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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 454 - Week 6 Gatorade Gameday Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 1: episode 454, the week six Gatorade game day football preview.
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  Speaker 1: And I am Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps. I want
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  Speaker 1: to give a shout out to Walton Beverage, who's been
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  Speaker 1: a staple in our community for 95 years. Now we'll
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  Speaker 1: continue to work harder every day to make the fantastic
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  Speaker 1: people at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth sports in
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  Speaker 1: our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment, and I
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  Speaker 1: plan to do the very same. Also, do you live
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  Speaker 1: in Whatcom, Skagit Island, or San Juan County and want
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  Speaker 1: to become an official? Officiating is a great way to
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  Speaker 1: give back to your community and ensure our youth have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to compete in athletics. Go to nwofficials.com. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's get right into it. Segway, there wasn't enough officials
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  Speaker 1: for all the Friday night games, so a game has
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  Speaker 1: been moved to Thursday. So for that game, it's a
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  Speaker 1: big one. Archbishop Murphy coming to town to take on
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  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian. Archbishop Murphy, 4-1. Lyndon Christian, 4-1. Both teams
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  Speaker 1: ranked right there within the top three or four of
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  Speaker 1: the state in their respective classifications. Obviously, Archbishop Murphy, 2A.
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  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian, 1A. The big thing, though, is that the Lynx,
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  Speaker 1: they're down some key players, and that's what's going to
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  Speaker 1: be really, really tough. Can they slow down the Wildcats?
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  Speaker 1: um not a lot of teams have been able to
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  Speaker 1: do it even in the wildcats one loss it still
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  Speaker 1: went in a triple overtime where they scored over 40
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  Speaker 1: points so slowing them down is a tricky thing i'm
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  Speaker 1: now joined on the gatorade game day podcast by lyndon
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  Speaker 1: christian head football coach greg terpstra coach thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining me today how are you.
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  Speaker 2: Doing hey doing great you.
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  Speaker 1: Doing all right um you know, before I even, before
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  Speaker 1: I set all this up, I was like, I was
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  Speaker 1: really curious. I was like, how many wins is coach
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  Speaker 1: turf to have now? Cause every, every, you know, year
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  Speaker 1: you put up a lot of wins, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: have the second most wins in school history already. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that crazy?
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's not very many coaches that have been at
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  Speaker 3: the helm here. You know, was it, it was Gary first,
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  Speaker 3: then Dan. And then, uh, Uh, we had another K
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  Speaker 3: make and then Galen and then Dan again.
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  Speaker 2: And then me, that's, yeah, that's really not very many,
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  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And there was three more before Gary that each
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  Speaker 1: did it for a handful of years. Bill DeHogue, Fred, um,
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  Speaker 1: is it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And John Rosa boom was the head coach for five
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  Speaker 1: years as well.
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  Speaker 3: See, those guys all went to colleges that never had football.
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  Speaker 3: Like I think they probably all went to Calvin, uh,
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  Speaker 3: So I'll bet they were just kind of the most
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  Speaker 3: athletic teacher at the time.
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  Speaker 4: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to desecrate, you know, these past legends
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  Speaker 3: at Linda Christian. It's just I bet they didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a whole lot of depth when it came to coaching
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  Speaker 3: football if I had to shoot from the hip.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, back then, a lot of times you
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  Speaker 1: had a head coach and maybe one or two assistants.
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  Speaker 1: That was it, right?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It was very, very different back then.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, a ways to catch Dan Kimmink, but hopefully you'll
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  Speaker 1: be sticking around for a while for that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, anyways, I'm going to start with the
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  Speaker 1: random question, and this is an interesting one. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to answer this, but who is your celebrity crush?
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, celebrity crush.
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  Speaker 8: Guy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, which one would my wife not be upset?
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  Speaker 3: What I need to do is pick the one that
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  Speaker 3: looks the most like her.
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  Speaker 1: Right, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Uh i you know i don't know can i let
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  Speaker 3: i'm this is this is a problem because there are
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  Speaker 3: there are way too many bad terrible answers i could
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  Speaker 3: put here.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's why i said you don't have to answer
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  Speaker 1: it because i kind of.
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  Speaker 2: Thought i don't know but i don't i don't want
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  Speaker 2: to duck it either sure.
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  Speaker 3: Um i don't know i'm very into uh intelligent hard-working
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  Speaker 3: successful people that's why i married a lawyer um.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, man, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Going to, I'm going to maybe think about that one
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  Speaker 3: while you ask me other ones.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Keep your head on straight. Cause we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk football here. So, um, on Friday you hosted Meridian. Um,
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  Speaker 1: it was a lot of back and forth and then
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  Speaker 1: you kind of went on a little run there and
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  Speaker 1: then the fourth quarter was back and forth again. You
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  Speaker 1: pulled out the 48 to 18 win. Tell us about
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, I'm sure, uh, you know, if you look at
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  Speaker 3: that stat line, when it's combined for almost a thousand yards,
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  Speaker 3: you think, well, you know, was defense optional, but I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you what, you know, Kent had a great plan
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  Speaker 3: going in and, you know, we did, you know, give
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  Speaker 3: up some stuff here and there, but tightened up in
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  Speaker 3: the red zone. And I think, you know, I think
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  Speaker 3: that's what you had to do on a, on a
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  Speaker 3: nice night with a flamethrower.
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  Speaker 7: Like they had over there.
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  Speaker 2: He was just really, really good. He's on uh, their quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: And we didn't, we underestimated how well he could run, um,
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  Speaker 3: and not just run, but how quick he was. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like catching a chicken in an open yard.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the guy was so quick. Um, so yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was tough, but, um, you know, the R O
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  Speaker 3: line just did a fantastic job. Chris has gotten so
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  Speaker 3: much faster and now has that explosive breakaway speed.
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  Speaker 2: And, and big cuts too.
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  Speaker 3: Um, But that line leading the way for them was fantastic,
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  Speaker 3: and they just had a great night.
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  Speaker 2: Hats off to.
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  Speaker 3: Meridian, though. That was not an easy game. And we
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  Speaker 3: knew it would be fireworks. I think they probably knew
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  Speaker 3: it would be, too. I don't think really anybody was
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  Speaker 3: too surprised about the amount of output both sides had.
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  Speaker 2: It just probably came down to turnovers, really.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, I'm glad you mentioned the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line because you broke a school record as a
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  Speaker 1: team for rushing yards in a game. It was only
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  Speaker 1: the second time in school history that Lyndon Christian has
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  Speaker 1: ran for over 400 yards in a game. I think
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  Speaker 1: it was like 440 something or so. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of rushing yards. So, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: And we needed them.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 1: And you did it without, you know, one of your
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  Speaker 1: best offensive linemen and Eli Stamps. So, you know... And honestly.
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  Speaker 2: uh, we were missing Sterk in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: And, uh, young kid, Van Middendorp came in and filled in.
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  Speaker 3: He did a great job.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and, you know, just talk about kind of
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  Speaker 1: the cohesiveness and, and how that's working so far because, um,
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  Speaker 1: because the run game has been a big, big part and,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Heinz has had time to throw the ball
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  Speaker 1: as well. So talk about that offensive line a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, they take a lot of pride in, in both
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  Speaker 3: their running and their pass blocking. Um, Coach Facama does
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  Speaker 3: a really good job with them situationally. He wants to
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  Speaker 3: run the ball every play, which, you know, I'm okay
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  Speaker 3: with that. It's just sometimes the defense presents in a
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  Speaker 3: different way. But it's always a pretty good– it makes
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  Speaker 3: play calling a lot easier, especially when you've got bad
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  Speaker 3: weather too. You're not just sitting there on a Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: just praying for clear skies for a Friday night, you know.
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  Speaker 3: So it travels well. We're really confident in it, and
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  Speaker 3: the kids are too. And then we got, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Chris's cousin, Mason Berenson, backing him up, and he filled in,
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  Speaker 3: did a great job too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I noticed that. What was great, whenever Chris had
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good long run there, you were able to
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  Speaker 1: give him a blow, and Mason was able to come in,
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  Speaker 1: and he had almost 10 carries in that game himself.
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  Speaker 1: And was it Because you've had games where Koiman has
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  Speaker 1: ran the ball 30 times in a game. And was
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  Speaker 1: this more of like a thing where we need him
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  Speaker 1: a lot on defense? So just going to take him
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  Speaker 1: out a little bit?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they were running all over the place
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  Speaker 3: on defense trying to keep up with Meridian. So the
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  Speaker 3: defensive output was much more from a sideline to sideline,
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  Speaker 3: back-forth running aspect. So, yeah, we wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 3: we had him fresh or as fresh as we could
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  Speaker 3: near the end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and boy, he looked it. And we're at the
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  Speaker 1: midway point of the season for the regular season. And
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  Speaker 1: when you look at that, a lot of coaches or
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  Speaker 1: media or whatever will look at the halfway point and
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  Speaker 1: look at all these different things. And when you look
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  Speaker 1: at it now, what have you liked the most so far?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've really liked the team defense where people have
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  Speaker 3: stepped up in spots where we needed them. offensively too,
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  Speaker 3: but I think even more on defense where we've lost
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  Speaker 3: guys and had to fill in, we've had some really
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  Speaker 3: nice surprises. And so, you know, like a Josh Senti and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a couple of those guys just filling in
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  Speaker 3: here and there. There's just, and our linebacking crew, both
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  Speaker 3: Mason and Gavin Van Lowe, it.
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  Speaker 2: Just, you know, that whole next man up thing is,
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  Speaker 2: It's real. You need it. At a 1A level.
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  Speaker 3: Your next man might be a 160-pound sophomore.
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  Speaker 2: So there are kids that have filled.
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  Speaker 3: In that maybe we didn't think we had to go to,
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  Speaker 3: and they just stepped right in with confidence because we
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  Speaker 3: feel that they feel prepared throughout the week. So we're
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  Speaker 3: just really pleased with the kids that have stepped up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you brought up the confidence thing, and I
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  Speaker 1: think that's a thing that's really gone well at Linden Christian.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're practicing against, you know, the younger kids
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  Speaker 1: are practicing against some superstar players. So they probably do
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  Speaker 1: feel really prepared when they go in there. You see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other teams, a sophomore will go in there. They,
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  Speaker 1: and you could, you could just tell, you can watch it.
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  Speaker 1: You can see the mental part is not quite there,
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  Speaker 1: but your guys have come in and have executed right away.
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  Speaker 1: And I think confidence is a big part of that,
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  Speaker 1: especially for teenage boys that are still trying to figure
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  Speaker 1: out kind of where they belong, how they belong. And
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  Speaker 1: so when you have that confidence, that's a big step forward,
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  Speaker 1: which is great to see. What's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: at the midway point that you're thinking, man, we still
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  Speaker 1: need to work on this.
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  Speaker 2: Getting kids out of injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, wrapping up ankles and getting them back in.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, we've got a little banged up and, and
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  Speaker 3: they're kind of weird things, you know, it's not, It's
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  Speaker 3: not like, well, we went up against this big team
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  Speaker 3: and they just mowed us over and that's why. It's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of odd, kind of crazy different things that
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  Speaker 3: have happened. You know, Veldman got hurt catching a touchdown,
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  Speaker 3: just landed weird. So, yeah, as far as the original
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  Speaker 3: question was, what do we have to work on?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what you're asking again?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure. Like at the halfway point, what are things
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  Speaker 1: that you're like, man, we really need to get this
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  Speaker 1: tweaked in the second half?
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  Speaker 3: If we could improve our passing game, that would be great.
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  Speaker 3: We've established a run, I believe. The short passing and
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  Speaker 3: then the deep shots, we'd love to just get a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more proficient at that and keep defenses honest.
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  Speaker 1: This Thursday night, you're back home. Short week, you're hosting
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  Speaker 1: Archbishop Murphy. What can you tell us about the Wildcats?
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  Speaker 3: They, obviously, top to bottom, they're super solid. They've got
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  Speaker 3: You know, standout athletes. We believe their starting quarterback will
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  Speaker 3: be back. He wasn't with them against Squalicum last week.
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  Speaker 3: As well as, I don't know if he's their better
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  Speaker 3: running back, but number eight. He wasn't there against Squalicum.
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  Speaker 3: I think both of those guys will be back. So
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  Speaker 3: they're just really dynamic. That quarterback can sling it. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, their wing tee... They're pretty proficient at.
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  Speaker 2: That as well.
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  Speaker 3: They've got some great big athletes up front, both sides
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  Speaker 3: of the ball. I don't know how deep they are.
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  Speaker 3: I know that if we can get them running and
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  Speaker 3: huffing and puffing, then hopefully we get to maybe another
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  Speaker 3: guy on the field. So we've approached all these games
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  Speaker 3: that we've scheduled as just games to get us better, right,
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  Speaker 3: to really, really prepare us for our league. and we
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  Speaker 3: think Archbishop will do that. Win, lose, or draw, we
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  Speaker 3: think it's going to be an awesome night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and what's fun is that for football fans
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  Speaker 1: out there, you know, it might not be the best
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  Speaker 1: thing for you guys logistically that it got moved up
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  Speaker 1: a day, but if you're a fan, and even if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't go to either school and you want to
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  Speaker 1: see good football, it's the only game in town, right?
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  Speaker 1: Come out to Linden Christian. I think it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a fantastic game. Um, you know, is there any,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you played Bellevue, they run the wing T
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  Speaker 1: is there anything you can take from that or not?
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  Speaker 1: Not really. Cause it's just kind of apples and oranges.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're similar. They're similar. Not the same.
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  Speaker 3: Um, they, they throw better, uh, when they have their
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  Speaker 3: starter quarter starting quarterback in, um, they, the size is comparable.
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  Speaker 2: Bellevue still a bit quicker, uh, Um, but there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of similarities.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's going to be maybe a night that
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  Speaker 3: looks like that one.
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  Speaker 1: And is there anything you can tell by, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's obviously it's different when you watch the film because
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  Speaker 1: now you can really sit down, you can pause things
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  Speaker 1: and stuff, but in real time, sometimes you can tell
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  Speaker 1: on a wing T team, how the offensive linemen line up, um,
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  Speaker 1: But is it hard for the defense to tell that? Meaning,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like if the guard is
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  Speaker 1: backed way up, you think he might be pulling. Is
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  Speaker 1: there anything to that? Or in real time, is it just,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, you just have to play football?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you can glean a bit from film.
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  Speaker 3: The view that a defensive lineman has, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to rely on him to see if he knows
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  Speaker 3: how far back they are.
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  Speaker 2: But it's my.
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  Speaker 3: It's my experience that the kids pick up on nuances
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  Speaker 3: that the coaches don't see. You know, if you're out
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  Speaker 3: there in the trenches, you're going to pick up on
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  Speaker 3: a lot of cues. And then, you know, the coach
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  Speaker 3: might tell you something about it later and they'll say, yeah, coach,
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  Speaker 3: I knew.
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  Speaker 2: That after the fourth play.
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  Speaker 3: So, you know, listening to your kids is probably the
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  Speaker 3: most important thing there. And then honoring their intelligence and
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  Speaker 3: what they're picking up on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point because that's something that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're right there. And it's hard, you know, maybe the
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  Speaker 1: sight line from the sideline is not the best. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, when you see the film, you see everything great.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of all the dynamics put together and
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  Speaker 1: in the moment and making adjustments. And it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be an awesome game, Coach. Best of luck against Archbishop
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  Speaker 1: Murphy on Thursday. Thank you so much for joining me
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  Speaker 1: on the Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: All right, and we move on to Friday now, and
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  Speaker 1: we have a 6 p.m. kickoff as the Lummi Nation
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  Speaker 1: Blackhawks will have to shake off their loss from last week.
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  Speaker 1: They're 3-1 on the season to take on the 1-4
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  Speaker 1: Concrete Lions. And this one is cool. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: at Concrete High School. It's a field I've actually played
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  Speaker 1: there before. It's... And it's a throwback's throwback. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Concrete put up a lot of points last week. Lemonation
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  Speaker 1: obviously suffering their first loss last week. So the way
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  Speaker 1: things are trending right now, it looks like Concrete would
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  Speaker 1: be looking up at this one. But Lemonation, you know,
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  Speaker 1: even though they had some guys injured last week.
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  Speaker 3: They're still, I would say, they're.
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  Speaker 1: Still the favorites in this one. I am now joined
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  Speaker 1: on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by Lummi Nation head
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  Speaker 1: football coach Watiko Layton. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: Doing pretty good. Thanks for having me, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: You bet. I'm going to start off with a random
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  Speaker 1: question as usual, and you don't have to answer this,
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  Speaker 1: but who is your celebrity crush?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I might get in trouble at home.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you don't have to answer it.
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  Speaker 7: Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not going to answer that one, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: That's totally fine. I know that you are involved, and
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  Speaker 1: so that's totally fine. I get that. We will go
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  Speaker 1: back to football. You might feel a little more comfortable,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: although Friday night wasn't so comfortable, especially in the second
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: half as you hosted Tulalip Heritage. It was back and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: forth early. um you had that i don't know if
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: you want to call it an is it a designed
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: onside kick uh looper can really i mean he's a
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: golfer right i mean that's basically what that is that
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: that kick that he had that worked out perfectly i
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: don't know how you do that i kicked in high
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: school there's no way i could do that that's incredible
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: uh but they end up pulling away getting the 46
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: to 14 win over your team tell us about the.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Game yeah it was a it was a good start
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: for our blackhawks we were ready um But the resilience
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: and adversity kicked in, and we couldn't overcome those situations.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: But the kids played hard throughout the game, never fully
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: gave up. And hats off to Tulalip. They're a real
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: strong physical team with some really nice athletes.
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: But, yeah.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's– man, every time I looked over, I would
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: see either an injury or a touchdown. It was constant.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Lots of things going on. We don't have to get
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: into specific players or anything, but how are you looking
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: going forward? Do you have enough kids to practice eight-on-eight
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: right now and stuff like that?
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Yesterday we had around 14 kids, which is not too bad,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: minus the kids that are injured. Some kids were able
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to recover over the weekend and they're back out. Um,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: so we'll be ready for concrete coming up this Friday.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And when that happens, when you only have 14, do you, uh,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: do you strap on the helmet and get out there
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and just kind of, I mean, you're a young buck still, man.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I know you can get after it. So do you,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: do you go out there and, and, and, and, you know,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: practice with them a little bit?
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: Sometimes I'll be on the scout offense or the scout defense.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Um, if they have just like for to lay up,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: I was being some of their athletes, um, in this situations,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I'll be out there.
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: Um, for those scout reps.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome to have, man. That's pretty fun, and
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: it's probably a lot of fun for you, too, to
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: still get to run around, and I know you're in shape,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: so that works out pretty well. We're at the midway
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: point of the season, and when you look at that
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: halfway through, what have you liked the most so far
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: about your team?
• 19:48
  Speaker 7: I would say just the personal quality. that we've had
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: over the years.
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: The kids are developing their fundamentals pretty well and understanding
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: the game a lot more. So seeing that within them
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: has been a real nice thing to see throughout the season.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: And at the same time, we're at the midway point.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: What are the What's kind of the big thing you
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: need to still work on?
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I feel like team chemistry. You know, my kids have
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: been together a lot throughout their childhood. You know, they've
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: always grown up together, and they've always been like this
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: big group that just always hangs out, plays basketball, walks
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: around the reservation. So seeing more of a team chemistry
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: and bonding out of all of them would be nice
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: to see. for the second half of this season.
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: Absolutely.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And you kind of touched on it this Friday night.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: You're back on the road, this time at Concrete. What
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: can you tell us about the Lions?
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: I saw it in just their last game.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Their previous three games of the season, they didn't show it,
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: but they like to open it up, spread it, and
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: go on an empty set. Their quarterback's a pretty fast kid.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: You know, they put up 90 points against Muckleshoot, which
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: is– Pretty impressive, real impressive to put up 90 points
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: in any game.
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: So they're a real fast physical team, but hopefully we
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: can overcome those situations and dominate.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of points, 90 points in a game.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know in eight-man football that can happen,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: but still, that's still incredible. And when I think about Concrete,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: we played them back in the day. They were up
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: in 1A playing in our league, and those were smash-mouth
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: tough kids. I can't even think about spread offense back
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: then with them. It was totally, completely different. And for
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: those of you who have never been out there, you
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: drive under the school to get there, and it's a
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: pretty cool deal. It's still a grass field out there?
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so old school concrete. And a league game, too,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: so obviously you want to get back in the wind column.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: When you see a team that plays the spread, do
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you kind of look at it and go, okay, we
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: need to– is it more about getting to the quarterback
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: or is it more about dropping back or is it
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: just kind of finding your, your spots to do, you know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: kind of go back and forth on that?
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: We like to put the pressure on the quarterback.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: We usually go man to man with every receiver, but
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: if we can contain the quarterback and not let them
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: roll out and get to them quicker within those four seconds,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: that's usually been our biggest help when the teams go empty.
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Gotcha okay do you have like do you have somebody
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: spying the quarterback kind of just staying wherever he goes
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and are you are you trying to send more guys
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: than uh than they have.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: To block no yeah that's what we usually do so
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: we do our little 40 front with our two dns
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: and our 2d tackles and against their three offensive linemen
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: um they have their gap responsibility and um obviously dns
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: are supposed to contain but if we can get to
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: them quicker that's for me, that's what I've seen has
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: been most effective for us.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And it's going to be, they put up 90 and,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and we know what your offense can do. So this
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: could be a long night where the scoreboard operator is
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: going to be busy cramping fingers at the end of
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the game. So it's going to be an awesome one coach.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Best of luck at concrete. Thank you so much for
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: joining me today on the Gatorade game day podcast.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me, Tyler.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Now we go to the seven o'clock kickoffs and, In
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the 3A ranks, Ferndale continues their conference play as they
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: play host to the Oak Harbor Wildcats, another Wildcat team here.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Oak Harbor 1-4 on the year, Ferndale 4-1. But you
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: just never know when those records hit and who they've
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: played and stuff like that. And Oak Harbor has given
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Ferndale fits over the last few years. Yeah, and if
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: they say coffee stunts your growth, then, I mean, I
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: would have been like 4-9.
• 24:03
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: It's a good thing.
• 24:06
  Speaker 13: Don't drink it when you're seven.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: Well, that's true.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Well, I was probably five feet when I got into
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: high school, but yeah, I know what you mean. Okay,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: here we go. Three, two. I am now joined on
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the Gatorade Game Day podcast by Ferndale head coach, Jamie Plankovich. Coach,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing? Good.
• 24:26
  Speaker 13: Good to hear you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: Good.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: So we're going to start off with our random question,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and this is an interesting one.
• 24:34
  Speaker 13: They usually are.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I preface this by saying you don't have to answer
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: this one, but who is your celebrity crush?
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Oh, my goodness.
• 24:48
  Speaker 13: Celebrity crush.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: I don't even have. I guess, like, you know, digging deep,
• 25:03
  Speaker 13: Jennifer Aniston.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: There you go. That's a good one.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: That's a good one. Everybody loves Jennifer Aniston.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: All right. Here we go. We'll go back to football
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: here and make you feel a little better. On Friday,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: you went to Mount Vernon. And they play you really
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: tough the past few years. But you come out with
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the 42-25 win. Tell us about the game.
• 25:26
  Speaker 13: Well, I thought again, uh, we've done this a couple
• 25:29
  Speaker 13: of times. We started fast.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 25:31
  Speaker 13: Um, and, uh, really, you know, had an opportunity, I
• 25:35
  Speaker 13: think to, to maybe even put that game away earlier and, um,
• 25:41
  Speaker 13: give credit to them. Uh, they kept battling back and,
• 25:45
  Speaker 13: and even, uh, took the lead on a couple of occasions. Um,
• 25:49
  Speaker 13: what I liked about our team was our resilience, um,
• 25:53
  Speaker 13: In coming back in that game and finishing that game,
• 25:56
  Speaker 13: we needed to make some adjustments with what they were
• 25:59
  Speaker 13: doing against us. Our kids responded really well on the
• 26:03
  Speaker 13: defensive side. Finally got some stops we needed down the
• 26:07
  Speaker 13: stretch and in the second half. And all night offensively,
• 26:11
  Speaker 13: other than us hurting ourselves with a couple of crucial
• 26:17
  Speaker 13: penalties and turnovers, they were having a difficult time stopping us.
• 26:23
  Speaker 13: So Um, offense kept rolling and we finally got some
• 26:26
  Speaker 13: stops on defense that we needed.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: You know, you kind of brought it up. It's it,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: this has happened a few times and it seems like
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: it's that second quarter a lot of the time. And,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and is this, is this just one of those things where, Hey,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: these are good coaches. They make adjustments and then we
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: make our adjustments or is it just kind of, is
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: there something that's just happening in the second quarter that
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: you can't put your finger on? Yeah.
• 26:49
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I wish I had a direct answer. It's something
• 26:52
  Speaker 13: we talked about in our team meeting on Monday. And
• 26:55
  Speaker 13: I think there's a normal, it's part of maturing as
• 26:59
  Speaker 13: a team. There's a normal kind of thing that happens
• 27:04
  Speaker 13: when things are easy early in the game that I
• 27:08
  Speaker 13: think at times your team relaxes a little bit. And
• 27:12
  Speaker 13: we've got to have, for lack of a better term,
• 27:16
  Speaker 13: more of a killer instinct when we get up in
• 27:19
  Speaker 13: a game instead of relaxing. We got to keep playing
• 27:23
  Speaker 13: at that same level. And if we have an opportunity
• 27:27
  Speaker 13: to get a bigger lead and finish a team off,
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: we need to do that. We need to do a
• 27:33
  Speaker 13: better job of that. It's something we've talked about competing
• 27:37
  Speaker 13: for four quarters. And we have yet to do that
• 27:42
  Speaker 13: in the season. It's something that we continue to talk
• 27:44
  Speaker 13: about with our group and As we go down the stretch,
• 27:48
  Speaker 13: those are the things that we're going to need to
• 27:50
  Speaker 13: improve on.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: You know, and that's not the worst thing in the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: world to have the record you have and still have
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: teaching moments, right? That's kind of a, There's there's room
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: for improvement, which is, you know, that's a there's there's
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: there's something with that with coaching that kind of makes
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that not fun. But you know what I mean? You
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: get to actually teach and coach. And and even though
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you're not 0 and 5 or 1 and 4, you're
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: doing well. But there still are these moments and. That's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: really fun. Speaking of fun, Johnny Mahaffey, I just want
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to bring him up because he's such a fun player
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: to watch. Usually the smallest guy on the field and
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that includes the officials. And, but he continues to make
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: an impact. You know, he gets a few carries a game.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: He's been playing great at free safety. You made that
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: switch from corner to free safety, broke up a ton
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: of passes this past week. He had that late interception.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: What makes him such a good football player?
• 28:44
  Speaker 13: Oh, he's a, He has such a big heart. He's
• 28:48
  Speaker 13: a competitor. He does a lot of things on the
• 28:51
  Speaker 13: offensive side without the ball in his hands. He's a
• 28:56
  Speaker 13: very willing blocker. And like you said, he's not a
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: big guy. He just plays with a lot of intensity
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: and heart. And there are countless big runs that are
• 29:07
  Speaker 13: a result of him getting to that second level and
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: covering up somebody. And it shows that you don't have
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: to be the biggest guy there is to make an
• 29:18
  Speaker 13: impact with your willingness to block and he is one
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: of the I think on our team like when in
• 29:26
  Speaker 13: the offseason he is one of our strongest guys in
• 29:29
  Speaker 13: the cleans so he is although he's not big he
• 29:33
  Speaker 13: is um really strong put together um plays really hard
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: he's done a great job of switching from corner like
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: you said to our free safety position and and really
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: playing uh the middle of the field well for us.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Back there yeah he's he's very physical on the You know,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of times, especially last year, it
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: looked like other teams would try to pick on him
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a little bit as far as physicality goes and mess
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: with them. And he would he would just stand right up.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: And now I think that, you know, he's showing that
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: he's pretty physical as well. And so that's and that's
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: a huge part of, you know, what your receivers can
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: do is if you make downfield blocks, you know, I,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: you know, I see Luke Bader down there making blocks.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, these guys are, and that's, what's causing these
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: long runs. Well, it's a big, that's a big part
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: of causing the long runs.
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: Parker McManus too, for what he does in the run
• 30:32
  Speaker 13: game down the field. He's had a great year too.
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: It's a, it's probably a big point of emphasis in
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: your offense and, and then, then you get to reward
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: them here and there with a throw, a ball thrown
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: to them. But, Dave, I'm sure they take a ton
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: of pride in blocking down the field, which is really
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: cool because, hey, if you get those lights turning off
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and on and you get that crowd going, it's a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: pretty good feeling. We're at the midway point right now,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: and you kind of touched on what needs to be
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: worked on, but at this midway point, what have you
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: liked the most so far?
• 31:05
  Speaker 13: Well, I like that we've shown some resilience when things
• 31:09
  Speaker 13: don't go well, whether it's in the middle of a
• 31:12
  Speaker 13: game or how we responded defensively after our loss to
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: Glacier Peak. I think our guys have come back each
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: and every week willing to, knowing that we haven't arrived
• 31:23
  Speaker 13: in any way, knowing that we still have a lot
• 31:26
  Speaker 13: of work to do to get to where we want
• 31:28
  Speaker 13: to go as a football team. It's a pretty tight-knit group.
• 31:32
  Speaker 13: I love our work ethic, and I love that we
• 31:38
  Speaker 13: got coachable kids that want to be successful in what
• 31:42
  Speaker 13: they're doing both just individually and us as a team.
• 31:45
  Speaker 13: So it's a really fun group to work with.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Sounds like it's a joy to actually go to practice
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: every day, which is such a good thing for a
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: coaching staff.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, 100%.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. This Friday night, you're back at home against
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Oak Harbor. What can you tell us about this year's
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: version of the Wildcats?
• 32:05
  Speaker 13: Well, they, you know, they came– last week or the
• 32:09
  Speaker 13: week before and beat Mount Vernon, you know, and we
• 32:14
  Speaker 13: had a dogfight with Mount Vernon for three quarters. So, again,
• 32:19
  Speaker 13: I think any team in the north is capable of
• 32:23
  Speaker 13: knocking somebody else off. So, you know, the record isn't great,
• 32:28
  Speaker 13: but we've got to come ready to go on Friday
• 32:32
  Speaker 13: against what they like to do. They're a version of
• 32:34
  Speaker 13: Wing T, so that causes you some challenges you know
• 32:38
  Speaker 13: you don't see that we're so used to seeing spread
• 32:42
  Speaker 13: every week so there's an adjustment with how we need
• 32:45
  Speaker 13: to play on the defensive side how disciplined we got
• 32:48
  Speaker 13: to be with our eyes and our keys make sure
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: that we keep stuff in front of us when they
• 32:53
  Speaker 13: do go play action pass I feel like they have
• 32:57
  Speaker 13: you're watching them on film continue to get better themselves
• 33:01
  Speaker 13: and their kids compete hard they're active on the defensive
• 33:05
  Speaker 13: side of the ball so They're going to be a
• 33:07
  Speaker 13: challenge Friday.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And it's one of those teams that, you know,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: with a lot of your opponents, for me anyways, I
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: really just see them once a year against you guys.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: And so Oak Harbor is one of those teams that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: they had a little run there a while ago where
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: they were very run heavy. And then I think all
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: those kids graduated and then they went pass and they
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: were very young and, and then they were, you know,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: still kind of getting there. And by the time those
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: kids became seniors, they came up and got you guys
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: in a really close game. And so they kind of
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: seem to have these like two or three year runs
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: of different styles. And, and, and then you just said wing,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: like kind of a version of a wing T, which
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: I had no idea. So it sounds like they just
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: kind of go with what, I don't know what their
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: personnel presents. And is that, is that something that, you know, like, like,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: like you've kind of changed your offense a little bit
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: based on, Hey, we have a lot of tight ends.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: We can do this. Is that something that as coaches,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you look at your personnel and you say, okay, we
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: have to do this because this is what we have.
• 34:14
  Speaker 13: A hundred percent. I mean, if you're not doing that,
• 34:17
  Speaker 13: I don't think you're putting your kids in the best
• 34:21
  Speaker 13: situation to have success. Obviously we have principles that we
• 34:24
  Speaker 13: believe in and, We have a base and core offensive
• 34:29
  Speaker 13: philosophy that we'll adhere to. But then you're always going
• 34:33
  Speaker 13: to tweak things in a year as you develop your
• 34:37
  Speaker 13: identity and identify your strengths and what are some things
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: we can do that match our personnel and hopefully can
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: get the most out of our kids.
• 34:50
  Speaker 6: That's awesome.
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: Coach?
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Best of luck on Friday against Oak Harbor, and thank
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you so much for joining me today on the Gatorade
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Game Day Podcast.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: Anytime, Tyler.
• 34:58
  Speaker 13: Appreciate it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Now we move to 1A as the Meridian Trojans will
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: head to the border city of Belain to take on
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: the Borderites. Both teams are 2-3 at the moment. Both
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: teams suffered conference losses last week, so another loss would
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: really put that team behind the eight ball here as
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: they You know, these teams in 1A only have four
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: league games. You start out 0-2, really hard to come back.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: It's only the top three of the five get spots
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: in the round of 24 in Week 10. So a
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: really important game for both of these teams. I am
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: now joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by Meridian
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Head Football Coach Patrick Ames. Coach, thank you for joining
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: me today. How are you doing?
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: I'm doing well.
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: Thanks, Tyler. How are you?
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Doing great. All right, we're going to start off with
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: kind of a question that you don't have to answer.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: It's been about 50-50 of just answering it. But who
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: is your celebrity crush?
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: Oh, gosh, that's it. I don't know how to answer
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: that question.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: You don't have to answer. Only half the coaches have
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: answered it so far.
• 36:08
  Speaker 12: Yeah, no, that's a fair question.
• 36:12
  Speaker 10: But, yeah, I don't know if I'd have an answer.
• 36:13
  Speaker 12: I was prepared to give you something like, uh, childhood
• 36:16
  Speaker 12: favorite football player or.
• 36:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: This one's a little, this one's a little out of
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: left field or maybe out of, uh, you know, the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: 23 yard line there, but, uh, uh, we'll, we'll steer
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: it back into football here as Friday, Friday, you went
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to Linda Christian, a lot of offense put up by
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: both teams. Um, but they came away with a 48
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: to 18 win. Tell us about the game. Oh, well,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: we knew it.
• 36:42
  Speaker 12: Was going to be a challenge for us to, uh,
• 36:45
  Speaker 12: to try to stop them and slow them down. And, and,
• 36:48
  Speaker 12: you know, the big back is, is a problem for
• 36:51
  Speaker 12: a team like ours. And we had to take some
• 36:53
  Speaker 12: chances on defense to, to try to do some things
• 36:57
  Speaker 12: that we thought were maybe going to give us a
• 37:00
  Speaker 12: chance to, to get to him behind the line of
• 37:03
  Speaker 12: scrimmage before he could get up to speed. And, and
• 37:06
  Speaker 12: we didn't execute and our margin for error in, in
• 37:09
  Speaker 12: some of those looks that we were trying to get.
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: Into is extremely small. And we didn't, limit the damage
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: like we, like we needed to.
• 37:17
  Speaker 12: And offensively, you know, we were able to, they did
• 37:19
  Speaker 12: a really good job, you know, defending, um, what we
• 37:22
  Speaker 12: were trying to do, throwing the ball. Um, but we
• 37:25
  Speaker 12: were still able to, to move it consistently in spots and, um, and,
• 37:29
  Speaker 12: and our quarterback Trey was, you know, a warrior in
• 37:32
  Speaker 12: that game and, um, in the looks that they were in, uh,
• 37:36
  Speaker 12: really challenged us to, to find ways to, to run
• 37:38
  Speaker 12: the ball against it. And, and Trey did a really
• 37:40
  Speaker 12: good job, um, in that and still had to, you know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 12: to process, what was happening in front of them on
• 37:47
  Speaker 12: all of the dropbacks, too. So it was a challenging
• 37:50
  Speaker 12: game for us. I thought our kids played hard until
• 37:54
  Speaker 12: the end. It was a physical game for us, you know,
• 37:57
  Speaker 12: and I'm not telling anybody you wouldn't know by watching
• 38:01
  Speaker 12: the game, but, you know, we're undersized against a team
• 38:03
  Speaker 12: like that, and we took some lumps, that's for sure.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it was... I mean, just as a
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: high school football fan, it was a fun game to watch.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: I think the biggest difference with Koiman this year as
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: to prior years, and you would speak to this better
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: than I could, is I think he's faster and he's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: got more agility. He used to be just kind of
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: straight ahead, drag some tacklers, fall forward. Now he seems
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: like he's got a lot more speed and a lot more.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: He's got some jukes. He's got some cuts. And I
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: can't imagine what it's like to try to tackle him.
• 38:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 38:38
  Speaker 12: I mean, he, he looked different than anybody else on,
• 38:41
  Speaker 12: on that field Friday night.
• 38:42
  Speaker 10: That's for sure.
• 38:43
  Speaker 12: Just the, the combination of, of, of size and speed,
• 38:47
  Speaker 12: the agility, um, and, and the running style too, to
• 38:50
  Speaker 12: go along with, you know, the, uh, which is of
• 38:53
  Speaker 12: course influenced by, you know, his, his physical gifts. Um, yeah, he's, uh,
• 38:58
  Speaker 12: he's a really, really good, um, one, a running back
• 39:00
  Speaker 12: at this point that, um, it's going to be really
• 39:03
  Speaker 12: interesting to see, you know, how, how other teams are
• 39:05
  Speaker 12: going to try to, to, uh, to match up with
• 39:08
  Speaker 12: them i.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Mean you've been coaching a long time have you seen
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: a running back at the at that level that kind
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: of reminds you of him the first name maybe that
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: pops up i mean obviously we saw kate eldridge a
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: few years ago um was it was a different kind
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: of athlete but like even like a pat bennett uh
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: going back to for forks, like, you know, if you,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: do you remember some of those big one, a running
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: backs that kind of.
• 39:31
  Speaker 10: Oh, sure.
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 39:33
  Speaker 12: You know, my, my, uh, I was talking about this with,
• 39:36
  Speaker 12: with my dad, you know, the other night after the game,
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: and we were trying to think of, of comparison and
• 39:40
  Speaker 12: comps and Pat Bennett's name came up and, and he
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: wasn't as, as big. as Coyman, but the nearest comp
• 39:47
  Speaker 12: we came up with going back to, and we played
• 39:50
  Speaker 12: him back in 1987, was Brandon Jumper from Eatonville.
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: Oh, yes.
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: You remember that name?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah.
• 39:56
  Speaker 10: Who was, yeah, who ended up at the University of Oregon.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he went, I think when he graduated, he
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: was the state's all-time leading rusher, and in that 87
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: game against Meridian, he You know, you don't want to
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: hear it, but he put up 300 yards. I mean,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: he did it against everybody, right?
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: And you're right. He looked different. He looked like a
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: man out there. And there's a lot of similarities there.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: You know, you brought up Trey Alexander was a warrior. And, boy,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: he did a lot of things. I mean, he's way
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: out in front of the rest of the county in
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: passing yards. But on Friday, he ran for 180 yards,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: two touchdowns. On defense, he intercepted two passes. What makes
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: him such a great overall football player?
• 40:36
  Speaker 10: Um, he's a, he's a, a really smart football player.
• 40:40
  Speaker 12: Um, he does a lot of work, um, uh, during
• 40:44
  Speaker 12: the season, um, at home in the evenings. Um, he's
• 40:49
  Speaker 12: putting in the time that I know a lot of
• 40:51
  Speaker 12: people don't see. And if you were just to watch
• 40:53
  Speaker 12: him on Fridays and, and see, you know, the way
• 40:55
  Speaker 12: that he plays and wonder like, is he just.
• 40:58
  Speaker 10: Naturally gifted, which he is.
• 40:59
  Speaker 12: Um, but does he do all those other little things
• 41:02
  Speaker 12: that really make for, um, for a good, smart player
• 41:06
  Speaker 12: on both sides of the ball, and he does.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: And I.
• 41:11
  Speaker 12: Think as much as anything else, the preparation that he's
• 41:14
  Speaker 12: bringing to to his approach to, to playing quarterback and,
• 41:19
  Speaker 12: you know, obviously in the secondary and Friday night too, um,
• 41:22
  Speaker 12: is just first rate. Um, not to say that, you know, it,
• 41:25
  Speaker 12: it looks perfect all the time, you know, I know
• 41:28
  Speaker 12: his numbers look good, but you know, we, we didn't
• 41:30
  Speaker 12: complete every pass and we gave a few of them away. So, um,
• 41:34
  Speaker 12: there's still a lot more work to do. And I'm
• 41:36
  Speaker 12: only saying that because I know he's going to do it.
• 41:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. And it's, you know, I've, you know, been
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: around him, not near as much as you, but everything's
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: always been positive, even keel, uh, love watching him play
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: other sports as well. He's just that guy you can
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: always count on.
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: And that's, that's what's always fun about him. And, and
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to see him really thriving his senior year. Uh,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: we're at the midway point of the season of the
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: regular season. And, and so, you know, you can look
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: at that or at least people in the media can
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: look at that and they'll ask the questions like, okay,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: we're at, we're at the midway point. What do you
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: like so far about your team the most?
• 42:12
  Speaker 12: Uh, we're still showing up to practice, um, every day
• 42:16
  Speaker 12: with a sense of purpose. And I'm bringing that up because,
• 42:18
  Speaker 12: you know, if you were to talk to us, you know,
• 42:20
  Speaker 12: five weeks ago before you play any games and everybody's
• 42:23
  Speaker 12: healthy and everybody looks great, that's an easy stock answer
• 42:26
  Speaker 12: to give. Um, but if you were to come to
• 42:29
  Speaker 12: our practice yesterday and see how many guys, um, weren't
• 42:33
  Speaker 12: able to practice yesterday, but the guys that we had
• 42:36
  Speaker 12: who were, um, are still locked in and engaged and, um,
• 42:41
  Speaker 12: and doing all of the, the work depending upon, you know,
• 42:45
  Speaker 12: the day that we're in to make sure that we're
• 42:47
  Speaker 12: continuing to take steps forward as we're still kind.
• 42:50
  Speaker 10: Of waiting to see, you know, who are we going
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: to have this week?
• 42:53
  Speaker 12: Um, and that we have not had a sense of like, as,
• 42:56
  Speaker 12: as we've lost, you know, guys here and there. And, um,
• 43:00
  Speaker 12: and we've talked about, you know, some of them going
• 43:02
  Speaker 12: back to a couple of weeks ago that, you know,
• 43:03
  Speaker 12: are going to be done for the year. Um, the
• 43:06
  Speaker 12: guys that are still able to play everybody's still part
• 43:10
  Speaker 12: of our team obviously but the guys that are still
• 43:11
  Speaker 12: able to play um we haven't lost that that sense
• 43:14
  Speaker 12: of purpose and mission it just looks different week to
• 43:17
  Speaker 12: week right depending upon the opponent who's available who's going
• 43:19
  Speaker 12: to be matching up in certain positions uh so uh
• 43:23
  Speaker 12: we as coaches appreciate that deeply.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah absolutely that's a that's such a nice thing to
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: have and being able to feel good about going to
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: practice and installing a new game plan and just and
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: having an upbeat attitude is awesome And at the midway point,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: there's probably things that need to be worked on. What
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: do you think is the biggest thing?
• 43:43
  Speaker 12: We had some operational things that we're definitely trying to
• 43:47
  Speaker 12: clean up from our game on Friday. And it was
• 43:50
  Speaker 12: a combination and factor of a number of different things, right?
• 43:52
  Speaker 12: Like adjusted to different looks. And then when you've got
• 43:56
  Speaker 12: guys in your packages that you had counted.
• 43:59
  Speaker 10: On being there and at the 1A level when.
• 44:02
  Speaker 12: You're trying to put your best groups out there and
• 44:05
  Speaker 12: then to get into a certain formation for a certain play.
• 44:07
  Speaker 10: And then what are your guys?
• 44:09
  Speaker 12: Isn't there, uh, trying to still make sure that, you know, we're,
• 44:12
  Speaker 12: we're not wasting plays and, and we're trying to, um,
• 44:16
  Speaker 12: get our guys in the best positions possible to succeed,
• 44:19
  Speaker 12: you know, down to down. Um, we were challenged operationally
• 44:23
  Speaker 12: on Friday to make sure all of those things lined up.
• 44:25
  Speaker 12: So that's something right now that, um, that we're really
• 44:28
  Speaker 12: working hard on as starting with us as coaches, certainly, um,
• 44:31
  Speaker 12: and then preparing our guys to make sure that down to.
• 44:34
  Speaker 10: Down we're going to be right and ready to go
• 44:38
  Speaker 10: on that play.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's so many things. Other coaches have talked to
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: me just this week about kind of the same thing
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: where a kid didn't go in motion on a certain play,
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: and because of that, the safety didn't move over and
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: he intercepted a pass. It's like that's why we have
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: that guy go in motion, like little things like that.
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: And people that are watching are like, you know, they're
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: just watching the game. Oh, it's a, that's a bad pass.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: That was intercepted. Well, there's other things that go in
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: that get involved and there's just so many layers to it.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: And it's so cool to have all these great coaches
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: up here that, that, that know the ins and outs
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: of the game. And that's why I'm so blessed to
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: be able to talk to you guys every week and,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: and get that information out there. It's so cool. This
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Friday night, Coach, there's no home games. What's going on?
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: You haven't played a home game on a Friday night
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: all year.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: No.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: And so, I mean, I think varsity games are still
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: on Friday night. I know you finished with three of them,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: but you're back on the road against Blaine. What can
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: you tell us about the Borderites?
• 45:42
  Speaker 12: I think everybody who's getting ready to play them is
• 45:45
  Speaker 12: going to have to prepare to play their quarterback, who's
• 45:49
  Speaker 12: a good player and a guy that we played last year.
• 45:52
  Speaker 10: And, um, he's driving their offense for sure. Much as
• 45:55
  Speaker 10: he did last year.
• 45:56
  Speaker 12: Uh, we know he's going to carry it, uh, a
• 45:59
  Speaker 12: lot more, um, than he did against us last year.
• 46:02
  Speaker 10: We've seen that on film.
• 46:04
  Speaker 12: Um, they've got a bevy of receivers that they like
• 46:07
  Speaker 12: to play and, and, and like to throw to, uh,
• 46:10
  Speaker 12: so preparing to defend them, which is different, you know,
• 46:13
  Speaker 12: for us, like the last two weeks, we've had to
• 46:15
  Speaker 12: gear up to, to stop some pretty.
• 46:17
  Speaker 10: Formidable, formidable running games.
• 46:19
  Speaker 12: Um, And so our preparation this week looks a little
• 46:22
  Speaker 12: bit different as now we're making sure that we're still
• 46:25
  Speaker 12: sound to defend somebody who's going to try to pick
• 46:29
  Speaker 12: us apart and spread it around. So that's been our
• 46:32
  Speaker 12: challenge for sure, getting ready to play them.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you noticed, I mean, I'm sure you noticed,
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: but for the first four games, well, I guess three
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: because they did have a cancellation, their defense has been
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: different this year than it's been in years past where
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: they had four down linemen, instead of kind of like a,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know, like a bunch three or a straight
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: five with stick guys standing up. But last week they
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: kind of went back to last year's defense. So when
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: you see different fronts, not knowing maybe what they're going
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: to do against you, do you kind of prep for
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: both and then just roll the dice on, on their
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: first set of downs and say, okay, this is what
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: they're doing. This is how we're going to call it.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Or how does, how does that preparation go during the week?
• 47:15
  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's not totally inaccurate. You get ready to play
• 47:20
  Speaker 12: the different fronts that you've seen them use against different
• 47:23
  Speaker 12: opponents and try to make your best guesses based upon
• 47:26
  Speaker 12: some of the other teams that they're playing and what
• 47:28
  Speaker 12: other teams might be running. We know just because of
• 47:32
  Speaker 12: the way right now that we're going.
• 47:33
  Speaker 10: To try to spread you out and throw it.
• 47:35
  Speaker 12: We know that teams are going to be prepared to
• 47:38
  Speaker 12: drop as many guys as they safely think that they
• 47:41
  Speaker 12: can into coverage. And then also have some pressure packages.
• 47:44
  Speaker 12: You don't exactly know what maybe those things are going
• 47:47
  Speaker 12: to look like. But, you know, to, to this point, we've,
• 47:51
  Speaker 12: we've seen a, you know, a ton of different ways
• 47:53
  Speaker 12: that people have tried to, you know, to defend the.
• 47:55
  Speaker 10: Way that, that we're attacking.
• 47:58
  Speaker 12: And so we're, we know that these guys are going
• 48:00
  Speaker 12: to be no different than we'll probably see, you know,
• 48:02
  Speaker 12: some different looks from them that maybe they haven't deployed
• 48:05
  Speaker 12: against other folks. Um, and that's part of the, you know,
• 48:09
  Speaker 12: the fun job of coaches during the week is, is
• 48:11
  Speaker 12: trying to make sure that we're given the most accurate
• 48:14
  Speaker 12: and informed guests that we can for our guys to
• 48:17
  Speaker 12: make sure that we're feeling as prepared as we can
• 48:18
  Speaker 12: going into the game.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: It's going to be awesome coach. Best of luck on
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Friday at Blaine. And for all you guys going to
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: the game, uh, it might be a long one as
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: two teams aired out, put up and put up points
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: and it might be a three hour game. So, Settle in.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: It's going to be awesome. Thank you so much, Coach,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: for joining me on the Gatorade Game Day podcast.
• 48:37
  Speaker 12: Wait, I got an answer for your first question.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, go for it.
• 48:40
  Speaker 10: But this is going to go back a ways.
• 48:42
  Speaker 12: And I know you and I have had our conversations
• 48:44
  Speaker 12: growing up as Star Wars kids.
• 48:46
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 48:47
  Speaker 12: I think it's hard to beat, like as far as
• 48:49
  Speaker 12: like a crush goes from childhood, like Return of the
• 48:53
  Speaker 12: Jedi era Princess Leia.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right on the board.
• 48:57
  Speaker 7: Is that fair?
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a great answer. I do know
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: that you were a Star Wars fan from the get-go.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: That's a good answer. I like that. Thanks a lot, Coach.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you next week.
• 49:14
  Speaker 10: Sounds good. Always a pleasure.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: And we'll give some time to the home team coach.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: I'm now joined on the Gatorade game day podcast by
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Blaine head football coach, Andy Olson coach. Thank you for
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: joining me today. How are you doing?
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: I'm doing well, Tyler.
• 49:29
  Speaker 14: How are you doing?
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Pretty darn well myself. All right. We're going to start
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: off with that random question. And this is one that
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: you don't have to answer, but yeah, who is your
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: celebrity crush?
• 49:41
  Speaker 15: Hmm.
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: Um, I would go with Rachel McAdams.
• 49:47
  Speaker 10: Oh yes.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: You know what? She's in two different time travel movies.
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: Uh, what was the Benjamin button one, right?
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: There was the, there was, um, I can't remember that.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: I can't remember the name of the, the, the one's
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: called the time traveler's wife.
• 50:03
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 50:04
  Speaker 15: Yep.
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: That's the one.
• 50:05
  Speaker 15: Yep.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: And then there's the one where, uh, It's called About Time,
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: which is an amazing movie, and I highly recommend it. But, yeah,
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: she's fantastic. All right.
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Now we'll get to football. Now we'll get to football.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: On Friday, you traveled over to Nooksack Valley, and the
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Pioneers got you 46-10. They jumped out to a big
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: lead early. You put together a really good drive to
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: start the second half, got in the end zone. Tell
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: us about the game.
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know.
• 50:35
  Speaker 16: Unfortunately, things got away from us there for about five
• 50:38
  Speaker 16: minutes at the end of the first quarter. I think overall,
• 50:41
  Speaker 16: I was proud of our kids' response once things did
• 50:44
  Speaker 16: kind of settle down.
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: We came out in the second half.
• 50:46
  Speaker 16: And continued to fight, which is something we talk about
• 50:49
  Speaker 16: at Boy, and it's like when you play football at
• 50:51
  Speaker 16: Boy and people expect you to play hard for 48
• 50:53
  Speaker 16: straight minutes, and I think we did that. You know,
• 50:57
  Speaker 16: when you look at film, it's never as good or
• 50:59
  Speaker 16: as bad as you think it's going to be, So
• 51:01
  Speaker 16: we were able to watch film with our kids on
• 51:03
  Speaker 16: Monday and go through and understand like, Hey, you know,
• 51:07
  Speaker 16: if we can clean up the mental stuff and if
• 51:09
  Speaker 16: we added up all of the times, like where we
• 51:11
  Speaker 16: allowed ourselves to react instead of move on to the
• 51:15
  Speaker 16: next play, there's about 12 minutes of really like not
• 51:19
  Speaker 16: great football that we've played this year, which equates to
• 51:21
  Speaker 16: a quarter. And if you were to add up all
• 51:23
  Speaker 16: that and fix that, like, man, we're right there being
• 51:25
  Speaker 16: competitive with some good football teams this year.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good point. There was some, just some,
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: you know, procedure stuff and, you know, that kind of
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: stuff that that stuff will get worked out as things
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: just get smoother and stuff like that. And it looks like,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: and correct me if I'm wrong, but it looked like
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: you kind of changed your defense up a little bit
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: for that game. Was this to counter something that the
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: pioneers do well, or was this something that you did
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: with your own personnel?
• 51:51
  Speaker 16: A little bit of both, a little bit of both.
• 51:55
  Speaker 16: You know, the pioneers, they run the ball so well.
• 51:59
  Speaker 16: So we were looking at that and we're trying to,
• 52:01
  Speaker 16: figure out like, okay, how can we kind of like
• 52:02
  Speaker 16: try and create a problem for them with a run
• 52:05
  Speaker 16: blocking scheme a little bit to give ourselves a shot
• 52:09
  Speaker 16: there with their two back look. But also some of
• 52:12
  Speaker 16: this just personnel trying to put our kids in positions
• 52:15
  Speaker 16: where they can go make plays and fly around and
• 52:17
  Speaker 16: have some fun.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And we're at the midway point of the season.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: And so when you look at that and you kind
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: of go, okay, we're halfway through right now. What's, what
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: are some of the things, what have you liked the
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: most so far?
• 52:30
  Speaker 16: Um, I've liked kind of what we've seen from some
• 52:34
  Speaker 16: of our guys stepping up. I think every year, that's
• 52:36
  Speaker 16: the most exciting part about football in the fall is
• 52:39
  Speaker 16: you'll always have a couple of names that pop out
• 52:41
  Speaker 16: and you're like, man.
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: Like they've really made some growth.
• 52:44
  Speaker 16: Um, you know, the continued maturation of Matt Campion for
• 52:47
  Speaker 16: us this year has been really fun to see. Um,
• 52:49
  Speaker 16: you know, Maddox Varick playing guard, Kyler Reynolds as a
• 52:53
  Speaker 16: sophomore playing guard, Leif Einer as a junior developing in
• 52:57
  Speaker 16: the second year as a center, um, Um, just watching
• 53:00
  Speaker 16: kids grow and continue to work and see them improve
• 53:03
  Speaker 16: has been a lot of fun.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that. I love that part too, to be honest.
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: And I get to do it with all these schools
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: and all these sports. And it's fun to see these,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: these new athletes all the time. And it seems like
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: every week there's one popping up for me anyways. Um,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: what at the halfway point, kind of the other way,
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: what are the things that you're like, man, this is something, uh,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: really want to get tweaked for the rest of the season.
• 53:25
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, I think we've been our own worst
• 53:28
  Speaker 16: enemy the last few weeks on offense. When we've made
• 53:32
  Speaker 16: a big mistake, a lot of times it's okay. We
• 53:36
  Speaker 16: ran the wrong route or we got the wrong play
• 53:39
  Speaker 16: call in or we forgot to send pre-snap motion. Like
• 53:42
  Speaker 16: all those things are controllable and that's the six inches
• 53:45
  Speaker 16: between your ears, right? So like we really talked about
• 53:48
  Speaker 16: this week, focusing on controlling our controllables and focusing on
• 53:52
  Speaker 16: task on the task at hand. I think if we
• 53:56
  Speaker 16: can clean that up, offense gets a lot cleaner.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely. This Friday night, you're back at home and
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: you're hosting Meridian. What can you tell us about the Trojans?
• 54:06
  Speaker 16: You know, kind of like us. They're very similar to
• 54:10
  Speaker 16: who they were last year, but they're a year older
• 54:12
  Speaker 16: and a year stronger and a year faster. Trey Alexander
• 54:15
  Speaker 16: is a stud. He runs around. I think he had
• 54:17
  Speaker 16: like 180 yards against Lennon Christian on the ground. And
• 54:20
  Speaker 16: most people just think of him as like the throwing numbers, right, Tyler?
• 54:23
  Speaker 16: So what a great athlete there. We know that they
• 54:27
  Speaker 16: have a lot of speed on the perimeter. We know
• 54:30
  Speaker 16: that Coach Ames is going to have them ready to go.
• 54:32
  Speaker 16: And they run a lot of different stuff, which is
• 54:34
  Speaker 16: always kind of a fun task from a defensive standpoint
• 54:36
  Speaker 16: to get prepared for in regards to lining up correctly
• 54:39
  Speaker 16: against formations.
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: So, yeah, it should be a fun one.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that because you
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: know that they'll run probably more formations than actual set plays, right?
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: You'll see four or five of the same play from–
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: or five times you'll see the same play from five
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: different formations. How do you– do you relay that stuff
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: to your kids or do you just have them play
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: football and you kind of worry about that as you're
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: lining them up?
• 55:09
  Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, we talk defensively about alignment, assignment, and attack.
• 55:14
  Speaker 16: The key is to get aligned correctly and understand, you know,
• 55:18
  Speaker 16: my assignment isn't necessarily changing, but they're just changing where
• 55:21
  Speaker 16: they're starting their play. And I need to make sure
• 55:24
  Speaker 16: that I'm aligned properly before the ball's snapped, like 90%
• 55:27
  Speaker 16: of the work's done before the ball's even snapped in
• 55:29
  Speaker 16: football sometimes on defense.
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: So we've got to get.
• 55:31
  Speaker 16: Lined up correctly and be ready to go be our
• 55:34
  Speaker 16: best selves from the get-go.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a good one. I think last
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: year the ball was put in the air a lot
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: of times, I want to say maybe 100 times. And
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: so that's going to be one of those kind of
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: games where the head will be going back and forth
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: with the ball going through the air. And that's a
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: lot of fun for the fans, so hopefully they pack
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: out the Borderite Stadium on Friday night. It's going to
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: be awesome. Best of luck on Friday against Meridian, Coach.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me today on the
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for having me, Tyler.
• 56:02
  Speaker 8: Take care.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: That should be a good one out at the relatively
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: new stadium out at Blaine High School. And now we
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: head out to Bob Tisdale Field as Nooksack Valley will
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: come to town to take on the Mount Baker Mountaineers.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley, the lone undefeated team in Whatcom County at 5-0.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker suffered a loss on Saturday. They dropped to 3-2.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: But this is a game year in and year out
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: that has proved to be a fantastic one that comes
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: down to the very end. I'm now joined on the
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: Gatorade game day podcast by Nooksack Valley head football coach,
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Craig Bartle coach. Thank you for joining me today. How
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: are you doing?
• 56:37
  Speaker 15: Thank you. Thanks for having me. Uh, no, not too
• 56:39
  Speaker 15: bad today.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: Good. Uh, I'm going to start with our normal random
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: question and, uh, you don't have to answer this. I
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: think I've gotten, uh, I think I've gotten 50 50. Uh,
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: I've already done four of these interviews and I've only
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: gotten two answers, but, uh, who is your celebrity crush?
• 56:58
  Speaker 15: Celebrity crush. Elizabeth Shue. See, I pulled that out.
• 57:03
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Very good.
• 57:04
  Speaker 12: Yep.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth Shue. Karate Kid and Adventures of Babysitting. Yeah.
• 57:11
  Speaker 15: That would have been a celebrity crush.
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: All right. Very, very good.
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Now we'll get back to football here.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: I'm curious about some of the other answers around the conference.
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: This will be fun.
• 57:23
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: On Friday, you hosted Blaine. Got off to a really
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: fast start. Ended up winning 46-10. Tell us about the game.
• 57:33
  Speaker 15: Well, I think our first drive we started slow and
• 57:36
  Speaker 15: then we were able to pick things up. A win
• 57:43
  Speaker 15: and Blaine is really good. We're just not real happy
• 57:49
  Speaker 15: with how we played even though we got a win.
• 57:52
  Speaker 15: I think we're still making way too many mistakes and
• 57:56
  Speaker 15: we're shooting ourselves in the foot. So So we're happy
• 57:59
  Speaker 15: that we got a win, but I think we're not
• 58:01
  Speaker 15: satisfied and there's a lot of things we need to
• 58:02
  Speaker 15: work on.
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: And that's– we talked about that last week. There's good
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: things about that because there's teaching moments and there's– and
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: that's what's– when you're coaching teenage boys, that's what's going
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: to happen, right?
• 58:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about your defense really quickly because
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: something has really stood out. Your defense has 18 takeaways
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: in five games. Has that been an emphasis or has
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: it just been execution?
• 58:29
  Speaker 15: I think a little bit of both. We kind of
• 58:32
  Speaker 15: changed our philosophy a little bit, especially in the secondary
• 58:36
  Speaker 15: this year. We're trying to be a little bit more
• 58:37
  Speaker 15: aggressive and kind of trying to get into that mindset
• 58:41
  Speaker 15: of it's, you know, would rather be more aggressive than
• 58:45
  Speaker 15: sit back and give up, you know, a ton of yardage.
• 58:49
  Speaker 15: We mixed up some coverages. Um, and so I, I
• 58:54
  Speaker 15: think we're just, you know, guys are getting in the
• 58:56
  Speaker 15: right spots and we've simplified things a little bit. Um, we,
• 58:59
  Speaker 15: we looked back and maybe had some, some complicated coverages
• 59:03
  Speaker 15: in the past and we had some guys that could
• 59:05
  Speaker 15: do that I'm not saying the guys can't right now, but,
• 59:08
  Speaker 15: you know, every year you try to think, okay, how
• 59:11
  Speaker 15: do we get the most of our kids and put
• 59:14
  Speaker 15: them in the best situations for success? And if that's
• 59:16
  Speaker 15: simplifying it, then that's what we needed to do. And so, yeah,
• 59:20
  Speaker 15: I mean, for up until now, they've played decent. And so,
• 59:26
  Speaker 15: you know, we'll see what comes from here on out.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been fun to watch. And all those guys
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: back there have been doing a great job. And there
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: was a moment in the game where there was an
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: inadvertent whistle. And you put on, you marched out there
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: a little bit. And it's one of those, you know,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: it happens, right? That's a moment when it happened before.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: on a turnover, which is more rare. You see it
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: a lot, like in Mount Baker games, slight of hand,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: you don't know who has the ball, but this was
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: an interesting play when that happened. And how, how does
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: that get, you know, I'm sure there's an apology and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: all of that. And, you know, how do you keep
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: your emotions in check because you know, everybody's human out there.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 15: You know, it was, it's, it's my first question was, okay,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 15: what happened? Like, how is that? I didn't hear the whistle.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 15: And so I was told, hey, it was an inadvertent whistle.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 15: Later was told that, you know, the official just didn't
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 15: see Jaden come out and catch that. And you're absolutely right.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 15: Once they said inadvertent whistle, I mean, I could sit
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 15: there and complain until I'm blue in the face. But
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 15: it's not going to change anything. It is what it is.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: It happened.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 15: And I think we're really fortunate up here to have
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 15: the officials that we have. They're really good. They take
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 15: that job seriously. Um, and they'll study and they'll watch
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 15: film and, and they're just, they're good people. Oh, you know,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 15: you can talk with them. And so when they said
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 15: that there's, there's really not much to argue and, and
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 15: you know, stuff happens and.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: We just, you, you move on.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 15: It's unfortunate, but, uh, there's nothing you can do about it.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: It's one of those things where you're just thankful there
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: are enough officials to play the games because it's getting
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: tougher and tougher. And you know, the, the, the Linden
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: Christian game this week has been moved to Thursday because
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: of a shortage of officials. So there's, It's one of
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: those things where I think, you know, you did the
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: right thing. You want an answer, like what happened? Yeah.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: And you get told and you say, okay. And, you know,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: for those who are listening that don't really have any
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: clue what happened in the play, because I didn't really
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: set it up well, you know, it was a deep
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: pass down the middle of the field, probably 40 yards
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: or so. Tyler Martin makes a great play, tips it
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: up in the air. Jaden Jones comes down with it
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: and it looks like with, especially with his kind of speed,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: he can make a big advancement on the play. Uh,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: but the play was ruled dead after the tip and
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: maybe the official thought the ball was tipped and that
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: was that fell to the ground. Didn't see the interception
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: by Jane Jones. So, um, still a great play by
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: the defense and, and uh it's a good thing it
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: didn't you know it wasn't a big um you know
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: last play of the game type deal where it had
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: a big uh weighing impact um i also want.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 15: To bring up oh go ahead just go back to
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 15: you know talking about the defense yeah so i mean
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 15: we asked tyler because it looked like in the game
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 15: in the moment it looks like he tipped it to
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 15: jayden so we asked him like hey did you do
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 15: that and he said yes he saw jayden coming and
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 15: he tipped it back to him and so I mean,
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 15: just when we talk about the defense and, you know,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 15: they're playing well as of now, you know, it's plays
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 15: like that, like, wow, okay, you actually understood what was
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 15: going on. And to be able to tip that back
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 15: to Jaden instead of just mocking, I mean, that's an
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 15: incredible play. And so that's one of the reasons why
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 15: they're playing well right now.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is, and we're talking about Tyler Martin, the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: junior safety, he is, he's having a season so far that,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: you know, I do a lot of comparisons in my
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: head of maybe like NFL players and obviously, you know,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: they're not NFL caliber, but you know what I'm talking about. And,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: and the first player that pops to mind with him is,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: is Ed Reed. He's making, he's making reads back there.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: He's reacting so incredibly fast. I mean, he's already got
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: six interceptions on the year coach and we're, we're halfway
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: through the season. And as, as far as I know, I,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: you know, defensive records are really hard to keep track
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: of as far as they didn't, they didn't post stuff
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: back in the day. So I go back and watch
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: as much film as I could. And I think six,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: I think he's tied the record. You know, maybe there's
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: been a time when someone had more than six interceptions
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: in a season, but he's just having a great, great year.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: And he's had some called back. I think he's even
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: had a big six called back. He's already returned two
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: for touchdowns, including one on Friday night. So he is,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: You know, what's funny is because when we talked in
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: August and you brought up his name, you know, you
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: would kind of like shake your head and go like,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: he is really special. And I would always be like, yeah, yeah,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: he's good. You know, but you're right. He is really special.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: He's doing some things that are fun to watch out there.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: A player that is a sophomore that I want to
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: talk about is, and this might catch you by surprise,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: but Mason Stanbrough on kickoff. My goodness, that kid goes
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: down and makes tons of plays. Is, I mean, is,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: is he one of those kids that is, is might
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: be fighting for some playing time on defense as well.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: He's a really great player.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 15: And we always, there's always people fighting for, for spots,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 15: but yeah, he's funny. You should mention his name. Cause
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 15: we said the same thing the last, you know, a
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 15: couple of weeks, like, Holy cow.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 15: He's, he's doing exactly what we want, especially to fly
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 15: down there and try to make plays. And, and, we're,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 15: we're acknowledging that, you know, especially, I think it's important
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 15: to acknowledge, Hey, special teams is a big part of
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 15: the game. And so if we, if you can get
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 15: some guys to fly down there and, you know, kind
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 15: of that reckless abandon and just, and go and make
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 15: plays and, and you know, and especially on kickoff, it's,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 15: it seems like you just line up and just run. Well, there's,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 15: there's still things that you have to do on kickoff.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 15: He understands that, you know, understands his lanes, his angles and,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 15: and you know, yeah, he's, He's had the last couple
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 15: weeks a pretty good time on kickoff.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love when a player finds their niche and
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: how they can help the team. And he reminds me, again,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: of Max Lautenbach when he was a sophomore.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: And every team has those guys, and they always end
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: up being these all-league defensive-type players. And, yeah, it's been
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun to see, I mean, you know,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's some strategic, you know, kicking because knowing
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: that he has been good on his side, but still
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: he's making the plays. And, and that's been, that's been
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch. And for me, you know,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: I've talked about it a million times. I love learning
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: about these new athletes that I know nothing about. And
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: then they come on the radar and then it opens
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: my eyes. And then I get excited because I get
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: to see him for another two and a half years.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: And so he's been one that's, that's been really fun
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: to watch. You know, we're at the midway point of
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: the season for the regular season anyways. And at this point,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: you know, you can kind of look at your team
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: and there's got to be some positives and negatives. So
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: we'll start with the positives. What have you liked so far?
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 15: I like how we're– obviously I like how we're playing defensively.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 15: I think there's some improvement, especially in our front six,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 15: that we can do. We can keep getting better. uh,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 15: in the secondary, um, offensively. I like the way we're
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 15: spreading the ball around. We're, we're, I think, you know,
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 15: I read your stats last week and maybe it was
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 15: a week before that, but we had six guys touch
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 15: the ball, uh, through the air. I think it was
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 15: five or six guys. And so I think we're doing
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 15: a good job of spreading it around. Um, like I
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 15: said it, uh, before, I think there's little things that
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 15: we need to get better at. We, we, we need to, uh,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 15: understand our gaps on defense, um, And if we're not
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 15: playing gaps, you know, where we're supposed to be. And
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 15: same thing on offense. You know, sometimes you practice something
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 15: and then you get to a game and it's not
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 15: exactly what you thought it was going to be, but
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 15: it's similar. And so it's how can you recognize that
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 15: and react to that as opposed to, you know, kind
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 15: of freaking out. I do like our mentality over the last,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 15: you know, few weeks. We go back to Kings, you know,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 15: starting out slow and even– Last week, we had probably
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 15: the first play that we had on offense. It probably
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 15: would have been an 85, 90-yard touchdown that was just dropped.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 15: How do we recover from that? We went three and
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 15: out on that, and then we came back. If I
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 15: had to pick one thing that I'm really proud of,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 15: it's probably our mentality and just how we're playing as
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 15: a team and how the kids are getting along right now.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's... That goes a long way. People don't think
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: about that, the way they can gel and play as
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: a team. Because football, as you know, is the ultimate
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: team sport. So you really have to be there for
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: your brothers out there and attack at the same time
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: and with the same mindset. At the same time, it's
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: the midway point. And what's the biggest thing you need
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: to still work on?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 15: It's the little things. We can't shoot ourselves in the
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 15: foot with fumbles and just missed assignments and penalties. You know,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 15: we've had some untimely penalties, you know, whether they truly
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 15: exist or not out there on the field, they're getting called.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 15: And so we're, you know, we have to fix that.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 15: And we've had some big plays called back because of
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 15: some penalties.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 10: And so.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 15: We have to be smart about things. We just have
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 15: to play more disciplined at times.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: This Friday night, it's always a tremendous game when you
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: guys play the Mountaineers. You're back on the road at
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Deming against Mount Baker. What can you tell us about
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: this year's Mountaineer team?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 15: Ah, they're, you know, they're like, you know, the Mount
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 15: Baker teams that they always have. They are physical.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: They're big.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 15: You know, they're dynamic. Again, this year, you know, they
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 15: threw the ball a lot last week. They can run
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 15: the ball. They're well coached. And, you know, this week,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 15: I'm sure you're going to ask, but yeah, they will
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 15: be motivated this week.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: I can guarantee that.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. It was a unique game for the Mountaineers
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: on Saturday as the running attack was just not there.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, they totaled 50 yards on the ground, which
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: is really rare. They threw the ball more than they
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: passed the ball. I'm sure the scoreboard had something to
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: do with that, changing the game plan up a little bit.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: And they couldn't get off the field defensively, you know.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: As you know, on Alaska, we'll take four plays to
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: get 10 yards. And there were, I think I counted
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: seven times where it was like a fourth and three
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: type play, and they got the first down every single time.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: That's really tough. And I wouldn't want to be at
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: practice this week for Mount Baker because you know they're
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: going to be getting after it, which is not great
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: timing for you. as you know as you guys come
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: in there I know you guys are all friends but
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: this is game week and you know after playing Blaine
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: who likes to air it out and you kind of
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: change your defense a little bit to more of like
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: a 3-3 almost I'm sure against this kind of offense
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: you're going to go back to four down linemen and
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: you have to focus more on.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 15: A run game yeah no you're absolutely right there are
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 15: two different offenses for us to prepare for the last
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 15: two weeks and yeah, this is not a great time
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 15: to play Baker. I know Ron, he'll, yeah, I would
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 15: love to be a fly on the wall or just watch,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 15: you know, their practices because, man, it's, I can only
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 15: imagine how intense it's going to be and I guarantee
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 15: you that their kids will be ready to go and, yeah,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 15: they do such a great job, just their entire staff
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 15: and their kids are their kids are going to respond.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 15: I have no doubt about that.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that, you know, you and I both
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: know that a well-coached team, when something like that happens,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: it gets turned around pretty quickly. Yeah. And he has
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: that commanding presence to where you do not want to
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: disappoint him.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: And, and that's been a mainstay for over 30 years
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: out there in Deming. So.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 15: And they have the athletes to do it. They have,
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 15: they're really good. And so, you know, we'll have to,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 15: See what we can weather the storm a little bit and.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 6: See what happens.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be a great game. Last year's
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: was a classic. So many things positive and negative from
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: that game from both teams. I mean, it was just
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: a crazy game, a memorable night. And they've been that
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: way for a little while now, which has been a
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. And so it's going to be an
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: exciting one out at Bob Tisdale Field. Best of luck, Coach,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: on Friday at Mount Baker. Thank you so much for
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: joining me today on the Gatorade Game Day podcast.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 15: Appreciate it. Again, appreciate everything you do for all our athletes.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Coach. Always fun to catch up with Coach Bartle.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: I'm now joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker head football coach Ron Lepper. Coach, thank you
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 8: I'm doing well. It's always a pleasure to be spending
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 8: some time with.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 7: You, Tyler.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: Awesome. I love it, too. All right, we're going to
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: start off with the question that the world wants to know.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: Who is your celebrity crush?
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 8: What age am I?
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: It could be, I mean, if you have stages, you
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: could go through those.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 8: I got stages.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 9: Actually, in my office here, you can't see it, but
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 9: I have a, you know, at our assemblies, they used
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 9: to say, you know, have personality stuff, right, for the kids.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 8: You remember those things? And they had.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 9: I'm going to read it right now. I'm looking off
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 9: to the side. It says, who would do anything to
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 9: meet Gwen Stefani? I was in 2004, and I was
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 9: the guy. Yeah, I kind of had a crush on her,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 9: so I'll just go with that one.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: I kind of heard about that years ago, and I
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: don't know how, a mutual friend, something. And so that
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: kind of sparked me actually to ask all the coaches
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: this question. So, yeah, so it did come through with
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: the answer.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 8: Okay, hold on. I'm just going to grab it real quick.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: And that's from 22 years ago. You still have it.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 8: That's fantastic. Yeah, it hangs up in my– yeah, it's crazy, right? So, yeah.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I won best hair, you know, so
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: things change.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 9: I won best hair at my 40-year reunion because I
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 9: actually went back with hair instead of being bald all
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 9: the time, and the guys were very happy about that.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 9: They all thought I was bald, and I said, no, man,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 9: I shaved my head because you guys are bald, but
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 9: I let it grow after COVID, like since COVID, you know,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 9: and then I walked in there like, oh, my God.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 8: I said, yep. Yeah.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we went reverse paths there. I used to have
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: the crazy hair, and now, you know, it just doesn't
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: grow anymore, but that's all right. You know, I have
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: to take a left turn here, and I don't really
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: want to talk about it, but on Saturday, you took
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: a loss at home against a very strong physical team
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: on Alaska team. Tell us about the game.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, we knew it was going to be
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 8: a tough game.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 9: You know, we came out and, you know, we were
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 9: able to stop them, create a turnover, and then go
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 9: down and get in the end zone. And then, you know,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 9: we let them get right back in the game. And then,
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 9: you know, give them credit. You know, I didn't do
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 9: the job I probably should have done, call them plays
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 9: that day. It happens sometimes. Unfortunately, you know, it didn't
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 9: work out for us. But, you know, like you said,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 9: they're physical. You know, they say to the game planning,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 9: you know, we were able to create some turnovers. We
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 9: weren't able to capitalize as much as we should have.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 9: And so, you know, that's one of those things where,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 9: you know, bottom line, non-league game against a good opponent,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 9: that's what we want to have. And now we have
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 9: to regroup and get ready for the four-game stretch of
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 9: league play coming up.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. You know, it's good to get tested like that.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: You know, I mean, even in that 2022 run, you
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: had some games kind of like that before league play started.
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: And so you know that you can get things turned around.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: And like you said, big physical team. And sometimes that's
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: not the worst thing in the world for it to happen,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: especially when it's a league game or a non-league game.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: I want to take a moment to talk about Kel Reardon.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: He's been a stalwart on both sides of the line
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: of scrimmage for you for a few years. He was
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: all-state last year as a defensive lineman. What makes him
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: such a great football player?
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, he just plays with a lot of passion. He,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 9: you know, plays hard all the time. Just has, you know,
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 9: just really loves the game. He'd be around him, you know,
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 9: he's watching film. He's, you know, encouraging his teammates. You know,
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 9: and we also recognize that, you know, the kid's got
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 9: some ability, and so we're on him reminding him. Sometimes,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 9: you know, we'll watch film, and I'll say, I'll make
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 9: a little reminder, hey, you know, other people are going
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 9: to look at this stuff also. I know you want
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 9: to play at the next level, so we've got to
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 9: continue to do certain things. But he's like a sponge
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 9: that way. He really accepts, you know, the remarks that
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 9: we make. And, again, he's good with the younger kids.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 9: He's good with his teammates. He's just a big part
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 9: of what we have going for us.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it really speaks a lot to when one
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: of your top players is also one of your players that,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: like you said, is good with the younger players. He's approachable.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: You can talk to him even though he's a star.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: That really goes a long way. I remember being a
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: young player. I loved being able to talk to Dee
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: Galbraith and Lance Zamzow. They accepted me. as you know
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: a fringe varsity athlete and so it was it's really
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: cool when you have that and it really spreads throughout
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: the team and it and it can really make the
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: rest of the team uh play better and we're at
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: the midway point of the season right now as far
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: as regular season goes and so when you look at
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: that what have you liked the most so far about your.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 9: Team well i mean i think that you know the
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 9: kids that we are you know asking kids to do
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 9: things and showing up and you know, for the most part,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 9: they're doing that.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 8: And, you know, and we're trying to get better.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 9: And again, it might not think that last week, but
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 9: as we went back and watched the film as a team,
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 9: there were some good things that we were doing.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 8: And, you know, like I said, give credit to Alaska.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 9: They made some adjustments and they found a way to,
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 9: you know, run away from some of our guys that
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 9: we had, you know, to load up against what they
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 9: wanted to do going into that. But, you know, again,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 9: it's just that standpoint that we came back yesterday. I
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 9: thought we had a good practice yesterday. They realize, you know,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 9: now it's, you know, we're into league play. And again, we're,
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 9: you know, we don't get too, you know, mired in
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 9: the fact that, you know, we want to be undefeated
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 9: or this or that of this many wins. It's like
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 9: our goal every year is what do we have to
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 9: do to get to the postseason? And then we got
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 9: to do our best to get there. And then, cause
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 9: once you get there, then you got a chance, like,
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 9: you know, that and that's what we're still striving for
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 9: and that's all ahead of us right now so you
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 9: know we kind of hopefully turn the page a little
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 9: bit learn a few things that we need to get
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 9: better at and correct from last week and then hopefully
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 9: moving forward you know give a great effort this week
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 9: and knowing that we have a really good football team
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 9: coming to town yes.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: You do back at home against Nooksack Valley it's been
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: a great you know, set of games the last handful
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: of years. Really, really good back-and-forth games. Last year's was
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: a really memorable one for lots of reasons, back-and-forth. What
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: can you tell us about this year's group of the Pioneers?
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, they got skilled athletes. You know, again,
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 9: they got some speed out there. You know, the Martin Kidd, Skeenstra,
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 9: and Kutink, and Ackerman, and now they got, you know, Woodridge.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 8: They got guys that can do that. So, you know, again, it's.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 9: A little bit of a difference with some of their
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 9: offense because they're a new offensive coordinator. But, again, you know,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 9: they're doing a good job of trying to get their
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 9: athletes where they want to get them and get the
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 9: ball to them. You know, and then defensively, you know,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 9: they play a style where they're going to be aggressive
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 9: and come after you and are disciplined.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 8: So, you know, again, it's another solid club, and.
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 9: We know that– Nothing in this league is easy, and
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 9: so we understand what's in front of us, and then
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 9: we just try to prepare to give us our best opportunity.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: As an offensive play caller against coaching staff that you've
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: been coaching against forever, is there anything that you can
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: really pull out at all that they haven't seen, or
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: is it just one of those things where you just
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: have to try to stay one step ahead of them?
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 8: Well, you don't want to try to out-coach yourself.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 9: I mean, that's one of the things I think I've
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 9: learned along the way, and maybe that was a little
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 9: bit of an issue last week. But, yeah, I mean,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 9: the bottom line, you know, for us is, you know,
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 9: we want to be able to execute what we, you know,
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 9: and there's some things that are out there for us.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 8: We've got to make sure we execute those things. And
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 8: what I find is, you know, you might be able
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 8: to get up.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 9: Play here or there that they haven't seen yet or
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 9: something to that standard.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 8: But for us, it's like, here's what we're going to do.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 8: We need to go out and do it.
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 9: And when we do those things, we find that we
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 9: give ourselves an opportunity. And so, you know, I think
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 9: if you start trying to make things up or try
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 9: to do all this different stuff, then, you know, the
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 9: message you're sending is, hey, we got to do these
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 9: things to be successful. And sometimes you have to make adjustments.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 8: There's no doubt. And we'll do that.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 9: And you'll see that in the game all of a sudden, boom,
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 9: there's something that went on that you didn't see, you know, But, again,
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 9: I think it's focusing on what we need to do
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 9: and how we want to run things and go from there.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Coach. Best of luck against Nooksack Valley on Friday.
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me today on the
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 8: I appreciate it, Tyler.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 9: And, once again, I know I say it, but I
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 9: really appreciate all the things you do for the kids.
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 9: You do a heck of a job, and we're grateful
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 9: to have you around.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 8: So thank you very much.
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Coach. All right. Well, you heard it there.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: Now we're going to move on to the two-way matchups
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: and Squalicum at one and four heads down South to
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: take on the Sultan Turks who are two and three.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: And I tell you what, Sultan has a team that
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: is much improved week after week after week. You know,
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: we saw them, they beat Sehome earlier in the year.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: They beat Bellingham earlier in the year and they, they
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: held their own against Burlington Edison actually took them to overtime. So,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: The Sultan Turks are nothing to sneeze at there, and
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: the Squalicum Storm are going to really have to play
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: their best football to get a win there when they're
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: on a four-game losing streak right now. And I really
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: think that, you know, coming off that Archbishop game from
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: last week, you know, they did some good things early on,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: but you can't make any mistakes against a team like
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: the Wildcats. And they suffered that fumble in the red zone.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: Archbishop returned it all the way for a touchdown. And
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: I think this will be a very even game because
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: I look at the three city schools as being, you know,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: pretty even at this moment. And they both played Sultan really,
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: really close. Sultan won both those games. So does Squalicum.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: Squalicum has the win over Seaholm. So they have that edge,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: but do they have enough to get past the Sultan
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: Turks as well? It's going to be, it's going to
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: be really interesting. I love Nick Lucy and his staff.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: I think that they do a fantastic job of getting teams, their,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: their guys ready. Um, we'll just have to wait and
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: see if, if, you know, every week there, they're getting,
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: you know, they're firing on more cylinders with that offense now.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: And I really think they found something in the run
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: game with those, with those two backs. And then you can,
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: you can break off something fast with Mason Sone across the,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: across the field and, and pick up some big chunk
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: of yards that way. And, and I'm, and I think
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: the defense, I mean, they did pitch a shutout in
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 1: that opening week, but it's been a struggle ever since then.
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: And I think that, Um, this might be a game
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: where they could try to get things a little right. Uh,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: Sultan's going to have a big size advantage here. So
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: school is going to have to use their quickness and,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: and just to kind of create, have it create turnovers
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: and get the ball back for that offense. So we'll
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: see kind of how that one goes. Next up, big
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: game at civic stadium city rivalry. One of the, I mean, I,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: you could say it's probably the longest or one of
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: the longest rivalries in walking County going back to the sixties. Um,
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: It's a Seaholm and Bellingham out at civic stadium. It's
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: going to be, it's going to be, I think a really,
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: really close game. Mariners come into it one and four
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Bellingham two and three. And when you look at their
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 1: common opponents and what they did against them, it's very,
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: very comparable. So you kind of look at it saying this,
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: this is a game that might even go into overtime.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: It's so close when you really look at it. And
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: Bellingham coming off the big win last week and, you know,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: Seaholm dropped that one to Linden, but, but getting that
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: win against Lakewood was huge for them. That was a
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: comeback win as well, and I think it's going to
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: be a pretty close game. I'm now joined on the
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day podcast by Bellingham head football coach Adam Leonard. Coach,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 6: I'm doing great, Tyler. I hope you're doing well, too.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, things are going all right. And we're going to
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 1: start with a random question, as we do, and you
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: don't have to answer this. but who is your celebrity crush?
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's easy. It's a Sophia Vergara.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Yeah. You can't go wrong. I think you're.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah. And she actually, I think she's in her fifties.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 11: She's older than me, but, uh, yeah, she's definitely my
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 11: celebrity crush, modern family.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 6: Uh, I'm a huge fan.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 5: That's all.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 6: Leave it at that.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. You know, what's funny is that I started watching
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: Modern Family during COVID when I actually had time to
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: sit down and watch shows that I haven't really that
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: I'd heard about that I hadn't really seen. And I
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: got about three or four seasons in and then life
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: started happening again. So I started doing stuff and then.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: And then Miss Walkenpreps and I, Laura, she was like,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: have you seen that all the way through? I said no.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: So we just recently started again from the beginning about
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: a month ago. So we try to get one episode
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 1: in every night before we go to bed. And so
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: that's pretty funny that you mentioned her. On Friday, you
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: traveled down to Marysville-Pilchuck, defeated the Tomahawks– I believe it
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: was 40-6. It was a great win for your team.
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: Tell us about the game.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, it was kind of a good bounce
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 6: back win.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 11: Obviously, we were down some players and some backups and
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 11: some freshmen played against Linden.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 6: And, you know, Linden's such a terrific.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 11: Program around the road. You know, wasn't exactly lined up
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 11: for success for us. Then to come back and go
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 11: down to Pilchuck, you know, Ben Leonard came back starting
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 11: and probably played one of the most efficient games he's played,
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 11: you know, In his high school career, he was 19
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 11: of 24 for over 200 yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions.
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 11: And that was in three quarters of play. Just a
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 11: great effort by all our players on both sides of
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 11: the ball.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 6: Special teams, offense, defense. Matthew Steele goes over 100 yards.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 11: He's emerging as, in my opinion, as one of the
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 11: top receivers in the Northwest Conference 2A. Calvin Hoffwagon does
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 11: what he does, getting Julius Siegfried back. We love the
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 11: team in tackles. Just an all-around great effort. And then
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 11: our freshmen come in at the end, you know, getting,
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 11: you know, Nick Leonard going 4-4-4 passing on some quick passes,
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 11: some jets, some other things. Just set up Tyson Miller,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 11: one of our freshman running back, converted running backs. You know,
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 11: we had some injuries there and, you know, still waiting
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 11: on the status of DJ Hill. So, you know, we've been,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 11: you know, repping other guys there. It just was a
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 11: great effort and a great bounce back game for us
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 11: to get back in the win column and get some
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 11: momentum going into this week.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, obviously great to have your starting quarterback
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: back under center. And, you know, you really push the
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: run game quite a bit. I think you ran for
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: about 120, 130 yards, something like that, which is nice
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: to have. And, of course, when you have your starting
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: quarterback back in the lineup, the defense has to honor
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: that and it opens up holes in the run game.
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: And then once they start bringing in the box, then
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: you can start going to the air. And that chess
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: match back and forth just continues to work on and on.
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 1: And I want to talk about, there's something that kind
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: of stood out on film for me, even though I've
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: seen it for three years now, but it just kind
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: of really hit me this, this, this time is when, when,
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 1: when Ben Leonard goes back to pass and he rolls
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: to his left, he really, he holds the ball just
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: with one hand kind of down behind him. And then
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: he sets up really well and throws, but I've never
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: seen him fumble doing that. Does he just have big
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: hands or is it just something he's used to doing?
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 11: Well, uh like all my kids it's a leonard trait
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 11: we all have very very big hands which helps throw
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 11: the ball and also wet weather too yeah that has
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 11: huge hands that's how that's how he'll tell you that's
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 11: how he gets a lot of run on his fastball
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 11: as well ball coming off his fingertips like that very
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 11: long hands very big hands And, uh, Ben, uh, doesn't
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 11: do now. We want to protect our QB a little bit,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 11: but he's a former corner and he's able to really
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 11: flip his hips really well. And, uh, for his size too,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 11: I mean, he's a lanky six, one now.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 8: And, you know, for him, he just.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 6: Got a great arm whip and he's got great accuracy
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 6: with that, but you're right.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 11: He, so many times you see him go to his left,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 11: flip his hips and just, you know, drive the ball
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 11: like 40 yards severe. He did that, um, against Phil Chuck,
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 11: touchdown pass to Matthew Steele, but you're right.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 6: I've never thought about that.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 11: He doesn't, uh, Doesn't really have the size to look
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 11: like he's got big arm strength, but he does have
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 11: the big hands, and he's able to really, really just,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 11: you know, the ball explodes out of his hand, kind
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 11: of like when he plays baseball.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 8: It's pretty impressive.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's something that, like I said, I've seen it
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: for a while. I've just never really put it into
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: words because– maybe it's because it's become so routine when
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: he does that play. And that's not an easy play
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: for a quarterback to make. I think Russell Wilson was
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: one of the best ones I ever saw doing that.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rogers, pretty good at it too. Cause you got
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: to kind of, you just got to get in position
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: quickly and make that, make that throw, which he does
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: a great job at that. You mentioned Julius coming back
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: and to play defensive kind of defensive end outside linebacker
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: type and, And there were so many plays where he's
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: just on top of the ball carrier. Is he 100%?
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: Is it still kind of a nagging injury? He's definitely
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: looked like 100% on Friday night.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 6: You know, he's still not 100%. And that's the thing.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 6: You know, he's playing through some pain and some discomfort
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 6: for sure.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 11: But not only did he lead our team in tackles
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 11: last week, last Friday, but he was just playing so
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 11: violent and so aggressive, which were you know, what we
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 11: were counting on this season. I just can't imagine what
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 11: he's going to do when he's 100%. So him getting
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 11: back to that, obviously if he was 100%, we'd probably
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 11: be playing him more on offense. But he's looking like
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 11: an absolute difference maker on defense, and I think that's
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 11: going to carry into this next week in Seaholm.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he played great in bringing up Seaholm this Friday night.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: It's homecoming. You're taking on the longtime rivals, the Seaholm Mariners.
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: Tell us about this year's Seaholm team.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 6: You know, Seaholm's been so tough for the last few years.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 11: I know they graduated a huge senior class of just
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 11: absolute football players and great kids. But they do have
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 11: some guys coming back, some young guys that are pretty impressive.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 11: And they're just very, very well coached. They have a
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 11: great staff over there.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 8: Coach B.Y.
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 6: Has been doing.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 11: It for a long time at a high level.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 6: And he's going to have those guys prepared.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 11: And plus, when it's a homecoming game, when it's a
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 11: rivalry game, just, you know, the stakes are a little
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 11: bit higher.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 6: Honestly, the stakes are even higher, too.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 11: Because I believe that we feel like the playoffs for
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 11: those last playoff spots start this week.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 6: We have to.
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 11: Have this game against Seaholm. The stakes are a little
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 11: bit higher. They have a win against Lakewood. They're coming
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 11: from behind wins, so we know that they're tough, they're gritty,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 11: and they're going to play hard.
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 6: That's going to be for a great matchup on Friday.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been talking to a lot of people about
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: this game, and as soon as I bring it up,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: they say, that's going to be a really good game.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: And everyone keeps saying that, which is awesome. I think
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: this upcoming week, if you look at the whole slate
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: of all the games, it looks like a lot of
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: really close games that are going to be happening, which
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: is really going to make it fun. It's interesting because
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: I'm writing all these stories, and sometimes when it's a
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: really close game, It just kind of writes itself. It
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: just flows. It's easy to talk about everything that happened.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: But when it's a blowout, sometimes it's like, well, it's
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: usually it's kind of a shorter story. You just kind
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: of get some names in there. And and but I'm
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: excited for all these close games that are going to happen.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: And I think yours is going to be another one
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: of those ones where it could come down to the
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: very end. And I wanted to bring up Logan Rogers
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: for a second because I think he's leading the county
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 1: in tackles for loss. He just knows how to– he's
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: just so big and strong. Is there– is that– I mean,
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 1: obviously that's somebody you have to account for on the
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: defensive line, but is there something that you can do
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: as far as double teaming or chipping or something that
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 1: can just try to hold him back a little bit?
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 6: It's funny you mention Logan. Obviously, you know, Logan's their
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 6: top player.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 11: He's one of the– I think he's the top offensive
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 11: and defensive lineman at the conference. It's funny, too, because
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 11: here behind me in my office, I have a picture
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 11: of Ben and Logan standing right next to each other
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 11: playing youth football together.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 6: They've known each.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 11: Other quite many years, and there's a ton of respect
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 11: that Ben and our team has for Logan Rogers and
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 11: the rest of the Seattle Mariners. But to answer your question,
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 11: you know, double teams, you know, don't run to his side,
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 11: stay away from him, things like that. You know, just,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 11: you know, we know what a force he can be.
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 11: He's an incredible football player. I thought he was the
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 11: top lineman as well, you know. you know, last couple
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 11: of years. And, you know, he's going to be, he's
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 11: going to be something we're going to have to account for.
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 11: Definitely number one on the list in terms of our,
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 11: you know, how to, how to compete with the Mariners
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 11: this week. And he's at the top of our list,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 11: but yeah, I would say not that I give him
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 11: too much away, you know, stay away from him a
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 11: little bit, you know, you know, be smart about, you know,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 11: where he lines up and, you know, maybe he's lined
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 11: up different spots and we're going to go ahead and
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 11: put our best guys, you know, and try to combat
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 11: him because, you know, he's a difference maker for that team.
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: I've heard different NFL coaches talk about Lawrence Taylor, and
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: I know Lawrence Taylor is a different player than Logan Rogers,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: different positions and stuff like that. They would say the
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: best way to combat him is to go actually go
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: at him because we don't want him chasing us from behind. And,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: you know, but but sometimes, you know, when I get
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: I think if it was Reggie White, who was more
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: of a comparison to Logan Rogers, I wouldn't want to
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: go at him. So I think it's probably the right
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: thing to stay away from. And who knows, because he
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 1: has been kind of all over that defensive line, whether
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: he could be right over the center, he could be
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: over a tackle. it's going to be really interesting to
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 1: see the chess match and how that goes. And yeah,
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: it's going to be, it's going to be a lot
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: of fun coach. I can't wait for it. Best of
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: luck on Friday against see home. And thank you so
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 1: much for joining me today on the Gatorade game day podcast.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me. Have a wonderful week.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks coach. Well, there you have it from that one.
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about this pregame festivities. For those of
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: you who don't know miss walk and preps, my girlfriend,
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: Laura Slyman is a, 2007 graduate of Bellingham high school.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: She will be an honorary captain for this game. So
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: I'm really excited for that. It's her 20 year, you know,
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: she she'll be out of school for 20 years and
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: she had the, I don't even think she's been back
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: to civic stadium in 20 years. So this is a
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: really fun thing for her. I wish I could be
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: there for this. I'll be doing the studio show, but
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: she's really, really excited. So it's going to be a
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: fun one. So if you're going to be at civic stadium,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 1: you know, they'll announce her as an honorary captain and,
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: and they'll, If you see her, she'll probably be decked
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: out in all Bellingham gear and stuff like that. But,
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: you know, please go say hi. She would love for
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: people to come up to her and say hello. So
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: that's going to be a really fun one, too. Should
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: be a great game. Should be a really, really good game.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: And for the big, big game of the weekend, probably
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: around the state when you really look at it, Anna Cordes,
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: the top-ranked Seahawks, 5-0, going to Linden to take on
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: the Lions, who.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 6: Are 4-1 ahead.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: And this has been a tremendous game the last, you know,
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: half dozen years. There's been games where there's been shootouts.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: There's been games where there've been low scoring, but they're
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: always extremely competitive. And I really think that this is
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: going to be very interesting. I'm really curious what the
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: weather is going to be like, because that could throw
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: a factor into what Anna Cordes wants to do. I'm
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: sure Lyndon wants it to be muddy and rainy. And
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: so they can, you know, use their just kind of
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: grit and grind and, and, ball away from Ryan Harrington
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: because that kid is a special, special quarterback. And, you know,
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 1: the weather can neutralize the game a little bit, make
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: it a little bit more even. And it's probably what
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 1: the Lions want. But Anacortes, they don't care. They'll just
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: they'll strap it up and play. And that's what makes
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: it so fun. It's been a fun little rivalry across
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: all sports with these two schools. I mean, you've seen
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: it in basketball as well and baseball and It's developed
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: into a fun, fun rivalry between these two programs and
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: in multiple sports, and it all kind of started out
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: with football about five years ago. So this is going
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: to be a great one as well. I am now
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by Linden Head
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: football coach Blake Van Dalen. Coach, thank you for joining
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: me today. How are you doing?
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 14: Good. Thanks for having me and taking the time to
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 14: do this. Always appreciate spending time with you.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Yeah, I love it too. So it's always fun.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to start off with the random
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: question as usual, and this is one that's a little different.
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: You don't have to answer this, but I'm going to
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 1: put it on you anyways. Who is your celebrity crush?
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 14: Celebrity crush, I would have to say it ended up
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 14: after years and years of deep, intense research. No, Meg Ryan,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 14: because everybody tells me my wife looks just like her,
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 14: so that is such an easy one, but Meg Ryan.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 14: is and always will be my celebrity crush.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's, yeah, she does look like Meg Ryan. My goodness,
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. Oh, that's awesome. Okay, we'll get back to
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 1: football now. On Friday, you went to Civic Stadium to
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: take on Sehome. A lot of good things happened for you,
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: for your team in the 48-7 win. Tell us about it.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 14: Yeah, you know, we really, tried and focused on playing
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 14: clean football. We saw what happened when we didn't against Ferndale.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 14: And so we're trying to play to our standard and
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 14: execute to a level that we think can be competitive
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 14: at the highest level. And I think, unfortunately, for Seaholm,
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 14: we did that Friday night. You know, we've had some really...
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 14: amazing games with them probably the last two three well
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 14: three or four years as long as they've had Nolan
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 14: Wright and uh and so this was kind of the
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 14: first time that it felt um different than it has
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 14: the last couple years so really proud of our kids
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 14: for stepping up playing to the standard that we uh
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 14: think we can uh to get ready for what's coming
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 14: down the road and Yeah.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: And the efficiency has really been strong, especially in the
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: passing game. You know, you're not airing it out 30,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: 40 times a game, but the efficiency has really been there.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: And I don't know how much you know about the
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: quarterback rating and a perfect quarterback rating and all that,
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: but for the season, Austin Postma has a perfect quarterback rating,
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: which is pretty crazy, which basically takes into account all
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: the percentages and, you know, averages and stuff like that.
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: And believe it or not, Jace Bayes didn't– he also
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: has a perfect quarterback rating and Bedlington's rating is over
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: a hundred. So as a team, it's really been strong
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: and it's really been fun to see. And here's something
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: for you. Cause I know you love the history. I'm
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: going to throw another one at you here. 17 players
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: in Linden history have over a thousand yards receiving in
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: their career, but only two of them have averaged over
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: 20 yards per catch. Ryan Cito is one Samarango is
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: the other. What makes Sam such a big play threat?
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 14: You know, he's a tough one because he's such a
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 14: shifty receiver that you can't give him space. And so
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 14: the problem the defense has is that if you give
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 14: him space, he's just too good of a great hand,
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 14: shifty receiver. So you kind of have to get into him.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 14: You have to be next to him or near him. Well,
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 14: now that allows us to take a few shots over
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 14: the top. And he has that ability to not lose
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 14: speed when making cuts. JSM is like the epitome of
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 14: that in the NFL where, you know, Sam comes in
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 14: and out of his breaks about as fast as any
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 14: kid we've ever had. So if you're a defender and
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 14: your coach is saying, don't let him have any room, well,
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 14: then you're going to get beat over top. And he
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 14: just has a knack. And then, you know, some of
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 14: the hardest balls to complete, believe it or not. And
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 14: he's got such great hands that he makes quarterbacks look
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 14: good at times with the catches that he makes. And
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 14: then the cool part is if you knew the work
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 14: that he puts in, it's always good when a kid,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 14: who puts in the extra time, the extra hours, the
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 14: extra lifting gets rewarded, you know? And he's one of
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 14: those kids. He was, as a sophomore, basically him and
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 14: Brant Hettner spent every second together all summer. And I
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 14: think that's where his work ethic started and he's continued
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 14: it on. And so I'm pretty pumped that he's in
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 14: that status. I would have thought Les Powers was in
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 14: there somewhere, but he's in our Hall of Fame. So
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 14: that tells you I'm comparing him to some pretty cool people.
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, really close to 1,000 career yards, but not.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: But as far as yards per catch, yes, he's way
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: up there. And the crazy thing is he just passed
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: Justin Brand, Sam did, in yards, and he's only one
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: yard away from Scooter Hastings now. So he's moving up
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: that chart, getting close to 2,000 with the big four
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 1: there that have over 2,000 career receiving yards. Just a
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: tremendous career for him. And it speaks a lot to
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: his work ethic. And, of course, you know, you're rubbing
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: shoulders with Brent Heppner for a summer. That work ethic
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: is going to rub off on you. And hopefully that
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: will continue on with some younger players of yours, which
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that it will.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 14: He's been a great mentor. We have a very young
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 14: receiving core behind him. And he's been a great mentor
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 14: to those kids. So I'm pretty excited. It feels a
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 14: little bit like the Ohio State wide receiver room where
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 14: the upperclassmen really take a lot of pride. in developing
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 14: you know danny bowler is still coaching with us and
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 14: helping and so it's kind of a fun little dynamic
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 14: you know blair bomber was back for a few years
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 14: and i think that helped breed that atmosphere.
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah and that's that's funny you brought up danny bowler
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: because he had over a thousand yards and he's at 19.2
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: so he would have been that third guy so another
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: a very similar type player there uh we're at the
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: midway point of the regular season and usually at that
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: point you can kind of take a look back or
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: at least the media does and and and it will
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: ask the proverbial question of What have you liked so much?
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 1: What have you liked the most so far at the
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: halfway point?
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 14: I think probably the number one is our health. You know,
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 14: last year... Health of our team really affected some things
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 14: down the stretch. And so the fact that we've been
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 14: able to stay healthy this year has probably been paramount.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 14: But you hit the nail on the head. Our quarterbacks,
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 14: we have a little habit here. Our scout team, if
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 14: they get an interception in practice, they get a cheeseburger
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 14: during films the next day.
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 13: And we've only.
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 14: Given out three cheeseburgers in six, seven weeks of practicing.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 14: And so that tells you our quarterbacks have really bought
• 1:43:45
  Speaker 14: into the idea that if it's not a perfect picture,
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 14: you're a very talented athlete that I wouldn't want to
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 14: tackle in space. And those kids, I think what you're
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 14: seeing in our quarterback reading is an understanding of, you know,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 14: I'm a dual threat quarterback. Why would I screw it
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 14: up by throwing ill-advised passes? And so I hope that's
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 14: another big thing. I think our defense and our turnover
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 14: ratio has been unbelievable. Our defensive scoring, as you pointed
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 14: out a couple weeks ago, is top notch. So it's
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 14: a little different than what we're used to. We haven't
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 14: typically been a turnover defense. We've been a bend-don't-break defense.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 14: But I give our kids credit. They've been very opportunistic
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 14: against the opponents we've had. So turnover ratio, quarterback play.
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 14: I like that you hit the nail on the head.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 14: I feel like the last couple of weeks, our scoring
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 14: has been controlled. Like each drive ends and we feel like, okay,
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 14: that was very controlled. It didn't feel chaotic. It didn't
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 14: feel desperate. It didn't feel like we were out of
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 14: our realm, if you will. We just are kind of
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 14: figuring out who we are and what we do and
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 14: starting to do it hopefully at a high level.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And, and yeah, Yeah, it's just it's been
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch. And of course, at
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: the same point, the midway point of the season, there's
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: got to be things that you still need to work on.
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: What's the biggest thing you think?
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 14: Well, you know, we played five games and in one
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 14: of those games, the mistakes that we made cost us
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 14: the game. And when I say we, myself included, you know,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 14: we own this thing together, players, coaches, everybody. And so
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 14: I think that's our thing that we need to continue
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 14: to work on is what we call clean football, discipline,
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 14: clean football. You know, we don't need the flamboyant, exciting plays.
• 1:45:35
  Speaker 14: We'll take them when they come, but we need to play.
• 1:45:38
  Speaker 14: It's hard to beat teams that are very consistent. And
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 14: I want to be an extremely consistent, disciplined team. And
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 14: so I think now with the next four games in
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 14: front of us being four extremely physical opponents, four extremely
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 14: talented opponents. We're heading into a month here of what
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 14: we call the gauntlet, and it will be really fun
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 14: to get tested and see how we handle that pressure.
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and speaking of that, this Friday night is one
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: of the biggest ones as you're back at home against Anacortes.
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: It's been such a fun little rivalry this past half-dozen
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: seasons or so. It's just been a great game that–
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: that people show up for. And, you know, I know
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 1: the coaching staffs know each other. And so the X's
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: and O's and the scheming and all that stuff is
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: so fun. But, you know, when it comes down to
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 1: the Jimmies and the Joes, the players, what can you
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: tell us about the Seahawks?
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 14: Well, I mean, the straw that stirs the drink is Harrington.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 14: You know, as a Cougs fan, I'm excited that he's
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 14: going to Wazoo. I wish he would go sooner. He
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 14: is impressive. You talk about the numbers our quarterbacks have
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 14: been putting up. If you combine all of our quarterback
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 14: numbers and compare them to him, he almost has doubled
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 14: our kids in yardage from the line of scrimmage and
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 14: touchdowns and things like that. And so he is operating
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 14: at an extremely high level. They played an extremely competitive
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 14: game against our physical. It was great for our kids
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 14: to see, you know, what, can be and what's coming
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 14: and to get ready for that. You know, we have
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 14: had a lot of fun this week. Coach Portz and
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 14: I have texted. I took a picture of our field
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 14: and told them we don't know how, but the lawnmower broke.
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 14: And so we're not going to be able to mow
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 14: the grass for a couple of weeks and add a
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 14: little bit of that back and forth. And so we
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 14: like that, you know, we're both aware that in a
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 14: weird way, the winner of this game has won four
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 14: of the last five state championships. And that's just a
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 14: bizarre stat when you think about it, it doesn't make
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 14: this game any bigger than the other ones. It's just
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 14: an interesting sidebar that sometimes this game with them has
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 14: determined maybe a playoff seed down the stretch that, that,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 14: you know, has an impact on what happens, but, you know,
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 14: we went back to back, they went back to back, and,
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 14: and so it's, it's, it's turned into a really cool
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 14: rivalry the last, yeah, five or six years.
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's, it's really been a lot of fun to see, and, and, but,
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: you know, prepping during the week, you know, doing scout team,
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: you know, preparing for Ryan Harrington, do you... So you
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: call up Josh Kraft and say, hey, can you come
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 1: out here and play some scout team quarterback for us?
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: What do you do as far as how do you
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: prep for him? Or do you have two quarterbacks playing
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: at the same time and one throws and one runs?
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: Is there anything special that you do when you prep
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: for a quarterback that's this dynamic?
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 14: A couple things that we have done and will do
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 14: and are doing, I guess, our ones will go against
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 14: our twos and twos against our ones. So, for example,
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 14: all of a sudden we're going to have Gordy Bedlington
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 14: and Sam Arango on the scout team anytime they're not
• 1:49:01
  Speaker 14: in getting their defensive reps. Well, hello. Merry Christmas to that.
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 14: Not many teams can do that. It is fun. We've
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 14: had Cam Peterson and Isaiah Altman played for us for
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 14: years and and they can run around and sling it.
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 14: So we've had them sub in some play scout team.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 14: And like you pointed out, Jace Bayesden is a sophomore
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 14: in our program that's having a great sophomore breakout season.
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  Speaker 14: And so he's, I told him to spend a ton
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  Speaker 14: of time watching just Harrington on film and figure out
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  Speaker 14: some things he can do, even if it's just.
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  Speaker 1: How he claps.
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  Speaker 14: For the snap count because they've got a lot of
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  Speaker 14: kids to jump off sides. So I don't think there's
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  Speaker 14: one little thing that you can do to get ready
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  Speaker 14: for a team like this, but I do know we're
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  Speaker 14: doing a lot of things to give our defense, for example,
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  Speaker 14: the best look possible so that they know that they're
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  Speaker 14: either on the mark or one step. You know, there's
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  Speaker 14: a couple clips I've showed our kids. An archbishop kid
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  Speaker 14: was literally six inches off. Like he would step, he
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  Speaker 14: was in perfect position and something in his brain said,
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  Speaker 14: I need to move to the right six inches. And
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  Speaker 14: because he did that, they completed a fourth and one
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  Speaker 14: that ended up leading to the game tying drive. So
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  Speaker 14: it's just like, you gotta be kidding me. So we're
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  Speaker 14: gonna play a team where if you're six inches off,
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  Speaker 14: you might suffer the consequence for that. And what a
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  Speaker 14: great opponent to have at this point in the season
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  Speaker 14: with four weeks before the playoffs would even start to
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  Speaker 14: kind of get tested in that way and see where
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  Speaker 14: are we at? What do we need to do between
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  Speaker 14: now and hopefully week nine or 10 to be competitive
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  Speaker 14: at the highest level? And maybe that's why the winner
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  Speaker 14: of this game has had success down the road is
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  Speaker 14: because they're operating at a very high level in order
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  Speaker 14: to beat each other.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be great coaches. You know, it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a packed house. Out at home. Best of
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  Speaker 1: luck against Anacortes. Thank you so much for joining me
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  Speaker 1: today on the Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
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  Speaker 6: Can I make a quick plug?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 14: We chose this to be our legacy night. So there'll
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  Speaker 14: be four former state championship teams getting honored at halftime.
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  Speaker 14: The 1991 championship team, it's their 35th year. The 2006,
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  Speaker 14: it's their 20th year. The 2011, it's their 15th year.
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  Speaker 14: And the 2021, it's their fifth year. So we call
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  Speaker 14: it legacy night here at Linden and all four former
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  Speaker 14: teams and coaching staffs will be honored at halftime. So
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  Speaker 14: it's a really cool thing that I don't get to
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  Speaker 14: be a part of, unfortunately, but I'm.
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  Speaker 17: Glad that we were able to, we wanted to do
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  Speaker 17: this for years and with four teams celebrating what I
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  Speaker 17: would call anniversaries, if you will, it's going to be
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  Speaker 17: a really cool opportunity to honor those guys.
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  Speaker 14: So thanks for letting me give a quick shout out
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  Speaker 14: to them.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Is this a pregame or halftime or how's this work?
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  Speaker 1: Halftime activity.
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  Speaker 14: Along with Mini Cheer, my granddaughter, Quincy, will be doing
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  Speaker 14: Mini Cheer at halftime. So let's keep it real here.
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  Speaker 14: There's going to be as many people in the crowd
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  Speaker 14: watching our Mini Cheer kids as the old guys that
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  Speaker 14: are coming back to get recognized.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man, that just adds to the crowd. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you bring it in there. the extra bleachers and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Cause this is one of those games already
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  Speaker 1: without the extra hoopla you bring in miniature and that
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  Speaker 1: brings in a lot of people. And then the four
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  Speaker 1: anniversary teams. Oh man, that's going to be, I wish
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  Speaker 1: I was going to be there. I'll be in the studio,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll be checking it out. And that's awesome coach.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on such a great season so far and best
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  Speaker 1: of luck on Friday against Anna Cordes. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for joining me on the Gatorade game day podcast.
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  Speaker 14: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks, Tyler.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you have it. You've heard from a majority
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: of the coaches and find out what most of their
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 1: celebrity crushes were, which is always fun. And I'll try
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: to come up with another great question for next week.
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  Speaker 1: If you think of a good question to ask all
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: the coaches, please send it to me on social media.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: Look for Walkin' Preps and just send me. If there's
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 1: something you want to know about each coach, whatever it is,
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: it could be anything. And if then I can pick
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: a good question, I'll ask it to every single one
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  Speaker 1: of them. See if we can get a good answer.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. They have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun with it. I want to thank all of them
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  Speaker 1: for playing along this week on kind of a silly
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  Speaker 1: question there. But you'll get to see a different side
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  Speaker 1: of these coaches, which I think is a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun as well. So thank you to all the coaches
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  Speaker 1: for being able to join me this week. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: to all you listeners for putting up with the shenanigans.
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  Speaker 1: And thanks for sticking around this long. This has been
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  Speaker 1: Episode 454, the Week 6 Gatorade Game Day Football Preview.
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  Speaker 1: I am Tyler Anderson of Walkin' Preps, and I will
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  Speaker 1: talk to you next week.