The Meat Grinder

Sean Patrick Bowley, Pete Paguaga and columnist Jeff Jacobs recap the 2021 CIAC Football championship weekend, celebrate the four state champions, Cromwell/Portland, Killingly, Maloney and No. 1 Darien. They also take a look ahead at what's next for high school football, including the CIAC's loathsome return of six state champions, weird realignments and confounding scheduling decisions, among man...

GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. The trio talks the state playoffs to start the show. Picks start at 31 minute mark Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. The trio talks the state playoffs to start the show. Picks start at 31 minute mark Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thanksgiving is over, the quarterfinals begin Tuesday night. But with little time to spare and picks to make, GameTimeCT's Pete Paguaga, Jeff Jacobs and Sean Patrick Bowley kick the tires and give their takes on the state of football, especially the recent expansion back to six championship divisions of eight and what that means for the sport going forward. This is the shorter, first part of a two...

GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With our weekly guest spot ruined by a dreaded glitch, Pete and Sean detail their week criss-crossing the state to Windsor, Naugatuck, Plainville, Stafford and into the quiet corner at Woodstock Academy. Of course, we discuss the most pressing issue of the times: The state playoff picture. Sean's just about got the formula figured out, but with so many games still to be played this week the best w...

Welcome back to the tenth episode of the GameTimeCT Football Pick'Em Podcast. GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

WELCOME to another edition of the Meat Grinder, your weekly discussion on High School Football in Connecticut. Only three full weeks remain before the end of the season and teams are jockeying for their final playoff positioning before our teams dive into the busy final 10 days before Thanksgiving. Sean and Pete do their best to break down all the latest scenarios across the four different classes...

Welcome back to the ninth episode of the GameTimeCT Football Pick'Em Podcast. GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're rounding into the homestretch of the 2021 season and unless you were at St. Joseph fan at No. 1 Darien's 42-14 victory over the No. 2 Hogs, Week 8 didn't disappoint. Instead, the best results came elsewhere, especially in Wilton where the Warriors finally toppled their white whale -- Ridgefield -- for the first time since 1993. Joining us this week is Wilton's fourth-year coach E.J. Dinunzio...

Welcome back to the eighth episode of the GameTimeCT Football Pick'Em Podcast. GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back to another jam-packed episode of the Meat Grinder, your one-stop shop for all things Connecticut High School Football with hosts Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley of GameTimeCT.com The moment we've been waiting for this season has arrived. It's No. 1 vs. No. 2 Saturday at Dalling Field on the campus of St. Joseph High School in Trumbull. There, No. 1 Darien, winners of three of the...

Welcome back to the seventh episode of the GameTimeCT Football Pick'Em Podcast. GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's the 2021 Midseason Report! Pete and Sean take their first real look at the state playoff picture in the four classes and give their favorites to win state champions. Also, Jeff Jacobs returns to weigh in on the Tech program mess in the Class L playoffs. St. Joseph coach Joe Della Vecchia joins the show to talk about his No. 2-ranked and unbeaten Hogs following their thrilling 24-20 victory ov...

Welcome back to the sixth episode of the GameTimeCT Football Pick'Em Podcast. GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the sixth episode of The Meat Grinder, GameTimeCT’s high school football podcast. This week, with a majority of the GameTimeCT Top 10 taking the week off, it was time to check in on some of the state's biggest stars still playing. On Friday, Sean went to check out Newington's Austyn Howe, who had been tearing it up through four games, only to see Glastonbury ride Jack Petrone and Matt D...

Welcome back to the fifth episode of the GameTimeCT Football Pick'Em Podcast. GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sean and Pete wipe virtual omelettes off their faces and sift through the rubble of what was the top 10 after a topsy-turvy Week 4 for everybody except the FCIAC, which now boasts six of the state's top 7 teams. Trumbull, Ridgefield, Greenwich, New Canaan, and St. Joseph, and of course, Norwalk won big games heading into the bye, while Jeff Jacobs has a moral crisis. Joining us this week is new co...

Welcome back to the fourth episode of the GameTimeCT Football Pick'Em Podcast. GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the fourth episode of The Meat Grinder, GameTimeCT’s high school football podcast. It was the first big week of the CT HS Football Alliance so hosts Pete Paguaga and Sean Patrick Bowley break down some of the biggest games and surprising results from around the state. Our special guest star this week is first season and second-year Shelton coach Mike DeFelice, whose Gaels turned in — pe...

Welcome back to the third episode of the GameTimeCT Football Pick'Em Podcast. GameTimeCT producer Pete Paguaga is joined by GameTimeCT producer Sean Patrick Bowley and GameTimeCT columnist Jeff Jacobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Second year and first-season Ledyard coach Mike Serricchio joins the show. He talks about his team's 2-0 start and his journey from the King School in Stamford, to the cradle of coaches at Springfield College and to following legends at Ledyard. Columnist Jeff Jacobs also joins after being embedded with the Quinebaug Valley Football team during its cross-state trek from Killingly to Danbury -- the...

It's a jam-packed show with special guest star longtime and retiring Hartford coach Harry Bellucci, whose Owls had a big 43-7 opening-week victory, joining the show to talk about his career and this year's team. Fairfield Prep made the biggest splash of the anticipated return to football with a statement, 29-16 victory over No. 3 Hand, and made sure to let the GameTimeCT crew know all about it. Se...