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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 272 - 2024 Sehome Mariners Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Senior Kobe Chambers, and you're listening to the football preview
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  Speaker 1: on the Walcome Preps podcast with Tyler and Ryland.
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  Speaker 2: Go Manors, greeting X and welcome into the watcom Preps podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is episode at two and seventy two, the ninth
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  Speaker 2: of ten football team previews. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with
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  Speaker 2: me as always is Tyler Anderson of Watcome Preps. Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: how we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Pia, Ryland there?
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: I know you've done a lot of PA work in
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  Speaker 1: the last you know, last eight or nine months. There
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  Speaker 1: doing awesome. Man, It's uh, we're getting right down to
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  Speaker 1: the end of it with the previews. Football starts in
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of days. Holy cow. We are right
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  Speaker 1: here and pretty soon we'll get that weather forecast from
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  Speaker 1: Randy Small. We'll find out what we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: looking for on Friday night and Saturday afternoon and.
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  Speaker 2: Then boom, it's here. So I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it doing great.
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  Speaker 2: Should I do an entire podcast with like the yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: oh my goodness, that'd be crazy, Tyler. We need to
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  Speaker 2: give a thank you to Colby Chambers of Sea Home
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  Speaker 2: for the intro. Now bear with me here, folks, first
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  Speaker 2: This podcast, as I mentioned, is previewing the Sea Home Mariners,
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  Speaker 2: although Tyler knew that you people may have not. Later
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  Speaker 2: today we will finish the team previews with the Kniksack
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  Speaker 2: Valley Pioneers, meaning you can go find the other eight
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  Speaker 2: team previews already posted. Head over to walkompreps dot com,
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  Speaker 2: find the team you want, click on it, hit the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: That is what do you say? Embedded right in the
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  Speaker 2: top of it, and as you listen to the podcast,
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  Speaker 2: scroll through Tyler's I do even know over writing that
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  Speaker 2: he does, all the craziness that he puts in there.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much information, it's unbelievable. But Tyler, we talk
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  Speaker 2: about it all too, So you can sit here and
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  Speaker 2: listen to the sultry tones of our voices. Tomorrow, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: we will have the week one preview going at nine am.
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  Speaker 2: That is a preview of all of the games football wise,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will have the county volleyball preview at
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  Speaker 2: five pm. So yeah, I mean, subscribe to the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to check out walkompreps dot com. Everything is
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  Speaker 2: ready to go, Tyler. We are just a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days away. Well, when when we're recording this, we're about
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  Speaker 2: ten days away. But when people are hearing this, who,
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  Speaker 2: we're what forty eight hours away? Right right around the corner. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're right there. So let's see here, Tyler, you were
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  Speaker 2: out at Sea Home and Knooksack Valley. Those were the
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  Speaker 2: last two that you went to. That was on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: of the first week. We're going to talk about those
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  Speaker 2: two teams today. So we will start with Seahome, which
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  Speaker 2: is who you started with when you were out there
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday morning. General thoughts on practice over there with
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  Speaker 2: the Mariners, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was always good to see the full pads
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  Speaker 1: and this was my first practice to go to with
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  Speaker 1: the full pads on sea. You got to hear the
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  Speaker 1: hitting and they I watched the lineman drill a lot
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  Speaker 1: because you got a lot of contact there and they
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  Speaker 1: were really working heavily with you know, different schemes with
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  Speaker 1: the offensive line and where the running back should hit.
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  Speaker 1: And there was some good stuff, a lot of positivity.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of rain coming down that morning as well,
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  Speaker 1: so it was kind of trying to find a nice
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  Speaker 1: dry spot to take head shots underneath the new the
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  Speaker 1: new school or somewhat new school. It's probably five years
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  Speaker 1: old now. And uh, yeah, it was you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just a lot of a lot of athletic kids, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of smiles, a lot of excitement there just because
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  Speaker 1: of you know, it was it was football weather, and
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  Speaker 1: they were just saying that, They're like, this is this
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  Speaker 1: is football weather. You know, this is this is football
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  Speaker 1: in November in August, you know, and and it was,
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  Speaker 1: uh and it was excited, and I think they I
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  Speaker 1: think they know that it's a it's a good group
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  Speaker 1: that didn't lose it too much from last year.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of these guys are back and they
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  Speaker 2: know how to play with each other.
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  Speaker 1: And I think there's a lot of optimism right now
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  Speaker 1: because of kind of their talent level and the combination
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  Speaker 1: with the now the round of thirty two, with the
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  Speaker 1: possibilities of them being able to make some noise. I
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  Speaker 1: think they're all feeling pretty confident. They're feeling really really
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  Speaker 1: excited about this upcoming year as they have so many
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  Speaker 1: pieces moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: So Tyler, Yes, trying to remember here. Okay, so you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned the fact that I mean, they didn't lose very
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  Speaker 2: many guys. As a matter of fact, the senior podcast
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  Speaker 2: that we do saying Goodbye to the Seniors only had
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  Speaker 2: four guys to talk about, which is wild. But I
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  Speaker 2: was hoping, and I couldn't remember how we'd do it.
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  Speaker 2: I was hoping that maybe the Senior Goodbye one was
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  Speaker 2: each individual one because Seaholmes would have been about six
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  Speaker 2: minutes long, but it was an hour seventeen because we
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  Speaker 2: said goodbye to Ferndale, Nuksack Valley, and Seahome all at once,
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  Speaker 2: and Knikzack Valley had a lot to talk about, Ferndale
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  Speaker 2: had quite a bit to talk about. Seahome, on the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, was just a little blip on the radar
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  Speaker 2: as far as that podcast went. But they did lose
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  Speaker 2: some definitely good players too. That's the thing. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but when you started looking at the top, Attorneyes, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's very, very long, and we will be
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  Speaker 2: talking a lot about those guys today. But before we
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  Speaker 2: do that, Tyler, new thing to the podcast this year
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  Speaker 2: for the previews, you went around and you interviewed all
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  Speaker 2: of the head coaches. Brian Young, second year head coach
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  Speaker 2: at Seahome. He can talk a lot. And I know
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  Speaker 2: that because when we sat on the podcast with him,
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  Speaker 2: Tyler that we did over Zoom the one time. I
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  Speaker 2: think that one went about forty five minutes longer than
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  Speaker 2: we had anticipated. Granted, you put me and somebody else
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  Speaker 2: that can talk, and before you know it, it's you know, midnight.
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  Speaker 2: But that being said, Tyler, you sat down with coach
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  Speaker 2: Young for a little over ten minutes is how long
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  Speaker 2: it actually took. Yeah, Tyler, you were out there. Coach Young,
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  Speaker 2: take it away.
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  Speaker 3: This is Tyler Anderson with walkin preps and I am
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  Speaker 3: on location at Seahome High School where the rain is
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  Speaker 3: coming down, and I am with head coach Brian Young
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  Speaker 3: of the football team and coach, this is your second
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  Speaker 3: year as the head coach, so you know, the first year,
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  Speaker 3: everything's new. What's the biggest difference now with a full
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  Speaker 3: year under your belt.
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  Speaker 4: Well, there's a couple of things.
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  Speaker 5: The players understand the scheme and the system a little
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  Speaker 5: bit better, so we can move faster.
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  Speaker 4: Right. We've made some adjustments to our coaching.
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  Speaker 5: Staff, so our football IQ is elevated significantly with the staff,
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  Speaker 5: which means we can coach to a more detail oriented
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  Speaker 5: piece of it. And that's really helped us on the
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  Speaker 5: field and our team bonding. Our team building has gotten great.
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  Speaker 5: You have to realize, and this is just the fact
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  Speaker 5: of the matter. We're still recovering some from.
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  Speaker 4: The unfortunate situation that happened a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 4: So we're still rebuilding our culture.
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  Speaker 5: And in doing that, you're just watching guys want to
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  Speaker 5: be around each other now, want to enjoy themselves. Like
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  Speaker 5: last year, we had a barbecue, the team barbecue, and
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  Speaker 5: you know it's just a football team and the cheerleaders
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  Speaker 5: this year, it's the football team, the cheer team, the.
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  Speaker 4: Dance team, and the band.
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  Speaker 5: Like you know, so the football community is starting to
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  Speaker 5: come together and that will take your program, like to
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  Speaker 5: the levels that you want it to be. So, you know,
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  Speaker 5: people looking on the outside, new players in the building
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  Speaker 5: that we can start to attract. It may not have
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  Speaker 5: Hey I don't really want to be a part of football.
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  Speaker 5: Now they're going to look at it and go, hey,
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  Speaker 5: you know what. Wow, you know that's a different thing.
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  Speaker 5: I want to get on board that. I want to
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  Speaker 5: be a part of that. So those are the biggest differences.
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  Speaker 5: You know in year two.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome the big rule change this year the round of
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  Speaker 1: thirty two week ten, you have a chance to play
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  Speaker 1: into the tournament.
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  Speaker 2: How can that benefit the Marriners.
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, like I think it benefits our
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  Speaker 5: league and I think it was the right decision. There
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  Speaker 5: would be some frustration, Like honestly, if you looked at
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  Speaker 5: our league last year, we had two playoff spots and
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  Speaker 5: we probably had six of the top.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty teams in the state.
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  Speaker 5: So, like, you know, there's there's an equity piece of
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  Speaker 5: thought process because a lot of times, you know, when
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  Speaker 5: I was across town coaching. We would look up and
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  Speaker 5: we would be, you know, maybe the fourth or fifth seed.
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  Speaker 5: We'd play a one seed from another conference, and the
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  Speaker 5: competition it wasn't even close, right. So I think what
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  Speaker 5: that does is it's.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of like the play in tournament in the NBA.
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  Speaker 5: It gives you that, hey, you know what, this is
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  Speaker 5: it we win this, We're in. And I was looking
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  Speaker 5: at our schedule and I've been telling our guys the
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  Speaker 5: whole time. I said, Hey, that last game could be
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  Speaker 5: a Slobb or knocker. Hey, baby, that could be you
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  Speaker 5: know what, Hey, that's how we get in and you
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  Speaker 5: know or you know what, we play ourselves out. So
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  Speaker 5: when we get to that, we'll address it. But I
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  Speaker 5: think it was the right thing to do. I think
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  Speaker 5: it opens up a lot more opportunity, and I think
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  Speaker 5: it gives that last game a much bigger like, Hey, this,
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  Speaker 5: we gotta have this right, so we're excited about that.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's good for the league.
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  Speaker 5: I also think it's good for to a football in
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  Speaker 5: the state, because if you really want to get that
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  Speaker 5: state champion, you want it to be from the best
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  Speaker 5: teams in the state competing to win that title.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I agree, and also talk about you know, your
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  Speaker 1: senior Andre Watson. He's seems like he's been on the
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  Speaker 1: team forever. He's broken all these school records. There's he's
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  Speaker 1: looking at walking county records. I'm sure you're like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care about records. I just wins and he's the
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  Speaker 1: same way. But tell me about him as the person,
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  Speaker 1: the player, and just what he means to your program.
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  Speaker 5: Well, understand this, like people will see the stats, or
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  Speaker 5: they see the touchdown catches, but when that college coach
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  Speaker 5: comes to me.
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  Speaker 4: They see all that on film. I don't have to
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  Speaker 4: tell him about that.
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  Speaker 5: What they're asking me about is what kind of character
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  Speaker 5: does he have? Does he show up on time? You
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  Speaker 5: know he is he either helping you or hurting you.
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  Speaker 4: As coach best at East of Them would always say right.
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  Speaker 5: And the biggest shift I've seen in that young man
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  Speaker 5: is his commitment to being that great character off the field.
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  Speaker 5: You know, walking through the hallway, does he look at
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  Speaker 5: that freshman who's lost that he doesn't know and say, hey,
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  Speaker 5: is something going on? Can I help you find something?
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  Speaker 5: And those are the things where I'm seeing him elevate.
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  Speaker 5: You know, who he is as a person, because at
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  Speaker 5: the end of the day, and you know this, these
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  Speaker 5: guys are gonna be fathers and husbands and you know what,
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  Speaker 5: uncles and all of that way longer then they're gonna
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  Speaker 5: play football. Even if they go in the NFL, that
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  Speaker 5: still gonna end. And so it's about the character of
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  Speaker 5: that young man more than the records.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: The records are nice, and you better believe when he
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  Speaker 5: gets them, will celebrate him. But at the end of
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  Speaker 5: the day, right, the bottom line is I want people
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  Speaker 5: to say, hey, that's a good person, he's a good
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  Speaker 5: character guy, as opposed to, oh, well he caught thirteen
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  Speaker 5: passes in a game or whatever it is. Right, So
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  Speaker 5: that's where he's going. That's a maturation piece. I told
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  Speaker 5: him this year. I said, hey, you're in line at
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  Speaker 5: some point, you know, to get that D one offer.
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  Speaker 5: So I want you to think you've got a drone
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  Speaker 5: over your head and you're always being interviewed.
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  Speaker 4: Everything you say, everything you do, everywhere you go.
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  Speaker 5: Leave the impression that you want people to see you
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  Speaker 5: know who, do you want them to say you are
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  Speaker 5: right as a human being and all that. The rest
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  Speaker 5: of that stuff. I mean, hey, the kick and play,
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  Speaker 5: but let's just call what it is, right. But you know,
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  Speaker 5: that's the biggest thing. I'm just seeing the maturation. There's
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  Speaker 5: a couple guys, right, because we're so young, you know,
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  Speaker 5: not just you know chronology on the field, but my
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  Speaker 5: guys are young, like when you're talking sophomores who have
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  Speaker 5: started a couple of years of varsity football, like, they're
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  Speaker 5: still figuring it out.
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  Speaker 4: They're still learning, and they've gone through like a coaching
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  Speaker 4: change and you know the dramatics.
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  Speaker 5: So there's just a lot of maturation. But that's our
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  Speaker 5: biggest thing is working on a character of these guys
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  Speaker 5: to become better young men so they can represent our
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  Speaker 5: program and themselves right the way we want them to
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  Speaker 5: be seen.
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  Speaker 1: Talk about your offense. What do you like right now
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  Speaker 1: about your offense and how things are going. I saw
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  Speaker 1: you pumping up the offensive lineman and the tight ends
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. What do you like right now
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  Speaker 1: about your offense?
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  Speaker 4: Consistency? Guys are coming out. They understand.
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  Speaker 5: When we first started camp, I showed them the Tom
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  Speaker 5: Brady speech right, and football is hard, right, And I
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  Speaker 5: wanted to show them that because I want them to
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  Speaker 5: understand to be successful at this you have to work
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  Speaker 5: it's hard to come out here. It's raining. You see
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  Speaker 5: our guys out here, we're going through practice, we're yelling,
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  Speaker 5: we're screaming.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard.
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  Speaker 5: And I told them this is this is November and
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  Speaker 5: December football weather.
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  Speaker 4: This is ideal, this is what we want to be.
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  Speaker 5: So what I'm looking at as guys who are consistently
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  Speaker 5: showing up, consistently bringing their little hat on, you know,
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  Speaker 5: on the construction site, and they're going to work.
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  Speaker 4: Right. The maturation process, the coaching.
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  Speaker 5: Has gotten more fluid, so you see players more receptive
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  Speaker 5: to you know, the coaching piece.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: We're moving guys around and challenging them, saying, hey, you
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  Speaker 5: know what, you're better if you can play multiple positions. Right,
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  Speaker 5: So just doing things like that with players. There are
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  Speaker 5: several guys who had really good summers. You know, some
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  Speaker 5: of them increased, you know, fifty sixty pounds you know,
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  Speaker 5: in the weight room, so they're getting on the field
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  Speaker 5: and things they couldn't do last year. They're confident, they
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  Speaker 5: feel better about that stuff, right. And the other thing
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  Speaker 5: is is, you know the players are talking about, hey man,
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  Speaker 5: we're way.
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  Speaker 4: Ahead, like we're farther ahead.
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  Speaker 5: And some of that comes from the consistency of being
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  Speaker 5: in the same system here, in the same terminology, right,
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  Speaker 5: and we've changed some things, right, you know, just because
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  Speaker 5: your personnel changes.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, when they hear the play calls, they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I know that play, I know what to do.
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  Speaker 5: I've simplified a couple of things so guys can play
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  Speaker 5: faster because we want players that are players that know.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, you get guys that think, and you
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  Speaker 4: get guys that know.
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  Speaker 5: So we're now we're evolving into players that know and
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  Speaker 5: know what to do.
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  Speaker 4: If this happens to a big deal, I know what
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  Speaker 4: to do. So that's the biggest things. It's just the consistency.
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  Speaker 4: Being able to work with Nolan, you know, quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: Really getting him into the nuances of pre snap reads,
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  Speaker 5: what do I see and how can I take advantage
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  Speaker 5: of that so he can get rid of the ball faster, right,
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  Speaker 5: Working with him as a leader to start holding guys
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  Speaker 5: to a higher level of accountability. Now he's going to
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  Speaker 5: the receiver. Hey, that was the wrong route. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I expect you to do better, right, you know, working
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  Speaker 5: with some of our offensive linemen on their communication, just hey,
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  Speaker 5: guys talk constantly, talk constantly, talk and we have a
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  Speaker 5: moniker right that is like on the back of my shirt,
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  Speaker 5: it's when right, And what that really stands for is
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  Speaker 5: what's important now? And younger guys, high school guys specifically.
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  Speaker 4: But even up to pro guys.
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  Speaker 5: Right, you can get lost sometimes, you know, something happens
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  Speaker 5: on the field, emotion of the kids. So then we
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  Speaker 5: look at him and go, hey, man, win right when
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  Speaker 5: this play?
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  Speaker 4: Right, when this quarter? And if we do that, we
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  Speaker 4: win the game.
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  Speaker 5: So what's important now is big for us so that
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  Speaker 5: we understand, you know, what the goals are, what we
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  Speaker 5: have to do to get there. But the consistency is
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: coming and that's really good to see as a football coach.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball, there was a
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: lot of guys last year that were kind of first
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: time varsity kids and you've got their licks in but
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: made some plays.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: What do you like about so many kids returning now?
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: What do you like?
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Well, again, you.
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: Know, elevating the football IQ on the staff like coach Crocker.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Coach Ian Crocker, you know, he just finished playing at
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: Portland State, right. Coach Devin Jackson. Right, he was a
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: tight end and a linebacker at New Hampshire. So we're
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: getting guys who understand what I want to do right
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: as far as what we're putting in and Coach Robinson
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: like our decordinator right from you know, he did most
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: of it last year. Now he's really firmly entrenched in
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: the spot. What he's done is he's relooked at our
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: talent and we're starting.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: To do some things that fit our talent better.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: And again, guys come back a little bigger, a little
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: bit stronger, you know. Now when we're saying things to
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: him with terminology, they know what to do. So now
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: they're getting after right and the aggressiveness will come. So
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: again it's the consistency, It's it's the coaching points you
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: know that we can dial into and get a little
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: bit more detailed, right, and so you know we'll be
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: ready to go when it's time. I feel confident that.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: All right, thank you to coach Young for his time. Tyler,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: There's I mean, we got a lot to talk about here.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: There's so many names. Brian Young's second season. We see
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: home last year six and four. They play their games
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: out there at Civic Stadium. Some definite losses here, Braddick
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Duckworth Aldon, Jacob's, Baxter Arps. I mean those are three
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: high quality players. Were I mean, we're all three in
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: the top one hundred, Tyler, do you know off the
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: top of your head, I mean, h I gonna say
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I would, I would think they were. I mean, definitely Duckworth, definitely,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Jacob's are Arps. It's hard for me to remember, Lineman,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: because it seems like when we talk about those guys
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: on the on the top one hundred, it goes pretty quickly,
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: just not as many stats and stuff to talk about,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: And usually I'm just sitting there going did he play center? Oh? Okay,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: well then I love the guy, yeah, Tyler. Last season, though,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: they start off with two wins, wins over Mount Baker
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: and Blaine, and then Cedrow Wollie who Cedroll Ollie got
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: a lot of people good last year Sedrow Willie got
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: him thirty five nothing. But then they squeaked out a
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: win over Burlington Edison, maybe a game they thought that
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: should have won, maybe bigger Burlington Edison really struggled. But
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: then they kind of hung with Lindon for a bit
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: and forty four to twenty four lost to Lindon. Then
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: they lose to an a Cordis eventual state champions. But
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: then they rolled off three straight twenty four to twenty
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: one win over Archbishop Murphy, thirty eight, thirty four over
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: squally Come in twenty four to twenty over Lakewood, before
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: following in the Week ten, whatever you want to call it,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: crossover game, forty to three to Mount Vernon in maybe
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: the biggest shocker of that week. I mean, I don't
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: think any of us thought that Seaholm was just going
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: to go in and rolling right out of the building
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: or anything, but forty to three loss. I don't think
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: any of us saw that one coming at all. But
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter, though, Tyler, because that was last year. This
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: is this year, and we got some serious guys coming back,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: especially in the offensive backfield. Nolan Wright. Feel like we've
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: been talking about him for a decade. What was it, Tyler?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Just two years ago we were getting yelled at for
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: saying he could do windmill dunks. He was well one
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty two completions last year, two thousand and
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: twenty two yards, twenty three touchdowns. Seems like a guy
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that is just gonna continuously get better, get better, get better,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: and by his senior year could be really good. We're
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: still talking about him as a junior though, right, yeah,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: he's he's just a junior.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: And you don't see that many four years starting quarterbacks
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: around in Walking County. And you know, some people were asking,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: was Kaepernick a four year starter?
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: No?
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: You know, Clark Haslett was a three year starter for
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Squalkam and then he transferred to Lyndon and he was
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a backup there. So you just don't see that very often.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Nathan Cramey at Blaine was a four year starter. It's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: just really rare. And right away he was putting up
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: big numbers and and uh and now, yeah, just a junior.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I mean he's he's keeps learning the position, and he
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: looks really sharp all the time, throws a great ball
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and he'll be heading up that quarterback spot, backed up
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: by call him the plant who was a freshman last year.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Just a sophomore now. And he got a leap. He
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: got in a little bit last year. I remember he
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: came in and handed the ball off and did it,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: did a few things and and but yeah, Nolan Wright
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: has got complete control of that offense. And the beautiful
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: thing is is, as you heard in the interview with
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: with a coach Young is that when you have you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: know you can you could put more stuff into the offense.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: You know, when you have a quarterback that is that
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: knows it so well and you don't have to worry
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: about signals and different things like that. Like he he
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: has a really good grasp of it and he can
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: he can direct the rest of the offense, including the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: line and the receivers and everybody and tell everybody what
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: It's a nice luxury to have. Also in the backfield,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: some rushing numbers, now maybe not huge rushing numbers, but
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: there is some serious talent coming back in the backfield
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: for see home.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's that three headed monster of Solomon McAllister,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Fisher Hall and Nicki Smith. Nicky Smith, he kind of
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: came out of nowhere that first game of the year
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: as a freshman, and I think he ran for one
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: hundred yards in that very first game I didn't even
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: have a head shot of and I was thinking, holy cow,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: where is this kid from? You know, and didn't play
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: a ton of varsity the rest of the year. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: I think because I think Fisher Hall missed that first game,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: so Nicki Smith got a little bit of run in
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that one and did really well against Mount Baker. But
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Solomon McAllister will be the featured back. I think he
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: did some he had some big moments last year and
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: I think that he's gotten bigger, stronger, faster, and he'll
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: be he'll be that guy that'll be the big threat
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: in the backfield. But Fisher Hall is over two hundred pounds.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: He's he's gonna be that that like that thumper. There
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: were times when the loudest sound I heard in the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: stadium all day or all night was when he was
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: carrying the ball delivering a blow to a defender. And
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: that's just kind of the style that he plays. So
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: it's nice to have those two different kinds of running backs.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: As McAllister can dart all over the field, is really quick,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: he's got he will go through you as well. But
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Fisher Hall is definitely a you know, kind of that
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Tom Rathman style, you know what I mean, just put
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: your head down and go through the line. And Nicky Smith,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: just a sophomore now, will be provide great depth in
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: the backfield. And don't forget Nolan Wright as a threat
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: to run as well. So very very smart with the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: ball and knows when to tucket and run and he's
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: a very good athlete.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Now when we talk about the outside tyler, they've got
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: one of the more dynamic playmakers coming back. And Andre
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Watson sixty five receptions, eight hundred and fifty one yards,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: thirteen touchdowns, also just a like he's one of those
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: guys that anytime he touches the ball, you're just going, oh,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: here we go, like what's gonna happen here? But you know,
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: other than that, I mean theo Quiggle twenty receptions, two
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: fifty eight like it's kind of an under the radar
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: name if you will, also had two touchdown receptions, and
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Colby Chambers ten catches one hundred and forty one yards
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: and a touchdown. And then I see Grady Evans and
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I go a minute, I thought that guy was the kicker.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Eight reception, one hundred and forty six yards. So it's
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: not just Andre Watson in the receiving game. Absolutely.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I mean if you double Watson, which a lot of
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: teams do, there will always have other guys get opened
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and and Watson is very dynamic. He'll catch anything that's
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: coming towards him. And you're right, as soon as he
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: catches the ball. He's really good at making an initial move.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean just a hitch pattern is great
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: with him because he he's so good at catching the ball,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: making one guy miss.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: And then taking it.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: But he can you know, he can get the jump ball,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: he can get the diving catch, he can go across
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: the middle.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: He can do all those things.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And there will be he will be the focal point
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: of opposing teams defense is no doubt. But you're right
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: theo Quigill did put up some good numbers last year.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: He's six foot four.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Now he's another one of these these volleyball players. We've
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: seen a lot of these really good volleyball players out
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: of Seahome that are really tall, can jump, make make plays,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: and he will take over, you know, the other spot
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: where you know, if there's a mismatch problem because you
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: got your best guy on Watson and maybe a safety
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: over the top, Holy cow, quiggle is a great option
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: after that, no doubt. Grady Evans and Colby Chambers, like
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: you said, you know, I coming into last year, I thought,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: you know, Evans might play a little bit offense. I
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: thought he was kind of like a backup quarterback that
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: was probably his more natural position, but he made some
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: good plays in the receiving game.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Colby Chambers, I remember in.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Week two, got a touchdown pass, like on the second
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: play of the game for sixty yards, and I kind
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: of thought, I thought he just played defense. But here
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: he is catching a sixty yard touchdown pass. And I
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: remember hearing coach Olsen, I was standing next to him
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: on the opposing sideline saying, I think we just gave
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: up the fastest, you know, touchdown in high school football history.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And I was thinking, and I was kind of thinking, no,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: that can't be. There's opening kickoffs for touchdowns. And then
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: he looked at me, and he looked up at the
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: clock and the clock said like fourteen thirty seven, And
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: it's because they didn't set it for twelve minutes. They
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: set it for fifteen minute quarters.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: So technically he's right with seven.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: They scored in warm ups, right, So but yeah, so
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of talent there. I mean, there's just
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: you know, those those guys on the outside, there's a
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: lot coming back.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: There's a lot to like.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: And then at the tight end spot you lose Braddick Duckworth,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: who did some great things as the tight end last year.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: But you got his little brother, Carter Duckworth who takes over.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: He's about six four two oh five and looks the part.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Cooper Mcattee was the backup tight end last year. He's
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: probably gonna get a little bit more.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: Playing time now.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: And then Cohen Matthew as well as another senior. So
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you got a lot of guys that could play that
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: tight end spot where you know, a couple of years
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: ago they didn't really use a tight end. Last year
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: it was a little bit more of a traditional traditional
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: tight end. I would expect the same this year now, Tyler.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: When we start talking about the offensive line, I mean
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: there's been there's been consistently a guy or two at
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: sea Home that has been a collegiate type prospect. Well,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I started looking at the Seahome offensive line now and
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I see, I see a couple of guys that are
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: some big dudes. I really like col Terrell a lot,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: like a lot a lot. But you know, this isn't uh,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: this isn't a line.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: That has a lot of household names on it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: But it's a line that I think is also very
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: very good, maybe not as good as you remember the
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: line that had like Norvell, Hagen and mc ivor. Yes,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: it was like that. Were there pig or fourteen around there? Yeah,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: very huge. So I don't know that this line is
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: is necessarily that. But this line I think is also
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: very good. Yeah, it's very young and but but they're
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: getting bigger. I mean it seems like they haven't really
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: had that big, big line in quite a while.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And like you were saying, but this year, you know,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: Cole Terrell's bigger and stronger. He's about you know, he's
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: about two fifty now and still great feet. You know,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: plays power forward on the basketball team.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Very very very athletic.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: H Colin Huntley could play tackle, Miles Gifford, Mason Holmes.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I really like finn sits Greg Wire at center. He's
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: just he's just an unbelievable football player. I'm excited about
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: his future. They got some younger kids, Logan Rogers, Cooper, Stafford,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Hunter Staton. They got like eight guys that are kind
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: of all in the mix. And like Coach Young's you
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: know talked about in the interview is you know they'll
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: use you know, all these days of practice to kind
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of figure out what they have there and uh, and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: then once they they'll go out there and and they'll
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: go with the five that they have. I remember they
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: kind of did the same thing last year where there
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: was kind of a lot of guys in the mix
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: and they mixed and matched, and you know, you never
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: i mean even col Terrell was playing different positions on
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the offensive line. But you got to find that group,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: those five and stay with it and keep that consistency
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: going as the season goes. And and yeah, I mean
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: they have a lot of pieces. I mean they got
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: some young kids they got I mean Mason Holmes is
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: like six five eighties is sophomore. You know, I'm not
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: quite sure, you know, if he's ready for you know,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Friday night, but he might have to be. Logan Rogers
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: is a really good younger player. You know, Hunter State
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and is huge. I mean, they've got some the sizes there.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Now it's gonna be about getting the reps and getting
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the getting the experience and and and who's ready for
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: to play under the lights on Friday night.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: That's for sure. You got to come together and get
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: that glue going, you know what I mean. Yeah, exactly
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball, Tyler, there are some serious
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: numbers returning. And when I say serious numbers, we're talking
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: like over four hundred tackles, like I think, close to
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: thirty tackles for a loss. I mean, it's just it's
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: truly unbelievable what we're looking at here defensive line wise,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: though maybe a little bit of an inexperience there sounds like,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: you know, they're gonna have to maybe figure some things
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: out on that side, but there's also some nice pieces
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: on the interior. Yeah, definitely.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I mean Cole Terrell and Finn Sites Greg Wire are
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: you know two anchors that you could put in the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: interior that defensive line and and they're gonna get the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: job done. I mean, you know, they both are gonna
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: be starting and playing every down on offense. So you
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: might see some rotation with some other guys, maybe Logan
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Rogers under Hunter State and defensive ends Colin Huntley, probably
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Carter Duckworth, so you got you know, you got some
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: different guys that that played quite a bit. I mean,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Duckworth had twenty six tackles. Cites, Craig Warre and Terrell
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: each had twenty three tackles. They each had a handful
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: of sacks. So you'll have guys that that did some things.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: I'm really I'm really curious about Logan Rogers. I think
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: he's gonna take a big step up this year. He
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: got in a little bit last year and had a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: couple tackles and they were both behind the line of scrimmage.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: So I think that I think that those are the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: kinds of players that are gonna make some good things happen.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: They traditionally kind of ran a three man front. You
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: might see a four man front. You know, you got
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a different defensive coach in and I saw a lot
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of new coaches out there that are looking at kind
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: of what they can do best and how they can
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: have the players they have can fit the schemes that
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: they're gonna have.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: When we moved to the back seven Tyler, it's it's
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: actually a really nice mix of both linebackers and DB's.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you look at the the linebackers themselves,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: with guys like Cooper mcintee with forty three tackles, Carl
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Bach with seventy five and a half tackles Tyler, which
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: is insane, and they both have they both combined for
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: five tackles for a loss, and then back also had
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: three sacks. I mean, these are guys that have some
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: serious production here. And you know, as far as linebacker goes,
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: those two guys, who else we're talking about, what do
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: you think of those guys?
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Well, those two guys are staples. I mean there they
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: started last year, they did they did great. Yeah, there
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: were games when Carl Bok just went off and tackled
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: just everything. And what helps is that he just plays defense,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: so you're able to have him rest when the team
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: has the ball, and then he just gets on the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: field and he just terrorizes things and he's really really strong.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: He's a great, great player.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: And I think he even played with like an injured
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: back most of the year too, So you know, all
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that combine. If he's healthy, he could put together another
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: monster year. Cooper Mcattee as well. Those two guys together
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: just kind of they feed off each other really really well.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: On the inside, I think.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Fisher Hall Fisher Hall got he played a lot of
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: in the interior of the defensive line last year just
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: because of his physicality, but he could get moved back
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: now that they have a lot more size, he could
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: get moved back to linebacker, and he did some pretty
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: good things as well, forced a couple of fumbles, had
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: over thirty tackles, and then Solomon McAllister, he's kind of
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: like an outside linebacker spot he could be you know,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: almost like a almost like a rover.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: He could cover and cover it.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: He definitely has the speeds, but but he's physical enough
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to so those are kind of I think it's definitely
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: a strength as that lineback and corps and then you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: rounding out the back seven.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, they've had so many good.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Defensive backs recently where they've had the luxury of being
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: able to rest guys a lot, especially like when Alden
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Jacobs came.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Back last year.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: It was kind of like, man, we got all these guys,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and then guys start coming out of nowhere and making
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and making it hard to them to take them out
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: of the lineup, much like Hudson Nef. I mean, Hudson Nef.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: You know, we talked a few days ago about Linden
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Christian when they had Trey Bossman returning with like ninety
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: something tackles and no one was really even close to that. Well,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the next guy up closest returning in tackles is Hudson Nef,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: who had eighty one last year, and he was just
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: he got inserted in the starting lineup like three or
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: four games into the year, and then he just every
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: single game after that seemed like he would lead in tackles.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Really instinctual players, a strong safety will come up and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: make a hit. And you know, one of the smallest
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: guys on the field, he's gotten a little bigger now,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: so that's gonna really help with him being a strong safety.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: You know, free safety could be Grady Evans, could be
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: theo Quiggles. Nice to have a big six or four
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: kid back there. But Colby Chambers returns at corner, who
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: has just been super dynamic the last couple of years,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: has a ton of passes defended over the last couple
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: of years. And then Andre Watson, who started at corner
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: as a sophomore, played a lot of safety last year
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: because they had other corners. He could get moved maybe
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: back to corner. We'll see what happens. They got a
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: lot of different guys that could play different positions, and
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: then you know, Nicky Smith could back them up. Who knows,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: maybe I'll even see Nolan Wright back there at safety.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: It's kind of nice to not have to play him
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: back there. But I would imagine that with his athletic ability,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: if he went in there, he'd be able to make plays.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of guys in that back seven
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: that have have a ton of experience, a ton of tackles.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: And you know, Andre Watson, he's got eleven interceptions in
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: his career, so you know, you're right there. You know
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: that's another you know, school record that he's probably eyeing
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: right now is which he's already broken a few of
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: When we start talking special teams, Tyler, I mean, they
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: they've they've got some serious guys returning in terms of
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: the returning game with Watson, Nef Chambers, heck, even Grady
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Evans somehow had some. But then Watson also returning punts.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's going to get to a point
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: where they probably will not kick to him very often.
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: They'll probably try to kick to other people. But I
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: mean it's maybe not such a great move to even
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: do that. Nolan right, and the punt or as a punter,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: which still throws me off a little bit, but thirty
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: six and a half thirty six point eight yards average
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: is very good and then Grady Evans is a solid kicker,
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: so special teams wise, they look like they're going to
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: be rock solid.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I think they're set. You're absolutely right. I mean, you're
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: right about Grady Evans. And he had five field goals
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: last year. He's he's automatic. I saw him PRAC. They
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: did this really cool drill where there's a there's a
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: coach out on the field and he go and he's
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: like twelve eleven. Yeah, and as he starts the count,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: the whole field goal team runs onto the field and
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: so it's kind of you know, simulating running onto the field,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: getting set, snap and kick, and and he nailed him.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, and they kept going back thirty something yards,
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: you know, close to forty yards. He would just nail him.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It was no problem for him. So him, you know,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: he's definitely up there, maybe with Malachi Canan is kind
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: of the two premier kickers in the in Walking County.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: And then there's a not a far drop up, but
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: there's you know, a landing down and guys like that
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: after that. But he's one of the best and he's
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: been doing it for a couple of years now, so
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: he's he'll be just fining at kicker Nolan Wright's been
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: punting for a couple of years.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: You know, he throws the ball right handed, shoots the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: ball right handed for basketball, and then when he kicks,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: he kicks left footed. And I know he's doing it
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: just for you and me, because you know, we we
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: have we love our left footed kickers out of Walkham County.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: So he's like, so what, I'll just yeah, I'll.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Just I'll just punt left footed just to just to
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: make the walking preps guys happy.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and then I'll go wind mill dunk
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: the ball over the goalpost, right.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, And he's been great, and his averages
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of times get up there because of the
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: threat of him as a quarterback. You know, he might
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: line up in the shotgun and then see and then
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: on like fourth and three and they're playing a true defense,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: and then he'll take two steps back and just punt
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: it and no one can return it. It bounces really
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: well on the Civic Field turf, and so all of
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a sudden, you're get a fifty yard punt, you know
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: what I mean. And so his averages have been pretty
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: darn good because of that, and he's gonna keep remain
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: doing that. You're absolutely right about Watson in the return game.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: The numbers were, believe it or not, a little bit
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: down last year in the return game prior to his
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: sophomore year when he had to kickoff and a punt
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: return for touchdowns one against Blaye one against Lyndon. So
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: he's very very dynamic in that in.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: That aspect as well.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Uh he saw just the two punt returns last year
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: that was for the whole team. So you're absolutely right.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: When they when they punt to see him, they do
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: not punt to him. I mean they just kick it
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: off the side or you know, they just try. They
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: just don't want the ball in his hands. And you
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: could see the frustration back there. But at the same
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: time he gets it, you know, he knows that like, Okay,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: well then now we're gonna have the ball and all
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: can make some plays on offense. So uh so, yeah,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a really good deal. And you know,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: you when you do a kickoff return, especially in high school,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you tend to have a couple of guys back there.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I've seen some schools with three guys back there. So
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: you're right about Hudson f Colby Chambers, those kinds of guys,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: uh that can definitely return kicks and and so you're right.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, special teams is another big strength for this team,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I believe, And that's one of those things that early
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: on in the season you might have a notch or
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: two above other teams because you have your whole group intact.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: And special teams is kind of of those things that
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of high school teams they don't really have it,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: you know, clamps down until week three or four, just
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: because you're not working on it as much. And so
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: that could give them the edge if they can squeak
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: out some of these conference games that they have early
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: because they can run out in the field and make
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: a game winning kick when another team might not be able.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: To do that. Let's talk a breakout player, Tyler and uh, you,
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know if we've done one of these yet,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: but you got an offensive and defensive lineman here, and
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: you're you're making me very happy. So uh, let's talk
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: breakout player here.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, finsides Greg Wire to make it even make you
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: even happier. He is a center, so I think that
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: he is gonna separate himself as one of the top
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: centers in the in the in the Waking County. Uh,
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: he's just such a good football player. And and I
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: think that he moves so well, especially for a size.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: He's not huge, but he's but he's really strong. And
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I think that I mean, he did some decent things
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: on defense last year, but I think those numbers are
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: gonna even go up. And you know, you might if
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: you put Cole Terrell at a guard spot and you
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: can get those guys next to each other to do
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: some things that could be really special, open up some
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: lanes for the offense running game.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: And uh, but you know he's.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Gonna be he's really smart, he's gonna be mentoring a
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: lot of those linemen, and he's he's a pretty young
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: player as well. Obviously, Cole Terrell is kind of the
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: main cog. It's been starting there since day one now
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: going into his junior year. But uh, but Finn is
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: not that far behind. And again another player named Finn. Huh,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: We've had a lot of these and so throw all
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: that stuff together and uh, yeah, it kind of turns
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: into a pretty good football player.
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Do you think these guys named Finn, do you think
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: that's like their real first name or do you think
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: it's like short for something. I think Finnian.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: I've seen kids write Finian on their on their on
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: their sheets.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: You know, phineas Phineas. I haven't seen that yet. I
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: don't know. I mean just thinking about it, like, yeah,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: it could have been, Yeah, it could be some kids.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Finn just doesn't seem like a first name that you like,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like it seems like it's
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: short for something.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Finn It seems like a part of a dolphin.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, wise guys, Okay, let's talk schedule here, Tyler and
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: for Sea home, there's no time to rest. I mean,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: they go straight into it with what is it won?
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Two three, four, five league games to start the season
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: before getting Lynden Christian in their lone non league contest.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: That's all the way October twelfth. So they start off
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: with Marysville Pilchuck on the road down at Quilsee the Stadium,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: and then they come home for Anacortis and Lakewood before
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: traveling down to Burlington Edison. So it's one of those
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: interesting things where they get to Lynden in week five
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: and you kind of feel like they might be in
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: a spot where they need to win. They might be
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: in a spot where they're feeling really good. They might
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: be who knows where they're going to be at that point.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's gonna be interesting. That Linden game
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: could be absolutely huge when it's all said and none,
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: and I mean huge huge. Then I mentioned they do
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: get Linden Christian. Then they come back and they finish
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: with on quote unquote on the road against Bellingham home
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: again quote home against Squalacum, and they finished with Archbishop
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: Murphy Tyler. So when you look at this, I mean it's, uh,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: it's it's very heavy and certain spots is kind of
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: the way I would put it.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's it definitely has that feel
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: to it. The crazy thing too, is that, like I
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: look at that final game against Archbishop Yeah, and I
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: think that that has ramifications of week thirty two.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Written all over it. Yeah, or I'm sorry, round three
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: say week thirty two. I love football, I don't love
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: it that much round of thirty two. I mean it's
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: it's you know, it's like holy cow, that has a
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: lot of that. And and I love that they've played
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: those two Bell and m schools later in the year.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: But you're right, it's you know that Anachordus game obviously
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: will be really, really tough, but they could have some
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: good momentum going into the Linden game, like you said,
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: being able to play a non league game after Linden,
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: because Linden is there, there's there is physical, they're gonna,
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: they're gonna, you know, give kids a few ice baths,
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: you know, the following day. So, uh, but that's a
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: really tough non league game. Is then Linnen Christian. But
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: it's not you know, essential to what they're doing. And
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: I love that they're playing that.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Game because uh, you know, I just love when Walking
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: County teams play each other, and.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: And you love when it's a one pm kickoff because
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: you can go.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, So it's all it's everything that I love. But
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: you're right, it's uh, you know, there's a lot of
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: coaches are very high on Sea Home and and there's there,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: then there's good reason. And if you can you know,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: if you can go you know, six and two, five
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: and three in the in the in the conference, and
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: you could set yourself up for a possibility in the
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: week ten to do some good things. And man, you
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: just never know, and and uh there's been years where
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: they have caught fire just with their talent level and
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: make a little run getting the state playoffs and and
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: uh boy, I remember they lost a heartbreaker to Mountain
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: View like CA in Week one and Mountain View, I
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: mean ended up that was like a twenty four to
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: twenty one game that they had a chance to win
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: at the at the end, and then Mountview went on
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: to do you know, went a few more rounds, I believe,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: so uh so, yeah, so I think that I think
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: they're really excited about this season. I've talked to a
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: lot of you know, players and parents and different things,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: and there's that's been a lot of talk just in
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: the county has been look out, look out.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: For Sea Home.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: So uh so, yeah, I think the I think the
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: schedule but like you said right away, conference games boom
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom, and uh they they're going to
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: have to be ready early on and to be able
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: to have the season turn out the way they envision it.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: As my old boss used to say, Tyler, no time
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: to sleep, which I know how that feels right now. Yeah, yeah,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: anything else? Are we done with Sea Home? I think
• 44:19
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