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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 365 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 2 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Nukzack Valley senior Cohen Howford, and you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Walkam Preps podcast with Tyler Anderson Rally the Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings, and welcome to the episode three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 2: five of the Walkham Preps podcast. And this is the
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  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game Day Preview. I am Tyler Anderson with Walkom
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  Speaker 2: Preps and we're going to preview all eleven games this
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  Speaker 2: weekend involving Walkham County teams. So when I give a
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  Speaker 2: special shout out to Cohen Howford, Senior from Nukzack Valley,
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  Speaker 2: the big lineman, two way starter. He gave us the
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  Speaker 2: intro for this and boy, it's just an unsung guy
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  Speaker 2: up front.
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  Speaker 3: He did a great job last year.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to be even more dominant this
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  Speaker 2: year and he's going to be a big reason why
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  Speaker 2: the Pioneers accomplish what they do this season.
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  Speaker 3: He had a great game in Week one, looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to some big things.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations to Meridians Trey Alexander and River Todd for winning
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  Speaker 2: the PEPSI Play of the Week with their forty nine
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  Speaker 2: yard touchdown pass against Deer Park that put the Trojans
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  Speaker 2: up fourteen to zero. They each want a case of
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  Speaker 2: Gatorade thanks to Walton Beverage. And I'm gonna step away
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  Speaker 2: for a short fifteen second so we can hear from
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  Speaker 2: our title sponsor.
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  Speaker 3: Let your taste decide, all right.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you how blessed and thankful I am
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  Speaker 2: for a company like Walton Beverage, who's been a staple
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  Speaker 2: in our community for over ninety years to take an
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  Speaker 2: interest in walking preps and allow me to keep doing
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  Speaker 2: what I love to do.
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  Speaker 3: It's truly amazing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a game changer for me, and I will continue
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  Speaker 2: to work harder every day to make the fantastic people
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  Speaker 2: of Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth sports in our community.
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  Speaker 2: They deliver superior quality and commitment, and I plan to
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  Speaker 2: do the same. So let's talk some football. Okay, we
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  Speaker 2: have eleven games a time, which is the max.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: We have eleven teams in the county and they're all
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  Speaker 2: playing a team that's not in the county, So got.
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  Speaker 3: A lot to talk about here. Eight of them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, yeah, eight of them are kicking off tonight
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  Speaker 2: and three more tomorrow. So let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start with the six o'clock games. There's four of
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  Speaker 2: them that are tonight. We're gonna start with the Mount
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  Speaker 2: Baker Mountaineers. They're traveling to Hawkinson to take on the
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  Speaker 2: Hawks at six o'clock. Mount Baker's one to zero. Hawkinson
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  Speaker 2: is zero to one. Based on the ranking system on
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  Speaker 2: max Preps, which is of course not affiliated with Walking Preps,
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  Speaker 2: Mount Baker is favored in this one. We are now
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  Speaker 2: joined on the Gatorade Game day preview by Mount Baker
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  Speaker 2: football coach Ron Lepper.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, thank you for joining me today. How are you
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  Speaker 3: doing doing great?
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  Speaker 5: Thanks shoving me on todder pleasure as always.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you bet before taking or for taking.
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  Speaker 2: Before talking about your Week two opponent, let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: Week one.
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  Speaker 3: You went down to Port Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: It was a little back and forth early, but you
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  Speaker 2: got a couple interceptions late in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 3: Both of them turned into quick.
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  Speaker 2: Strike touchdown passes, and you rout by two scores at
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  Speaker 2: the half end up winning forty seven to twelve.
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  Speaker 3: What was the biggest takeaway from that game.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, long road trip and then playing at
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  Speaker 5: a place who've ever played before, and you know, and
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  Speaker 5: Port Towns have played hard. They did some I mean
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  Speaker 5: I said, I mean Port Angels played hard, They did
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  Speaker 5: some really good things, took advantage of stuff, and we
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  Speaker 5: didn't respond as we would like to at that time.
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  Speaker 5: And so you know, they go down and you know,
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  Speaker 5: they going to to making it a one, you know,
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  Speaker 5: one point ball game, and I kind of had a
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  Speaker 5: feeling that maybe they were doubting themselves a little bit,
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  Speaker 5: like you know, and except felt like Port Angels had
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  Speaker 5: some momentum. And then you know, we get like I said,
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  Speaker 5: we get the two interceptions and go down to score
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  Speaker 5: a couple of touchdowns and you know a short period
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  Speaker 5: of time. So instead of going in you know seven
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  Speaker 5: to six will leave, we go over the twenty to
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  Speaker 5: six lead. And I think that kind of got us going.
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  Speaker 5: And we came out and I thought we played really
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  Speaker 5: well in the third quarter, early fourth quarter stopped. My
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  Speaker 5: defense went down scored and the defense was getting after
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  Speaker 5: people offensively. We get some good things and then you know,
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  Speaker 5: I was able to get everybody in the ball game
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  Speaker 5: by the end. So overall a good first game. I'm
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  Speaker 5: you know, is got to you know, got to a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of a challenge at times, had to talk
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  Speaker 5: someone we could talk about and then you know, looking
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  Speaker 5: forward and getting ready for this week.
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  Speaker 2: I loved the call on the out and up because
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  Speaker 2: you'd had a few out patterns leading up to that.
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  Speaker 3: It worked out great.
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  Speaker 2: Was that just something that hit you and you know
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  Speaker 2: you had about thirty seconds left in the half.
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  Speaker 3: Was that something like, you know what, this is a
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  Speaker 3: good time for it?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: No, does coach Horsmon come and tell me? He said, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: we talked about running out and up on the next
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  Speaker 5: first down, and so here's our first down. So we
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  Speaker 5: went out and up and there it was.
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  Speaker 3: It worked out pretty dang well. Your senior quarterback, Toga Tigilau.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't play a ton last year, got in,
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  Speaker 2: you know in the Sultan game a little bit, played
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  Speaker 2: a lot as a sophomore, but here he was as
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  Speaker 2: a senior now taking over the reins again at quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: He looked pretty sharp with those two touchdown passes and
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback sneak for a touchdown, no interceptions.
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  Speaker 3: How do you feel about his performance?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, did we asked. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 5: couple of things that we talked about that we can
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  Speaker 5: look at you a little better. One of the one
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  Speaker 5: of the incompletes was the line's fault for not getting
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  Speaker 5: the job done again in time. So you know, quarterbacks
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  Speaker 5: gonna take a lot of blame, they get a lot
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  Speaker 5: of glory overall. I thought Toki did a good job,
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  Speaker 5: but there's some things we got to clean up as
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  Speaker 5: a team so we could be even more successful. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, as much as we do like to run
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  Speaker 5: the ball, you know, we got to go through it.
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  Speaker 5: And so I was pleased with how that started out
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  Speaker 5: the first game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the defense really got after too, especially the defensive line.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about Kel Reard and Aaron Torres and the
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  Speaker 2: rest of those guys up front.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we knew coming in that was kind of one
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  Speaker 5: of our strengths, you know, we we thought was the
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  Speaker 5: strength and so yeah, those guys we have, we can
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  Speaker 5: rotate some guys in there, so you know, you can
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  Speaker 5: go give stuff, go hard and get come and get
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  Speaker 5: a d a little bit of breather a couple of plays.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean Kel's Kel's starting to develop trying
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  Speaker 5: to understand football even more and that really helps you,
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  Speaker 5: you know, anticipate the times. Uh, Aaron's just kind of
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  Speaker 5: one of those guys that's kind of got a smile
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  Speaker 5: on his face. He's just gonna work hard and battle
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  Speaker 5: in there.
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  Speaker 6: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Trent George made some plays, you know, uh, tied in there, Zamzau.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, we're fortunate that we have some guys that
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  Speaker 5: we can rotate through there. You know. Unfortunately, you know, Noah,
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  Speaker 5: you know, ol Jeff got hurt on the defensive side
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  Speaker 5: of the ball. So I'm not sure what the status
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  Speaker 5: is right now, but so we have some younger guys
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  Speaker 5: will get a look. And so I thought d line
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  Speaker 5: played well and then we got able to get some
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  Speaker 5: linebackers going in there, which was great.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And every coach says that their team improves the
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  Speaker 2: most from week one to week two as far as
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  Speaker 2: games go. What are the things that you need to
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  Speaker 2: improve on the most?
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  Speaker 5: Well, we just got to make sure we understand our assignments.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's hard. It's almost comical with times, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and heay, okay, this is the defense and all set.
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  Speaker 5: If guys aren't lined up where you thought they were, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: we got to still adjust to that. So that's just
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  Speaker 5: gonna become a confidence, you know. I think I think
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  Speaker 5: our confidence was maybe you know, wavering a little bit,
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  Speaker 5: you know, late their second quarter there, but then we
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  Speaker 5: were able to snap out of it. Looking to improve there,
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  Speaker 5: let's improve overall, just making sure we know where we're
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  Speaker 5: supposed to be and given ourf for all the time.
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  Speaker 5: I know, first game, you know, adrenaline and that kind
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  Speaker 5: of stuff, but we want to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 5: going we're playing hard the whole time, doing our job
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  Speaker 5: the whole time, and we're supporting each other.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're traveling down to Hawkins on our Friday night,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit longer of a drive.
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  Speaker 3: What do you know about this team?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I know they got a new coach. The offense
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  Speaker 5: is completely different from last year. You know, last year
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  Speaker 5: they spread it out like most teams. Now, they're you know,
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  Speaker 5: they're tight. They've got running backs all over the place.
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  Speaker 5: They got you know, guard tackle, you know, a five
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  Speaker 5: yard splip with like another guy out there and running
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  Speaker 5: back in that in that open area. They snap the ball,
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  Speaker 5: they run the they run to the huddle really quick,
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  Speaker 5: or a lot of scrimmage. Get that ball off, So
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  Speaker 5: it's gonna be hard to you know, for us when
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  Speaker 5: you know, looking at formations, it's not gonna help as
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  Speaker 5: much as knowing where the guys are lined up for
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  Speaker 5: them in the backfield. So, uh yeah, you know, they
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  Speaker 5: they lost to his chief self, but Chiefs got some
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  Speaker 5: pretty good dudes on their team. They want to run
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  Speaker 5: the ball, you know, and just I know it's a
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  Speaker 5: short sample, but one game that we saw, uh, they
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  Speaker 5: only threw the ball three times. So I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we want to run the ball, but they want to
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  Speaker 5: run the ball even more. So we just got to
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  Speaker 5: try to limit big plays and understand where we're supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be and don't worry about all the other stuff
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  Speaker 5: that's going on. You know, there's a lot you know
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  Speaker 5: a lot of times they'll do stuff just to kind
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  Speaker 5: of get your eyes going somewhere else. But we've got
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  Speaker 5: to stay focused on what your job is, what gap
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  Speaker 5: you got to control on defense, and then offensively, we
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  Speaker 5: got to make sure that you know, we get the
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  Speaker 5: get the ball in the end zone, especially if our
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  Speaker 5: defense gives some opportunities. I did last week to continue that,
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  Speaker 5: then I think we'll I think we'll be okay.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe stop in Richland at the new in and out
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  Speaker 3: Burger Richfield. You mean, oh yeah, Ridgefield.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, sorry, Yeah, yeah, I mean that's the possibility. If
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  Speaker 5: it's open, then we get on the way out, we'll
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  Speaker 5: see where we are. I've never been to Hawkinson before
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  Speaker 5: high school, so I know it's in Brush Perry, so
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  Speaker 5: we'll see on the way down what it looks like.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, that's a that's an option. I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 5: we'll take that option.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty great.
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  Speaker 2: You've spent a lot, you know, not not a ton,
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  Speaker 2: but a gainful of years coaching in California.
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  Speaker 3: There you probably uh sampled some in and out burger.
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  Speaker 5: Oh route, I mean it's automatic Romo exit Palm Springs,
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  Speaker 5: Bam roight right off the road there, about a mile
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  Speaker 5: off of I ten. Yeah, I mean that's we stopped
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  Speaker 5: at coming back from wrestling trips. Anything we went over
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  Speaker 5: towards you know, towards l A to do and yeah
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  Speaker 5: then and then they uh yeah, yeah, add it out
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  Speaker 5: if there's ones around, I'll find it. I'll just tell
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  Speaker 5: you right now, I will find it.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I'm with you, coach man.
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  Speaker 2: I keep going to spring training every year just so
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  Speaker 2: I can Calvin and out every day for lunch.
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  Speaker 3: Man, it's the best.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Or you ever ordered the Gorilla Rise, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I've done it a few times. I'm I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's it's good.
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  Speaker 2: But I just I just love the double double just
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  Speaker 2: you know, just it's nothing beats it, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, No, it's it's very forward. Here's what you get, baby,
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  Speaker 5: here we go.
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  Speaker 3: It's fantastic, awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Best of luck against the Hawks on Friday. Coach, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
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  Speaker 5: All right, I appreciate it, Tyler. I appreciate anything to
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  Speaker 5: do for the county. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome. There.
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  Speaker 2: You have it Mount Baker at Hawkinson tonight at six o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be a fun one.
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  Speaker 2: Next up is Meridian, who is one and oh and
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  Speaker 2: they will be traveling over the mountains to face O
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  Speaker 2: Mac who's also one and o.
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  Speaker 3: Based on the Max.
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  Speaker 2: Preps rankings, Omack is favored and they have them ranked
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  Speaker 2: third in the state at the one A level. They
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  Speaker 2: you know, they did do some good things last year.
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  Speaker 2: Looked pretty good in Week one. I wasn't able to
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  Speaker 2: contact coach James this week for an interview, but I
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  Speaker 2: can tell you that Omack is pretty darn good. Meridian
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  Speaker 2: did beat them last year early in the season forty
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  Speaker 2: eight to twenty, but they then you know, went on
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  Speaker 2: to defeat Mount Baker at home twenty seven to twenty,
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  Speaker 2: and then they finished tied for fifth place in the
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  Speaker 2: state tournament. Omak has a superstar quarterback that is extremely
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  Speaker 2: fast and elusive. I was watching some film, same guy
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  Speaker 2: from last year, very very good. He's a walking highlight reel.
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  Speaker 2: So the Meridian defense will have to key on him
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  Speaker 2: at all times. The Trojan defense looked pretty good though
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  Speaker 2: last week, but this will be a much.
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  Speaker 3: More difficult opponent.
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  Speaker 2: Meridian's offense clicked pretty well last week as well, especially
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  Speaker 2: in the passing game, with quarterback Trey Alexander leading the
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  Speaker 2: entire county in passing yards after one week of play.
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  Speaker 2: He has a lot of different weapons at his disposal
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  Speaker 2: and they'll need all of them in this game.
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  Speaker 3: So good luck to Meridian.
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  Speaker 2: Just like I said, it'll be a much tougher game
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  Speaker 2: going over the mountains. Oh, Max pretty darn good. So
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  Speaker 2: if Meridian can win this one, that's going to really
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  Speaker 2: show me a lot. And then they're gonna they're Basically,
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be looking at being a state caliber
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  Speaker 2: team if they can give us win. I know it's early,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll just have to see here. The third six
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  Speaker 2: o'clock game that we'll be talking about will be Nukzak
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  Speaker 2: Valley Who's one in oh hosting Life Christian Academy who's
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  Speaker 2: oh and one. Based on the ranking system with Max Preps,
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  Speaker 2: Knickzack Valley is favored in this one, but Life Christian
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  Speaker 2: Academy's very very good. They have a huge line and
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  Speaker 2: a great quarterback. I'll be out there to check this
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  Speaker 2: one out. And now we were joined on the Gatory
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  Speaker 2: Game Day review by Nutzack Valley football coach Craig Bartell, coach,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Not too bad?
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  Speaker 7: Not too bad at all?
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  Speaker 1: And thank you again for all you do and for
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  Speaker 1: high school athletics and doing this week.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's great for our kids in our league.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it. Thank you. Thank you for agreeing
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  Speaker 3: to join join me every week. It's fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: Before talking about your Week two opponent, let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: Week one. You hosted on Alaska and there and their
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  Speaker 2: unique offense took a little adjusting it first it looked
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  Speaker 2: like and after kind of a back and forth game,
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  Speaker 2: you made the adjustments came away with thirty five to
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  Speaker 2: twelve win.
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  Speaker 3: What did you like about your team's performance, Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: It's you hit it on the head. It's a unique offense.
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  Speaker 1: And they ran what we call midline, which is very
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  Speaker 1: difficult to defend if you don't practice it, and we
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  Speaker 1: have never seen them really do.
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  Speaker 7: That, and so it uh, Yeah, it took a little
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  Speaker 7: while to.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of make some adjustments on the fly, and so
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of our kids for being able to do that.
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  Speaker 7: That's a difficult play.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, you almost have to practice that for
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  Speaker 1: a good solid week to understand it. So our kids
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  Speaker 1: were able to adjust to that, which is is a
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  Speaker 1: testament to coach Dykstra calling the defense and the kids
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  Speaker 1: for for making that adjustment.
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  Speaker 7: There's overall, there's a lot of good things that happened.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of a lot of things that we
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  Speaker 1: need to clean up, but overall pretty happy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was really you know, I love seeing an
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  Speaker 2: offense that I'm not used to seeing, and so as
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  Speaker 2: soon as they got the ball, I went around to
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  Speaker 2: the back of the end zone, and what shocked me
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  Speaker 2: was I've never seen a bigger split between offensive linemen
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  Speaker 2: between the right guard and the right tackle.
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  Speaker 3: It just it just stood out so much, and I thought,
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  Speaker 3: is it not a good idea to put a guy
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  Speaker 3: right in between there?
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  Speaker 2: Or is he just gonna get shoved out of the
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  Speaker 2: way because you don't know which way they're gonna down
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  Speaker 2: block or it's it was just it was nuts to see.
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  Speaker 3: But but you're right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they did spring one early with the quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: and but adjustments from way remade and they didn't score.
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  Speaker 3: At all in the second half.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: It really had a lot of varsity first time starters
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: out there. Where there nerves early on?
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: Or did you did you did you feel bad or
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: how did that all go for you? Guys?
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there was some nerves, but we we've talked about,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: you know, just understanding the process, believing in your practice, believing.
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: In what we're what we've.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Done throughout the week, and just kind of being on
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: an even level, not getting too high, not getting too
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: low on emotions, and understanding that, uh, the emotions will
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: pass and then you just kind of play the game.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I have no doubt that there was some
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: emotions or some some jitters you know, to start the game,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: especially when they they wanted the ball on the opening
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: kickoff and so in that that offense, you yeah, it
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: took us so a while to kind of overcome that,
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: and we they did a wide split uhh, and they
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: did it certain.
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: Plays and so that took us.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: We kind of had it figured out halfway through the
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: first quarter, but it it's hard to make that adjustment
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: with the kids on the fly because they're all they're
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: playing both ways, and so you know, we're kind of
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: able to weather the storm and then and then make
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: some adjustments at halftime and let them know, hey, when
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: they're going wide splits is what they're running. And so yeah,
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: that the halftime adjustment was really good. We had to
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: burn a time out, I think in this second quarter
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: to kind of uh relay to our guys, Hey, when
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: we see this, we want you to do this.
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: And so yeah, it was helpful and I think that.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Helps calm the nerves when the kids, like you said,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: they're new kids out there and they trust the coaches,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: but in a game, we really need them to trust
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: what we're telling them. You know, we can show them
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: in practice, but we need them to trust that what
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: we see in the game and the adjustments we want
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: or and for the reasons that we want to do them,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: that that they'll trust what we're telling them and do
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: what we asked them and not do their own thing.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: And our kids are a good job of that.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you know, a breakout performance to me at
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: least kind of looked like senior captain Jackson Hester. I mean,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: he looked great on both sides of the ball. Caught
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: nine passes, you know, and first you know, first years,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: starting as a receiver, that's a lot of balls to catch.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Did great on the defensive side of the ball. What
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: have you liked about him so far early in this season.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's he's been great. He's certainly earned those those.
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: That captain title. He plays well, he plays hard. But
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: what the intangible that he.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Brings his energy and he brings and we want him
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: to bring that energy out on the field. He's celebrating teammates,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you know when they make good plays, and that's contagious
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and we really like that aspect from.
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: Him and he and he's a good player. He's he's
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: elusive and so he's been he's done a good job.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And yeah, fortunately, you know, the way they played us defensively,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: we were able to get him.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: The ball quite a bit.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think got a bigger crowd reaction
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: when Trey Hugh Tink pulled over those kids are when
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: on Alaska at least passed the ball the first time.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I don't really hear the crowd, but I did hear
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the ooze from Trey's hit. Ironically, the next play, Uh,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: we forgot to.
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: Block somebody and on Alaska got to pay back. But yeah,
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: that was.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: That was, you know, a good catch, a good run,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: and I did hear the ooze. I didn't really hear anything,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: you know, when on Alaska through, but we were anticipating
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: that as coaches, and I think we were talking, but
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I was told that, Yeah, there was.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: Quite an excitement on that too.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I think the loudest I heard was we had a sophomore,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Will Barrett, who just a phenomenal kid, is always out there.
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: Uh he went in in the fourth or her.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: And has made a tackle and got his name announced,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and I heard a lot of cheers, and certainly our
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: kids were really excited for him.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: So I did hear that too.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: It's awesome I love those those moments and and uh,
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: you know what's unique about your guys's huddle that's different
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: to other people's huddles is you can hear the audio
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: and uh, and so it's as far as huddle, I'm
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: not talking like inside your offensive virguc.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know the.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: Film and uh and boy when on Alaska went back
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: to past, you just heard everyone go they're gonna and
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: so that was it was pretty crazy. Every coach says
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that their team improves the most from week one to
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: week two.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: What are the things that you feel like you need
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: to prove on the most.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we actually talked about that on Monday yesterday,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: about that that we have to make.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: The biggest improvements from week one to week two, and
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: it's just it's focus.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: It's uh, it's like I said, I keep saying it,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: but it's trusting the process.
• 20:03
  Speaker 7: What what do you have to do to be successful?
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: And that's practice hard, every every drill, every play. And
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: so we we've.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Explained to them that as coaches this week, we're probably
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: gonna be harder on them this week than we have
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: been all year.
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: And that's to really.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Drive home that focus, determination, the drive, and just holding
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: each other accountable, and so that that'll be the big
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: push for us as a staff to not allow that
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: complacency to set in and to get them to understand
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: that where we want to be, we're a long ways
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to get there, and it starts every from warm ups,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: every practice, and so we'll be really focused on that
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: and really focused on doing the little things that we
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: need to fix. A.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: So you're hosting Life Christian on Friday night at six o'clock.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: You know, I have I've seen very very little of them.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: What do you know about them? At least this year's team.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: They're huge. They are really big upfront.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: They're smallest guy you know, maybe I don't know, two
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: fifty or something like that. To steal a probably a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: quote from from Bob Ames, like, I'm worried that they're
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: gonna just eat up our guys.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: They're that big.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Just they're huge, and I'm not exaggerating their Their quarterback
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: is really good. He's probably one of the top quarterbacks
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: in the state. They're athletic, and so this will be
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: a huge challenge. I mean, they lost in the last
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: second in the state semifinals last year. Seaton Catholic, who's
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a really good team, and they got a lot of
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: guys coming back, so this will be a big challenge
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: for us.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, that sounds like I mean, is it? Is there
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: a style of offense? Are they because they're because they're
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: so big. Are they kind of a power run team?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Or are they spread it out or multiple kind offense?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: What are you what are you gonna be looking at
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: when they're when they have the ball.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're those big guys up front that they like to.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: Run like a zone, just running the ball.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: They have a back who who didn't play last week,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: but I think he's still back.
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: He's really quick and really good. They don't like to pull.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: They will pull a little bit, run some counterplays, but
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: mostly there we're just gonna line up and try to
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: push you backwards and let the running backs go.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: They like to throw the ball a lot. Their quarterback.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: We were gonna have to really contain their quarterback because
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: once he gets out, he's he's quick and elusive, and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: so we're gonna have to try to figure out how
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to contain him a little bit and get some pressure
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: on him. I think we can get some pressure on
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: him and make him feel uncomfortable, you know, that'll help us,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: but we got to be really disciplined in the secondary
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and make our reads and get to where we need
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: to get to because they've got some skill guys that
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: are that are pretty quick as well.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Sounds like it's going to be a heckup of measuring
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: stick for you going forward. Best of luck coach against
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Life Christian. I'll be out there at least for the
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: first half, so I'm pretty excited about that. Another trek
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: out to the Tri City area of Nukzak, Everson and
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Sue Mass That's always fun for me, and thank you
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: Awesome, thank you, thanks for having me you bet well.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: There you have it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Knukzak Valley hosting Life Christian Academy tonight at six o'clock
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: at sid Lambert Field.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: All be out there for this one. Will you you
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: hear that?
• 23:47
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• 23:57
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• 23:59
  Speaker 2: The final game, starting at six o'clock will be the
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Lemmy Nation Blackhawks, who are one to oh going on
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: the road to face the Darrington Loggers who are zero
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: to one, and we are now joined on the Gatorade
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Game Day preview by Lemon Nation Football Coach with Tiko Layton, coach.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining me today. How are
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: you doing.
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: I'm doing pretty well. How you doing.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Doing all right?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Before talking about your Week two opponent, let's talk about
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: week one a little bit. You hosted cool scene on
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon, first game of the year you're hosting. You
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: jump out to a big lead before getting the win.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: What's the overall feeling you had after the game?
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: It feels good.
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: It feels nice where the kids have a smile on
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: their face after a game and I'm just enjoying that victory.
• 24:46
  Speaker 9: It's it was a very awesome scene. Their kids are
• 24:49
  Speaker 9: kids face.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a few years since the Blackhawks put
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: one in the win column. Do you feel like you
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: kind of had that monkey on your back a little bit?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: You could breathe a little easier now.
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I had a little little had that behind
• 25:03
  Speaker 9: my back a little bit. But I knew my kids
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: were ready and focused, and I could tell before the
• 25:07
  Speaker 9: game they were all locked in and ready to get
• 25:09
  Speaker 9: this victory.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Talk to me a little bit about Gregory Hawk, a
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: former lineman now running back. He goes out and has
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the game of his life. He must have been feeling
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: pretty good out there.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah he was.
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: He had a lot of confidence, you know, like this
• 25:24
  Speaker 9: holds hard and you know, being a lineman, he was
• 25:27
  Speaker 9: just eager to get that ball every time he had it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 9: He just was looking for the touchdown.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: He I mean sixty six yards rushing eighty five yards,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: receiving three touchdowns, and a couple of two point conversions.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: He really did a lot of stuff out there. Every
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: coach says that their team improves the most from week
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: one to week two. What are some of the things
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: you feel like your team needs to improve on right now?
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: I would just say doing our small fundamentals and tech
• 26:00
  Speaker 9: chniques on defense. We had a lot of mishaps and
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: mistakes defensively of hitting our gaps and responsibilities. But if
• 26:09
  Speaker 9: we clean that up, we should be going into week
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: two pretty good.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: It's crazy, you know they had that ninety eight yard
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: touchdown run and you and I spoke off the air
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: a little bit about how important it is in eight
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: man football to make a tackle to make to do
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: your job because it could just spring open at any time.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Do you know, Well, let's get right into it. You're
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: you're going on the road against Darrington on Friday night,
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: six o'clock. What do you know about this year's Logger team.
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: I know they lost one of their receivers, but they
• 26:44
  Speaker 9: have one receiver to bring them back. They have a
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: good running corps and they have a junior quarterback that
• 26:50
  Speaker 9: loves to scramble, so they're more past oriented team. They'll
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: line up in I formation or under center with split
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: backs and run their runs out of there. But they're
• 27:01
  Speaker 9: another quick team. So we're just gonna try to contain
• 27:04
  Speaker 9: them as much as possible and stay over top on
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: their passes.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you got a mobile quarterback that could
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: be extremely dangerous, especially an eight man. Do you do
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: you do you try to spy on that quarterback or
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: do you just try and I want you to give
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: away the game plan or something, But it's like, how
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: do you what's the best way to contend with a
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: dual threat at quarterback?
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: Yeah, so some teams will send when they go two
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: by two, they'll send all four uh three, all three
• 27:32
  Speaker 9: D linemen and the linebacker out, but what we like
• 27:35
  Speaker 9: to do is to send three to keep the contained
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: and then we'll have one linebacker Spye at the line
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: of scrimmage on the quarterback.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hopefully that's a quick kid you got Spye if
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: they got a.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: Mobile quarterback, right.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: And we also talked a little bit off air about
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: you know, Darrington in the past, was you know, a
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: lot of these rugged, tough nose kids, but you were
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: kind of saying, they're they're a little more athletic than
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: they've been in the past. Is that kind of what
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: you've seen on film for this year too?
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: This year, they're still got a lot of the same kids.
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: They're just were just quick kids that loved to get
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: open in their passing routes. And the quarterback was one
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: of those scrambling kids that could get out and break free.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: You had a couple kids on the sideline that weren't
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: able to suit up because due to injuries and different
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: things like that. Are you is it going to look
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: about the same as far as personnel in week two
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: or are you going to be able to get anybody back?
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: How is that looking right now?
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: I believe it'll look the same as Week one, same
• 28:33
  Speaker 9: people sitting out, same people on the field.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: And Michael Wilson. He looked pretty impressive at quarterback, seven
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: of thirteen passing one hundred and thirty eight yards. He
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: also carried the ball for fifty seven yards scored one
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: on the ground through a couple in the air. What
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: have you liked about his development at quarterback?
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: I just like his mobility.
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: He's been able to move around in the pocket, and
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: so last year we had a lot of problems with
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: our quarterbacks just sitting in the pocket. But he's been
• 29:00
  Speaker 9: able to use his IQ and find those open gaps
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: and make it one on one with those linebackers that
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: are spying on him.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: That's awesome, coach, this is so much fun I've been
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I've learned so much about let me Nation football in
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, and I'm excited to keep
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: learning more so. Best of luck against Darrington, and thank
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: you for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: YEP, appreciate it, Tyler, thank you, you bet.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: You well, there you go.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: The Blackhawks have a real shot of starting the season
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: two and oh and on behalf of Walking County. We're
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: all hoping it can happen. So let's move on to
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: the seven o'clock games. Now, the first seven o'clock game
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: that we'll talk about is.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: A great one.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Lynn and Christian who's one and oh is hosting North
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Kitsap who's also won and o Elsie won this.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Game last year on the road, and based on.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: The Max Preps rankings, this will be the closest game
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: of the weekend. It truly is a pick'em. It could
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: really go either way. And we are now joined on
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Lynn and Christian football
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: coach Turpstra.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Coach, thank you for joining me today. How are you doing.
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: I'm doing good.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: How are you?
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: How are you doing?
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: I'm doing all right, doing all right.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Before we talk about your Week two opponent, let's talk
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: about Week one a little bit. You went up to Vancouver, Canada.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: You got off to a pretty fast start in that
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: one before winning forty two to sixteen. What did you
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: think about your team's overall performance?
• 30:25
  Speaker 6: You know, I thought they were ready.
• 30:27
  Speaker 10: It's hard to really see how many times you know,
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: over the course of your coaching career that you felt
• 30:33
  Speaker 10: that Game one your kids were just ready to go.
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: They were ready, and I didn't know.
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: I mean, we had a good, good week of practice.
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: We had some kids lighting.
• 30:46
  Speaker 10: Up in the uh you know, the team time, the
• 30:50
  Speaker 10: scout team, they were just tremendous, and we had some
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: flashes of just I don't know, kind of some digging
• 30:57
  Speaker 10: deep and getting after each other. And I think that
• 31:00
  Speaker 10: made all the difference. The kids going across the border,
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: I mean, uh, Brady bomber our ad just was seamless,
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: and his assistant Catherine Huggs of getting us across the
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: border seamlessly. The border was fantastic. VC was an incredible host,
• 31:20
  Speaker 10: the refs were tremendous. We just had a great afternoon.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: I mean it was, uh, the weather was great. There
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: was you know, I watched live on YouTube.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: It was it was, it was. It was quite the show.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: And like you said, you you kind of nailed it
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: on the head. You guys were ready.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: A lot of teams around the county looked like it
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: was week one, but there were certain teams that looked
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: kind of mid season form. So that's got to be
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: a huge boost for this season.
• 31:48
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, I think the kids felt ready and
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: and they were able to just sort of put their
• 31:55
  Speaker 10: thinking aside and hit. We just had some real thumping
• 31:59
  Speaker 10: going on, and sometimes it didn't break out to a
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: big run, but we knew that just you know, body
• 32:05
  Speaker 10: blow after body blow, things will break. And I think
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: we were just we were a tough team. We were
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: just hitting hard. We kind of had sort of the
• 32:15
  Speaker 10: composition of some teams that I've I've sort of coveted
• 32:19
  Speaker 10: that we've played before, you know, just knuckle dragon, just
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: backyard brawl, back alley kind of thing and guy for
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: a week one.
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: I'm just really impressed with our kids.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: There were a lot of big plays in that game too,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: the fourth down sack by Hayden Herbert and the physical
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: runs by Chris Coyman, the fifty yard completion from Mayberry
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: to Wholiott. But Trey Johnson had some of the biggest
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: with the bruising touchdown run, his block, punt is interception
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: and run back.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: He seemed pretty pumped to play in this one.
• 32:51
  Speaker 10: Trayson scares me and he's on my own team. He's
• 32:57
  Speaker 10: just so athletic and he's a big guy, but he's
• 33:02
  Speaker 10: just really athletic and anticipates really well both sides of
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: the ball. I mean, I wish, I wish he would
• 33:09
  Speaker 10: never miss a play, but the amount of effort that
• 33:12
  Speaker 10: guy gives, we got to pull him off the field.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: He just yeah, he tremendous.
• 33:18
  Speaker 10: Chris climbing running so hard is like a bowl in
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: the china shop. And our line, I'll tell you what,
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: we had some sore shoulders because they were using them
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: and just yeah, I couldn't couldn't say enough about those guys.
• 33:34
  Speaker 10: But TJ he kind of stole the show on several occasions.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he definitely had some big breakout moments. I
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: wouldn't maybe maybe not breakout because he did some good
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: things last year too, but some big, big moments. Every
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: coach says their team improves the most from week one
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: to week two. What are some of the things that
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: you feel like your team still needs to improve on?
• 33:56
  Speaker 10: Crispness, I would say, especially on the offensive side, you know,
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: studying the nuances of a play, you know there are
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: certain you know, things that you could take verbatim from
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: a coach, Well, coach said this, I do exactly this,
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: and then sort of in the game you say, well, no,
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: you have to adjust this way because of this, and
• 34:21
  Speaker 10: it's sort of an unsaid thing, and hopefully the unsaid
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: gets said this week and we can just be a
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: little crisper on those things.
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: Me play calling, I hope I get better from week
• 34:35
  Speaker 10: one to week two. But our staff, I thought, did
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: a really good job of both sides of the ball
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: with play calling and just with situational things. Coach Bauma
• 34:49
  Speaker 10: had the defense super prepared. His stat line of what
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: twenty seven rushes and they only had about twenty twenty
• 34:58
  Speaker 10: two yards. I don't know if I've ever seen that before,
• 35:03
  Speaker 10: but man, that's something to hang your hat on.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely the defense looked great.
• 35:08
  Speaker 10: Yeah, up front, our coaching there with Facima was just
• 35:13
  Speaker 10: fantastic and with the skills live Bolton Kriter just really
• 35:17
  Speaker 10: gave a lot of great information.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: So all right, you're you're at home this weekend hosting
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: North kits app seven o'clock Friday night, first home game
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: of the year.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: It's always really exciting.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: There's a lot you know, there's a lot of hope
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: for this team this year, so it should be a
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: pretty good crowd.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: What do you know about North kits APT.
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: I know that they're probably out for blood against US.
• 35:42
  Speaker 10: We beat them last year. You could say we stole one.
• 35:44
  Speaker 10: I don't know if they're you know, pretty proud two
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: A where one AA that was supposed to be rebuilding
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: last year and took one from him. I don't think
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: that felt real good. But you know, they they're a
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: little bit multiple on both size, their quarterbacks real threat,
• 36:02
  Speaker 10: they got some real good size up front. They're just
• 36:05
  Speaker 10: a solid team. They beat it looks like a pretty
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: good w F West team. They're just yeah, they're they're
• 36:12
  Speaker 10: a solid team. It's going to take a big effort
• 36:15
  Speaker 10: to keep this close and try to come out with
• 36:17
  Speaker 10: a victory.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Offensively, is there like you just kind of said multiple
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: on offensive just a lot of different sets.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: Or are they more run heavy or how are you
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: looking at that?
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: You know, I think it starts with their quarterback.
• 36:33
  Speaker 10: His his his ability to to pull it and run
• 36:38
  Speaker 10: design runs, and then he's really capable of chucking it deep.
• 36:44
  Speaker 10: So that's kind of tough, right you You want to
• 36:47
  Speaker 10: you want to be solid up front, but then be
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: really solid way in the back. So yeah, that probably
• 36:53
  Speaker 10: sets up for some stuff over the middle. You know,
• 36:57
  Speaker 10: it's limited the tape, but they had kind of a
• 37:01
  Speaker 10: barn Burner with WF West and and they were gamers.
• 37:04
  Speaker 10: So yeah, we do what we do on defense, and
• 37:09
  Speaker 10: we think we like it. We we think we're getting
• 37:12
  Speaker 10: bit better at it.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I think it's gonna be a great one.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: You know, there's only three games in the county on
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Friday night, that's one of them, so there should be,
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: you know, pretty good crowd out there. I'm gonna be
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: excited for that one. Best of luck against North Kitsap. Coach,
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining me on the Gatorade
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: game day preview.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: Appreciate it, Tyler, thank you so much.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Well, there you have it from coach turp Straut. It
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: should be a great game that will come right down
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: to the end. And I'll have coach Jeff Wood out
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: there for that one and he'll join us next week
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: to recap that game on the coach's corner. Should be
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: a good one.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Now we move on to the big game that everyone
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: is talking about. It's the Seahome.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Mariners who are one to zero heading down I five
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: to take on the two time defending state champion and
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: a chordus Seahawks also want to know that game will
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: be at seven o'clock. Max Preps has Antichordus as the
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: number one team in the state. They have Sea Home
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: at number six. It should be a great game. Both
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: teams had blowout wins last week and the radio will
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: be there as well. And we are now joined on
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day preview by kpug's lead play by
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: play man, Jim Bring.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: Jim, thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 38:24
  Speaker 11: I am doing good, Tyler, thank you. It's a it's
• 38:26
  Speaker 11: a pleasure to be here on the Walcome Preps podcast.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's this is gonna be a lot of a
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: lot of fun kind of.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Let's talk about you know this this big Sea Home
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Anachordus game. Of course we'll be down at Anta Chordis.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Both teams want to know, but both teams kind of didn't.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Have that big opponent to play, so it's hard to
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: gauge what they've done. You got to seal some highlights
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: of the Antichordus game. Does it look Does it look
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: like the Anti Chordus that we've seen the last couple
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: of years.
• 39:01
  Speaker 11: Well, on the surface, it does. It's a little hard
• 39:03
  Speaker 11: to say. Against Bainbridge, they won that fifty five to seven,
• 39:07
  Speaker 11: and last year was forty six to zero. So I'm
• 39:09
  Speaker 11: not really sure if it was a very good test
• 39:11
  Speaker 11: of where they stand considering the players that they lost,
• 39:14
  Speaker 11: but they definitely seem to be formidable, and their defense
• 39:17
  Speaker 11: looked really good. They forced five turnovers against Bainbridge Island.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Wow, Yeah, I.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Mean that's you know, people always talk about their offense
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: and the speed and all that stuff, and they returned
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: their quarterback and but people don't know, as you know,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: the Beaner Twins went to Montana to play defense and
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: the defense was so good, and they returned to their
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: middle linebacker who was the Conference defensive player of the year.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: So yeah, and do you have some of the other
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: numbers from that game. I'm really curious to see what
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Harrington did on the passing.
• 39:52
  Speaker 11: Well, he threw for four hundred and fourteen yards and
• 39:55
  Speaker 11: four touchdowns, but he also rushed for ninety four yards.
• 39:58
  Speaker 11: He was their leading rushers, so he totaled five hundred
• 40:01
  Speaker 11: and eight yards himself. And then his backups came in,
• 40:05
  Speaker 11: or two different backups came in, and they were combined
• 40:08
  Speaker 11: four for four.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: So I don't know.
• 40:11
  Speaker 11: Maybe the Bainbridge secondary isn't that good, but the antichordis
• 40:15
  Speaker 11: passing game was able to pick them apart. And then
• 40:17
  Speaker 11: you know they ran the ball pretty well too, Shy Webster.
• 40:20
  Speaker 11: He had eighty two yards and three touchdowns on the
• 40:23
  Speaker 11: ground and so for you know, they had over two
• 40:25
  Speaker 11: hundred yards rushing. Besides, they used six different running backs
• 40:28
  Speaker 11: in that game, Tyler, and they just you know, nine
• 40:30
  Speaker 11: different guys caught passes. They just completely laid it to Bainbridge.
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds definitely like the antichortus that we've seen
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: the last few years.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: They're so it's so weird too.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Because you know, they've won the last two state championships
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: and I you know, both of them against Tumwater, and
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: I feel like I kind of feel like even going
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: into both of those games, people would favor Tumwater. And
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I just kind of said, Ben anichordis is there's something
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: different about them and then they just come out and
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: just do a job bottom calling.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: I here's something crazy.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: I've never been to the field at Anacortas the stadium,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: well really, I've never been there. What's I mean, you've
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: you've been there. I'm sure probably called games there. What's
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: the like, what's the feeling like there, what's the vibe.
• 41:19
  Speaker 11: Like, it's a really good atmosphere. You know, they redid
• 41:23
  Speaker 11: they redid it all a few years ago, and you know,
• 41:26
  Speaker 11: they've got some great seating. They have a really great
• 41:29
  Speaker 11: concession area. They typically you'll fire up a barbecue. They've
• 41:33
  Speaker 11: got a lot of things going on there. And you know,
• 41:35
  Speaker 11: on the other side of the field, it's like the woods,
• 41:38
  Speaker 11: so you know, when it gets dark, it's just complete
• 41:41
  Speaker 11: black on that side of the field, and and they
• 41:44
  Speaker 11: fill it up. It's kind of set down in the ground.
• 41:46
  Speaker 11: It feels like it's maybe a little bit of a valley.
• 41:49
  Speaker 11: It's a it's a really good place to play. When
• 41:51
  Speaker 11: you walk in, everything is at ground level and you
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: actually walk down into the stadium.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's really cool.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, I you know, I've only had the perspective
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: of the film, right, so it's it's such a unique
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: thing to kind of see those things. And I'm sure
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: at some point I'll go down there for a game,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: but I'm always trying to hit games that have two
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Walking County teams and it just definitely never really matches up.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: Of course, this week, all eleven Walking County teams are
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: playing a non Walking County team.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: So Yeah, yeah, maybe maybe this is my time.
• 42:25
  Speaker 11: Well, and it's cool because on the south end of
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: the field, up above the feelers like a bluff, so
• 42:30
  Speaker 11: you'll have a bunch of people up there, you know,
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: high above the field, screaming and yelling too, So it's
• 42:35
  Speaker 11: an interesting place to be.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And the CEO Mariners, I mean they put up
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: sixty four points on.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Friday night, you know, really hard to tell again about
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: gauging the opponent.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: Mary'sville Pilpchuck looks a little down. They weren't.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: They didn't have the size that they had last year.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: They played hard, but it was just such a talent
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: mismatch there. You know, Nolan Wright throw for six touchdowns,
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: only completed nine passes and probably could have thrown for
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: a few more.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: You know, see Home looked pretty good. You've seen a
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: lot of Sea Home.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: And Anti Cordis and you know over the past years
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: you've seen them play against each other the last few years.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Do you give another team an edge over another one
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: or how do you look at this one?
• 43:22
  Speaker 11: Well, if if Nolan Wright can continue to throw sixty
• 43:26
  Speaker 11: six percent of his passes for touchdowns, they're going to
• 43:28
  Speaker 11: be pretty good a year, right, you know. You know,
• 43:31
  Speaker 11: I take away from that game against Marysville Pilchuck. They
• 43:35
  Speaker 11: ran the ball pretty well, and the last few years
• 43:38
  Speaker 11: I've thought that's kind of been their Achilles heel is.
• 43:41
  Speaker 11: You weren't able to get consistent production out of the
• 43:44
  Speaker 11: out of the backfield than Nicky Smith and swear Woods.
• 43:47
  Speaker 11: They did a really good job. They put up over
• 43:49
  Speaker 11: one hundred and fifty yards on the ground. If they
• 43:51
  Speaker 11: can continue to do that, I think they're going to
• 43:54
  Speaker 11: be competitive and really make some people panic. But it's
• 43:59
  Speaker 11: going to be a bigger test, you know, this weekend,
• 44:01
  Speaker 11: going against a team that forced five turnovers. I would
• 44:04
  Speaker 11: tend to give the edge still the anti chortus because
• 44:07
  Speaker 11: to me, you know, you're still the champion until you're not.
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I've heard a few people say that and
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: I agree with that. I've even heard coach Vin Dalen
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: talk about that about how you know you got to
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: lean towards them because they are the champs until they
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: get knocked off, you know, as as your boy Rick
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Flair would say, to be the man, you got.
• 44:27
  Speaker 11: To beat them right well, and they and they had.
• 44:31
  Speaker 11: They had two receivers go for over one hundred yards
• 44:33
  Speaker 11: last week and they had one receiver have ninety five yards.
• 44:37
  Speaker 11: So you know it's not just you know, the Beaner
• 44:42
  Speaker 11: Brothers show anymore or Ryland Lang. They've got some weapons.
• 44:46
  Speaker 11: Micah Dickinson's a great receiver, Luca Moore, Zeke Harris. They
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: have some dudes down there who can do some damage.
• 44:53
  Speaker 11: And they are going to test the Seahome defense.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the sea on defense. I mean their strength
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: in the past has been their secondary, which you know
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: it better be in this game.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: And you know, Hud.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Hudsonef as a strong safety, gets a ton of tackles,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: moving Nolan right back to Frank free safety.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: I was so excited to watch the film to see
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: what he would do on defense, and he didn't have
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: to do hardly anything because the play when he gets
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: stopped at the line of scrimmage. So but I think
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: having him back there is going to help a little bit.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Does it hinder his quarterback play? That's hard to say.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: You know, you brought up Micah Dickinson. I that kid
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: or Dickinson, not Dickinson.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: He is.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: He's fun to watch playing basketball power forward. That kid's
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: a great athlete and he's a he's gonna be He's
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: a huge target. Man.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: I don't follow these Ani Chortus teams, but there are
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: certain kids that I know of, So I'm really really
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: excited about this one.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: It's it's it's gonna be awesome.
• 45:50
  Speaker 11: Well, I've I've heard rumblings that you know, there's some
• 45:52
  Speaker 11: D one schools that are that are looking at him,
• 45:55
  Speaker 11: and of course Ryan Harrington the quarterback, there's you know,
• 45:57
  Speaker 11: D one schools that are grooling over him. But you know,
• 46:01
  Speaker 11: they rolled up six hundred and eighty yards of offense
• 46:03
  Speaker 11: against Bainbridge, and you know, if if Seahome lets them
• 46:06
  Speaker 11: get over five hundred yards, they're going to be in
• 46:08
  Speaker 11: big trouble. You know, if it turns into a shootout,
• 46:11
  Speaker 11: I kind of might give the edge to Anna Cordis.
• 46:14
  Speaker 11: Se Home defense is going to have to really step up.
• 46:16
  Speaker 11: And you know, hey, against Marysville, they only gave up
• 46:19
  Speaker 11: four yards on the ground. That's pretty impressive. I don't
• 46:22
  Speaker 11: think it'll be that easy against Anna Cortis. But they
• 46:24
  Speaker 11: need to bring that same firepower absolutely.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: And you talked about, you know, being able to lean
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: on the running game a little bit, not only for balance,
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: but it could be just for some ball control to
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: keep off the field and and uh yeah.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: It's going to be a heck of one.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: You've been calling for a couple of years calling games
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: with the coach Dan Kamenku, one of the most well
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: respected just humans in Waukin County. How has that been?
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: I mean that that must be such a joy to
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: be able to call.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: Games with him.
• 46:52
  Speaker 11: Well, it really is. I mean to be up there
• 46:54
  Speaker 11: with somebody who knows and has played football. It I
• 46:58
  Speaker 11: think it allows us to have a conversation on a
• 47:01
  Speaker 11: different level because even when we're off the air and
• 47:05
  Speaker 11: we're on a break, we're talking about things that we're seeing,
• 47:07
  Speaker 11: trends we're seeing, you know, different formations, what do we
• 47:10
  Speaker 11: think they're gonna do. It's it's a lot of fun,
• 47:13
  Speaker 11: you know. He'll he says that, you know, I make
• 47:15
  Speaker 11: it easy on him, But I think at the same time,
• 47:18
  Speaker 11: he makes it extremely easy on me. And it just
• 47:20
  Speaker 11: feels like we're just sitting there talking about football, just
• 47:23
  Speaker 11: the two of us. We wouldn't even know if we
• 47:25
  Speaker 11: were on the air.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And that's what makes it so fun. And
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: it's such an enjoyable listen.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: And so I you know, I thank you a ton
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: because it.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Just makes it great because I can tune in at
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: any time if I'm driving from one game to another,
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: I know, within you know, ten seconds, kind of the
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: feel of the vibe of the game, what's going on.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: You're mentioning the score when it needs to be mentioned,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: stuff like that, So I really appreciate it.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: Jim, thank you so much for joining me on the
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game day preview. Have a ton of fun down
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: south with with with the coach Dan Gammick and and man,
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a great one. It's the week two
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: game of the week.
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: So have a great time.
• 48:06
  Speaker 11: Yeah, thanks Tyler and just we really appreciate you and
• 48:09
  Speaker 11: always helping us out with the stats and the records
• 48:11
  Speaker 11: whenever we need it. You're kind of like our third
• 48:14
  Speaker 11: member of the broadcast team, even though you're not in
• 48:16
  Speaker 11: there with us, so we appreciate all you do. Thank
• 48:18
  Speaker 11: you so much.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: You're welcome.
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Man, that's going to be such a great game, a
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: conference game as well, and the brutally tough Northwest Conference two.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: Wa be sure to tune into KPUG eleven seventy to
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: listen to it. They will also include a four hour
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: pregame show that starts at three pm.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: You heard that correctly, You hear that.
• 48:39
  Speaker 4: That's the sound of Pepsi zero sugar. The better tasting,
• 48:43
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• 48:49
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• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Next step is another conference game. This one will be
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: at Civic Stadium. Is the Belling and Bayowks, who are
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: now one to zero. They're taking on the Lake with Cougars,
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: who are zero to one. At seven o'clock. Max Preps
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: gives Lake with the edge in this one, but I
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: don't know about that one.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: And we are.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Joined in the Gatorade Game day preview by Bellingham football
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: coach Adam Leonard.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: Coach, thank you for joining me today. How are you doing.
• 49:16
  Speaker 12: I'm doing great. Thanks for having me today.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: You bet? You bet?
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Before talking about your week two opponent, let's talk about
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: week one really quickly. You went down to Edmunds Woodway
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: kind of an early kickoff at five pm. You pick
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: up the win nineteen to seven. What do you think
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: you what do you think you saw? Or I'm sorry,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: what did you think of when you saw their offensive
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: formation for the first time?
• 49:40
  Speaker 13: Well, the funny story about that is we had nothing
• 49:42
  Speaker 13: on Linwood. We knew what they did the last couple
• 49:44
  Speaker 13: of years their coaches. In their third year, we knew
• 49:47
  Speaker 13: they ran kind of a power spread with an offset ie,
• 49:50
  Speaker 13: but we didn't.
• 49:51
  Speaker 12: Seem much on pregame.
• 49:52
  Speaker 13: So the whole pregame was a little clunky, traffic hit.
• 49:56
  Speaker 13: We were about fifteen minutes behind the bus. It was
• 50:00
  Speaker 13: very smoky and humid down there, just a weird, eerie feeling,
• 50:05
  Speaker 13: and we never saw them.
• 50:06
  Speaker 12: Went on the field.
• 50:06
  Speaker 13: They went out there with special teams, so we were
• 50:08
  Speaker 13: kind of just kind of looking, you know, out of
• 50:10
  Speaker 13: the corner of our eye, what are they going to run?
• 50:12
  Speaker 13: And then when we went inside to cool down and
• 50:15
  Speaker 13: go through pregame, right before the the coin toss with
• 50:18
  Speaker 13: the captains, two of our assistant coaches started sending text
• 50:21
  Speaker 13: messages back to the locker room saying, hey, they're running
• 50:23
  Speaker 13: a double tight double wing. Everybody's between the tackles, and
• 50:27
  Speaker 13: so that was our preparation about four and a half
• 50:29
  Speaker 13: minutes before the game. The good thing is for our defense,
• 50:33
  Speaker 13: we adjusted and probably played for and coach Wagnus did
• 50:37
  Speaker 13: a very very good job and making those adjustments, and
• 50:40
  Speaker 13: obviously we held Limwood to seventy two total yards on
• 50:44
  Speaker 13: the day, and just very proud the way the defense played.
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, especially when you're not used to that kind
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: of offense.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: It's yeah, they picked up a little bit in those
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: first few plays, but like you said, you know, you
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: eventually you make adjustments, that's what coaches do, and you're
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: able to pretty shut them down the rest of the way. Offensively,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: you were pretty balanced in the game. Thirty one passes
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: twenty six runs. Was that kind of the game plan
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: going in?
• 51:09
  Speaker 13: Yeah, coach coach Matthew Nixon really wants to be balanced
• 51:12
  Speaker 13: in our tack We were pretty heavy pass You know,
• 51:15
  Speaker 13: we have a returning quarterback and Ben Leonard who's an
• 51:17
  Speaker 13: experienced experience coming into his junior year now, so we
• 51:21
  Speaker 13: know what we can do through the air, but we
• 51:22
  Speaker 13: also want to make sure we established established the run.
• 51:25
  Speaker 13: We have put such an emphasis on building our offensive
• 51:28
  Speaker 13: line in the offseason and it really showed Coach Scott
• 51:30
  Speaker 13: ask our new old line coach has done a tremendous
• 51:33
  Speaker 13: job with our line this year and they're just growing
• 51:37
  Speaker 13: ea today. We were also playing without two very key
• 51:40
  Speaker 13: offensive starters in Sonny Powell Senior and Julian Montoya, one
• 51:44
  Speaker 13: of our offensive guards seniors, So we had some guys
• 51:46
  Speaker 13: filling in for those two seniors and they did a
• 51:49
  Speaker 13: heck of a job. But yeah, it's about establishing the run,
• 51:53
  Speaker 13: creating established and then coming out with our passing attack.
• 51:57
  Speaker 12: Which we have some great weapons out there and an
• 51:59
  Speaker 12: experienced for back.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: Understand absolutely, And there were a few mishaps, you know, turnovers,
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: snap over the punter's head, just little things like that
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: kind of Week one type stuff. What do you need
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: to do to fix these things going in the week two?
• 52:14
  Speaker 12: Well, number one, we definitely need to fix those things
• 52:16
  Speaker 12: as we play tougher.
• 52:17
  Speaker 13: Opponents in our season schedule, with our conference schedule, with
• 52:22
  Speaker 13: late with this.
• 52:22
  Speaker 12: Week very clunky. We were a little clunky.
• 52:25
  Speaker 13: It was coach Nixon's first day as our offensive coordinator
• 52:28
  Speaker 13: calling a place.
• 52:29
  Speaker 12: We cleaned that up by the end of the first quarter,
• 52:31
  Speaker 12: but we.
• 52:31
  Speaker 13: Had some mishaps, snaps, We had some fumbles, we had
• 52:35
  Speaker 13: one interception, we had some things that just didn't go
• 52:37
  Speaker 13: our way, and we're just a little bit off. I
• 52:39
  Speaker 13: think a lot of it had to do with pregame.
• 52:41
  Speaker 13: One of the things we need to clean up is
• 52:42
  Speaker 13: how we do pregame. And I think that's when the
• 52:44
  Speaker 13: moment we leave school, in the moment we start getting
• 52:47
  Speaker 13: dressed and getting taped up and ready to go, all
• 52:49
  Speaker 13: that needs to be aligned a little bit better.
• 52:51
  Speaker 12: And I'll put that on myself for this week one.
• 52:53
  Speaker 13: I think once we had that adjusted, it will come
• 52:55
  Speaker 13: into a smoother start. And I believe that that was
• 52:59
  Speaker 13: the game. Those mishaps out of the way, so we
• 53:02
  Speaker 13: can come in and have a cleaner game here in
• 53:04
  Speaker 13: a week two.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's the first home game of the year,
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: hosting Lakewood on Friday night at Civic Stadium. First conference opponent,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: which you talked about a little earlier. What do you
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: know about Lakewood? It's early in the season when when
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: we watch, you know, as far as fans and stuff
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: like that, they always have you know, pretty pretty wide open,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: throw it around a lot.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: What do you know about them so far this year?
• 53:25
  Speaker 13: Well, you hit the nail on the head. They are
• 53:27
  Speaker 13: going to go to spread you out. They're going to
• 53:28
  Speaker 13: go five wide, They're going to just drive their quick
• 53:30
  Speaker 13: passing attack. They I think they they did graduate quite
• 53:34
  Speaker 13: a bit of seniors, so they're going to have some
• 53:36
  Speaker 13: younger guys out there. Some guys we saw a little
• 53:38
  Speaker 13: bit last year, maybe on the subcarcita level or a
• 53:40
  Speaker 13: backup on varsity, you know, studying their film with Archbishop Murphy.
• 53:44
  Speaker 13: It's a really tough situation because Archbishop is so strong,
• 53:49
  Speaker 13: So you don't know what the measuring stick is where
• 53:51
  Speaker 13: Lake what's at.
• 53:52
  Speaker 12: You know, they were obviously against a.
• 53:54
  Speaker 13: Very very superior opponent and Archbishop probably one of the
• 53:57
  Speaker 13: if not the number one team of the state for
• 53:59
  Speaker 13: two ay, so it's tough to kind of gauge where
• 54:02
  Speaker 13: they're at. But they have athletes on their team. They
• 54:04
  Speaker 13: have definitely guys we need a key on. They handed
• 54:06
  Speaker 13: it to us last year. But I think they're a
• 54:09
  Speaker 13: different team than I think we were a much different
• 54:11
  Speaker 13: team than last year. So I feel like this is
• 54:12
  Speaker 13: gonna be a good matchup and we're ready to roll.
• 54:14
  Speaker 13: We got our new brand new red home uniforms to
• 54:17
  Speaker 13: display on Friday night at Civic. It's gonna be a
• 54:19
  Speaker 13: fun time.
• 54:20
  Speaker 14: Oh.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: I love it, and I don't get me wrong. I
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: like the black it looks awesome. But when Bellingham's in,
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: they're all in the reds. I just to me it
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: streams Bellingham because you know, Baker doesn't wear red. They
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: haven't worn red since ninety two as far as a
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: red top, they've been black ever since.
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: And so it's fun to see a red team up here.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: And I love it.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: You brought this up too, You were you were missing
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: a few guys in that first game, you know, Sunny
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: Powell and Julian Montoya. Do you do you know if
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: they'll be ready to go against the Cougars.
• 54:55
  Speaker 12: Yes, they will, they just you know, of course Sonny missed.
• 54:58
  Speaker 13: He had eleven practices and he just missed if I
• 55:01
  Speaker 13: having one practice. He had missed a few practices out
• 55:04
  Speaker 13: of town. Julian was in the same boat. But they'll
• 55:07
  Speaker 13: have more than more than enough practices coming this week,
• 55:09
  Speaker 13: so they'll be ready for our first conference game.
• 55:12
  Speaker 12: At the end of the week, they'll be ready to go.
• 55:14
  Speaker 13: Julian will likely step in at left guard, and Sonny
• 55:17
  Speaker 13: will be playing kind of all over it.
• 55:19
  Speaker 12: He might play line, he.
• 55:20
  Speaker 13: Might run the ball, and he'll definitely playing in our
• 55:22
  Speaker 13: linebacking course. So we're excited about having those guys. Sonny
• 55:26
  Speaker 13: is a difference maker out there for sure, so having
• 55:28
  Speaker 13: him already bolsters up.
• 55:29
  Speaker 12: But I thought was a pretty solid defensive effort in
• 55:31
  Speaker 12: week one.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: Hopefully he's not going to be lined up out at
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: corner like he had to last year against Lakewood.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: No, so many injuries.
• 55:41
  Speaker 12: He should he should be okay and in his natural position.
• 55:44
  Speaker 13: Yeah, we did have to line him up out out
• 55:46
  Speaker 13: of corner as a lake would like to spread us out.
• 55:48
  Speaker 13: But we're much healthier than we were at that time
• 55:51
  Speaker 13: last year, so yeah, we'll be We'll be ready to go.
• 55:53
  Speaker 12: I think that's the.
• 55:54
  Speaker 13: Most important thing coming out of a non conference game.
• 55:57
  Speaker 13: One getting the win, number two, getting everybody out there.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: Absolutely And tell me about this freshman, Ryland Clawson. He
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: had a monster game on the defensive.
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: Side of the ball.
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: Was this a player that you recognized over the summer
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: and thought could make an impact or was this a
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: little surprising on Friday?
• 56:13
  Speaker 8: Well, I knew Ryland.
• 56:13
  Speaker 13: Ryland's a former Bellingham Knights Bellion new football player coming
• 56:16
  Speaker 13: out his eighth grade year, and I knew he was
• 56:18
  Speaker 13: coming to Bellingham High School, so we were really excited
• 56:20
  Speaker 13: about him. He has a nice rangey six to one
• 56:24
  Speaker 13: and eighty pound body, and he's quick, and he's aggressive
• 56:27
  Speaker 13: and he's athletic. Didn't really stand out to me a
• 56:32
  Speaker 13: little bit in practice until I saw him in the
• 56:34
  Speaker 13: jamboree and he was playing with the sub varsity and
• 56:37
  Speaker 13: we quickly had to bring him up because he was
• 56:39
  Speaker 13: just wreaking havoc in the sub varsity jambourey. We had
• 56:44
  Speaker 13: to bring hi up the varsity and he still continue
• 56:45
  Speaker 13: that on and for him to have the day. I
• 56:47
  Speaker 13: don't know his final stats, but it was he was
• 56:50
  Speaker 13: quite impressive.
• 56:51
  Speaker 12: And I tell her.
• 56:52
  Speaker 13: Now, he had a smile year to year after that game.
• 56:56
  Speaker 13: He was just having the best time. Greeted his father
• 56:59
  Speaker 13: on the way to the bus, and they was just
• 57:00
  Speaker 13: a big family event. They were really happy and what
• 57:03
  Speaker 13: a just what a performance by a by a freshman
• 57:06
  Speaker 13: and as varsity game.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, it's uh, it was really cool to see.
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: And that's one of the things that.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: I love about what I do is I get to, like,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: you've known about this kid, but I get to learn
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: about him right there on the spot, and it's just, uh,
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: it's it's always just really refreshing for me to see
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: this this new talent always coming in year after year.
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: And some kids, like you said, you didn't really notice
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: it too much in practice, but you knew you noticed
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: it at the Jambrie.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: Some kids are are not practice kids, they are game
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: day kids.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: And sometimes it goes the other way too, where they're
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: great in practice, but they kind of clam up during games. So, uh,
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: that's really cool that he turns it on during during
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: the games. I'm excited for his future and uh yeah,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be awesome. I can't wait for this one.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: Best of luck against Lakewood, coach, and thank you for
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: joining me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 57:55
  Speaker 12: Thanks for having me, Tyler, have a great week.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: Bet my super intern, Michaela's barks will be out there
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: for that one covering all the action.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: Oh way, she takes great pictures, writes a great story.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: I could not be more thankful.
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: The final game on Friday night will be the Ferndale
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Golden Eagles, who are oho to one. They'll be on
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: the road to face the Oak Harper Wildcats who are
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: also and one. It'll be both teams's first West Go
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: three a North game of the season. Max Prev's Max
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: Preps gives a decent advantage to Ferndale in this one.
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: preview by Ferndale football coach Jamie Plankovich coach, thank you
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: for joining me today.
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: How are you doing.
• 58:36
  Speaker 15: I'm doing all right, thank you?
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: Good.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Before talking about your week two opponent, let's talk about
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: week one.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: You went to Linden.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: There were a few early mistakes, Linden took advantage, and
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: you were kind of playing catch up from there on out.
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 58:55
  Speaker 15: Well, kind of exactly what you just talked about. I
• 58:59
  Speaker 15: think we started three drives in a row or three
• 59:02
  Speaker 15: of four first and fifteen just from unforced airs on
• 59:08
  Speaker 15: our part pre snap penalties, so you know, we're working
• 59:13
  Speaker 15: behind the sticks. First drive, we we do that and
• 59:18
  Speaker 15: we have to punt and then don't get a great punt,
• 59:22
  Speaker 15: so we give them a short field, and against a
• 59:27
  Speaker 15: good team, you can't you can't do those things. So
• 59:30
  Speaker 15: we need to to sustain some drives and try to
• 59:33
  Speaker 15: get something going. When you do that, it's really hard
• 59:35
  Speaker 15: to get in a rhythm early in the game. And
• 59:39
  Speaker 15: give them a lot of credit. They played exceedingly well,
• 59:43
  Speaker 15: especially upfront, and we've got to do a better job
• 59:47
  Speaker 15: this week.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tricky thing because you feel like, you know,
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: you got forty eight minutes and then all of a sudden,
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: if you get rolling, sometimes there's something, there's a half time,
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: there's there's something. So it's like and then all of
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: a sudden, you don't have enough time. It's I can't
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: even imagine what it's like. Are you Are you able
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: to relay it to the kids to just flush that one?
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a conference game. We're moving on. Is that
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: something that you're able to do well?
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 15: We have to write it's game one. So we're pretty young.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 15: We are, you know, learned a lot about ourselves last
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 15: Friday night against a really good team. They're always gonna
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 15: they're always gonna challenge you. So we've got to take
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 15: the things that we saw and and when you watch
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 15: the film, we had some opportunities that we didn't take
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 15: advantage of, some little things fundamentally and technique wise that
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 15: we need to fix, which are very common in week one.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 15: And now it's all about how much growth can we
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 15: make between week one and week two? And now this
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 15: is a league game, so you know, as far as
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 15: we're concerned or we you know, took Monday to kind
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 15: of go through last week and now we're onto OK.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: Carver, Yeah, I mean, and that's what every coach says, right,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: the biggest you're gonna see, the biggest improvement for any
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: team is from week one.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: To week two.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: So so that's you know, it makes sense to hear
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: you say that. Yeah, traveling to Oak Harbor on Friday,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: it's a conference game. It was a crazy game last year.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: It seemed like there are a lot of kids on
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: that team that had took their lumps early as sophomores.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: They are a lot.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: It was very senior heavy. They were able to get
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: that win at your place. It might be a new
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: crop of kids. What do you know about this year's
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: Weldcat team.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 15: Well, watching them from they played last Thursday against Moses Life,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 15: is a very good team. They do some things really well.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 15: They they get off the ball seemingly well on really
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 15: both sides of the ball. They're very aggressive on defense.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 15: They'll bring backers and do some different things and give
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 15: us a couple of different fronts, so they're not just
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 15: gonna sit in one thing and then. And offensively, they're
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 15: a version.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Of wing tea.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 15: They're a little different how they deploy people than us.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 15: But watching them, they've got two full backs that run
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 15: exceedingly hard, and the thing that stood out on film
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 15: was how they get off the ball up front. So
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 15: we got our hands full with them. They're going to
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 15: play hard. You know, we got to travel down to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 15: their place, so we really got some work to do.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Is there any I don't know?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, and they're seventeen year old kids, right for
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: the most part, Are there any like feelings of revenge
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: from last year?
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  Speaker 3: Because it was such a close game. Do you do
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  Speaker 3: you use that as motivation or do you not really
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  Speaker 3: talk about it?
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  Speaker 2: The kids understand that, the ones who played in last
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: year's game, it's.
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  Speaker 15: More about we're in a new year, right, We're more
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 15: focused on getting better every day and fixing things that
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 15: we saw last Friday night, and it's all about more
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 15: of that than revenge of what happened last year, when,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 15: like you said, you have a lot of new pieces
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  Speaker 15: that weren't on the field for that game. So yeah,
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  Speaker 15: we don't use the really re use the revenge factors
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  Speaker 15: as motivation. We're more about trying to get our best
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  Speaker 15: version of ourselves out there Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you and I talked off the air, you know,
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  Speaker 2: after practice a couple of weeks ago, and we were
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: talking about, you know, your running backs and how you
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: had a lot of different guys that could kind of
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: fill in that spot. You were able to play a game.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: You kind of got certain guys more carries than others.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like you're kind of locked in now
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: with the guys that you're going to get the ball
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: to on offense?
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  Speaker 5: You kind of.
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  Speaker 15: As you go through camp, you see the guys that
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 15: really start stepping up, and then there's no substitute for
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 15: playing in a game, right. You see things in practice
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  Speaker 15: and then you see how guys perform on Friday nights.
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  Speaker 15: And you know, Stanic and Linzen both had most of
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 15: our carries on Friday night. They both ran exceedingly hard
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  Speaker 15: and did some did some really good things at times.
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  Speaker 15: So they've earned the opportunity to to continue that this
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  Speaker 15: Friday night. But we do have some guys in the
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  Speaker 15: wings that are still capable to step in and get
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  Speaker 15: some carries and take some load off those two guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially with those two guys playing, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: majority of your downs on.
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  Speaker 3: Defense as well. It's always nice to have, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: A Ferndale box score when things are rolling, is gonna
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: have eight or nine guys carrying the ball, right, So
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  Speaker 2: uh so that's that's kind of what we like to see.
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  Speaker 3: Best of luck on the road or yeah, on the
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  Speaker 3: road at Oak Harbor.
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  Speaker 2: In first conference game. And and thank you for joining
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  Speaker 2: me on the GATORID game day preview.
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  Speaker 15: All right, anytime, appreciate it.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: That will be a fun one. And coach is right
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: about the revenge factor.
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  Speaker 2: Was so many new starters, but the ones that did
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: start last year they're still playing. Yeah, I think they
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: want this one pretty badly. We have three games on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday to talk about, and then we'll start with the
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: earliest one, a one o'clock kickoff as the Blaine Border Rights,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: who were zero to one. They're going to travel down
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  Speaker 2: south once again, this time to take on Heyl Willapa Valley.
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  Speaker 3: Who was one to oh.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: Max Preps gives the advantage here to pl Willapa Valley.
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  Speaker 2: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
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  Speaker 2: preview by Blaine football coach Andy Olsen. Coach, thank you
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: for joining me today. How are you doing.
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  Speaker 8: I'm doing great? Thanks for having me, Tyler, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You bet.
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  Speaker 2: Before talking about your Week two opponent, let's go back
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: and talk about Week one. You went down to Renting
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: on Saturday, and you hung with the RedHawks for the
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: first quarter and a half or so. A lot of
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: guys were getting their first Farsty start. How do you
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: feel overall about the performance and the loss?
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, we talked about on Monday and film.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 16: When we came in to look at it, he said, hey,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 16: everybody raised your hand if that was your first time
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 16: playing varsity football. And then we also asked razor hand
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 16: if that was your first time playing football in multiple years,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 16: and you'd be surprised just how many hands were up
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 16: for both those questions. We told the kids, Hey, we
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 16: did some good things and we did some not so
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 16: good things, and that's kind of to be expected with
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  Speaker 16: a team like ours full of sophomores. We had to
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 16: kind of fight through our own inner turmoil.
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  Speaker 8: A little bit.
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  Speaker 16: What was going on between the ears about playing football
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 16: at this level and adjusting to the speed.
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  Speaker 8: But some pauses to take away for sure?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And help me with this.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about the roughing the punter call the ball
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  Speaker 2: hit the ground before the punter picked it up. Isn't
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: the punter free game once the ball hits the ground?
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: Or is that only if you get to him before
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: he punts the ball.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, you know, your interpretation was the same as mine
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  Speaker 16: on that one.
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  Speaker 8: I thought, once the ball hits.
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  Speaker 16: The ground, he's pretty much alive because he can run
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  Speaker 16: and do things like that.
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  Speaker 8: But that's not.
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  Speaker 16: How the officials, okay, and you know that's okay too. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 16: we probably should have just stayed off at that point.
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  Speaker 8: It was late anyway. I saw the ball get kicked.
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  Speaker 16: And then we ran into them. So that's a good
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 16: teachable moment too. It's just like, hey, it's always better
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 16: to be cautious in that.
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  Speaker 8: We'll take the football please, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, It's it's you know, that was a tough
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  Speaker 2: It led to a first down and right off the bat,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: and they end up driving down scoring on that first possession,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: and even a fumble on the ensuing kickoff, and I
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: thought your team responded well after that, keeping them out
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  Speaker 2: of the end zone. The third quarter kind of got
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: away from you guys a little bit. Is turnovers turned
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: into big plays. Were there fixable mistakes out there?
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 16: There are plenty of fixable mistakes out there, and that's
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 16: the joy of week one to week two, and especially
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 16: with the young team. And we'll keep working on that
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 16: through week three through nine, as well as every week.
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  Speaker 8: There's fixable mistakes.
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  Speaker 16: And I told the kids before we even turned the
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 16: film on, here's the deal. When it's good, it's never
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 16: as good as you think it is. And when it's bad,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 16: it's never as bad as you think it is. The
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 16: film doesn't lie. It always tells the story. And when
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 16: we break things down, it's like, Okay, if we were
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  Speaker 16: just doing what we were taught and not trying to
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 16: get into our heads and doing those extra things because
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 16: everybody wants to make the big player, really feels like
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 16: they need to do more. Because we're feeling stressed out
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 16: about being out there for the first time, that's where
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 16: mistakes really tend to happen.
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  Speaker 8: So it was, it was. It was a good teachable
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  Speaker 8: day on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, So all right, You're back on the road
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: this weekend, kind of the same drill. Another one pm game,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: this time a little further away against Peal Well up
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  Speaker 2: of Valley, And all I know about them is that
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: they're an extremely strong two B team and we've seen
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 2: a handful of those. We've seen Okanagan against LC and
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: in recent and they're gonna play again this year and
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: on Alaska against Nuksack Valley. Do you have a scouting
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: report on them at all?
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 16: We do, then getting this week one is over because
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 16: I love having some film and be able to game
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 16: plan a little bit. Because it just also helps the
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 16: learning curve for our kids this year, especially being able
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 16: to teach them, hey, this is what you're going to
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 16: see and expect. It's really really important for us to
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 16: speed up that process in the learning curve. But we're
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 16: going to travel back in time Tyler, to the nineteen eighties.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 16: We're going to see a full house backfield, sometimes a
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 16: lot of wing tea. Yeah, their stadium's awesome. If you
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 16: have to, well you'll have a chance. When you watch
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 16: our huddle this weekend, it looks like you're playing in
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 16: the woods. There's big timber trees in the background and
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 16: it's awesome. It's a cool environment and they're a well
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 16: coached football program. They do things fundamentally sound. There's a
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 16: reason why they're kind of the top ten to B team,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 16: you know, like you're Okanagan's down there. So it's going
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  Speaker 16: to be a great opportunity for us to go and
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 16: get better.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely and talk about a big difference going from you know,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: a spread offense to now sounds like a run heavy offense.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: Your defense is going to have to kind of look
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: for different things this week.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: And that's what's fun about coaching, right You could prepare
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: about you can prepare for something completely.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 16: Different absolute And what a great opportunity for us as well,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 16: because there's elements of you know, what they're going to
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 16: run this week that we see with Baker and we
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 16: see with Mariding at times they're double tight end sets.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 16: So everything this year we're taking in stride. And our
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  Speaker 16: big goal this year is improvement. That's our word that
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 16: we keep echoing home, and it's improving on the field
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 16: and off the field as well. So that's how we
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 16: start every week, that's how we end every week. So
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 16: it's a great opportunity for us to go see something
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  Speaker 16: new and try something new and keep working.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: Speaking of improvement, every coach says, you know, the biggest
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: improvements you make are between week one and week two
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: as a team, What are some of the biggest improvements
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: you think your team needs to make.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 16: We need to do a better job tackling and again,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 16: it wasn't really shocking when we're watching it live and
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 16: then on film too. First time out there some old
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 16: habits creep back in and the way you tackled, even
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 16: in JV or C team football or middle school football,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 16: doesn't work when you're trying to tackle seventeen year olds.
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 16: So they're bigger, faster, stronger. So we need to clean
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 16: up our tackling and if we can do that, our
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 16: defense should sure up a lot of things.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me about your sophomore quarterback Connor Brown. I
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: thought he looked pretty darn good for his first Farsty start.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: He had some pressure in his face a little bit,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: but he didn't seem rattled by it. Completed a lot
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: of passes down the field. What did you like about
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: his first game? As in his first Farsty.
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 16: Start, Connor's biggest growth because he is a super, super
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 16: talented kid. He can make some throws that We've had
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 16: a lot of quarterbacks over the years that can't make
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 16: certain throws that he makes. His biggest growth, though, from
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 16: his freshman his sophomore year, has been his mental poise.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 16: Being able to handle those moments where things aren't going well,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 16: or maybe he throws a ball that he doesn't like
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 16: to being able to go to the next play and
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 16: just play the moment. And he's a leader for this
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 16: young team. He's going to have a very very bright
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 16: future ahead of him as he continues to lead and
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 16: grow and become a better football player and a better leader.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 16: But the biggest thing is, like the other kids look
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 16: to him, and as a sophomore quarterback, that's pretty impressive.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's he did some good things and he had
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: some you know, he had some lumps too, but but
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: I was really really impressed and just and even just
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: talking to him, you know, after going out to practice,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: he's it does not seem like a sophomore, so real.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: Really fun to get to get to know him and
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 2: get to talk to him. And it's gonna be fun
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: over the years. Like you said, you get to coach
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: him for a while and I just get to just
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: talk to him and watch.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: Him play for a while. It's gonna be great. I
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 3: can't wait for this one.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Coach, best of luck against Payl Coach, thank you so
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: much for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I appreciate you. Tower Go borver Rides.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: Only two games left to talk about, but first, let's
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• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: Another big time matchup in the state will be happening
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: at two o'clock on Saturday. This will be when Franklin Pierce,
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: who's won to O host the Lyndon Lyons, who are
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  Speaker 2: also want to know. As far as Max Preps goes,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: Linden is ranked second in the state at two A
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  Speaker 2: and Franklin Pierce is ranked fourth. I love this matchup.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: And now we are joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: preview by Linden football coach Blake Van Dalen.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 3: Coach, thank you for joining me today. How are you
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: doing good.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 14: I'm excited to talk to you as well.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: That's awesome.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: Before we talk about your week two opponent, let's talk
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: about week one. You hosted Ferndale and your annual rivalry
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: game and it went pretty darn well. Tell me about
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: how Tell me about how you feel about your team's
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: overall performance.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 14: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 17: A not a typical Ferndale Linen game in that you know,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 17: we typically it's a one score game and the last
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 17: possession decides who wins. So pleasantly surprised that we weren't
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 17: in that situation. But after watching the film, you know,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 17: I was proud of our kids. For a Week one game,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 17: we really did limit the mistakes. You know, we didn't
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 17: have turnovers. We did have a couple penalties, but each
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 17: time we had a penalty, we kind of overcame.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 14: It was able to move the chains. So from a
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 14: Week one standpoint, very very pleased.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 17: But yet, I think I told you last week most
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 17: improvement always occurs from week one to week two. So
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 17: when I was talking to the kids, I said, hey,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 17: let's not watch this film from a perspective of how
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 17: things went. Let's just watch it from a perspective of
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 17: what we can learn from it to make sure the
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 17: mi takes that did happen are limited.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, the two quarterback system worked pretty well. Hadn't seen
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: that in a few years, and I think it kind
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: of went how you would want. Lucas Logy Gordy Bedington
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: both looked sharp. What did you like about them in
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: Week one?
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 17: I like that it kind of actually worked out better
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 17: than I planned in the sense of we had talked
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 17: about a rotation where he Gordy gets to play both
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 17: receiver and quarterback. So when it was the third series
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 17: and we're ahead fourteen zero, and I'm like.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 14: Wait, so why am I doing this?
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 17: But there was a there was a couple of penalties
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 17: that weren't Gordy's fault, and it was Gordy's legs that
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 17: kind of got us out of that situation. And then
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 17: he drove us down, made a couple of nice throws
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 17: as well, and then when Lucas got back in, he
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 17: actually had an injury that prevented him from finishing the game.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 17: So how nice is it to bring in a kiddo
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 17: who's already got a touchdown drive under his belt and
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 17: timing and everything like that. So that was one of
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 17: the many reasons why we.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 14: Like a two quarterback system.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 17: But it was very handy in the in the second
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 17: half to have Gordy ready to go.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 3: How's Lucas doing? Is he good to go? Week two?
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 17: Yeah, he's in the process. It'll probably be a game
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 17: time decision, or it might be a reversal of roles
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 17: where we start with Gordy and then, depending on how
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 17: it feels for Lucas, put him in or not depending
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 17: on the down and distance, the situation of the game,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 17: and we do understand that it's a highly competitive situation
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 17: with a ranked opponent, but at the same time, it
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 17: is a non league and so we wouldn't want to
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 17: take a one week injury and turn it into a.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 14: Multiple week injuries. So so he'll be.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 17: A game time decision and more more, just to make
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 17: sure we want that thing to be one hundred percent
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 17: before we put him out there against an elite level
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 17: team that we'll be playing.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Uh.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Danny Boehler went over a thousand career receiving yards in
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: that in that week one game. Tell me what it's
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: just been like to coach a kid like that.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 14: Well, first of all, you just, yeah, a wonderful human being.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 17: He's a two time captain, which in our program means
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 17: that you know the kids, you've earned their respect. And
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 17: so he was a captain as a junior. Now he's
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 17: a captain again as a senior. So that talks about
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 17: his integrity and who he is as a young man.
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  Speaker 17: He had a breakout season as a sophomore and then
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  Speaker 17: last year, you know, he drew some attention, which left
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  Speaker 17: Sam and Isaiah in one on one situations.
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  Speaker 14: Well we know that those two almost both ended up.
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  Speaker 17: One had one thousand yards, the other one had nine
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  Speaker 17: hundred yards, and so he kind of was the sacrificial
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  Speaker 17: lamb last year.
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  Speaker 14: Well this year, you know, Sam's.
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  Speaker 17: Gonna get a lot of attention again and Danny's gonna
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  Speaker 17: get some one on ones, and so I was really
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  Speaker 17: happy for him to have a game that mirrored what
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  Speaker 17: he did as a sophomore.
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  Speaker 14: And he's put in a ton of time.
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  Speaker 17: He's you know, he's he has goals and aspirations of
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  Speaker 17: playing college football, and so he went on some college
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  Speaker 17: campus trips and I just really saw the.
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  Speaker 14: Work ethic in the weight room and on the track.
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  Speaker 17: Carry over, and I really think he's gonna have a
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  Speaker 17: great senior season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I just there's certain kids that I just really really
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  Speaker 2: enjoy being around and talking.
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  Speaker 3: To, and he definitely fits that.
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  Speaker 2: Bill you were talking about how every coach says that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, improvement from week one to week two is
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  Speaker 2: always the biggest improvement for the entire year. What are
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  Speaker 2: those things specifically that you feel like your team needs
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  Speaker 2: to improve on.
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  Speaker 14: Probably consistency.
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  Speaker 17: You know, there were times I will talk about the
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  Speaker 17: offense there were times when we were in sync, everything
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  Speaker 17: looked good and we looked like a pretty impressive machine,
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  Speaker 17: and then there was other times we just looked like
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  Speaker 17: an old clunker out there and trying to find our
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  Speaker 17: way down the field.
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  Speaker 14: And so I would say from that perspective, now, our
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  Speaker 14: young guys and our new guys.
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  Speaker 17: On the right side, I thought they did better than
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  Speaker 17: I had expected. I had lowered the bar for them
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 17: being their first start for both Jax and Jordan. They did,
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  Speaker 17: I thought extremely well. And then on the other side,
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  Speaker 17: you know Zach and Carter, you know, I'm going to
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  Speaker 17: challenge them they're both captains as well, that they need
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  Speaker 17: to keep improving and not just rely on how good
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  Speaker 17: they naturally are. So that part of it was interesting.
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  Speaker 17: Boy Max, you know, he was as advertised. He came
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 17: out like a cannonball out of the cannon there, and
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  Speaker 17: we talked to him about if you break tackles this year,
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  Speaker 17: it'll be touchdowns, and that was how that first touchdown
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  Speaker 17: came about. He was very explosive, very shifty, very strong,
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  Speaker 17: so I was proud of him, and he also had
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  Speaker 17: some plays on defense. So if you roll over to
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  Speaker 17: the defensive side once again, there was some times. You know,
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  Speaker 17: to force Ferndale into three three and outs is one
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  Speaker 17: of the greatest accomplishments any defense can ever have, and
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  Speaker 17: so they were on their a game. But at times
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  Speaker 17: we saw some things that we need to work on,
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  Speaker 17: which Franklin Pearce will help us do this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're traveling there on Saturday afternoon. What do
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  Speaker 3: you know about this team? We know they were pretty
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  Speaker 3: good last year, but you know, year to year it's
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 3: a different team. What do you know about the team
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  Speaker 3: this year?
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  Speaker 17: You know, it was interesting last year when they went
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  Speaker 17: through and did the seeding, they ended up with a
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  Speaker 17: three seed. They were eleven or zero at the time
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  Speaker 17: or ten, and oh, they ended up being eleven to
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  Speaker 17: zero before they played WF West and they got the
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  Speaker 17: three seed.
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  Speaker 14: We got the four seed and Archbishop got.
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  Speaker 17: The five seed, And you know, I would have liked
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  Speaker 17: that to been flipped so that we're not playing someone
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  Speaker 17: from our conference in the quarterfinals.
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  Speaker 14: So you can complain.
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  Speaker 17: About it, or you can call their ad and their
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  Speaker 17: head coach, and they were more than happy to swap opponents,
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  Speaker 17: so we didn't have to play Mariner and now we
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  Speaker 17: get them. They look very similar to last year. They
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  Speaker 17: were the conference champs, they had the Conference MVP.
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  Speaker 14: He's back.
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  Speaker 17: They run a it's called balanced T T balanced and
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  Speaker 17: that's where you have two tight ends and three backs
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  Speaker 17: and you look the same every time. It's kind of
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  Speaker 17: like a version of the wing team, kind of like
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 17: what Bellevue and Ferndale run per year, and it hits
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  Speaker 17: fast and hard. They're they're O line. I don't think
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  Speaker 17: they have a guy under two eighty five. They got fast,
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  Speaker 17: strong backs. It'll be a great challenge for our kids.
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  Speaker 17: But what I'm proud of is that, you know, we
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  Speaker 17: we were able to get this game scheduled and now
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  Speaker 17: we don't leave it up to the committee, but we
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  Speaker 17: you know, can hopefully make a statement.
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  Speaker 14: They'll be trying to do the.
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  Speaker 17: Same and earn a higher seed into the playoffs, not
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  Speaker 17: just expect one.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting you say it's a balanced team,
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  Speaker 2: which I've seen that. I've seen Baker run that a
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  Speaker 2: little bit as well. And you know a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times the defense comes up to the line and you
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  Speaker 2: call out, you know, the left side or the right
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  Speaker 2: side for a strong side, and you do different things
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  Speaker 2: and you might shift guys. Is it are you still
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  Speaker 2: looking for maybe a specific player to be on a
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  Speaker 2: specific side or do you just go into it going
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  Speaker 2: if they're balanced, we're just gonna do this.
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  Speaker 3: How do you look at that?
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  Speaker 17: We have some nuances within our defense that allows us
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 17: to have control either from the booth or sideline, how
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 17: to tell our kids how we want to play. But
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  Speaker 17: in the end, just like a wing te it really
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  Speaker 17: is about players reading their keys and making plays. They're
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  Speaker 17: just going to be really, really really good at it
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  Speaker 17: because they only have five or six plays and they
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  Speaker 17: only have one formation. So you can imagine when we
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 17: go into our practice and we're a multiple formation offense
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  Speaker 17: with multiple plays. You know, we're lucky if we get
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  Speaker 17: to run certain plays twice a practice, whereas they're going
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 17: to be running those same five or six plays five, six, seven,
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  Speaker 17: eight times of practice. Now you add that to week
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 17: after week after week, and you get a really efficient,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 17: dominant attack. And so we respect our opponent. We're excited
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  Speaker 17: for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 14: It'll be two top.
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  Speaker 17: Five teams in the state playing Week two with potentially
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 17: playoffs heating implications, which that just doesn't happen very often
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  Speaker 17: in week two, So we're really excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that sounds like a fun coach, and it
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  Speaker 2: sounds like quite the task. Best of luck against Franklin
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  Speaker 2: Pierce on Saturday, coach, and thank you for joining me
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  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade.
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  Speaker 3: Game Day preview.
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  Speaker 14: Oh I have a great day.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: And the final game of the weekend is a seven
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: pm kickoff on Saturday night at Civic Stadium where the
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: Squalkum Storm, who was OH to one, will be hosting
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: Marysville Pilchuck. Also ohen one. Get this, this is crazy.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: Max Preps has Marysville Pilchuck favored in this one, just barely.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: And this is why it's tough to get good rankings
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: early on in the season. I was once again unable
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: to track down coach Nick Lucy for the second week
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: in a row.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe it's just.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 2: Not gonna work for him this year. And maybe I'll
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: try to get an assistant coach next week. I have
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: a few in mine that would probably do it. But
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 2: Squalkum has they had some moments last year or last
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: last year. Well that had definitely other moments last year,
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 2: but they other moments last week in their narrow loss
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 2: on the road at Burlington Edison. I thought the defense
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: played fantastic. Asher Osbyjornsen is a star in the making
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball. The offense had its moments,
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: but shot itself in the foot too many times. But
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 2: I think they can take.
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  Speaker 3: Care of business against the Tomahawks.
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  Speaker 2: This will be the second week in a row that
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: Marysville Pilchuck comes up north to.
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  Speaker 3: Play at Civic Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: It won't be sixty four to three this time like
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: it was last week for them. But I do firmly
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  Speaker 2: believe that Squalkum comes out on top here. You know
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: they'll get things worked out. You know you heard it
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 2: over and over again. The biggest improvement is from week
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: one to week two. There's a lot of things, especially offensively,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: that I know Squalkum can improve on.
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  Speaker 3: Cole Burke is a very good quarterback.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: It just did you know he had a couple of interceptions,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 2: didn't put up the best numbers. I mean, he's one
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: of the most accurate quarterbacks. If you look at completion
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: percentage in Wakam County history, he's like in the top
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: three of all time so of any school, of any quarterback.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: So and he was under fifty percent in that game
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: against brilliant and Edison, So I think that you know,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: he he'll play better. I think he'll have a great game.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be you know, it's gonna be just
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  Speaker 2: just fine.
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  Speaker 3: I will probably be out.
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  Speaker 2: There for that one. I'm looking forward to it. Always
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 2: enjoy watching squalk come. I might sit up in the
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: booth for a little bit. We'll see, especially if i'll
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: be taking stats live, so we'll see. And that wraps
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: it up. I hope you've enjoyed the Gatorade Game Day
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 2: Football Preview for Week two, and I just want to
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 2: thank all the coaches as well as Jim Bring for
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 2: making time out of their busy day to join me here.
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to do it again next week. Also
• 1:25:42
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• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: And you've been listening to episode three hundred and sixty
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: five of the Walk and Preps podcast, it's the Gatorade
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: Game Day Football Preview.
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  Speaker 3: Don't forget to vote on Monday for the PEPC Play
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  Speaker 3: of the Week. We'll talk to you again next week.