 Hello, welcome to the Ed Hodl show. I'm Greg Royce joined here with Stevenson head football coach Ed Hodl and coach She went up to Frostburg last week and the opener didn't go quite as you'd hoped I'm just talking a little bit about the game and how that went for you We just didn't play well. We didn't play well in any phase of the game You know, I don't think it was byproduct of How we prepared I think it was a byproduct of how we prepared physically and that's you know I don't know that we did a good job being physically ready to play and You know, they knocked us around a little bit And so we've got to look at you know what we did in the preseason and what we can do better And you know, we've got to eliminate mental mistakes in all three phases if we're gonna expect that success moving forward Good news is you played on Thursday night. Obviously gives you a couple extra days to look at the film Was there anything that stood out, you know without giving too much away obviously that stood out that you need to work on Well, I think we need to work on everything, you know, we put the ball in the ground five times You know, we're losing three of them. It's it's not been often over the last three seasons that we've lost the turnover battle You know, I think we maybe had one take away So, you know, we've got to do a better job at that We've got to do a better job eliminating penalties eliminating the mental mistakes taking care of the little things that we need to work on Yeah, I think probably that was the most frustrating thing watching it was a lot of mistakes for self You know, like you said the fumbles the penalties a lot of them were kind of self-inflicted It wasn't things that they were doing as things that you were doing to yourself. Yeah I think you know coming out of that game. We didn't have any toes left We shot ourselves in the foot over and over and over again, and we've got to avoid those catastrophic mistakes and Mistakes are gonna happen. It's how it's how you respond to those mistakes And I don't think that we responded particularly well and you know, we've got to look at and we've spent a great deal of time Examining, you know, everything that we've done in the preseason how we've practiced The expectations for the guys in practice and we've changed some things around and you know Hopefully got their attention and we've had a good couple days. Yeah Does it obviously never want to lose me think maybe it was a little wake-up call for the guys Maybe hey, maybe the preseason hype is and you know, you still gonna go out perform Well, you know, we talk about that all the time, you know The expectation of success is fine if you've put the work in and and I don't think it's a case where we haven't put the work And I think that you know, we we have a younger team This is the first group of seniors that weren't with us During the initial four years when we struggled and everything was really really hard to do So, you know all that group has done has been able to win and so now they're the leadership expectation is a little bit different So you're right. You know, is it do you want to lose the opener? No But from a looking at it from a positive perspective You know, it gave us a different look at our team and how we need to approach things. All right and moving on We got the home opener this week against Kings obviously open-up conference play as well Talk a little bit that game and what you need to be do to be ready to go Well, you know, we've got to be emotionally ready to go We've got to be physically ready to go and again looking at the mental part of the game We've got to eliminate those catastrophic mental mistakes, you know, dropping the ball inside of our own end zone Dropping a snap inside the five, you know, those little things We have to avoid those major mistakes throughout the week And you know, we've really kind of tailored practice to a game type situation to put pressure on players in Practice as much as you can kind of manufacture that environment So they they get used to and comfortable with with high level, you know Expectations and high level pressure and practice. So hopefully we'll be able to respond a little bit better on Saturday Yeah, obviously being the home opener anything the guys are excited to play in front of their home fans and their classmates You know, I think it's one of the best atmospheres in division 3 our fans bring it So, you know, you can't help but feel the excitement I think our guys are ready to get going here at Mustang Stadium. All right That's Coach Ed Hoddle will be here Saturday at noon against Kings College. Hope to see y'all here for Ed Hoddle I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Ed Hoddle show