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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 451 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 5 · 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 451. It's the week five Gatorade game day football preview.
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  Speaker 1: And I am Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: this episode is brought to you by Walton Beverage, who's
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  Speaker 1: been a staple in our community for 95 years. And
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  Speaker 1: to find out how you can get involved. Well, let's
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  Speaker 1: take a look at the football slate for this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And it is eight games. And a lot of them
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  Speaker 1: are jam-packed on Friday night at 7 o'clock. Seven of
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  Speaker 1: the eight are jam-packed at the same time, which means
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  Speaker 1: tonight's show on YouTube, the Walkin' Preps YouTube channel. There
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  Speaker 1: will be a lot going on. No Thursday games. A
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  Speaker 1: lot going on Friday night. There will be one Saturday
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  Speaker 1: afternoon game, which we will get to at the end.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to start right off by talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Friday night games. I've got almost all the coaches
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  Speaker 1: lined up to talk about the games. So let's start
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  Speaker 1: out with Bellingham going on the road to Marysville-Pilchuck. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this used to be a conference game, but Marysville-Pilchuck has
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  Speaker 1: gone to an independent schedule this year. Who knows? And
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  Speaker 1: Sultan kind of took their place. So we don't know
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  Speaker 1: if Marysville-Pilchuck at some point will rejoin the conference. It's
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  Speaker 1: very possible. You just kind of never know at this point.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of 2A teams have kind of come
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  Speaker 1: in and left. I think we saw it with Cedar
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  Speaker 1: Crest at one point. Solton just joining in this year.
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  Speaker 1: Archbishop Murphy, it wasn't that long ago that they joined.
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  Speaker 1: And so it's a lot of those teams from down
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  Speaker 1: south that are kind of looking for a conference to join.
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  Speaker 1: But the Tomahawks are now out of the conference, and
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham will go to them. Bellingham is 1-3 on the season.
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  Speaker 1: They're ranked 45th in Class 2A, according to Max Preps.
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  Speaker 1: Marysville Pilchuck still looking for their first win. They're ranked
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  Speaker 1: 60th in Class 2A. I am now joined on the
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  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day podcast by Bellingham head football coach Adam Leonard. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing okay, Tyler. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Doing all right as well. Okay, we're going to start
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  Speaker 1: by talking food. So name a food that you love
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  Speaker 1: to eat, but most people don't like to eat. It's
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  Speaker 1: easy to name your favorite food, but what's something that
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  Speaker 1: you like? I love this. I don't know why everybody
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  Speaker 1: else hates it.
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  Speaker 3: What I love to eat, but most people don't like.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if there's an answer for that. That's
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  Speaker 4: a tremendously good question. That's like those questions we put
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  Speaker 4: up in our office every day.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 3: I would say, you know, some people don't like eggs.
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  Speaker 4: I love working out in the morning, and I love,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, 10 to 12 eggs every day
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  Speaker 4: after my workout. And I know some people don't like
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  Speaker 4: them where they get, you know, I think it's too bland.
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  Speaker 4: You know, some people don't like, you know, plain chicken breast.
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  Speaker 4: They have to dress it up a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to say that just, I don't like it.
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  Speaker 4: Plain chicken breast. That's, that's a food that most people
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  Speaker 4: find bland, but I love.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now, now the opposite. What's something that you can't eat
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  Speaker 1: that everybody else loves?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm from the desert now. So yeah, I hate
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  Speaker 3: fish and seafood.
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  Speaker 2: Disgusting.
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  Speaker 3: Anything out of the ocean makes me sick.
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  Speaker 4: And everybody up here in the Northwest, Pacific Northwest, they
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  Speaker 4: love seafood.
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  Speaker 1: They love salmon.
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  Speaker 3: They love fish. I don't like any of that. And
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  Speaker 3: I find it quite disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's great. So last week, it was a tough
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  Speaker 1: loss on the road against a great Linden team. And
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of everything working against you. It was
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  Speaker 1: a short week. and you were without your three-year starting quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: At what point in the week did you find out
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  Speaker 1: that Ben Leonard was unavailable to play, and then how
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  Speaker 1: did you tell freshman Nick Leonard the news?
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  Speaker 4: So Ben did not feel anything after the Lakewood game.
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  Speaker 4: As you know, he led our team in rushing in
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  Speaker 4: addition to passing, and he had a rushing touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: It really kind of changed the outcome of that game
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  Speaker 3: against Lakewood.
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  Speaker 4: And so his adrenaline must have been pumping.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't feel anything. The next day he woke up
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday and he didn't make it to film. He
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  Speaker 3: couldn't get out of bed. His wrist hurt so bad. So, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we know something's up.
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  Speaker 4: We took him in to get looked at immediately. And
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  Speaker 4: they couldn't tell if it was just a severe sprain
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  Speaker 4: or a fracture in the growth plate in his wrist. And, uh, luckily, uh,
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  Speaker 4: Calvin Van Hoffwagon's, uh, father is Dr. Chris Van Hoffwagon.
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  Speaker 4: And he was an orthopedic surgeon. He was able to
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  Speaker 4: look at the x-rays and, you know, I can't tell you,
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  Speaker 4: but we definitely need to keep them out. We don't
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  Speaker 4: want things to get worse. You know, uh, you want
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  Speaker 4: to bring them back healthy. So obviously in our house,
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  Speaker 4: little brother, Nick is listening to all this conversation.
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  Speaker 3: And knowing, uh, you know, he's the next man up
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  Speaker 3: on our death chart.
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  Speaker 4: And, About Monday, we came in and we started repping
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  Speaker 4: Nick at getting QB1 reps. And by Tuesday, Wednesday, we
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  Speaker 4: were like, okay, you know, we're going to sit Ben
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  Speaker 4: out this one. Nick's going to be the starter. And
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  Speaker 4: he's not an old freshman either. He just turned 14,
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  Speaker 4: not 15. So he has a lot of QB experience
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  Speaker 4: under him. But playing high-level middle school and youth football
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  Speaker 4: versus playing on the field at Lyndon's homecoming was night
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  Speaker 4: and day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It was quite an experience for him and a couple
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  Speaker 4: other freshmen we had to start. But at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, I think they'll be stronger for it.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's kind of how that timeline went with
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  Speaker 4: going from Ben to Nick at QB.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's a memorable moment, too. It's something they're
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  Speaker 1: going to always remember, even though the score was not
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  Speaker 1: what you wanted. But it's something that they'll remember for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of their lives. And it was the first
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  Speaker 1: time you've coached against Linden. First impressions?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, just an amazing program.
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  Speaker 4: Coach Van Dalen and his staff just have, it's the
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  Speaker 4: well-oiled machine over there. They have everything going for them.
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  Speaker 4: They have the most terrific band I've ever heard. Their
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  Speaker 4: crowd comes out. It's like the whole town comes out
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  Speaker 4: to watch. We don't even practice on grass. And then
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  Speaker 4: it started raining hard. And so you have the muddy,
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  Speaker 4: wet turf. Our snaps were off. Our exchanges were off.
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  Speaker 4: It just takes the timing out a little bit. And
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  Speaker 4: they're just very physical. Their depth is what really impressed me.
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  Speaker 4: Their ones and twos, you know, sometimes you can't tell
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  Speaker 4: the difference. And, you know, they get into their threes
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  Speaker 4: and their other backups. And it's like they're just so
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  Speaker 4: fundamentally sound. They're so well coached. It's just a great program.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I once, a few years ago, my son
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  Speaker 4: was at Swalicum. I was talking to them. We were
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  Speaker 4: down playing, already talking to them. Tumwater coaches were down there.
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  Speaker 4: And Tumwater told me how impressed they were. with coach Van.
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  Speaker 3: Dalen and the Lennon lions. And, you know, they lived
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  Speaker 3: up to every bit of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a, it's a, it's something about it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's a, you build up a standard and then you
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  Speaker 1: have to keep that standard and they've kept it for
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  Speaker 1: a long, long time. Um, But that week has passed us.
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  Speaker 1: You're on to now a normal week where you get
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  Speaker 1: to play on a Friday night. You'll be back on
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  Speaker 1: the road, this time taking on Marysville Pilchuck. They aren't
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  Speaker 1: in the conference anymore, but you have familiarity having played
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  Speaker 1: them the past few years. What can you tell us
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  Speaker 1: about this year's Tomahawks?
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  Speaker 4: Watched a lot of film on them. You know, Kenny's
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  Speaker 4: doing a great job with them down there. I know
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  Speaker 4: he lost a lot of seniors, but he's got some
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  Speaker 4: athletes on there. He's also got a lot of big guys.
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  Speaker 4: Just Marysville Pilchuck, you know, last few years, they just
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  Speaker 4: have Big, big players on their O and D line.
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  Speaker 3: And we're well aware of what they're doing there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're coming in 0 and 4, but, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they've been competing. And, you know, there's no easy wins
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  Speaker 4: in high school football.
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  Speaker 3: And by all means, this is not one of them.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to have to go in and compete really hard.
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  Speaker 4: We're still a little unsure about our quarterback situation between
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  Speaker 4: Ben and Nick and who's going to be getting that start.
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  Speaker 3: Depends on Ben's health. So we have some other guys
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  Speaker 3: that have been dinged up for the Linden game.
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  Speaker 4: So we're going to have to come in, have a
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  Speaker 4: great game time, which Coach Nixon has already put together,
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  Speaker 4: and go out and compete and get back in that
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  Speaker 4: win column for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, playing on a Thursday night that opened
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  Speaker 1: up your Friday night, what was the game plan? Where
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  Speaker 1: did you go? Did you get to watch some football?
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  Speaker 1: How did that work out on Friday night for you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Friday during the day, It was more rain than
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  Speaker 4: I've seen in a while. It rained all day. But
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  Speaker 4: then for those Friday night games, at least in the city,
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  Speaker 4: at Civic, the sky has kind of cleared up a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. I saw some of the highlights from the
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  Speaker 4: Nooksack-Swalcombe game.
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  Speaker 3: It was raining out there. But I watched Lakewood-Seaholmes.
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  Speaker 4: Seaholmes are our opponent after Pilchuck this week.
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  Speaker 3: So I wanted to get ahead of what they look
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  Speaker 3: like in person.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm very familiar with those players, obviously their coaches,
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  Speaker 4: half of what they do. But I was at Civic
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  Speaker 4: Friday night. Coach Scott Osk is our O-line coach. We
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  Speaker 4: sat together and watched the game in the cold.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And that was a good game. That was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was a good game plan by the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners running the ball and controlling the clock in the
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  Speaker 1: second half especially. And they ended up getting the win there.
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  Speaker 1: And you're right. It wasn't too bad in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: I think the second half probably rained a little more steadily.
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  Speaker 1: But out at Nooksack Valley, it was– I think it
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  Speaker 1: rained a couple inches just during the game alone. It
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  Speaker 1: was crazy out there and kind of a turnover flag
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  Speaker 1: fest there in the second half. half and Nooksack Valley
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  Speaker 1: was able to hold on to that one. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: best of luck on Friday at Marysville Pilchuck. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for joining me today on the Gatorade Game
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  Speaker 1: Day Podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having me and have a great week, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Coach Leonard, for all the information.
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  Speaker 1: And now we're going to go to Some 1B football.
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  Speaker 1: And this is probably the biggest 1B matchup in the
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  Speaker 1: state on Friday night as Tulalip Heritage comes to town
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  Speaker 1: to take on Lummi Nation. 7 o'clock kickoff. And these
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  Speaker 1: are two undefeated teams. And this was the rematch of
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  Speaker 1: the state basketball championship. And an amazing rivalry in basketball.
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  Speaker 1: And looks like it's going to start building one in
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  Speaker 1: football here. As I said, both teams are undefeated. Tulalip
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  Speaker 1: Heritage ranked second in the state at 1B. Lummi Nation
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  Speaker 1: ranked sixth. And these are, of course, Max Preps rankings.
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  Speaker 1: I was still waiting for the new coaches rankings to
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  Speaker 1: come out, but it didn't come out yet this week
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  Speaker 1: by the time I'm recording this. So we do not
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  Speaker 1: have that. I am now joined on the Gatorade Game
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  Speaker 1: Day podcast by Lummi Nation head football coach, Watiko Layton. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you bet. We're going to start by talking food.
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  Speaker 1: So name a food that you love to eat, but
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  Speaker 1: for some reason most people don't like.
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  Speaker 8: Ooh.
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  Speaker 9: That's a difficult one.
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  Speaker 1: I know that's a tricky one.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, I guess I could say salmon. There's a
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  Speaker 10: lot of people out there that are fish types, but
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  Speaker 10: I like all kinds of fish, trout.
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  Speaker 2: Bass, salmon.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So I would have to say that.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know if there's anything– crazy that everyone doesn't like,
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  Speaker 10: but I would say that's the most likely.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now the opposite. This might be a little easier. What's
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  Speaker 1: something that you're not a fan of, but everybody else
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  Speaker 1: seems to love?
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  Speaker 10: I think I've seen, I don't know if it's majority
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  Speaker 10: of the people, but I've seen a lot of people
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  Speaker 10: like asparagus. I've never Never really liked asparagus for some reason. Really?
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You cook it up right and you put some garlic
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  Speaker 1: on it. Holy cow, it's good.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the thing, right? For me, it's cheesecake and
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  Speaker 1: potato salad. I can't stand either of those two things,
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  Speaker 1: but it seems like everybody loves those two things.
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  Speaker 10: I do like cheesecake. Potato salad, I'll agree. I'll agree
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  Speaker 10: with that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not a mayonnaise guy, but– All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's get back to football here. On Friday, you hosted
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  Speaker 1: Muckleshoot Tribal, picked up a huge win. You scored a
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  Speaker 1: lot of points early on. You scored 66 overall. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it was funny because before the game, I was talking
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  Speaker 1: to my broadcast partner, Jim Brang, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I think they're going to put up 70 in this one.
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  Speaker 1: And you made me look pretty good. What did you
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  Speaker 1: like about that game?
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  Speaker 10: We had a lot of ups and downs. We executed
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  Speaker 10: the ball well. Our blocking with our skill guys and
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  Speaker 10: our O-line was phenomenal. It was perfect throughout most of
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  Speaker 10: the game. Our defensive strategies was working pretty well. We
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  Speaker 10: had a couple hiccups in that second quarter to where
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  Speaker 10: they got two touchdowns, but.
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  Speaker 6: For the majority of the game, they did their job
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  Speaker 6: and executed well.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about the blocking, not just on the line,
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  Speaker 1: but like you said, the skill guys on the outside,
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  Speaker 1: which is huge in eight man football. Cause if you
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  Speaker 1: can get one good block, uh, that that's pretty huge.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of blocking, uh, tell me about your senior
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  Speaker 1: Deandre James, uh, about six, four to 30. Um, now,
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  Speaker 1: now this is, this is a tough one. Is he
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  Speaker 1: a basketball player that just plays football or is he
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  Speaker 1: a football player that happens to play basketball? Or is
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  Speaker 1: he just a great overall athlete that you love to
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  Speaker 1: have on your, your side?
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  Speaker 10: I think majority of our kids want to be basketball players,
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  Speaker 10: but naturally ability. I think they're all football players and
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  Speaker 10: I can see Jerome Toby on the corner of my
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  Speaker 10: eye shaking his head. Um, but they're just athletes, you know,
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  Speaker 10: but they have that fierce dominant style to them. So I,
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  Speaker 10: in my opinion, I'm always going to say they're football players,
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  Speaker 10: but they love to play basketball.
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  Speaker 1: What's the biggest part of Deandre James? How does he
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  Speaker 1: help your team the most?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, I would say his leadership. He's real stoic.
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  Speaker 10: Um, he's calming, you know, when, uh, adversity comes he
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  Speaker 10: stays resilient is able to pull his team back together
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  Speaker 10: in a positive manner and um you know he's just
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  Speaker 10: real intelligent when it comes to football iq um growing
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  Speaker 10: up playing starting varsity since he was a freshman same
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  Speaker 10: with a couple other players but he's always had that
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  Speaker 10: grit and desire to get the job done no matter what.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah he's a guy who would not want lined up
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  Speaker 1: against me i'll tell you that he's a great guy
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  Speaker 1: he's a nice guy but man he's just so big
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  Speaker 1: and physical and athletic and and it's been great to
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  Speaker 1: get to know him over the last few years. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the thing that I'm sure you feel the same
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  Speaker 1: way is, man, it's going to be sad when some
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  Speaker 1: of these guys go because it's just you get to
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  Speaker 1: know them so well. Luckily for you, they might stay around.
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  Speaker 1: They might come back and coach. They might do that
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  Speaker 1: kind of thing. But for me, it's so long, and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully I'll see you again at a game. But this
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  Speaker 1: upcoming Friday night conference play, hosting Tulalip Heritage, Man, this
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  Speaker 1: looks like a big one. What can you tell me
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  Speaker 1: about that team?
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  Speaker 10: They're very athletic. So just like us, they have all
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  Speaker 10: their basketball players playing football. So they got the speed,
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  Speaker 10: the agility, the quickness. You know, their team's really good
• 15:37
  Speaker 10: at executing their plays. But all in all, when it
• 15:42
  Speaker 10: comes to the big plays, a lot of the athletes
• 15:44
  Speaker 10: just step up and make those talented plays. So a
• 15:48
  Speaker 10: really good, hard team.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I was looking at their schedule and
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: their scores that they've had so far. And, yeah, they're
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: putting up a lot of points, but they've only allowed
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: one touchdown in three total games. What's more impressive, their
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: offense or their defense?
• 16:06
  Speaker 10: I would say their offense. You know, their defense is
• 16:08
  Speaker 10: really nice. They rally the ball well. Nothing too much
• 16:14
  Speaker 10: wrong with them, but we have seen a couple flaws
• 16:16
  Speaker 10: that we're going to try to target. on their defense,
• 16:18
  Speaker 10: but offensively, if we can rally to the ball, stay
• 16:21
  Speaker 10: in our gaps, fly around, it should be a really
• 16:24
  Speaker 10: good game for us too.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: You know, obviously in basketball, it's a huge rivalry with
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: these two schools. I mean, it's so fun to go
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: to the, the atmosphere is completely different. It just, it just,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it already
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: right now. Has that developed at all into a football
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: rivalry yet?
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: It has in the past.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: I believe this year they're overlooking us a lot.
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: But looking at our matchup with our athletic ability, our
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: speed and quickness this year, I think it should turn
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: back into a rivalry start of that first quarter.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: That's awesome, man. It's going to be great, and it's
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: going to be under the lights at home, 7 o'clock kickoff.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: It's going to be great. Best of luck against Tulalip Heritage.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me today on the
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: I appreciate it. Thank you for having me, Tyler.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: All right. Next up, we will go back to 2A now,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and we've got some conference matches. 2A here with some
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: local flavor as the Squalicum Storm will head down south
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: to Everett to take on Archbishop Murphy. Squalicum 1 and
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: 3 on the season. Archbishop Murphy 3 and 1 on
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: the season and was not able to catch up with
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Coach Lucy, but Squalicum ranked 24th in 2A. Archbishop Murphy
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: is ranked third after suffering that loss a few weeks ago.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: But still, obviously, a very, very good team. These are
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: two teams that really want to run the ball quite
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a bit. And it's going to be it's going to
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: be a really tough one for the Storm. I mean,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: you know, still, I believe, still without their starting quarterback
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and starting outside linebacker. But last week, I thought, especially
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: in the second half, they found some good things on
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: the in the run game. And they really featured Maddox
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Strickland and Tucker Hofstede quite a bit as they each
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: had 20 carries and combined for about 230, 240 yards.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: So that's what they're going to need to do. They're
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: going to have to try to control the clock, keep
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: the ball in their possession for the majority of the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: time and just slowly pick.
• 18:28
  Speaker 13: Up first downs.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: And then on defense and special teams, they need something
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: big to happen, whether it's a pick six, a fumble return,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: a kickoff return. something big's got to happen. And I
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: tell you, the Squalicum Storm has that kind of defense
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: that has historically always been really good at making a
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: big play like that happen. And they've returned a lot
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: of kickoffs and punts for touchdowns in the.
• 18:49
  Speaker 13: Past as well.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: So to stay with the Wildcats, they're really going to
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: need some stuff like that to happen. I'm not saying
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: that it can't happen, but boy, it's going to be really,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: really hard as Squalicum now is on a three-game losing
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: streak and Archbishop Murphy still probably not super happy about
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: having that loss that stopped their winning streak a few
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. So Squalicum down at Archbishop Murphy, 7 o'clock
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Friday night, Terry Ennis Stadium. And, yeah, we'll be rooting
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: on the Storm from afar. We'll see if they can
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: get it done. Also in 2A, the Linden Lions will
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: be heading to Civic Stadium to take on the Sehome Mariners. Linden.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Currently ranked 7th in Class 2A in the Max Preps rankings.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Seaholm was ranked 40th in 2A. Linden 3-1. Seaholm 1-3.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I was not able to catch up with Coach Brian Young,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: but I was able to track down Coach Blake Van Dalen.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: I am now joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: by Linden Head Football. coach, Blake Van Dalen coach. Thank
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: you for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: Sun's back out. I feel like we're back in August.
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: It's like, it's like September never happened.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: It's just kind of going around. And of course, October
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: starts tomorrow. And, uh, as we're recording this anyways, and, uh,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: So a lot of moving parts there. And we're going
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to start by talking food. And it's easy to say
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: what your favorite meal is or whatever, but name a
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: food that you love to eat, but for some reason
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: most people don't like to eat it.
• 20:21
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: Oh.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: In my family, it's crab. I love crab, but most
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: of my kids do not. And so I love it
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: when people bring us crab because I usually can't go
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: crabbing during football season.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:37
  Speaker 11: And I can just kind of be a pig. So
• 20:39
  Speaker 11: there we go. I'm going to stick with crab.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: That's a good one. I know there's things like that
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: when you're in the family, if it's the only thing
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: that Or if it's something that you like and no
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: one else does, man, you're like, this is fantastic. And
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: now the opposite. What's something that everybody seems to love,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: but you're like, I don't get it. I just don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: like it. When?
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: During COVID, when I lost taste and smell, I was
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: able to eat pickles. And I was like, oh, so
• 21:07
  Speaker 8: these are basically cucumbers. But now that the smell and
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: taste came back, it just causes a weird reaction in
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: me that a pickle will ruin anything. It'll ruin a burger.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: It'll ruin anything.
• 21:17
  Speaker 11: I can't eat pickles.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: That is unfortunate. I love pickles. I love cucumbers, too. But, man,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: pickles on a sub sandwich just does the trick for me.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: I know.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's crazy. Well, on Thursday, you hosted Bellingham, scored
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: two touchdowns on interception returns, another on a fumble return,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and so I have a little trivia for you. Do
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: you know the last time Linden scored three defensive touchdowns
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: in a game?
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: Three defensive touchdowns? Well, we had a really good defensive
• 21:51
  Speaker 8: team in 2009, and that was my first year as
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: defensive coordinator.
• 21:54
  Speaker 11: That'll be my guess.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Well, it would have been when you were probably a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: junior high school student. This was September 28, 1984. Wow.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: In a 54-0 win over Nooksack Valley, Les Powers had
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: a pick six, and Brian Nelson and Lloyd Winterberg each
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: had a fumble return for a touchdown, so.
• 22:16
  Speaker 8: That is crazy. And Lloyd's son, Luke, played for us
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: just a couple years ago. So that tells you how
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: long ago that was.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, incredible.
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: Thank you.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: That'll be fun trivia. I was having fun with the
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: kids because I said, how many players score in the game?
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: And they were shocked that it was double digits, 10
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: different players score.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, that's a really cool thing. And to
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: be able to get so many kids in the game
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: at home, on homecoming, I mean, all those things combined.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: It's got to be great for your program. And and
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I saw those I saw those hockey line changes at
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the end on defense. And that was always fun to see.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: A player that stood out early in that game is
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: senior linebacker Adam Holman. He's really come on strong this season.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: What makes him such a great football player?
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: I think number one is instinct. You know, he plays
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: our inside backer position. And yes, there's a lot of
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: coaching that goes into all the little details. But in
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: the end, we've had a lot of really good dudes
• 23:15
  Speaker 8: that couldn't play that because they didn't have those instincts.
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: It's just a feel for where the pressure is coming from.
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: And because we can't always do everything perfect. And when
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: that happens, you need that guy to make a play.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: And that's usually been Adam for us. You know, he
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: and Landon, the other inside backer they've had a great
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: senior year so far and and and that we have
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: them their third year linebackers so this is their time
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: to shine.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah and it's when you have two of them that
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: are both seniors things usually go pretty well for you
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: so it's uh it's kind of nice to have that
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: um friday night you'll be heading out to civic stadium
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: to take on the mariners uh you've had close games
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: with them recently but they have a pretty new team
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: this year What can you tell us about this year's
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Seahawks squad?
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: Yeah, they like to run the ball when they find
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: something that you're not good at. So that's what we've
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: been emphasizing this week is that you need to be
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: ready that if they find a crease, they're not going
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: to go away from it. If they find something that works,
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: they will stay with that until they hammer it home.
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: And so, you know, it's different. You have Nolan Wright
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: for four years. That was a special human being, not
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: just football players, a great kid. And they put a
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: lot on his plate and he handled it well. And
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: now they look more like a normal high school football
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: team where everybody's.
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: Got to do their part together.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: And you can't expect Nolan to go back there and
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: make something magical happen. And so that's probably the biggest difference.
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: You know, we've had some very close, amazing games with
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: them the last couple of years. And so we are
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: happy to see him graduate and get to go against
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: some fresh faces.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: You know, you brought up a good point about if
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: they see something working, they will go back to it.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: And you're an offensive play caller, I believe, still, correct?
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's something to that about when you see
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: something and going back to it. But it's not just, hey,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: this worked last time, it could work again. But it's
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: something about doing something to the opponent's psyche by doing that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Is there any truth to that? Do you feel like,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: have you had runs like that where you're like, do
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: it again, do it again? All you have to say
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: is do it again.
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's, you know, you got to be careful not
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: to be too predictable. But there is something about, you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: talking about imposing your will on your opponent. And we
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: have a phrase, there's a moment in every game, a moment,
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: sorry about that, in every game where you know and
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: they know.
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: And whatever that no is, it.
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: Could be that, you know, we're able to run the
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: ball effectively in a certain situation and they're realizing it, too.
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: And it's on them to stop it. That's a really
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: good feeling. That's a lot of work in the weight room.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: That's a lot of offseason time and conditioning and whatnot.
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: And that's what I think CEO is trying to do
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: is they're trying to create a situation where we know
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: and they know. Now you got to stop it. You know,
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: and there was times Ferndale did that to us two
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: weeks ago. And so that's part of the chess match.
• 26:21
  Speaker 11: Definitely.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's something that's really fun about that. You know,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Coach Lepp has talked about times when maybe on a
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: fourth and two situation. He'll call timeout. He goes out
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: there and he'll just say, what do you guys feel
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: like running? Because it's sometimes it's if they if they
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: know something, if they have a good matchup or something.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: And have you ever had that moment where you've called
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the timeout and you said, what do you guys like
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: right here?
• 26:46
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah. I've had both sides of it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: I've had times where I've signaled something that I think
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: is going to work and I believe in it.
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: But you can just tell the kids don't. And to
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: be honest, if they don't believe in it, it won't work.
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: And then you're right. Vice versa.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: There's my favorite time is when you go out there
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: and you're like, hey, here's what we're thinking. And you
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: get 11 kids nod their head or one vocal kid
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: saying yes. And then everybody's on the same page and
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: they'll nod. you know, run through a wall because of
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: the ownership side of it. Same with quarterbacks. You know,
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: there's a lot of times I want them or receivers,
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: like if a receiver calls a certain play, I know
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: that even if the ball's not perfect, they know they
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: called that play and they're going to do something unhuman
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: if they have to, to get that reception. And quarterbacks,
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: if they see something they like, they're going to, you know,
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: make it work because they don't, A, want to be
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: wrong and they don't want to let the team down.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: That's a, there's so many insights to coaching that a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: lot of people don't understand into those It's those brief
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: meetings sometimes, and it's those specific moments that you'll remember forever,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and that's really cool. Coach, thank you so much for sharing,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and best of luck on Friday at Seaholm. Thank you
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: for joining me today on the Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: You bet.
• 27:55
  Speaker 11: Thank you much, Tyler.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Coach. As we will go now to the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: 3A ranks as Ferndale, they begin conference play finally as
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: they will go on the road to take on Mount Vernon.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: who has a very deceptive 0-4 record because they have
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: some athletes on their team, and they just have not
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: been able to put together a win as of yet.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: They are ranked 38th in 3A. Ferndale is 3-1 on
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the year, and they are ranked 16th in 3A. I
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: am now joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Ferndale head football coach Jamie Plankovich. Coach, thank you for
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: joining me today. How are you doing?
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Doing good. Thanks, Tyler.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to start by talking food. It's
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: really easy to say what your favorite food is, but
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: name a food that you really enjoy, but for some
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: reason other people just don't like it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
• 28:48
  Speaker 14: I'm pretty vanilla on what I like. I'm trying to
• 28:53
  Speaker 14: think if I have something that maybe is a little odd.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: And I'm struggling.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: That's fine. That's fine. That's a hard question actually, but
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the opposite might be easier. What's something that, that you
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: just can't eat, but everyone else seems to love.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Look at my body.
• 29:20
  Speaker 13: I can eat pretty much anything.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Oh man. It's yeah.
• 29:26
  Speaker 14: There are probably some things I shouldn't eat that would
• 29:29
  Speaker 14: help me out a little bit, but I haven't, uh,
• 29:32
  Speaker 14: I got to get a little more self-discipline, I think.
• 29:34
  Speaker 13: Oh, whatever.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I say you live your best life, Coach. I think
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: you're doing the right thing.
• 29:40
  Speaker 13: And sorry about that answer yeah.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: It's all good on thursday you hosted glacier peak a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: very good 4a team with talent all over the field
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: up front uh and i mean skill guys it was
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: crazy they scored early on a long play and then
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: you matched them on a long play. And I kind
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: of thought, oh, this might be a shootout. But then
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the Grizzlies kind of took control of the game for
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: a little while, ended up winning 35-22. What was your
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: biggest takeaway from that game?
• 30:08
  Speaker 14: We just, not to take anything away from Glacier Peak,
• 30:12
  Speaker 14: because they are a good football team with some talent.
• 30:16
  Speaker 14: We did not do a good job coming out in
• 30:19
  Speaker 14: that game. We didn't adjust to their quickness and speed,
• 30:25
  Speaker 14: especially along the defensive front early, really till late in
• 30:31
  Speaker 14: the game. And it's something we talked about on Monday
• 30:34
  Speaker 14: is we got to mature as a football team a
• 30:37
  Speaker 14: little bit.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: It was a little bit.
• 30:40
  Speaker 14: Different style with really quick guys up front. And we
• 30:47
  Speaker 14: didn't adjust our angles and, do the things that we needed.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: To do to match that.
• 30:54
  Speaker 14: We finally did later in the game, and then we
• 30:57
  Speaker 14: were consistently moving the ball. But we've got to figure
• 31:00
  Speaker 14: those things out earlier in a game.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: To try to.
• 31:05
  Speaker 14: Eliminate some of those mistakes and the amount of guys
• 31:09
  Speaker 14: we had in our backfield for three quarters of that game.
• 31:15
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: It's, it's one of those things that's, there's certain things
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: you can replicate with scout team and stuff, but just
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: overall speed is one of those things that you just
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: don't see it until game time and they were loaded
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: with it. So, you know, and then having to make
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: those adjustments on the fly sometimes and you're overwhelmed and
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: it can be tough, but like you said, it has
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to happen. It has to happen earlier. And, and then,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: like you said, things started changing and they're in the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: second half and, and, but like, you know, it has
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: to be done earlier. You had Chance Hatchett back on
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the field. He played well on both sides of the ball.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: How was he feeling after the game, and is he
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: still good going forward?
• 31:53
  Speaker 14: Yeah, he's still good. He was very anxious to play.
• 31:58
  Speaker 14: He's been standing on the sidelines for our first three weeks,
• 32:03
  Speaker 14: which for a guy that's used to being out there
• 32:06
  Speaker 14: on both sides of the ball is pretty tough. Handled
• 32:09
  Speaker 14: it really well, was a good teammate throughout that. But
• 32:13
  Speaker 14: it was exciting getting him back. We tried to limit
• 32:17
  Speaker 14: his snaps a little bit so that we make sure
• 32:21
  Speaker 14: he was acclimated to the physical part of the game.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: And he came out of it good.
• 32:27
  Speaker 14: And we're just, you know, progressing now this week with him.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: And he'll get better, too.
• 32:35
  Speaker 14: First game night, there's some things that he knows that–
• 32:39
  Speaker 14: he needs to get better at and just adjusting to
• 32:42
  Speaker 14: game speed.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Um, and Friday night conference play finally coach.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: It's a, it seems like usually you'll, you know, you
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: get into it a little early. You know, I remember
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: for a while you had early conference games against Oak
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Harbor and now it's finally, you're getting into conference play.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: You'll be on the road against Mount Vernon. Tell us
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: about the Bulldogs.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, their, their record is deceiving.
• 33:07
  Speaker 14: Um, you know, they, They've struggled so far as far
• 33:12
  Speaker 14: as the scoreboard goes, but I think they have the
• 33:15
  Speaker 14: most dynamic receiver in the league who really caused us
• 33:19
  Speaker 14: issues last year. He's very fast, very quick. So you've
• 33:26
  Speaker 14: got to count for him wherever he's at in their formation.
• 33:29
  Speaker 14: Try to keep him from having big plays. They've already returned,
• 33:33
  Speaker 14: I think, two kickoffs for touchdowns. which they did against
• 33:37
  Speaker 14: us last year as well in our game. So we
• 33:40
  Speaker 14: got to do a good job on special teams. They're
• 33:43
  Speaker 14: really patient and they'll stick to the running game. So
• 33:47
  Speaker 14: they're not just going to abandon that and throw it
• 33:50
  Speaker 14: around the yard. But, you know, they may do a
• 33:53
  Speaker 14: good job of matching their run game with a lot
• 33:56
  Speaker 14: of quick screen stuff so that it's not tough throws
• 34:02
  Speaker 14: for their quarterback and it just gets the the ball
• 34:04
  Speaker 14: to guys in space quickly. It makes you defend the
• 34:08
  Speaker 14: whole width of the field. So offensively, they're going to
• 34:10
  Speaker 14: be challenged. They've scored, you know, points in pretty much
• 34:14
  Speaker 14: every game. Defensively, they'll be similar to what we saw
• 34:19
  Speaker 14: last Thursday with Glacier Peak in where they align. They
• 34:25
  Speaker 14: run with maybe some bigger guys up front than Glacier Peak,
• 34:31
  Speaker 14: but they're still very active. They're going to pack the
• 34:34
  Speaker 14: box and, and try to take our run game away.
• 34:38
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I was going to ask about that, how, you know,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of teams are in the spread right now.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: And so when teams are playing, they're kind of their
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: quote unquote base defense. Do you see teams that come
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: out differently to give you a different look because of
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: your offense? And then you have to adjust to what
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: you thought they might do every once in a while.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
• 35:00
  Speaker 14: It's you know, and that, it's something that we consider
• 35:04
  Speaker 14: an advantage for teams to have to prepare for us,
• 35:08
  Speaker 14: which is a different offense than really most everybody else.
• 35:12
  Speaker 14: There's a ton of spread out there. So we have
• 35:15
  Speaker 14: a little different style, but at the same time, yeah,
• 35:18
  Speaker 14: then you can see sometimes it's hard to figure out
• 35:22
  Speaker 14: what their game plan is going to be, where they're
• 35:24
  Speaker 14: going to deploy their, their personnel and how they're going
• 35:27
  Speaker 14: to try to stop what, what we like to do. So,
• 35:31
  Speaker 14: First couple of series, we're trying to figure out, you know,
• 35:35
  Speaker 14: what their plan was coming into the game.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: And then you'll find out what the adjustments are. Then
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: you make your adjustments. And then that's when all the
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: fun happens. And that's where the real coaching takes place.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Because in-game adjustments, holy cow, that's when you see the
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: wins and losses. And, you know, it's one of those
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: things that I didn't really pick up on a ton.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just kind of looking for stats and
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And then you really see the changes
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: in it. and how everything envelops after that, and it's
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: pretty crazy. Best of luck on Friday at Mount Vernon, Coach.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me today on the Gatorade Game
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Day Podcast.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Tyler. Happy to be here.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: And now time to focus on the 1A Northwest Conference
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: League games, and the league games are starting tonight, Friday night.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Got a couple of them that'll be huge, and if
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: you talk about top to bottom best 1A games, in
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: the state year in and year out. It is the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Northwest Conference, and so winning these games is extremely important.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: The first game we're going to talk about, Meridian at
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Linden Christian. Meridian 2-2 on a two-game winning streak. They're
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: currently ranked ninth in Max Prep's 1A rankings. Linden Christian 3-1.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: They're ranked third in Max Prep's rankings, although that's a
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: little deceiving because they don't take into account the win
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: they had up north against Vancouver College. So I don't
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: know how... you know, I would say Lenny Christian's probably
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: closer to a two or one. Um, and again, I
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: really want to see what those coaches rankings come out
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: and show, um, after the big shutout win over the center,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: who was probably a top 10 team, but this is a,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: this is a great rivalry game, you know, kicking off
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: a conference play and they had a really close game
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: just a few years ago. Wasn't so close last year. Uh,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: but this is one that, um, You know, I think
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of people will have their eyes on. It's
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: an exciting game. I was able to talk to both coaches.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I'm now joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Meridian Head Football Coach Patrick Ames. Coach, thank you for
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: joining me today. How are you doing?
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: I'm doing well.
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: Thanks, Tyler. Always a pleasure.
• 37:40
  Speaker 14: All right.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: We're going to start by talking food. So it's easy
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: to say what your favorite food is, but name a
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: food that you love to eat that most people don't
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: enjoy eating. I know that's kind of a tough question.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah. I, um, that is a tough question.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: Uh, spam.
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: A lot of people like spam though, don't they?
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's, I think that's a good answer. It's
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: hard to think of something because if you like it,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: you would think everybody likes it. But, you know, I
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: was trying to think of something like, you know, like
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Brussels sprouts or broccoli or, I mean, who knows, you know,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: something that's usually not liked by people that you, you're like, yeah,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I really like this.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: With spam anyway.
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: Um, it's, uh, it's a really common staple, you know,
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: coming out of the islands.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: And so Hawaiian street food, one of my favorite things
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: to make it, they're called Musubi, a slice spam and
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: you marinate it and you fry it. And then you
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: make a pot of rice and you got a little
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: mold press and you, you, you press the rice down
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: and you put a slice of that fried spam and
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: then you wrap it up in seaweed.
• 38:50
  Speaker 12: Oh, wow.
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: So good.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Yeah, there's probably, there's lots of foods
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: that I, just because of places I have never been,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: there's probably lots of things I don't even know about.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: And that's, that would be one of them.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: And this might be a little easier. It's the opposite.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: What's something that you just can't eat, but everybody else
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: seems to love?
• 39:09
  Speaker 13: Pumpkin pie.
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, really?
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: And I love the idea of pumpkin pie and I've
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: tried it several times, but I love that other people
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: love it, but I just can't do it. And goldfish
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: crackers and Cheez-Its don't do it for me either.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness. I'm sitting here staring at Cheez-Its right here.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: And we just picked up a pumpkin pie today from Costco.
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: Um, well enjoy that.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I will. I will enjoy my orange foods and, um, that's,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: that's hilarious.
• 39:39
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: On Friday, uh, you went, uh, South to on Alaska
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: to take on the top two B team in the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: state and did exactly what you needed to win. I
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: thought you jumped out early and the loggers are not
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: built to come back from being down three scores. What
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: allowed you to get out early to that 21, zero
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: lead in that game?
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: Uh, defensively, we, um, We played resiliently. We legitimately caused
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: a fumble there with a big strip. One of our seniors,
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: Ryan Wynn, made a really big play. And we forced
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: a couple of punts. So we got three early stops
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: and turned all of those into touchdowns. And then after that,
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: like you said, I mean, they're a really good team.
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: It was largely pretty even after that. But offensively, we
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: found a little bit better rhythm this week. And then just,
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: you know, had to keep up with them because they're
• 40:32
  Speaker 7: not built, you know, to come back, but they also
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: don't take negative plays, right? Unless they mishandle a snap
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: or something like that. They're just a team that's moving forward.
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: So they're hard to stop. They were, they were, they're
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: a lot to deal with. That's for sure.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I noticed Ryan, you know, trying to strip the ball
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: once there's a lot of guys around and he actually
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: stripped two of them. One of them was recovered by
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: your team and I thought, you know, you're not going
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to get interceptions against them because they're not going to
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: go to the air. So it's how do you get
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: that ball back? Because they're going to take four plays
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: to get 10 yards and they're probably going to do it.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: And getting them to punt, but getting that, you're right
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: with that early fumble recovery too. just that added help and, uh, boy,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: it really, it really, uh, led to something. I mean,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: you know, to be honest, I thought that was going
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: to be a really tricky game for you. And I
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: was keeping an eye on it that whole night, Friday
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: night going, my goodness, they scored again, look at this.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And then having watched the film the next day and
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: seeing how it happened, uh, that was awesome because, you know,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: bus legs are a thing. And I thought if you
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: get down there and they get up early, that's going
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: to be really hard.
• 41:36
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, that's, uh, that was pretty awesome. You know,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Casey Brennan a little bit.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: 11 catches for 165 yards, three touchdowns. I remember us
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: talking about him before he ever played a varsity game.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Now he's a senior. What makes him such a great
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: football player?
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: First of all, his speed, right? He's as fast as
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: we've got. And he's one of the, you know, he
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: ran the state final of the 100 meters in 1A
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: track last year, which is no joke, right? He's legitimately fast.
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: And that's his greatest asset, right? That If he's going
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: to run a race on a route that is a race,
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: chances are he's going to have at least a step.
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: But most of his receptions, if you watch that game,
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: were working underneath. He caught a lot of balls in
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: space and had a really good feel and awareness in
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: that game in their zone coverage where he needed to
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: sit and present as open. I think maybe he was
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: targeted defensively. 12 times and caught 11 which is um
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: which is by far like his his uh his best
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: catch percentage i think of any game that um that
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: he's played in um so able to convert so many
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: opportunities that he was able to create for himself by
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: getting open um and in the calls he was the
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: one that uh that trey was going to go to
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: uh frequently in that game um and yeah he came
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: up really really big for us.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah i just thought he had a heck of a
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: game and i was like i gotta look at these
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: career numbers now He's only nine away from 100 catches
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: in his career, which is– 100 catches in a career
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: is– I think only 23, 24 players in Whatcom County
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: history have done it. Only two from Meridian, which is
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: hard to believe, Mitchell Tripp and Dominic Chambers. Um, and, uh,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys over 90, but, uh, but he's,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: he's knocking on that door and he just passed, uh,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: one of his coaches, Ty Harrison, who he's, he's one
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: catch ahead of him. So, uh, they may be something
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: they can talk about at practice, but what an amazing
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: career he's had. And, and, uh, so glad that he's,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: he's healthy, you know, at least from what I can see,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: because I know he's had issues, hamstring, different stuff. So
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch him, uh, on Friday
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: night conference play finally begins, uh, And you'll be on
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: the road once again, this time at Linden Christian, and
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: they are loaded once again. Tell us about the Lynx.
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: Well, you said it, right? They've got four or five
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: players on that team that are maybe the four or
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: five best players in the league. And anytime you've got
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: a team that's loaded in talent like that, you're going
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: to be looking downward probably at a lot of your opponents,
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: both figuratively and physically. And it's going to be up
• 44:20
  Speaker 7: to us if the challenge is on us and the
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: rest of the teams in our league to see if
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: we're going to be able to step in and battle
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: with those guys.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, and you look at the teams they've played,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of these run-heavy teams. you're not exactly a
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: run-heavy team, so it's hard to look at something and say, oh,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: this is how they do it against this look, right?
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: And even though you give a lot of looks, you're
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: very heavy with the pass. So do you look at
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: that as a positive or a negative, maybe because they
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: haven't seen that much air raid stuff, or is it
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: kind of a negative because you haven't seen what they
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: can do against.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: It so much?
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: Oh, we've seen what they can do. They're really savvy people.
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: I don't think it matters who they're going to play.
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: They're going to match up with anybody.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they have athletes, right? That's just kind
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: of the way it's been. And the really strange thing is,
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: as dominant as they've been the last handful of years, five,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: six years, I think only one league championship, even though
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: they're right in it every year. It's just kind of
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: funny how that goes. Thanks again for the time, Coach.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Best of luck against Linda Christian. And thank you for
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: joining me today on the Gatorade Game Day podcast. Thanks, Tyler.
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: Again, always a pleasure.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Coach Ames. And now we bring
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: on Coach Terpstra. I'm now joined on the Gatorade Game
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Day podcast by Linden Christian head football coach Greg Terpstra. Coach,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 45:50
  Speaker 9: Good.
• 45:51
  Speaker 16: I'm dressed in some neon colors because I'm substituting today
• 45:56
  Speaker 16: and it's 80s day today.
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: So I hope you knew that. I hope you're old
• 46:00
  Speaker 9: enough to be aware, but you're supposed to wear neon.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Hey, look at me every day, man.
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: Oh, it's true.
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 46:08
  Speaker 9: What am I talking about?
• 46:09
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: I grew up in the 80s. I loved it. So
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I get it.
• 46:12
  Speaker 16: I only had one neon shirt and ironically it's my
• 46:16
  Speaker 16: Kurt Cramie 200th win t-shirt that I got when I
• 46:20
  Speaker 16: was coaching with him.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 46:22
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 46:23
  Speaker 13: Oh, that's fantastic.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: So still football related, which is great.
• 46:26
  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: We're going to start by talking food. So name a
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: food that you enjoy to eat, but most people for
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: some reason just don't like it.
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: Is mushrooms too narrow?
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: No, I think that's probably a good one.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 46:44
  Speaker 16: I like them on everything.
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 46:47
  Speaker 16: Yeah, that would be a unique one. Other than that,
• 46:52
  Speaker 16: I do like to try kind of anything and everything.
• 46:54
  Speaker 16: I don't know if I have the patience to cook
• 46:57
  Speaker 16: at all, but we'll go with mushrooms.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good one. And now the opposite. What's
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: something that you're like, you're just not a fan of,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: but everyone else seems to love?
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: Cereal.
• 47:07
  Speaker 16: I have not had a bowl of cereal since COVID.
• 47:13
  Speaker 16: And I don't know why I just, I gave up cereal.
• 47:16
  Speaker 16: I went to just eggs every morning and gave up cereal.
• 47:20
  Speaker 16: I think I've got a box of cornflakes somewhere in
• 47:23
  Speaker 16: our closet that I'm just, I'm using that as like
• 47:25
  Speaker 16: an experiment to see what happens to it.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 47:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 47:31
  Speaker 16: I haven't had one bowl of cereal since COVID.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: I think what's going to happen is it's going to
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: clump together and make one giant cornflake or something. Oh,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: it's crazy. And your substitute teaching today, how many days
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: a month do you go in to be a substitute
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: teacher on average, would you say?
• 47:48
  Speaker 16: It kind of depends on what time of year. When
• 47:51
  Speaker 16: it's kind of like cold and flu season, I might
• 47:53
  Speaker 16: get called three or four times a week. Otherwise, yeah,
• 47:59
  Speaker 16: sometimes it's crickets, but that's okay too.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: So let's go back to football a little bit. On Saturday,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: you hosted the center, a tremendous program. You took it
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: right to them, 24-0 win. You have to be pleased
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: with the performance, especially with a lot of your top
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: two-way players out of the lineup.
• 48:17
  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:18
  Speaker 16: Our kids responded really well to that bit of a setback.
• 48:21
  Speaker 16: And I thought our passion, our intensity was just right
• 48:27
  Speaker 16: where it should have been. It didn't go over the
• 48:31
  Speaker 16: top where, you know, we had issues with, you know,
• 48:34
  Speaker 16: player conduct or anything. It's just between the whistles, they
• 48:38
  Speaker 16: were just really, really sticking it to them. And, uh,
• 48:41
  Speaker 16: it showed. And, um, you know, you get the, when
• 48:44
  Speaker 16: you get that compliment from the opposing coach that boy,
• 48:47
  Speaker 16: we just couldn't match your intensity. You kind of wear
• 48:50
  Speaker 16: that as a little bit of a, you know, you
• 48:54
  Speaker 16: wear it as pride on your shoulder, I think.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I mean, that's something that, um, I guess you
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: could say a player can control that. So when they're
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: actually doing that, that's a great thing, right?
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: You know, it's something that you don't have to– it's
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: something you can control, right? I mean, that's basically what
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. Also, you have a few senties on your team,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Sam and Josh. Josh had an interception.
• 49:20
  Speaker 13: Last week.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: You played with some senties, so help me out a
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: little bit. How are these current players related to your
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: old teammates?
• 49:27
  Speaker 9: So Joel is their father.
• 49:30
  Speaker 16: Joel would have been a year younger than me between
• 49:33
  Speaker 16: my brother Grant and I.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: Played with Chris. Chris was two years older. And that
• 49:39
  Speaker 9: would have been their uncle.
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: These two guys are brothers.
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 49:44
  Speaker 16: The younger one is the defensive back. And, you know,
• 49:48
  Speaker 16: we've been kind of a little bit short there. So
• 49:50
  Speaker 16: we've elevated him sooner. And then Sam is, I think
• 49:54
  Speaker 16: the backup to almost everything on the team.
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 49:58
  Speaker 9: He just, a nice big body moves. Well, I can
• 50:03
  Speaker 9: plug and play a lot of different places. So, yeah.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: Love having guys like that. And yeah. And those, those,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Chris and Joel were fantastic players. And so that's cool.
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: I love, I love seeing the generations come through and
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: it's always, it's always awesome. And when, you know, Josh
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: got that interception, I just, I just smiled because I
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: just thought, man, that's, you know, I love how there's
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: so many of these, every single school has that.
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: And so it's really fun to see.
• 50:28
  Speaker 16: They get their toughness from their mother, though.
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: Joel is a bit of a sissy. Their mom, she's
• 50:33
  Speaker 9: tough as nails.
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: I have to say that.
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: She's a teacher at Leonard Christian.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's awesome.
• 50:39
  Speaker 16: And she played collegiately in softball, I believe. I think
• 50:43
  Speaker 16: she was really good.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: Oh, nice.
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: Like an All-American, yeah.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Wow. How do you feel Dawson's setting into his role
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: as the starting quarterback at this point?
• 50:53
  Speaker 9: He's doing a great job.
• 50:54
  Speaker 16: Just the ins and outs of managing the offense, I
• 50:56
  Speaker 16: think he's really taken– some strides forward on.
• 51:00
  Speaker 9: And, you know, we got Blankers in there.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:05
  Speaker 9: And he did a great job, too.
• 51:06
  Speaker 16: His drive was really impressive in that we had so
• 51:11
  Speaker 16: many penalties and we just kept shrugging forward, you know,
• 51:14
  Speaker 16: and just getting that first down and ended up with
• 51:17
  Speaker 16: another field goal from Jackson. But really pleased with Blankers' performance, too.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was, you know, you had mentioned something to
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: me I believe it was off the air that, you know,
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Kellen might get a series, and he did play a few.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: And he did really well, like you said, because you
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: kept having that adversity with holding and different things. But
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: that drive seemed like it took forever. I mean, just time-wise,
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 51:43
  Speaker 16: You know, I will say something about that drive and
• 51:47
  Speaker 16: those penalties. I'll take the blame for those in a
• 51:51
  Speaker 16: way because– Last week, we really got on our wide
• 51:57
  Speaker 16: receivers for not blocking as well as they should.
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 52:01
  Speaker 16: Against Bellevue, it was really absent. And so we made
• 52:06
  Speaker 16: it a real point of emphasis. Well, they listened to
• 52:10
  Speaker 16: their coach, and they went after him. They just, when
• 52:14
  Speaker 16: the defensive back pulls away, they didn't let go fast enough. So,
• 52:19
  Speaker 16: you know, we saw it on tape. We saw what
• 52:20
  Speaker 16: they were calling. But in the back of our minds,
• 52:23
  Speaker 16: we were pretty proud of their intensity.
• 52:25
  Speaker 9: So we'll take it.
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: And then Friday night, conference play begins finally, and you'll
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: be hosting Meridian, who's been on a little bit of
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: a run as of late, winning their last two games.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: What can you tell us about the Trojans?
• 52:39
  Speaker 16: Well, we'll pray for a blizzard and a hailstorm or something,
• 52:44
  Speaker 16: trying to slow down their passing game. Yeah, that's been
• 52:48
  Speaker 16: pretty impressive, especially their deep shots. So we've got to
• 52:50
  Speaker 16: be really prepared for that.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: They throw a.
• 52:56
  Speaker 16: Lot of creativity into it, especially their alignments offensively. So
• 53:01
  Speaker 16: we've got to be disciplined and up to speed on
• 53:05
  Speaker 16: where we align based on some alignments we have not
• 53:08
  Speaker 16: seen yet and might not see the rest of the year.
• 53:11
  Speaker 16: So that always keeps us on our toes. Offensively, I
• 53:15
  Speaker 16: think we're going to probably just remain balanced like we
• 53:18
  Speaker 16: have been and put our best foot forward.
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: And you've coached against Patrick now for a while. You've
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: done it in multiple sports. But I want to go
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: back to Patrick's father, the legendary Bob Ames, and you've
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: probably known him for a long time. Do you have
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: any Bob Ames story that you could share?
• 53:39
  Speaker 16: When I was a little kid going to games and
• 53:42
  Speaker 16: seeing this crazy big guy with Bermuda shorts on, my
• 53:49
  Speaker 16: mind couldn't get around that. I was just like, is
• 53:51
  Speaker 16: this guy completely unprepared? Does he not know what the
• 53:55
  Speaker 16: forecast is? And then I just, yeah, he's just an
• 53:59
  Speaker 16: enigma to me. And then I start hearing stories about how,
• 54:04
  Speaker 16: you know, kids who played for him just loved him
• 54:07
  Speaker 16: to death and would run through a brick wall for him. And,
• 54:10
  Speaker 16: you know, later on in my life, I realized how
• 54:12
  Speaker 16: important that was. So I think that's a testament to
• 54:15
  Speaker 16: his longevity and the lives that he's touched. And we
• 54:19
  Speaker 16: even have a guy on staff, Terry Tolan, that played
• 54:22
  Speaker 16: for him. Terry remarks how Bob found him when he
• 54:26
  Speaker 16: was quite young, just middle school, elementary school. I don't
• 54:30
  Speaker 16: know when it was, but spoke very constructive words to
• 54:37
  Speaker 16: him and how Bob felt that he could be just
• 54:40
  Speaker 16: a terrific player and just really motivated Terry to play.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: I think he's got a.
• 54:46
  Speaker 16: Real soft spot for Bob in his heart, and I
• 54:49
  Speaker 16: think he's not alone in that.
• 54:52
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Terry was an All-State lineman and one of
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: the best players Meridian had in the whole decade of
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: the 80s, so pretty cool that he's able to continue
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: his knowledge and coaching with your staff, and that's a
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: great thing. Best of luck on Friday against Meridian, Coach,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: and thank you so much for joining me today on
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: the Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
• 55:10
  Speaker 9: Hey, thanks so much, Tyler.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: All right, there you have it. Meridian, Atlin, and Christian,
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: 7 o'clock Friday night. Game on Friday night involves the
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: Blaine Borderites, who are 2-2, ranked 23rd in 1A in
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: max preps. They will be going to Sid Lambert Field
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: to take on Nooksack Valley, who is undefeated on the year,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: currently ranked 4th in Class 1A in the max preps rankings.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: And this is a game that over the years has
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: really gone Nooksack Valley's way as of late. But I
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: think last year's game was a little bit closer. And
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: I do believe that it's going to keep getting closer
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: as Blaine continues to improve. And Nooksack Valley, even though
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: they got the win last week, I don't think they
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: were super excited with how things turned out. There's a
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: lot of things they can clean up on. But we
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: were able to hear from both coaches. I am now
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by Blaine head
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: football coach Andy Olson. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 56:13
  Speaker 5: I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, Tyler.
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: You bet. All right, we're going to start by talking
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: about food. Name a food that you love, but most people,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: it's not their thing, but you love it.
• 56:29
  Speaker 5: I'm a savory guy.
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: Man, I like, I mean, not shocker here, I like
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: most things.
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: That's really hard. This is probably your hardest one that
• 56:40
  Speaker 5: you've asked.
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: I would go with anything that's seafood related. Like people
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: usually get grossed out by things like raw oysters or.
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: Things like that.
• 56:47
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 56:48
  Speaker 17: I really enjoy them. I grew up in a commercial
• 56:52
  Speaker 17: fishing family. I was the first male Olsen not to
• 56:55
  Speaker 17: go to the University of the Bering Sea. So seafood
• 56:59
  Speaker 17: things and me usually go kind of hand in hand.
• 57:01
  Speaker 5: So anything in that genre.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Well, you're coaching in the right place then. a lot
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: you can have there. And now the opposite. What's something
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: that you don't like to eat, but everyone else seems
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: to like, this might be tougher for you.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: No, this one's easier.
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: Um, well, I mean, I have a boatload of kids
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: and they love candy and sweet things. And that's just
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: outside of nerds, gummy clusters, which are fantastic. And maybe
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: that would be a Halloween question later on.
• 57:28
  Speaker 5: Um, not a big fan of candy.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Not my thing.
• 57:33
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: Interesting.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: Um, All right, well, let's go back to football, I suppose.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: You had to wait 15 days to play a game,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: and then Kings came to town on Saturday, picked up
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: a 20-0 win. Do you feel like maybe there was
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: some rust from not playing for a while, or is
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: that just an easy excuse to go to?
• 57:50
  Speaker 5: That's an easy excuse to go to.
• 57:52
  Speaker 17: I think that ultimately we didn't execute to the level
• 57:55
  Speaker 17: that we're capable of, and as coaches we've got to
• 57:57
  Speaker 17: own that and say, look at what we did going
• 58:01
  Speaker 17: into that game and do a better job preparing our
• 58:03
  Speaker 17: kids to go out and play their best.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: Um, you went with Connor Brown on the ground quite
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: a bit. Was there some, was that part of the
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: game plan as far as what you saw from Kings
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: or was that more him reading and reacting?
• 58:16
  Speaker 17: Uh, it's stuff that we saw from Kings that we
• 58:18
  Speaker 17: wanted to try out. Um, you know, it's the last
• 58:21
  Speaker 17: non-conference game and our early slate of them before we
• 58:24
  Speaker 17: get into conference.
• 58:25
  Speaker 4: And we still had a couple of questions we wanted
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: to answer it. And we probably would have done it
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: the week before too, but we didn't have that game
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: and opportunity. So we thought there was something there that
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: we could take advantage of, but we also wanted to
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: see what it would look like.
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: So it was a little bit of both.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. And you brought up that conference play is beginning,
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: and Friday night you're going to be on the road
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: against the undefeated Nooksack Valley Pioneers. What can you tell
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: us about this team?
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: They're just really good across the board.
• 58:56
  Speaker 17: Two really, really good running backs, probably, in my opinion,
• 58:59
  Speaker 17: the two best backs that we have in the conference
• 59:01
  Speaker 17: right now for the 1A' s. They return a lot of
• 59:04
  Speaker 17: guys up front, a couple of really strong, big tight
• 59:07
  Speaker 17: ends that are going to be physical on the defense.
• 59:10
  Speaker 17: side of the ball, they fly around. They do a
• 59:11
  Speaker 17: really nice job. In the secondary, probably two of the
• 59:14
  Speaker 17: better skilled guys. The Jones kid and then Martin fly
• 59:19
  Speaker 17: around and do a great job. They got Ladenbach back
• 59:21
  Speaker 17: as well at the linebacker level. They're just a well-rounded
• 59:24
  Speaker 17: football team. I'm not surprised at all by the success
• 59:28
  Speaker 17: that they've had so far.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: And, and, uh, this is interesting because you teach at
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Nooksack in the middle school or junior higher or whatever
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: they call it out there. But, uh, so are you
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: playing against any kids now at this point that you've
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: taught against, or I'm sorry that you've, that you've taught?
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm definitely not playing anymore, Tyler, but, uh, yeah.
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: No, um, it was kind of fun.
• 59:51
  Speaker 17: So we talked about how we went down that Kings
• 59:53
  Speaker 17: game and just timing had it. We walked up the
• 59:56
  Speaker 17: trail and, and the pioneers were coming off a pregame and,
• 59:59
  Speaker 17: Myself and our offensive coordinator, who also teaches in this building,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 17: stood there and gave a lot of high fives and
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 17: said hi to the kids as they're jogging off the
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 17: field to go get ready to play.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: It's one of those things where, you know, I can
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: say that me and.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 17: Coach Anderson both root for the Pioneer success pretty much
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 17: every Friday but one.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fun.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 17: To watch them grow up and go play and have
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 17: a small hand in kind of their growth as kids.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: Is there... I don't even know how to explain this,
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: but like, because you have current, like very recent common opponent,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: is there something you can pull from that at all?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: Or are you thinking, you know what, it's just a
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: new Friday.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 5: Every Friday is a new Friday.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: Um, you know, I think when you look at things
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: that you can pull, you look at schemes and see, okay, well,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: you know, how did they defend something that looks like us,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: you know, or something like that. So, That probably means
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: more to coaches than common opponents, I'd say, because that
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: common opponent maybe had a different game plan one week
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: to another as well.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's an interesting thought because, you know, it's one
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: of those things where all these teams, they just know
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: each other so well at this point. So you have
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: to really kind of dig a little bit deeper and
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: find other things or pull something out you haven't done or,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: or just something, and so it's going to be great
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: because for Whatcom County, it's fun when finally those conference
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: teams are playing each other, and that's when it really
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: changes once it gets into October, so it's going to
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. Best of luck on Friday
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: at Nooksack Valley. Thank you so much for joining me
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: today on the Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 5: Thanks, Tyler. Take care.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much to Coach Olson, and we're going
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: to give Coach Bartle equal time here. I am now
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by Nooksack Valley
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: head coach Craig Bartle. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 13: I'm doing well. Thank you for having me today.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: You bet. And we're going to start off by talking food.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: Food, all right.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: So it's easy to say, what's your favorite meal or
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But how about this? Name
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: a food that you love, but for some reason most
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: people don't like.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 13: Food that I love that most people don't like. Um, boy,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 13: that's it. You know, razor clams. I love razor clams.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: That's a good one. I think that, uh, I think, uh,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: coach Olson had something similar with that.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 12: Yeah. That brings back childhood, like a 4th of July.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 12: There's a bunch of families that would get together. Uh,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 12: and then we'd go down to, we'd go in and
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 12: just get razor clams in the morning on the 4th
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 12: of July. And then, come back and boil them all up. And,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 12: and yeah, good, good memories on that.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And now the opposite, which might be a
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: little easier. What's something that you just can't eat, but
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: everyone else seems to love.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 13: Boy, those are good questions.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: I like a lot of food, so it's hard to
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: find something.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: It's hard.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 12: It's hard to narrow it down. Boy, something that, I
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 12: don't like that everybody else does. Boy, I think you
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 12: stumped me on that one.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, cheesecake. I do not like cheesecake. And
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: I do not like potato salad. But it seems like
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: everybody loves those things.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 13: Gosh, you know, all the meats, chicken, beef, seafood, I like.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 13: You know, a lot of people, I don't like escargot,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 13: but a lot of people do.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go. See, there had to be something.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, I can't do that. Boy, it sounds like
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 13: I like clams and escargot, or not escargot. But I
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 13: cook at Nookzak, by the way.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 11: So it's all.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 5: It's all good.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: And we're going to get back to that football talk now,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: because on Friday you hosted Squalicum in a game where
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: you jumped out to a 19-0 lead after one quarter,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: held on for the 19-12 win. Maybe takeaways is a
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: touchy word after Friday, but what were your takeaway from
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: the game?
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 12: Well, I mean, we, as a staff, we were very
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 12: happy at all with how the kids performed. And so
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 12: it was, we watched Saturday, Thursday, film and, um, you know,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 12: it was, it was pretty rough, but as coaches, this
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 12: is that time of the year now where if the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 12: kids are making the same mistakes, then is it really
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 12: on the kids or is it on us?
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 13: And so maybe it's our style.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 12: We've got to change how we're doing things a little
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 12: bit of practice or how we're saying things. And so, uh,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 12: I think this week has been a, has been a
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 12: reflection from.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 13: All of us of, all right, what do we need
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 13: to do a little bit differently?
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 12: And this week will be a very intense practice week.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 13: And we're going to get back to some basics.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 12: And as coaches, you know, we'll adjust some things that
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 12: we keep making the same mistakes on.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 13: Because at some point, if we.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 12: Can say, hey, you know what, we changed how we
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 12: talked or how we taught something.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 13: And if the kid still isn't getting it, then maybe they're.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 12: Just not going to get it. But we have to
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 12: make sure that we give every effort to it. have
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 12: our players succeed. So that's the focus going to be
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 12: this week.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's, and that's kind of, I don't want to
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: say the dream for a coach, but to be still
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: where you're at in the season and still have things
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: that you can coach on and work on.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: Kind of a nice place to be in, in a
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: weird way. And so, and all coaches, you know, will
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: tell you or tell me that it's the teaching part
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: that they really love. And so when you get to
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: be able to do that, there's nothing wrong with that
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: at all. And then, and then you will see things
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: that will click from different ways and you'll kind of
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: look at another coach and go, Hey, look at that, that, that,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: that worked that time. So, um, so that's good to hear. Um,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: a big part of your success so far this year
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: has been the play of your secondary, uh, even with
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: an unfortunate injury to trace Palumbo, who I did see
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, talked to a little bit and he's hopeful, uh,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: to come back. You know, Tyler Martin's having a huge season.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: Jaden Jones sticks on his guy wherever he goes. Evan
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Lairley is playing beyond his years. But I want to
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: talk about Max Lautenbach. That kid continues to have a
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: nose for the ball. What makes him such a great
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: football player?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 12: He just, I think you hit it on the head.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 12: I mean, he has a nose for the ball. He
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 12: sees stuff really well. He kind of sees what's going
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 12: on in the backfield. And he's pretty disciplined in making reads.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 12: And so, Yeah, and he loves contact. So he's a
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 12: guy that's not going to be afraid to get in
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 12: the mix. But he's smart about what he does and
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 12: where he plays. And so, yeah, he's been a constant
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 12: last year and this year back there. He's that senior
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 12: kind of leader in the secondary with him. I mean,
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 12: Jaden's at the corner. But in that safety kind of
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 12: spot or type spot, he has to– you know, tell
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 12: everybody kind of what to do. And so he's been,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 12: he's been really good and, and he's got a comedic
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 12: side to him that keeps things light at practice.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 13: And so, you know, he's a captain. And so he's
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 13: a great kid to have around.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: It's another thing I love too, is that, you know,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I remember when I first saw him as a sophomore
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: and he's wearing number 48 and I was like, man,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: that's not a, that's not a desirable number. You know,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: by the time he's a senior, he'll be, you know,
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: number four, number eight or whatever. he's sticking with that 48, man.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: He just, he's, he's, he's making that number his. And
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: when I think of 48, I can't think of a
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: guy in any sport that, that, that, you know, 48
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: does not ring up the, you know, the tongue too well,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: but he makes it his.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 13: He does.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 12: And, you know, we hand out uniforms Thursdays before practices and, and,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 12: you know, it's like, gosh, yeah, it's, it's, we have a,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 12: we have a laughing moment together. We don't really say anything,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 12: but it's like, here's your, 48 jersey and he smiles.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 13: And he takes it and off he goes. But yeah,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 13: I mean, you're right.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 12: It's not, it's not a popular jersey and that's kind
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 12: of Max, you know, he's unique.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: I love that. And it's always, I'm always fascinated with
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: numbers and maybe why a player chooses them. And a
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: lot of times the answer is, was, well, that's what
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: they gave me and I just stuck with it. So
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. On Friday night, finally conference play begins.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: And you'll be hosting Blaine. What can you tell our
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: listeners about this year's border right team?
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 12: They're, you know, Andy does a great job over there
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 12: and they, they get better every year and they've got
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 12: more kids out. uh i think this year that he's
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 12: had maybe in the last you know four or five
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 12: years and you know him and his staff they do
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 12: they do a really good job and their kids are
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 12: flying around and they're playing with a lot of confidence
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 12: and and i think they're more physical than they have
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 12: been in the past um you can just you could
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 12: just see an aura of you know that that confidence
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 12: out there on the field now And things are starting
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 12: to happen for them. And so, you know, they're disciplined.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 12: They've got some playmakers that they're trying to get the
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 12: ball to. And so they're really tough to.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 13: Try to defend.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: And while recording this interview, as I look out my window,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: I see the pouring rain. And I'm not quite sure
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: what it's like out there, but probably similar. How much
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: do coaches look at the weather forecast today? during the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: week and does that alter your game plan at all?
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: I'm really curious about that when, you know, this last week,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a downpour that you played in.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: Did you, did you know that coming up and then
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: did you prepare during the week for that? And is
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: it similar this week? I'm just, I'm just curious how
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: much coaches really look into that kind of stuff. Yeah,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: we do.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 13: And I would assume that a lot of coaches do. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 12: So last week we, you know, we knew it was
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 12: going to be raining and, Didn't know it was going
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 12: to be raining that much. You know, I had heard
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 12: it rained a half inch to three quarters of an
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 12: inch just on Friday night. But we hosed the ball
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 12: down with water and, you know, tried to simulate snaps
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 12: and throwing a little bit.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: And so, yeah, absolutely.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 12: I think, you know, those are the little details that
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 12: I think every coach tries to do or should do
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 12: just to I mean, that's just getting your kids set
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 12: up for success if you can practice those things. If
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 12: you use a dry ball all the time and all
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 12: of a sudden you go and it's raining, your kids
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 12: don't know what to do with that and what to expect.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 13: Things happen a little bit slower.
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 12: Running backs have to slow down a little bit when
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 12: you're taking handoffs because everybody's trying to get the ball.
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 13: The center's trying to make sure the ball goes back
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 13: to the quarterback.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 12: The quarterback's trying to make sure you hold on to
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 12: the ball. So a lot of things happen. Um, we
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 12: did look for this week and it looks like it's
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 12: gonna be nice, nice night. So, um, and then, you know, coaches,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 12: we have to, I mean, we got to figure out
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 12: what to wear on Friday. So that's a constant, you know, uh,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 12: thing throughout the week. How many layers do I bring?
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 12: Do I need to do more laundry? You know, what
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 12: do I need to bring extra clothes? And so, yeah, it's,
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 12: it's a big deal across the board.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: It's funny. Cause there was a game. Boy, I think
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: it was, it might've been when you guys played in
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: one of those, uh, like tie breakers things out at
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Blaine years ago and it was raining pretty hard. And
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: I remember being out there and I was out there
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: for all the matchups. And at the end of it,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: I was talking to you and some of your assistant
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: coaches and, One of them, it might have been Britt,
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: he just said, Tyler, you need to get some rain gear.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: And I just thought, I never really thought about it. Like,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: I have all, you know, I have my hoodies and
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: I did find long pants, which was very hard for
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: me to find. But yeah, rain gear is one of
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: those things that you don't really think about that. I
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: still don't have, I got to get some Waka Preps
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: rain gear. That'd be good. But yeah. But, yeah, it's–
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: and are there things as coaches now that it's been
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: a month and you haven't even played a league game yet,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: are there things that you still kind of hold on
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: to that you will unveil during– I'm not saying what
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: are they, but there's got to be things that you
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: haven't shown yet that, you know, as you go into
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: conference play, this is much more important now. Yeah.
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 13: Probably a little bit yes and no.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 12: I mean, there's, there's some things that you probably keep there's,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 12: I mean, everybody's got a trick player too, that they
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 12: have or have not, you.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 13: Know, displayed yet, but you know.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 12: Those first four games, as you're getting into league, you
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 12: want to figure out, Hey, what are we good at?
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 12: And what do we, what do we need to scrap,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 12: I guess, for, for league playing. So I think for
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 12: the most part, we've tried everything and other teams have
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 12: tried everything. And, and, you know, do we keep stay
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 12: with it and practice it more or, or toss it out?
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 12: And so, That's kind of what those non-league games are for,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 12: to figure that part out. And so I think there's
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 12: a little bit of that, but, you know, not too much. Like,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 12: Leper's not going to come out and do a spread offense.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 12: I mean, now that I say that, he probably will. But,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 12: you know, everybody knows kind of what everybody's doing. So, yeah,
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 12: there's little tweaks here and there. But, yeah, I mean,
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 12: for the most part, everybody's displayed what they're going to
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 12: do now.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Awesome coach. Best of luck against Blaine at home on Friday.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: And thank you so much for joining me today on
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: the Gatorade game day podcast.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 13: Appreciate it. Appreciate everything you do.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: Thanks coach. Well, that wraps up the Friday night slate
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: and we do have the one Saturday afternoon game. And
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: I tell you what, you better get there early because
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: that first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter, they're
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: going to move fast with two teams that love to
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: run the ball as on Alaska, the loggers come to
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: town early. They suffered their first loss of the season
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: last week to the hands of Meridian. They dropped down
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: to number 6th ranking in the Class 2B. They are
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: 3-1 on the year, and they will be taking on
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: the Mount Baker Mountaineers at Bob Tisdale Field. Also 3-1
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: on the season, and they are also ranked 6th in
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Class 1A. So I think this is going to be
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: a really, really good game as far as two teams
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: that love to run the ball, smash mouth. It's going
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: to feel like 1950s football. Uh, it's going to be
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: a site to see a lot of hard hitting and, um,
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: and just good sportsmanship and, and you're not going to
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: see the ball in the air a whole lot. Um,
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: believe it or not, Mount Baker passes the ball probably
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: three times as much as on Alaska does. So that
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: gives you an idea of what the loggers like to
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: do on the ground. I am now joined on the
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Gatorade game day podcast by Mount Baker head football coach,
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: Ron Lepper coach. Thank you for joining me today. How
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: are you doing?
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 15: I'm doing well, and a pleasure always to be able
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 15: to have a conversation with you.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Coach. My pleasure as well. All right, you're
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: going to like this. We're going to start by talking food.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: It's easy to say what your favorite food is, but
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: name something that you love to eat but most people
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: don't like.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, something I like to eat that most people don't like. Menudo.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 13: Menudo.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: Menudo.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: Were you introduced to that when you were down in
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: Southern California?
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: I was introduced to that.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: Oh man. I don't be honest. I don't even know
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: what it is.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: It's a Mexican, uh, soup.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 15: It's got, uh, some tripe in there, you know, uh,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 15: cow intestines and stuff and some other things. I, you know, um, first.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: Time I ate it, I didn't ask what was in it.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: You know, it's.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 15: Got a little spice to it and stuff. It's, uh,
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 15: but yeah, it's a miracle cure for numerous things. And
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 15: I'll let you just go with that.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: Oh, all right.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: I like that. And I love Mexican and I love
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: spicy stuff. So, uh, I'll just stay with that. Now
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: the opposite. What's something that you just don't like at
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: all but everybody else seems to love?
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. I'm not a.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 15: Big fan of chocolate chip mint ice cream. I just
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 15: don't like it. I know a lot of people really
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 15: like it. I'm not a fan.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: You know, Ms. Walkenpreps is right there with you. She
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: loves her ice cream, but she's like, whatever you do,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: don't get chocolate chip mint ice cream.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: Perfect. That's just another reason why I like her.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 13: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: Well, I guess we can talk football. On Friday, you
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: traveled over to OMAC, and despite turning the ball over
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: numerous times, you were still able to get the shutout win,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: holding them under 100 yards. What was working in that game?
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 15: Well, first of all, our defense played really well. Defensive
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 15: line did a nice job of controlling the line of scrimmage,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 15: and then we really kind of started playing Mount Baker
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 15: defense with a lot of red hats on the ball. Um,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 15: and then we were able to run the ball and, uh,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 15: have some success doing that. And so, you know, when
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 15: we're able to run the ball and kind of do
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 15: what we want to there, that kind of opens things
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 15: up for us a little bit. So the overall, it
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 15: was a good game of both sides ball, except for
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 15: the turnovers. And we had some penalties that, you know,
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 15: we were a little, a little creative, but you know,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 15: we were able to overcome that. And so, um, overall,
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 15: it was a really good road win for us against
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 15: the team that, you know, um, that we've, that we've
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 15: seen for, you know, multiple times over the last couple
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 15: of years and that, uh, you know, they play hard,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 15: they play physical, but, um, uh, I think, you know,
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 15: we kind of got the better of them on last
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 15: Friday night.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: You know, there was that play, uh, and you probably
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: know exactly where I'm going, but there was that, uh,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: early whistle. Um, and I could see, and I, I mean,
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: it completely had me fooled maybe because maybe cause Danny's, uh,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: camera work had me fooled a little bit too, but
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: you could see the coach on their sideline, put his
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: hands on his head. And I don't know if he's saying,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: Oh man, they just ripped us for a long one.
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  Speaker 1: Or if he's saying, Oh no, they just blew the whistle. Um, is,
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  Speaker 1: and I, I, I talked about this on a prior podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Is there any way you could talk to a side
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  Speaker 1: judge and say, Hey, on this one, is there a
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  Speaker 1: code you can give to the other officials or do
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  Speaker 1: you just.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of play?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, maybe you could do that, but, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about it before the game. You know, I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they.
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  Speaker 15: Always ask, do you have any trick formations or, you know,
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  Speaker 15: different formations or trick plays? I said, no, but we
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  Speaker 15: try to do a good job hiding the ball. And
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  Speaker 15: they're all like, yeah, we talked about that. You know,
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  Speaker 15: it's like, as soon as they say that, I know
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  Speaker 15: it's going to happen. I know we played Linden a
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  Speaker 15: couple years ago over at their place, and we were
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  Speaker 15: talking about it. One of the officials was saying, well,
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  Speaker 15: you know, I'm a college official, and he's the guy
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  Speaker 15: that blew the whistle, and he looked at me, and
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  Speaker 15: I just smiled, you know, and The guy knew it.
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  Speaker 15: I mean, and the white hat came over and apologized.
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  Speaker 15: And that's just the way it happens. But, yeah, that
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  Speaker 15: might have been a touchdown on that play because there
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  Speaker 15: was no one around. There was a lot of grass
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  Speaker 15: for him to go on. But, you know, that's the
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  Speaker 15: way it goes. And then we just, you know, regroup
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  Speaker 15: and get going again.
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  Speaker 1: And Gage had a great game defensively. Moved from safety
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  Speaker 1: to corner. Had two interceptions. Was this kind of something personnel-wise,
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  Speaker 1: or did you think, let's give him a shot out
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  Speaker 1: here and see what happens?
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  Speaker 15: Well, Jayden Louie was not probably able to go, and
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  Speaker 15: we found that out during pregame a little bit. And
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  Speaker 15: so we decided, you know, what's going to be the
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 15: best move here. So we put Gage at corner, and
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  Speaker 15: like I said, he had a really good game for
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  Speaker 15: us there, defensively for us last week.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to talk about Aaron Torres because, my goodness,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: every single week he is just a monster out there.
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  Speaker 1: And when I think back at all these great defensive
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: linemen you've had over the decades, a lot of them
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: are ends, you know. And interior linemen, there's been some
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: good ones, but I can't remember one like him since
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: Carl Fromley, perhaps. It's been a long time. He is
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: what makes him such a force in the middle there.
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  Speaker 2: He just likes playing football. You know, he watches film.
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  Speaker 15: He's got a lot of, you know, wants to go
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 15: get his ounce of flesh every time, right? I mean,
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 15: he wants to get in there and be involved with
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 15: what's going on. And, you know, sometimes he maybe gets
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 15: himself out of position because he's a little too aggressive.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 15: But when he's on, you know, he's a huge part
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 15: of what we do on defense. And like you said,
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  Speaker 15: he had a really good game. You know, he's been
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 15: solid all year long, played well, and he just kind
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 15: of really got after it on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going at a different speed. He's so strong
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  Speaker 1: and so awesome to see. I mean, he's been great
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: for a while, but now as a senior, just the
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: dominance has been apparent. Saturday afternoon, you'll be back at
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: home for the first time since week one, and you're
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: hosting on Alaska. The game is at 1 o'clock, so
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: you better get there early. Both teams love to run
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: the ball. It's going to be a fast game time-wise.
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: Tell us about the Loggers.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 15: They want to run the ball. They probably run the
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 15: ball more than we do. They've got some really good backs.
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 15: Their number 45 kids, he's a dude. They have their
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 15: system they believe in. We're trying this week to make
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 15: sure we recognize what they want to do in certain formations.
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  Speaker 15: Knowing that they've got a strong history in football. They
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 15: came up short against Meridian last week, but You know,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 15: they beat, you know, Aden and Appelwein, which are big,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 15: you know, games for their league early this year. So
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 15: we know it's going to be a battle. Again, it's
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 15: going to be up front. We just got to make
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 15: sure that, you know, we fly to the ball and
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 15: that when we wrap it up and we're tackling, we
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 15: get the opportunity to do that.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: You know, without, you know, giving away game plans and
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, when you play a team
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: that's got a completely different offense than you've faced, you know,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: perhaps all year or, you know, whatever, you know, is
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: it a personnel thing on defense or is there something
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: that you make tweaks to defensively and say, well, this
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: is just different. This is, this is different than what
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: we usually do. And this is how we're going to
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: game plan it. Or do you just go out there
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: with your base defense and kind of see how that goes?
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 15: Well, I mean, obviously, I mean, one of the scout
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 15: guys made the, made the comment yesterday, like this office
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 15: doesn't make.
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  Speaker 2: Any sense, you know?
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 15: You know, like I said, you know, we played tonight
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  Speaker 15: a couple of years ago and we kind of changed
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 15: up how we run things. you know, we got to
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 15: make some adjustments. It's just not, you know, stay in
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 15: your base. Cause if you do that, you're going to,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 15: you know, they're going to outnumber you. Their, their whole
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 15: idea is they want to get more people to the
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 15: point of attack than you can stop them, you know?
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 15: And so, but depending on the formation, we'll line up
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 15: a certain way and then, you know, we'll change some
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 15: responsibilities and then, you know, obviously hopefully that works. And
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 15: if it doesn't, then we'll have to make some adjustments
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 15: on the fly.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: And, You know, the splits, the whole thing, one side's
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: got big splits, the other side has tight splits, all
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: that stuff. It's just, is there a bigger concern of
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: who has the ball, or is it a bigger concern
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: of don't have one of the DBs fall asleep?
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean, you know, it's hard.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 15: Like, when you're running the ball, run the ball, and
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 15: all of a sudden, you know, play-action pass can get
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 15: you in some trouble.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: So, you know, they've just got to be disciplined that way.
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 15: And then for us, like I said, you know, we're
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 15: going to, you'll see us move around a little bit
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 15: depending on, what formation they come out on. And then,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 15: you know, and then obviously bottom line, once the ball snapped,
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 15: you got to go execute. And so, um, you know,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 15: we got an extra day of practice this week for
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 15: that because we're playing on Saturday. So, um, you know,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 15: that's our goal with we're building towards, you know, over
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 15: the next couple of days, kind of getting ready to
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 15: make sure that we understand what they're trying to do
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 15: when they're in certain formations.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 6: Awesome.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: Well, coach, it's a Saturday game, everybody listening, uh, It's
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 1: the only game in town. So head out to Bob
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: Tisdale field Saturday afternoon, check it out. Best of luck
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 1: coach on Saturday against on Alaska. And thank you for
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: joining me today on the Gatorade game day podcast.
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Tyler. Appreciate it.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 15: And as always, I'm glad to be here and be
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 15: part of what you're doing for the kids.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: So thank you.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 5: You're welcome, coach.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right. Well, you've heard from all the coaches.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: I just want to thank them all for answering my
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: silly questions, especially coach left and his, his love for Menudo,
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: as we all have learned. So thank you very much
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: to everybody. This has been episode 451, the Week 5
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day Football Preview. Be sure to tune in
• 1:24:21
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• 1:24:24
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• 1:24:26
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• 1:24:29
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• 1:24:32
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• 1:24:35
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• 1:24:39
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• 1:24:42
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• 1:24:45
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• 1:24:47
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• 1:24:49
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• 1:24:52
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• 1:24:54
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• 1:24:57
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• 1:24:58
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• 1:25:02
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• 1:25:05
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• 1:25:07
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• 1:25:10
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• 1:25:13
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• 1:25:16
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• 1:25:18
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• 1:25:22
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• 1:25:25
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