Head Coach of BC football, Bill O'Brien, joins the show! #24 BC faces #6 Mizzou Saturday! Thoughts on Mizzou? Just how good is the SEC?
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00:00the head coach of Boston College football and during the break Bill was showing us some great
00:07film of SBS teams beating FCS teams. I appreciate that. I seriously do not know where they got that
00:19from. I mean I apologize to the guy for asking that but I was just like what are you talking
00:29about? I didn't show that one time. I'm sorry. Wouldn't it be the other way if you were going
00:38to show like FCS teams beat FBS teams to make sure your guys don't overlook it? Yeah like by
00:46the way like my thing is too and like I said I really believe this like I really don't know the
00:51difference like in today's college football league you got FBS, FCS, you know NCIS, CIA,
01:00whatever like I don't even know I don't know what they're talking about. These teams are all we play
01:04you know we play good teams every week so we got to get ready to go. Well you got a good team this
01:10week on the road Saturday against the number six Tigers. There was a lot of back and forth on this
01:17show and elsewhere about Alabama getting in the playoff last year over Florida State but we do sit
01:24here week three or whatever and six of the top seven teams are SEC teams. Is that conference
01:34that much better than the rest of college football Bill? You know I look I think the SEC is a great
01:42conference. I coached in the SEC. You know you would probably say it would be tough to argue
01:47to say that that the SEC is not the best conference but I got to tell you guys like
01:52the ACC and having coached also in the Big Ten I mean there's a lot of good teams in these
01:57conferences right so like I think at the end of the day you got to let it play out year in and
02:02year out. It's good that it's a 12 team playoff now so you know we'll see what happens at the
02:06end of the year for you know some of these teams but like I just think that the ACC you know it's
02:12a good conference. We have a lot of teams in this conference that are you know good teams.
02:17Bill you look at this test for you guys up next. Mizzou's coming off back-to-back
02:21shutout wins. Is your offense do they feel ready? Do you feel like Castellanos
02:27is prepared to take on especially a pass defense that Mizzou has?
02:32You know I think so. I mean I think we've had a good week of practice. This is definitely the
02:35best team we've played here at BC and you know before even I got here. This is a good football
02:40team. I mean these guys definitely deserve to be in the top 10. They have talent on in all three
02:46phases. I mean just for example like their place kicker is an excellent excellent kicker. I mean
02:51they've got really good offensive and defensive line. They got really good skilled players. Got
02:55excellent quarterback. It's going to be a huge challenge for us but you know these guys you know
03:00these guys they practice. They show up every single day. They had a really good practice
03:04yesterday. We got to have a good one today. We got to have a really sharp practice. It's a Thursday
03:09which is kind of like a Friday in the pros. So we got to have a really good practice today and then
03:14you know we'll see what happens. I think Tommy's you know ready but you know it has to play out on
03:18the field on Saturday. After what we heard during Courtney's lead I don't want to ask you to look
03:24ahead on the field wise to next week but yesterday being September 11th. How meaningful is that red
03:32bandana game tradition for Boston College Bill? Yeah no it's that's a huge deal here at BC.
03:41You know I actually had the honor of speaking to Wells's mom on a Zoom about a month ago and you
03:50know spent about an hour on a Zoom call with her and just hearing about Wells's life and you know
03:55the whole story and I was familiar with the story but when you hear it from his mom it's just
03:59incredible and so you know look at the end of the day I you know we don't want to look ahead to that
04:04game but when you think about yesterday and you think about everybody knows where they were on
04:09that day that was just a horrible day. I was actually coaching at Georgia Tech at that that
04:13on that day and I actually lost three friends that I went to college with on that day in the
04:19tower so you know I just think that that Wells Crowther and his family and what that means to
04:24Boston College is uh it's a big deal and uh you know it's a week away or whatever but but we're
04:31always thinking about Wells. Bill when you look at this game it you know a very very good team but
04:36this is a great test uh especially for your your team and I think the biggest thing what you guys
04:43are going to have to show when when you think about you know any football game is up front.
04:48How do you feel about your team up front both sides of the football I know your defense has
04:53done a great job and you guys have the ability to run the football and that's what you look like
04:56you're really doing. How important is it that you're getting the message through to those guys
05:01that it's going to be a great test but this game is going to be won up front both sides of the
05:06football? Yeah that's a huge message this week that is a that's the matchup of the game on both
05:12sides of the ball so it's our offensive line versus a very very uh uh you know well coached
05:18veteran defensive line in Missouri some transfers they've got a defensive tackle from transfer from
05:23Florida uh who's an excellent player got two defensive ends that are really good it's a great
05:28matchup for us you know we got Trapillo and Bowery at tackle you know those guys have to bring
05:33bring their best game on Saturday and then defensively their offensive line weight is very
05:38very athletic they run the outside zone kind of like Denver used to run it you know where they
05:43kind of pluck it and run and so it's going to be a big big challenge for us um the quarterback
05:49Brady Cook is a really good player he's a he's a good passer he's very athletic he can run so we
05:53got to try to keep him in the pocket and and you know look it'll always be that way for BC we've
05:59got to win games up front I think that's the way this program has to be you know constructed so
06:05you know it's a big challenge for those guys this week I know you've been trying to get Northern
06:09Illinois on the schedule for next season you might want to rethink that they beat us last year
06:15yeah no we don't yeah no we do not want anything to do with Northern Illinois right now I can
06:20promise you that Bill they they did an awesome job man that was an awesome game for them right
06:28what an awesome it was an awesome game for us yes and they got
06:31and and Notre Dame owes them 1.4 million dollars to boot
06:35hey yeah we're gonna pay you two mil come on in and beat us
06:42Bill did you think obviously I don't know if anybody's thought but
06:46week two in the NFL the Red Sox are playing the Yankees in the Bronx
06:50and the biggest game this weekend is BC at Mizzou Saturday at 12 45.
06:54Oh man I don't know I look I'm just glad that that you guys you know give us this opportunity
07:03on EEI I think we're building something it's very early you know it's really early in this
07:08program we just got the job only eight months ago but I do think that you know you guys know
07:13it's a special place there's a niche in Boston for Boston College football and so like hopefully
07:18we can you know show up there at Missouri you know fight hard do the best job we can
07:24and and just keep fighting and trying to get better every single day I think that's the
07:28key for us so that people will be interested in watching us play I think that's a big deal
07:33are you planning on replacing the the fight song after touchdowns with any of your kids rap tunes
07:40yeah oh my god I don't but yeah I don't know what how to respond to that I did hear that story
07:46about Colorado but you know look he came out I think and said that he didn't do that so
07:52no we're not the fight song gets played even in practice at least five or six times a day I love
07:58the fight song I love the fight song also I gotta ask you about the Patriots in that win
08:05did like the rest of us did you not see that coming week one I think like you know first
08:12of all when you watch the Patriots in that game and I had it on in the background while I was
08:16kind of watching Missouri film but if you have a dose of Ramondre Stevenson and the Patriots have
08:21a top five defense and then they play well on special teams that's the formula and to me like
08:26certainly I'm not in the building but I wouldn't go too far away from that formula you know you
08:30pound Ramondre Stevenson 25 30 times in the game you know you play good their defense is awesome
08:37that was about three more sentences than we've got out of Bill Belichick so far this season on
08:41the Patriots are you surprised that he's kind of attempting to sidestep anytime he's asked about
08:47them I don't know I haven't noticed that I really haven't I I you know I obviously I you know I hear
08:54you guys saying that he doesn't talk about the Patriots so yeah I mean I don't know I guess that
08:58would be a better question for him you have to have him on and see if he could do his Monday
09:02Patriots review again with you guys but uh we tried we don't have the cash over here no he's
09:10too expensive I mean I think that's we got you for free so I'm easy Bill one of the things that
09:18we always talk about here is you know how in the NFL you know it's really about having a quarterback
09:24and you know you can run the football and play good defense but at the end of the day you got
09:29to have that quarterback to get you over the hump it's kind of a little bit on the opposite side you
09:34know from you know watching college football and being a college football fan when you look at a
09:38team like Michigan who's able to to win with their ability to run the football you guys have
09:44like a four-headed monster because I throw the quarterback in there with the ability to run
09:49in your offensive line when you look at that in college football is that can you win that way
09:57and can you win a national championship that way in college football because you know it if you can
10:03run the ball and play good d that could take you a lot further um and and win national championships
10:09do you feel that way I definitely think that in college football if you have you know obviously
10:17defenders a defense they can play the space game they can tackle in space because there's a lot
10:22more space plays in college than there are in the pros and then you have a quarterback that
10:27has the ability to run and he's he's a he's a good passer and he can do both he's definitely
10:32what they would call a dual threat but I also think if you can play decently on special teams
10:38and be able to flip the field every once in a while if you have a good punter or something like
10:41that I definitely think that's a formula for for winning I think the the ability for a quarterback
10:47in college to make off-schedule plays is huge it's big in the NFL but in the NFL you're not going to
10:52really run your quarterback that much because you know the guy's making 30 to 40 million a year
10:57you're not going to get them tattooed you know by running them all the time so you know I think it's
11:02definitely a good formula in college all right well big one Saturday Bill O'Brien we will talk
11:07to you next week go get them thanks for taking the time this morning thank you guys I appreciate
11:12you having me on thank you all right there he is head coach Boston College Bill O'Brien