 Hello, welcome to the Ed Hall show presented by Buffalo Wildlings. I'm Greg Royce, show of the season football coach Ed Hall. Coach, I wrapped up the regular season last week at home against Lake Holmen. We're able to post the second shot of the season with a 31-0 win. A great way to close out the regular season. It was fun. Felt really good for the seniors. Send them out that way in our last regular season game and you know, obviously putting up a shutout takes everybody on the teams involved with that from the offense, defense, special teams. So, but hats off to the defensive staff and the guys, the defensive players, you know, really did a nice job executing a well thought out game plan. And it's quite an accomplishment to shut somebody out. Yeah, absolutely. Especially in conference play. It's even tougher because everybody knows everybody and knows your tendencies and personnel a little bit better. Absolutely, absolutely. And that's a well coached team. You know, they do some things and did some things to us on Saturday. They caused a little bit of a problem. But, you know, again, the guys were resilient and executed. Yeah, I talked about that really when obviously the score was still scoreless at the time. The backbreaker was second quarter. They put together a really long drive, 10-11 minutes, 21 plays, and coming away no points because they missed the field goal. I thought obviously your defense stood up and was able to hold them and not let them find the end zone. They also had to be a little frustrated for Leico in that, hey, you put together that on a drive and you still have nothing to show for it. Sure. And I think going back and looking at that drive, you know, we helped them extend that drive multiple times. I think we had some penalties during that drive. The third down conversions were insanely high throughout that drive. So, you know, some things that we can work on this week going into it, but certainly, you know, when you put together a drive of that length and to come away empty-handed was certainly, you know, swung the momentum a little bit in our way. Yeah, and then you were able to come back right after the missed field goal, come back two or three plays later and score and take a lead in the halftime and built on that in the third quarter. Absolutely. It's, you know, it's nice to score late in the half. You'll get some momentum and some confidence going into the locker room. And, you know, again, this whole second half theme of ours is certainly not one that we coach at all. But, you know, we've done a nice job coming out of the locker room, you know, after halftime making the adjustments and such. So, you know, it's been good. Yeah, absolutely. Before we move on to this week's game, so I'll talk a little bit about all conference stuff came out yesterday. Obviously, I had 13 guys honored, obviously, tested to the hard work that they've put in. Sure. Those guys, you know, those guys, you know, work really hard. And, you know, those things are always very interesting to me as I look at them and, you know, who's on and who's off. And I think there were some of our guys that may have been a little bit overlooked, you know, that obviously were biased. And, you know, we felt like deserve some recognition. But, you know, at the end of the day, it is what it is. And we've got to get our focus on Saturday. Yeah, absolutely. Now, shifting gears to Saturday, home bowl game first time since 2014 had that opportunity. And, you know, a foe that's not traveling very far to get here in Johns Hopkins, so it should be a fun one. Absolutely. You know, it's nice to be at home. You know, the challenge of a team that's been in the playoffs for, you know, for the previous 10 consecutive years with the prestige of, you know, one of the finest programs in the country, preseason number six in the nation. So, you know, it should be a good game. I'm excited. You know, they're a high quality opponent. Somebody that, you know, that knows respect nationally. And then that's an exciting challenge for us. Yeah. And obviously, you'll have to go out and we talk about it every week, but do the things that we do that you guys do well in order to compete and to hopefully come out of the victory. Sure. You know, we've got to go out and be fundamentally sound. You know, they're a team that take advantage of your mistakes very, very quickly. And we've got to be sound at everything that we do. And again, we're excited for the challenge. Yeah. All right, Coach. Well, we should best of luck on Saturday. And, you know, we'll chat here once the season's done. Thanks, Greg. All right. For Ed Hoddle, I'm Greg Royce. This has been the Ed Hoddle Show.