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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 206 - Week 9 Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Murdy and junior Jaeger Fife and you're listening to the Welcome Preps Podcast
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with Tyler and Rylan go Trojans. Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps podcast.
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This is episode two o six, recap of Week nine. I'm Ryland
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Spencer along with me as always is Tyler Anderson. What come praps? Tyler?
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Howre we doing? Ah? Doing great? What a great weekend it
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was? There were some blowouts, but there are some great games and it's
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gonna be fun to talk about. Yeah it is. We are actually recording
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this at a different time than we've ever maybe recorded. It is eight forty
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am on Monday, and we'll get into why when we get to the what
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did we learn? But before we go too far, we need to give
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a thank you to Jagger Fife for the intro. Tyler. That young man.
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I feel like we've been talking about him for a decade and what is
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he like a sophomore junior? I don't even know. Yeah, yeah,
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it's crazy. You know, he came on the scene as a freshman,
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did some great things. He had a couple of interceptions in the game his
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freshman year. He you know, threw some touchdown passes that he started at
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quarterback late in the year and he's been starting ever since. And he's the
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three sport guy. He's a he's a pillar of the you know, the
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Meridian Sports. You know, he's a you know, he's a he's batting
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clean up. You know, he's pitching, he's playing shortstop. He's the
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best player on the basketball team. He's been doing this for a long time.
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And and it's just fun to see his growth and his maturity and and
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his arm strength has just gotten better and better, and and his leadership and
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and uh, he's a great young man and he's gonna do some awesome things
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after high school. And and yeah, just thanks for the intro. And
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and he had a whale of a game on Friday. Yeah, he's basically
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a c slater is what he is. Yeah, he's but not a wrestler,
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right, basketball guy? No, No, basketball guy. Yeah.
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I think I think he had Oh boy, I almost want to say,
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eleven three pointers in one game. It was some crazy amount wrap that might
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be a walking county record. Yeah, yeah, I mean that is a
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lot. I'd be wanting to bet though, if he put on the singlet
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I bet you he'd be a great wrestler too. He probably would be what
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weight class, like one fifty something because yeah, he'd lose a little,
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he'd lose a little. Yeah, he'd lose a little. So I see,
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I remember the old weight classes like like he'd be like he like one
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forty eight, one fifty eight somewhere in there. You know, I don't
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even know what the weight classes are nowadays, because somebody said to me the
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other day, like, you know, threw out a couple of them,
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and I was like, wait what, I know, it's weird to hear
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the new ones. It's like, that's not what I grew up with.
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So he's probably he's probably about it's probably about one seventy right now. But
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yeah, you lose a little, right, that's just fifteen twenty pounds.
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Yeah, so yeah, one fifty eight. I would say, Okay,
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you for their sponsorship. Tyler. We start off every week with what did
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we learn? And I guess we're gonna get right into it. And why
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we are recording on Monday at eight forty am y because of the WIA Well,
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I guess it's not the wa this is the district round, but because
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they for some reason wait so long to get out the brackets or whatever you
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want to call it for week ten, the matchups for Week ten and then
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the Seahawks game kind of getting in the way. I was up late last
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night trying to cut up film and what I learned is that huddle sucks.
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Yeah. I hate that website because I spent hours upon hours upon hours it
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did not actually save for us. So I had to push it back.
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And that's why Coach's Corner this week with Coach Jeff Wood is going to be
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just you and Coach would Tyler just you guys? Yeah, I haven't even
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heard it, so I don't even know what the heck you guys talked about.
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So we just we just we just throw you under the bus, like
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five six times beautiful about it. Yeah, did you actually do that?
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No? No, Oh, I was gonna say, that's kind of messed
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up. Man. No, when you say you hadn't nerd yet, I
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was like, I could say anything. Yeah, I mean you really could
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have. And I would have believed it. If you would have said,
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yes, just now that to throw me under the bus, I'd have been
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like, sounds like something they'd do. Yeah, I wouldn't have known.
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H Tyler. What did you learn anything? Yeah? I learned. I
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learned that uh Ana Kordus when its first ever conference championship for football, it's
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uh I had no clue that they had not won one before, and after
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they beat Lyndon, I knew that they won this year. But then I
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got a message asking if it was the first time ever, and I thought,
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oh, it couldn't be, and I looked it up, and I
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looked up you know, I just went back fifty years and I did not
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see any conference championships. So I'm gonna say this is their first one,
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and that I learned that I had no clues. So it's always fun to
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kind of learn those kinds of things, even though it's not walk County related.
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As far as Walking County team. It is still Walking County related with
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the opponents, and and so congrats to them, and there's got to be
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your first time for everything. Yeah, I got a feeling we talk more
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Ferndale football or excuse me and a Corpus football than any other podcast, even
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though they're not part of technically our area sure, or at least our area
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that you cover, because right, technically I'm not part of your area either,
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that's true, Tyler. I have another one. Yeah, never never
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ever count Ferndale out of putting up like ridiculous numbers offensively because I'm looking at
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the machine rolling. Yeah, I'm looking at the box scoring. You and
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coach will talk about it. Five hundred and thirty three yards of offense,
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yeah, I mean, my goodness, forty four carries four hundred and forty
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six yards Tyler, eleven yards a carry. Mm hmmm, I mean is
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my math right on that? No? But uh, I think it's ten
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oh ten yards? But still that's a first down every time they touched the
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ball exactly. Yeah, I was ten yards of play for the whole offense.
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You know, it was over ten yards of play for the whole offense.
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Yeah, I mean, oh, yeah, because they only completed three
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passes or six. Yeah, they threw six passes eighty seven yards, so
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that's over ten. I mean, bike, so you say, Hike,
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you snap that ball? Who's the center'stet? Yeah? First a kolshl in
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the valley, Yeah, right through the crotch, and then at least the
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first down every single time? Yeah? How many? How many did they
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have? What? Fifty first downs in the game? Yeah? I don't
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keep tracking first downs I used to, but man, it's it's yeah,
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I got fifty plays, five hundred and thirty three yards of offense. Yeah.
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Wow. Yeah, they're just on that roll right now with playing it.
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They just keep playing these games at home and they just just get better
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and better and better every week. So it's it's a it's a great time
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to be peaking, and and they're gonna be playing week ten at home again,
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So that's a that's a good sign actually at home, right, like
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I believe? So, yes, yeah, because I mean they should be
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able to play well, I guess are there No, it's district rounds,
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so that the state rules don't apply, right, So that should be able
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to be played at Ferndale High School. Yeah, yeah, and then the
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next round. I don't know if they have enough. I don't know if
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they have adequate seating for the visitors side, right, That could that could
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change some things if they were to get a home game in the next round,
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which I think would be pretty tough to happen. But you never know.
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Yeah, you just never know what those seating committees. I mean,
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yeah, I was in them, trust me, I didn't even know that.
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Being said Tyler, we've got uh what do we got here? Seven
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games? You and coach? What are doing one of them? You guys
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are doing a matter of fact, the Ferndale Edmonds Wood Wag game. And
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then you were also out at Lynnen Chrishier, Mount Linden, Christian Mount Baker.
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Now I see Meridian Bellingham on here. Also was that all one day?
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No, No, lynn Christian Mount Baker was Thursday night. Oh,
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that's right, because it was and I was there potential playoff and needed Yeah,
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so I was there for that entire game. And then I was at
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Meridian Bellingham the entire game. So there was no traveling in between games this
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weekend, and it was it was kind of nice. I did the old
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the old Ryland Spencer where you stick around for the whole thing, you watch
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the you watch the whole game. Look at you, I know, I
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know. Now did you get a burger at Meridian? Uh? I did
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not. Actually, I I had eaten pretty good on my way. I
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had this. I had the steak dinner. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
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and uh and so I I was. I was good. I had the
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steak and potatoes and asparagus and I was so full and I ate leftovers the
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next day. And oh man, but nobody brought you a burger? No,
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I was. I was kind of having no. No, I got
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I got there a little late and not late late, but like I say,
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late, Okay, maybe you didn't do the Ryland Spencer then, because
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I'm the right right and I yeah, and I uh, I kind of
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went in through the like this I don't know even I want to call it
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like this side gate even go through the and I you know, so I
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kind of went in through there and and that area you walk in and you
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kind of walk in where the team comes out, and they were all a
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bunch together doing their senior night and then starting lineup. So I was kind
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of standing behind the team. So I didn't get onto the field until like
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the players made their way on the field, you know, five minutes before
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to kick off. So I was kind of and I was back there talking
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with with coach Ams Senior and we're just just reminiscing about Brandon Jumper and all
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the old days of the great players of Washington State history. It was evil,
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yeah, coach evil. Yeah, and uh yeah, you know what,
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just admit it, Tyler, you were in a food coma. I
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was doing pretty good. You were done eating, You sat down on the
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couch and didn't want to get off it. I was repping my I was
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repping my Paul mollotor Jersey there and really I got it that a lot of
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good one team in Stripe Brewers. Yes, you know I had confidence in
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you. Yeah, I did. I knew you. Like when I when
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I heard Paul Moller, I was like, oh, please tell me he
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didn't go Twins or Blue Jays like I need. I need a good Brewers
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here if he's going to show up five minutes before, like I needed a
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boom Pinstripe Brewer although he won the World Series with the with the Blue Jays,
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was and yeah, but nobody remembers that. And he's from he's from
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Minnesota, but he is a Brewer through and through, and he was one
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of my all time favorites. The nier man he could, he could get
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that bat through the zone quicker than anybody. So I was I was,
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yeah, I was putting on my mallers because the Meridian coach both Maridi and
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Belly, and coaches love the jerseys. You know that I wear different jerseys
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to games, and so I was like, hey, they're both gonna be
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there. They're gonna love this. So I got some good reaction from both
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coaching squads. It was fun. Nice, nice. Well, let's talk
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about the games, Tyler, and the first one we're going to talk about
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is Lennon Christian Mount Baker. This is a game that was moved to Thursday
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because of potential three way tie that could happen between Lynn and Christian Mount Baker
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and Knuksack Valley. We'll talk about Nuxack value right after this. That is
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also a Thursday game, correct, yes, yes, okay, so we'll
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talk about that one in just a moment. But Lennon Christian forty nine to
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thirteen, so there is no playoff like last year forty nine to thirteen at
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home over Mount Baker, Tyler, this is a game. You know,
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it came in thinking it was going to be really tough for Mount Baker to
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pull it off. But also we never doubt Mount Baker. You just you
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just can never doubt that team and that coaching staff and really that community.
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But you know, this is a game that looks like it was, I
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don't want to say over pretty quickly, but it was in doubt pretty quickly.
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Yeah, it was going to be really tough to come back because of
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the just the athleticism and the quickness and the scoring prowess of the Lynx.
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Right off the bat, you know, Baker gets the ball first, they
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fumble on their second play and Elsie turns it into a touchdown. On their
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first play on an end a round pass by Dawson Bama, he threw it
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to Cayden Stite. It was and it kind of started with Jeremiah Wright sweeping
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to his left and then he kind of tossed it to Dawson Bama who was
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going to the opposite way. So you really get them swaying one way and
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then then coming around Dawson Bama. You know, it didn't look like he
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was going to throw, but then you kind of saw it develop and you're
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like, oh, he might throw, but he kept the ball like,
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you know, tucked in the whole way and he took it out to throw
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it at the last second, which was perfect. Site was open, thirty
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eight yard touchdown pass. They score again in the first quarter, make it
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fourteen to nothing, and then you know, three quick touchdowns in the in
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the second quarter, all touchdown passes from Jeremiah right all. You know,
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kind of similar type plays, just quick, you know, slants, and
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it was just boom boom boom. I mean even when they went out there
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for the coin toss, I mean it looked different. You know, you
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got these guys that are all six five and then you know, and Baker's
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got guys that are out there that are five eight. You know, it's
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just you could see it right off the bat, like, well, there's
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definitely a size difference here. And they played to their abilities, and LC
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is they're kind of rolling at the right time right now. They're doing some
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really good things. Baker did score right before the half, Elsie got the
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ball back after they blocked a punt. I think Carter Sigmund blocked a punt
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and this is like twenty seconds ago in the half and they went to the
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air again and they threw an out pattern. Brady Brulin jumped it and he's
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just so fast. He took off and guys had the angle on him,
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but Brulin's very very fast, so he just went down the side eighty six
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yard touchdown. That kind of helped him going into halftime. But right but
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Elsie made sure that there was no more momentum after that. I mean it
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was I think three or four plays into the second half as they scored on
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a sixty seven yard touchdown. Jeremiah Wright scores his second defensive touchdown in a
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row, like two weeks in a row on a fumble return where he just
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kind of he just kind of punched the ball out and he as he got
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up, he picked the ball up like a loafer. Bed just picked it
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up and just carried in like that the rest of the way. It's so
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crazy you see a big six to six guy just picked the ball up,
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but his athletic and can move. He never even tucked it. He just
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picked it up with his left hand and just walked walked in the end zone.
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It was kind of a fun fun play to see, but like picking
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up a sub sandwich off my doable, like yeah, exactly, and to
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the couch. Yeah. And the passing game was great for Linny Christian.
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You know, they had four different guys throw pass over three hundred yards passing
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and everything looked very, very efficient. Uh, you know, sometimes on
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those short weeks, you never know. But now Lynden Christian's gonna have a
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week off, so they're gonna keep working on stuff and they're probably gonna get
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a pretty good seed. And Baker, you know, losing the game.
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It's first time since twenty eleven that they're not in the state playoffs. It's
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a heck of a run. It's the longest streak in Walking County that was
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snapped, longest streak like currently, Yeah, longest streak ever, but not
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longest streak ever, but the longest current streak that was snapped. Yeah,
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Linden. You know, people are gonna say what about Lenden, Well,
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Linden and I think it was twenty fourteen. It was either twenty fourteen or
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no, I'm sorry, twenty fifteen did not make the state playoffs. So
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Baker's been in there every year since twenty eleven. Obviously, there was no
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playoffs in COVID. But yeah, but yeah, it was just man,
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what a you know, what a team that Lennon Christian is. They They
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really they really showed everything all phases and they're gonna be a tough out when
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the playoffs come. Living Christian four hundred and twenty two yards of offense,
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Mount Baker one and fifty seven. Tyler, you mentioned Jeremiah, right,
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do you remember a stretch where over three games a guy was this dominant,
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you know, just defensively, let alone what he's done offensively, but defensively,
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he's been unbelievable lately. Yeah, it's there's it's nothing's really coming to
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mind. I'm sure there's been guys that have been like that, but man,
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I mean I've only been keeping stats of defense stuff like in real time
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for the last I don't know, five six years. So I have gone
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back obviously and done film, you know, and watched things. But it's
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kind of all over the place where I'll do, you know, I'll put
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in a game and I'll just keep defensive stats for it. I'll plug him
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in and I'll just so I didn't see it happen like that like I do
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now. It is hard to think of anybody like that. And his team
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mate Kyan Stit, I mean, he had a heck of a game too,
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fourteen and a half tackles, three tackles for loss, fumble recovery.
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He had the fumble recovery early on that turned into the touchdown right off the
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bat. So but yeah, two touchdowns and two games for Jeremy Wright,
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and you know, the last two weeks he's when defensive Player of the Week
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and he's really starting to turn things on. And then offensively, you know,
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four touchdown passes. My goodness, you know he's yeah, he's starting
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to he's starting to heat up at the right time, you know what I
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mean. Yeah, fourteen completions for two hundred and thirty nine yards and as
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you mentioned, four touchdown passes, and then on the ground he had five
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carries for thirty six yards and a defensive touchdown. I mean that is yeah.
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I mean there's a lot going on right there for from one guy,
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you know what I mean? Yeah, at that level, at the one
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A level, if you get one guy that gets really hot, that can
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really take you some places. And then when you add in the pieces that
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they have around him. I mean, my goodness. Yeah, they're playing
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as good as football as maybe anybody in the state right now. I mean,
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they just really are. It's going to be interesting to see what a
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committee does with them and with Nuzack Valley, because I think we all know
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Nuxack Valley is maybe the best two loss team in the state, like regardless
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of classification, and so to see them, you know, where they're at,
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it's I don't know, it's going to be really interesting to see what
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happens because Lynn and Christian's got what do they have? Two losses? Yeah,
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I was gonna I was just gonna say the links, but yeah,
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well no, but what I'm saying is that's not a league champion, is
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what I'm saying, right, Yeah, is what I meant to say out
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of that, Because Linnen Christian, you know, they have two losses also,
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but they're also non conos, yes exactly. So yeah, I mean,
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I don't know, it's going to be really interesting to see what happens.
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I mean, if you know, I've been looking around the state at
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some different things and kind of keeping an eye on some things, and I
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have no reason to believe that both of those teams should not be in the
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top six from there. I mean, I I don't know. I just
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I simply don't know. Because the one A committee has what's the word I'm
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looking for, has surprised me pretty much every single year. They have surprised
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me with certain things where you go, that's way too low, that's way
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too low for this team, and we both know that, you know,
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over the years, the Northwest Conference has really been snubbed by the committee.
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I mean, they just they really have. I don't know if it's because
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you know, they're kind of out in Wakam County all by themselves. I
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mean, the next closest teams are, you know, down in the Seattle
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area, and outside of basically two teams you know, Kings and if you
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want to say, Cascade Christian is part of that also, you know,
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kind of that Seattle Tacoma thing. The rest of one A is really not
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much to be written about, you know what I mean. So I don't
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know, it's gonna be really interesting to see what happens there. But again,
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Lennon Christian forty nine to thirteen over Mount Baker to secure the number one
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seed out of the Northwest Conference. Nooksack Valley forty nine to two. That's
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always a weird one to see forty nine to two over Blaine. Also on
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Thursday night out there at Blaine High scho Tyler, this game was forty nine
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that nothing in the fourth quarter before a safety on a ball snapped and recovered
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in the end zone by Blaine. So yeah, not a whole lot going
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on for Blaine overall. But Nukzack Valley, you know, kind of doing
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what knukxack value should do against Blaine. Yeah, they looked very efficient.
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You know, the only worry was, you know how rusty they might be
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after a week off. They looked ready to play. They looked like they
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were wanting to play all week. And you know, their first two touchdowns
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were their first two plays from scrimmage. You know, very very explosive.
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The running game is awesome, The offensive line was awesome. Kind of all
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the things that you expected. When they threw the ball, they completed it.
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They only had one incompletion on the game, So all the things that
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kind of happened or is kind of what you expected to happen. Jorgan Vigory's
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back kicking he did well. You know, the defense was fit was just
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awesome. I mean there's every but every week it seems like there's a you
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know, there's some they give up a few big pass plays, and that's
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kind of been the I mean, I said it before the season started.
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I don't know if there's a weakness to this team. There just doesn't seem
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to be a weakness to the team to this team. But if there's any
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kind of something to work on, it might be just you know, against
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the deep pass. And uh so that's you know, that's how Kings got
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them. You know, Elsie had some had some help with you know that
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with that as well. Uh there and even you know blatant putting up one
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hundred and forty six passing yards. You know it was some of it was
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late, but at the same time, uh you know it's yeah, I
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think they're gonna look at it and go, yeah, but you know,
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look at the score and I I totally get it. You know, they
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scheme things way better than I ever could. So I'm I'm sure they're not
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too worried. But you always got to coach on some thing, right it
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co and you know this as as a coach is you always gott to find
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something to coach up on and work on and and uh, and there's there's
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all sorts of things, you know, but but Nooksack Valley looked very very
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dominant, you know, running the ball, passing the ball, the defense,
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everything you know. Blaine did, Blinde did some good things, but
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it was just really tough to move the ball. A lot of pressure,
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you know, on the In the passing game, they were able to get
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like I said, they were able to get some passes off and get some
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yards. But but yeah, it was man, it looked like the Pioneers
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are ready for the playoffs and they look they look very very good and they're
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kind of built for November. So I think as things move on, it's
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gonna work in their favor a little bit. Blaine one hundred and eighty eight
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yards of offense. Nuoksack Valley three hundred and eighty nine yards of offense.
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Joey Brown Uh, a nice all around game from him, nine out of
22:56
ten passing for one hundred and thirty three yards and eight touchdown to Corey only.
23:00
He also had four carries for forty five yards on the ground and two
23:04
touchdowns. Colton Lance twelve carries, one hundred and twenty seven yards and two
23:08
touchdowns. Skyler Wintern ten carries, sixty eight yards and two touchdowns. Seems
23:15
like anybody that was running the ball got two touchdowns for Knucksack Valley. And
23:18
then on the other side, you know Colin Davis twelve completion, one hundred
23:22
and forty six yards. Just kind of not a lot going on for blaming
23:27
this game. And you know, that's a huge credit to the Knucksack Valley
23:32
and where they are at as a program and just yeah, I mean who
23:36
they are really so Knokzack Valley. They go into the state tournament as the
23:40
number two seed out of the Northwest Conference and we will figure out what they
23:44
got. I guess next Well, we don't know that yet. They have
23:48
to play. They have to beat Granite Falls. Oh that's well, okay,
23:51
come on, I know they do though. That's right, they do
23:52
have to play that. They have to play. I forgot about that because
23:56
there's that stupid why they don't get too I have no idea, but yeah,
24:02
thank you w IAA and the districts because you people have no clue what
24:07
you're doing. Yeah, Tyler, So that's Thursday night. We've got five
24:12
games from Friday night, as we mentioned, Oh no, we got another
24:15
one for Thursday. Oh there is, yes, Squalm. Oh that's right,
24:21
that was that was a Thursday game. Yeah, yes, and then
24:25
we've got what three from or four from Friday one with Coach Wood that you'll
24:29
talk about. Yes, uh, Ceedroll Willie fifty to seven over Squalalm down
24:33
at Cedroll Willie Tyler. This is a game that, I mean, another
24:38
one that I don't want to say, look like it might have been a
24:41
little bit over fairly early, but yeah, I mean, Cigroll Willie.
24:45
We know that this team is really good. They kind of stumbled a few
24:48
times this year one when maybe they shouldn't have. But yeah, I mean
24:52
Seedroll Willie kind of did what you would expect Steedgrow Willie to do in this
24:56
situation. Yeah, you know, running the ball extremely well, very pishent
25:00
awesome line play, all those things just kind of just kind of put all
25:03
into one really good package. And you know, drive down, score a
25:08
touchdown, and then that early pick six with Carson Reynolds of course, and
25:14
that, yeah, you get you get an early pick six like that,
25:18
like a like like kind of a demoralizing play early on, and that really
25:22
can sway things. And that's kind of what happened right after that. They
25:27
did some They did throw a little bit too early on. I think Carson
25:33
Reynolds completed his first three passes. They usually don't, you know, they
25:36
usually don't attempt three passes in the first half, but he completed three passes
25:41
early on. I think, like I said, I think he completed his
25:42
first three attempts all down the field and you know, nothing short either,
25:48
So they were trying to keep them on us early. But once they got
25:51
that lead, it was just run, run, run after that, and
25:52
they were able to run the ball pretty well against Squalicum, uh Squalkum.
25:57
On offense, they really had their struggles. Seizure really had them scouted very
26:03
well on all the different trick plays, but it was just the pure athleticism
26:07
from you know, Marcus Nixon and DeAndre Dunmore and walking orties and stuff like
26:12
that that was allowing them to get yards when needed. You know, their
26:17
one touchdown lateness in the first half was on a thirty yard touchdown pass,
26:22
but it came after a double pass got them negative fourteen yards, so it
26:27
was, you know, things were just not working well, and then they
26:32
just went straight up and threw it down the field and Nick Laughlin jumped up
26:34
and triple coverage and came down with it for the touchdown. That was the
26:38
only touchdown pass. And it really it was tough for Squalacum. They were
26:45
Marcus Nixon was was was injured and taken out of the game in their early
26:52
in the third quarter, and you know, you lose somebody like that for
26:53
the rest of the game. And that's really I mean, so much of
26:57
your offense is built around him, and it makes things a lot tougher to
27:02
to do different different things. I thought that I thought Nolan Lamb, Nolan
27:06
Lamb came in and did some good things. He's come in late in games
27:10
and shown that he's got a really good arm and and proves that he is
27:14
a varsity quarterback. And I liked what he did. I'm not sure if
27:18
Nixon will be able to be ready to go this upcoming week in the final
27:22
game of the season, and and but I'll be there for that one and
27:26
we'll see if you know, if not, then Nolan, then they might
27:29
change the offense around a little bit and and Nolan Lamb will get his his
27:33
varsity start in the final game of his career. But you don't know.
27:36
Uh Lockeye Fogga Fagga Atto also got hurt in this game. So you know
27:41
a couple of big time players that do things on both sides of the ball
27:45
boy that really can hinder a high school team. And they kept, you
27:52
know, they kept working hard and trying and the effort was there. But
27:56
by that point, Segar Woolley had leaned on him pretty heavily. And like
28:00
I said, their line play is just so good and everything they do is
28:03
so efficient, and you it's weird because you see these running plays and they
28:07
don't look like anything special, but it's like, how are they getting like
28:11
seven eight yards every single time? Every single time? You know, and
28:14
it's just like and then you watch other games and you're like, how came
28:18
they only get one or two yards every single time? What's the difference.
28:21
Well, if you really look at it, it's the line and uh man,
28:26
it's it's hard to believe that Seeder Woolie is not going to be in
28:29
the state playoffs. It's just it's just crazy because I guarantee you there will
28:33
be some two A teams that will make it that would have nothing, that
28:37
would want nothing to do, you know, with playing Seeder Woolie and so
28:41
oh, there's a lot of There are a lot of teams, Like I've
28:44
looked around two A there are and I'm just gonna I'll just throw this out
28:48
there. The SPSL and the Olympic League, like they cross over and they
28:53
do some things in week ten. Typically there's teams that are gonna have a
28:56
shot in week ten that yeah, I mean King Ko also, like you
29:03
know, I'm a King Ko guy Tyler, but right the king Ko two
29:06
A is uh, I'll just say it's dreadful. I mean it, it's
29:08
just stealing a phrase from Gordon Ramsey a little bit there. It's it is.
29:12
It's just not good. I mean high line, high line is good.
29:15
They're athletic, but as a whole, the rest of that league,
29:18
I mean, it's just yeah, it's not good. And the fact that
29:22
they aren't crossing over with the Northwest Conference is a shame because Sedro Willie absolutely
29:26
deserves to be in there. They just do. Yeah, Sedro, Woolley,
29:30
Archbishop and Seahome all tied with each other, they all beat each other.
29:33
Yeah, I mean, and these are all teams that are six and
29:37
three. Yeah, and none of them are getting even a chance to get
29:41
into the state playoffs. So it's it's tough and squallicum, you know,
29:45
Squalicum is just it's just one of those years where you know, it was
29:48
tough going from the beginning, and and they still have one more game,
29:52
uh next week where they're gonna play at Mount Baker actually, which is pretty
29:56
cool on on Thursday night. So u it's gonna be a lot of fun
30:00
out there, you know. But yeah, it's it's better. Two teams
30:04
probably haven't played a ton over the years, not a ton like I said,
30:08
Baker was Baker jumped up to two a Well, Baker's not afraid to
30:14
play up, you know what I mean, It's not you know. But
30:17
but also if you're Squalicum, you're probably not going to see the Baker offense
30:21
very often. So you maybe don't want to play against a team like that
30:25
in a non league because it won't necessarily help prepare you, you know,
30:29
prepare your defense. Yeah, I don't know, that's I want to say,
30:33
from like from like six, from twenty six to twenty eleven, I
30:36
think they played every year. But we'll talk about that in the next podcast.
30:40
We'll find out for sure exactly all that stuff. Tyler's got some nuggets.
30:44
Man, it might be one of us, It might be Yeah,
30:45
it might be one of those with our guy from from Squalcum, That's right,
30:49
squal Comb two hundred and fifty six yards of offense, heedro Willy three
30:52
hundred and twenty six. Yeah, you mentioned Marcus Nickson. Tough night but
30:56
especially going down injured at one point, but twelve carries for eighty five yards,
31:00
DeAndre Dunmore seven carries for fifty six, Joaquin Artiz three for thirty three.
31:07
Yeah, I mean, you know kind of the numbers you would have
31:10
liked to see on offense, just not enough from the passing game. And
31:12
then obviously you know Sigrow Willie what they do on offense. Yeah, they
31:17
got after it. So yeah, seedroll Ollie fifty to seven Oversquaal come on
31:22
Thursday night down in Sidro, Woolly, Meridian, Bellingham, Tyler, just
31:26
talking to you before the podcast here sounds like this might have been the game
31:30
of the weekend. Huh. Well, I mean Linen and a Chorus is
31:34
pretty good too. But as far as just as you know, you're made
31:38
nothing, Yeah, there was nothing like on this game. But if you're
31:41
just watched the lot, like the fourth quarter. This was thrilling the whole
31:45
game really, I mean it was back and forth, and I kind of
31:48
went into it. This was a tough one to pick as far as just
31:52
picking a winner. I kind of kept going back and forth. I mean,
31:56
Meridian had a four game losing streak, Belling him had a five game
31:59
winning streak. So you're like, well, why would you pick Meridian.
32:01
Well, they're playing at home. You know, they're on natural grass.
32:06
Bellingham struggled a little bit on natural grass early on against Freddy Harbor. I
32:10
was like, yeah, senior night at Meridian, I don't know. And
32:14
then I just so I just sat there going it's close, man, Like,
32:17
it's gonna be close. It's gonna be close. Of course, talking
32:21
to you know, Bob Ames for the game, he kind of goes,
32:22
well, I think we'll get beat by at least five touchdowns. And in
32:27
classic he was a little off, yeah Classic Bob Ames for yeah, and
32:32
uh but and and right off the bat, I thought, you know,
32:37
you want if you watch just like the first five minutes of the game,
32:40
you're thinking, oh boy, this is gonna be They're gonna each score in
32:44
the fifties, Meridian got the ball first, drove down relatively easy and and
32:52
and scored, scored a touchdown Land and Downey and went across the goal line.
32:58
Props to Land and Downey too, with a cast on his right hand
33:00
and wrist and up. You know, I guess forearm playing with a broken
33:06
thumb and carrying the ball with his left hand the whole game and trying to
33:08
tackle and and you know, I mean he's a guy that does not stand
33:13
on the sideline period. Yeah, he does a lot of things. He
33:16
never leaves the field. And three Tyler, Yeah exactly, So you know,
33:21
I mean it's you know, and he's playing out there with with with
33:23
a cast on, which was tough. He got called boy, I think
33:27
it got called for two or three like like illegal hits. Yeah, because
33:34
but he's like he's like he put his hands and he goes, I can't
33:37
wrap up, you know, He's like, I can't even grab, like
33:39
I can't do anything. But but boy, he scores this first touchdown Bellingham.
33:46
We you know, we talked about this on the other games. First
33:49
play from scrimmage, right, just let's bombs away. That's what they do.
33:52
Throw it down the field, uh, and why Stefan catches a sixty
33:57
seven yard touchdown pass. So it was seven to six early. I mean
34:00
it was like, okay, here we go. Meridians scored on their following
34:06
possession, driving down, driving down, and then it was a touchdown to
34:10
the tight end over the middle twenty three yard or to Christian class and the
34:14
six foot six tight end, first touchdown all in his career and it's on
34:21
comes on senior night. So that was that was fantastic, and it was
34:25
something that like and I don't you know, I don't do this, but
34:30
like if I was like scouting Meridian, like one of the things I would
34:32
say, Like if I was Bellingham and I was scouting them, I'd be
34:36
like, well, they never throw to the tight end. I don't think
34:38
that. I don't think they've thrown to a tight end. Maybe once or
34:40
twice this year. Yeah, you know, I think Cooper marrim had a
34:45
catch or some I mean, they don't throw to the tight I mean they
34:46
usually do, and and just historically they do more than maybe anybody. But
34:52
this year they really have not thrown at the tight end at all. And
34:55
he was he was open going down that scene. I mean it was a
34:59
quick height two step boom or maybe three step boom, and it was you
35:04
know, it was, it was there. And then Elmer runs it in
35:07
to even to make it more of a you know, a touchdown game.
35:09
Fourteen to seven, and the first quarter ended like that. Meridian scores again
35:15
in the second quarter, and you know, the extra point is blocked.
35:19
I think gave Van hofway Can blocked the first one. Jesse Harvard blocked the
35:22
second one, and you know sometimes you know, you see those block kicks
35:27
and you think, oh boy, something's gonna happen. I could kind of
35:30
throw some weird things into it. But Meridian twenty to seven lead at the
35:35
half, and they were able to do some things against the belling m passing
35:39
game. They had some interesting schemes. You heard them yell out octopus,
35:44
octopus, and they're they're swaying around to one side and they got two guys
35:47
on whyitat Stefan and there they were. You know, they're just so well
35:51
coached and they knew what they were doing. At halftime, there was a
35:54
really cool ceremony. Frank Castanetta, who's been on the chain game since night
36:00
seventy three, so it's fifty years on the chain Gang that presented him with
36:02
the plaque. That was a really cool deal and for long timers out there
36:07
in Walkan County. So he was there one year before Bob Ames became the
36:12
head coach. So uh, that's he was there time chain Gang guy,
36:16
a year before, a year before Bob Ames showed up to start coaching.
36:21
Oh my goodness, Tyler. So he was there when John Abbott was the
36:24
coach and not exactly. So that's a really cool deal. Yeah. Yes,
36:32
and he was Frank Castan, which is really cool. He had no
36:37
clue this was going to happen. A bunch of his family came out,
36:40
you know, probably twenty five people had to give him the award and I
36:45
was right there on the fifty yard line to take the picture and really really
36:50
neat deal because through marriage and stuff, I'm part of the family too.
36:53
So that was that was a lot of fun. And then the second half
36:58
came and Bellingham came out with a with a a different attitude, a different
37:01
Okay, okay, they're doing some things against our passing game and they're stopping
37:07
the fly sweep, so we got to kind of change it up a little
37:09
bit. You know, so they went to kind of a power offense a
37:14
little bit. They ran a little bit of it in the second quarter,
37:15
but they really leaned on it in the third quarter where it was still shotgun.
37:21
But you had like two boy two hvacs on this on one side,
37:28
if that makes sense. So you're kind of like a power like like,
37:30
yes, I see what you're saying. You know what I'm saying. So
37:32
and so you're kind of you know, and you're putting you know, and
37:37
Tyler Frost is one of those guys. So you got Tyler Frost who can
37:39
hit like a mack truck and him and gave Van Hofwagen that are coming off
37:43
and leading the way with Holden Bates running and uh so they were over Tyler.
37:50
Yeah. So they were starting to play some some power football, which
37:52
they can do. That they got some you know, they got some big
37:54
dudes up front. Finigan Jensen and Jesse Harward and Josh Kroll. I mean,
37:58
these guys are average two eighty five, you know, those those three
38:01
guys. Rourke O'Malley and and Owen Campbell. Mean, they got some.
38:06
They got some big offensive linemen that they they can do this. This is
38:09
not what they you know what is weird for them, They can definitely do
38:14
it. And uh, and then they started putting, they kind of started
38:16
putting Frost in the backfield to carry some of these and he broke a couple
38:22
for touchdowns. Both of the touchdown runs. He broke multiple tackles. He's
38:25
just so hard to bring down. There are certain guys you know him,
38:30
DeAndre Dunmore, Skyler Wittern, Uh, Colton Lentz. There's certain guys that
38:34
are just are just really hard to tackle. And I don't keep track of
38:37
broken tackles, but man, maybe in the summer I'll go back and rewatch
38:40
all this film and do it. I really don't don't do that. Tyler.
38:45
My goodness, it's it's crazy because it's it's unbelievable how many broken tackles
38:49
there are. And uh, Frost gets in the end zone a couple of
38:52
times, and the second one when Evanisley makes the extra point, Bellingham takes
38:57
a twenty one to twenty league going into the fourth and the fourth quarter kind
39:01
of starts off with, you know, with hey, man, it's anyone's
39:05
game, and they're punning back and forth, and there's good defensive plays and
39:07
stops on fourth down and it ends up with Bellingham has the ball with they
39:14
get the ball back with like boy, I don't know, I would say
39:20
four minutes to go, and they're driving down the clock is their friend.
39:24
They get past the fifty, they get about a second eight from like the
39:30
forty yard line of Meridian, and they do a play action pass and they're
39:36
throwing it down the field. And the first thing I thought of was,
39:37
oh, I get it, that's what you do. But man, you're
39:40
throwing it. And this was probably with a little bit more than three minutes
39:45
to go in the game, and you have a one point lead, and
39:49
they throw it down the field Josh and Elmer breaks through the line and gets
39:52
right in the throwing lane of Josh Leonard and on that left side he's left
39:58
handed, and he does isn't I don't even think he deflected the pass,
40:02
But Leonard's kind of as his forward motion hit, he kind of hit Elmer
40:07
with his with his arm and and and probably the top of the helmet because
40:12
Elmer is about, boy, I don't know, eight or nine inches shorter
40:15
than Leonard. Yeah, got got around the arm pit with the helmet right,
40:19
and so it kind of short on the ball that and Leonard's got a
40:22
really really strong arm and uh he was going to Wyatt stepping deep Jagger Fife
40:27
was on the coverage. Fife was able to just kind of just pick it
40:30
out of the air as it was underthrown a little bit. He picks it
40:34
off at about the ten, brings it out to about the twenty or twenty
40:37
five. But you know there was an illegal uh illegal blindside block that was
40:43
Downies that had to bring the ball back. And so okay, Meridians got
40:49
the ball. You got about two forty five to go, and I think
40:52
he had a couple of timeouts at this point. So you're like, okay,
40:54
there's a there's a there's a chance there. Well, two incomplete pass
41:00
in a row. Now you're looking at third and ten. Five drops back
41:02
to pass, looks to his left, throws to his right, hits Downy
41:07
who's got some room in front of him, and then he slips and falls
41:10
for a negative for negative three yards. Now you're looking at fourth and thirteen.
41:14
I'm standing on the meridian sideline. They're on their own fourteen yard line.
41:17
Fourth and thirteen. I'm standing on the meridian sideline and they go out
41:22
till they line up, they're on the right hash and then they call time
41:25
out and Patrick, coach Patrick Ames, he looks to his bed. He
41:30
goes Tray and as soon as he said, Tray, I knew the play
41:36
and this and I couldn't believe it because as soon as he said it,
41:38
I was like, this is brilliant. So Tray Alexander in week two,
41:43
the freshman, is this the little guy? Yes, he did the double
41:47
pass for a touchdown against Shelan And as soon as he said, Tray,
41:52
I knew it was double passed. And I was sitting there like I know
41:55
what's coming. I know what's coming. This is this is crazy. And
42:00
so he taught. He went over and he started talking to coach James.
42:04
They take Elmer out, which was kind of a surprising play. Your best
42:07
weapon that you that you bring out of the game on fourth and thirteen.
42:12
But you know, it may have just confused Bellingham because they may have tried
42:15
a key on number thirty and he's not out there, and they line up
42:19
with trips left. You know, now I'm like, this is it,
42:21
this is it, this is it, and and five gets you know,
42:24
five gets the snapping shotgun, Alexander drops back. He throws a bullet over
42:30
to Alexander, who gets it. He's got a couple guys in front of
42:32
him to block with the trips formation. Alexander all five six and twenty pounds,
42:37
rares back and throws it as far as he can down the side end
42:40
at Christian class and the senior tight end who's crossing around on fourth and thirteen
42:45
because you don't expect to make plays like if you're scouting them. Yeah,
42:50
right, and he comes across, makes the catch, thirty two yard gain,
42:53
gets out of bounds. The place goes crazy, right, So that
42:58
was fourth and thirteen places going great. And then they line up for the
43:04
next play and the referee throws a flag and you're thinking, what the heck's
43:07
going on? Like, is was something said? Was this a you know,
43:10
because they're just standing there? Yeah, and this was most And then
43:14
so then the ref came over and they were one referee said it was an
43:16
illegal forward pass. So it's like, oh oh, because that's game basically,
43:22
yeah, and and they talked about it and then they waved the flag
43:25
off. So I think they had to talk about it because when referee thought
43:29
he saw it. So then they talked about so they did the right thing.
43:31
Everything was there, Okay, continue play. So then they keep going,
43:36
you know, two more incomplete passes. It's it's not looking good.
43:40
Third and ten and five on third down, rolls to his right and he
43:45
hits Casey Brennan, even smaller freshman, five six, one hundred and sixteen
43:50
pounds. This is the kid that's we talked about in the preseason that you
43:53
know, Coach James was like, man, if he was just a little
43:55
bigger, he's one of the He could be the fastest kid on our team.
43:59
He he catches a pass, just tries to get a first down and
44:01
races down the right sideline. For my I think like a forty something yard
44:06
gain. Now the place is going nuts because they got like to the eleven
44:10
three plays later, you know, three plays. The time is running down.
44:15
Elma runs the ball three plays in a row. They get to the
44:16
three yard line. It's fourth and two from the three with eight seconds to
44:21
go. They call their last time out. They bring out the field goal
44:24
unit. Now keep in mind the two extra points were blocked. Yes,
44:29
they have not made an extra point yet. They go out there to kick
44:31
the field goal. It's essentially an extra point twenty yard field goal. I'm
44:35
standing behind the goalpost I've got I'm thinking I'm gonna be Ryland Spencer. I'm
44:38
going to capture this moment, game winning field goal. And he puts it
44:44
through the uprights. He gets redemption. He had the catch where he fell
44:46
down, he had the illegal block, he's playing with the cast on.
44:51
He kicks the game winner with five seconds remaining. After the kick, Bellingham
44:55
has one last chance to throw one deep. It gets in. It's incomplete,
44:59
knocked down by Landon Downey by the way of course, and man,
45:02
what a finish. What a game. Two very good even teams played an
45:07
awesome game in front of a great crowd. And I was so happy to
45:12
be there. And I was asked at least five times, why are you
45:15
here? You know, why aren't you at Lyndon and a chordus And I'm
45:17
like, Hey, this is Walkham County versus Walking County, Baby, this
45:20
is where I want to be. It was. It was awesome. It
45:22
was a great game. Shoot, I was going to say something totally forgot,
45:30
Oh Tyler, do you have the full scoring summary from that last drive?
45:36
Like yards plays like can you grab that because that's very intrigued and like
45:42
time of possession, you know what I mean, like how they would put
45:44
it up on an NFL thing. I'll go through some of the numbers here
45:45
if you have that, but yeah, Bellingham three hundred and seventy five yards
45:50
of offense, Meridian three hundred and eighty seven holding Baits sixteen carries one hundred
45:55
and eight yards. Somehow he does all of that and doesn't get in the
45:59
end zone. Tyler Frost six carries forty seven yards, two touchdowns, Josh
46:04
Leonard eleven completions two hundred and thirteen yards, and the one touchdown to Wyatt
46:08
Stefan who had two catches for one hundred and twenty seven yards, and Josh
46:14
Tole muscle Beach six catches thirty five yards. He did not get into the
46:19
end zone though, Yeah, I mean, when you look at the numbers,
46:22
this is I mean, it's it's interesting because it's not always like this.
46:28
The numbers twenty three to twenty one in the game and three eighty seven
46:34
to three seventy five. I mean, that is about as indicative of the
46:37
score as the yards are, you know what I mean. You go back
46:39
and forth with that. I mean, it's it's pretty wild. That doesn't
46:42
typically happen that way. But what an even game, Tyler, do you
46:45
have the final scoring drive there? Yeah? Pretty much. I mean I
46:50
don't know the exact time, yeah, but it was I know that was
46:53
it was right around three minutes for the for the final drive. So incomplete
47:00
pass, incomplete pass, negative three yard pass, then a and then a
47:06
thirty two yard completion, incomplete pass, incomplete pass, forty four yard completion,
47:14
four yard run, three yard run, one yard run touch or field
47:19
goal. Wow, it was crazy, just mayhem, that's that's one of
47:22
those ones. Tyler. You're talking about two freshmen, two freshmen that are
47:27
smaller than me, that that that they relied on to, that that helped
47:31
them win this game. It was it was crazy. Yeah, And Tyler,
47:35
you said, you know you were you were pulling a knee by getting
47:38
behind the end zone there and getting that. But did you tweet you love
47:43
high school football? I didn't, but I captured it on my phone instead
47:49
of my camera, yes, so I was able to post about like I
47:52
had it because who knows, that might not be the game winning field goal
47:55
if Leonard throws a sixty yard touchdown pass. So I had it all set
48:00
up, you know. Manon Dowdy kicks the game winning field goal twenty three
48:05
twenty one, blah blah blah blah. Place goes nuts and then as soon
48:08
as the game is over, boom, hit send with my frozen finger and
48:13
hopefully it goes out and the into the Instagram verse. And yeah, but
48:19
yeah, tell us as soon as as soon as that kick went through and
48:22
you and you started doing your thing, did you make your way to the
48:27
other end zone. No, that's a great point. I would need to
48:32
have I would need to have captured that if it would have happened. That's
48:36
a great, great point. I'm not opposed to running down the sideline as
48:39
people have seen me do. You don't need to run, And I'll tell
48:42
you why you have about It's usually a little over a minute to get to
48:45
the other side. Yeah, yeah, although with your legs maybe yeah more
48:51
I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah. But that's what I'm saying is
48:55
at the end of a game, you one of the things I always it
49:00
is, I'm always like, all right, what could happen? Where do
49:02
I need to be to get it? Like, you know, always thinking
49:06
those things, and it's like, you know, then then then what are
49:08
you doing? You get down towards the end zone, Tyler, and you
49:12
stand there and you go, all right, which side of the goalpost do
49:15
I want to be on? Yep? You know, because and and that's
49:17
where you look at and you go, all right, where's why Stefan,
49:21
where's Josh tole? Like, okay, are they both on the same side?
49:23
Okay, then I'm going to be over on this side exactly, you
49:25
know, absolutely yeah, And you just honestly you have to get lucky.
49:30
And the guy that will tell you that more than anybody is James Christensen from
49:34
n W Ballers. He's got a set of rules for how he does things
49:37
in terms of where he sets himself up, and he admits it all the
49:40
time. It's, you know, fifty percent luck and fifty percent good placement,
49:45
you know. And well he's very good at what he does. But
49:47
he's very humble too, so I'm not surprised he says, well, no,
49:50
but but he's but he's also right, like he's also right that you
49:52
know. The thing is is that fifty percent that is, you know,
49:55
where you place yourself is maybe a little bit more important you know, than
50:00
the other fifty percent. But you can set yourself up perfectly and you think
50:02
you're you know, maybe Josh Tole and why stuff are on one side of
50:07
the field, and you set yourselfself up over there, and you know,
50:10
Josh Leonard goes, I'm thrown over this way, and next you know the
50:13
going exactly you know, you just you just never know. And so there
50:17
is a little bit of luck involved at times too. Yeah, and sometimes
50:21
you set yourself up wrong and before you know it, boom, it happens
50:24
right in front of your works. Wow, like that where the luck probably
50:28
should not have should not have been in that situation. Yeah. Anyway,
50:31
Meridian twenty three twenty one over Bellingham in a thriller. Now we know Bellingham's
50:37
playing next week, do we know if Meridian has a game. Yes,
50:39
Meridian will be at your old stomping grands at wanted a high school playing and
50:45
seed to Park Christian. Good for them, they can they can kiss the
50:47
turf and get some of my old shoes. Actually, no, not even
50:51
close, because this is actual good turf now, not the stuff that would
50:54
bust your elbows all up. And then you finally get it all all healed
50:58
and everything and next thing o because Matt burn in the wrestling season. Yeah,
51:02
so those two teams will get another game, and we'll talk about them
51:06
not only the preview, but we'll talk about them next week in the in
51:08
the recap as well. Now, Tyler, the reason I say, you
51:13
know, maybe the biggest you know, thriller, crazy game of the weekend
51:15
is because well, and actually the next two are pretty crazy also, but
51:20
that game is complete Mayhem. Now Anacord is Lynden. We're expecting Mayhem,
51:24
and this is the biggest game of the weekend as far as I would say
51:29
anything under three A goes in terms of what's on the line. I mean,
51:34
either of these two teams with a win could have been the number one
51:37
seed. You know, Tom Water is in there, also Eatum Claude.
51:40
There are some other things. But that being said, not exactly the game
51:45
that a lot of people expected in terms of scoring, because it ends up
51:50
Anna Chord is fifteen, Linden eight. I mean, this is maybe the
51:53
lowest scoring game that could have been imagined as far as this game goes,
51:59
because I think a lot of people expected this game to to be a big
52:04
one, you know, to be a game that was maybe a thirty five
52:07
to thirty game, you know, something like that. But the two defensive
52:08
coordinators said, not so fast, my friend. They said, no,
52:12
yeah, you know, this is just definitely the lowest scoring output for both
52:15
teams all season. But both teams defensively have been great all year too,
52:20
and so I think this speaks to that. And this shows that maybe the
52:23
defense is a little bit better than their offense, are a little head of
52:27
the offense at this point. I think that also, it's an interesting You
52:32
talk about how important the game is, and I totally agree with you.
52:35
But at the same time, both teams know they're making the state tournaments.
52:38
So how how conservative are they offensively? Yes, you don't want to give
52:44
things away a little bit, so that could have played into it a tad.
52:49
You know, they might play each other again, you don't know that,
52:52
and so you don't it's hard to you know, if you know ceedy
52:57
community, if they do their thing, they would play each other until deep
53:00
into the playoffs. So we talked about that a while back. But they
53:02
should be on opposite sides of the bracket. Go ahead, sure, yeah,
53:05
and so but it was I'll tell you this, I when I watched
53:12
the film, I don't I don't even know how to explain this. So
53:15
when I watch, when I watch film and i'm keeping, especially like defensive
53:19
stats, it's it's very there's a lot going on because I'm keeping how many
53:23
yards the play was if it was a run or pass, and then who
53:29
made the tackle and who assisted on the tackle kind of in real time.
53:31
Yes, So it's usually I can do it pretty well. On a normal
53:36
game film, I'm like, like, I'll say, like, okay,
53:38
and a courtus has a ball on their own thirty eight, for example,
53:40
So I'll go, I'll go thirty eight run and then I'll go four eight
53:49
and so, and I look at when the next play starts. Next place
53:52
starts on the thirty six. So I was a five yard run, Charlie
53:54
Airr's on the tackle, Isaiah Aldmund on the assist, and that's and I
53:59
I and I can and I can do it that way. And this game
54:01
they moved so fast as far as just on the field, I mean they
54:07
were blurs. These two teams are so fast, especially defensively, that I
54:12
had to rewatch plays so many times, like a guy would just fly in
54:15
the frame and make a tackle and roll over and I'm like, I don't
54:17
know who that was. I gotta like slow it down to read the number.
54:21
These two teams are so fast. It was it was like watching a
54:25
college game. In comparison to all the game films I had seen all year.
54:30
It was different. There was something different about it. And I'm sure
54:32
for you at the four A level, this is just normal. This is
54:36
just what four A football looks like. But for me, this was something
54:38
completely new, and this was something that was really impressive. I mean,
54:43
these two teams were flying around. They came out they you know, you
54:45
would see a play that you would normally get twelve yards and he got three
54:50
because somebody would come in and make a play. It's like, holy cow.
54:52
And that's what it was like. It was just hit you in the
54:55
mouth, awesome play. Two really really good teams, you know, oh
55:01
man, it was. It was great football. Really good crowd too.
55:07
From the film. You know, it was you know, just layers deep
55:09
around the field and they had stands on the opposite side that were completely filled
55:14
up and it was you know, six seven, eight people deep around the
55:16
track. I mean all that stuff. It was awesome. But and of
55:21
course that's what you expected roly to Coster. But an Acorda scores in the
55:24
second quarter. It's the only score seven a seven seventeen yard touchdown pass to
55:30
make it seven nothing in this In the second half, Lyndon put Charlie Airs
55:36
in a quarterback. There was an there was kind of a lower leg injury
55:39
to to Brant Heppner, who I think he'd been kind of playing with it
55:44
on and off. I noticed last week he never ran the ball once,
55:47
so maybe there was something still kind of going on at some point. But
55:52
he did run the ball in this one, not as much, so they
55:53
put they put Charlie Airs in a quarterback, who was It's kind of a
55:58
neat deal right last home game. Uh, he's a senior and he gets
56:02
this opportunity. Yeah, yeah, and and it's very much the uh the
56:08
uh you know, double tight two running backs in front of the quarterback,
56:14
snap at the quarterback and pound forward, you know, especially when they're you
56:17
know they're putting in you know, Malachi Canan as one of the running backs,
56:22
and he's just he just wants to blast somebody. So you're getting these
56:23
two like full back guys in there that are just they're just all pushing forward
56:29
and and uh and just say okay, I almost said Baylor, Okay,
56:34
Charlie, like just take the ball and just go. And he's so dynamic
56:37
and quick, and his decision making is so fast, and you see that
56:42
when he's playing linebacker, but it translated quarterbacks so much to where he would
56:46
like he knew exactly where to go and wind to cut and he would pick
56:50
up a chunk here and a chunk there, and they drove down and scored
56:52
the touchdown. He also then ran in the two point conversion. There was
56:55
a there was a penalty off sides penalty on the extra point, so a
56:59
move move it up a half, you know, a yard and a half.
57:01
That makes the decision a lot, a lot easier. They go for
57:05
two. You know, Blake Van Dalen has no problem gambling a little bit
57:08
and do and doing those kinds of things. They go for two, They
57:10
get it, they take the lead, but you know, with about five
57:15
minutes to go in the game, Anachordus scores as well on a long drive.
57:20
Uh. And then they pick off a brand Hepner pass late in the
57:23
game to kind of seal the deal. And that was it. It was.
57:27
It was one of those games there it just kind of it moved so
57:30
fast, not just because of the fast moving but the pacing was just so
57:34
you know, there's not a lot of scoring, so it just go,
57:36
go go, and all of a sudden it's over and it's like wow.
57:39
That was like every play was intense, you know, like I said earlier,
57:45
from what I learned, anachordus winning the conference championship first time and uh
57:50
school history and and you know Lindon had won so many in a row.
57:54
But you know, both teams and they're going to be in the state playoff,
57:58
both teams will be off this week, and both teams will probably need
58:00
it after that game. Yeah, I would say so. I mean it
58:05
sounds like it sounds like one of those games where you wake up on Saturday
58:07
and you still need some ice packs, you know. Yeah. Yeah,
58:12
you mentioned Brent Hepner five carries twenty yards, also six completions for seventy yards.
58:17
Isaiah Audman leads the way as the receiving goes three catches for forty three
58:22
yards. Charlie Yers though nineteen carries seventy two yards and a touchdown. Max
58:27
Aussinc. Fourteen carries for forty one yards. Yeah, so Linden, that's
58:32
Tyler. We mentioned it before, or you mentioned it, I think on
58:35
the preview. That's their first league loss in quite some time, you know,
58:39
and look the numbers show you everything. I mean, two hundred nineteen
58:43
yards from man A Court is two hundred and three from Linden. I mean,
58:45
that is a really tough, hard nose in your face. Not a
58:50
lot going on offensively, because both teams were sound defensively, is exactly what
58:53
I see there. So you know, you can tell a lot from a
58:55
box score, and that's what stands out to me right there. Yeah.
59:00
So yeah, both teams headed into the state tournament. We will find out
59:04
more about who they play. It'll be on this podcast where next week where
59:09
we will mention at least who they play, and then we'll talk about you
59:14
know, have a preview of their game or excuse me, Linden's game,
59:17
but I'm sure we'll talk about Ana Chortus as well, just because you know,
59:22
it's part of the two A state tournament which Linden is in. So
59:24
we will talk about it all, I guess in a week from now.
59:29
Basically, yeah, Sea Home they hosted Lakewood in a game at Civic Stadium
59:35
on Friday night, and this one looks like it was a barn burner as
59:38
well, which we've kind of come to see from Lakewood recently. They have
59:45
a knack for putting up some numbers and even though when you look at it
59:47
offensively, wasn't huge numbers. But this game goes down to the wire,
59:53
twenty four twenty win for Seahome. Tyler, what'd you see out of the
59:57
Mariners? Well, this was interesting because you know, I knew the score
1:00:02
going into watching the film, and I knew what the halftime score was,
1:00:07
and that's what that was about it. I started watching and the thing that
1:00:12
really jumped out to me was Lakewood running the ball. I've seen Lakewood a
1:00:17
few times this year, saw him against Squalkum, saw him against Lyndon,
1:00:22
and they're very pass happy, and they found something with running the ball that
1:00:28
was working and they just stayed with it, and it was kind of like,
1:00:32
my goodness, like, this is different, this is not what I
1:00:36
was expecting. Well, Tyler, we should give the numbers first, Yeah,
1:00:39
because you're talking about it here, right, Yeah. Yeah, forty
1:00:42
eight carries for two hundred and forty two yards. I mean that's not just
1:00:45
oh, we decided to run the ball, No, that is, hey,
1:00:47
we made a commitment to running the ball. Absolutely they I mean the
1:00:52
time of possession had to have been very heavy with Lakewood. They had the
1:00:57
ball for seventy plays, see him at it for forty two, So big,
1:01:01
big different discrepancy there. You know, lake Would jumped out to a
1:01:07
seven to nothing lead on a big, you know, just a big scoring
1:01:10
drive that was you know, took up a lot of the first quarter.
1:01:15
Sea Home answered back with a field goal by Grady Evans. Glad glad to
1:01:19
see him back back on the field and feeling good. So that was that
1:01:22
was nice. He played some, he played safety two, so he's definitely
1:01:25
one hundred percent, I would say, or hopefully he is. And then
1:01:30
and then see Home. So they're down six to three, See Home on
1:01:34
their next drive seven to three. I'm sorry, seven to three, My
1:01:38
bad. That What was interesting On the next drive what Seahome did. They
1:01:43
did something that I hadn't seen them do all year. They put Andre Watson
1:01:47
a running back and it was and he started just you know, carrying the
1:01:54
ball here, carrying the ball there, and you get like chunk here,
1:01:57
it chock there, and then he broke one off for like forty some yards.
1:02:00
It's like, man, this kid. You know, I don't know
1:02:02
if something you know, because Solomon McCallister was doing fine. I don't know
1:02:07
if they just needed a breather, or they wanted to kind of give a
1:02:08
different look, or maybe they're gonna run some stuff out of the backfield to
1:02:12
throw it to him. I mean, you know, you and I have
1:02:14
seen enough NFL football, especially recently, where you see a guy like a
1:02:16
Deebo Samuel lineup at running back and yeah, he'll take a few handoffs every
1:02:22
once in a while, but you get him matched up a certain way and
1:02:23
you throw them the ball out of the backfield, that could really do some
1:02:27
different. You're gonna get single coverage. So let's let's just say the linebacker
1:02:30
is going to be responsible for covering the running back, and you know you
1:02:34
can put Watson back there and you can expose that linebacker. Well, then
1:02:37
heck, yeah, go for it, right, And so that's that was
1:02:39
the first thing I was expecting when I when I saw that, and maybe
1:02:43
they and they maybe they had something called. But then they thought, man,
1:02:46
look at the audible to a run, and they gave it to him
1:02:49
and he did some good things. He did end up going out why he'd
1:02:52
end up lining up out wide and scoring a touchdown later in the second quarter.
1:02:58
The extra point was blocked Hell the nine to seven advantage, so they
1:03:00
got the lead back. Then lake Would scored right before halftime. And it
1:03:05
was weird watching the film because you usually when you're just watching film, you
1:03:09
know when halftime is because it's like you see like a three yard run and
1:03:13
then you see a kickoff. Yes, it's like, oh, that must
1:03:15
be halftime. Well this was different. This was like I saw a touchdown,
1:03:19
I saw an extra point, then I saw a kickoff by by Lakewood,
1:03:22
and I'm just keep I keep going. And then I see seem score
1:03:25
a touchdown. I'm like, man, when is it gonna be halftime?
1:03:28
Yet we're almost like on play ninety and I'm like, so I had to
1:03:31
I had to go back and go that must have been it. So I
1:03:35
think lake Would scored right before the first half and on a one yard touchdown
1:03:38
run to get the fourteen nine leagues. I know it was fourteen nine and
1:03:42
a half. I had that score texted to me. While I was at
1:03:45
Meridians. So so yeah, so it was so I mean, this was
1:03:51
going back and forth, lead change after lead change. See them comes back,
1:03:55
takes the lead on a Solomon McCollister five yard touchdown run, and then
1:03:59
they go for two and they get it. Braddick Duckworth catches a two yard
1:04:02
bullet and I mean bullet from Nolan right and uh boy, he can roll
1:04:08
to his right and throw to his left like not a lot I've seen in
1:04:13
Woka County and on a target, I mean just on a laser two.
1:04:16
And so Sealm holds a seventeen to fourteen lead going into the fourth and Lake
1:04:23
would again just pounding the ball, pounding the ball, pounding the all ball,
1:04:27
get their second one yard touchdown run, the extra points blocked, Sealm
1:04:30
gets the ball back and then they you know, and what was interesting about
1:04:34
this was that they were Nolan Wright was very He might have had I mean,
1:04:42
he's had better games statistically as far as passing the ball. He's been
1:04:45
twice our Offensive Player of the Week this year once last year even, but
1:04:50
but just completion percentage, I mean, seventeen out of twenty passing was very,
1:04:56
very accurate. Knew exactly where his guys were going to be, and
1:04:59
you kind of just thought that man, it almost got the feeling like when
1:05:01
he went back to pass, they're getting yards. That was just how it
1:05:04
was going. And once they got they had. Once they got the ball
1:05:11
back with not a lot of time left, there was a little quick out
1:05:15
pass to Andre Watson who gets about twenty seven yards. They get down into
1:05:18
the red zone, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball,
1:05:21
and then boom a quick you know, Andrey Watson kind of did like
1:05:26
a fake to the out and did a slant. It was kind of a
1:05:29
low pass, but he went down and got it. Reminded me a lot
1:05:31
of the drive John Elway to Mark Jackson against Cleveland, where that bullet pass
1:05:36
where you see Mark Jackson kind of fall down and catch it. It must
1:05:40
have been like one hundred miles an hour coming out of John Alway's hand.
1:05:43
That's what it looked like. Ends up being the game winning touchdown. There
1:05:47
was still some time left. Lakewood did drive down. They got to the
1:05:50
Sea Home twenty one yard line, but they stalled there on third down a
1:05:56
sack by Baxter Arps. On fourth down, a sack by Braddock duck Wor
1:06:00
so fitting that on Senior night are the last game for those seniors. It
1:06:04
was two seniors on not a lot of seniors on this team. I think
1:06:08
four total. Alton Jacobs and Kyle Diip will be in the other two.
1:06:13
Those two guys getting sacks on the last two plays really really cool. Nolan
1:06:17
Wright kneels down, they get the win. That's their third comeback win in
1:06:20
three weeks, so really impressive. What Seahome did you know? They came
1:06:26
back against Squalk and they came back against Archbishop another comeback win against Lakewood.
1:06:30
Really really good game for the Mariners. Lakewood three hundred and twelve yards of
1:06:33
offense, Sea Home two hundred and seventy eight. Solomon McAllister fourteen carries,
1:06:39
sixty six yards and a touchdown. Let's see here, Andre Watson, you
1:06:44
mentioned him in the backfield four carries fifty eight yards. He also had seven
1:06:47
catches for seventy six yards, and he did have two touchdown receptions. Nolan
1:06:53
Wright, seventeen of twenty. You mentioned that one hundred and fifty nine yards.
1:06:59
He did have the two touchdown passes. He also had a two point
1:07:02
conversion. That does not count for stats, but he did have it.
1:07:06
Yeah, Tyler. All all in all, another just fantastic football game from
1:07:12
this weekend. I mean, you know it's not us. Not too often
1:07:15
you get three games that are this close. When I when I look at
1:07:18
this, Tyler, Yeah, it's funny because twenty four to twenty was that
1:07:23
the Seahawks score from yesterday? Oh my goodness, I think it was.
1:07:28
I think it was. And when you talk time of possession and those things
1:07:30
like, oh yeah, I mean Seahawks were absolutely dominated in time of possession,
1:07:34
found a way to win in the end. That is exactly what Seahome
1:07:36
did here. And first time all year I got to sit and watch a
1:07:42
Seahawks game that was That was nice. Yeah, and it was wild,
1:07:45
wild game. I mean, Gino Smith looked great early on and then he
1:07:48
looked like complete dogpile for a little while and then malls and he comes back
1:07:53
and away we go, Oh it's crazy, Tyler. Do we know is
1:07:56
Seahome playing another game? Yes? Yeah, so everyone everyone's gonna play in
1:08:00
week ten and we'll talk about the next podcast. But they will be at
1:08:02
Mount Vernon. Oh nice, so they don't have to go too far,
1:08:05
just down the road and maybe maybe, just maybe they can head over to
1:08:12
the big scoop you know what I mean, get some get a birthday kickshake,
1:08:15
you know what I'm saying. Yeah again, Seahome defeats at Lakewood twenty
1:08:20
four to twenty at Civic Stadium on Friday night. Now, Tyler, the
1:08:23
final game of the weekend, as far as our podcast goes, is Ferndale's
1:08:27
forty nine to fourteen win over Edmunds Woodway in a crossover game. And yeah,
1:08:31
I was unavailable to do this. We talked about it earlier. So
1:08:34
it's you and coach Jeff Wood for the Coach's corner with Jeff Wood. Yeah,
1:08:39
take it away, boys, coach. How are you doing. I'm
1:08:43
doing great, Tyler. Awesome. So you were at the new Golden Eagle
1:08:45
Stadium on Friday night with Ferndale's hosting Edmunds Woodway the two westc number two seeds
1:08:54
if you will. But both teams came into this one with the same record,
1:08:58
but it might have not looked that way on the field. What did
1:09:00
you see out there? Yeah, Ferndale they were in control from the start.
1:09:05
You know, their traditional wing tea attack first drive took it down and
1:09:13
you know, scored a touchdown right away, and then their defense, solid
1:09:16
defense, you know, just just shutting down Edmunds Woodway. Edwards Woodway did
1:09:23
lose their quarterback on the first drive. I believe, either first or second
1:09:27
drive. They were both very short drives and so that hurt them. And
1:09:31
they had some talent, for sure, they had some talent, but they
1:09:34
just you know, being away from home, being up there, pretty good
1:09:39
sized crowd despite the cold weather, and Ferndale just took the momentum and right
1:09:45
from the start and was pretty odd businesslike taking control of the game. Yeah.
1:09:51
I mean they averaged over ten yards of carry for the entire game.
1:09:55
That's that's about as fernile as it gets. You know, that's what they
1:09:58
want to do. They want to push you around and run the ball,
1:10:00
chwo up clock and score touchdowns. And that's exactly what they did. You
1:10:04
know. Connor Walker scores four touchdowns in this game, all over ten yards,
1:10:11
so kind of a big play style of doing it. His second touchdown
1:10:15
the pass from Bishop Bootsie. I saw it on film, coach, but
1:10:18
you saw it live. Can you describe what you saw in that play?
1:10:23
Yeah, it was just a fantastic play. You know, he's coming across
1:10:28
on a crossing route, makes the nice catch for a fifteen to twenty yard
1:10:31
game, and guy gets him around the leg and he's still trying to get
1:10:38
a couple more yards and still going and shakes the guy off his leg and
1:10:43
then runs over another guy and then just turns it on and outruns everybody else.
1:10:48
It was. It was definitely a D one caliber play. And he
1:10:54
is a really good athlete. And I had another great game for the Golden
1:11:00
Eagles. Yeah, he's just he's been turning it on lately and it's been
1:11:04
fun to watch his progression both offensively and defensively with uh you know, he
1:11:09
had an interception early on as well. Just so many great things out of
1:11:14
that kid. And what what I really like about him is just getting to
1:11:15
know him and how much of a nice kid he is. He's just a
1:11:18
nice person. You know, he's he's very happy all the time. He's
1:11:23
very very polite, and uh, I just I love that combination of someone
1:11:29
that is a super polite kid and such a great athlete. Coach, you
1:11:32
were a part of the Ferndale program for a while, you know, coaching,
1:11:39
you know, a lot of different great athletes that were that came out
1:11:42
of that that program. And they've been running the wing tea for as long
1:11:46
as people can remember. I think, I want to say since ninety four.
1:11:50
I know from ninety to ninety three they were airing it out. But
1:11:55
so you were there when they were when they were running the wing tea.
1:11:58
But now it looks a little little different. Can you talk a little can
1:12:00
you put your coaches hat on and talk about what kind of little differences are
1:12:04
now between now and what it used to be like. Yeah, a lot
1:12:10
of a lot of similarities. They still still like traps, still like sweep.
1:12:15
Something they're doing this year a little bit differently with their backs is you
1:12:19
know they have that three headed monster with telling bun Guard and Phoenix Fink Bonner
1:12:25
Uh and bung Guard stays right there at the the f back, right behind
1:12:29
the quarterback. But think Bonner and Connor Walker have been going a lot of
1:12:35
games this year right and left backs. So they'll they'll stay on their side
1:12:40
and the one will go up to wing and the other one will go to
1:12:43
half back and then vice versa, depending on on the alignment of the formation.
1:12:48
So so that's that's one thing, and then they're they're running a couple
1:12:53
couple different plays as well, and then they're you know, even though they
1:12:57
don't throw it a lot, right, they have Bishop Butts is a pretty
1:13:01
good athlete, and so they'll roll them out, they'll run the traditional boot
1:13:04
pass and they'll do a couple of variations off that and sometimes it'll you know,
1:13:10
it'll open up and he'll one time he did that in the game against
1:13:14
Edmunds Woodwag just just took it, took it himself. So so that's a
1:13:17
good option too, because he can he can be a factor on the ground
1:13:21
when he needs to be as well. So, yeah, a lot of
1:13:25
same, but definitely definitely some differences as well up there with uh, with
1:13:30
those guys and a lot of good athletes, a lot of good linemen.
1:13:34
Uh, And it's just a great tradition and they they run those things.
1:13:39
Well. Yeah, Coach Blankovich, he's got those guys like a machine.
1:13:44
I mean, he's been there for so long, he's you know, I
1:13:46
always think about, man, he's coaching a guy like a four year starter
1:13:49
like Camden Raymond and then you go, well, he coached his dad at
1:13:53
Sea Home as an assistant. I mean, it's just it. I love
1:13:56
these lifers that have been there forever and and and and just knows so much
1:14:00
football. And I always say that they've forgotten more football than all ever know.
1:14:04
It's just crazy. Another staple of Ferndale has been that four to three
1:14:09
defense. Over the years, we're kind of all three linebackers are almost inside
1:14:14
the ends, if you will. They're just kind of stacked up there.
1:14:15
But it looks a little different this year. Can you tell us about kind
1:14:18
of the different defense that you see out there this year? Yeah, So
1:14:23
they're going to a four two five, which is pretty popular these days in
1:14:26
terms of getting another defensive back or hybrid on the field because so many teams
1:14:32
run a you know, a spread attack, you know, three four receivers
1:14:36
and single back. So and it's it's very versatile. And they have Connor
1:14:44
Walker playing that extra defensive back, which he's as fast and as strong as
1:14:47
anybody in the county. And so that's that's like a linebacker on the field,
1:14:53
but with the speed of a defensive back as well. So and he
1:14:56
can just you know, kind of be a rover depending on the format and
1:15:00
and different things line up in different different looks to to confuse the the offense
1:15:06
and and things. He actually shot the a gap on one play where it
1:15:12
was I think it was a third or fourth and short for Edmonds Woodway when
1:15:15
they're kind of threatening one time and in the first half and just blew up
1:15:19
the running back and it was just, you know, another another fantastic play.
1:15:25
So it's uh, it's a good defense and makes him a little bit
1:15:29
more versatile. And Sky Freeman is the new defensive coordinator and he was a
1:15:32
player there when I coached and then coached for a couple of years as a
1:15:38
grad assistant there at Central Washington. So he's brought some some youth, some
1:15:43
energy, some some new ideas to the Ferndale coaching staff. He's doing a
1:15:47
good job with that. That's awesome. So with this win, you know,
1:15:51
it's a third game in row at home. It was there a third
1:15:57
kind of big win at home, if you will, kind of a not
1:16:00
I mean, they're not all blowouts, but a pretty you know, sizeable
1:16:02
win. And it sounds like they're gonna host the Week ten game, but
1:16:05
we don't know quite sure who their opponent's gonna be. There's some sort of
1:16:10
you know, three way matchup gonna happen early this week. Yeah, it's
1:16:15
all those Olympia area schools. It's Capital Peninsula and Timberline have to play one
1:16:21
of those Kansas City tiebreakers on Tuesday, kind of like they had in the
1:16:27
one A up here last year. And so the winner of that will come
1:16:31
up and it'll be a Saturday game to give that extra day because of the
1:16:36
Tuesday game for that visiting team. So it'll be a Saturday Fernale host and
1:16:43
you know, the's around a thirty two and three A. They do it
1:16:46
that way and they'll definitely be favored. But yeah, so they'll look look
1:16:51
to come out with another home game and do the same sort of thing I
1:16:56
would surmise. Yeah, well, I'm gonna ask you to put your your
1:17:00
coach has had on one more time here since this is the coach's corner.
1:17:02
But if you were let's say you were an assistant for Ferndale at this moment,
1:17:06
and you come up and you hear about this scenario where it's a possibility
1:17:10
of three different teams, how does that work? Does coach say, okay,
1:17:14
you study this team, you study this team, or you know,
1:17:15
how does that even work? If it comes up to something like that,
1:17:19
Yeah, there's there's definitely a little of that you'll get. Yeah, you'll
1:17:23
kind of split it up with with the coaching staff and kind of do some
1:17:26
preliminary work in terms of formations and scouting. You know, you do more
1:17:31
scouting on the most of the time on the defensive side of the ball,
1:17:36
so to get some of that work done, but you don't want to you
1:17:39
don't want to burn yourself out either, So so there's definitely some preliminary work
1:17:45
on each of the three schools. And then you know, just at this
1:17:49
point you've got to trust, trust your players, and trust all the things
1:17:54
you have in already both offensively and defensively to do that. And then once
1:17:59
you know on Wednesday, you're gonna obviously put put more time into scouting the
1:18:04
actual opponent. Sure well it it was a big win for Ferndale and coach
1:18:11
thank you for being out there and thanks for joining us this week on Coach's
1:18:15
Corner. We'll talk to you next week. All right, We'll see you
1:18:17
next week, Tyler. All righty, Tyler, I could make up some
1:18:20
jokes about, oh, yeah, you guys did really good. You guys
1:18:23
did this you guys did that. You guys threw me under the bus.
1:18:25
I don't know what you guys talked about, so I'll figure it out later
1:18:28
when I edit the audio. That being said, let's get into the pickums.
1:18:31
What do you think sounds good? Everybody goes six and two or excuse
1:18:35
me, six and one, except for Connor, who went five and two.
1:18:41
Yeah, I'm now tied with Connor at fifty and twenty, tied at
1:18:45
Connor tied with Connor at fifty and twenty. The guests this week was Land
1:18:49
and Hatchet, who, by the way, six and one. Good weekend
1:18:51
for the guests. That doesn't happen too often. Forty nine and twenty one.
1:18:57
Joe consensus forty nine and twenty one. Right on my heels, Tyler,
1:19:00
you are forty six and twenty four. You tell you what. You
1:19:02
better start taking some chances here, Bud or else you're going to finish dead
1:19:05
last. Nate still leads the way fifty two and eighteen. I really thought
1:19:12
I had a shot to get him this week. I really I thought I
1:19:15
was going to get in there. But anyway, yeah, that is the
1:19:17
pick them, and we'll have more of that on the podcast coming up later
1:19:23
this week the preview for week ten. Although I guess there's not a ton
1:19:27
of games, right because there's actually seven what how oh, because they're all
1:19:30
playing out of are they all playing out? Because there's four teams that are
1:19:34
not playing right, there are two that are not. Linden's not Lyndon,
1:19:39
Christian's not Ferndale is. Oh, that Fill's got you know, Nil's got
1:19:44
a big one. And we'll find out who they're playing later, yes,
1:19:45
And then I was and Knook SAC's gonna go at Grant to play at Grant
1:19:49
Falls and a big one. And then everyone else is playing a non conference
1:19:54
crossover and and Squalk them and Baker playing each other. So it'll be one
1:19:59
third. That'll be the Thursday game. Ferndale will be posting on Saturday.
1:20:02
Everything else is Friday, and only only three games in Walking County and all
1:20:11
the county is what you're saying, that are playing in the county. And
1:20:14
I'll be able to be at all of them because it's Thursday, Friday and
1:20:15
Saturday. Beautiful. Yeah, I mean, does not get much better than
1:20:19
that. That's right, And you don't have to leave early, right,
1:20:24
you can go to a full game. I know you're gonna see a lot
1:20:28
of football this week. I am going to see a lot of football.
1:20:30
Let's get onto the players of the week. Tyler the first one Offensive Player
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Three six zero seven to one five one zero five zero Tyler. Who is
1:20:42
the Zezen Salon SPA Offensive Player of the week, Well, it goes to
1:20:46
Connor Walker of Ferndale. I mean he touched the ball seven times on offense
1:20:51
and scored four touchdowns. Uh, I mean I remember remember my dynamic description
1:20:59
last week, Connor Walker is really good man or whatever I said. Yeah,
1:21:03
he's just he's just different. He's he is, he is. He's
1:21:11
making a case on that top one hundred list right now to be one of
1:21:16
the maybe the Yeah, I don't know, but he's he's. The way
1:21:20
he's playing is just so good. Six carries for one hundred and thirty yards
1:21:26
and three touchdowns. One catch for fifty nine yards and it was for a
1:21:29
touchdown. Ryland, I never want to I know you're the busiest guy in
1:21:32
the world. I never want to send you a play, but that fifty
1:21:35
nine yard touchdown catch maybe you've seen it on Connor Walker's Twitter. It was
1:21:42
it was reminiscent of the Beast Quake. Actually it was a it was a
1:21:46
ten yard catch that turned into mayhem. That showed that he's different than everybody
1:21:51
else and it was a lot of fun to see. So yeah, So
1:21:56
Connor Walker Ferndale, for the second time this year is the Zazzen Lon SPA
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1:22:20
he's gonna hear about another one. Cayden Stite from Lennon Christian fourteen and a
1:22:26
half tackles, three tackles for loss and a fumble recovery. He had just
1:22:30
an unbelievable game and it was between him and and and uh Jeremiah right again,
1:22:36
because boy, those two LC guys, like you said, at the
1:22:41
one A level, you have guys like that. It's just different and they
1:22:45
have two of them. Cayden Stite's been you know, he's leading the county
1:22:47
and tackles for a big chunk of the year now fourteen and a half more.
1:22:53
He had that fumble recovery early on to set the pace. Uh they
1:22:57
get them in the end zone early and they just went from there. He
1:22:59
just so good defensively and uh so yeah. Kane Stite, the senior out
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a Player of the Week. Well, there are some good candidates out there.
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I mean, Waking Ortiz had almost two hundred yards and kickoff return yardage
1:23:30
just every time he'd get it, he'd just you get like forty yards out
1:23:33
of it. It seemed like he's so great. And then in the open
1:23:36
field, you know, Caiden Eldridge kicked seven extra points. Jorg and Vigory
1:23:40
kicked. They both went seven for seven and extra points. But that game
1:23:43
winning field goal by Landon Downey was, you know, when it all came
1:23:46
down to, it had everything riding on it. It's your you know,
1:23:51
it's the last game of the year at home. It's oh man, it
1:23:55
was. It's a huge crowd, it's I mean everything, all the yeah,
1:23:59
all those things. You know. I had to give it to Landon
1:24:00
Downey and he's won. He won Offensive Player of the Week earlier this year.
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another tough one. I went between a few different guys here, but I
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ended up with Brady Ackerman at Knoksack Valley, the junior left tackle. Boy.
1:24:45
They asked him to do some big things, whether he's pulling or you
1:24:48
know, pass protecting, and he's just he's the I don't want to say
1:24:54
forgotten guy of that team, but he's so like like he's a guy that
1:24:59
like if I didn't have him listed that high on the top one hundred,
1:25:01
he'd be like, that's all right, that's fine, you know. Like
1:25:05
I asked him for the season, stry, where do you expect to be?
1:25:06
And he's like, I don't know, He's on it. He's so
1:25:11
humble and he's so good, and he's so athletic and strong and big,
1:25:15
and he's just every time you see him, it's like, man, he
1:25:19
still has that face like he looks young, but he just is. The
1:25:24
arms, the legs, the torso everything just keeps getting bigger and the wingspan
1:25:28
and everything. And I can't wait to see him on the basketball court because
1:25:30
he's so good there too. But he had a heck of a game against
1:25:33
Blaane opened up some huge holes. You know, Joey Brown could just stand
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there forever and pass Brady Ackerman had a great, great week at left tackle,
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do. Tyler. Let's talk about the fantasy, which by the way,
1:26:16
is not sponsored. So maybe somebody wants to sponsor that if I mean really
1:26:20
though, they're just sponsoring me at this point because I kicked your butt again
1:26:25
this week. I am now six and three, which means you're three and
1:26:28
six. What is this five weeks in a row? Four? Yeah,
1:26:31
this is five weeks, five in a row. It was I was one
1:26:34
in three Tyler. Yeah. Hey, it's not how you start, it's
1:26:38
how you finish. That being said, one ninety two point six to one
1:26:43
twenty seven. Let's go through it really quickly here Joey Brown twenty five point
1:26:45
eight for you, Tyler Jeremiah Wright twenty nine point two. So we are
1:26:50
cooking right now. I mean like this is hey, this is a great
1:26:53
start for both of us here, Skyler Winternet nineteen point nine for you,
1:26:57
Talon bung Guard twenty four point five for me. Starting to get a little
1:27:00
bit of a gap here, but still we're cooking. Braddick Duckworth five point
1:27:04
three for you, Andre Watson twenty eight point nine. Run that rock Baby
1:27:11
twenty eight point nine. Now we're starting to separate. You took Sea Homes
1:27:15
offensive line. They got thirty points. That's a nice, nice night.
1:27:18
Unfortunately for you. Nuksack Valley's got me fifty seven points. Woo got that
1:27:25
Knuksack that purple train just a humt defensively, Nuksack Valley for you five see
1:27:30
home for me five, So we're even there in the front seven. John
1:27:34
Stremler fourteen for you, Jeremiah Wright twenty five. And he didn't win MVP
1:27:41
or Outstanding Performer whatever we call Player of the Week. Hudson nef in the
1:27:45
back seven got you twenty. I mean, this is this young man,
1:27:48
just pumped up numbers. Man, It's crazy. Connor Walker matches it twenty
1:27:53
on that side. The one category, I think, Tyler, where you
1:27:56
actually beat me. Yeah, yeah, wasn't kicking and that was you.
1:28:00
You had Boom Boom Vigory with seven and I had Evan Eisley with three.
1:28:04
All at all one ninety two point six to one at twenty seven. And
1:28:08
we will talk about our fantasy picks again on the preview podcast, which I
1:28:13
don't know what day we're going to have to do that one, Tyler,
1:28:15
because tomorrow night. Yeah, there is one Thursday game, yes, but
1:28:19
the problem is we kind of have to wait until we get the uh the
1:28:24
play in game or whatever tell the pigtail game. Yeah, we need to
1:28:29
know who Ferndell's playing. Yeah, so we either we got to do it
1:28:31
late tomorrow or maybe we do it, do it Wednesday morning. Yeah,
1:28:34
maybe we're doing a Wednesday morning one. Here. We'll see, well,
1:28:38
I mean we'll we'll message each other. Nobody will know what the hell's going
1:28:41
on though, it'll just be you and me. Actually, we probably won't
1:28:45
even know what's going on. That's just how we work because we're not real
1:28:47
good at what we do. We just have fun. Yeah yeah, Tyler,
1:28:50
that's it is that all we got anything else. That's it, man,
1:28:54
it was it was a fun Week nine. But and week ten it
1:28:58
always has a weird feel to it because you know, it's just kind of,
1:29:01
hey, we're playing this team and I like they're the Sultan what the
1:29:05
Turks? Oh? Right, the Turks. It's just you know, you
1:29:09
just kind of never know. But it's almost like going back to like weeks
1:29:12
one, two, three, where all of a sudden you're playing all these
1:29:15
non conference games, but at the same time, you know, we already
1:29:17
know who these who the teams are, you know what I mean? How
1:29:19
do I say this? We already know who the Wokham County teams are,
1:29:23
like we know, we know a lot about these guys now kind of know
1:29:26
what they're doing. Whereas first couple of weeks of the year you're still trying
1:29:28
to figure out who some of these teams are, you know, and so
1:29:30
many of them are going to be on the road too. It's really weird.
1:29:32
There's only on Friday night, there's only one game in the county.
1:29:36
Wow, I mean that it's playoff time, you know what I mean?
1:29:40
Like, that's kind of what it feels like sometimes where you know, and
1:29:43
and granted it's one game Thursday, one game Friday, one game Saturday,
1:29:46
right yeah in the county. There as a lot of games outside the county,
1:29:49
yes. But the thing that's the thing that's kind of funny about it
1:29:53
is sometimes in the playoffs, if there's only one game on Friday, there's
1:29:56
like three at Civic on Saturday, right, you know, and then I'm
1:29:59
up there during a pizza to the stadium. Yeah, yeah, I'm hope.
1:30:03
I'm hoping we have one another one of those triple headers. It looks
1:30:08
you know, it's very possible there's gonna be three, perhaps four Wakam County
1:30:12
teams hosting Week one of the playoffs. But I don't want to jump ahead.
1:30:15
We'll get to that when we get to it. But uh, you
1:30:17
know, you never know. They might do like one Friday and a couple
1:30:20
on Saturday. No, don't do that, do them all on Saturday.
1:30:24
I know, I know that's what you want, but you'll be coaching baby
1:30:27
in the place. Hopefully you never know. And frankly, it's the playoffs,
1:30:30
So I don't know what day. I had somebody asking me if,
1:30:32
hey, can you go to the U can you go? So, Tyler,
1:30:35
do you know the name Patrick Marlow oh Man? Is it? Yeah?
1:30:40
He played the most games in hockey history. He's a former Thunderbird and
1:30:43
they're retiring his number on Friday. Yeah, and so people have been bugging
1:30:45
me, are you able to go? Are you able to go? And
1:30:47
I go, it's week ten. I know we're in week ten, but
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I don't know when the game is going to be, so I won't know,
1:30:51
you know, when it is starts at the exact same time, So
1:30:54
I'm not gonna but you know what, I would much rather be playing playoff
1:30:58
football than doing that anyway. So we got ourselves a big game down at
1:31:01
Sparks Stadium against Emerald Ridge, who there's not too many teams in the state.
1:31:05
I know better than Emerald Ridge. I've been watching those kids play seven
1:31:08
on seven since they were in like fourth grade, you know. And as
1:31:11
a matter of fact, they're starting quarterback who's committed to Eastern I interviewed him
1:31:15
in like fourth grade, just for fun, on a YouTube video. I
1:31:17
have it. So yeah, and Yeah, he texted me a gift and
1:31:21
it was I don't remember who it was, like Hansolo or somebody, and
1:31:24
it was pointing, you know, pointing at you and it says good luck.
1:31:28
And I said, ha ha. You know, I'm excited to see
1:31:30
you on Friday. I'll come say hi before the game, you know,
1:31:32
because I've noticed family forever. So yeah, it's going to be a fun
1:31:35
one. But the kind of wild interesting thing is that Bothel played Emerald Ridge
1:31:42
at Sparks Stadium in Week ten last year and the committee decided that sounded like
1:31:45
a good idea to do. Again, I don't which I don't know.
1:31:48
I remember when I was on the committees, they were supposed to try to
1:31:50
avoid stuff like that. But yeah, we knew we were going on the
1:31:54
road anyway, So it'll be fun. It's always a fun challenge when you
1:31:57
go on the road in high school football, and there's not much how do
1:32:00
I say this, There's not many things you like more in life than a
1:32:02
than a nice bus ride with with you know, with your buddies. So
1:32:08
yeah, so yeah, we're excited. But yeah, Tyler, we got
1:32:11
some playoff football this week. We've got a lot of playoff football coming forward,
1:32:15
so be sure to subscribe to the podcast so you get all the notifications
1:32:18
as soon as it becomes available. As a matter of fact, people that
1:32:20
are getting this one, there might be a few people out there going,
1:32:24
huh, they didn't release it at eight am on Monday like they have the
1:32:27
last couple of weeks, because we started recording at eight am. Yeah.
1:32:30
Actually we got on the podcast, or we got on the I got I
1:32:33
got on, and I believe eight h four am is when I was when
1:32:35
I actually logged onto zoom here. So yeah, you and you and coach
1:32:40
Jeff Wood, you guys did that stuff last night. Yeah. So yeah,
1:32:44
we uh, we're a mess right now, but we we adjust as
1:32:46
we go. Oh you know, Tyler, sometimes you think the game plan
1:32:49
doesn't go as as you thought, and you got to make adjustments at halftime,
1:32:53
right, that's what that's what we're doing. Yeah, midnight midnight last
1:32:56
night was halftime, Yes exactly. So yeah, but hey, you know
1:33:00
what, we got it done. We're getting it out here and the people
1:33:01
can listen and Blake Whitman might enjoy it, maybe not, But that being
1:33:06
said, Tyler, you know what, we haven't done anything off this what's
1:33:10
that? You know? Like? Nothing? What's that? No? No
1:33:13
button from high school? Nothing? I mean I had to get him in.
1:33:16
Yeah. Anyway, he's Tyler Anderson from Walkompreps walkompreps dot com. I'm
1:33:20
Rylan Spencer. You've been listening to Episode two O six, a recap of
1:33:24
week nine. We will talk to you later this week.