quarter that you were down on their 8. We were able to come back. They got within 20-17 to sustain a long drive, 4-5-minute drive and that was really that and Ashley Leskin's force fumble were kind of the two backbreakers in that game. Absolutely. And again, we talked about that on Monday where coming out and going on a 92-play, 5- or 6-minute drive there in the fourth quarter, it is a big momentum swing. It's really kind of putting a stamp on the game, so to speak. We've been able to sustain some drives this year which is exciting and something that we're going to have to continue as we move deeper into league play. Yeah, absolutely. And the other thing that that does is obviously allows your defense to get some rest so they're not on the field when the other teams out there for 5-6 minutes at a time. So actually controlling the time of possession is big in college football from the perspective of you are resting players. Defense gets a chance to get to the sideline, get themselves adjusted, clean up anything that needs to be cleaned up and take a little bit of time and catch your breath a little bit. So the ability to sustain drives is a big key. It's one of our weekly goals is to go out and be able to sustain multiple drives throughout the day. And speaking of time of possession, I believe it's about 35 minutes and you've had to leave in time of possession all four games so far this year. Absolutely. It's difficult to score touchdowns without the football, that's for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Now switching gears after three weeks on the road, you finally get to be home this week. Another tough opponent coming to Mustang Stadium in Delaware Valley. Obviously a tough league game. They've been kind of the standard in the league the last few years. Talk about that game and what you hope to accomplish. For us, again, it's very simple. Building through the week to be the best team that we can be on Saturday and bringing our best football. For us, I think it's really exciting to be back at home after almost a month and not have to get on a bus on a Friday and travel and stay in a hotel and sleeping in your own bed is going to be important for us on Friday night. Just to get back in front of the home crowd and be back in front of our students and we're hoping for a great crowd Saturday, one that's loud and creates that home field advantage we've become accustomed to. I'm sure our fans will be ready to go on Saturday and best of luck. Thank you very much, Craig. Alright, for Ed Hoddle, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Ed Hoddle Show.