Latest / Whatcom Preps Podcast / Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 212 - Quarterfinal Round State Tournament Recap
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- 0:00This is Ferndale senior Bishop Wuzzy and you're listening to the Walkham Preps Podcast with
- 0:04Tyler and Ryland. It's a matter of pride. Greetings and welcome into the
- 0:23WATCUM Preps Podcast. This is episode at two hundred and twelve, recap of
- 0:27the quarterfinals of the state tournament. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as
- 0:30always is Tyler Anderson of What Come Preps. Tyler, how we doing doing
- 0:38pretty good? H You know, it's fun weekend of football. Only two
- 0:43games, but two super important games, and I was able to go to
- 0:48one of them, watch the other one all the way through live online and
- 0:52bam, it's a It's It's just crazy how it's. You see so many
- 0:58kind of blowouts and stuff throughout the season, and then it gets to the
- 1:00playoffs and you're like, man, every play is just so much writing on
- 1:03it. It's a lot of fun to watch. It's like I always tell
- 1:07people, like, hockey is great. Playoff hockey is unbelievable because every shot,
- 1:11every hit, every pass, every everything is just magnified. You know,
- 1:15it just is. It's just unbelievable. Hey, we need to give
- 1:18it thanks to Bishop Utzie for the for the intro Tyler, has he ever
- 1:23done one for us? He did one last year after they beat Arlington.
- 1:29I got him live on the sideline to record an intro and he did one
- 1:33for us, but he hadn't done one since and and yeah, and I
- 1:38just you know, I just reached out to him. He's like absolutely,
- 1:40and boy, it was about about a professionals and intros you can get.
- 1:44So thank you very much, mister Utsy. Did you reach out to him
- 1:48because of all the talk we had on last week's show about the about the
- 1:51ice cream? No, you know, it's funny because again and I've been
- 1:56slacking here trying to find intros. Yeah, you know, we had Austin
- 2:00Powers last week or guys been awful at that this season, I know,
- 2:06and it's just been bad. Like I'm like, I get all set up,
- 2:08I'm prepping for it to record the podcast. I'm like, oh man,
- 2:12I don't have an intro. And so what I did is I just
- 2:15went on Instagram and I went and saw like and my messages like if who
- 2:21who's the Who's Who's online? Yeah? Like a little green dot yeah yeah,
- 2:25And I scrolled down I saw Bishop was online. I'm like sweet boom.
- 2:29I was like, hey, I need an intro in like ten minutes.
- 2:32What do you think He's like, yep, no problem, and you
- 2:35did it and and so that's on me. But uh, hey, it
- 2:38pays to be on Instagram, it does well, no, to be to
- 2:43be live like yeah, yeah, And I mean it doesn't actually pay money
- 2:47wise, because we ain't paying for these things, no, no, no,
- 2:51yeah, Tyler. And uh, by the way, I mentioned the
- 2:53ice cream from Edeline Dairy and uh, before we get too far to mention
- 3:00also Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurt Mayberry Farm has been a sponsor a big supporter
- 3:04of Walkom Preps. They are also a fourth generation, family owned and operated
- 3:07berry farm committed to growing the highest quality berries. Tyler strawberries, blueberries,
- 3:13and raspberries. And by the way, yeah, it's Thanksgiving week, which
- 3:17means I'm getting some of these you know what I mean? Oh, I'm
- 3:21getting them like something. I don't know what it is, but somebody's making
- 3:24a pie. And actually I wouldn't be surprised if I get some raspberry cheesecake
- 3:29out of this week. Boy, that sounds really good right now? Oh
- 3:32boy does it? Ever? But also if you would like to sponsor watkom
- 3:38Preps. Or if somebody you know would like to get on board of sponsoring
- 3:39watkom Preps, Tyler, let them know. How can they get a hold
- 3:42of you. What's the best way to go about it? Yeah, finding
- 3:45me on social media. Just search for walkom Preps on Facebook, Instagram or
- 3:49Twitter, and that's by far the easiest. Just send me a message,
- 3:53shoot me over, you know, message on there, and that's, like
- 3:58I said, that's the easiest way to do it. You could also so
- 4:00email me at mister mohawk at hotmail dot com. That's mister spelled out mis
- 4:05t e R underscore mohawk at hotmail dot com. Those are the two best
- 4:11ways, Tyler. We've got two games to talk about this week. Usually
- 4:16we would do a thing right now called what did we learn? But I
- 4:18think we're going to kind of do that within the games themselves. Yeah,
- 4:24that being said, Tyler, you want to get right into these games here,
- 4:26Yeah, let's do it all righty, we got two games Friday night
- 4:29and Saturday. What would that be afternoon, early after early evening. I
- 4:33guess yeah, I started at three, so I'd say afternoon afternoon, early
- 4:38evening. Brunch. No, that's after a brunch, although that sounds pretty
- 4:42good right now too. But to do this, to start off with the
- 4:46games, we got to start with Friday night at Civic Stadium. And to
- 4:49do that we need to head on over to Coach's corner with our coach at
- 4:51Jeff Wood. Coach, how are we doing doing great railing nook Sack Valley,
- 4:57Lyndon Christian second year. Oh, the one A's have produced a matchup
- 5:01up at Civic Stadium this year, these two teams. Last year Nuksack Valley,
- 5:05Mount Baker I was up there for the for the semi final last year.
- 5:11The atmosphere was unbelievable, bands, fans, everything going on before we
- 5:16even get into the game. Coach, tell me what it was like.
- 5:19What was the place rocking and rolling? What was going on there on Friday
- 5:21night? Yeah, it was a great scene, great vibe with nok Sack
- 5:28there on the north side, that whole side full nuk Sack people all the
- 5:35way full. And then on the home side Linden Christian almost full. You
- 5:41know, it's bigger over there, but pretty full there. We got Lennon
- 5:46Christian's band, both teams, cheerleaders, a lot of community members probably just
- 5:51interested in football, maybe even without a rooting interest, and you know,
- 5:57to two quality teams up on a Friday night, a dry Friday, but
- 6:03there was you know, in the air, it was kind of moist right
- 6:09in the Northwest, and so the ball, the field, the turf was
- 6:13a little slick. The balls were a little slick. So that contributed at
- 6:16times in the game as well. Kind of one of those ones whereas a
- 6:20guy with a beard and a mustache, I gotta keep wiping it because it's
- 6:24getting wet, even though you can't figure out why, right, Like,
- 6:27it just kind of happens. You're like, what's going on here? So
- 6:29I have a rain and how is my beard wet? That being said,
- 6:31coach, I'm looking at the box score here, I see zero zero in
- 6:34the first quarter. Two teams kind of feeling each other out. What was
- 6:38going on there in the first Yeah, kind of some first quarter jitters and
- 6:44those sorts of things. Nooksac Actually, Joey Brown through two interceptions in the
- 6:50first quarter, both of them intercept intercepted by Dawson Bauma for LC and so
- 6:58else had you know, some opportunities there going in on plus territory and got
- 7:05turned away with a couple fourth down rushes, one on a QB sneak and
- 7:12one I believe just a handoff that they are both close, but you know,
- 7:18nuk Sak shut the door there. So that was kind of a lost
- 7:23opportunity for Lennon Christian there early on. And then Nuksak drew first blood.
- 7:29They started They're like, yeah, we have some pretty good running game.
- 7:32So they started just pounding the rock with Colton Lentz and he ended up putting
- 7:40the first points on the board. So they were up only six nothing because
- 7:46they had their extra point blocked. So that kind of started the scoring there
- 7:51in the second quarter. Yeah, Now I'm looking at the second quarter here,
- 7:55I see twenty three total points scored. I mean, that's an exciting
- 7:58quarter for me as far as I'm concerned. I've seen a lot of games
- 8:01over the years, and you've got two teams kind of going back and forth
- 8:05like that. That's some good things. But it was sixteen to seven going
- 8:09into halftime. But coach, second quarter, a little bit of momentum for
- 8:11Nuksack Valley. Is that what I'm seeing here? Yeah, they did.
- 8:16They did kind of take the momentum. Towards into the half, ELC answered
- 8:22their score and actually took the lead really throwing the ball. Jeremiah Wright was
- 8:28spreading it out. Cayden Stite was getting most of the catches, but they
- 8:33have other weapons as well, badgermun Boma, and you know, they took
- 8:41the seven to sixth lead. Nuk Sack comes back with a drive, gets
- 8:45stalled down. Jorgen Verre hits the field goal, so nine to seven,
- 8:52knok Sack is up. ELC comes back again. They're in the red zone
- 9:00trying to go in retake the lead, and they started Nuksack started putting allocating
- 9:05more defensive backs to stop the passing game, and they were really only only
- 9:11really had about five guys in the box, and that that helped him kind
- 9:16of stymy that passing game on that drive and on a fourth and seven they
- 9:22picked up five yards only on a pass play. They're in the red zone
- 9:28and so instead of retaking the lead, Nuksak got the ball with only a
- 9:33couple minutes left, and you know they methodically, you know, kind of
- 9:39in a hurry up, but not a not a super hurry up, just
- 9:41with some tempo kind of got it down to about the thirty three yard line,
- 9:46I believe it was, and you know, time's running out and Joey
- 9:52Brown scrambling around on a pass play and Elsie only rushed three guys, so
- 9:58he you know, had some time and you know, bought himself some more
- 10:03time, and Colton Lentz found himself opening the zone over the middle about the
- 10:09eight yard line or so, made the catch, broke a tackle and scored
- 10:13right before halftime. I believe there's like six point seven seconds left or something.
- 10:18So that was a huge, huge play and score for Knooksak to take
- 10:24that sixteen to seven lead into halftime. Now, second half, I'm seeing
- 10:31some definite points put up by Nuksack Valley. Was that momentum just kind of
- 10:35bounce right over what went on there? Well, Elsie Unfortunately, on that
- 10:43extra point of the touchdown right before half, Jeremiah Wright jumped up to try
- 10:48to block it, came down catching himself, dislocated his elbow I think or
- 10:56some injury that kept him out for the rest of the game. So I
- 11:01mean, he's you know, obviously your quarterback, one of your top players
- 11:05on both sides of the ball. So that really made made the sledding.
- 11:11Pretty tough for els to come back. Yeah, not one of those.
- 11:16How do I say this? He's one of those guys. It's not typical
- 11:20that a quarterback can be as important on offense as he is on defense,
- 11:24almost, you know, but he definitely is there at Lennon Christian Now,
- 11:28second half, I'm looking seventeen to nothing here. It looks like, I
- 11:33mean, Brady Ackerman recovers the fumble in the end zone. I see another
- 11:37boom boom, vig Ory thirty six yard field goal. Clton Lentz gets in
- 11:41again, and then Skyler Wintering goes for two more. You know, it
- 11:46really looks like nuksack Valley kind of started doing what Nukzack Valley does there in
- 11:50the second half. Yeah, they just kept with the running game, you
- 11:54know, just like Nova can give it time and it'll work, especially with
- 11:58the guys they have up front and UH strong running backs. Also Skuylar Wittering
- 12:05and John Stremler was running the ball, and he would be a guy I
- 12:09would not want to tackle uh coming downhill at just so you don't want to,
- 12:13you don't want to meet him in the coach No, you know,
- 12:16I think i'd make a business decision there, low, but yeah, go
- 12:22real low. So they I think they only threw one pass in the in
- 12:28the second half that that I recall looking back at the stats. So so
- 12:33they just just kind of salted it away and Elsie kept battling. You know,
- 12:39those kids, you know, they've had you know, a good couple
- 12:43of year run and they're talented and hard working, and you know, it's
- 12:48a good team. So they kept battling. They had a sophomore quarterback come
- 12:52in that that started making some plays once he got settled in, and Eli
- 12:56Mayberry and you know, so they did get another they got a touchdown on
- 13:01the board, but you know that once they lost, right, it was
- 13:05really kind of tough for the Links. Final score forty seven to fourteen.
- 13:11Let's look over the numbers a little bit here for Knuzack Valley four hundred and
- 13:15twenty one total yards, Lynn and Christian three forty four. Skyler winner in
- 13:18fifteen carries one hundred and eighteen yards and the two touchdowns I mentioned earlier.
- 13:22Colton Lentz nineteen carries sixty three yards. He had two touchdowns rushing. He
- 13:28also had one receiving on the night that was his only reception, so he
- 13:33had just the one catch for thirty three yards. Cory only leads the way
- 13:37as far as receiving goes for Nuzack Valley five catches eighty two yards Joey Brown
- 13:43nine of fourteen one forty seven. And you mentioned a couple of interceptions,
- 13:48and Tyler, I think we had kind of talked about it. Wasn't there
- 13:50something like he was pretty dang efficient. I mean, so you got to
- 13:54give Lynn and Christian that they feel real good about it early getting a couple
- 13:56interceptions there. But yeah, end of the day though, you know,
- 14:01Nukzak Valley forty seven carries two hundred and seventy four yards for Lynden, Christian,
- 14:07a couple of guys on that side. You know, they're lead and
- 14:11rushing oddly enough by Jeremiah Wright four carries for seventeen yards Hallis Owen eight carries
- 14:16for thirteen real tough sledding as far as the run game goes, but through
- 14:20the air twenty of thirty nine as a team for three hundred and fourteen yards.
- 14:24Yeah, Tyler, you know, let's talk. Oh and you know
- 14:28what I guess I do got to say Cayden Steite nine catches one hundred and
- 14:31thirty nine yards. That's a really nice day. But as far as defense
- 14:35goes, Tyler, you got some numbers on that side of the ball.
- 14:37Yeah, there's you know, a lot a lot of really good numbers on
- 14:41Nuksak's side. No one really stood out complete, but there's a lot of
- 14:46guys who had very very good games. I mean, you talked about Brady
- 14:48Ackerman getting that touchdown. He also had a tackle for loss. He broke
- 14:52up a kind of a swing pass that was passed out to the right side.
- 14:58And then a lot of guys like Jackson Bennett had seven tackles and two
- 15:01passes defended. Damian Perez has seven and a half tackles. Skyler Wintern had
- 15:05seven and a half tackles. John Stremler had five tackles with the tackle for
- 15:11loss. Yeah, you know, Evan Bravo had five tackles and two passes
- 15:16defended. That you know, Lennon Christian. Usually when you see these different
- 15:20these defensive numbers, it's you know, the linebackers get a lot of tackles,
- 15:24and you know, but this is because Elsie uses the whole field and
- 15:28they threw it a lot in this game, there's all sorts of guys kind
- 15:33of chipping in on the defensive side of the ball for an exact valley for
- 15:35Lynnin Christian Caden steit fifteen and a half tackles, No surprise there, one
- 15:41tackle for loss. He ends his season with over one hundred tackles on the
- 15:45year. Doesn't happen very often where someone ends with over one hundred tackles.
- 15:48That's tough to do. I mean, yeah, especially in high school with
- 15:52it. I mean it's tough to get one hundred real tackles, you know.
- 15:56Yeah. The way that you judge it is the way that I which
- 16:00more people would. I mean, I see it all the time where I
- 16:02was just get out one hundred and sixteen tackles. I'm like, first off,
- 16:03you guys played nine games. You know, there's no way that he
- 16:07averaged that the entire time. And then you watch them of the film and
- 16:10you're like, come on, guy, Like, all right, he's the
- 16:12fourth guy in on the pile, right, Yeah, it's a tackle,
- 16:15all right. He might have had ten a game, but he didn't have
- 16:18sixteen the game like you claimed that he did, or you know, whatever
- 16:21it is, or and I see all the time, Tyler. You and
- 16:22I've seen it, you know, I've talked about it before. Where I
- 16:25see a kid, you know, Oh, he's got Ryland. He had
- 16:27thirty two sacks this year, and I'm like, no, you get in
- 16:30and I watch it. I'm just like he might have had fifteen, Like
- 16:33he might have had fifteen, Like come on, you know, but yeah,
- 16:37I mean that's that's pretty impressive. Other LC numbers. Yeah, Dawson
- 16:41Bowman with those two interceptions, it also had seven tackles and two other passes
- 16:45broken up. He's just a really good athletic, physical corner. Brody Bowman.
- 16:51You know, he's been kind of that unsung hero on defense, you
- 16:53know, playing on the outside. Seven and a half tackles, two and
- 16:56a half tackles behind the line of scrimmage, really physical, hard hitter.
- 17:00I thought he played really well. And Malachi Vanner May who's he had seven
- 17:04tackles plus a tackle for loss. And he's a guy that is in the
- 17:07three point stance and they're three man defensive line. But after Jeremiah Wright got
- 17:11hurt, he got he got kicked out to play outside linebacker. So it's
- 17:15a guy that can do a lot of different things, covering the flat,
- 17:18come downhill, make a hit. Uh, you know, he plays guard
- 17:22on offense, and and now he's you know, he's running around and covering
- 17:25the flat and doing stuff like that. So it's a guy that he's one
- 17:27of those guys that you know, we've talked about a little bit that this
- 17:30year where when a junior becomes a senior in the light bulb kind of comes
- 17:34on. Yep. Uh, there's always five or six of those guys.
- 17:37And he was, he's he's one of the best ones this year for doing
- 17:41that. And he ended his career in a big way too defensively, and
- 17:45you know, it's a it was a tough one for Lenny Christian, but
- 17:48that's just how it happens sometimes. It's a shame they had to face in
- 17:51the second round. Everybody knows that. Everyone's been talking about it, but
- 17:53uh, you know, it's just it is what it is. And and
- 17:56uh yeah, like coach said, it was an awesome atmosphere and it was
- 18:00really fun to be there. Uh, Coach, we always do a little
- 18:03you know, what did you learn? Did you learn anything from this game?
- 18:07I mean you had two teams to look at here from Wakam County.
- 18:11Anything you learned out there, you know, like I put in the article,
- 18:18it's just really tough to beat a good team twice in the same season,
- 18:22and h LC got them, got them the first game, but uh
- 18:27nuk sak Nuk SAC came away with the victory. And just you know,
- 18:33I was talking about their strong rushing game, which they obviously do, but
- 18:37they also they're pretty balanced. They they throw it well, you know,
- 18:42so so they're they're built for the postseason for sure. Sure, which I
- 18:47kind of stole that from Tyler, But Joey Brown's a good, accurate quarterback,
- 18:52athletic, throws a good ball, and they have uh, you know,
- 18:56quality receivers out there too, so they're they're tough to offend, and
- 19:00a lot of those same guys are playing defense and they're tough to move the
- 19:03ball on as well. So uh very impressed and well coached as well.
- 19:10Those guys know what they're doing coaching them up. So I think, uh,
- 19:15I see them winning next week. And you know, I'm not on
- 19:18the picks probably, but I see them going over East getting that getting that
- 19:23victory and playing for the title the following week. Might have to play a
- 19:30team that also beat Lynn and Christian this year, Royal you could uh could
- 19:34it could be having the the Old Evil Empire if you will to or to
- 19:37walk them County up there. Uh, Tyler, you got anything for coach
- 19:41before we let them get out of here. No, just thank you so
- 19:44much for helping out this year and and uh, it's just been awesome.
- 19:48I mean even even that Fern Dog game when I saw you, I didn't
- 19:51know for sure if you were going to be there, and you popped right
- 19:53in with your stat sheet and I was like, man, leok at them
- 19:56go. Even in the rain man just doing stats and and open out and
- 20:00writing stories. It's it's been. It's been awesome. Thank you so much.
- 20:04Yeah, it's been. It's been fun doing these podcasts being at the
- 20:08games. So a lot of a lot of great football up here in the
- 20:12Northwest Conference. Yeah, And I mean, I don't know if we'll have
- 20:17you on next week or if k Nooksack Valley does win, and I don't
- 20:19know if you'll go down to the state championships. We'll have you on the
- 20:22week there. I don't know what we'll do, but we'll find a way
- 20:25to incorporate. Yeah, through the uh, you know, maybe on the
- 20:26Awards show or the Top one hundred Countdown. We got all kinds of things
- 20:30going on, and we'll make sure to get get you back on for some
- 20:33coaches Corner stuff as we continue to cover football for quite a while. Because
- 20:37we got the Top one hundred goes a long, long stinking time like that.
- 20:41For sure, we got a lot of stuff we still got to do
- 20:44as far as football goes. And we still got two weeks of the season
- 20:47left potentially, so still at a lot of things left here, coach,
- 20:49So yeah, we'll I'm sure we'll get you on a few more times before
- 20:53it's all said and done. And yeah, I mean, who knows,
- 20:56maybe some some stuff in the spring or some stuff in the in the winner
- 21:00as well, and we got lots of stuff to talk about all the way
- 21:03up until I mean, I guess if we're doing a Top fifty for baseball
- 21:06or something, Tyler, we might go all the way into stinking July with
- 21:07that. H could happen. We've done it the last two years, so
- 21:12we'll see. We'll see how it goes, alrighty. Well, Yeah,
- 21:15that's been Coach's Corner with coach Jeff Wood coach, Thanks for your time,
- 21:19thanks for having me. Alrighty Tyler, Well, before we move on,
- 21:25I guess I need to ask you. I didn't ask you within the coach's
- 21:27corner there. Did you learn anything from them from that game on Friday night?
- 21:33Man, I learned a lot of stuff, but I should have written
- 21:37him down. But uh, you know, you know what was crazy.
- 21:40I learned that there was a guy in the knooksacks stands that played college football
- 21:45with Christian Nakoye. Whoa whoa, whoa hold on like the Nigerian Nightmare.
- 21:49Yes, So I wore Christian Koye jersey to the game and this guy came
- 21:56down right after the game. He was so excited that he goes, where
- 22:00did you get that jersey? And I said, I got it online and
- 22:03he's like, he goes, this is crazy. But back in the mid
- 22:07eighties, goes, I played with him down at his a SUSA Pacific Yeah,
- 22:11And I was like yeah, And he was telling me about him and
- 22:14this other guy from Nigeria that moved there to join the track team. Mainly,
- 22:18you know, one guy was a four hundred you know sprinter was in
- 22:22the Olympics, and Christian was a discus thrower, and they got Christian out
- 22:26there to play football and he was like the third string strong safety. Trying
- 22:30to tackle him all the time on scout team and he was like it was
- 22:33a it was a night there, you know. And and they had like
- 22:37a nickname for him, but he couldn't say it, so it ended up
- 22:40being a second like a different name kind of was an offshoot of that.
- 22:42It was fun talking to him. I don't know who he came down from
- 22:45the knucksack side, so I I'm not sure who he was supporting or was
- 22:49a specific play or anything, but that was that was fun talking to him
- 22:52near. Christian Accoy one of my all time favorite football players. So you
- 22:57remember how good he was in like Techmo super Bowl, Yes, like I
- 23:02called it, I called it making popcorn. Every time you try to tackle
- 23:04him, a guy would just pop right off of him. He just run
- 23:07right through everybody. And he was fast and he was strong. It was
- 23:08awesome. There's videos on YouTube where people will just run around, like the
- 23:12first play of the quarter, they will hand it off to a Koye and
- 23:15then he'll just not run around and just like literally for the entire quarter,
- 23:18just run people over yeah. I mean it's just it was crazy, is
- 23:23like that. You know, he was like that too, Like he was
- 23:26like he was your your first how do I say it? Like he was
- 23:30like the original like a mod Bradshaw or whatever his name is, you know.
- 23:33I mean, although Bradshaw was like six' five you know, uh,
- 23:37a Koye was what like six foot you know what I mean? Yeah,
- 23:40but he was he was pretty big. He was about six one maybe
- 23:41six two, yeah, but he was like two sixty five. Yeah.
- 23:45Yeah, I mean he was a big boy and that and that's the thing.
- 23:48But he could also run. That was the thing. He was like
- 23:51a four four four five guy, you know. Yeah, i mean the
- 23:53biggest shoulder pads I've ever seen for a running back. Yeah. Well those
- 23:56were the days when everybody had the big shoulder pads, right, but like
- 24:00even his were yeah, granted, you know he you know who he kind
- 24:03of was like he was like the original Mike Alstatt in a way, you
- 24:07know what I mean. Yeah, although they played relatively at the same time,
- 24:11I mean right about all Stott was maybe a couple of years later.
- 24:14A Koya was drafted in eighty seven. Yea all was drafted like late nineties,
- 24:18early two. Yeah, I might have been like ninety five maybe,
- 24:22oh yeah, maybe, yeah. And Okoye was a rookie and when he
- 24:27was twenty seven years old as a rookie, because he took him a while
- 24:30to start play. Yeah, he took him a while to start playing college
- 24:33football because he was doing the track stuff and he was trying he was trying
- 24:37to get over to go to the Olympics, and his like a sponsor coach
- 24:41was at a Susan Pacific or something. It was crazy. Whoa, whoa,
- 24:45whoa. I'm on Mike Allstatts Wikipedia page right now. Huh. It
- 24:49says he went to Joliet Catholic. Isn't that where Rudy went? Yeah?
- 24:57Wasn't that Joliet Catholic High School? Yeah? Wow, how about that?
- 25:03Yeah, I did not know that. Hold on, they've had quite a
- 25:07few guys here. Wow. I mean, I guess I should not be
- 25:11too blown away. Maybe because a lot of your you know, Catholics in
- 25:15private schools turned out a lot of dudes back in the day. Yep,
- 25:18George Miken. Wow, going way back, yeah, way way back,
- 25:23class of nineteen forty two. Actually, yeah, anyway, that's I mean
- 25:29that's really cool like that, and I'm sure somebody knows who it is,
- 25:33Like somebody's gotta let us know who it was. Yeah, yeah, and
- 25:36yeah, so pretty cool. Yeah, that is really cool as far as
- 25:40atmosphere goes Tyler. Similar to the uh baker k Nooks that game. Yeah,
- 25:45the only difference is it was nighttime, you know that baker Nips that
- 25:48game was daytime the whole time. So, you know it was I got
- 25:53there probably about forty five minutes before kickoff, and I was not able to
- 26:00park in my normal spot that I do at Civic. It's kind of the
- 26:02same spot I always park in. Yeah, it's kind of in the corner
- 26:07so I can get out easy. And that you know, it was pretty
- 26:10packed, so you still found your way to the front and got in.
- 26:12Yeah, yeah I was. I was okay, Yeah, I didn't get
- 26:17lost, Just want to make sure. Yeah, And it was it was
- 26:22you could feel it when you walked in. You know, there was there
- 26:25was like a there was like a wave of a hum constantly, like there
- 26:27was no kind of downtime. It was very you know. The Linen Christian
- 26:32band was great. They played an amazing Star Spangled banner, which always to
- 26:37me is a big big deal, like if your band is if your band's
- 26:41not good, perfect that song. Yes, yes, you know what I
- 26:45mean, start with that song because you're gonna have to play it every game,
- 26:48yeah, you know. And and and if you can play it well,
- 26:51that that gets the boys going. Yeah. And you know, when
- 26:55I was in band, that was a big deal to play that well.
- 26:56And I've been to some games where it's just does not go well, it's
- 27:03hard to listen to. And Els played it great. Now I've been to
- 27:07a I've been to four home LC games this year, and they always had
- 27:11someone singing it, which is great. A student this sing's that fantastic.
- 27:15So I'd never heard the band play. When the band played it on Friday
- 27:18Night, it was awesome. Like they it was a little different than what
- 27:22you're used to hearing a band do. Like they did some kind of some
- 27:25cool stuff with it, but it wasn't like over the top. It was
- 27:27well, it was classy, it was well done. Uh, that was
- 27:32really cool to kind of get things going that way. You know, these
- 27:36are big one A rosters. They're announcing everybody on the forty yard line,
- 27:40fill up the field, sideline, the sideline, uh you know all these
- 27:44teams. Yeah, it was just it was it was crazy. I mean
- 27:48it was here's the other thing. It was freezing cold, you know,
- 27:52like literally like it was probably below freezing. Yeah, and I never felt
- 27:59cold, Like I never was like, man, I'm cold. I kept
- 28:02hearing people say that, man, I'm cold, and I'm like, I
- 28:04don't feel cold at all. And I think it was just this. It
- 28:08was the atmosphere. It was what I love. Yeah, I was so
- 28:11jacked up. I just never felt cold. I probably was, like my
- 28:15hands probably felt cool, but I didn't. I never once thought to myself,
- 28:18man I'm cold. I was too excited. And it was the first
- 28:25half went really fast, and and it was kind of a it was kind
- 28:30of a downer because it was just like, man, that went fast,
- 28:33Like I hope it doesn't, like I want to I want to see as
- 28:36much of this as I can. And the third quarter, you know,
- 28:38the second half went a lot. There was a lot more scoring involved and
- 28:41stuff like that, so it went a little slower. But yeah, it
- 28:45was uh like like coach said, it was a really fun atmosphere and and
- 28:51uh yeah, uh nooksac finbably looked very impressive, and I could keep saying
- 28:56they're built for November. So yeah, I'm not you know, I wasn't
- 29:00surprised, but I was. I was surprised with the difference in score.
- 29:04You know, to get them by five touchdowns is pretty impressive. You know,
- 29:11the NFC Championship game against the Carolina Panthers. You know, I've been
- 29:15new by that point. I've been to a ton of Seahawks games. Yeah,
- 29:18when we walked out of the tunnel for that one to go down to
- 29:21our seats, I remember me and my brother in law are walking in and
- 29:26we get about halfway into the tunnel and like we kind of like both looked
- 29:29at each other like whoa, Like do you feel that? Like it just
- 29:33it was already different, you know what I mean. And we were there
- 29:36like thirty five forty minutes before the game, and when we actually got out
- 29:40of the tunnel, we looked around and it was like, oh my god,
- 29:42this place is already packed, you know, and the atmosphere and the
- 29:47energy you could feel it from the start, you know what I mean.
- 29:49And so I know what you're talking about there. The other thing I want
- 29:52to mention you're talking about a good band, right, the star Spangled banner.
- 29:56Yeah, you know what I love. I love when the band Tyler,
- 30:00I don't know what the big drum is, you know, you know,
- 30:03like the big one that like they got to like carry on their back.
- 30:06Yeah yeah, you know. Yeah, when when they get to the
- 30:11oh say, and it's like and they've got the the what do they call
- 30:15those things the symbols or whatever going to oh man, that that part gets
- 30:19me fired up. If you got a band that does that part really really
- 30:23well, oh yeah, oh yeah. I mean, uh, normally and
- 30:30I hate to bring up Boffel, but this year, when when you know
- 30:33something that would you know, the anthems or whatever. Normally I do my
- 30:37thing and just kind of like go walk and get ready to do what I
- 30:38needed to do during a game. Our coaches are all, you know,
- 30:41hugging each other and doing their thing. The last game, the Emerald Ridge
- 30:47band played such a great anthem. It got me so fired up. I
- 30:49went through the handshake line with the coaches before the game like I was fired
- 30:52up. I'm over there like yeah, yeah, let's go boys. I
- 30:55mean I was super jack because that band killed it. I mean they just
- 30:57did and our band is a great job. But I'll tell you what,
- 31:00man, I've I don't know that you and I have had this conversation.
- 31:03We think maybe we have. I think a really good bands were seven to
- 31:07ten points. Yeah, I think we've talked about that. Yeah, yeah,
- 31:10I truly believe it is. I've seen it before. I've seen it
- 31:11so many times where a really good band just kills it. You know.
- 31:15Now, speaking of really good bands, Linden, they got a good one.
- 31:18Unfortunately they had to stand on the sides of this last week. What
- 31:19the heck was that all about? You know what, Tyler, Let's get
- 31:22into that all right? Yeah, yeah, let's get into that game because
- 31:25we still got to talk about that one that was on Saturday out in Poles
- 31:29boh Linden and almost said in Knooksack Valley Linden and North Kitsap. How about
- 31:36that both games were el versus n How about that? Yeah, I bet
- 31:40it happened very often. But yes, Linden North Kidsap. The Lions fall
- 31:47thirty four to twenty eight to North Kids SAP. First, let's go over
- 31:51the game. Then we'll talk about kind of like what we learned. Yeah,
- 31:55I mean, Tyler, this this game when I when I look at
- 31:56it here quote unquote on paper, the Knooksack Valley gets or Knoksack Valley,
- 32:01This is gonna be hard. North Kitsap scores first, but then Linden kind
- 32:07of gets going. Huh. Yeah, you know, North Kitsap looked pretty
- 32:12good. On the first drive, they threw an interception. Zach Welts had
- 32:16an interception, but then they fumbled it a few plays later, so North
- 32:20Kids, so it was kind of nullified. They get the ball right right
- 32:22back where they were, uh, and then they go in and score the
- 32:24score the touchdown. A lot of kind of short passes. Uh. You
- 32:30know, the running game for either team wasn't really going a whole lot early
- 32:34on. But yeah, North Kidsap scored and then Linden went down and you
- 32:39know, they they they were really they were trying to run the ball.
- 32:42That's what they want to do. They've had success all year. Uh,
- 32:45they don't put up huge rushing numbers, but they run a lot and they
- 32:50get first downs and they just kind of shorten the game that way. But
- 32:52they weren't. They were. It was really hard sledding for that. So
- 32:57they would every once in a while just kind of go deep with it,
- 33:00and it seemed like it was working for them more often than not. Brady
- 33:04Elsner caught a sixty two yard touchdown pass to tie the game. Then there
- 33:08was another interception Cooper Moore. Such an athletic play. I mean, it's
- 33:13just fun watching him play sports in general. And he makes an interception,
- 33:19then he gets the ball back, and then it was kind of more of
- 33:21a classic drive where they get inside the five, and once they do that,
- 33:23they'll go double tight, they'll go two full backs and shotgun and then
- 33:28just everyone just go up the middle and just have Brent Hepner push as hard
- 33:30as he can do that a few times. You score another touchdown. North
- 33:35Kitsap gets the ball back again, and then there's a third interception, this
- 33:38time by Charlie Ayers right on the sideline. He almost intercepted the ball on
- 33:42the play before that looked like it might have been tipped by kyper ossinc And
- 33:47at the line of scrimmage, and then what you know, when I was
- 33:51watching it live, it looked like Charlie Ayers had the interception, like they
- 33:54both kind of him and the receiver both fell together. But then they both
- 33:58stood up and the ball was still on the ground and then the very next
- 34:00play intercepts it on the sideline. They and then moments after that, uh,
- 34:06you know, they get they get Danny Boehler on a deep seventy four
- 34:08yard touchdown pass. That was the That was the one where he burned his
- 34:13guy down the left sideline and he kind of caught it on his right hip
- 34:16and then put and had the ball kind of holding onto it behind his back
- 34:21and luckily there's no defenders around him because they could easily just pop the ball
- 34:23up, but he was able to kind of maintain bring it back around uh
- 34:28and sprint all the way for the seventy four yard touchdown extra point. It's
- 34:31twenty one to seven at that point, so it's looking really really good.
- 34:35Uh, North Kitsap puts together a strong drive at the end of the half
- 34:39and uh, you know it, there was a big time quarterback sack by
- 34:45Isaiah Audman, who you know, they just don't don't blitz a ton,
- 34:50So it's it's kind of it was a well timed play. Uh. Their
- 34:52quarterback is not very big, he's really quick and he's gotta be tough as
- 34:59nails because he was able to pop right back up. Uh still, engineer
- 35:02that drive to get it get into the end zone on a great pass in
- 35:06the corner. You know, you know, defense was right there, but
- 35:09it just it was just perfectly placed. They score the touchdown right before the
- 35:15half, so you're, okay, that's a huge play because now it's twenty
- 35:17one fourteen and you're getting the ball to start the second half. Nooks.
- 35:23Uh nice, did it too, North? Come on, tire get it
- 35:28together. Yeah yeah, well only if they were purple. So North,
- 35:34Yeah, I know, so North kids, app they get the ball start
- 35:36the second half. But Lyndon did great three and out get him to punt.
- 35:39Okay, now we're kind of looking back. Okay, Linden's got a
- 35:43pretty good thing going on. They stall, they go to punt and it
- 35:45gets blocked and that was it. That was a pretty big turning point because
- 35:50now you've got another short field for North kids. App they're able to punch
- 35:52it in on another touchdown pass and that ties the game. And there's kind
- 35:59of some you know, back and forth, nothing crazy going on for the
- 36:04rest of the third quarter. But then late there's another deep pass from Heppner
- 36:09to Bowler right down the middle of the field. And man Danny Bowler's fast
- 36:15he created a lot of separation on that play. He had ended up with
- 36:17a huge game. We'll talk about the numbers a little bit, but he
- 36:22scored that touchdown to put Linden up twenty eight twenty one, and then in
- 36:27the fourth quarter, North Kitsapp was able to score on a six yard touchdown
- 36:30run to tie it up, and at that point it was, you know,
- 36:34it was it was here we go, It's it's a tie. It
- 36:37was just like the state championship game. It says tied game, it's it's
- 36:40getting late. Lindon's got the ball. You know. Last year it was
- 36:45you know, the last two years, it was these amazing drives that ended
- 36:47up winning the game late for Lyndon, converting on fourth downs and just doing
- 36:52all sorts of you know, during the semis, it was just running.
- 36:55It was just runs constantly, you know, Cade Slayton just pounding the ball
- 37:00off that big offensive line. You know. Last year and they were down
- 37:02in that game, they ended up scoring and they won I think by five.
- 37:06I think it was like fifteen to ten or something like that. Last
- 37:08year, it was a tide game in the state championship game, driving down
- 37:13the field, driving down the field, And it was a lot of passes.
- 37:15Brent Hepner on passes, converting on fourth down passes to Isaiah Stanley,
- 37:19the diving catch by Cooper Moore. I mean, some unbelievable plays getting down
- 37:22there, getting down there, they end up scoring the touchdown when Heppner runs
- 37:25it in, and this one you're thinking, my goodness, is it going
- 37:30to happen again? You know, same type of deal getting down there,
- 37:31getting down there. And then there was a play that you know, had
- 37:37us both shaking our head. Do you want to jump in on that?
- 37:42Yeah, this is you know, Tyler, this is where and I assume
- 37:52you're talking fourth down. Yeah, I mean there's not a lot of time
- 37:54left, thirty two seconds to go. It's fourth and three. Yeah,
- 37:59the North ki sap forty two yard line. And look, I know,
- 38:04I know the Linen coaches and how they would would like this handled and how
- 38:08they would like us to handle this. But that's just not how you and
- 38:12I do things, right, So I know the way that they would like
- 38:15it handled would be, Hey, let's not talk about it, let's move
- 38:17on. It is what it is. But the fact of the matter is
- 38:21I've watched hundreds of football games. I mean, in a little over a
- 38:25decade, I've been to almost six hundred games, and I've seen some mistakes
- 38:30happen here there. There's officials make mistakes, right these guys. I look,
- 38:36I don't like to complain about officiating, but in the playoffs, when
- 38:40you get to the quarterfinals, there's no reason not to have the best officials.
- 38:44And I don't know that that they I don't know that there wasn't the
- 38:46best officials, right, But when I watch a player run on the field
- 38:52as the twelfth man and then turn around and try to run off and he
- 38:55does not get off before the snap, and it's right next to an official
- 39:00and he doesn't throw a flag, then I just I don't know what that
- 39:06that official is doing there. I just simply don't know. And the fact
- 39:08of the matter is, don't get me wrong. For all we know,
- 39:14Linden could have won. They would have got a first down. So let's
- 39:16just paint the scene here, Tyler. Okay, yeah, yeah, So
- 39:21it's fourth and three from what yard line? Was it? The North kidsap
- 39:24forty two? Okay, so now we're down at the thirty seven first down.
- 39:29How much time is left, thirty two seconds. Ye have one timeout.
- 39:32Okay, your whole playbook is open. Now, your whole playbook.
- 39:36You can throw down the middle, you can throw to the sideline, you
- 39:39can run the ball if you want. It hasn't been terribly successful on the
- 39:44night. Linden finishes with twenty six carries for seventy nine yards. But you
- 39:46know what, at that point, they're probably not thinking too much about Brent
- 39:51Hepner running the ball, you know. So maybe you run a QB draw
- 39:54something you know, I don't know. Again, whole playbook is open.
- 40:00We know that. You know Van Dalen's got some magic over there. Right,
- 40:04yep, whole playbook is open. Let's say you pick up a first
- 40:07down. Great, maybe you don't pick up a first down. You can
- 40:09take a time out, and now you're down to what, let's just say
- 40:13twenty five seconds, right, Okay, let's just say twenty five seconds.
- 40:17Your whole playbook is still there. Yeah, because you have a kicker that
- 40:22can that's good from deep. Yep, your whole playbook is still there.
- 40:27And that's why you think Linden would have had an unbelievable opportunity to win that
- 40:31game. Fact of the matter is they very easily could have missed a field
- 40:36goal, or maybe they could have fumbled, or maybe they don't get down,
- 40:39you know, down to kick you know, who knows, So maybe
- 40:43it still goes to overtime and the game still happens the way that it does.
- 40:45That being said in air like that from an official is inexcusable. It's
- 40:52absolutely inexcusable. So when I see that, and I hate to say it
- 40:58this way, but nobody else has a platform like you and I do.
- 41:01So I'm going to bring it up, and I'm going to say it because
- 41:05I frankly don't care that. I don't care what people think about that.
- 41:08Fact of the matter is that official should not be doing another game the rest
- 41:13of this season. I hope he's not, because that is a massive,
- 41:15massive mistake that you can basically attribute to the fact that that game that Lynden.
- 41:22You know, sure they still had an opportunity to win that game,
- 41:23but they should have been able to finish that game off in regulation. They
- 41:25should have. It's just it is what it is, yes, and they
- 41:30and they didn't. They had that taken away from him. Now that also
- 41:34being said, they could have just completed a pass on fourth down right there,
- 41:37and it wouldn't have mattered anyway, right, I mean, yes,
- 41:39okay, understandable, but they are in a much better spot if you add
- 41:43five more yards to it and it's first down, I mean, a much
- 41:46better spot, right. And it's just I don't know, it's so disappointing
- 41:52because I get it. Mistakes happen. And you know, I watched a
- 41:53couple of games online over the over the weekend and there was another game where,
- 41:59you know, one of the things that's that's that's really hard about this,
- 42:01Tyler. So many of these broadcasts now are so good that they have
- 42:07replay, right, yeah, And so when they when an official makes a
- 42:12call, and then I get to watch the replay, I'm going, Homie,
- 42:15I don't know what you were looking at, but that is not holding
- 42:19on that guy, you know. And and especially at the four A level,
- 42:22there's a lot of really good broadcasts. And then there's a lot of
- 42:25referees are miked up at the four A level, yep. And when they
- 42:29are they'll say what number it is, yeah, so we know exactly who
- 42:32they're looking at, and then boom, I got to watch the replay,
- 42:35and I'm like, Nope, that was not a good call. And I
- 42:38get it. These guys make mistakes, and I don't want to complain about
- 42:42it because I know that there's a shortage of officials and I know a lot
- 42:44of people are gonna say, you know, don't have it lead up to
- 42:46that. Oh, And I completely agree. I completely agree to I fully
- 42:52agree with that. And I'm always one of those people that I look at
- 42:53it and I go, you know what, Lindon maybe rush for more than
- 42:57seventy nine yards on twenty six carries, and you know what I mean,
- 43:00I am that guy. But the fact of the matter is, in a
- 43:04crucial moment right there, that referee watched a guy run off the field,
- 43:07which, by the way, I think it should have been a legal substitution
- 43:10because of the time that he came on, because they had twelve men on
- 43:14the field for multiple seconds as Linden was at the line. I mean,
- 43:20like they're ready to go, you know, And I don't know. It's
- 43:22really frustrating when I see something like that and I don't care who it is,
- 43:27Like, I don't care that it's Linden and I'm sitting here doing a
- 43:29podcast in Wakham County. If it was the other way around, I would
- 43:32be more than happy to say it was bad for the other team, you
- 43:35know what I mean, I totally, I totally can back you up on
- 43:38that. Yes, Raydan Spencer would call it the way he sees it,
- 43:43Yeah, for sure. Yeah. I mean, if I'm being completely honest,
- 43:46that's kind of how I've gotten to where I am in life and also
- 43:49why I've only gotten to where I am in life. Right. Yeah.
- 43:52That being said, the bits and pieces that I watched, Tyler, it
- 43:57was a phenomenal game. I mean, it really wasn't you know. The
- 44:00the ending is not obviously what we like here on this podcast, but you
- 44:05know, overtime was was was tough. I mean, you know, you
- 44:09know, it's it's something that you look back at and you go, Linden's
- 44:14going to learn from this, you know what I mean, They're going to
- 44:16learn from this. And there's Tyler. This is what's crazy is in a
- 44:21in a couple of in a couple of weeks here we're going to do a
- 44:23Linden you know, saying goodbye to the seniors. And it's gonna be the
- 44:28second year in a row where we talk about like half the population of the
- 44:30city, right, but there's still so much young talent on this team.
- 44:36M hm. And Brent Hepner is going to be back. I mean,
- 44:39my goodness, Tyler, Katie Bohler, Max Ossink, you know, Isaiah
- 44:44Audman. Well, I mean, let's just look at it, Tyler.
- 44:46They're going to return their top their top two leading rushers from this game.
- 44:50They're leading passer from this game, a guy that caught five balls for a
- 44:54buck seventy one and two touchdowns. H I mean they returned some serious firepower.
- 45:01Yeah. And actually, yeah, that doesn't even include Outman right.
- 45:04Yeah, he didn't even catch a pass in this game, right, you
- 45:07know, I'm sure he caught the opposing quarterback pretty well. Yeah he did.
- 45:12Well. I don't even think he caught him. I think he just
- 45:14plowed him over. I mean, you know, you know what it looked
- 45:16like. It looked like like when they're like clearing brush, you know,
- 45:21and so they've got like a big tractor that comes in and just like takes
- 45:23out a small tree like man boom. When you sent me that, I
- 45:29was like, I was like, oh, I thought you were sending me
- 45:30the time out or the twelve men on the field, and so I bring
- 45:34it up and I'm like, oh, this isn't it? What is this?
- 45:37And I watched it and I was like, well, hold is it
- 45:38good? Here? I got to spin it sideway so I can look at
- 45:40this better, and I went yeah, oh my goodness. And I watched
- 45:44it about four times and it was just like good Lord, Like that is
- 45:47an unbelievable hit man. Yeah. So, I mean the future is obviously
- 45:53Brighton Lindon thirty four to twenty eight lost not you know, not the way
- 45:59you wanted it to end. But you know what, good on North Kids
- 46:02APP. You know, two years in a row, Lyndon beats him.
- 46:06Now North KIDSAP gets a little bit of revenge. Now they move on and
- 46:09they will play tomb Water in a game that should be I mean, I
- 46:14think that's gonna be a phenomenal game. Tom Water is playing as good as
- 46:15anybody in the state right now, regardless of classification. I mean, they're
- 46:20absolutely pummeling some people. And the team that they beat over the weekend,
- 46:23Clarkston, that's the team that's been playing pretty dang well too, so for
- 46:27them to for them to do what they did was was pretty impressive. But
- 46:30they got him pretty good. Yeah, yeah, they got him real good.
- 46:32Now, granted, that's a heck of a drive to come over for
- 46:37clark And actually, did you happen to see who was there? No,
- 46:42Jean sent Kowski was there. Oh right, apparently that's the family and Clarkston
- 46:45family plays for Clarkston. That's right. I did see that, and I
- 46:49noticed. I didn't see exactly who or who it was or anything, but
- 46:52I did see that he said, and it's not a kicker. I was
- 46:54like, oh wow, really they make those in the san Kowski family,
- 46:58Like, although I guess maybe it's not necessarily Sinkowski, could be, could
- 47:01be the other side. His last name wasn't sant Kowski. I saw the
- 47:04name, but oh, okay, Sankoski. So yeah, yeah, I
- 47:07mean it's kind of wild. Sometimes they don't all kick a ball. Yeah,
- 47:10although maybe this guy does two. Maybe he's just not primary kicker.
- 47:14Maybe he'll be the kicker next year. Yeah, who knows, I don't
- 47:16know, but yeah, anyway, thirty four to twenty eight North kickstap over
- 47:20Lyndon Brent Heppner twelve carries thirty five yards. He also completes fifteen or twenty
- 47:27five passes. Three hundred and thirty six yards, three touchdowns right, one
- 47:32two three touchdowns through the air, and one on the ground, Yes,
- 47:35one on the ground? Did forget that one too? Yeah, I mean
- 47:40let's see here, Elsner six catches. First off? I feel like maybe
- 47:45I'm wrong here, Well, hold on, First off, he had six
- 47:47catches for a buck twenty six Bowler five catches for a buck seventy one Tyler.
- 47:52Is that the first time in a little bit that they've had two receivers
- 47:55go over one hundred yards at Lindon? Yeah? Definitely. Yeah. I
- 47:59mean I feel like it happened quite often and it hasn't happened in a little
- 48:02while maybe. Yeah, Oh yeah, nine, ten, eleven years ago,
- 48:07it was pretty regular. Ye see, Zach VISs and Johnny Phelps or
- 48:09John Phelps and Scooter Hastings or Scooter Hastings and Jordan Whittenberg or whatever. I
- 48:15mean, you always had a company. You just to like eight guys that
- 48:16are like over six five ye and Jordan that's right and Jordan whit Yeah,
- 48:22that's just that's just the way that it used to be. Yeah, But
- 48:25they were finding success with the deep ball and and they had some big,
- 48:30big plays that way. Yeah, they did. I mean, I'm excited
- 48:35for the future of this team because I tell you what, Man, I
- 48:37just I really like that Bowler. I just do. I like that kid
- 48:40a lot man. Yeah. And obviously Brent Hepner. I mean, I
- 48:45feel like we've been talking about him for a decade already and still got another
- 48:47year left of him. You know what's funny is you and I say something
- 48:51like that, and the other coaches in the in the league, you're going,
- 48:53yeah, yeah, got it, thanks for right exactly. You know,
- 48:58I'll tell you. I'll tell you this too. There's a couple things
- 49:00that kind of stand out about the team and about this game. Yea,
- 49:02and back when I was at a volleyball game at London and this was still
- 49:08a league game. This was against Burlington. Both teams were undefeated at that
- 49:12point in conference. Is a huge game, and one of the assistants for
- 49:15Linden, no it was not Whitman, came over to me and shook my
- 49:20hand and said, you know, hey, Tyler, how's it going.
- 49:22I said good, And you know, they were still I think this was
- 49:28like leading up to maybe the Anacordus game or something like that, and I
- 49:31said you know, Hey, I your team has been a lot of fun
- 49:37this year. And I could imagine how fun it is to coach because so
- 49:39many of these guys are like kind of newer to the varsity game. You
- 49:44know, you talk about the last two years winning the state title. It's
- 49:45kind of been the same group both years, and so there's so many guys
- 49:50and he just kind of shook his head and he goes, he goes,
- 49:52We're not last year's team. I said, I know, I go,
- 49:55I go. But I think that's what kind of makes it fun for as
- 49:59a co which is that you get this new crop that you're you're you're learning
- 50:02that you have to relearn. You know, you're you're teaching these two new
- 50:07kids. And and he goes, it is fun. It's a lot of
- 50:09fun. And and I I could tell that he kind of knew that it's
- 50:14not last year's team, but it's still so much fun because these kids wanted
- 50:19it so bad. And the thing about the game, Uh, since I've
- 50:24been doing like covering every game of every week and putting it on Walking Preps,
- 50:30which has been you know, five years or so, I don't recall
- 50:34an overtime game. And I would remember that because that you have to do
- 50:37the box score a little differently. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
- 50:39You're talking overtime at all at all? Yeah, no, way, Yeah,
- 50:45I don't think there's been an over I don't think there's been an any
- 50:46game game for a Walking County team in years. And I mean I'd have
- 50:52to research it, but I just can't recall their one being one at least
- 50:57in five years. You're gonna have to research that. I mean, yeah,
- 51:00I don't think you can do it right now because that's probably no no,
- 51:01no, no, no, I cannot, but yeah, because yeah,
- 51:06I mean that's actually incredible because now that I'm thinking about it, like
- 51:08I don't really remember us talking about, yeah, an overtime game, Like
- 51:13I don't remember it at least. Yeah. I mean we saw Kansas tiebreakers.
- 51:16I mean they kind of have that same feel. And it was funny
- 51:19because Michaela was at the game. She made the track. She was down
- 51:22there. I could see her on the sideline and I'm watching the live YouTube
- 51:24feed and she texted me like, you know, three minutes to go in
- 51:30the game, and she goes, what's the rules for overtime? She's never
- 51:36seen it. She's never seen an overtime game, so I you know,
- 51:38and I was kind of trying to hurry it up and texted to her because
- 51:40I know she's busy and cause she's taking notes and taking pictures and you know,
- 51:45writing stuff down. Yeah, and I and I just said, each
- 51:50team gets a chance from them from the twenty five. And you know,
- 51:53if one team scores a touchdown the other one does it, it's over.
- 51:57You know, if one team kicks a field goal the other one doesn't,
- 51:59it's over. One team to fuel and the other one kicks because there's a
- 52:00touchdown, then then they win. And if they both score a touchdown and
- 52:05make the extra point, you go, you do it again. And after
- 52:07two you know, I'm trying to explain it all, like after two possessions,
- 52:10you have to go for two and and uh but man, uh yeah,
- 52:15so it was it was crazy. You know. I think Lindon won
- 52:20the toss. And I think as a coach, you want the second possession
- 52:23in overtime. Is that kind of the overall feeling, I think if you
- 52:29want to because you want to know what you need to do. Yeah,
- 52:30I mean I think that there's I think that there's kind of two philosophies on
- 52:36it, you know, like, yeah, the aggressive mindset is, let's
- 52:38get the ball first, go down, score, put the pressure on them.
- 52:40Sure, I think most coaches would rather possess the ball second, so
- 52:46that you know what's going on. I mean, I think it's I think
- 52:50it's a little bit similar to I think it's a little bit similar to like
- 52:54winning the coin toss to start the game too, right, Like some people
- 52:58would rather like put their defense out, or some people might rather go on
- 53:00offense first. I mean, I think I think myself, I would one
- 53:06hundred percent. I don't think like if you said to me, hey,
- 53:12you win the coin toss, what do you want. I don't think it's
- 53:14given for me. I think it's whatever I'm most confident in at that moment
- 53:19a moment. Yeah, So if if we've just been running the rock and
- 53:22we've been you know, just going away and we are making that comeback,
- 53:25I want the ball first because I want to continue that momentum that we have.
- 53:30Whereas if we are you know, maybe on our heels a little bit,
- 53:35you know that, Okay, Well, maybe I want to go on
- 53:37offense first because I want I want to try to change the momentum a little
- 53:42bit or you know, so, I think it's a little bit of of
- 53:45a feel for the game. I think most coaches probably haven't set what they
- 53:47want. I mean that being said, I mean myself, I would.
- 53:52I would one hundred percent. I guess play it by year, you know
- 53:54what I mean? And hey, tell, I would look at our coaching
- 53:58staff and go, hey, what do we want to do here? Yep,
- 54:00what do you want to do? I know what. I know that
- 54:02I want to go on offense because I feel like we have the momentum offensively
- 54:06right now. But what do you guys want to do? You know?
- 54:07Because what happens if you know, I mean you and I've talked about it
- 54:12before. Was it Nooksack Value Meridian? Yeah, they went down to Sidro,
- 54:16Yeah, and they it was like four plays and the whole thing was
- 54:19done. Yeah, you know what I mean. And like I've seen that
- 54:22happen many times before. Yeah, where you know, a game gets to
- 54:25overtime and actually, you know what, Tyler, I think I might have
- 54:30talked about this one on the on podcast here before I went and saw le
- 54:32Connor and Coopville one year. This was during the COVID spring season. Yep.
- 54:37And it was zero zero going into overtime. Right on the first play,
- 54:42yeah, le Connor fumbles and Coopville picks it up. And then on
- 54:45the first play for Coupville, they run it down to the one and then
- 54:49pounded it in. They actually ran like sprinted up to the line down to
- 54:52the one from the twenty five and then just boom, pounded it right in.
- 54:54And it was like, well that went fast. I mean it was
- 54:58like three plays in a matter of like two and a half minutes and we
- 55:01and we were done. And I don't think an I don't think either team
- 55:04had been inside the twenty all game. I mean it was crazy, like
- 55:07I don't if if you put a clock on, like not time of possession,
- 55:13but like possession in the in the other team's half. M hm.
- 55:17I don't know that either team would have been over like about two minutes total
- 55:22in that game. And then somehow in overtime it was like boom, boom
- 55:24boom, game over, you know. And I mean, I'll just say
- 55:29I truly believe that Coupville, I don't know that they had a ton of
- 55:31momnum. But when they fumbled the when Lea Connor fumbled the ball and Goupville
- 55:37got it. Couville or le Connor was instantly on their heels, you know.
- 55:42So I don't know what I would do there, you know. I
- 55:44mean I think that whichever one I felt most confident is what I would want.
- 55:47Yeah, you know, at the same time, you got to hope
- 55:50that you win the win the toss. Yeah, I would rather be the
- 55:53one making the decision. Let's say that. I would much rather be that
- 55:57one. Although then again, then you make the decision, you end up
- 55:59being wrong and then you're out of yourself. Yeah, it's just it's just
- 56:04weird, you know, with Linden not playing anymore, and uh, you
- 56:09know, but that's just the way it goes sometimes. And it at least
- 56:13there's still a walking County team playing, so we get to keep talking about
- 56:15it. I mean, I feel like we'd keep talking anyway. But Tyler,
- 56:20how about uh do we learn anything? Did you did you learn anything
- 56:22from uh from this one? Well? That twelve equals eleven? Yeah,
- 56:31that a band doesn't have to have a seat, they get a stand on
- 56:34the side. And yeah, I mean I've I you know what I remember
- 56:37marching through Levenworth marching through Spokane, marching through Disneyland, marching through Victoria like
- 56:44miles and playing so you know, you could be on your feet and play
- 56:46a little bit. Yeah, the same. Yeah, it's yeah, yeah,
- 56:52I know. And Linden's got a seven to ten band. Man.
- 56:53They do, Yes, they do, They absolutely do. And they they
- 56:57talked about that, like those tiny stands, those were packed. They were
- 57:00going to try to make it feel like a home home game, you know,
- 57:04and they they always do travel well, and yeah, they travel.
- 57:07First off, Linden travels incredibly well. Second off, that's not an easy
- 57:12game for people to get to. Yeah, you know, I can't imagine
- 57:15anybody drove all the way around because I don't know why you would. But
- 57:19when you add in a ferry ride to anything, yeah, it's gonna be
- 57:22tricky. Yeah, it's not easy. I mean it's not easy. It
- 57:24comes. It turns into a whole day, is what it does. Yeah,
- 57:27yeah, you know, it's not just a down and bag, it's
- 57:29not. No, it's a whole day. I mean, I don't know
- 57:31what time people left, but for a three pm game, I mean they
- 57:35had to have left, you know, fairly early. And then game gets
- 57:37over. You know, I don't know what five thirty, six o'clock or
- 57:40something. I mean, I guess it ended while I was driving to the
- 57:46hockey game that I was going to, and I think I left it like
- 57:50five thirty. So yeah, I mean, let's just say, you know,
- 57:52let's just say about six o'clock. And then you know how it is
- 57:54with the Linden people, they all go stand on the field and talk to
- 57:58each other and hug everybody and take pictures and do all that. I'm sure
- 58:00they did all that. I mean, I don't blame them. I would
- 58:02to you drove all that way, you might as well, right, and
- 58:05then turn around, get on a ferry and go home. That's a full
- 58:09day. Yeah, that's a full day. I mean, I mean,
- 58:10that's that's one of those ones. Tyler. Again, I've said this before
- 58:14in the podcast. If you're going to rob a house in Linden, that
- 58:15was probably the day to do it because there wasn't a whole lot of people
- 58:19in Linden. They were all they were all over there in Polsbo, which
- 58:22is and I saw it on the I saw on the on the broadcast with
- 58:24a little bit that I got to watch there, and you know, the
- 58:27stands were packed. There was people two three deep around the fence at certain
- 58:30places. I mean, you know, that's that's how that fan base rolls.
- 58:34I mean, that's that's what they do. They I'll say this,
- 58:37and it's not just even a Linden thing specifically, that's a that's a Walkham
- 58:40County thing, man, Like that's yeah, it's pretty cool to see.
- 58:44As as I've gotten to know more and more and and see more and more
- 58:46with Walkham County, it's I'll say, the the fan bases up there doing
- 58:51a tremendous job. And I know the players and everybody very blessed because,
- 58:54trust me, I've I've seen some seen I've seen some place. Let me
- 58:58put you this way. You want you want one, Tyler, I'll give
- 59:00you one. Who is one of the most successful programs. Like when you
- 59:04think of winning state championships in the last twenty years, Bellevue, right,
- 59:10yeah, Bellevue, Yeah, the first one that pop in my mind.
- 59:13Yeah. They have some of the worst fan support. And I'm not even
- 59:17kidding you, man. And I love the I love the player, the
- 59:21coaches, They're phenomenal over there. They their fan support is absolutely brutal.
- 59:27I remember going to a game there in like two thousand and nine or ten,
- 59:30somewhere right around there. Boffel was playing them. And I've told you
- 59:35before this is even before I was obviously a part of Boffel. Baffle travels
- 59:39incredibly well. And they had way more fans at a Bellevue game at Bellevue
- 59:45High School than Bellevue did. And I mean I'm talking like thirty percent more
- 59:51like a lot, you know. And and when I look at Wackham County,
- 59:55I mean they travel like they do. I couldn't believe how many Blaine
- 59:59fans were down in Kirkland for that one game. Yeah. There's a lot
- 1:00:01of Blaine fans at that game, man, Yeah, yeah, you know.
- 1:00:05And Blaine's a one a program that's a small school. Yeah, you
- 1:00:07know, it's really cool to see. It's it's a it's a really you
- 1:00:12know. There's there's two different factors. I think one of them is gonna
- 1:00:15might start dying out a little bit. But like one of them is if
- 1:00:19you're if you're raised here, you rarely leave here, you know. And
- 1:00:22and then the Western Washington University tie in. You know, some back when
- 1:00:27there was a football programs stuck around. Yeah. Yeah, I mean you
- 1:00:31look at you somebody, you look at some of the players around you think
- 1:00:35of the Hatchets, the walk you know Walk, Connor, Walker and Gatterman.
- 1:00:39Their dads did not grow up here. They played at Western Yea and
- 1:00:44they stayed here and they and they made it their home and then they they
- 1:00:47produced these awesome football players. So that might start dying off a little bit
- 1:00:52with the no more Western football, but right now we're in this great pocket
- 1:00:57of parents that you know, did that, and then plus with the you
- 1:01:00know, the generations of you know, players and stuff like that. So
- 1:01:04it's a good it's a really good timing right now. And and uh,
- 1:01:07there's just a rich history. And you know, ten years ago, ten
- 1:01:12and a half years ago, when I started that history of Walkin County High
- 1:01:14School football page, I thought it was gonna have like fifty followers and it's
- 1:01:17just kind of something fun that maybe a few ex players would like. And
- 1:01:22I had no clue how big it really was. And and I learned a
- 1:01:25lot from that, so I guess so that's what I've learned over the last
- 1:01:29ten years. But it's it's it is special and with no like really local
- 1:01:37college or high school teams. There's that's that's what's big. You know,
- 1:01:45both games were on the radio, you know, both Like there's not a
- 1:01:47lot of radio broadcasts anymore of high school football around the state. But like
- 1:01:52even even in like I don't care where you're at, like as far as
- 1:01:55a true radio broadcast, yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna lie,
- 1:01:59Tyler. I can't even actually think of another one off the top of my
- 1:02:00head. No. I guess West Coast Karako has their game of the week,
- 1:02:07yeah they do. But other than that, yeah, there's nobody that
- 1:02:08I can think of. Well, and that's what was impressive with that first
- 1:02:12round of football. You know, they had those three different games kind of
- 1:02:15kind of staggered on Friday. Yeah, they had three different they were radio
- 1:02:20all three of them. Wow. And they and they made sure they had
- 1:02:22two two man crew at each of those games and they made it work,
- 1:02:25and you know, they brought people in to do them. But it's important,
- 1:02:30you know, it's it's just it's there's still something about it up in
- 1:02:32Walkome County. So you know, I'm in a I'm in a nice spot,
- 1:02:37you know, to do what I do. It's it's it makes a
- 1:02:39lot easier. You know, I could be somewhere else where no one cares,
- 1:02:43and I'm just fledgling trying to get people to be excited about it.
- 1:02:47But I don't have to do a whole lot for people to get excited.
- 1:02:50People are already excited, which makes my job a lot funner. Yeah,
- 1:02:52you know, the two places I think that are most like that are in
- 1:02:58the exact same place along I five, but at opposite ends of it,
- 1:03:04Park County down there. They are absolutely NHS for football, and like you
- 1:03:07are, like the Paul Valencia, right, Paul knows everything there is.
- 1:03:10And note now granted you're a different type of it, like Paul also does
- 1:03:15news media stuff, so he's not you know, sitting there doing stats,
- 1:03:19but he's a total geek for that area in high school sports in general,
- 1:03:22but especially football, you know, just like you are. And so it's
- 1:03:25yeah, it's pretty cool. And you know, I've had a lot of
- 1:03:29fun adding whatever it is I can add. You know what I mean,
- 1:03:31You know what I think of myself more than anything, Tyler M. I'm
- 1:03:36just always pushing you to do stupid stuff, you know what I mean.
- 1:03:39I'm always trying to push you to do something different just to have more fun
- 1:03:43with things. And for whatever reason, we get really lucky with a lot
- 1:03:46of things and they turn out to be really really good, you know what
- 1:03:50I mean. And one of those things is talking about the seniors, and
- 1:03:52we're gonna do that here starting you know, I guess we got to wait
- 1:03:57to see what Nookzac Valley does, you know what I mean. We still
- 1:04:00got potentially two weeks left and then we'll start on the seniors. And then
- 1:04:03we've got you know, the the top one hundred, and we've got what's
- 1:04:08it called awards awards? Yeah, And I have a few new awards I
- 1:04:14have. I'm gonna have best Band, I'm gonna have best Cheerleaders, like
- 1:04:17best Group, like which school? Yeah, and I have PA Announcer of
- 1:04:21the Year, Tyler, I got one for you. What's that? And
- 1:04:27I think this is something that we should try to do here. I think
- 1:04:30what you need to do. I think you need to reach out to all
- 1:04:32of the head coaches. Oh boy, I know you don't like doing that.
- 1:04:36Uh Oh, Official of the Year. That's a good one too.
- 1:04:42I'm having that one by the Yeah. I think you need to reach out
- 1:04:44to all the head coaches though, and have them each nominate one guy for
- 1:04:47like a scholastic player of the year. And what the idea is, It's
- 1:04:54not just academics, it's somebody who excelled both on the field and in the
- 1:04:57classroom. Yeah, so it's like, coach, this is what I need.
- 1:05:01I need, you know, like, what are there what's their GPA?
- 1:05:05And are they you know, taking just regular classes? Do they have
- 1:05:09five PE classes? You know what I mean? Or you know, are
- 1:05:12they taking some ap courses? Right? And then what do they do on
- 1:05:15the field. Well, I guess you know what they did on the field,
- 1:05:17but they needed they need to take what they did on the field into
- 1:05:21consideration also, right, I think I think if you reach out and you
- 1:05:25get one from each school and then either we you and I vote on it,
- 1:05:30you know what I mean, and like pick one. Maybe we could
- 1:05:32put that out to a fan vote. I don't know, Yeah, I
- 1:05:34mean, I guess, I don't know. I don't know. We'll figure
- 1:05:38it out that I think that's something you need to do though. Yeah,
- 1:05:40that's a good idea. At the end of the day, student athlete,
- 1:05:42not athlete student, right, that's right, Yeah, they're student athletes.
- 1:05:45They're not athletic students. Yes, well, I mean technically they are.
- 1:05:48Yeah. Yeah, that being said, I mean I wasn't, that's for
- 1:05:51sure. I don't know about you, Tyler, but I know I wasn't.
- 1:05:59Yeah. Anyway, North kidsapp defeats Lynden. So the Lions season is
- 1:06:02over, which leaves us with just Knuksack Valley. What that means is we
- 1:06:08still get to do a preview podcast that'll come out here in a couple of
- 1:06:11days. Actually, the way, we haven't lined up right now, Tyler,
- 1:06:14you and I are going to record Wednesday, right, yeah, yes,
- 1:06:18and then that'll go up like Wednesday night or actually we'll probably put it
- 1:06:24up eight am thursdays. What we'll do. Yeah, So, anybody that's
- 1:06:27driving to Grandma's house or wherever they're going, you want to hear about the
- 1:06:30Knucksack Valley lakeside of nine Mile Falls. By the way, both teams do
- 1:06:36have a common opponent, oddly enough, lynnon Christian and actually technically they both
- 1:06:43beat them the last time they played them. But yeah, so we will
- 1:06:46talk about that on the preview podcast. But yeah, that's that, Tyler.
- 1:06:51What else we got here? Let's see Pickham's well, we all went
- 1:06:56one on one. Yeah, oh, you know what stinks. I'm gonna
- 1:07:03have to either get really lucky to win this thing. I mean, what
- 1:07:08I have to have is I have to have Nate pick Lakeside this week,
- 1:07:12right, and then I have to pick Nooksack, and then I got to
- 1:07:14pick opposite of Nate in the final, right, right, I guess I
- 1:07:17could tie him. Well, we got to come up with a We got
- 1:07:19to come up with like a tiebreaker, tiebreaker. Yeah, we're gonna have
- 1:07:25to Eric, Eric, Trent and I tied last year. Did we have
- 1:07:28a tiebreaker? No? Okay, well I can't tie anything. I just
- 1:07:32can't do that, not even your shoes. No, that's why you wear
- 1:07:35a velcro, right, Okay, first off, I don't. I don't
- 1:07:39wear a velcro. I tie at one time, or maybe I have the
- 1:07:42guy at the store do it and then I just slide him on and off.
- 1:07:44Okay, that being said, Yeah, we all went one and one,
- 1:07:47which now the beauty of everybody going one on one, Tyler, Yeah,
- 1:07:51that means you're still in last place. Nate's in first place sixty and
- 1:07:56twenty three. I'm in second place fifty nine and twenty four Connor and the
- 1:08:00guests fifty eight and twenty five. By the way, Michael Lodell, he
- 1:08:04had a good time. I'm sure he listened to it. By the way,
- 1:08:09I noticed that he likes like everything you post too. Well, why
- 1:08:13wouldn't he, I mean, even the volleyball stuff. This guy's all about
- 1:08:15Walkham County. He's only human. Yeah, yeah, I mean you know
- 1:08:18what, I'd be willing to bet he's in there all the all the time,
- 1:08:20pushing to get South would be into that conference just so that we can
- 1:08:25talk about him and South would be more on the podcast. It's the possibility.
- 1:08:29Yeah, I mean, he's probably over there trying to bribe the ad.
- 1:08:31Hey, just make it happen, guy or girl. I don't even
- 1:08:34know who their eighty is. Yeah, no idea. And then, yeah,
- 1:08:38Tyler, you're bringing up the rear fifty four and twenty nine. At
- 1:08:41this point, you're just trying to avoid thirty losses. That's what you're doing.
- 1:08:45I'm trying Players of the Week, Tyler, Let's get into that.
- 1:08:51Uh so Zaz and Salon Spa. They sponsored the offensive Player of the Week.
- 1:08:55You can find them at eleven bell weather Way in Bellingham. Three six
- 1:09:00zero seven to one five one zero five zero Tyler who is the zazz in
- 1:09:04the salon SPA Offensive Player of the Week. Well, there was again huge
- 1:09:09performances, but it's really hard to not see what Caden Stite did at lynnon
- 1:09:14Christian uh nine catches for one hundred and thirty nine yards and a touchdown.
- 1:09:18Early. Uh. They he had a lot of guys on him, especially
- 1:09:24as the as the you know, the course of the game went on,
- 1:09:27you went to him short, intermediate, deep, It didn't matter. He
- 1:09:30was a big time threat. And you know, these scouts and these college
- 1:09:36coaches, I mean, they know they know far better than I about projecting
- 1:09:41and stuff like that. And when they offered, you know, Eastern Will
- 1:09:44offered him at tight end, I was just kind of like, man,
- 1:09:46he's such a good linebacker. And then as the seat obviously he's a great
- 1:09:49high school linebacker. But you see these things with him fluidly catching the ball
- 1:09:56and running and his blocking ability and stuff, and you go, oh,
- 1:10:01you know, and you really start to notice and it makes sense. You
- 1:10:06know, he's he's a he's a different player. And so had a big
- 1:10:12game. I know it wasn't a loss, but uh, but Cayden stite
- 1:10:15Night catches one hundred and thirty nine yards one touchdown. He is your Zaz
- 1:10:17and Salon Spat Offensive Player of the Week. Defensive Player of the Week is
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- 1:10:25Mal three six zero six seven one sixteen twenty seven Tyler who is the Max
- 1:10:30Hair Studio Defensive Player of the Week. Again, this was a tough one.
- 1:10:34But then when I looked at all the numbers and everything, again,
- 1:10:39in a loss, which is it does doesn't happen very often. But Charlie
- 1:10:44Ayres was lights out. And I don't know if I've met a kid that
- 1:10:47loves playing for his high school more. I just you know, like,
- 1:10:54you know, he would be more thrilled doing this than playing for in the
- 1:10:58NFL. He'd be you know, he just bleeds green and yellow, green
- 1:11:00and gold. And he was all over the field from the first play.
- 1:11:06First play, boom, huge hit, made a tackle, and it just
- 1:11:11it never ended. I had him for eleven solo tackles and ten assisted tackles,
- 1:11:17which I give I gave a half a point per assisted tackle, so
- 1:11:20it ends up a sixteen total tackles, two and a half tackles for loss.
- 1:11:25He had a quarterback sack, he broke up a pass, and he
- 1:11:28intercepted a pass. He was just I mean, my opinion of him was
- 1:11:34already incredibly high, and it just, you know, I just shake my
- 1:11:41head watched him, just going, my goodness, what a player and he
- 1:11:45left it all on the field and and he earned and it's crazy because it's
- 1:11:50you know, it's full circle. He was the Week one defensive Player of
- 1:11:55the Week in a loss. Yeah, and that's a kid that doesn't give
- 1:12:00up and will do anything to help his team win. And uh, what
- 1:12:04a great season, what a great week for for Charlie Airs, senior linebacker.
- 1:12:10He is your Max Hair Studio Defensive Player of the Week. Special Teams
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- 1:12:24Tyler who is the pets real Estate Special Teams Player of the Week. It
- 1:12:28is the Nuksack Valley Senior kicker once again, Jorgan Vigory. You know I
- 1:12:32it was crazy because his first extra point attempt of the game was blocked.
- 1:12:39That's the first kick he's had blocked all year. Wow. And he's had
- 1:12:42a lot of attempts, yeah, yeah, and a lot of attempt yes.
- 1:12:47And he also got injured on that play, and and there was a
- 1:12:54and there was so and there was a flag. But then they picked the
- 1:13:00leg up and before they did that, they were going to move up half
- 1:13:02the distance and go for two. And maybe because it was half the distance,
- 1:13:08but I think it was because he couldn't kick again. And I was
- 1:13:10worried because he was on the sidelines, he was on the table. I
- 1:13:13did and I was like, and he didn't kick off after that? Well,
- 1:13:17he did a few times, but then the second half he did.
- 1:13:19I don't think he kicked off in the second half. I think Landon Stafford
- 1:13:23kicked off in the second half. And I thought, oh, oh,
- 1:13:25because that's a big weapon. You know, this game could be really close,
- 1:13:29and he is a difference maker. And he gutted it out when he
- 1:13:33came out there to kick to attempt the thirty yard field goals. Shortly after
- 1:13:36that, I said, oh, oh, he's gonna he's gonna give it
- 1:13:40a try and he nailed that one, and then he went after. He
- 1:13:43went after every extra point after that made them all. Made a thirty six
- 1:13:46yard field goal in the third quarter that would have been good from forty six
- 1:13:50easily, And he really showed me something that he gutted it out. He
- 1:13:57practices over and over again. There he's so consistent with his kicks. Second
- 1:14:01week in a row with eleven kicking points, so he's already scored twenty two
- 1:14:04points in the state playoffs himself. Wow. And and you know he's really
- 1:14:11you know, coming into the season, I was like, you know him,
- 1:14:13Grady Evans and Malachi Canan. I kind of had them all graded about
- 1:14:16the same. But he really has separated himself this year. He's over one
- 1:14:21hundred kicking points in his career. He's knocking on the door of a lot
- 1:14:26of I mean, he's broken all the school records, but he's he's up
- 1:14:29there now with Walkham County stuff. Just he's really had a breakout year and
- 1:14:34another big, big game for Boom Boom Bigger. He's your Pet's Real Estate
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- 1:14:58his team an extraordin advantage for your company. Tyler, who is the Bell
- 1:15:01Anderson Insurance offensive lineman of the week? Well, I had to go with
- 1:15:06John Strummler, the right guard from Nuksack Valley. But in the second half,
- 1:15:11he wasn't playing a ton of right guard. He was carrying the ball
- 1:15:15a little bit, four carries for sixty yards and and running down hill.
- 1:15:23He's he looks like a running back with the ball, and that's you know,
- 1:15:25that was the big thing with him moving, you know, on the
- 1:15:28defensive side of the ball from defensive end to inside linebacker. You know.
- 1:15:31I was asking some of the Nooksack coaches over the summer about that, and
- 1:15:34they said, you know, he's you know, we needed to fill that
- 1:15:38spot, and we have a lot We have two really good defensive ends,
- 1:15:44you know, with Brady Ackerman and Dalton Dalton Hickey. We you know,
- 1:15:47we could afford to move him back there. And you know, what.
- 1:15:49He's fast enough to cover ground, and they're right, he's he has got
- 1:15:54some wheels. I mean I would I would guess he's under five second forty
- 1:16:00and at two hundred and fifty five pounds and nasty. He gets after it
- 1:16:04when he plays offensive line, but he deserves some carries. I mean he
- 1:16:10and man when he lead blocks. My goodness, gracious from the fullback spot.
- 1:16:14So he did a little bit of everything for Nick sec Valley. So
- 1:16:17John Stremler, the senior right guard, is your Bell Anderson Insurance offensive linement
- 1:16:21of the Week. Zazen Salon's Bomb Max Hair Studio, Pets Real Estate,
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- 1:16:36school sports in Walkcom County, be sure to reach out to Tyler. You
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- 1:16:44just send a direct message or email him mister Underscore Mohawk at hotmail dot com
- 1:16:48and he'll get just squared away. Tyler, We've got fantasy football to talk
- 1:16:53about here, and then we're done that. Being said, yeah you won,
- 1:16:57let's move on, Tyler. You actually got me good this week.
- 1:17:00You got me by what about fifty five points? Yeah, it's crazy.
- 1:17:06I mean, I mean, I it's it's been so long since I beat
- 1:17:12you. I I it's just I just don't remember what it's like. I
- 1:17:15mean, teams weren't even playing league games at that point, especially in the
- 1:17:19one A. But it was weird because I was usually what happens is I
- 1:17:24go, I go to a game on Friday night, and I have no
- 1:17:26recollection of who I picked. I'm so zoom I'm so zoomed into the game.
- 1:17:30And it was really funny because about I don't know, it was right
- 1:17:33around halftime, it might have even been in the third quarter. Michayla came
- 1:17:39up to me and she goes, didn't you take knook Sack's offense but Lennon
- 1:17:44Christian's defense, or knocks like Thought's offensive line in Lenny Christian's defense. I
- 1:17:48said, yeah, I did, and uh, so loyal listener, so
- 1:17:53props for that. Yeah, and uh and she goes, well, it's
- 1:17:57going pretty good for Knocksack. They're scoring points, and you got those two
- 1:18:00interceptions right off the bat for Lindy Christian. She's like, that's looking pretty
- 1:18:03good. I said, you're right, it is, and uh, you
- 1:18:06know, and then I was realizing, yeah, I got Cayden Stide on
- 1:18:09both sides of the ball and you're tearing it up. And then you know,
- 1:18:12and Charlie Erres had the game of his life, and I'm like,
- 1:18:15man, my guys are really doing well. So yeah, just it was
- 1:18:18just one of those weeks. And Vigory too had a big game, so
- 1:18:23uh, it went, it went pretty well. So Tyler, I'm just
- 1:18:26doing a little math here if you consider that yesterday is when you know,
- 1:18:34it officially ended as far as the week for us in this and the last
- 1:18:40time you won was September twenty third, was the last date. It's been
- 1:18:45fifty six days since you won, Tyler, My goodness, great the month
- 1:18:48and twenty six days. It's also four million, eight hundred and thirty eight
- 1:18:55thousand, four hundred seconds eighty thousand, six d forty minutes felt that yeah,
- 1:19:01thirteen and forty four hours. Yeah, yeah, as many almost as
- 1:19:08many hours as I've worked. Yeah, it was actually, Tyler, get
- 1:19:11this fifteen point three, four percent of the entire year. I like that
- 1:19:16one. That's good. Yeah, that's like the uh like, that's that's
- 1:19:19one that's so ridiculous to even say. It's like the uh uh you remember
- 1:19:24the movie Little Big League, Yeah, where the kid ends up owning the
- 1:19:28Minnesota Twins. Twins. Yeah, he's and the announcer I can't think of
- 1:19:31his name, but he's the Minnesota Twins announcer and he says something like,
- 1:19:34oh, that guy leads the leads the league in doubles during day games outdoors
- 1:19:40north of the Mason Dixon line. Like you can find a staff for anything.
- 1:19:45That's That's one thing I like about doing stats is that if I really
- 1:19:48need to pigeonhole something, I can do it, which is why Tyler's got
- 1:19:53some nuggets. Man, he does. I've got nuggets, thanks coach.
- 1:19:57Okay, dynamite drop in coach. Yeah, the dynamite drop in money from
- 1:20:02a major league Yeah for major league brought Keller Man in the business for nothing.
- 1:20:08Yeah, that broadcasting school really paid off. Yeah, anyway, Tyler,
- 1:20:13for you. Jeremiah Wright twelve point four. I had Brent Hepner thirty
- 1:20:16four point nine. I was looking great, and then Colton Lentz twenty eight
- 1:20:19point one for you, Max Austlink three point three for me, Caden Stite
- 1:20:24twenty four point four for you, Dawson Bauma fourteen point one for me.
- 1:20:30Why does that one look so weird for some reason? Uh, Nooksack Valley
- 1:20:32got you forty seven on the offensive line, Linden got me forty one.
- 1:20:38Defensively Lynden Christian four for you, Lyndon nine for me. I would assume
- 1:20:43that was mostly interceptions, right, wasn't there three? Yeah? The three
- 1:20:45interceptions and then three sacks. Yeah, oh yes, Caden Site twenty four
- 1:20:51points for your front seven. You also had Charlie Ayers thirty eight points in
- 1:20:56your back seven. Yeah, my defense combined it didn't even get either of
- 1:21:01those. Trey Bosman six, Damian Perez eleven, Boom Boom eleven for you,
- 1:21:08Malachi Cannon four for me. See, That's why I'm so mad about
- 1:21:11that, about that that non caller. All right, Tyler, I wanted
- 1:21:14Malachi Cannon to kick kick that extra or kick that field goal to win it
- 1:21:17so I get some points out of it. I mean, it wouldn't have
- 1:21:19mattered unless it was like a sixty pointer. Tyler, tell me this.
- 1:21:25I meant to ask you this. You mentioned earlier, you mentioned Charlie a
- 1:21:28r stats sixteen tackles, two and a half tackles for lost, one sack,
- 1:21:31one interception, and a pass defended. On your little number scale,
- 1:21:34what does that come out to? Yeah, thirty eight. Okay, that's
- 1:21:38what I guess what we use there? Yes, yeah, I use it
- 1:21:41for the fantasy Yeah, and I mean that's an incredible number. That's gonna
- 1:21:45be one of the higher ones for the year. Yeah, it might be
- 1:21:47the highest one for the year. Usually, usually the top guy that wins
- 1:21:51the defensive Player of the Week is around twenty five to twenty eight usually,
- 1:21:57which is a really good game. Obviously you're the player of the week.
- 1:21:59He had thirty eight. I'm trying to think of what the highest ever was.
- 1:22:01I remember Jake Mason, you know, was there was over forty one
- 1:22:05week? Yes, didn't he have like three sacks or something and like a
- 1:22:11bunch of tackles for a loss or something. Yeah, and he forced a
- 1:22:14few fumbles probably and something, you know. Yeah, so he just lived
- 1:22:15in the backfield and he had a huge game. So there's been tome there's
- 1:22:20been moments like that. Getting over thirty is like tough, like, yeah,
- 1:22:26kind of rare, there's yoh, yeah, yeah, there's been a
- 1:22:29few games like I mean, I know Davin Beeson was close to twenty tackles
- 1:22:32in a game once. Going way back, I know Dan Burdon had for
- 1:22:39Blaine in the mid nineties. He had over twenty tackles in a game against
- 1:22:42Ridgefield and they but you know, you get the that team, they were
- 1:22:46very run heavy and he was the middle linebacker, so he's yeah, you
- 1:22:49know, he's getting a lot of opportunities. But but yeah, thirty eight
- 1:22:54points. I think that's the high for the season, so very very impressive.
- 1:22:59It's rare that you have double digits and solo tackles and assisted tackles and
- 1:23:02that's yeah, yeah, that's just a crazy like like when I'm doing it
- 1:23:05by hand, if I'm at a game doing it by hand, I don't
- 1:23:09really leave a lot of room for more than ten of anything. And uh,
- 1:23:13he would have. That would have just blown up my my little notepad
- 1:23:17if I was doing it by hand. Luckily, I was watching the game
- 1:23:19live and I'm just doing it right there. And then I watched the film
- 1:23:25afterwards to kind of see if there was anything that I missed or you know,
- 1:23:29and boy he was he was just all over the place. He was
- 1:23:31at a different speed Saturday. So, Tyler, you finished with one eighty
- 1:23:35eight point nine. I finished with one twenty three point three. Season standings
- 1:23:41are actually going to finish right here eight and four with only one team left.
- 1:23:45Tyler. It basically comes into you picking all Nooksack Valley guys and me
- 1:23:49picking all lakeside of nine Mile Falls guys. And I'm not gonna lie.
- 1:23:54It's not really much fun. So that's gonna be it for fantasy footballs for
- 1:23:57the year, which you know, I mean, I think I think we
- 1:24:01had a lot of fun doing it, and we got a couple of tweaks
- 1:24:04we're gonna try to make for next year that I think are gonna bring more
- 1:24:09athletes into it, and I think it'll be more fun. And who knows,
- 1:24:13maybe we even add a third person. I mean, I don't know,
- 1:24:15we'll see. Yeah, maybe we can get too, you know.
- 1:24:17Yeah, that'd be a lot of fun to have another person, just to
- 1:24:20get more just to make it a little harder, you know too. I
- 1:24:24mean, it already is tough sometimes when we pick. But you know,
- 1:24:28I go back to I love playing and I used to love playing in big
- 1:24:31fantasy leagues with like sixteen or eighteen teams, and then like you start to
- 1:24:35lose. I remember one week I had to pick up off the waiver wire
- 1:24:39Max Strong as a running back because there was nobody available. Yeah, just
- 1:24:43start looking for full backs that you just and just hope that they get in
- 1:24:45the end zone by week there's injuries. I love that. I would love
- 1:24:49to, you know, pick up a guy that no one's heard of and
- 1:24:51just have fun and for that week and and maybe he goes off. It's
- 1:24:56it's a lot of fun. You know. We've heard from players, Hey,
- 1:24:58thanks for picking me. I'll do my asked. It's fun, you
- 1:25:01know, and and and uh, hopefully we're gonna keep doing it. And
- 1:25:04like you said, make a few tweaks, do it and see how it
- 1:25:06goes next year. You know what we should have done, I mean,
- 1:25:10I guess we could maybe go back. The only good thing we have going
- 1:25:13for is because we don't really keep the stats on this right, the thing
- 1:25:17that we could do is is go back and listen to a couple of the
- 1:25:20podcasts where I say what the numbers are and write them all down again,
- 1:25:25what if we point scored, Well, what if we averaged, say the
- 1:25:29two quarterback scores, and that was Joe consensus his number for the week.
- 1:25:33Would he always beat us? You know what I mean? Because you'd have
- 1:25:35to win more categories, you know, like this week. I think you
- 1:25:40would have won on that. Yeah, you know, I don't know,
- 1:25:45I score. Yeah, Yeah, it'd be interesting. Yeah, it'd be
- 1:25:46interesting to see what that actually would do. I don't know. I mean,
- 1:25:49I got a couple of ideas of stuff we can do, and I
- 1:25:54think it'll be fun. I think I think we'll uh, I think we'll
- 1:25:56have some fun with again next year. And I also, I haven't even
- 1:26:00talked to you about this, but next year we're going to do a graphic
- 1:26:02for this also every week we can we can do it to where you get
- 1:26:06to see who is who? You know what I mean, because you get
- 1:26:09you know, you have the headshots of everybody, right and then for the
- 1:26:12offensive and line in for the defense. We can just put the team's logo
- 1:26:15in there. So why not. I think it'd be fun to see our
- 1:26:17teams each week. We need to have names too, like Ryland's Maler's you
- 1:26:23know what I mean? Yeah, like Tyler's twinkle tickets. Oh, Tyler's
- 1:26:29Nuggets. Yeah, I'll take a Denver Nuggets logo and make it say Tyler
- 1:26:34Awesome. Anything else we've got anything else? Tyler? I don't know.
- 1:26:40I don't think. So. How about this we talked about, you know,
- 1:26:43we've got the Top one hundred coming up. The Top fifty is already
- 1:26:46going for volleyball, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. At this point
- 1:26:49we're six in right now, By the time people are listening to this,
- 1:26:53it might be, you know, closer to ten. And that's that's been
- 1:26:59going pretty well. Actually, the numbers have been great. And I don't
- 1:27:01think we have officially mentioned it on here, and I don't think you and
- 1:27:05I have even really gone that deep into talking about it. But one thing
- 1:27:10that you and I have talked about is doing a Top fifty podcast for volleyball.
- 1:27:15So I would think at some point we're going to have to do that
- 1:27:15one. I'm just now thinking about it again, but we're going to have
- 1:27:18to try to do that. And it is volleyball two a day or is
- 1:27:23that three a day? That's three a day, Yeah, three a day
- 1:27:26right now, and then football will be three a day. But we'll wait
- 1:27:29until volleyball is done, and we'll wait until the season's over a little bit.
- 1:27:31We still got to do the senior podcast where we're going to say goodbye
- 1:27:34to all the seniors. Those will start coming out probably in the week following
- 1:27:42the season. So whenever it is Nook Zach Valley gets eliminated, it might
- 1:27:45jump in pretty quickly about that, or if they win a state championship,
- 1:27:48it might happen, you know, pretty quickly after that. So a lot
- 1:27:53of stuff coming up here, lots of stuff coming up still here on the
- 1:27:55WAKAM Preps podcast. Tyler, Yeah, I mean I think that's it.
- 1:27:58I think we're done. Huff Yeah, I think so already. Well.
- 1:28:01He is Tyler Anderson of WACOM Preps walkompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer.
- 1:28:04You'll be listening to episode two hundred and twelve, a recap of the quarterfinals
- 1:28:09of the state tournament here on the Walkom Preps podcast. We will talk to
- 1:28:12you in a couple of days. What that