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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 392 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - First Round State · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: HM.
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  Speaker 2: This is Nuksack Valley senior Evan Brown, and you're listening
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  Speaker 2: to the Walkham Preps Podcast with Tyler Anderson Rally the Valley.
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  Speaker 3: Greetings, and welcome into the Gator eighth game Day preview
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  Speaker 3: on the Walkham Preps Podcast.
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  Speaker 4: This is episode.
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  Speaker 3: Three hundred and ninety two and I am Tyler Anderson
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  Speaker 3: with Walkham Preps and we're gonna preview the four games
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  Speaker 3: this weekend involving Walkham County teams. I want to give
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  Speaker 3: it thank you to Nuckzack Valley senior Evan Brown, the
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  Speaker 3: quarterback having a tremendous year this year. He's adding to
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  Speaker 3: it as well, you know, leading the county and passing
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  Speaker 3: yards and it's gonna be maybe a little tougher to
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  Speaker 3: pass this upcoming game and we'll talk about that. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the weather's is gonna be a little rainy and we'll
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  Speaker 3: just have to see what happens here on that Saturday
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  Speaker 3: game and we'll get to that in a little bit. Also,
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  Speaker 3: congratulations to Knucksack Valley sophomore Trevin Skeenstra on winning the
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  Speaker 3: Week ten PEPSI Play of the Week with his ninety
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  Speaker 3: four yard touchdown run against Kings. He won a case
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  Speaker 3: of Gatorade thanks to Walton Beverage, and I'm gonna step
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell all of you how blessed and thankful
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  Speaker 3: a staple in our community for over ninety years to
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  Speaker 3: to keep doing what I love to do. It's a
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  Speaker 3: game changer for me, and I will continue to work
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  Speaker 3: harder every day to make the fantastic people of Walton
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  Speaker 3: deliver superior quality and commitment, and I plan to do
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  Speaker 3: the very same. All right, let's talk some football. We
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  Speaker 3: only have four games to talk about for this weekend,
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  Speaker 3: so it's going to be a shorter podcast usual. As
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  Speaker 3: both Mount Baker and Lennon Christian each received a first
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  Speaker 3: round by in the Class one A state tournament.
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  Speaker 6: There's going to be just.
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  Speaker 4: One game on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: That will be the number sixteen ranked Ferndale Golden Eagles
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  Speaker 3: at five and five heading down I five to take
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  Speaker 3: on top ranked oh Day Fighting Irish who are eight
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  Speaker 3: and one. This game will be at five o'clock Friday
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  Speaker 3: night at Renton Memorial Stadium. We are now joined on
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  Speaker 3: the Gatorade Game Day Preview by Ferndale football coach Jamie Plankovic. Coach,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 4: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing good. How about yourself?
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  Speaker 3: I'm hanging in there. Knowing what you know now being
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  Speaker 3: a head coach, What would you have done differently when
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  Speaker 3: you were a player in high school?
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  Speaker 7: Wow, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 8: I wish I knew about the game like I do
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  Speaker 8: now when I was in high school.
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  Speaker 7: Probably made me a much better player.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that probably that, I mean, just the knowledge you
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  Speaker 8: have a bigger picture rather than just worrying about yourself
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  Speaker 8: and what you do so right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, it's interesting where you know, and I almost
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  Speaker 3: feel like you know. Back in the day, I think
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  Speaker 3: a lot of kids had decent knowledge of football just
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  Speaker 3: because there wasn't a lot of distractions. You watched football,
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  Speaker 3: you know on Saturday and Sunday. And nowadays there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of football players that I'm surprised just don't know
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  Speaker 3: the game. They're willing to be taught, but there's so
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  Speaker 3: many other things going on, it seems like, and so
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  Speaker 3: it is interesting. But you're right with the You know,
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  Speaker 3: when you become a coach, you learn so much more
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  Speaker 3: about the game. Then you thought you knew it all,
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  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden, you know this much
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  Speaker 3: more and it's just.
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  Speaker 4: Night and day. And yeah, could you imagine the knowledge
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  Speaker 4: of a high school kid having that.
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  Speaker 3: But before talking about your first round opponent, let's talk
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  Speaker 3: about the state playing game. A lot of stuff to
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  Speaker 3: talk about here for me anyways, Uh, thirty five thirty
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  Speaker 3: four win at Cheeny. First off, I want to personally
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  Speaker 3: congratulate you on your two hundredth win as a head coach.
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  Speaker 3: That's quite an accomplishment. When you hear that number. What
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  Speaker 3: does that mean to you?
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  Speaker 7: It means I'm old.
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  Speaker 8: But no, seriously, I've been so fortunate with the guys
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  Speaker 8: I've got to coach, with the type of kids we
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  Speaker 8: get and my mentors that you know, I learned a
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  Speaker 8: lot from. I was extremely fortunate and just to be
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  Speaker 8: able to, you know, keep doing it for an extended
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  Speaker 8: period of time. And yeah, that's a it's a pretty
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  Speaker 8: it's a pretty cool thing and really memorable where it
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  Speaker 8: happened to happen at last Friday night.
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  Speaker 7: That was really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it kind of reminds me of Coach laps two
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  Speaker 3: hundredth win. It was just a few years ago, and
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  Speaker 3: that was to get to the state championship game and
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  Speaker 3: that win at Civic against Niksac Valley, And it's so
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  Speaker 3: cool when it happens in such a big moment, and
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  Speaker 3: we're going to talk about that big moment. You had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of success running the ball all game. You
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  Speaker 3: controlled the clock for a lot of it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we had talked last week that they hadn't seen a
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  Speaker 3: wing tee offense before, and I thought that he ran
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  Speaker 3: it extremely well, very crisp.
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  Speaker 6: And maybe it.
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  Speaker 3: Was just the footage I saw, because the footage from
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  Speaker 3: way up pop looks really clean. You could really see
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  Speaker 3: the everything pulling and everything kind of developing. They had
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  Speaker 3: some big plays for touchdowns and that's, you know, kind
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  Speaker 3: of what you.
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  Speaker 6: Might expect with the athletes.
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  Speaker 3: While your team was very workman like, but I want
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  Speaker 3: to talk about the last few minutes. The game is
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  Speaker 3: tied at twenty eight. Twenty eight, you have the ball
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  Speaker 3: the four yard line, it's fourth and goal. You ran
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  Speaker 3: a play that I don't think i'd seen out of
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  Speaker 3: that formation.
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  Speaker 6: Can you tell us about it?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's something we had put in a couple of
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  Speaker 8: weeks ago, a different actual version than what we ran.
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  Speaker 7: Jake, our offensive coordinator, changed it.
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  Speaker 8: At halftime with the thought that we might want to
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  Speaker 8: use it in that game at some point, So he
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  Speaker 8: changed it at halftime, made it a little bit different
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  Speaker 8: from what we had put in. And yeah, it was
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  Speaker 8: just a huge, huge play at that point.
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  Speaker 7: Nolan made a.
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  Speaker 8: Great did a great job extending the play just a
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  Speaker 8: little bit and finding Chance at the back of the
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  Speaker 8: end zone.
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  Speaker 7: Chance did a good.
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  Speaker 8: Job of just finding an open spot and sitting And yeah,
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  Speaker 8: really really good job by our kids on a pressure play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just was there was there a time out
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  Speaker 3: called before that play or what did you just call
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  Speaker 3: that play in the moment and fourth down?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, there was a time out, okay, and.
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  Speaker 8: By them and we were actually had talked about kicking
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  Speaker 8: the field goal.
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  Speaker 7: At that point.
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  Speaker 6: Sure, game is tied, yeah, game.
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  Speaker 8: Is tied, but after talking about it more, it was like, no,
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  Speaker 8: let's uh, let's go for this. Uh kids were excited
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  Speaker 8: to go for it, so you know, we just talked
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  Speaker 8: about what play and and uh Coach Lockett actually wanted
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  Speaker 8: to run that on third down. Well, but we got
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  Speaker 8: to it on fourth down. So yeah, it was a great,
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  Speaker 8: great job by our kids.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I just you know, I mean, I'm getting updates
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  Speaker 3: from parents while I'm at another game of what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: So I was really excited to see the film. And
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  Speaker 3: when I did and I saw you guys run up
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  Speaker 3: in that and what I call that hurry up heavy,
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  Speaker 3: I thought, oh, this is great because out of this
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  Speaker 3: formation they've ran one of the time and I just
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  Speaker 3: was I love that it was kind of out of
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  Speaker 3: that and it just got that moment and took advantage
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  Speaker 3: of it. Of course they have that they have a
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  Speaker 3: big playoffense, so they score with eighteen seconds left, and
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  Speaker 3: when they lined up to go for two, you called
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  Speaker 3: time out.
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  Speaker 4: What did you go over at that point?
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  Speaker 8: Well, we just wanted to see what formation they were
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  Speaker 8: going to come out, and ye gave us some ideas
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  Speaker 8: of what they might do. Give ourselves just a minute
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  Speaker 8: to go over, make sure we're aligned properly and give
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  Speaker 8: our kids some clues of what they might do. Although
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  Speaker 8: they did something different than what we thought with that
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  Speaker 8: X quick screen or jailbrik screen we like to call it.
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  Speaker 8: So our kids did a really good job rallying to
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  Speaker 8: that and hang on to keep them short of the
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  Speaker 8: goal line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, did they did? They They ran something different than
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  Speaker 3: you thought. But did they give you the same look
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  Speaker 3: coming out of the timeout?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So yeah, so you're thinking, okay, but then they
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  Speaker 3: ran something different and like you said, just a quick screen.
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  Speaker 3: Joe break to the right and Chance Hatchet makes the
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  Speaker 3: initial stop. Elliot Lenson comes into to help out stop
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  Speaker 3: him at like the one yard line, and that receiver
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  Speaker 3: had been having a great game yea, And so that
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  Speaker 3: was just my goodness, what a play and what a
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a gutsy call to go for it.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, especially when it's a team like that,
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  Speaker 3: where boy, it might be you, it might be more
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  Speaker 3: suited to go for it if it's at the twenty,
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  Speaker 3: just because they have those athletes to use the field,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And so it's a it was a boy,
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  Speaker 3: it was crazy with the win. Now you get a
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  Speaker 3: matchup with oday. They are traditionally one of the best
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  Speaker 3: teams in the state, regardless of classification, and you know what,
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  Speaker 3: to me, it's it's crazy because when you watch them play,
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  Speaker 3: it's nothing dynamic, a lot of pro formation. There, throwback
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  Speaker 3: team with tremendous offense and defensive lines.
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  Speaker 4: Uh what do you expect to see out of them?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, We've you know, had the opportunity to play them
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  Speaker 8: a lot over the years in the playoffs, and they
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  Speaker 8: have not changed much from when we first started playing them.
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  Speaker 8: They're gonna do what they do. Uh, it's one of
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  Speaker 8: our shorter scattering reports or you know, they they don't
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  Speaker 8: run a ton of formations. Uh, they're gonna do what
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  Speaker 8: they do. Like you said, they're on both sides of
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  Speaker 8: the ball. They're they're unbelievable up front, they got big bodies,
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  Speaker 8: they got a bunch of uh Division one commits, So.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we got our hands full.
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  Speaker 8: But it's not like they're they're gonna come out and
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  Speaker 8: run something that we haven't seen.
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  Speaker 6: They're gonna do what you do.
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  Speaker 7: So we just got to to.
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  Speaker 8: Prep for those things and hope that we can give
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  Speaker 8: them some different looks at the line of scrimmage and
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  Speaker 8: be difficult to block and uh and you a good
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  Speaker 8: job tackling. That's going to be a huge part of
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  Speaker 8: this game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, because, like you said, with their lines being
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  Speaker 3: so good, especially you know, if with their offensive line,
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  Speaker 3: if you can just you know, make contact and then
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  Speaker 3: make something happen. I mean, a team like this that
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  Speaker 3: is so disciplined and just very you know, they don't
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  Speaker 3: they don't take a lot of chances, I guess, is
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  Speaker 3: what I'm saying. So when you are, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: have to take advantage of every single moment of any
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  Speaker 3: possible turnover.
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  Speaker 6: You know, even if you cause a fumble, it's like it's.
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  Speaker 3: It's worth twice as much if you recover it, then
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  Speaker 3: they recover it than a normal game, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, because they're not going to make those mistakes
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  Speaker 3: very often, so it's getting on top of it is
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  Speaker 3: a huge thing.
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  Speaker 6: Coach. I'm so excited that we got to talk another week.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully it'll be another week after that, you know, going
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  Speaker 3: down and this will not be at a Memorial stadium, correct.
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  Speaker 6: Correcting the renovations.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, they're renovating that. So we're playing it at Renton Stadium.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, Renton Memorial. Yes, so a little little little further south,
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  Speaker 6: I believe.
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  Speaker 3: And uh boy, it's gonna be it's gonna be awesome.
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  Speaker 6: It'll be Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck coach at oday on Friday night.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you so much for joining me on the Gatorade
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  Speaker 6: Game Day.
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  Speaker 7: Preview anytime, Thanks Tyler.
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  Speaker 3: And now we move on to the Saturday games, and
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  Speaker 3: there will be three of them, will go in chronological
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  Speaker 3: order here as the first one will be the number
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  Speaker 3: eleven West Valley of Spokane Eagles at nine to one.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna be traveling up here to take on the
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  Speaker 3: number six Linden Lines.
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  Speaker 6: Where eight and two.
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  Speaker 3: This game will be at two o'clock in the afternoon
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  Speaker 3: on Saturday at Ferndale High School. And we are now
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  Speaker 3: joined on the Gatorade Game Day Preview by Linden football
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  Speaker 3: coach Blakeman Dalen coach, thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 6: How are you doing.
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  Speaker 1: Out danning for football coaches playoffs? Their Christmas come early,
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  Speaker 1: So here.
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  Speaker 3: We go absolutely absolutely knowing what you know now being
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  Speaker 3: a head coach, what would you have done differently when
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  Speaker 3: you were a player in high school?
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  Speaker 1: I think just studied more like I didn't realize what
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  Speaker 1: an advantage a smart kid who understands the game has
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  Speaker 1: over a kid that's just a really good athlete but
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have a clue.
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  Speaker 6: Right, isn't that crazy?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I mean you see it.
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  Speaker 3: And I know watching film and stuff was a little
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  Speaker 3: different back then. You know, Oh, coach, can I take
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  Speaker 3: the VHS tape home for the night like that?
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  Speaker 6: It was a totally different thing.
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  Speaker 3: And huddle is so different now, But you're right understanding
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  Speaker 3: the game and and you know, I think overall, and
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  Speaker 3: you might agree with this, is back when we played,
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  Speaker 3: I think the overall understanding of football was probably higher
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  Speaker 3: than it is now, just because there's so many other
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  Speaker 3: distractions and the kids aren't watching a lot of college
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  Speaker 3: on TV and pro and and there's so.
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  Speaker 6: Many other things going on.
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  Speaker 3: But then again, with video games, it's crazy because you
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  Speaker 3: learn plays that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's some different there. There's certain areas. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they all have film on their phone, so that aspect
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  Speaker 1: of is higher than what we have. Sure, you're right,
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  Speaker 1: they all watch the red zone, but they don't watch
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  Speaker 1: an entire drive of a football game and understand. They
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  Speaker 1: just need what the highlight reel wants them to see.
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  Speaker 1: And so you're right. Video games sometimes can help, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: can hurt. Film. I would think you're right, does help,
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  Speaker 1: But you're right, it's definitely different. And they don't watch
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  Speaker 1: as much. They don't watch a whole game like we
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  Speaker 1: used to.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's sort I didn't think about that with the
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  Speaker 3: red zone. I just I didn't. You know, back in
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  Speaker 3: the day, man, you wake up, you put it on,
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  Speaker 3: you know, channel five or channel seven, and watch the game.
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  Speaker 6: That's just what you did, right, Well, a lot of us.
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  Speaker 1: Watched Notre Dame football because they were the only ones
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  Speaker 1: that were on Channel five, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yep, every day, every Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Before talking about your first round opponent, let's talk about
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  Speaker 3: the state playing game, a forty one to fourteen win
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  Speaker 3: over Bremerton. Your first five touchdowns were scored by five
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  Speaker 3: different players. And was that kind of a thing going
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  Speaker 3: in getting different guys involved or to just kind of
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  Speaker 3: work out that way?
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  Speaker 1: It did work out that way. There was one kid
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  Speaker 1: that I would have liked to have got him just
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  Speaker 1: because it was his first game back in a long time,
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  Speaker 1: but it just, you know, timing thing, it didn't quite
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  Speaker 1: work out. But no, so I don't think we planned
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  Speaker 1: on getting five different guys, but we did want to
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  Speaker 1: try and get touches all around to make sure everybody's
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  Speaker 1: feeling good going into this week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, the putt return to end the
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  Speaker 3: first half was a nice little exclamation in the scoring
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  Speaker 3: for the for the first half of the game. Gorley
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  Speaker 3: Bedlington returns the punt sixty seven yards for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you've you've had these putt returns for
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  Speaker 3: touchdowns in the last couple of years, is it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of coaches are like, Okay, we have a
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  Speaker 3: special teams thing. You know, let's get through it and
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  Speaker 3: get past it.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, let's go to.
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  Speaker 3: What we're really here to work on this today, offense,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is. But it's special teams, a thing that you,
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  Speaker 3: you know, maybe work on a little bit more than
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  Speaker 3: other teams. I know you might might not be able
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  Speaker 3: to speak to other teams, but is it a big
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  Speaker 3: emphasis at practice for you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What we like to do, or what I like to
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  Speaker 1: do is is it's a great opportunity for my young
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  Speaker 1: coaches to take some ownership. So I'll let them do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the scouting to get you know personnel
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  Speaker 1: or formations and then they can really get involved in
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  Speaker 1: that aspect of the practice. And you know, like Blair
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  Speaker 1: Bamber has worked really hard with our putt returners and
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  Speaker 1: you can see the results from that. We have a
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  Speaker 1: multitude of returners that we could put back there and
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  Speaker 1: and if things go our way and everybody gets their blocks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Dane Marty, I think I had three blocks
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: on that one play and away we go. And so
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: it was it was a fun. It was a fun
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: experience and no, but it's fun for my young coaches
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: to get to do that.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, you kind of touched on it a little bit earlier.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Danny Bowler was back on the field, which is.
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: A great sight to see.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he's not one hundred percent, but what kind
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: of boost does he bring to his teammates that are
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: just out there with him at that time.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad he was able to get out there
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: because that takes care of the emotional side of it.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: There's there's the emotion. I remember when Charlie Yers came
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: back from injury. When those kids come back, there's this
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: this emotion involved. And now I think Danny would agree,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: it's it's back to business. It's about football and get it.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: And then you're right getting him back in game shape.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: That's a different speed and and he was gone for
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: quite a while. So I'm glad we had this game
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: to get his feet under him and then we get
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: to use him again for the weapon that he is.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: You know, the last you know, handful of years, you've
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: had pretty favorable seats which kind of turned into big
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: blowout wins in the first runt of the state playoffs. Well,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: this year you're a sixth seed, a little different, might
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: be a tougher opponent. How do you feel about the
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: seat that you were drawn this year?
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was in excuse. He was interesting.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Our conference did really well. I predicted we go five
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: and oh, not only do we go five and oh,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: I think all five had running clocks, and so that
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: was resulted in the seating where teams got pushed up,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: teams got pushed down. One of the themes that ended up
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: against US is a nine and one undefeated conference. Champ
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: West Valley spoke in and so they feel very slighted.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: You know, they can't do anything about the fact that
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: maybe their conference isn't as good. They literally won every
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: game with almost a running clock all year, so they
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: literally did everything they could, and so I'm sure they
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: feel slighted to be at eleven and have to drive
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: all the way to Walkham County. But the committee recognized
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: while Lyndon has gone through the gauntlet and there are
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: some really tough teams in the Northwest Conference and we
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: don't want to punish them because they happen to be
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: in the best conference. Well, I thought the committee did
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: a good job of balancing all that. But you're definitely right.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: As a six seed playing in eleven, we're playing the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: best team from the Spokane area. There is no doubt.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, let's talk about it.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know that much about the Eagles other than
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: that they are nine to one. What do you see
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: on film?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: A very athletic team. Probably their best player. He's a decathlon,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: you know. I looked him up on Athletic dot Net
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and he competes. I think he's second ranked to kathalon
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: in the state. And Eric Borg is his name, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: he's all over the place. He plays safety, but he
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: can line up wherever he wants on defense. He plays
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: running back, receiver. They put him in motion their quarterback
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: is really dynamic. Their defense has allowed less than seven
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: points a game averaged the whole year, and so they're
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: just really athletic all over the field. They're sixty run,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: thirty five percent pass, which is kind of what every
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: coach would like to be, and multiple deep. They look
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: a little bit like us on defense, where they can
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: shift into a lot of different coverages and things like that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: So I think the only thing that'll be interesting is
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: we have had to play into the fourth quarter several
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: times because of the conference we're in, whereas they have not,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: So that'll be something I'm sure their coach is challenging
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: them to be ready for.
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a great, great point.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think of I'm trying to remember what
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: team it was in the in March Madness. It might
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: have been the Running Rebels, you know, the un of
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the un l V team that Larry Johnson and Greg
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Anthony and those guys are. It was a team like
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: that that just just went through everybody. Never had a
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: close game, and when they had that close game against Duke,
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: it was kind of like, Uh, how do we close this?
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: And they've never been in that situation. So that's a
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: great point. To bring up. And at that point as well,
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: fatigue could be a factor, you know, conditioning, you know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: if and and so, and I know you guys are
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: welcome dditioned, and like you said, you've had games where
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: you've had to play all four quarters a lot of games.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: So yeah, that's a great point.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: And plus them with the long bus ride, give me
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: a two o'clock game out at Ferndale High School again,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: you know, enjoying these games out at Ferndale High School?
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Huh, coach.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've been so gracious. They're even letting us practice
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: out there, and so when we play them week one,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: it's always a great battle. But then after that, like
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: we're rooting for them against oday, and I'm sure they're
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: rooting for us, and so it's kind of like the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: brotherhood out here in the county going against the city folks.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: We have played West Valley Spokane twice before nine in
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the championship game and that was a sixteen six game,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and then we played him in twenty sixteen. It was
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Kurt Cramy's last win as the head coach here at
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Lyndon and that was a thirty four fourteen game. So
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: we have history. They have a lot of motivation and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: not want to lose to Linen and for the third time,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and so I'm glad we can get our kids attention
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: that way too.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: I love it. I love it. Thanks for bringing up
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: the history. It's all good stuff.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I remember that sixteen to six game and again, yes,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: twenty sixteen, that would have probably been in the quarters.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: I would imagine yep, when that game took place.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Man, we had to drive all the way to Spokane.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, man, Oh, this is gonna be awesome.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: Coach.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: I'm excited. Good luck against West Valley on Saturday. And
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining me on the Gatorade
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Game day preview.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: All right, hopefully we're talking to you next week about
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the next opponent. Let's get her done.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Awesome, thanks goat.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Next up are the number nine Sea Home Mariners at
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: six and four. They're going to be traveling to the
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: number eight Othello Huskies. That'll be a four o'clock game
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: at Husky Stadium.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Not the Husky Stadium.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: That you're all thinking of.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: It's the Husky Stadium in Othello, where they play their
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: home games. And we are now joined on the Gatorade
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: Game Day preview by Sea Home football coach Brian Young coach,
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining me today.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: How are you doing.
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: I'm doing great, Tyler awesome.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: Knowing what you know now being a head coach. What
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: would you have done differently when you were a player
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: in high school?
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: Oh, I would have probably been in the weight room
• 23:14
  Speaker 9: a little bit more. That's I don't think players, especially
• 23:22
  Speaker 9: with the game the way it is today, because they're
• 23:24
  Speaker 9: bigger and they're faster, I don't think they really realize
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: how important that physical aspect.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Of the game is.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's been a big, you know change, you know
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: since back in the day. You know, I'm guessing in
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: the nineties, you know right about that. It is probably
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: when you were playing in high school and you know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: lifting weights was important and you had conditioning.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Class and stuff like that.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: But it's just so different now with off season workouts
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: and all that stuff.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: It's just a different mindset.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Before talking about your first round opponent, let's talk about
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: the state playing game forty five zero win over Sila.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: I thought you played a very complete game throughout the game,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: excelled and running the ball, throwing the ball, playing defense,
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: special teams throughout the entire game from opening to the
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: final buzzer, you have to be feeling pretty happy with
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: where your team is at.
• 24:19
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, Tyler, like as a coach, you're always
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: looking for how you can improve. So, you know, when
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: we sit down look at the tape. You know, we
• 24:28
  Speaker 9: missed the block here, we could have done some things,
• 24:31
  Speaker 9: had a couple of boneheaded penalties, a couple of times
• 24:34
  Speaker 9: we should have gotten off the field on fourth down.
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: You know, offensively, we blew a couple of opportunities. But
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: at the end of the day, we're playing our best
• 24:44
  Speaker 9: football when it matters the most, so you know, we're
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: pretty balanced. Nolan improved as the game.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: You know, went along, as injury kind of loosened up.
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: And when he had that run down the sideline, that
• 24:57
  Speaker 9: was really encouraging to see. So we're kind of, you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: cranking up the diesel as we were saying right now,
• 25:04
  Speaker 9: and we're kind of getting the train moving, so we're
• 25:06
  Speaker 9: headed in the right direction.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it was good to see him out
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: back out there along with a lot of your other players,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: and but it was you know, it was when he
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: got hurt a couple of weeks ago, it.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Was you know, and I'm sure for you too.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: It was just it was painful just to see because
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: he could hand off and then just kind of stand still.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: So it was it was encouraging to see.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Him roll out, take off and run, plant and throw.
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I know he's I'm sure he's not one hundred percent,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: but it was good to see him be able to
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: show his talents out there again. And that's that's a
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: great thing, especially once it's your senior year and it's
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: the end of the year and it's.
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: Like, man, timing wise, it's tough.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Before we talk about your opponent, how did you feel
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: about the draw and getting the nine seed.
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, if I could go look at the committee,
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: I want to go, man, I really thought we should
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: have been a higher seed when you look at the
• 25:58
  Speaker 9: fact that a third of the teams in the round
• 26:03
  Speaker 9: of sixteen are coming out of our league, and the
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: lowest seed, you know, Burlington beat I think it was
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: North kitsapp forty to nothing. I mean I think that
• 26:15
  Speaker 9: merits where you have to look and go, wow, you know,
• 26:18
  Speaker 9: these guys are are pretty dang good, right, But at
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: the end of the day, you know what really hurt
• 26:24
  Speaker 9: us the loss to LC. You know, is unfortunate to
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: us that, you know, we're down a couple guys. Not
• 26:31
  Speaker 9: taking anything away from LC, but that that was a
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: bad loss on paper, you know, and so you know
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: that had some to play in it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: But here's the deal, Tyler, we're in.
• 26:42
  Speaker 9: We wanted to get to the second season, and with
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: the draw, I mean, we know what this is. We've
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: been over there before. You know, we literally have our
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: schedule down pat We're gonna we pushed the game back
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: to four o'clock, which means we can leave a little
• 26:58
  Speaker 9: bit later, which is a little more comfortable. But you know,
• 27:02
  Speaker 9: we know exactly where we're going to stop for our
• 27:03
  Speaker 9: team launch, where we're going to do our walkthrough. You
• 27:07
  Speaker 9: know how long it's going to take to get from
• 27:08
  Speaker 9: A to B. We know the field is a cow
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: past year, so we're going to practice on some grass
• 27:14
  Speaker 9: fields this week, so you know, we're as going to
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: be as prepared in that aspect as we possibly can
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: to play this game.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's such it's deja vu all over again. It's
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: when I saw it, I kind of had to look
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: twice at it and make sure I was clicking on
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: the right year because same matchup, same location, Saturday afternoon.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: It was a wild game last year. I you know,
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you went
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: for two for the.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: Win at the end. I mean, it was it was
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: packing forth. I was I was about an hour away.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: I was in Yakama covering the state tournament, watching online
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: and and.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: And I was just like, holy cow, this is this
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: is crazy.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: And I was thinking, Man, if there's a chance that
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: could buzz over and just get a picture, I'm going
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: to do that. But those volleyball teams kept winning, and
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: they kept kind of kind of kept tethered me to
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: the sun Dome there. But but my goodness, it was
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: it was it was.
• 28:10
  Speaker 6: It was nuts.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: But like you said, it's the familiarity is going to
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: be nice. You know exactly where you're going to stop,
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: what it's going to be like. There's no you're not
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: going into it going wow, this is not what I
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: thought at all. You know exactly what it's like. But
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: at the same time, this othellow team. Are they exactly
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: what they were like last year? What do you know
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: about them this year?
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: Well, they look a little bit more athletic on tape.
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: They're not quite as big last year. All their linemen
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: were basically taxi cabs. Man, they were just they're big kids, right.
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: I think they graduated four of their offensive linemen, So
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: it's a little bit different. And it's really it's a
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: little bit hard to tell because when I look at
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: their record, they're nine to one and basically they've only
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: had one game that looks competitive, and in that game
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: they were blown out, right, So you know, it's kind
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: of hard to kind of think about that. But I
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: look at our team, like last year, col Terrell wasn't
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: even able to play in this game, right, And we're
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: vastly different upfront, if you haven't noticed, Tyler, We've developed
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: a run game, you know, and in developing that run game,
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: especially when you're playing on a field that's less than satisfactory,
• 29:24
  Speaker 9: and you've got some big, physical guys up front, you
• 29:27
  Speaker 9: know that that's kind of a great combination. And we're
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: still going to be able to throw the ball with,
• 29:33
  Speaker 9: you know, the guys we have. Everybody's healthy, everybody's back.
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: I'm sure Nolan will be much better, you know, this week,
• 29:39
  Speaker 9: even than he was last week. So you know, we'll
• 29:41
  Speaker 9: take those things. We'll keep looking at film. I'm actually
• 29:44
  Speaker 9: gonna watch some more film today. We had a good
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: film study with all the players yesterday, and so you know,
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: by the time we get in the bus to go
• 29:51
  Speaker 9: there Saturday, we'll have our game plan ready to roll.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Awesome.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And just so people know, online it does say
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: this game will be a Husky Stadium spelled differently. I
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: got so many people emailing me saying Husky Stadium. Aren't
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: the Huskies playing that day?
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: No?
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: No, no, this is Othello Huskies. This is anfellow Washington,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: very different surface than the Husky Stadium there you're thinking of.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: So yeah, So it'll be Saturday, four o'clock. Good luck
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: of Othello, and thank you so much for joining me
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: on the Gatorade Game Day preview Tyler.
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: Thank you have a great day, bet And.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: The final game of the weekend will be in the
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: one A Division as the number ten ranked Life Pushing
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Academy Eagles are six and three, they will be coming
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: up north to take on the number seven ranked Knoksack
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: Valley Pioneers who are six and four. That'll be a
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: five o'clock start at Civic Stadium. And we are now
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: joined on the Gatorade Game Day Preview by Knuksack Valley
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: football coach Craig Bartell coach, thank you for joining me today.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: How are you doing.
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: I'm doing well. Thanks thanks for having me. I'm glad
• 30:52
  Speaker 10: that we're still in and have a chance to talk
• 30:54
  Speaker 10: to you.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's a it's a different week, you know, all
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, some teams are done and.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Some teams a runna by.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: So instead of eleven interviews this week, it's just four.
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: So it's a strange. It's a strange thing for me,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: but but.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: I'm glad we get to keep talking as well. Knowing
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: what you know now being a head coach, what would
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: you have done differently when you were a high school player?
• 31:23
  Speaker 10: A lot of things. Probably it you know, it's and
• 31:29
  Speaker 10: this is kind of what we talked to the kids
• 31:31
  Speaker 10: about that. You know that, and being a high school kid.
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: It's tough because.
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: You know, you do what you think you need to do.
• 31:40
  Speaker 10: But I would have lifted harder. I think I would
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: have watched film more intently. I would have tried to understand,
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: you know, the schemes that we had and yeah, I
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: think just overall playing harder. And you know, you have
• 32:01
  Speaker 10: those regrets and I think everybody has them. Got the
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: you know, I wish I would have done this. And
• 32:06
  Speaker 10: we try to tell our kids that we want you
• 32:09
  Speaker 10: to leave the program without any regrets, and because we
• 32:12
  Speaker 10: all have them, and so if we can get those
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: kids to do that, and I think everybody's got regrets,
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: and so yeah, those are I think if I had
• 32:21
  Speaker 10: to go back one time, you know, my senior year
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: playing against Bellingham, we went for two and I threw
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: a past. It was a little bit high. I should
• 32:31
  Speaker 10: have just tucked it and ran and we would have
• 32:33
  Speaker 10: won the game. So I would change that definitely. That's
• 32:36
  Speaker 10: I still think about that play.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Wow, and then amazing how it's a there's a play
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: that stays in your mind, and there's little things like that.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: But you know, you talk about, you know, lifting more,
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: learning the scheme and watching more film, and it was
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: a different game back then. It was you know, I mean,
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: imagine trying to run the offense you're running now when
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: you were in high school. That would have been so
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: foreign to everybody. You know, imagine that that the ease
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: of huddle back then, when you're like, coach, can I
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: take the VHS tape home so I could watch the
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: you know, it was just a different it was just
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: a different thing. Yeah, you had to get everybody together
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: on a in a room and watch on probably a
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: nineteen inch screen and and try to watch the film
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: and it was all grainy.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was just different. But yeah, you know,
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: and it was crazy.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: Do you think that you were you know, you were
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: very highly involved in hockey as well as a youth player.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Did that were you were you was your focus more
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: towards hockey than football at that time?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Uh? No, I don't.
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: I don't think so. I think I was able to
• 33:43
  Speaker 10: to to do both. Yeah, yeah, it's I mean, you
• 33:49
  Speaker 10: look back now and you're like, gosh, you know, did
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: we really play as a team? And we were all
• 33:54
  Speaker 10: really good friends and and and and we used to
• 33:58
  Speaker 10: flip each other crap a lot, you know, and and
• 34:03
  Speaker 10: that was fun, but I don't know that it was
• 34:05
  Speaker 10: beneficial at the time. And so yeah, there's a lot
• 34:09
  Speaker 10: of things that that that I probably would change.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 34:12
  Speaker 10: We had fun, which that was an important thing. And
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: we had a fantastic staff. And I don't think you
• 34:18
  Speaker 10: realize how good a coaches. You know, you have some
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: of these kids around our county, have you know, with
• 34:26
  Speaker 10: Blake and Lepper and I mean, like if we've talked before,
• 34:30
  Speaker 10: so fortunate to have Burger Silberg and Jamie Plankovich and
• 34:35
  Speaker 10: Hatch Pat Fitter and even Mike McKee was there and
• 34:40
  Speaker 10: and no the errors and just having those types of coaches,
• 34:43
  Speaker 10: you don't appreciate it at the time, but you know
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: now looking back, it's like, Wow, those are all Hall
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: of Fame coaches that had the fortunate experience with Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Before we talk about your first round opponent, let's talk
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: about the state playing game forty nine to thirty four
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: win over Kings. I felt like the interception by Jaden
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Jones kind of gave you that kick that was needed.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: You had big plays earlier that were called back because
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: of penalties, so it kind of gives you that momentum
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: and then takes it away. Almost twofold, but I think
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: I thought that interception was huge. Is followed up by
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: that touchdown pass from Evan Brown to Trevin skeenstraw on
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: that go just right out of the backfield, right up
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: the seam. It led to a twenty eight point outburst
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: in the second quarter. What did you like the most
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: about your win?
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that, I mean, we started out well, we started
• 35:33
  Speaker 10: out good, we held them and then and then that punt,
• 35:36
  Speaker 10: you know, and that's I told the kids yesterday, I said,
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: that's on me. You know. We had Cole Coppinger back there,
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: and he was kind of you know, one of the
• 35:45
  Speaker 10: first couple of times, and you know, I just assumed
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: and so I didn't explain that well enough. And yeah,
• 35:51
  Speaker 10: the penalties and some were legitet, some were maybe not
• 35:55
  Speaker 10: so legitet at least in my eyes. And we have
• 35:59
  Speaker 10: great officials, so I'm not taking anything away from him.
• 36:01
  Speaker 10: But I'm just proud of how our kids overcame kind
• 36:05
  Speaker 10: of a slow start, and you know, we we we
• 36:10
  Speaker 10: figured out uh, you know, kind of what they were
• 36:12
  Speaker 10: doing defensively in that pass the skiing store. We'd practiced
• 36:15
  Speaker 10: that all week, knowing kind of the coverages that they
• 36:19
  Speaker 10: were playing, and we thought he was gonna be wide open,
• 36:21
  Speaker 10: and and he was. It's just it's kind of fun
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: when you when you scheme up something and it works
• 36:25
  Speaker 10: like you think it would. And then yeah, we just
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: we started to build momentum. And I'm really proud of
• 36:31
  Speaker 10: our defense, uh, you know, the way we play that
• 36:34
  Speaker 10: they got a couple of late touchdown passes, but we're
• 36:36
  Speaker 10: in fantastic position. And sometimes you just tip perhaps the
• 36:40
  Speaker 10: quarterback and receiver and say, hey, you know what, we
• 36:43
  Speaker 10: were a great position, but that's a heck of a
• 36:45
  Speaker 10: throw and a heck of a catch and and then you
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: go on a plane. So I'm really happy with our
• 36:50
  Speaker 10: kids are resilient and just just to be, you know,
• 36:53
  Speaker 10: on a level emotional state, not not too high, not
• 36:58
  Speaker 10: too low, and just just trust each other and trust that, hey,
• 37:02
  Speaker 10: you know what, stuff that's out of our controls out
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: of our control, and we're just gonna keep fighting and
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: come back.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: You know, I brought up Trevin Skeenstra.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: He scored four touchdowns in that game, and in the
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: first three weeks of the season he was a JV player. Yeah,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: it's it's it's amazing how these things can happen. Explain
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: what his development has been like over the past month
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: and a half or so.
• 37:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's it's been a confidence thing. And you know,
• 37:27
  Speaker 10: we we know he's a good athlete. He last year
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: was at state track as as a freshman, and so
• 37:35
  Speaker 10: you know, we knew he had the abilities, but he
• 37:37
  Speaker 10: needed to decide for himself that this is something he
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: wanted to do. And and and he's really grown, you know,
• 37:45
  Speaker 10: as a player, and then just he wants it now
• 37:49
  Speaker 10: and it's really fun to see. And he's he he
• 37:54
  Speaker 10: when he gets out into the field in the open field,
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: he's fast and having him and Trey their friends, they
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: compliment each other that they don't mind blocking for each
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: other and there when one scores, they're happy for the
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: other person.
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: So fortunately he's him.
• 38:10
  Speaker 10: And Trey have had a great opportunity to get some
• 38:13
  Speaker 10: reps and you know they're taking advantage of that.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're playing a lot at the same time too.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: When you when you go heavy, which is fun to
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: see because it's kind of that mix. Like just the
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: way that the players ran, it looks like either guy
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: has the ball, but one of them's lead blocking for
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: the other one. Trey had that big block on that
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: ten yard touchdown run that Trevin had it near the end, and.
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: It's just it is it is so cool to see.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, as someone like me who's
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: just a junkie for all this stuff, and you I
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: know about young kids coming up. He was a kid
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: I was really excited about. And when he wasn't playing
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: a lot of varsity early I thought, oh man, but
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: you brought up a great point where it's so much
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: of it for high school kids is mental, where you
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: have to have belief in yourself that that is much
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: of it. You can have all the talent in the world,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: but if you once you start believing that you can
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: do it, that's when it shows on the field. And
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: it really has been showing for him recently, and especially
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: in that game where he scored four touchdowns. Before we
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: talk about your opponent in the state tournament, how do
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: you feel about the draw that you got?
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: You got number seven. It's just a twelve man.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Tournament, but you know, kind of all year you've been
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: hovering in that, you know, as far as the coach's
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: rankings go, kind of seven to ten, ranking back and forth.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: So how do you feel about getting number seven?
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: Well, I'm happy that we're still in it and that
• 39:37
  Speaker 10: we have an opportunity to, you know, say, hey, we're
• 39:40
  Speaker 10: in the top twelve. I'm I'm a little surprised at
• 39:43
  Speaker 10: where we're at, you know, just just based on how
• 39:48
  Speaker 10: the rankings were and where we were, you know, to
• 39:52
  Speaker 10: jump up two spots. I'm certainly not going to complain
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: about it, but I'm a little surprised, I think, you know,
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: if I'm being honest, I'm a little prize that there's
• 40:00
  Speaker 10: two league games, two teams that are in the same
• 40:04
  Speaker 10: league that are playing, you know, with the Center and
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: Seaton Catholic they just played a couple of weeks ago.
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: But you know, I'm not on that committee. I don't
• 40:13
  Speaker 10: know what's discussed. In their track record in the past
• 40:17
  Speaker 10: few years. They usually get things pretty pretty close to accurate,
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: and so it's out of our control. It's out of
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: my control, and so you know, happy that we're still
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: in it.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and you got to be.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Happy that you get to play at quote unquote home.
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: So that's kind of a nice deal.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: You'll be back at Civic Stadium on Saturday evening facing
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: White Christian Academy. You know, when you faced a team
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: that you'd faced earlier this year, but when you face
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: them earlier in the season, they were a different team
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: than they are now. But I could say that you
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: were also a different team that you are.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: What do you expect this time around?
• 40:52
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you know when you watch film of them now, yeah,
• 40:56
  Speaker 10: they are different and we've got different guys in different spots,
• 41:00
  Speaker 10: and so I think I think it's safe to say
• 41:04
  Speaker 10: that when they're watching us, they're like, Okay, well this
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: is this is a little bit different. There's still some
• 41:08
  Speaker 10: basic concepts, you know, that we're both doing, and you know,
• 41:13
  Speaker 10: we've lost some guys, they've lost some guys, and so
• 41:16
  Speaker 10: there's some similarities. But yeah, it's it's it's not you
• 41:20
  Speaker 10: know that was what week two and so there's a
• 41:23
  Speaker 10: lot of change that happens, and you know, like we've
• 41:25
  Speaker 10: talked about in the past, identities you know, finally come
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: out and you figure out, Okay, this is what we're
• 41:30
  Speaker 10: good at, this is what we need to work on.
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: And now in the playoffs, you know there's you still
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: work on your deficiencies, but right now it's, hey, this
• 41:40
  Speaker 10: is what works, and so this is what we're gonna
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: go with. How do we just do it better? And
• 41:43
  Speaker 10: so I think we're both on that same same kind
• 41:46
  Speaker 10: of playing field.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: You know, when you watch Live Christian Academy, what really
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: stands out to me and probably to U as well
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: and anybody else who watches is their quarterback and the
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: dual thread ability, very very quick release, dynamic athlete. Who
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: does he remind you of if someone's listening. They've never
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: seen like Christian before. And it could be a college player,
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: NFL player. Is there somebody that you were like, Boy,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: he reminds me of this guy.
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: Gosh, I guess, you know, like a Penex or actually
• 42:20
  Speaker 10: probably more like a Vince Young, you know that type
• 42:24
  Speaker 10: of play. He's not as tall as as Vincy. I'd
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: probably say more like a pan X. But yeah, he's
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: not left handed, but he he's quick, and he can
• 42:34
  Speaker 10: he's dangerous on his feet, but he can throw really well.
• 42:38
  Speaker 10: He's got a lot of patience in the pocket and
• 42:41
  Speaker 10: I think, you know, watching Panics a couple years ago
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: at you Dub, he just sat there and sat there
• 42:44
  Speaker 10: and sat there in the pocket and just you know,
• 42:47
  Speaker 10: let things develop. And that's going to be the test
• 42:50
  Speaker 10: for our secondary. Can we stay in our zones and
• 42:53
  Speaker 10: stay doing what we're supposed to do and not let
• 42:57
  Speaker 10: guys get open If he's sitting there and it's hard
• 43:00
  Speaker 10: to get pressure on him, so you know, we'll we'll
• 43:02
  Speaker 10: try our best and try a couple of schemes maybe
• 43:05
  Speaker 10: they haven't seen, and see, you know, and see how
• 43:07
  Speaker 10: it goes.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one of those guys where if you know
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: the play breaks down.
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: That's almost like, you know, oh no, because.
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: It could get it could get worse.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: I've talked to coaches in the past that have had great,
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: you know, mobile quarterbacks, and they would say, we'd call
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: the pass play and then after like two seconds after
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the snap, they would think to themselves, like, don't throw it.
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: Don't throw it because they don't because they.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: Don't see anybody open and they want him to run.
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: It's like they might be and it's it's one of
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: those things where it could really screw.
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: Up the defense unless I mean, you got to be
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: ready for it obviously, and everybody has to be aware
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: and eyes have to be on him, and and it
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: could be really tough, and so you got your hands full.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be it's gonna be a great one out
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: at Civic Stadium, five o'clock Friday night.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: I'm excited.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Good luck against Live Christian and thank you so much
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 43:59
  Speaker 10: Yeah, five o'clock Saturday night.
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, oh sorry, Saturday.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: What did I say Sunday Friday?
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: Oh? Sorry, Yeah, reminds that you're gonna be a Volvell.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you've got your days all mixed up, but
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: that's all right. I do five o'clock Saturday, Saturday, Saturday.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: You heard it here Saturday, like Coach said, Saturday, five
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: o'clock Civic Stadium. Get there early, get your popcorn. It's
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: going to be an awesome show. Thank you so much, Coach.
• 44:25
  Speaker 10: You bet, thanks Tyler.
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• 44:45
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