Jake Fotta

Kids a stud and a hard worker, trying to find home.

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Highlights vs Salisbury (6’4 230lb) Not the results we wanted but still so proud of the fight this team shows week in and week out! Wewinas1wefallas1 Stats: ⭐️11 tackles ⭐️6 tfls ⭐️1 strip sack ⭐️1 pass deflection ⭐️10+ pressures hudl.com/v/2Q7U01

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TOUCHDOWN WHITE SQUAD! QB Jake Fotta with an acrobatic throw to find TE Ethan Tallo for six points! Quintois converts the PAT. @ESU_Football x #WhereWarriorsBelong

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer. He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice. Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.” Coach replied, “Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.” Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.” And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department. Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.” Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.” “So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'” “And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.” Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.” Takeaway 1: Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban. “People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.” “I just tell them, 'Be great.'” “The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.' “So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.' Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.” Takeaway 2: I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success. The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.” To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control. Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success. In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?” Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.” - - - “I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady Follow @bpoppenheimer for more content like this!

John Siggins registers a 27-yd touchdown from Sean McTaggart to lift ESU to an early lead. @ESU_Football #WhereWarriorsBelong

Many more to come!! @KimHerbine

Great person with a huge heart, AJ’s always doing it right.

AJ MONCMAN BACK IN TOWN: Great to see @D11Sports Student Reporter @aj_m711-a @SoLehighSD alum-being interviewed by Joey Draper tonight at the @PHSTrojansFB vs @NazarethTD game. Just a great person with lots of talent who is continuing his education in Broadcast Media at @ESUniversity while help coaching for @ESU_Football. Seeing Joey and AJ talking back and forth just shows exactly what our D11Sports.com Student Internship program is all about. @mystlukes @SLUHNSportsMed @joeydra1 @SolehiSpartans @Jimterwilliger

ONE WEEK OUT!!!!!!! 👇👇👇👇

Just 3 more weeks to the opening night of the high school football season @EmmausFootball

Prior to the start of the MLB draft, I made the decision to withdraw my name. Thank you to the teams that considered me and for everyone’s support over my entire baseball journey. I’m excited to return to Penn this fall for my senior year #Quakeshow

COMMITTED!! AGTG!!🙏🏽#GoDukes @JMUCurtCignetti @Coach_PatKuntz @JMUFootball @harfair @EmmausFootball

This Emmaus athlete made students with disabilities feel “welcomed and safe.” Now he’s heading to Yale. mcall.com/2023/06/15/eas…

Great trainer, even better person. Thank you Liz🙌🏼

Congratulations to the class of 2023, especially to Abby Burnett, Rachel Herbine, and Ava Zerfass. Wishing these three all the best as they embark on their next chapters!🎓🏑🐝

Proud of this guy for representing Emmaus in the East vs West game! 🏈🐝 @JFotta #hornetpride

This 19 yarder from @EmmausFootball Jake Fotta to @CDRamsFootball David Chase draws the East squad to within 24-16 of the West with 5:19 left in the @PSFCA_ Big School All Star game @D11Sports @PremiunSports @GoMVB @HSFBamerica #PAHSFB