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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 317 - Top 100 Countdown 100-82 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Rating and Seeding or James Feadall and you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to the Top one hundred Countdown and Welcome Preps
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  Speaker 1: Podcast with Tyler and Ryland.
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  Speaker 2: Go Trojans, Greeting X, and Welcome into the wacome Preps podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is episode at three hundred and seventeen, the first
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  Speaker 2: of ten podcasts in the twenty twenty four Top one
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  Speaker 2: hundred Football Countdown. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as
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  Speaker 2: always is Tyler Anderson of Welcome Preps. Tyler, how are
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  Speaker 2: we doing?
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  Speaker 3: Doing great? Can't believe it. I can't believe a couple
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  Speaker 3: of things.
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  Speaker 1: Three hundred and seventeen just sounds crazy And it was
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  Speaker 1: so funny, how you know, six years ago when we started,
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  Speaker 1: we were like, it'd be funny to have just a
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  Speaker 1: number after each one and yeah, you know, like UFC
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, And now it sounds like a UFC thing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: And it's an awesome time of the year. The Top
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  Speaker 1: one hundred list. People get so jazzed for it. I've
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  Speaker 1: already heard from a ton of pe people. They're really excited.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't believe this is the eighth year in
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  Speaker 1: a row doing this. Started back in twenty seventeen and.
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  Speaker 3: And people love lists. What can I say?
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  Speaker 2: You know what I should do? I should put a
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  Speaker 2: Bruce Buffer intro like at the beginning it's.
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  Speaker 3: For the walkout brats podca.
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  Speaker 2: Uh maybe we could have Bruce doing hop on. How
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  Speaker 2: much is one of those costs? Tyler?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I probably one thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Always better off, I mean I like it better anyway.
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  Speaker 2: We got James Heatall Meridian doing the doing the intro today,
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  Speaker 2: So thank you to James for that. We also need
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  Speaker 2: to give a shout out to our sponsor here in
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  Speaker 2: the Top one hundred countdown that is Anytime Fitness in Linden,
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  Speaker 2: Linden North and Ferndale. Tyler. They have been unbelievable sponsors
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  Speaker 2: of Watcome preps over the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they Jay jumped on board, wanted to do anything
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  Speaker 1: they could do to keep it going, and they've stepped
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  Speaker 1: up and done a lot of things with multiple sports. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, different different players of the Week over the years.
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  Speaker 1: For football, they got the they got the boys and
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  Speaker 1: girls basketball players of the Week, they did the football
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  Speaker 1: score boards. They've done the Top one hundred list for
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. I mean they've jumped all
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  Speaker 1: over a lot of stuff and and yeah, it's been
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  Speaker 1: it's been awesome. And I hope they can continue because
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  Speaker 1: it's a great, great partnership and you know, I just
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  Speaker 1: wish I could be a better walking advertisement for them.
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  Speaker 1: So but you know, maybe maybe maybe somedale get in
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  Speaker 1: a little better shape.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Tyler, you and I both known as fitness hounds ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we are we are. We are a couple
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  Speaker 2: of big time buff guys. If you will, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you need somebody to help move furniture, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: your guy. I prefer helping people stay put. Really, what
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  Speaker 2: I like to do let's let's, you know, get some
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  Speaker 2: pizza and hang out, watch some football. That's the way
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  Speaker 2: I like to do it. But anytime, Fitness Linden, Linden
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  Speaker 2: North and Ferndale always always appreciate their sponsorships. And Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: if somebody would like to become a sponsor, how do
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  Speaker 2: they get a hold of you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, basically, looks look me up on the social media stuff,
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  Speaker 3: look up walk the preps, send a message and we
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  Speaker 3: can get the ball rolling from there. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: just heard from somebody earlier in the week and then
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  Speaker 3: right away I was like, you know, what's your number,
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to give you a call. And so that's
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  Speaker 3: how things usually move a little faster, and we could
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  Speaker 3: talk and I can kind of explain because they might
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  Speaker 3: be new to walk the Preps or not really know
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  Speaker 3: what the deal is or and I can explain it
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, and then we can go from there
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  Speaker 3: and give them some numbers and some ideas and and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we just go from there and hopefully work something up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and there's still plenty of stuff to sponsor in
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  Speaker 2: the winter season here that is already underway, and plenty
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  Speaker 2: of stuff to go in the spring season. So if
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  Speaker 2: you want to get on board with that, jump on
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  Speaker 2: it a little early. And Tyler, you've kind of mentioned
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  Speaker 2: it before. There might be some some businesses that are
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  Speaker 2: at the end of their fiscal calendar here coming up
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  Speaker 2: in the next couple of weeks. And what better way
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of some money if you will, then
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  Speaker 2: to do it with Walk them Preps. I mean nothing
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  Speaker 2: better than you know, youth athletics. And that's what we
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  Speaker 2: talk all the time. And then every now and then
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  Speaker 2: we go on ramps where we just start talking about
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  Speaker 2: baseball and pd Cavilia and you know, all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: crazy things. You never know what's gonna happen here on
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  Speaker 2: the Wader Preps podcast. But for the most part, we're
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  Speaker 2: like ninety nine point eight seven four three percent of
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  Speaker 2: you know, high school athletics. It's kind of where we're at. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: A little yeah, a little butch Husky throwing in there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Barnard Guilty or Shane Monaghan, Shane, you just never know.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you went left field. I had to follow it up.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Snelling.
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  Speaker 2: Yeahmember, we could just name off all the guys that
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  Speaker 2: were supposed to be Griffy's left fielder, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and like the list would be disgusting. You know.
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  Speaker 3: The guy that I think, the one that I think,
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  Speaker 3: the one that I think the most people were like,
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  Speaker 3: this is.
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  Speaker 2: The one hold on Jose cru Jr. Yes, Yeah, I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think because he was talented, he was young. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he had the ties with the Mariners, with
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  Speaker 3: his uncle Julio playing with the Mariners, and it was
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  Speaker 3: kind of like, yeah, that's the one. And it was
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  Speaker 3: still like ninety seven I think when we.
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  Speaker 2: Had him, Yeah, ninety yeah, I was right around there.
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  Speaker 2: Because okay, so we traded him for I remember it
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  Speaker 2: was Mike Timlin, Paul Spowl, Jeric and man, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like there was somebody else. I don't know why we're
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  Speaker 2: doing this early, but Tyler, we got to do it now. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Mike Timlin, I need to know who who what the
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  Speaker 2: trade was. I remember it was Mike tim the three pictures, right,
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  Speaker 2: it was Mike Timlin, Paul Spowl, Jeric, and I feel
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  Speaker 2: like there was one more guy, he said, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 2: sure it was those two guys. Let's see. Uh No,
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  Speaker 2: it was just Timlin and Spool Jeric. Okay, Jose Cruz.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Spool Jerick was a lefty, junk guy
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  Speaker 3: and Timlin was a good hard throwing you know.
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  Speaker 2: Timlin was better later in his career. Yeah, like once
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  Speaker 2: he hit the thirties, you know what I mean. Remember
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  Speaker 2: he was really good with the Red Sox for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years like later.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see here, just just to kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: dig the wound in a little bit here, let's just
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  Speaker 2: take a quick peek at Jose Cruz. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: had a couple of decent years to seventy four with
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  Speaker 2: thirty four home runs. I mean, nowadays those would be
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  Speaker 2: great numbers. Back then, you know, two seventy four was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, not the greatest, but you know here two
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  Speaker 2: forty two with thirty two home runs or thirty one
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  Speaker 2: home runs. So, I mean he had a couple of
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  Speaker 2: really good years when twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight
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  Speaker 2: years old. But yeah, I mean everybody thought he was
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  Speaker 2: he was the man. I mean, he was the guy
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  Speaker 2: that was going to be Griffy's left fielder and oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be the one that you know, Oh it
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  Speaker 2: was going to take us places. And yeah, then we
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  Speaker 2: traded him for Timlin Spolt. Jared I'm pretty sure that
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  Speaker 2: was Woody would word thanks to him. That guy did
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things where you just go, huh. It's
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  Speaker 2: almost like what who who is the picture from the
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox Heathcliff Slocum, wasn't it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: We did, we trade Jason Vertek and Derek.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jason Vertek, Derek Loan. I think there was one.
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  Speaker 3: More guy, Darren Darren Bragg, Darren Bragg. Maybe did we
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  Speaker 3: get Darren Bragg in that?
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  Speaker 2: I remember Darren Bragg had something to do with that.
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  Speaker 2: I remember Reggie Jefferson might have been in that track.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Reggie Jefferson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah. Anyway, Tyler, this is the Football Top one
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  Speaker 2: hundred count down today. We're going from one hundred down
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  Speaker 2: to eighty two. The next podcast will be released on
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  Speaker 2: the twenty fourth, two PM. Perfect for listening to on
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  Speaker 2: Christmas as you're headed out to Grandma's house, right, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: I mean we're all doing that. I mean I'm not,
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  Speaker 2: but everybody else maybe maybe, as I don't know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know where people go anymore.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of people drive, you know, so this is
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  Speaker 3: a perfect I mean that I hear that a lot.
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  Speaker 3: I hear that, like when I go down to State,
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  Speaker 3: you know, for volleyball or basketball. I hear a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people that show up there like, hey, we just
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  Speaker 3: heard your podcast on the way here, you know, whenever
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  Speaker 3: one was the latest one, you know, and it's like
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  Speaker 3: I was like, that's pretty cool. It's a good time
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  Speaker 3: to do it, you know. And so yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: people always find time, and that's really exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I know when I used to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: drive all over the state, that's what I did. I
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  Speaker 2: listened to podcasts or you know, things like that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: perfect time. By the way, just straight up Jason Vertek
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  Speaker 2: and Derek Low for Heathcliff Slocum. Yeah, I mean beautiful trade.
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  Speaker 2: Like Heathcliff Slocan went oh and four in Seattle in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven and he had ten ten total saves.
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  Speaker 3: His ear ray was like in the fives, wasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Yes, it was. That's just good Lord. Nineties Mariners baseball.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be a topic one day, Tyler. We'll just go
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  Speaker 2: off on it and just scream and yell and punch
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  Speaker 2: each other in the face and then talk about the
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  Speaker 2: double as it is. Though, let's talk about the top
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  Speaker 2: one hundred coundown, Tyler, what are you saying?
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  Speaker 3: Let's definitely do it. I'm excited, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go at number one hundred, six foot two,
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  Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty five pounds left tackle, defensive tackle.
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  Speaker 2: He is a senior from Blaine, number fifty two. Molloy Messenger.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we talked about him a little bit
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  Speaker 3: on the Seniors podcast. To transfer from Meridian a few
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  Speaker 3: years ago. I think he just played at Meridian his
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  Speaker 3: freshman year, came to Blaine as kind of a tight
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  Speaker 3: end linebacker and just kept getting bigger and stronger and
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  Speaker 3: bigger and stronger, and then his junior year he became
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  Speaker 3: kind of like that sixth offensive lineman where you could
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  Speaker 3: put him in any spot. Really smart kid, you could
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  Speaker 3: and you could depend on it. But was still playing
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  Speaker 3: a lot of like outside linebacker. And then they changed
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  Speaker 3: their defense around to where they it was kind of
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  Speaker 3: like a five to two, like they really didn't have
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  Speaker 3: true outside linebackers. They had those two great defensive ends,
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  Speaker 3: but they they they came a lot. They didn't drop back,
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  Speaker 3: so he had to switch positions to be more like
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  Speaker 3: an interior defensive lineman. He was entrenched in that left
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  Speaker 3: tackle spot and he just it just every single year,
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  Speaker 3: it seemed like he put on like another fifteen to
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  Speaker 3: twenty pounds of muscle and just got bigger and stronger,
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  Speaker 3: and and he was he could still really move too,
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  Speaker 3: which was impressive to see. You know, you get those
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  Speaker 3: former linebackers and they still have that speed a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So that was really impressive to see, especially at field level.
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  Speaker 3: When I was down there a couple of times to
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  Speaker 3: watch him. He really stood out. Yeah, just just a rock,
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  Speaker 3: you know, just solid player. Had sixteen tackles three and
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  Speaker 3: a half tackles for loss, was in a rotation there
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  Speaker 3: on the defense, so the numbers don't stand out defensively,
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  Speaker 3: but he was in there. You know, I would i
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  Speaker 3: would probably say probably every single meaningful snap at left
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  Speaker 3: tackle all year.
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  Speaker 2: So he was just.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, big time. I mean in that line. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they paved the way for the leading rusher
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  Speaker 3: in the county and he was a big, big part
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  Speaker 3: of that. And just a really awesome senior year. And
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  Speaker 3: and it's pretty cool to sneak into this top one
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  Speaker 3: hundred list because I've kind of said it in previous podcasts,
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  Speaker 3: this has been the hardest one to do. So there
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of players that were great, great players
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  Speaker 3: that I did not include on the list. So to
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  Speaker 3: make this list is a huge accomplishment. And and he
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  Speaker 3: he got right in there, So pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're not gonna obviously go over the names because
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  Speaker 2: there could be more guys, you know, yeah ahead, but Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: you kind of gave me a list of some guys
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  Speaker 2: that didn't get on and it was just like whoa, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you could you could almost form an All
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  Speaker 2: league team out of these guys. You know, at times
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  Speaker 2: like wow. At number nine, excuse me, number ninety nine,
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  Speaker 2: six foot one point eighty five tight end, defensive end.
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  Speaker 2: He is a senior from Sea Home. It's number nine.
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  Speaker 3: Cooper Mcatye, yeah, Cooper Mcatte had a had a really
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  Speaker 3: it was kind of similar to malloy as far as
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  Speaker 3: position changes for his senior year. You see that quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit, especially up here. I don't know about with
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  Speaker 3: the bigger schools when they have so many athletes and guys,
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  Speaker 3: not many guys played both ways, but here it seems
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  Speaker 3: like a lot of times there's a guy becomes a
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  Speaker 3: senior and it's like, Okay, he's definitely one of our
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  Speaker 3: best eleven, but we're gonna have to move things around
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  Speaker 3: to get our best eleven on the field. And you know, defensively,
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  Speaker 3: he started all year at linebacker last year, but this
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  Speaker 3: year he switched to a defensive end spot. They and
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  Speaker 3: they also switched their defensive round going from a kind
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  Speaker 3: of a three four to more of a four to
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  Speaker 3: three sometimes almost like a four to five look. And
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  Speaker 3: so when you go, especially with the down lineman, when
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  Speaker 3: you go from three down linemen to four down linemen,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's very different skill sets and different things like that,
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  Speaker 3: and so with a true defensive end need, he filled
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  Speaker 3: that bill and was doing awesome at it. I mean
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  Speaker 3: right away too, and at the beginning of the year
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  Speaker 3: he was very much one of the big time pillars
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  Speaker 3: of that defense. And in the second half of the
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  Speaker 3: year he really came on offensively. So it was really
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  Speaker 3: cool to see it all come around. Uh, there were
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  Speaker 3: some there was a lot of injuries on the defense
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  Speaker 3: last year or this past year at the second half
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  Speaker 3: of the year, so he kind of moved around a
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  Speaker 3: little bit and filled in where he could there here
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  Speaker 3: and there, just to kind of make the team better.
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  Speaker 3: Got a lot bigger and stronger from his junior year
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  Speaker 3: to his senior year. Watching him play basketball now, it's
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's going up against guys like four or
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  Speaker 3: five inches taller than him, but he's just he's just
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  Speaker 3: out hustling and out mustling and and it's really really
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  Speaker 3: cool to see. This year he had seventeen catches for
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  Speaker 3: two hundred and thirty nine yards and two touchdowns, and
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  Speaker 3: then on defense, twenty six and a half tackles, five
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  Speaker 3: tackles for loss, and two sacks. The big play that
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  Speaker 3: stands out in my mind is against Marysville Pilchuck. There
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  Speaker 3: was a there was a they went for a I
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  Speaker 3: think he like I don't know if it was a
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  Speaker 3: punt that was mishandled or something, but he he tackled
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  Speaker 3: the ball carrier like at you know, back at the
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  Speaker 3: three yard line, and that turned the ball over on
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  Speaker 3: downs and see him scored on that next play. They
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  Speaker 3: ended up winning that game fourteen to seven. So it
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  Speaker 3: was a huge moment because it was very much just
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  Speaker 3: kind of not a lot of possessions, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: long drives, and it was just you know, it could
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  Speaker 3: have gone into overtime seven to seven if it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: for that. And it happened right before halftime too, So
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  Speaker 3: that was a huge momentum shift. And I think it
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  Speaker 3: just kind of carried him throughout the year and he
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  Speaker 3: just kept having big plays here and there.
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  Speaker 2: There was some big.
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  Speaker 3: Catches that he would have right down the middle. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they're doubling Watson on the outside and they would see
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  Speaker 3: where there an opening could be down the middle and
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  Speaker 3: he would catch the ball and go for like forty yards.
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  Speaker 3: And I just love how they utilized him offensively because
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  Speaker 3: he became a major weapon on the offense, and I,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think that him and it was a
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  Speaker 3: battle between him and Duckworth in the beginning of the
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  Speaker 3: year for the tight end spot. I think he was
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  Speaker 3: kind of set on the defensive spot. Duckworth gets hurt,
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  Speaker 3: he becomes you know, he becomes more integrated into the
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  Speaker 3: offense and just had a great senior year.
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  Speaker 2: Number ninety eight on the top one hundred count down,
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  Speaker 2: five foot eleven and fifty nine pounds. He's a running
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  Speaker 2: back and cornerback and a junior high school thanks coach.
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  Speaker 2: He is number three. Bryce Cooper.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he jumped off the page this year. I I
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  Speaker 3: picked him as my breakout player for Mount Baker, and
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  Speaker 3: I remember I went to the game at week one
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  Speaker 3: and he was making all these plays. He had an
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  Speaker 3: interception and I went over the sideline and and one
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  Speaker 3: of the guys in the chain, Gang goes. I think
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  Speaker 3: he made a good pick for breakout player of the year.
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  Speaker 3: But I was like right after his interception, but he
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  Speaker 3: just he kept making all these different plays and all
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  Speaker 3: these different He's just a great athlete. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: just a superior athlete. And he's a guy too that
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  Speaker 3: you know, like you said one hundred and fifty nine pounds.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he might be like a round seventy now.
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  Speaker 3: I mean every time I see him, he just getting
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: just gets bigger and bigger, you know, playing on the
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: basketball team and and uh, he's uh he is really
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: gonna stand out. I think next year as well. Uh.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: But he had those moments this year where he would
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: just break these runs he had. I mean, I don't
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: know if I saw anybody break more ankles on like
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: a juke move than he did. And he had a
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: few of them that he had some touchdown runs that
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: I just were like big time highlight plays. You know,
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: he didn't run for a ton of yards. He carried
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: the ball only thirty four times, but for three hundred
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: yards and four of them went for touchdowns. And you
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: know it was a backup. He was the backup running back.
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: But he would come in and just just you know,
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: blow things up, and there are like his highlight reel.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Could could you know, go up against some big time
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: players just for just kind of the the aw factor.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. He also had four catches for forty yards.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: I love it when you know the Mount Baker halfbacks
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: are a factor in the passing game, and I think
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: that he's kind of a natural receiver, like he's he's
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: built that way. I think he could, you know, do
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: some really good things, like he'd be great as a receiver.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: But he's just he's you know, he's played running back.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: That's what he knows. And he'll be kind of the
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: main guy next year. I would imagine. UH started at
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: corner all year, had twenty nine and a half tackles,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: nine passes deflected, one and a half tackles for loss,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: one force fumble, one interception, one fumble recovery. He also
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: returns seven kickoffs for one hundred and fifty two yards,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: and he had eleven punt returns for one hundred and
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: forty eight yards and a touchdown. The punt return for
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: touchdowns against Meridian it was the first time and I
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: want to say twelve years that Mount Baker had a
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: punt return for a touchdown. So UH did a little
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: bit of everything, and he's going to be you know,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Baker returns eighty percent of its offensive line next year.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: And you do that and you bring in it, he's
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: going to fill in at that half backspot and you
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: have a lot of that line coming back. He could
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: be he could have a huge year next year and
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: jump up in this list next year. But very good athlete,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun to watch.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Number ninety seven on the top one hundred countdown five
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: to eleven, one and eighty pounds. He's a quarterback and
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: a safety, a senior from Blaine. That's number three, calling that, Davis.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a down year passing the football, but
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: that wasn't really Blaine's game this year. It was very
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: much run heavy. He actually carried the ball more times
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: than he threw it, wow, which I can't recall a
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Blaine quarterback ever doing that. Ever, they've always had these
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: classic pocket passers and it was always you can always
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: tell too. And this is not like a slight on
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: pocket passers or anything like that, but when I look
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: at the complete like list of rushing it's like the
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: guy at the very bottom was always a guy that
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: just you know, didn't run the ball, but he got
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: sacked a lot.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was usually for something.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Like Yeah, it was usually a Blaine quarterback. Like every
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: year when I look, you know, they've had these great,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: classic tall pocket passers that they didn't run very much.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I mean Jalen Court Lever didn't run very much. Will
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: McKinney ran a little bit, but not a ton. Every
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Donor didn't run a lot. You know, cam Ellis didn't
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: run a lot. Jalen Courtle, I think I said to him,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: but like you know what I mean, Like even going
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: back to like the Caleb Luman and those guys, like
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: they didn't run like they just Blaine has not had
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: those guys. They just haven't had that in their offense.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: And when they changed their offense around a little bit
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: this year, and he showed moments of it as a junior,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: but he took off a lot more this year. He
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: actually had ten rushing touchdowns this year, which I think
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: kind of surprises a lot of people when you know
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: that Payez ran for almost two thousand yards and he
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: had over twenty touchdowns. It's like, how does he fit?
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: How can he even get ten ten touchdowns? You know,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: But it's very impressive. And I'm super impressed with what
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: he did on defense because he was in on some big,
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: big plays, especially near the end of the year in
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: the Meridian game when they had to win. Tremendous leader
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: and yeah, just a lot of good things kind of
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: wrapped up together and He's been helping me out too
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: with photography. He'll message me and they're a I'll message
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: him and just say, hey, are you going to this
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: game tonight? He said, yeah, are you taking pictures? Yeah,
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: I'll send you one if you want. And his pictures
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: are phenomenal. So yeah, just an awesome kid. I think
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: he's going to do some really good things after high
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: school and excited to kind of see where he goes.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: He finished. He completed fifty one of one hundred and
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: six passes for seven hundred and thirty eight yards and
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: three touchdowns, carried the ball one hundred and twenty two
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: times for three hundred and twenty nine yards and ten touchdowns,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: and on defense thirty six and a half tackles, five
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: passes broken up, one sack, and one forced fumble. So
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: a great, great year for him, and still finished like
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: in the top five or six career numbers for passing
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: yards for in Blaine history. So uh, you know, like completions, yards,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: touchdown stuff like that. So did a little bit of
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: everything in his career.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: You said he had a sack as a safety. Yeah,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: what they run in Gage eight, I.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Think it was it was like a I think it
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: was a double pass. Oh, and he because it was
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: a lot I think because he was set up to pass.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: His job on that was to blow it up, and
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: he just he was kind of he was kind of
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: like in Man, and that guy caught it and he
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: just ran in and tackled the guy that was going
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: to throw it.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Like a Paula Malu like. Yeah, right, he just he
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: just saw it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: And made a play. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Number ninety six on the top one hundred countdown, six
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: foot four and eighty five pounds tight end safety and punter.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: He is a senior from Knoksack Valley's number four cole Bombing.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a unique combo right there, bright
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: end safety and hunter Tyler.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: We got a couple of these coming up here. Yeah.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and uh but you know, not a not a
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: like a true tight end, but plays that wide position,
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: you know, the nukxac Valley does a lot, and he's
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: split out quite a bit, but he's in the slot
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: and could be just a mismatch problem. You know, at
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: six foot four, very athletic, huge catch radius, but deceptively
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: fast too. I mean, he could he could burn your
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: guy down the field. But he would and he would
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: run really crisp routes. I mean, early on in the season,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: him and Evan Brown had a really good thing going
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: with you know, a lot of like a five yard
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: out pattern where Evan would throw it before it even
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: break and it just looked great. You know, you just
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: don't see that a ton at the one A level,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: and they had a really good thing going with that.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: And then near the end of the year, his defense
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: just stood out. I mean he was kind of more
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: of an outside linebacker, you know, strong safety type, but
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: there were there were times when he would go back
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: and kind of play free safety and core he only
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: would come up so when you you know, there are
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: certain schools that love having like a big six or
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: four guy back there in the middle of the field
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: that can just see everything. And and he was a
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: fierce tackler too. And then you throw in that I thought,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: for my money, I thought he should have been the
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: All Conference punter for one A. He wasn't nominated, so
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: he wasn't he wasn't there to be voted on. But
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: I thought he was amazing. I mean, he's he always
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: just had a you know, those long legs. I mean,
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: he could get really good extension and he could just
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: crush the ball. Yeah, I thought that he had a
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: huge year, and I you know, going into I think
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: guy going into his junior year, there were you know,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: limitations physically with some medical stuff, and I just thought,
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he's going to even be able
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: to play football anymore. I know he loves baseball and
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: he's a great baseball player, and I thought, well, he
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: still get to play play baseball. And he came on
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: at the end of the year last year and filled
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: in when Silvis got hurt playing tight end and had
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: some big moments and I was like, Okay, okay, he'll
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: be just fine. And then senior year, you know he's
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: gonna start both ways, and he excelled. It was awesome
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: to see eighteen catches for two hundred and seventy eight
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: yards and four touchdowns. On defense, fifty three and a
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: half tackles, so he's he was up near the lead
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: on the team. And tackles I mean top three or four,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: four passes deflected, two forced fumbles, two tackles for loss,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: two interceptions, a fumble recovery, and then he add twenty
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: four punts or he averaged thirty four point nine yards
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: of punt So did a little bit of everything. Played
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: really good against big time opponents. I think he had
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: a really pretty good game against tomb Water, So that
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: that tells me a lot too, And just an awesome competitor.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Number ninety five on the top one hundred countdown. A
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: five foot eight, one hundred and eighty five pounds wide receiver, safety, kicker, punter.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: He is a senior from Blaying. That's number twenty one.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: That Logan Villa Reale.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Ah wow, Yeah, a little bit of everything. Yeah, jumped
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: up this year as far as from junior to senior
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: year in playing time and abilities and speed and size,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: like everything just kind of took a big leap this year,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: which was pretty darn, pretty darn cool to see. He
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: was also kind of a you know, he'd be a
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: backup running back if needed, or he was he would
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: be a safety that could come up and play in
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: the box against these run heavy teams. And in those
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: games I remember, like like Friday Harbor is very run heavy.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: There were certain teams where he would he would come
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: way up and he would make a lot of plays
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: in the backfield. I mean, he had five tackles for
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: loss this year as a safety. So you know, he's
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: a guy that could play a lot all over the
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: field and do some really good things, but he just
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: kind of dipped into a lot of stuff. Eight carries
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: for twenty six yards. He was two of three passing
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: for sixty three yards. So when they had the gadget play,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: he would be the one throwing the ball and he
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: completed two out of three of them, and which helps
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: to when he's the punter, right because he could just
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: catch he just catch it and go four catches for
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: twenty seven yards in a touchdown. I think he really
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: made his mark defensively thirty four tackles, five tackles for lost,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: five passes broken up, two forced fumbles, an interception of
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: fumble recovery. He also kicked twenty six extra points. It
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: was his first year kicking, which was pretty impressive. That
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: twenty sixth one that he kicked was was pretty impressive
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: against a huge wind going in his face with a
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: you know, kind of needed it against Mount Baker in
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: that in that in that three way tie there, the
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Kansas Kansas tiebreaker, he also had. He also averaged thirty
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: three yards of punt and Uh yeah, So just a
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: guy that rarely left the field. I mean he kind
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: of got his brakes, I guess you would say when
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: they were on offense. I mean he would take a
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: little break here and there, but he'd be split out
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: wide sometimes sometimes they put him in the backfields andtmes
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: he be in the backfield and come out in motion.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: But other than that, he was on the field constantly.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: So really really great year. And another kid that before
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: the season started, he wasn't on my radar too much.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: He was a little bit, but it was just kind
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: of a yeah, he's he's he. I know he's there,
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: but and I know he's going to play a little
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: bit more now as a senior. But he really every
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: single week he really impressed me and and h and
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: because of that he made the list.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: It's a kid that I feel like as the season
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: went along, we just talked about more and more and
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: more on the podcast, you know, absolutely consistently. It's wild
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: because I don't even know that I've ever heard his
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: name before, you know what I mean, like right like myself,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: like other than you know, maybe a couple of little
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: tiny blips, it was like, Wow, this kid can actually play.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: I mean that's yeah, which is which is kind of
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: the way high schools, which is supposed to work, right,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Like you're supposed to be that guy as you're senior,
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like that's what you're supposed
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: to be. So it's definitely cool to see number ninety
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: four in the top of one hundred countdown five foot
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: ten one and forty pounds. He's a quarterback and the
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: first sophomore on the list. It's Bellingham is at number two.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Ben Leonard.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I started the year at Ride at wide receiver
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: and you know, play here and there and and but
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: didn't didn't catch any passes. It was very run heavy
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: at that point with Harvard at quarterback and and and
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: he was a running threat as well. And then when
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: they made the switch at halftime against Archbishop Murphy, I
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: was up in the press box at that time, and
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: and when the Bellam coaches came back in, they were like,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: we're making the switch. And I was like, making what switch?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Like is Leonard coming in at playing quarterback? And they're like, yep,
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: they're just switching positions. And all of a sudden, he
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: threw for like almost two hundred yards in the second
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: half and and then and it looked like because you know,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: it looked like he was just a natural back there
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: and had a lot of moxie. And every single game
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: after that you could see the total improvement of Bellingham
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: from the first three games. You know, I think they
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: win that Week one game against Chief selth if if
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: he's playing quarterback, you know there, I think games could
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: have been a little different, you know, the game who knows?
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: The game against Lakewood, who knows? I mean, it's it's
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: really interesting and I know that, you know, it's tough
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: when you know your dad is the coach and things
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: like that, and there could be a lot expected of you,
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: and so there's a lot of those things that you
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: kind of have to deal with. But at the same time,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: you know, you can really learn the playbook. You could,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: you know, you could ask maybe it's maybe it's easier
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: to ask the coach some questions when it's your dad
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: who knows. But I think that it worked out really well.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: He had great weapons to go to. He knew when
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: to get rid of the ball, he he knew how
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: to not take a sack. He knew he just has
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: been playing the position, and it really showed. I mean,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: he's not the biggest guy out there, one hundred and
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: forty pounds, but and he took a few shots, but
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: he would get back up. And that showed me a
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: lot too, because you know, when Blake Kuresky weighs one
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: hundred more pounds than you, crushes you, and you get
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: back up and keep playing and and you you know,
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: you get your team to come back and go into
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: double overtime against Blaine. That was that showed me a
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: ton too. I mean that game alone probably put him
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: on this list, you know. I I was just super impressed.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: And I think going forward, there's gonna be just a
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: lot more. He's gonna have a lot more confidence in
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: playing the position at the varsity level. And uh, you know,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: he's gonna lose a couple of weapons, but he's gonna
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: have some good ones coming back. So I think he's
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: gonna get a I mean the whole summer off season
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: of you know, seven on seven and stuff like that.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: I think he's just gonna get better and better, especially
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: if he keeps growing, that could be really impressive as well.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: He was one hundred and nine of one hundred and
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: eighty three passing this year for one than one hundred
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: and eighty seven yards and twelve touchdowns, and he basically
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: did it six and a half games. So really really impressive,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: big time future ahead of him, and I'm excited to
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: see where he ends up, you know, career wise with
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: his numbers, because it's gonna be pretty impressive.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Number ninety three on the top one hundred countdown, six
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: foot four, two hundred and five pounds tight end and
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: defensive end. He's a senior from the Meridian Trojans, number seven.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: The young man that gave us the intro, it's James Heatall.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah. It was funny when I reached out to him
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: to get the intro, you know, he was like, yeah,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: no problem. He had a game that night. He's starting
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: center on the Meridian basketball team, and they were posting
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Burlington and and then I was like, crap, I shouldn't.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't have bugged him on a game day and
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Meridians Burlington's got like a six foot nine cent yeah,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, man, I shouldn't. I probably got
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: into his head. I shouldn't have said it. I should
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: have mentioned anything. I was like, hey, good luck to night,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: you know, and he didn't send me the intro right
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: away because he had the game and I understood that
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: he had probably had the best game of his career
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: that night. He scored like seventeen points and had seven rebounds.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: And you know, Meridian basketball is very like you got
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: the two like all league guys, and then who's going
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: to be that third guy? Because that's how basketball is.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: You need that third guy. And he's kind of emerging,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: or he sort of did in that Burlington game, and
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: so I was like, I'm not going to take credit
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: for it or anything, but hopefully I pumped him up
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: a little bit because I think when he got the message,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: it kind of dawned on him, like, hey, I made
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: the top one hundred list. And even though he did
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: ask after the basketball game, he goes, he goes, did
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: I make the list? And I didn't reply. I just said, hey,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: I need the intro, so so he sent it to me.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: But yeah, it just what an athlete I mean. And
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: he's been moved all over different positions and stuff like that.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: And I remember his sophomore year he came on late
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: as like an edge rusher kind of guy, and and
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: uh and this year and then like last year, he
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: was like wide receiver and corner, and then this year
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: he was moved back to tight end defensive end and
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: by far his best year catching the football. He had
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: twenty seven catches for three hundred and eighty four yards
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: and a touchdown. Uh, he's a he could be a
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: deep threat. He could catch a tight end screen and
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: make guys miss and turned into you know, one of
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: the best pass rushers on the team. He had five sacks,
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: twenty three tackles, two tackles for loss, a forced fumble,
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: fumble recovery. A lot of fun was watching him play.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: And I'm, you know, a three sport kid too, basketball
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: and track and field. You know, it's crazy because I
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: keep thinking he's gone to state in all three but
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: they for football if they didn't, but he's gone to
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: He went to state last year in basketball. He's been
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: to state for track and field a couple times. So
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: just a great overall athlete that you know, when you
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: see that kid on campus, you're just like, Okay, you
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: just kind of get excited to put your hands together. Okay,
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: what can I do with with him? Like what I
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: mean that the limitations, there's not a lot there. We
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: could do this, we could do that. And and I
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: loved how they used him, and it was great to
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: see him finish, finished his career with such a great season.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Number ninety two on the top one hundred count down,
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: five foot ten and eighty five pounds. He's a wide
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: receiver in a corner, a senior from the Blaine border, right,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: it's number six Thomas Cox.
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, transformed his body from junior to senior year, so
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: incredibly strong and but still able to play a really
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: good corner spot. Like usually you bulk up that much
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: and it's hard to stay with receivers, and he was
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: able to do it. I mean the plays he made.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: You know, the diving interception that he had at Granite
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: Falls was just phenomenal. At least I think it was
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: an Screnfalls. Was either of them are Slanne? I can't,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I can't remember. I can picture the diving catch in
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: my head, I just can't remember where which field it was.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: And and it was his first year really playing a
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: lot of offense. You know, he's just been a corner
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: like his whole career and started playing a lot of
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: corner even as a sophomore, played a lot more as
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: a junior, and then of course he was the guy
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: this year and started receiver and made some great catches
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: and then they would they would do some double tight
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: stuff and he would come in and play tight end
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: so physical and so strong that he might have been
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: even a better tight end than a wide receiver. And
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: that really helped out, especially with the with paias running
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: the ball and stuff like that. And there was a
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: game where Blake Kresky was out I believe it was
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: a Friday Harber game. Thomas Cox just slid over and
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: played tight end the entire game. And so a guy
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: that can do a lot of those things, uh, you know, workout,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: warrior in the gym. Uh, you know, a leader gets
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: you know, gets the other guys going and uh kind
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: of an emotional leader, vocal leader.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: And it's it's it's you know, it's kind of stinks
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: because it's like you get to know a kid really
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: well and and they get bigger and better and then
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, it's like, okay, he's gonna graduate.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: It's like, oh man, it's like I know, we talked
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: about this a lot, but it's it is. It does
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: sting a little bit because you kind of you kind
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: of grasp a hold of the awesomeness of a kid,
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: and and how fun it is to watch him play,
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: and then you see him at different events and give
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: him a fist bump. Hey, how's it going. And I
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: love it when they're comfortable enough to come up to
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: me and talk to me. And and because I'm not
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: great at approaching them, so it's like this is this
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: is much this is much better for me. And and
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: I mean it's not that I don't want to talk
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: to them. I just if they approach me, I feel
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: more comfortable. And yeah, and uh, and he's always, you know,
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: right away, comes right over to me. Hey, what's up, Tyler,
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: you know, And so that's always really cool. Eight catches
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: for one hundred and fifteen yards, seventeen and a half tackles,
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: six passes broken up, two tackles for loss, and the interception.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: A lot of guys just did not throw his way.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: I mean he was He was the shutdown corner for
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: them and had just a great, great senior year and
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: hopefully does some really cool things going moving forward.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Number ninety one on the top one hundred countdown, five
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: foot ten and forty five pounds wide receiver in a
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: corner and a sophomore from Meridian. It's number four, Trey Alexander.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: I'm just super grateful that he played football this year.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: I had heard some things over the summer that he's
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: kind of fifty to fifty about playing football and just
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: such a good overall athlete and but a baseball first guy.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's going to probably play somewhere baseball wise.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: You know, one of those classic like leadoff hitter, left
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: handed hitter, but is a right handed player, you know,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: shortstop center field, that kind of kid. And you know,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: as a freshman he was used a little bit here
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: and there with like double passes and things like that
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: because he could really throw the ball. And when I
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: went out to practice to take headshots and I saw
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: he was there, I just kind of like, I kind
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: of gave myself like a little Kirk Gibson fist pump,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: like yes, okay, good, good good, because I knew he
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: was so talented that they will find ways to get
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: him on the field. Yeah, he's the backup quarterback, but
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: they he's too good of an athlete to not be,
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: you know, featured somehow, and played a lot, played a
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: lot of offense and defense, missed a little time in
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: the in the middle of the year. I believe it
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: was concussion related because he came back with one of
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: those uh those helmet guards or what are guardian cap Yeah.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, weought a ton of them and put him on
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: the kids during practice this year.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he was playing in games with him for
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: the second half of the season. But he came back
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: and played really really well. Soh so hopefully everything's good.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's playing basketball this year and he's doing
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: well doing that three point shooter, defensive guy, and so
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: I'm so glad he's playing all three sports because he's
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: you know, that family's got a ton of athleticism and
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: and he always just looks so kind of you know, like, hey,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm you know, I'm just kind of hard. Yeah,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: but boy, he gets after it on the football field.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Twenty seven catches this year for three hundred and seventy
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: two yards and three touchdowns, not bad for the backup quarterback.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: And he was also eleven of sixteen passing for one
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: hundred and ninety three yards and a touchdown. Some of
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: those came on double passes, some of them came late
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: in games when he would come in and actually play quarterback,
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: and I think going forward, I mean, he's he's the
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: quarterback I would imagine, I mean, either him or Pierce Brozowski.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: They're both have quarterback backgrounds, but I think I think
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Alexander would be the better quarterback. I think Prazowski would be,
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: you know, a receiver, safety stuff like that. Defensively, had
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: eight tackles, three passes broken up, two interceptions, a fumble recovery.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: He also returned two kickoffs for forty yards. I just
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: love that they found ways for him to be on
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: the field, and boy, he's got a really really strong
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: future ahead of him. Kind of similar to Ben Leonard
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: as far as you know, they're the same age, they're
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: the same height and weight, so there's some interesting correlations there.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: And but yeah, I think that he's a kid that
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: will be a great quarterback in the future, and a
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: kid that, you know, if you let it, you know,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: if there's some green ahead of him, he'll pick up
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: the first down.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: With his feet.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: He's just that kind of athlete. And you know, I
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: just hope he gets a little a little bigger because
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: you know, I remember how great of an athlete his
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: dad was and his you know, his dad was about
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: six one, two hundred in high school and and uh,
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: and he was a beast. So if he gets if
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: he gets to maybe one eighty or something like that,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: he could be he could be one of those guys
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: that's going to be scary for the next couple of years.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: Number ninety on the top one hundred countdown, six foot one,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty pounds. He's an inside linebacker. Another
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: sophomore from the Blaine Border Rights number nine, Axel Shelton.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, started the year as a defensive lineman. He started
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: in the trenches like defensive tackle and and I kind
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: of thought, okay, that's that's interesting because they have all
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: but I think they were trying to kind of preserve
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: their offensive lineman and not play them too much both ways.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: And when you get in your best eleven out there,
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: he was one of them, so you could put him
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: in there just playing on defense as a sophomore. He's
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: one of those kids that if he would have played
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: like JV, he would have probably ran for like a
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: thousand yards of a running back. But he's gonna be
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: a full time varsity player, but probably just play defense.
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: So and that's you know, that's what JV. And that's
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: what varsity, that's what it's all about, right is is
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: if you're gonna if you're gonna be on varsity and play,
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: then you're gonna help your team. The best way it's not,
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: you know, JV is you know, getting experience and stuff
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: like that, and then if something you know happens with varsity,
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: you bring kid up or whatever. So uh. But as
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: the season wore on, there was a moment about halfway
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: through where he got switched to play linebacker, and and
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: every once in a while he would go back and
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: spell you know, Piezer ship at at at linebacker. He
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: could do that, and they'd bring in like some other
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: linemen to play. So he was kind of playing both
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: levels here and there. But when he was playing linebacker,
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: there was a game and I don't remember exactly what
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: game it was, but he just had a monster game
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: with like a ton of tackles. And I think they've
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: made a decision that he's gonna just play linebacker, and
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: he's gonna he's gonna play a lot, and he's you know,
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: he's rarely gonna see the field. In this way, we
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: could give maybe Piez more of a break because he's
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: carrying the ball twenty five times a game, and it
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: all worked out and he went on to have a
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: huge year at linebacker. He had fifty one tackles, three
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: tackles for loss, one and a half sacks, and a
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: fumble recovery. I think going on, I think if you
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: look ahead for the next couple of years, there's not
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: a lot of Blaine guys that are have varsity experience
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: that will be coming back, but he'll probably be the
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: main guy carrying the ball. It'll probably be the main
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: guy in the middle of the defense. He's a guy
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: that we're gonna be talking about the next few years,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: and you know he's gonna be a big time fantasy
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: pick and stuff like that. So you can you can
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: see it sometimes when you see a sophomore play just
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: one way. This reminds me a ton of Dylan Moa.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: You know, it was a starting inside linebacker as a sophomore,
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: and then as a junior he became one of the
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: main ball carriers and he ran for like eight hundred
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: yards and twelve touchdowns, exactly what I could see Axle
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Shelton doing next year. So you know, another sophomore what
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: we're talking about. But had a great, great year and
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: another kid that going into the year I didn't think
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: would be a top one hundred kid. I just knew
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: he was a first year starter on varsity. But then
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: as the season war on got better and better and
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: he got his way into the list.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Just one second here Tyler writing down some notes Axel
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Shelter Fantasy Week one. All right, all right, we're good
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: to go. Make sure I get him before you do.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Number eighty nine on the Top one hundred count down.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Five foot nine, one hundred and fifty five pounds wide receiver, safety,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: and punter. He is a junior from the Bellingham BayHawks
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: at number twenty one. Ohen Hanstead.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you could almost throw in backup quarterback,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: emergency quarterback holder. You know, he does so many things.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, there's we got to.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Get Holder on here, Tyler an age if the guy
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: did it, I mean, just give it to me.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Uh, just one of those invaluable players that I mean,
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: the numbers weren't there like they were last year. I
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: mean last year he had seven interceptions. I believe this
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: year he just had two of them. But he did
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: a lot of things in so many different spots. I mean,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: he had more kickoff return yards than anybody in the county.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: It just just a really, really, really great player that
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: plays with a ton of emotion. Even though he's on
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: the he's smaller, he's not afraid to come up and
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: hit you, which I love to see him. And there
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: were there were times where early on in the season
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: where he would he was the only player in the
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: secondary that was like, you know, start of the year
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: as a varsity player. Like, there was so many injuries
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: back there. They had to bring guys up from the
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: JV to start the other spots, and they, you know,
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: some of them, you know, stuck around and became varsity players,
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: but he was kind of back there, you know, kind
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: of getting everybody in the position and doing everything, you know,
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: just trying to set everything up. And so when you
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: have a guy like that, that's that's such a huge
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: thing because he's so reliable and he's a guy that
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: I think he was probably higher or you know, higher
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: on the list last year than he was this year.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: But you know, it was a little different year. Like
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: I said, this year, Bellingham went too and eight and
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: he was I think he sacrificed a little bit to
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: do other things and just to get you know, make
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: his teammates better, which is a huge deal. He did
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: have nineteen catches for one hundred and ninety six yards.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: He was actually four of nine passing for fifty seven yards.
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: He came in and played the second half at quarterback
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: against Anna Chordis, which is no easy task. Fifty nine
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: and a half tackles, a lot of tackles for his
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: safety that you know will always just come up and
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: make tackles, four passes deflected, two interceptions, one and a
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: half tackles for loss, one sack, one fumble recovery, twenty
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: kickoff returns for three hundred and eight yards, and then
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: he for thirty six point four yards of punt. I
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: think he might be the only player this year that
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: had multiple punts of over sixty yards. And uh, that's
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: I mean, you can do it once, I get it,
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: like you can really get into one. But he had.
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: He did it a few times and so that really
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: showed me a lot too. And that just shows the
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: overall ability of everything he can do. And he's got
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: another year of football. It's crazy. I mean that Week
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: one is freshman year. He had to pick six and
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: seems like we've been talking about him ever since, so
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: uh so, really excited to see what he does next year.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: And you know, I think the pressure's off a little
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: bit with maybe having to go in and play quarterback.
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: Now they got that figured out. He can you know,
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: he could be that slot receiver, he could be the
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: dynamic safety, returning kicks, holding all that stuff, punter, and
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: uh yeah, just the guy. It's just a pure football player, Tyler.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: I just came up with a good idea for next season,
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: preview type thing. Just remind me talked to you after
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: we're done recording here, because this is I think this
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: is I think this is a fun, good idea for
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: next year. So okay, Next up on the top one
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: hundred is at number eighty eight, five foot seven and
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: sixty five pounds running back and linebacker, a senior from
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: the Blaine Border Rights at number twenty four, Colby Ship.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Wow, Colby Ship, what a what a career boy. It
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: seems like he's just kind of been through a lot,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: done a lot, really sacrificed his numbers this year for
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: the betterment of the team. And but if you look
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: at like averages and stuff, he had a better year
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: this year than he's ever had. So it's kind of Yeah,
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: he didn't carry the ball as many times as he
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: probably liked, but but he averaged more yards per carry
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: than he ever has. And a tough, tough kid that
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: despite his size, just will not go down and fights
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: for every single yard. And then defensively, he got moved
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: from safety to linebacker, and really he's such a good tackler.
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: You know, yeah, he's small, but he's such a good tackler.
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: And you know, early on in the season especially, I
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: mean he was in on so many tackles and and
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: uh and just really you know, pushed his teammates to
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: get better. And he was the one that coined the
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: phrase the border patrol defense. And he gets so jacked
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: on the sideline and you know, he'd come by and
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: pat me on the back and keep keep going. And
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: you know, we you know, of course, we love telling
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: the story about you know, his picture. You're gonna use
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: this a bunch And I had the confidence and I
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: loved all that. And you know a guy that you know,
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: out of this whole group of these Blaine seniors, and
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: we've talked about a lot of them in the past podcast,
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: and you know, a few of them just here, you
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: know with this podcast is nobody saw the field more
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: than he did out of all of them. And and
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: it's he went through, you know, a coaching change, he
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: went through some losing seasons. They won seven games this year,
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: first time in you know, eleven years they've won that
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: that that many. So for him to kind of see
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: it all the way through and be a part of
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: everything that kind of happened and be a part of,
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: you know, trying to change the culture and everything is
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: about always competing. It's just it's a really really cool deal.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: And and yeah, he's another kid that I'm gonna miswatch
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: playing football because he is the kind of the epitime
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: of what high school football is about. You know, five
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: to seven, one hundred and sixty five pounds, you could
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: be that size and and and just be a workout
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: wonder and you could play really good high school football.
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be really hard to play college football at
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: that size. And even even if he did latch onto somewhere,
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: it'd be really hard to even see the field. But
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: and it's but it's just it's a different speed, it's
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: different sizes and everything. But at the high school level,
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: it's just a really really cool deal. And this year
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: fifty nine carries for three hundred and sixty nine yards,
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: four touchdowns. He had three catches for seventy yards. He
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: ended up playing a lot of slot receiver and it
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: wasn't a ton of passes to him, but you could
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: see him coming emotion and then blocking and that's you know, okay,
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: I can see you that spot now, that's why it's
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: working out so well. He also had forty four tackles
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: for four and a half tackles for lost, two passes
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: broken up, and an interception. Awesome career, Awesome season. It
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: was great to see him go out with, you know,
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: a winning record and a win period against Bellingham and
• 51:33
  Speaker 3: that Thursday night game in week ten. So great job
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: for him and an awesome season.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Number eighty seven in the top one hundred countdown, six
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: foot two, one hundred and eighty five pounds. He's a
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: tight end and an outside linebacker, a junior from Seahome.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: It's number thirteen Tyson Goodman.
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, before the season started, I would have not thought
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: he'd be on this list. And I'll just be perfectly honest.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: There's probably six or seven players on this list. That
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: I you know, the chances, you know, if there were
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: odds or something about making this this list before the
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: before week one, I would have said, like fifty to one,
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: and he's probably one of them. And but again, as
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: the season war on, he got better and better and
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: better and better. And all of a sudden, I'm circling
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: his name a lot on rosters and I'm typing in
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: little notes on an Excel sheet and I'm doing all
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: these things, and I'm like, goodman, I'm like, I'm like
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: and I even did something. I was like, Tyson, he's
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: good man. Like I was joking with myself about things
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: and I was and I was talking to other you know,
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: coaches and stuff, and I was like, this kid is
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: like he is awesome, Like he is turning into like
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: one of their best defensive players. And uh, every single
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: week he just kept making plays. I mean. And then
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: then in that playoff game, Uh you know that that
• 52:58
  Speaker 3: was at Uh was it othello? I believe? Like, yes,
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: he had the block, he had the blocked punt, he
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: had the forced fumble. He was the one making those.
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: He was the catalyst for that win, you know, And
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: it was just he went from I don't even think
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: he was starting on the only thing he was started
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: in the beginning of the year on offense or defense,
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: And he played a little bit offense, caught six passes
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: for eighty three yards, but really on defense, I mean
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: it was the numbers were there, but the moments were
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: huge when he would make the big plays, forcing a
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: fumble at the goal line, blocking that punt in the
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: fourth quarter, recovering a fumble at midfield when you needed
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: the ball late in the game. I mean, there were
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: so many plays and so you know, I think I remember,
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: even like looking over at coach would at one point
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: we were at a game together against Chief self and
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: I was like, I think he's gonna make the top
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: one hundred list, like like, and I always love it
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: when that happens, because guys can just come out and
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: and if they play great football, I want them to
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: get noticed, and this is a way it can happen.
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: And that's why I'm so grateful I'm able to keep
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: doing this and and give the kids some love that
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: they deserve when they're when all that hard work comes together.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: And uh.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: He finished also defensively thirty three and a half tackles,
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: seven and a half tackles for loss, two forced fumbles,
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: pass deflected, and a fumble recovery. Yeah, I think. I
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: think next year he's going to be one of those
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: All League type kids at the two A. And if
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: he keeps impressing that way as an outside linebacker, and
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: he might turn into a really good receiver to a
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: tight end kind of guy, because they lose some weapons
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: on the outside, so he's going to have to Probably
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: he might get split out wide. Who knows, We'll have
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: to see, but I am expecting some great things out
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: of him as a.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: Senior, number eighty six on the top one hundred countdown,
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: five foot ten and fifteen pounds. He's a guard and
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: a defensive tackle. Is a good looking guy right here.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: Uh he is a junior from squal Com. His number
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: fifty five Bryson Veren.
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he is solid as a rock. I mean, he's
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: he you know, coming into the year, I kind of
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: thought he's he's probably their best offensive lineman and there's
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: just no dips in his game. He's one of he's
• 55:23
  Speaker 3: definitely one of the one of their best. Uh was
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: in on the rotation defensively, didn't play a ton of defense.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: Had eleven tackles did have a quarterback sack. Again with
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: that three man front, those those guys aren't gonna put
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: up a ton of numbers. They also tend to line
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: up about a yard or even a yard and a half,
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: you know, back off the line of scrimmage, which I
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: get that. You know, sometimes if you jump a little bit,
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: you can stay you can stay off uh you know,
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: staff or stay on size I should say, and and uh,
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: but boy, you know, running the ball inside was kind
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: of the way to go with Squalkum and he was
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: a big, big reason why you know, him and Joseph
• 56:04
  Speaker 3: Boyd together the center, they created a great combo inside
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: and just he's got that perfect kind of high school
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: football guard body, you know, that five ten two fifteen.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's a kid that can still really move
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: and is strong, and you know, started as a sophomore,
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: got even better this year as a junior. I think
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: he could have a huge senior year where you're starting
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: looking at a lot more accolades, a little higher on
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: the list probably and some all league type stuff.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: Number eighty five on the top one hundred countdown, five
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: foot ten, one hundred and seventy five pounds running back
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: and inside linebacker a senior from Seahome. It's number thirty two,
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Solomon McAllister.
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I always had that speed, but the toughness that
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: he brought this year really stood out. From the running
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: back spot. He could really finish runs, didn't go down easy.
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: Just you know, you see a kid, it just gets bigger.
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: I mean he was probably played at like one sixty
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: last year, played at one seventy five this year, and
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: it makes a huge difference. And you know, for all
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: the kids listening to this that if you have a
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: chance to go to the weight room over the summer,
• 57:11
  Speaker 3: like it's it's unbelievable how much that helps. I mean, yeah,
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: understanding schemes and football and all that stuff is huge.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: You got to know what you're doing. But if you
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: can do it and stay on the field and avoid
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: injuries and you know, and not get as tired and
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: you're conditioning as good and you're stronger than the guy
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: across from you, that is that's just invaluable. And you know,
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: there's a reason why Linden wins all the time. You know,
• 57:38
  Speaker 3: they you know, they put up the weight room numbers
• 57:41
  Speaker 3: that they put out is huge. You know, recently Nook
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: Sac has been that way, and you see them winning
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: a ton. You know, Linden Christian just put in a
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: new weight room, you know, about ten years ago or so,
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: and and it you start to see that the change there.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: And Solomon McAllister is a really quiet kid. And he's
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: a kid that I've respectively never asked him to do
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: an intro because I think he's so quiet he just
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: wouldn't want to do one, you know. And and I
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: always look at like, listen, I'm like, who's who's a
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: kid that hasn't done one? And I come across to
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: one and I'm like, I just don't know if he
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: would want to do one. And and I think it's
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: I almost like it's like I don't want to bother him,
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: you know what I mean. Yeah, he's just he's just
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: a he's just a great kid. But once he crossed
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: that line, I mean, he's he's fantastic filled in it.
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: He wasn't going to play a ton of linebacker this year.
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: It was going to be kind of their main ball carrier.
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: But again with all those injuries that happened on the
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: defensive side of the ball late in the year for
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: Sea Home, he came in and and did play some linebacker.
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: He ended up with thirty three and a half tackles,
• 58:45
  Speaker 3: two tackles for lost, two forced fumbles, and a sack.
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: He also caught two passes for twenty one yards, but
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: as a running back one hundred and nineteen carries for
• 58:52
  Speaker 3: four hundred and twenty seven yards and four touchdowns. Yeah,
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: I thought, I thought he had a great year. I
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: just loved how how the toughness showed up. I mean
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: as a junior he had the speed, but he when
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: he'd get tackled, he would just you would just get tackled.
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: It wasn't anything impressive. This year he would bring tacklers
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: with him a few extra yards and and a big
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: part of the success and why Seem had their best
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: season in almost thirty years.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: Number eighty four on the top one hundred count down
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: a six foot two, one hundred and eighty five pounds.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: He's a safety junior from Squalcum. It's number three. Zach Watt.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Zach Watt is you know football IQ is unbelievable.
• 59:36
  Speaker 3: You know, he led or he tied for the lead
• 59:38
  Speaker 3: in the county with four interceptions, And when I watch
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: those interceptions and I have the ability you know, slow
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: it down, back it up. All that stuff he's it
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: hits him knowing kind of what's going to happen. You
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: could just see it where he's breaking for you know,
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: he's going a different way than everyone else, or he
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: sees something and reacts quickly. It's the it's the mind
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: working faster than everybody else. It's the read and react
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: that jumps off for me. And very similar to his
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: brother Nick. I mean, you know, he's not putting up
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: the numbers that Nick did as a senior, but against
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: Zach's just a junior, he might put up those crazy
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: numbers as a senior, you never know. Bigger than his
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: brother at six two, one hundred and eighty five pounds,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: it seems even bigger than that in person. I mean
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: he starts as as like a power forward on the
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: on the basketball team, and and so he's he's very
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: very physical, runs track as well. Another kid that that
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: can that will just can come up to me and
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: talk to me and is very approachable. And I love
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: that too. Like I said earlier, yeah, just but I
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: there's different kinds of safeties, you know, and there's the
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: kinds that will just knock your head off, and there's kinds.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: There's there's guys that are just outsmarting you, and there
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: are times when he will not your head off, but
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: he's his football smarts are so great and and I
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: like Corey one is like that. There's certain guys where
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: you can trust your whole defense because he's back there
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: setting everything up and putting everybody in the right spot
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: or telling somebody something in the last second. And it's
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: like he's a coach's dream. I mean, he's a coach
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: on the field and that goes that goes such a
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: long way. At the high school level, he had thirty
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: and a half tackles, four passes broken up, four interceptions,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: like I said, which tied for the county lead, two
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: forced fumbles, a tackle for loss, and a fumble recovery.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: I think he's going to have a huge season as
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: a senior. I'd be intrigued to see if he would
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: play like a tight end spot or a receiver spot.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: But I think that he's totally content on just being
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: that leader on defense that you know is the main
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: guy on the defensive side of the ball, much like
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: his brother was when he was a senior.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: Number eighty three on the top one hundred countdown, six
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: foot one and seventy pounds. He's a wide receiver and
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: a safety senior from Lyndon Christian He's number two Jayden Hewliett.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Defensive wise, a lot of the same things I
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: was just talking about was Zach Watt. It didn't have
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: as many He had five interceptions as a junior, only
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: had the one this year. But he was more like
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: last year I think he had. He didn't have many
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: more interceptions than he had tackles. You know, he was
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: he was He was kind of a I don't want
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: to say a daredevil, but he would go after certain
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: things interception wise, and he would gamble and he would
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: win a lot of the times. This year he was
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: a lot more involved in the run support. There were
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: certain games where he led the team in tackles, which
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: is hard to do as a safety and even harder
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: to do when Trey Brosman's in front of you. And
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: and then they kind of grabbed him at one point
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: and said, we're going to need you to play a
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: little offense. So he played a little offense, and all
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, all their receivers kept getting hurt. We're
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: gonna need you to play a lot of offense. I
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: mean he ended up with like four or five catches
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: against Royal in the quarterfinal game, and he's the main
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: guy returning kicks now at the end, because they were
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: just it was just a battle of attrition. They're just
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: losing bodies, and but he was the he was the
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: dependable one. He was the guy that you know could
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: get the job done. Excited to see him in baseball
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: season coming up. Finished with twenty five catches for two
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 3: hundred and sixty yards and three touchdowns. You know a
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 3: lot of those you know, you're saying, well, he's just
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: over ten yards a catch, Well there's you know a
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: lot of them are just kind of quick here, get
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 3: the ball the outside and you make a move. You
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: have the athletic ability to do that. But near the
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: goal line, I mean he made a couple like one
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: handed catches and different things. Just really really athletic. Defensively,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: way up in tackles as opposed to his junior year
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: fifty three tackles, four passes, broken up, a force fumble,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: an interception. He also returned nine kickoffs for ninety eight
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 3: yards and a punt for four yards. Yeah, he's a kid.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: That boy, you know, came in as a junior, like
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: I said, and did and did some really you know
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: kind of you know, specific things here and there, and
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: and it would make you go, oh, okay, I see you,
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: you know. And then as a senior, I mean he
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: was all over the place. And that's again, that's that's
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: what happens from junior to senior year. And and I'm
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: so glad that he made the most of it. And
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, we'll just see, we'll see how
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: he does now in baseball in a few months.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: The last one on the list, And uh, if you're
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: listening to this, you might actually you might even eighty
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: one might even already be up. Eighty might even already
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: be up. But this is number eighty two Tyler. It's
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: six foot four one and eighty pounds wide receiver in safety.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 2: He is a junior from Seahome. It's number six theo quiggle.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I can't remember exactly what my cutoff was,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: but I made a cut off with injuries where if
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: you had to play an x amount of games to
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: make this list, and he just made it, so so
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: it kind of hurts him a little bit because if
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: he would have been healthy, he probably would have put
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: up bigger numbers, would have been even higher on the list.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: But still it's pretty impressive to miss as many games
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: as he did and still make the list. So uh, yeah,
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: he put up huge numbers. I think next year there,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: I you know, I I don't want to like look
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: too far ahead, but I think he's got a good
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: chance of leading the county and receiving next year. I
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: know Boyce Robertson's sitting there listening to this, goes huh,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: you know, but I mean Boyce has a great chance too.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying he doesn't, but I think it it
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: could be between those two. I think that theo Quiggle
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: is an outstanding athlete with you know, at six foot four,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: catches everything big time hops and then you got Nolan
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: Wright coming back throwing the ball to you. So I
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: think all those things considered, it could be huge as
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 3: a sophomore or he had again he had those little
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: moments and you go, who's that tall kid catching this pack.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: That's not car that's not yeah, that's not Braddock Duckworth,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: that's the old Quiggo Okay, you know, And because he
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: had that body type, you know, he had that tall,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: lanky body, and then this year it was, you know,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: right off the bat, I mean he had he had
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: some great, great games catching you know, over one hundred
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: yards here, one hundred yards there in a game. And
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: and then he got he got that nasty injury late
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: against Archbishop and missed the rest of the year and
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: and played a little bit of defense. Not a ton
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 3: did have four tackles and a pass broken up, but
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: they had they were so loaded in the in the secondary,
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: especially the safety position, they didn't really need him to
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 3: play defense. But offensively, thirty six catches for five hundred
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: and twenty yards and four touchdowns. And I think if
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: you break it out to you know, catches per game,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: receiving yards per game, he's like in the top five
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: in the county. I mean, he's way up there. But
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: he missed some time. And I think it again, because
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: of his size, his ability the quarterback he has coming
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: back the offense. I think next year it could be
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: a huge breakout year for him.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: Tyler. That's it for this one, all right, That is
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: it for this one. A reminder the next one will
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: be coming out on Christmas Eve. At two pm. In
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: that one, we will count down from eighty one to
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: sixty three, Tyler. So we're just moving right along, is
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: what's going to happen here. And it's pretty much going
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: to be Wednesday, and then the next week on Tuesday,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: then the next week on Monday, and then another Monday,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: and then Sunday and then the top five. I mean,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: before you know, it's going to be the new year,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: before you know it's going to be over. And yeah,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: well we will finally be done done talking about football
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: on the seventeenth of January, which is wild to think
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: about that we go that far, but then we got
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: a vote for awards, and oh yeah, we're not even
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: done there. Yeah, we still another probably five days ago
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: after that. Heck, we might even stretch it into February,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: just because we love football that much. I mean, you
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: just never know, anyway, Tyler, anything else before we get
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: out of here. Yeah.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 3: I just think that it's always fun to talk about
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 3: the top one hundred and and making this list is
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 3: a huge accomplishment, So congratulations to all you guys that
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: did that. And and uh again it's a really really
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: really tough year to do it this year, So yeah,
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: I'm just glad that I have the list over and
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: now I just got to keep making graphics for all
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: these guys because I got to catch up on that
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: a little bit. It's a little it's a little different
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: now that I'm covering winter sports, and it's a you know,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a little bit more of a juggling act,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: especially with the holidays coming up and everything. It's a
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: it's a little different than usual, but I'm enjoying. I
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: love that I get to wake up every morning, come
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 3: into the office, and then start doing something that has
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: to do with high school sports and walking county and
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a pretty cool deal.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's just never ending. Yeah, I mean, it
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: just it's one of those things that, like, you know,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: I loved it when when I was doing media stuff,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: is I did the same thing. I woke up every
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: day and going to the office, and I.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: Was always something right.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, might be recording a podcast, might be getting back
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: to some college coaches, might be who knows, who knows
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: what I'm doing. But every day get up and then
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: get into the office and what I used to do.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: And it's it's crazy, cause I'm sitting here in my
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: office right now, and I have none. I used to
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: always take these post it notes and just post them
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: all around my computer screen, and it would just be like,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: all right, what can I get done today? Now? I'm
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: sitting here, look at my computer screen. There's nothing up there,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: which is great. But I would just sit there and
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: just pick off one after another until it was like, oh, wow, dinner, okay, great,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: I probably should probably do that. I've been in here
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: for ten hours already, you know what I mean. Yeah,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: you just go through and pick off one after another
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: and go, oh man, I need to do that a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: month ago, you know what I mean. And you're just like, well,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: better get it done now, you know. But but yeah,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: I have I have.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: Like little like notebooks that are like like they're not
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: like the big spy I mean, I have some of
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: those big spiral notebooks like normal size, but those are
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: like kind of like half the size and they're like
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: binded together. And I you know, my mom gets me
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: those for my birthday and Christmas because she knows how
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: much I use them every single day. And I've got
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: books all over the place, and I always got it
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 3: opened with a page with like this Today's schedule written
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 3: out for the high school sports or you know, all
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 3: the games that are happening at different locations and times,
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, I'll put like Mikayla's initials next to
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 3: him if I know she's going to a game, or
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: AJ's or Coach Woods or all circle ones that I'll
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: be at and try to have everything covered. And it's
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 3: just so funnier. Like the radio say hey, I need
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: you to come on at three forty today, and I'll
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: put a little thing on there. I don't use my
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: phone for any of it. I got to write it
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: down because I think, like you were saying with the post,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: it's like the physical act of writing it down helps
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: you remember too, absolutely, so you kind of see it
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: and then and you wrote it. So it's that that
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 3: that combination is huge for me. And or I'll go through,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: you know, five hundred I took five hundred pictures last
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 3: night at a basketball game, and I'll go through them
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 3: and I'll try to find which ones I'm gonna use,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: and I'll write down the little number of what that
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: picture was, and so I can go back and find
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 3: it if I need to use it. And yeah, I
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 3: write down tons of stuff I'm constantly writing things down
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: and and yeah, I enjoy doing that. I mean, I
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: just hope I just never get our threatis because that
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 3: would suck. But uh yeah, it would be. It would
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: be the end of walking preps probably, but yeah, but
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 3: for now, we plow ahead.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: Have to do everything with your left hand. Yeah, And
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 2: that's what it is, right, plow ahead, keep going because
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: it's it's a lot of fun. I mean, it's one
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: of those things that is it tiring? Absolutely? Is it fun?
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: Is it rewarding? Is it it's everything? You know what
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's so much fun. And here we
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: are talking about football, the thing that I think you
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: and I are probably most passionate about. Uh yeah, Like
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: I said, we're gonna keep going as long as we can,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: as long as we can as far as football goes,
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 2: we just keep going into March May. I mean, maybe
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: we'll figure some countdowns or something to do, who knows,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: But well.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: You know, it's funny. I bumped into Ethan Larson at
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: the basketball game last night. He's home for the holidays
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and and he's trying to tuck
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: me into playing in the Mount Baker Alumni basketball game.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: And uh, which is kind of up after after Christmas. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 3: I think I'll shoot a corner three and I'll fall,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: I'll foul five times and that'll be it.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: And everybody yelling, Tyler, do you have to get back
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: on defense?
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's not happening. And uh, but we were
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: talking and I and he goes, He's like, I still
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: keep up to date with what you're doing with walking preps,
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: you know, and I said, well keep doing that because
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: I'm sure we'll get a HOLDI in six years to
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: do an intro for the next All Decade team. And
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: he just started laughing. But but you were talking about
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: you know, waking up and keep you keep going at
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: it and stuff like that. And I wanted to give
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: a special shout out again to Anytime Fitness because when
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: they when they've sent me, you know, checks in the
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: mail for sponsorships and stuff like that, they always include
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: like a little car that says something and this last
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: one said, you know, keep grinding, Tyler.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I just I.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: Just it it it. It gave me a lot of push,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: just that little bit to take the time to do
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: that send it and it was just like I'm just
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: like hell, yeah, I'm gonna keep grinding, like thank you,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: like thanks for giving me that push, because it is
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: hard at times. We do love what we do, but
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: it is it's hard to do it seven days a
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: week and and and keep going knowing that there's a
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: life out there that I have no clue really what's
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: going on. But it's I do love what I'm doing,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: so it's it's it is a good thing. And finding
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: the balance is always the toughest thing. As mister Miagi
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: would say, you must find a balance.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's kind of wild at times, Tyler. I
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: this is the first year that I really noticed it
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: where where I got to the end of the season
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: and you know, our high school football season which ended
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: in the first round of the state tournament. You get
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: done and I'm like, I get on social media or
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: something and I see something. I'm like, oh, wait a minute,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: that guy died and you go look and it's like, oh,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: it was seven weeks ago, Like like wow, how did
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: I miss that? But you know, it's crazy. I think
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: I've I don't know if I mentioned it to you,
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: but I went over twenty three thousand followers on Twitter
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: the other day and I don't even know why, Like why,
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know why people are still following me. Like
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: I don't even hardly post anything anymore, and most of
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: what I do is baffel, right, But the thing that
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: really blows me away is like I'm not even on
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: Twitter hardly at all anymore. Yeah, So, like I just
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: I don't see that stuff, and I'm not on Facebook
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: very much anymore, and I'm not on social media much anymore,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: whereas that was my job for a long time, you know.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: And it's like, you know, it is also kind of
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: fun to not be on social media because it can
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: just be so toxic, you know, at times. But sure,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: you know, it's just it's fun to see at times
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: when you when you miss so much, you know what
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, Like it's actually fun to get on and
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: you're just like, oh, catch up on that, and catch
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: up on that, and catch up on that, and it's like, oh,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: that's actually pretty cool. I didn't know that guy did that.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: And you know, one of my good buddies, Nick Rolovich,
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: is now on the staff at CAL I didn't even
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: notice that that happened yesterday or the day before. I
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: don't even know when it had happened, but somebody sent
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: it to me and I went, oh, hey, good for him, man,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: like that's awesome, And so send him a message just
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: to say thing, you know, congratulations because I know he's
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: been through some stuff and you know, it's just crazy.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: It's it's it's wild what goes on outside of our focus,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And you don't always notice it,
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: but it is definitely cool to see. But uh yeah,
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: let's wrap it up right there, Tyler. We've got nine
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: more podcasts now. It is a little deceiving when I
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: say that, because five of them are individual podcasts, but
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: needlessen we yeh nine more. I mean, we just did
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: nine more in the Top one hundred Countdown and that
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: one right there is now done one hundred down to
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: eighty two. Again. Before we leave, thank you to Anytime Fitness,
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: Linden North and Ferndale for their sponsorship of the Top
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: one hundred Countdown. And I guess we'll give a thank
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 2: you to James heat All for the intro might as
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: well before we get out of here. He's Tyler Anderson
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: walkomprepswalkomprep dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: episode three hundred and seventeen, the first of ten podcasts
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty four Top one hundred Football Countdown.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: Here on the Walkom Preps podcast, We will talk to
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: you soon,