 Hello and welcome to the Ed Hodl show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, shown by students and head football coach Ed Hodl. Coach, you went up to FDF this past Saturday, a big conference game where he would come over to the W, a little bit of a slow start, but offense picked it up and you're able to post a pretty big win. Yeah, it was good, it was a good trip for us, it's I think our longest conference trip. So, getting up there and kind of getting things going, I think you're exactly right. A little bit of a slow start, something that we've talked about in practice this week, coming down the gate, getting ready to rock and roll early. But overall, solid performance both offensively and defensively. It's a problem with the guys. Yeah, and obviously offensively, sorry, Ryan Cedric, just his fourth career start, throws her five touchdowns, runs through another one, and gets everybody involved in the offense. It's not like he just has one or two guys and he's getting some different guys involved and just talking about how he's been playing so far. He's been playing well. He hasn't thrown a ton of picks, he's very patient with his reads. I think he's, you're watching him evolve, he's started four college football games at this point, so it's a long process to develop a quarterback and I think he's off to a great start, but still has some work to do. Yeah, absolutely. And then also three senior receivers, Chas, Vince Lee, and Keenan all playing well, all got a bunch of targets, a bunch of receptions on Saturday. Absolutely, that's a dynamic group for us. It's a group that we've come to depend on. And I don't think you'll find a harder working group in practice, in the weight room, in the classroom, there's those three guys. And manifesting stuff on the field with the same work, I think. And for us, that's the really exciting piece. Yeah, and then defensively holding them 15 points, second half shut out. And really after the first couple of drives, pretty much holding them off the scoreboard. Absolutely, but again, I think coming out and giving up a two-play drive to start the game wasn't exactly what we had in mind. Again, I think, on both sides of the ball, we were a little sluggish early. And I think we've got to address that this week and it's something we've talked about and something we're hoping to improve on this Saturday. Yeah, and another one of the storylines that's kind of manifested stuff here early is that time of possession, you hold the ball again for 35, 36 minutes. And the game would just like a nine-minute drive, kind of run out the clock. And just talk about the importance of holding on to the football, being able to do that. Well, the biggest thing for us going into this weekend was finishing the game and going on a nine-play. No, I'm sorry, 15-play, 92 yards, almost nine minutes to the fourth quarter. That's what we talked about when we talked about finishing. For us, that was very satisfying, very really proud of the guys. Because that's what we talked about all week. Time of possession, I think for us, you've got to be able to run the football. And I think when you run the football, you're able to add to that time of possession and helps our defense fast. So there's a lot of advantages to it and something that we're going to continue to try to move on. Yeah, absolutely. Like you said, ending the game on high note, heading into this week. I'm your home for the first of three straight at home. Against a pretty good whiner team that's been throwing up some points. Absolutely. I'm super excited to actually be home this week. I feel like we haven't been home since last fall. But for us, it's an opportunity to play back in Mustang Stadium and have the loud crowd, the atmosphere that we get here is super exciting. But whiner presents its own set of problems. Yeah. There are scores, a ton of points. They're having a receiver that went over 20 yards last weekend. Quarterback sliding up. So we're definitely going to have our hands full. Yeah. And obviously, this is the final game. Before you've got to buy right smack down in the middle. Five to four or five after. So obviously, while going into that, we kind of high note. Absolutely. You know, we want to, you know, again, for us, it's being the best football team that we can be every week. And, you know, I think we're looking forward to getting the guys some rest and get them off their feet for a little bit. But we've got to take care of business on Saturday first. Yeah, absolutely. All right, coach, we wish you the best of luck on Saturday and I will chat next week. Thank you very much. All right. For Ed Hoddle, this is Greg Royce. This has been the Ed Hoddle Show.