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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 273 - 2024 Nooksack Valley Pioneers Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is senior lineman Brady Ackerman and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Knicksack Valley football preview on the Welcome Preps Podcast
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  Speaker 1: with Tyler and Ryland Rally the Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the WATCUM Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 2: episode A two hundred and seventy three, the last of
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  Speaker 2: ten football team previews. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me
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  Speaker 2: as always is Tyler Anderson of what com Preps.
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  Speaker 3: Tyler, how are we doing?
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  Speaker 4: Doing great? We're right there. We were right there, so
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  Speaker 4: close to the football season. Woo ten previews number ten.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: The crazy thing is you and I are recording this
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  Speaker 2: and in like almost exactly a week we will be
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  Speaker 2: posting the week one preview of the entire county of football.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean that's kind of where we're at. Like
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  Speaker 2: we're looking at it. We're exactly a week away. The
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  Speaker 2: people hearing this, they're just sitting there going, we're a
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  Speaker 2: couple of days await.
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  Speaker 3: Boys.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, we need to give a thank you
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  Speaker 2: to Brady Ackerman. I feel like we've been talking about
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  Speaker 2: him for about a decade and a half now. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's just the name maybe I was just always hearing
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  Speaker 2: and talking about old father figure over there, and I
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  Speaker 2: just I get I get it mixed up at times
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  Speaker 2: because he's huge too. That being said, Kurt Mayberry Farm
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  Speaker 2: Find them online Kurt with the C M A B
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  Speaker 2: E r Ry Farm dot com. Tyler, I mentioned Brady
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  Speaker 2: Ackerman and Toronto Argonaut's legend TJ. Kind of that means
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  Speaker 2: we're talking Nookzac Valley here. As I said, this is
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  Speaker 2: the last team preview, Tyler, so everybody just settle down.
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  Speaker 2: It's all right, we'll get through this. No more team previews.
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  Speaker 2: That means you can go back and listen to all
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  Speaker 2: the other nineteen previews though, Tyler, if you got, like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, seven hours on your hand, head over
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  Speaker 2: to walkompreps dot com. Tomorrow we will have the Week
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  Speaker 2: one preview followed by the County Volleyball preview. First time
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  Speaker 2: we've ever done that, Tyler, and I know you're kind
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  Speaker 2: of excited for it.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 4: Started going to volleyball practices already, and the kids are
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  Speaker 4: super excited for this, and the coaches too.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of new coaches this.
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  Speaker 4: Year, four of them out of the five to one
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  Speaker 4: A schools or new or new coaches at the volleyball level.
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  Speaker 4: But so they're excited there and they love the coverage
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  Speaker 4: and and it's a lot of fun. I'm excited to
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  Speaker 4: do the same thing go down to state again. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I'll miss the first round of the state playoffs for
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  Speaker 4: football up here, but uh, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Just the way it goes.
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  Speaker 4: If you can, you know, down there, it's the whole
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  Speaker 4: state tournament in a couple of days, so I'd rather
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  Speaker 4: be there for that. So it's a lot, it's so
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  Speaker 4: much fun. It's there's it's there's some loud moments in
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  Speaker 4: those gyms at times during games, but the is just
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  Speaker 4: is it's hard to match because it's just so close
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  Speaker 4: and there's the crowds are huge for these and it's palpable. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's it is. You can feel it and you're just
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  Speaker 4: right there and and it's so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: They get into my bag of tricks with that one.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler now Tyler, I I didn't want to do this, jeez,
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  Speaker 2: but we're gonna throw the boys under the bus here.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned volleyball and and going out to practices and
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  Speaker 2: you know headshots.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you said to me, you.
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  Speaker 2: Can definitely read a lot better to the signatures or
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, the words and stuff that are written on
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  Speaker 2: the paper. And then you also said the girls are
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  Speaker 2: over there putting makeup on doing their hair. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously we don't want the guys doing makeup and doing
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  Speaker 2: their hair, but maybe we can get better with the
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  Speaker 2: handwriting next year. I mean, now that you've had a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a taste of what the girls off
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  Speaker 2: are over there, Tyler, I mean, it's it's a little easier,
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  Speaker 2: maybe more fun to do, if you will, Maybe not.
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  Speaker 3: More fun because it's a little bit more work. The boys.
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  Speaker 3: It's one in, one out, bam, bam bam. Where they go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's very different. So for people that are
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  Speaker 4: listening that are confused right now. So when I go
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  Speaker 4: out and get these headshots, I have these sheets for
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  Speaker 4: each athlete to fill out. You put your name, what
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  Speaker 4: school you go to, what grade you're in, what position
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  Speaker 4: you play, what's your jersey number, stuff like that, and
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  Speaker 4: then they hold it up for the for the picture.
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  Speaker 4: And I was, you know, joking with Ryland before we
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  Speaker 4: went on air that it's so different between football and baseball.
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  Speaker 4: And football, you're outside, it's raining, they they're handwriting isn't great,
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  Speaker 4: and and it just kind of is what it is.
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  Speaker 4: And it's and they're sitting there and there's mud on
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  Speaker 4: their face and they're scowling at the you know camera.
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  Speaker 2: It's after practice. They're all sweaty, and yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: The time for a photo shoot, right, But for.
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  Speaker 4: Football it kind of works, right. And so for volleyball.
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  Speaker 4: The first year I did head shots, holy cow, was
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  Speaker 4: probably like four years ago maybe, and I was going
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  Speaker 4: and in my mindset was you go after practic just
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  Speaker 4: let them do their thing. I don't want to interrupt anything,
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  Speaker 4: and then I'll get headshots. And then I had heard
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  Speaker 4: from a few of the coaches that you know, we'd
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  Speaker 4: really preferred if you came before practice so they're not
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  Speaker 4: all sweaty and stuff. I was like, oh, okay, that
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  Speaker 4: makes sense. So last year I went before practice everywhere
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  Speaker 4: and and I've now I've been gone, I've already gone
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  Speaker 4: to a few more this year. And it's such a
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  Speaker 4: stark difference because you're inside, so the papers are nice
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  Speaker 4: and neat.
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  Speaker 3: They all write so.
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  Speaker 4: Perfectly, like you can read the name, and you know
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  Speaker 4: they're not they're not like like for like for what
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  Speaker 4: grade you're in. It just says like what you were
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  Speaker 4: the class of you know, just like senior, junior, sophomore, freshmen,
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  Speaker 4: and it says circle one, so they just have to
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  Speaker 4: circle one. And like in football, like twenty percent of
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  Speaker 4: the kids don't even circle one. They just they just
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  Speaker 4: skip that part. I'm like, well, I don't know what
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  Speaker 4: grade you're in. But in volleyball, like they're asking questions,
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  Speaker 4: they're like, how do you want me to do this?
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  Speaker 4: And it's just so funny, and they're all ready for
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  Speaker 4: the pictures and they do their little pose and it's
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  Speaker 4: just totally different. Like everyone's smiling, yeah, and they always
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  Speaker 4: want to see their picture and and it's.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's just funny.
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  Speaker 4: How it's just a complete one to eighty going from
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  Speaker 4: football to volleyball. Taking the head shots.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just complete one eighty. I mean, totally totally different, but.
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  Speaker 3: Very very stark. Now, Tyler, tell me, I know coach
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  Speaker 3: Bartell's daughter. Is she a volleyball player? Yes, she's very
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  Speaker 3: very yes. Yes, we've talked more about her than we
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  Speaker 3: have about him. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, she's the center on the on the volleyball team.
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  Speaker 4: She was last year that I think they finished sixth
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  Speaker 4: in the state. So she returns and we'll talk about
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  Speaker 4: more about them during the volleyball preview. But yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 4: she's a great athlete, big time three point threat, corner
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  Speaker 4: shooter on the basketball team. Uh, great player off the bench,
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  Speaker 4: a really good shooter, and then pitcher on the softball
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  Speaker 4: team too, so so yeah, great three sport athlete and
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  Speaker 4: just a junior this year, so it'll be a lot
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  Speaker 4: more years for her to shine all the different sports.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Tyler, the last practice you went to as far
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  Speaker 2: as football goes was Nuksack Valley and you were out
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  Speaker 2: there on Saturday. You went to see home, who we
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  Speaker 2: just talked about earlier. Uh, and then you headed out
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  Speaker 2: towards Everson up to Uh, what's the actual name of
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  Speaker 2: the town that like, Is it Eversin?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's it's Eversin. It's Everson, nook Sack
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  Speaker 3: and Sue.
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  Speaker 2: Mass That's actually the one I was thinking of but
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  Speaker 2: it's yeah, it.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of the three headed you know area there it's
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  Speaker 4: and it's then the high school is kind of right
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  Speaker 4: in the middle of there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can look north and see Abbotsford on
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  Speaker 2: the hill. Tyler, you were out there though. General thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on practice.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I love going out there. I mean, they you know,
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  Speaker 4: they they treat me so well. I was joking with Mikayla,
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  Speaker 4: I go watch this when I come out to practice,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get, you know, three or four hugs
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  Speaker 4: like this is this is uh, this will be a
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  Speaker 4: different field than a lot of the schools that we
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  Speaker 4: go to. The funny thing was is that there was
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  Speaker 4: a little break between see home in the Nuksac practice
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  Speaker 4: and and I was like, okay, they're practicing from two
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  Speaker 4: to four. I'll meet you out there at three o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: She's like, sounds sounds sounds good. And all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden I come home, I take a nap, and because
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  Speaker 4: I'm still kind of I'm still not recovered all the way.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very, very tired a lot of the time, and so.
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  Speaker 3: All of a sudden I get this text.
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  Speaker 4: The phone wakes me up, and it's Mikayla saying I
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  Speaker 4: just got here, I'll be on the field, And it
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  Speaker 4: was like, at two fifty six, I was still asleep.
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  Speaker 4: And it's not like Noksack Valley is right down the
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  Speaker 4: road from anything other than take a half hour away. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: So I'm like, I texted back, I'm like, I fell asleep.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 4: So I got my stuff and zoomed out there. So
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  Speaker 4: I only got to see like fifteen minutes of practice
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  Speaker 4: or so twenty minutes. It wasn't that much, but it
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  Speaker 4: was a you know, it's a good amount of good,
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  Speaker 4: good numbers. I'd say about sixty five kids for one
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  Speaker 4: day school, grades nine through twelve, which is pretty darn good.
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  Speaker 4: And again it was just you know, the friendly confines, right.
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  Speaker 4: I was just out there earlier, you know, a few
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  Speaker 4: weeks earlier for the youth football camp, which went tremendously well, and.
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  Speaker 3: Out there a lot of the kids call me, Ta,
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  Speaker 3: what's up?
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  Speaker 4: TA, Like it's it's it's a it's a different feel
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  Speaker 4: sometimes with them, just because those kids have been around
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  Speaker 4: at the varsity level for so long. You know, it's
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  Speaker 4: there's not a lot of wide eyed moments. It's kind
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  Speaker 4: of business as usual. And this is clockwork and and
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  Speaker 4: Tha's here on the Saturday practice with pads like so
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  Speaker 4: it just had that natural feel to it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, while you were out there, you got to talk
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  Speaker 2: with coach Bartell for a little bit there, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: five good minutes with coach Bartell. Tyler, why don't you
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and take it away.
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  Speaker 4: This is Tyler Anderson with walkin Preps and we are
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  Speaker 4: on location at Nuksack Valley High School and I'm with
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  Speaker 4: head coach Craig Bartle of the football team.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, we're gonna start off by just.
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  Speaker 4: Talking about the Northwest Conference one a talk about the
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  Speaker 4: league and just you know what it's like every year
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  Speaker 4: and you've been in it now for a while.
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  Speaker 3: What do you expect this year? Pretty much the same.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody in our league is really good.
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  Speaker 3: They're very well coached.
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  Speaker 5: And there's the gap between one and five is there
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  Speaker 5: is no gap.
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  Speaker 3: And so every week you have.
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  Speaker 5: To come in and play and you had any week
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  Speaker 5: anybody can win.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 5: Our league is one of the toughest, if not the toughest,
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  Speaker 5: in the state. And I think that's that's a testament
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  Speaker 5: to the kids and the coaches in our county.
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  Speaker 4: The new rule this year, the round of thirty two
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  Speaker 4: in Week ten, it's a buzz. Everyone's excited about it, it
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  Speaker 4: seems like, especially up here because there's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: good teams up here. Three A and four A have
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  Speaker 4: been doing it for a while. Now it's two A
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  Speaker 4: and one A. I know there's still we don't know
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  Speaker 4: about allocations just yet and they're still up there. But
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  Speaker 4: what does that mean for the Pioneers and what does
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  Speaker 4: that mean just kind of in general?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was kind of in on the talks of that,
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  Speaker 5: trying to I guess you could say, convince some of
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  Speaker 5: the coaches around the state the goods of going to
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  Speaker 5: a thirty two team. I think for our league it's
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  Speaker 5: really good with the caliber of teams that we have.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have opportunities.
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  Speaker 5: Now to get you know, three maybe four depending on
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  Speaker 5: allocations into state.
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  Speaker 3: But I think overall for football just around the state,
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  Speaker 3: it's good.
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  Speaker 5: You have teams that you know, now have something to
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  Speaker 5: play for that Week ten means something. And you know,
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  Speaker 5: whether you go to Royal and play in Week one,
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  Speaker 5: you've still made the state playoffs. And that's something that
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  Speaker 5: teams should be able to build on. And I think overall,
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  Speaker 5: that's going to grow football in one a.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: You have a handful of seniors that have been had
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  Speaker 4: a lot of laying time since day one against the
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  Speaker 4: home out here right when they were freshmen, one of
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  Speaker 4: them being Colton Lentz. And just talk about his importance
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  Speaker 4: on both sides of the ball and what he's meant
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  Speaker 4: to you in the program.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's how much time do I have? You know,
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  Speaker 3: he he's special.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he brings offensively, he runs the ball hard, defensively,
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  Speaker 5: he's he's a leader out there, he's physical. But I
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  Speaker 5: think what a lot of people don't see is what
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  Speaker 5: he does off the field and just the type of
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  Speaker 5: person he is with his teammates, with the school, with
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  Speaker 5: our community, countless hours volunteering, doing you know, different things
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  Speaker 5: with the youth in in just around our county. And
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  Speaker 5: I think that's what makes him special and kind of
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  Speaker 5: sets him apart is what he does off the field.
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  Speaker 5: On the field, obviously, he's very talented and he means
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  Speaker 5: a lot to our program, and he's just he's always
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  Speaker 5: got a smile on his face and so that's that's good.
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  Speaker 3: And he's the.
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  Speaker 5: Type of guy that doesn't care about individual stats, it's
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  Speaker 5: about the team and you know we can build from that.
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  Speaker 3: It's awesome. Let's talk about your offense a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a fun offense to see, especially the last
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  Speaker 4: few years, averaging a lot of points, averaging a lot
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  Speaker 4: of yards. There's a lot of longtime Pioneer fans that
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  Speaker 4: come out every Friday night and watch you guys. When
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  Speaker 4: they come out, are they going to see that kind
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  Speaker 4: of same offense or is there going to be any
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  Speaker 4: changes or what do you like about your offense at
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  Speaker 4: the moment.
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  Speaker 5: I think we're still trying to find out what our
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  Speaker 5: offense is. I don't know our identity is going to
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  Speaker 5: change offensively a little bit. We lot some great players
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  Speaker 5: last year and so our dynamics are a little bit different. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we have Colton back there, so we're going
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  Speaker 5: to run the ball, but trying to get we have
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  Speaker 5: a lot of good athletes that we're going to try
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  Speaker 5: to get into space. And I think it's it's probably
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  Speaker 5: gonna take, you know, a few weeks before we try
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  Speaker 5: to figure out, Okay, what are our strengthen, what are
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  Speaker 5: we good.
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  Speaker 3: At, and what we need to work on.
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  Speaker 5: And so we're just still trying to figure figure that
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  Speaker 5: out in practice.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we'll wait and see, uh.
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  Speaker 4: Defensively, it's it's it's also been fun to watch. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of been that if you want to call it
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  Speaker 4: a four to five defense or whatever whatever you want
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  Speaker 4: to look at it as is that as far as
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  Speaker 4: just seeing where people are lined up, will that kind
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  Speaker 4: of look the same as well?
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  Speaker 5: It will, it'll be very similar. We have probably a
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  Speaker 5: couple of wrinkles that will that will throw in. We
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of guys that had defense experience in
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  Speaker 5: the past coming back and so we'll utilize that strength
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  Speaker 5: and we we we you may see us with you know,
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  Speaker 5: seven DB's back there.
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  Speaker 4: We just have guys that have played that are athletes.
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  Speaker 3: And they're smart and so trying.
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  Speaker 5: To get the best eleven out there on the field
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  Speaker 5: and then kind of adjust the defense for them will
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  Speaker 5: be what we're going to be, you know, doing this year.
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  Speaker 5: And and you know, our first game is his football
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  Speaker 5: on a phone booth, so that won't be an indicator
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  Speaker 5: of what our defense is going to be, but you know,
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  Speaker 5: it'll be interesting to see how we can adjust and
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  Speaker 5: how teams adjust to what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you again to coach Bartell for his time. Tyler
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  Speaker 2: coach Bartell in his sixth season, second stint. First stint
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  Speaker 2: was a what was one year.
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  Speaker 4: Right, yep, just one year in nineteen ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: So this is his fifth year in this stint at
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  Speaker 2: Nuksack Valley, eighth season overall. He goes to thirty four
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  Speaker 2: and thirty one after a nine and three season last year.
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  Speaker 2: Sid Lambert Field is where they play their home games. Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: when we look at key Loss's key returnees, it's huge
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  Speaker 2: on both sides. It's actually pretty wild how big it
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  Speaker 2: is on both sides. Last season's schedule, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: big wins early on, including a win over a three
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: A school, and then yeah, drop one to Kings. I
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: think maybe a little bit of a surprise. Kings is
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: a very good program, so maybe not a surprise when
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: you lose that team. But I think a lot of
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: people expected them to win that game, and then they
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: kind of hammered Hoquiam and Meridian before dropping a one
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: point loss to Lyndon Christian before really just going, you know,
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: what the heck with it, We're going to take it
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: to everybody from here on out. Untell semi Finals where
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: they drop a twenty four to twenty three game to
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: lakesided Nine Mile Falls, who would then go on and
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: get absolutely railroaded by Royal in the state championship game.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: But yeah, nine and three overall, Tyler. We mentioned a
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff returning, But you know, it's weird because
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: they did take it to so many teams that there's
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: actually a lot of numbers, like a lot of guys
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: that maybe aren't house well definitely aren't household names, but
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: guys that had numbers last season that are going to
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: see some playing time this year. But when you start
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: looking at the backfield, Colt Lentz is still there. I mean,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Colt Lentz is still there. But we're going to have
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: a new quarterback with the same last name as the
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: last guy.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, we are.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: And there were times when Evan Brown would come in
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: and play quarterback where and I'm standing on the sidelines
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: and I'm, you know, keeping track of Sometimes I was
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: taking stats right there on the sidelines, and I thought
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: it was Joey because they stand in the stance the
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: exact same way, they're built the exact same Uh. If
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: you know, if Joey shaves his face, they look the
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: exact same. It's really hard to tell them apart, and
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: so the style will be very very similar. I think
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Joey overall was a more dynamic athlete as far as
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: a runner goes. Uh, you know, he was always a
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: threat to take it out to the outside and then
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: get the corner and go.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Evan is probably gonna stay in the.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Pocket a little bit more, but he he might have
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: a stronger arm, so there's a little differences between him,
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: and this will be Evan's year to take over and
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: do some good things. And that doesn't mean that Evan
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: can't run. He's a pretty good runner as well. But
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: they're but they're but they're very different. I mean, Joey
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: go into Western Washington University on a track scholarship as
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: a decathlete and Evan is all about baseball. So they're
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: very different as far as other sports and stuff like that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: And Evan's us A. He's a really good kid. I mean,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I think that I think he'll be ready for the moment.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I think that he will be you know, once you know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: week three or four comes around, he will have gotten
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: it pretty down. And again, it's just about having confidence
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: in yourself and doing things like that you're absolutely right
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: with Colton Lentz coming back. I mean he's I think
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: he's less than one hundred yards away from going past
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: his old man on the all time rushing list, which
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: is kind of which is kind.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Of cool and fun for us because we got to
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: make fun of him.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and then he'll be no, yeah, his dad, and
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: so he'll be one of those next guys up to
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: reach the four thousand yard plateau and career rushing yards
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: and and that's you know, not many guys in Walking
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: County history have done that. So it's uh, it's been
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: fun watching him run the ball. Uh, there won't be
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: that one two punch with with u Skyler Wittern. Skyler
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: of course has graduated. So Colby Martin will be that
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: next guy up to get carries. Aiden Juante could be
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: another guy. He's you know, he's built like a bowling ball.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: He's about five to seven and like one, you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: ninety and uh and you know, just a guy that
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: he can get low and get yards that way, run
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: runs hard and and so yeah, it's a it's a
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: it's a different backfield except for Colton, but uh, there's
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: a lot of.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: New names in the behind Center there. Yeah, a lot
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: of new names, and I guess we do need to
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: mention that Colton has committed to the University of Montana.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: The Grizzlies who were in the National Championship Game last year,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and uh, there's a lot of people to think that
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: they have a real shot to win it this year.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: A program that was, you know, always tremendous and then
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: kind of had some down years. They were still good,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: but some years where they weren't necessarily a national title contender,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, Bobby Hout comes back
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: and boom, away we go. And now they are just
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: humming along. As a matter of fact, when I was
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: out in Montana talking to some people out there, they
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: were super excited about coldon Lens. I said, I said,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: running back, landbacker, what do you think And they said yes,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: like yes, Like oh, oh, so you just want to
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: get them on campus. They're like yeah, they said, yeah,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: probably on the defensive side, but yeah, we're excited no
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: matter what.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: And I was like, okay, cool, and it is really cool,
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: like with some local flavor. Jake Mason now transferring there. Yeah,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: and and and Lincoln Hofer sounds like he's committed and uh,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: you know, just to dip down his gadget County a
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: little bit, you know, the Brock and Brady Beaner.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's a that's a.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Really cool that's a really neat thing where some guys
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: are kind of joining up and going to a really
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: really good program.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: And the guy that recruits this area just does a
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: tremendous jobs named Roger Cooper. He was a star running
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: back at South KIDSAP. So a guy that has ties
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: to the area, loves the area and wants to make
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: sure that, you know, we're getting the guys. You know,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to say this to Tyler, it's no
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: coincidence that during a few years where they were down
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: a little bit, they didn't have a lot of representation
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: from the state of Washington. Now their roster is littered
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: with guys from the state of Washington.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not I'm not trying to say they
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: figured something out, but Tyler, they might have might have
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: figured something out, you know what I'm saying. As a
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: matter of fact, Let's let me take a look really quickly.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I have it all on the spreadsheet here, Tyler. I
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: always forget about that big sky Montana has fourteen guys
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: from the state of Washington, right now, Yeah, fourteen guys.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: That's a lot, man, Like, that is a lot of guys,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: and there's some really really good players. So yeah, Tyler,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: let's uh, let's talk receivers dbs or excuse me, receivers. Well,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: a lot of them probably are dbs also, but we're
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: talking receivers here specifically. And this is an interesting thing
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: because you know they NUKXAC valleys. Is yeah, sure the spread.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: You know, they're always really tough and physical up front,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: so they they pride themselves in running the ball. But
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Corey only comes back with thirty one receptions five hundred
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: and fifty two yards, six touchdowns, Evan Bravo with thirteen receptions,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: one hundred and forty nine yards and two touchdowns, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: even Cole Bauman eight catches, one hundred and forty nine
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: yards and one touchdown. And then Colton Lentz somehow only
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: has three receptions and he scored all three times. I mean,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: this is a team that is known more for the
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: ground game, but they returned plenty in the receiving game.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they they have a lot of options out there
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: to help Evan along and the you know, the number
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: one being Corey Olney. He's he's played a lot of receiver.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: You know, this would be his fourth year as a
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: starter on both sides of the ball. You're absolutely right
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: with cold Cole Bauman. After Wayne Silvas went down with
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: an injury, Cole Bauman got some really good reps on offense,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: made some big, big plays. He's about six ' four now,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: looks really really good out there. Evan Bravo has just
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: been another guy that's that silent guy that's been around forever.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: We've been talking about him. You know, he had some
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: touchdown runs as a as a freshman that we were
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: talking about and I remember you going, oh, let's say
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: that's a great name, you know, and that was three
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: years ago. Still is still yeah, still still a great name,
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: what do you know? And so he's gonna be he's
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: kind of the he's kind of the guy that can
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: hide behind some of these trees. I mean, Corey only
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: is six feet tall. He's not you know, he's average
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: height for a high school receiver. Cole Bauman six ' four.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Tristan Campouse is six ' five. Houl Coppinger, who who
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: is just a tremendous, tremendous athlete. He's six foot one,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: six foot two. And then and you know Dane Ackerman,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: who uh, you know, Brady's little brother, is gonna make
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: a difference now as a true tight end. He's six
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: ' three. And I was talking to you know, I
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: was talking to DJ about Dane, and I said, you know,
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: is he going to be moved to the offensive line?
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Is that just kind of the natural progression? And He's like, no,
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: He's always been a kind of a tight end kind
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: of guy, receiver kind of guy. And then you know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: I dig I did some I did some digging, and
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: obviously he's got the you know, is his dad and
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: his uncle, uh you know, had big time jeans playing
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: at the next level professionally and on stuff like that.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: But his grandfather on his mom's side at one time
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: was the all time leading receiver at the University of Arizona.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: So so there's some stuff there where, there's some jeans
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: where he is, you know, there's some there's some good
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: stuff for him that could that could happen. As far
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: as Tyler's got some nuggets, man, I.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Feel like I feel like I had to do that,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: and I just I wasn't prepared. I was taking a
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: sip of coffee.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all good, but but but he's he's a
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: different kind of athlete than Brady is, and I think
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: that he can really do some good things as a
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: tight end and be a good blocker still, but they
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: have you know, k nooks and Valley hasn't had like
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: a true tight end in quite a while, so that
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: can help. You know, Jackson Hester Will will can back
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: him up. So you do have some really really good
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: size at the receiver spot. And then Evan Bravo, you know,
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: he can hide behind one of those guys and then
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: shoot around and catch a pass and maybe do some
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: things that kind of Jackson Bennett. Did you know there
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: were similar size and so you know, if teams want
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: to stack seven or eight in the box, which they
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: will against Nuksack Valley, be ready because there's some really
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: good targets on the outside that you know, they will
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: always find ways to to take advantage of the situations
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: that's given towards.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Him inside in the trenches. Tyler, it's it's wild because
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: they lose Stremler. Halap Yoppy Coppinger Hickey do callap yappy
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I feel like this might be the last time we
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: really have an actual reason to talk about him until
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: we get to you know, maybe like the All Decade
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: team or something. You know, they lose those guys, but
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: they do return some really nice pieces on the offensive line,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure there's some guys, Tyler, that we don't
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: even know about yet. Well you probably know about that
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know about yet, that are probably gonna come
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: in and you know, be I mean, it's hard, it's
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: hard to say replace those guys because those guys are
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: so stinking good, But they're gonna be guys that are
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: gonna have to step up as those guys graduate. So Brady, Ackerman,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Adelai Whitworth, those are kind of the two names that
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I know other than that Tyler.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Who are you talking about on the offensive line.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Well, obviously Brady, you know, he started there as a
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: freshman and and he's got that left tackle spot sewing
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: down and that's the big, big returner. One of the
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: brilliant things they did last year was because of the
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: personnel that they had, they were able to have that
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: jumbo package where you move John Stremler back to fullback
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: and you bring in three more offensive linemen one to
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: take Stremler spot and then have the two tight ends.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: And so you were able to bring in these other
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: offensive linemen that and get some good reps against the
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: other team's ones a lot of the time, even in
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: the state playoffs. And now those guys are gonna be
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: able to shine. Adelai Whitworth was one of those guys.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Lance Van Berkham at six four two fifty will be
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the other. He'll be the right tackle. So you got
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: these two six foot four tackles, which goes really well.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Adlie Whitworth is about six ' one about two forty,
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: really really athletic, super strong, so he'll be a guard.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Cohen Howford is a is a kid that's really big,
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: six two two sixty. He'll be the center. I think
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: that I think he'll fit in perfectly with that. He's
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: got that spot nailed down. And the other guard spot
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: is kind of a toss up between Landon Staffer and
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Sebastian Finkbonner. How about that another fink Bunner.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: So yeah, of course, yeah, I knew you're gonna love that.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: So and those two kids, you know, it's there's a
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Drew battle there. Landon Stopford just got I mean I
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: saw him at practice. I was like, dude, you're huge now,
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: like we're because I saw him in baseball season. He
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: you know, he was a decent size, but he looks
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: completely different now and was you know, used to be
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: a tight end type player.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Now he could take over as that guard spot.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: And fink Bunner's about five ten, he's about two twenty five.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Staffer's probably you know, six two in two fifteen two
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: two twenty or so, so so they have options. They
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: have a sixth guy and and uh and also with
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Dane Ackerman on the as a as a true tight end,
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: that's just another blocking option that they'll have. So even
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: though they lose a ton of you know, all state
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: caliber talent there, there's some good pieces here. And of
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: course they'll be coached up really well, and I think
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: it'll I think it'll go pretty smoothly. You see a
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: lot of big time running backs and this is this
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: has happened with you know what happened with Slim Baker.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: I remember happened with Riley Fritch. There are certain guys
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: that have huge numbers as like sophomores and juniors, and
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: then their numbers kind of go down when they're seniors
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: because the offensive lineman was their offensive line was replaced
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: with new guys. And I don't think that Lens's numbers
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: are going to drop off that much, if at all,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: so that I think that I think it'll go pretty
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: well with this with this new group of offensive linemen,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: and of course being led by Brady Ackerman, who's one
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: of the best, if not the best one a offensive
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: linemen in the state.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, currently committed to Eastern Washington. Tyler, Yes, just a
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: few weeks ago, if I remember. I think it was
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: like right at the beginning of August maybe where obviously
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: his dad and uncle played. I'm just telling you and
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: and and I don't normally do this as far as
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: talking about players. I think Brady Ackerman is maybe one
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: of the more underrated players in the state. I truly
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: believe Eastern Washington is well too low for him. I
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: think I think.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: He was offered Montana as well.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: And no, no, no, no, that's the same level of
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: play Tyler I'm talking about. Sure, I think the FBS
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: schools are missing and and I and I truly believe
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: that because when you look at his size and you
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: look at his frame, you just go, this guy's not
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: even close to being a college football player yet, you know,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: in terms of size, Like, he's still got a lot
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: more filling.
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: Out to do.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: And when when I think of when I think of
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: like Andre Dillard. Okay, I don't know if you know
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Andre Dillard. He plays for the Packers right now, but
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: he's he was a first round pick by the Eagles. Yeah,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: played at Wazoo, played at Woodenville. His dad played at Wazoo.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: When he was a sophomore, Andre Dillar was about six four,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: two fifteen yep. And as he slowly filled out, he
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: played his senior year probably somewhere around two fifty, you know.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: And Ackerman is you know, maybe a little bit heavier
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: than that, but he's kind of in that same range.
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: I saw him actually get on the scale at the
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: football camp, but he was he was like at two
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: sixty four.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: So you're looking at a guy that, you know, I'm
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: sure there's still some some fat in there there that
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: they'll get out of him, you know, at the college level.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: But you're you're looking at a guy that has a
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: frame that's ready to be built on. Yeah, you know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: and I just, man, I think there, especially when you
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: look at like a Wazoo and a Oregon State. Who
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: are you know, I don't even know what it is
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: the Pac two. I'm not sure exactly what that what
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: that conference is. I fully admit I don't pay as
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: much attention to college football as I probably would like.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: But I mean, really all I do is follow where
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: player from the state of Washington went. But that being said, man,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I just I think they are missing out on him.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean that's I guess that's my my
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: ted talk, right, Tyler. On the defensive side of the ball, Really,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: those two guys are right there to Whitworth and Ackerman.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Twenty nine and a half tackles for Whitworth, twenty eight
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: for Ackerman, and then it gets kind of wild. Ackerman
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: ten tackles for a loss and seven and a half
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: sacks and two Fumbel recoveries and two passes defended, which
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I assume he's not running downfield chasing guys, so he
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: probably just put his hand up in the air. But
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: you know, Whitworth also two and a half tackles for
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: a loss and a sack. I mean, those two guys
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: really anchoring that defensive line. Who else we talking about there.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, Ackerman has been doing it for a long
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: time as a defensive end. He'll he'll return there. Whitworth
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: was a kid that I mean, he would come in
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: and spell Toppinger and Holliapiappi at defensive tackle. And once
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: he would get in there, he would just make plays.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: And you know, they would look and they say, okay,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: you're rather two big boys are just going to rotate
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: in and out while we keep Whitworth in there. Yeah,
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: just because he was just he wouldn't start so good,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: but he would, but he would play so much. And
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: on kickoffs, I guarantee you that probably ten to twelve
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: of those tackles were on kickoffs. He would just come
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: down and make plays on kickoffs. And he's just a very,
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: very physical player, and so he will he will definitely
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: anchor one of those defensive tackle spots. And then and
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: then there's a lot of other guys that could fill in.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: I think Lance Van Berkham could be a defensive end.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: He has that good Bill, that six four two fifty Bill.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: And then other guys in the interior, Cohen Howford and
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Sebastian Finkhnner, So it's a lot of it's a lot
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: of the same names. And but yeah, I mean Brady
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Ackerman coming off the edge, I think he's I think
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: he's right around fifteen sacks in his career.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Now, so.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: You know, we both remember bj Salmonson, who obviously went
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: on to become a great offensive lineman in college, but
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: as a defensive lineman he had I think he had
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: over twenty sacks in his career. So, uh and which
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: is the school record at niksack Valley and Ackerman is
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: getting pretty close.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: That when we start talking linebackers, now, Tyler, there's I mean,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: how do you say it, a lot of losses here.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I mean they just Damian Perez and Skyler Wintern alone
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: and then obviously John Stremler being like the biggest linebacker
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: in the history of yesterday, although Tyler Frost giving him
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: a run for his money. But you know, they lose
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: some serious production with those three guys. Sounds like Colton
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Lance moving down into the box this year. And that's
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: kind of exciting if you asked me, because I've thought
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: all along he probably was a linebacker, but they didn't
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: need him there. So now they now we move him
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: down in there, we get a chance to see him.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: But he's not the only one. I mean, there's some
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: serious talent here and some guys that put up some
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: real numbers. I mean overall as a team, they've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: eight guys coming back with double digit tackles last season.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Colton Lance also four and a half tackles for a
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: loss in one sack as a safety, which is, you know,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: kind of weird. But yeah, overall, Tyler looks like this
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: is gonna be another strong group, maybe a little less
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: experience than it had been, but still a strong group
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: of linebackers.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, with Lentz coming down now into
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: the box, you're right, I think it's going to be
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: a huge addition there. You know, three year starter as
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: like a strong safety kind of guy. You know, they
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: kind of ran like a four two five with a
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: couple of strong safeties and you could call them maybe
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: outside linebackers strong safety, but they weren't up in the
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: box hardly at all. So uh and Lens is a
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: very very uh, which makes four.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: And a half tackles for a loss even more impressive.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Right, It's it's the reading and reacting and going and
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: making a play. I mean you when when you watch
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: film you see those guys, even if you can't see
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: the number, you can tell who certain guys are just
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: the way they read and react. And Lentz is one
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: of those kind of guys. So him being you know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: in that strembler spot will be huge next to them.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: Colby Martin, who was that next linebacker up. He had
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: a pick six in a game when like in the
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: third when the backups came in, you could tell right
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: away that he was a dude as a backup coming
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: in and making plays. He started the game against Blaine
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: and had a handful of tackles. So he's got he's
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: got pretty good varsity experience as well, and so that'll
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: be a good, you know duo there as the inside linebackers.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: And again with those kind of those outside linebackers, safety types,
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: strong safety types. You got a lot of rangey guys.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: You got, you know, Tristan Campalas at six five, Cole
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: Bauman at sixty four. Brian Layerley is a kid we
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: haven't talked about yet who who looks impressive. He's about
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: six three, and it's kind of going to remind people
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: a lot maybe of like the Linden Christian linebackers from
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: last year, where you had all these guys that were
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: six four or sixt' five out there with the long
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: arms and stuff. So you might see that a lot
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: on the Nuksack Valley side this year. And they're all
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: pretty good tacklers and they all have decent experience as well.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: So I could see some really good things with with
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: with this linebacking group. I think that you know, led
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: by Colton Lentz obviously, who's you know date. I mean,
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: his first game as a freshman, uh got a he
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: had an interception against Seahome in the end zone and
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: and so it's like, man, I mean, he proved it
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: right away that he could do some things. And and
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: he hasn't slown down since he's a big he's a
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: big hitter. But he's also you know, like coach Bartow
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: said in the interview, he's a guy that people respond to.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: He's a leader.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: He does things off the field, and those are the
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: kind of things that you can bring together a team
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: and get them to work hard for you. And now
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: that he'll be right in the middle of the field,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: it's it's going to be He's gonna be hard to
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: ignore and hard to run away from.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if he ever wanted to know what Troy Pulamalu
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: was going to be like a linebacker. Now we get
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: to see it, right, because I remember Paula mala used
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: to have like six seven tackles for a loss in
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: a season. Yeah, as a safety, which was I mean,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I remember one time, Tyler, there was like a I
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: want to say it was like a toss or something,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: and Paula Malu started like fourteen yards downfield and made
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: the tackle like five yards in the backfield.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was just the most ridiculous.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: Play you've ever seen, you know, and you just go,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: my goodness, like, what in the heck is going on there?
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Tyler?
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: When we talk defensive secondary here, yep, there are some
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: some real guys returning here. I mean to me, a
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: couple of things blow me away here. Corey only Evan
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Bravo each had double digit passes defended, which I don't
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: know if there's another team that returns two guys like that.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: They also only had four interceptions. Bravo had five. Martin
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Coppinger Campalase the each had an interception also, so as
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: a team. They returned twelve interceptions, they returned a ton
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: of passes defended, but also only in Bravo, both over
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: thirty tackles on the season. I assume those two guys
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: are kind of leading the back end now that Lens
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: is no longer there.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Corey one has been the pre safety.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: I was joking with Partos, he's been the shifty since
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: he was in fourth grade with this group.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Is that? Should we talk to him at a game
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: one time? Yeah?
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: We talked to him before when they played Baker. He
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: was injured, right, Okay, we were like in the corridor
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: and talking to him for a little bit while a
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: little while there, so he couldn't play in that game.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: But but yeah, so yeah we got you know, you
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: got to know him.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: A little bit.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: I know him pretty well. He's just an awesome kid
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: and just such a leader back there, like he knows
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: where everyone's supposed to be. He's always thirsty to learn too.
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: He's always wanting to know more stuff so we can
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: direct everybody the right way. He's got a handful of
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: interceptions in his career. I think he's right at ten
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: and uh, I know that if he's listening right now.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: He's shaking his head going in there should be like
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: five more because there's a few that he had in
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: his hands that he's sometimes you just don't know what's
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: coming and the hits he's like, oh my goodness, I
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: had that, you know. And it seems like that happened
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: a few times in his career, and he'll he'll be ready.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, he had he had a game saving interception
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: a couple of years ago against Kings when they were
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: driving down. He's had some big, big, big plays in
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: his career and so to have him back there kind
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: of as the quarterback of your defense is huge. Evan
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Bravo might be the most underrated corner in the area.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: He's so quick, and he's he's healthy now, and he
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: seems like he just hasn't been healthy the last couple
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: of years, but he was still putting up good numbers.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: I think he can definitely take away a main receiver
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: and do a great, great job at it. And then
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: you know, one of the most horrific things that happened
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: last year was when Wayne Silvis, it was a three
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: year starting corner when he got injured early on in
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: the game against Lyndon Christian and it took away the
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: rest of his season. But one benefit from that was
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: a sophomore Cole Koppinger came in and was able to
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: hold down that spot the rest of the year and
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: get valuable experience. Really good basketball player, obviously good jeans Coppinger.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: You get all that stuff together, and he's grown a
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: little bit more. He's about six one and a half
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: or so, and he's such an athletic corner on the
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: other side. So I mean mean, you have Coppinger and
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: Bravo on the corners and only as your free safety
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: with kind of all those rangy guys as those you know,
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: strong safety rover types, and it starts to turn into
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: where can I pick apart this defense? There's no spots
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: right now? So usually when that happens, what do you do?
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: You just run the ball up the middle. Well, cold,
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: let's will be there. So it's it's a it's a
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: it's it looks really good. I mean, yeah, they lost
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: a lot of guys, but when you look at their defense,
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: there's a ton returning and a ton to.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, there's just it's it's just wild. They lose
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: so much, you know, production and and and well beef too.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: But and by that, I don't mean they had a
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: sail on like Cow's like. But there's still so much returning.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, the depth is obviously not like it was
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: last year. But man, there's still a lot of excitement
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: about this team because they still could be incredibly good. Uh, Tyler,
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: let's talk special teams. Our guy vig Ory's gone. But
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: in the kicking game, what are we looking at there?
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: And then I mean kickoff returning. Evan Bravo only had
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: four of them, but somehow managed thirty eight yards on
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: an average and did have one touchdown.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: I guess that's how he did it.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: But there's so many weapons that they could use here
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: in terms of kick returning and punt returning. Corey only
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: averaged over ten yards a punt return. And you and
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: I both know anytime you hit double digits on a
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: punt return, that's a good thing. So what are we
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: looking at there?
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's I think it's gonna be a strength. Obviously,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: you lose Boom Boom Vigory, and that's gonna be the big,
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: big loss. I mean, he was so good for the
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: last two years. You know, broke a ton broke basically
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: every single kicking record that the school's ever had, and
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: they just don't have a guy lined up yet.
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: And you know, we'll see.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: I think Landon stock Wrell will kick off and will
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: that turn into him kicking pats? I'm not sure. I
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: mean with that, with that line and offense and kind
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: of the creativity that they have, maybe they'll go for
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: two every play or.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: You know, after touchdowns.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but unless they find a kicker early, we'll see
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: what happens. I you know, I even suggested to coach,
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: I said, you know, Evan Bravos soccer kid, you know,
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: so maybe he'll maybe he'll kick extra points. You never know,
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: so so we'll see. Uh So that part is kind
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: of the unknown. You know. Last year, Joey Brown punted
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: and he averaged I think he averaged close to or
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: over forty yards of punt, which is crazy. Just again
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: just one of those just athletes that can do it.
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: And there were a few times when Evan would come
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: in and punt late late in games. So they haven't
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: worked on it yet. They haven't found a punter yet,
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: but I wouldn't be surprised to see Evan Brown back
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: there punting. He had a couple of them last year
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: that went pretty well. But you're absolutely right. In the
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: return game, Bravo, he's been returning kickoffs for quite a
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: while and and has done a pretty pretty darn good job.
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: Uh you know only's done it. Uh, you know, on
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: kickoffs and on punts. So you might see those guys,
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: you those guys do it as well. And you know,
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: I could see like a guy a Cole Coppinger maybe
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: getting in there. They have they have the athletes. It's
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: just crazy that a lot of their athletes are these
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: like six four kids, where usually you don't see that
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: in the return game, so you might, you know, kind
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: of cut them out of it. But when you could
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: see a lot of those defensive bat guys, the onlyes,
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: the Bravos and the Coppingers could be the big factors
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: in the return game.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: Uh, Tyler, let's talk breakout player. And this is one
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: where it's it's kind of funny in a way because
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: it's like maybe the guy, well, we're gonna talk a
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: senior guard defensive tackle here, which I feel like there's
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: not a ton of times that you get a senior
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: as a breakout player, you know what I mean, Because
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: especially on a team that was as good as they were.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: But this is a guy that, like, I know the name,
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: I knew the name before we went in here, but yep,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: he didn't get as many opportunities because of the amount
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: of beef they had last year. Use a term that
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: I've used a few times here, but Adelai Whitworth, this
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: is a kid that this is his time to shine now.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's only one year, but he's ready to go.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely. I mean he's a kid he didn't start
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: a game last year on either side of the ball,
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: and so and going from that to I'm calling it,
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: he's going to be an All Conference defensive lineman, first
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: team like that. He's just that good. And I think
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: that he just gets after it. He's gained about thirty
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: pounds of muscle, and I think he's gonna be an
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: absolute terror on the defensive line. He'll be really good
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: as a guard as well, but I think as a
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: defensive lineman he's just gonna especially if he lines up
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: next to Ackerman, because guys are gonna double team Ackerman
• 45:51
  Speaker 4: and Whitworth is just going to plow through that line.
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: Cool thing too, is I've known this kid a long time.
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: I remember I played on a softball team sponsored by
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: We were called the Guidos. It was there was a
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: Guidos restaurant and Italian restaurant and it was you know,
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: this was back in two thousand and nine, I think,
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: and he was like he was out of like all
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: those games. His dad was on the team. He was
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: like our bat boy. So it's like I've known this
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: kid a long time, and uh, it's just it's just
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: really cool to see his progression. Former Baker kid. You
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: know the game that that you saw when Baker played
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: uh Topinish in the first round of the state playoffs,
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: it was the Davin Beeson doing everything game. Kicked off
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: and did everything, will.
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: Move the chains?
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right. Attalie Whitworth started at left tackle in that
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: game as a freshman, and that was kind of a
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: last second. Juel Roebliss was was not was was not
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: gonna be able to play, and he was you who
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: would usually kick off. He was a junior left tackle
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: on that on that team, and so they put Whitworth
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: in there as a freshman to start in the state
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: playoff game. So that tells you that kind of what
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: they thought of him there he ends up transferring to Knooksack,
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: And now he's worked himself into this player that's that's
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: gonna be, you know, a menace and a force. And
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: I'm so excited to see what he does. I'm hoping
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: they kick they keep him on kickoff because he's so
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: fun to watch covering kicks. But uh, I you know,
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: they might not do that just because they're gonna want
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: to arrest him a little bit. But my goodness, he
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: gets after it and and he's fast. He is so
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: fast for a kid that size, So if a quarterback
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: turns and runs, don't be surprised if he can chase
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: him down. So expect some really good things out of him.
• 47:39
  Speaker 4: I think he's I was talking to Mikayla about this,
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: my intern, and I said, out of because she wanted
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: to know who all the breakout players are going to
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: be so she can get pictures ready and stuff like that.
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: And I said, out of all the breakout players, he's
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: going to be the breakoutist of all of them. I
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: really think he's just gonna have a huge.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: Year, the breakoutist of all the breakouts. Yes, yeah, I'm
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: excited to see what that young man does this year.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I really am. I think he's a tremendous player. That
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: just he's it's finally his time. I mean it is,
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: so yeah, we'll definitely, Uh it's hard to because the
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: only stats he gets right on the defensive side. Although
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: I could pick the I could pick the offensive line, right,
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: I could pick the offensive line, and then you know,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: we kind of do it where it's like you talk
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: about the one guy kind of in a way, you know, Tyler,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the schedule here and nook Sack Valley
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: won't be home until like hunting season is over at
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: on Alaska. To start that is a deep, deep drive.
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: You gotta go all the way down to like Napavine, Centralia,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: Shahla's area, then hang a left.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: Although there is it's.
• 48:47
  Speaker 4: Already a deep drive for duck Sack Valley just to
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: get onto the freeway from where they are.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: That's very true to.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: Actually, the amount of time they would spend getting to
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: the freeway is probably about the amount of time they're
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: going to spend getting to on Alaska from the freeway.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: Oh wow, I didn't know that.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's deep on Alaska's not right there, or at
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: least it didn't feel like it to me. That being said,
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: if anybody's headed down, just go to on Alaska because
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: like go to the stadium because they make burgers and
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: they're damn good. Then they go to Renting and we'll
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: talk more about that one on like the Week two preview,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: and I'll probably even mention burgers in on Alaska week one.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: But then they finally come home September twentieth against King's
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: seven PM game. I feel like there's been a little
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: bit of a rivalry here between these two teams for
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: a little while now, I'm not sure how long, and
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: obviously we'll get into that on the Week three podcast.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: But then almost like it's weird when you look at
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: their schedule, Tyler, because it's almost a product of success.
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: It's hard to find teams that want to play I
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: know of a four A team that had conversations and
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: wouldn't play them. You know, it's wild. But they got
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: to go to Tumwater and you start talking about some
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: tough games. Tumwater is very, very good. We all know
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: how good of a program just in general, but they
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: return some some serious players this year. Then they got
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: to go to Mount Baker. That's the first league game
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: that is on October fourth. Uh, then they get Blaine
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: at home, Meridian at home, and then they go right
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: back out on the road Tyler, and they got to
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: go all the way down to Monticano, which obviously is
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: like two blocks away.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: So I mean, the good thing they got going.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: For him, Tyler, at least for the fans. I've got
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: places for them to eat at all these all these spots,
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, I do, I've got them covered. I mean,
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're a knok Sack Valley, I know
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: the tomb Water place. But go ahead, what do you
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: what do you mean you know that?
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: Oh? Okay, well there's two of them.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll talk. Yeah, there's a two places. I
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: recommend one's a sandwich. Did you did I send you
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: to the sandwich place?
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, and then that I mean that that'll be
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: my number one recommendation. But also give them a second,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: like a backup option in case they don't want the
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: best sandwiches in the state.
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: Right Monteno, though.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: There's a good there's a good Burger spot down there,
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: and that's a cool place to watch a game too.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: It's a it's it's a newly built kind of like
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: old style Stadium if you will.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty cool. But yeah.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: Then they finished out final two games of the year
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: going to Monteno and then, uh, I mean, what's the
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: shortest trip of the year. Is it lynnon Christian or
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: Mount Baker?
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: Boy? Probably?
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: Like my head, Lynn and Christian, I think it's Lynn
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: and Christian.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: You just had down Badger, Yeah, yeah, and I got
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: a feeling it's not too much of a difference between
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: the two.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: But other than that, I mean they are going on
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: some serious trips. I mean on Alaska is going to
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: be hours. Renton is probably u two hours, I would think,
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: because it's an hour. No, it's I mean it's gonna
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: be a solid two hours probably down to Renton, probably
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: three or more down to Tumbwater, and then definitely more
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: than three to get to Monticeno. So these guys are
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: gonna put on some serious Miley. But the cool thing
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: is Tyler, that means they're pretty much just going to
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: hang out in Everson next year. I mean twenty twenty five, Tyler,
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: you might get to see a lot of Knuksack Valley
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: because they're going to be home a ton and these
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: teams that they're playing they're gonna be coming from far away,
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: so they might even want to play some Saturdays or
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: you know, five six pm kickoffs, you know, stuff like that.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: So actually, as a matter of fact, I just noticed
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: Week two for Knucksack Valley is a five pm kickoff,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: and I assume that is a Saturday, Yes, the fourteenth. Yeah,
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: so that's one that I might actually be able to
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: go to because we too, we play a Friday game. Yeah,
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: one of our few Friday games that we get this year,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: thanks Northward School District. I didn't say that out loud, Tyler,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: or if I did, don't hold it against me. But yeah,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: five pm game down there, it's a Saturday, I know,
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: a good spot to eat.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: I might just have to make that.
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: On the old rounds there, so yeah, lock your door, yeah,
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: oh yeah.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, definitely love them, but there's plenty of good
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: options to eat down there. But yeah, yeah, that's it, Tyler.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: What else we got anything before we get out of here.
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: I just think that, Uh, it's been so fun doing
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: these previews, and you know, I I I you know,
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: as much as it sounds, I just wish all of
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: them luck because I always want Walking County teams just
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: to do well, and I'm always hoping for that season
• 53:24
  Speaker 4: where they all finish above five hundred, you know what
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: I mean. And uh, and then as many of them
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: can reach the playoffs, that'd be great. And just keep going.
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: And I love that I can go out and be
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: a part of these teams and capture the moments and
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: write about them, and that these local businesses are supporting
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm doing, and we just kind of
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: keep that whole thing going, and and.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, it's just it's an awesome community.
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: And and and for all these teams and just the
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: county and and the overwhelming love and support has just
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: been fantastic. So I'm excited going into this new fall season,
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: and I'm hopefully i'll have all my energy radio so
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: I can stand on the sidelines for a full game,
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: and yes, I will sit on the bench by my
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: familiar spot during halftime, and so I can get ready
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: again and walk the sidelines during the games and go
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: out to these other volleyball games and soccer games and
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: swim meets and cross country meets.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited.
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: I'm excited to get the ball rolling. And I can't
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: believe it's right around the corner.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is here. I mean, that's it all we
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: got left. Now Tyler's to do the preview and the
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: volleyball preview, the Week one football preview on the volleyball preview,
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: and then we don't sleep for a while because you're
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: gonna watch some games and you're gonna get some box
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: scores and then you're gonna shoot them over to me.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go, oh, that's right. We got to.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Record tonight, and then I'm gonna go to my coaches
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: meeting on Sunday and we're gonna record the podcast on
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Sunday night. And then, I mean, we haven't even talked
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: about how we're gonna do a fall sports wrap up.
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: I mean we I guess we kind of talked about it,
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: but we definitely don't have anything set in stuff.
• 54:56
  Speaker 4: That seemed like that was It seemed like that was
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: like two months ago that we talked about it, even
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: though probably two weeks ago.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's been crazy. Yeah, yeah, And honestly,
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: I don't even remember what our plan was. I just
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: remember thinking myself, like that sounds good, but probably won't work,
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: but all right, like we'll.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: Go with not like we got to do an extra podcast,
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: is what we were thinking.
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the thing is that I think
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: we have now because we did the winter sports and
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: the Spring sports wrap up. I mean, I feel like
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: we kind of have to do a fall So I mean,
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: we'll see how it goes. I mean, honestly, it might
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: become one of those things where we just give little
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: blips on the football podcast, but just because it might
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: just be the only way it works for us. But
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: we'll definitely be talking those other sports like that's one
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: hundred percent happening. So I'm going to learn way more
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: about soccer and probably some tennis and I don't know
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: is their goal. I don't even know what's going on
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: in the fall.
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: That's right, boys tennis as well, that's another one coming
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: up here.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we talked we talked volleyball last year
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: like not a ton, but we definitely talked it way
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: more than we ever have. Now we're doing a preview,
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: so we're going to talk a lot about volleyball, you
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: know what I mean. So yeah, I'm gonna learn a
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: lot about stuff that I've never even heard of or
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: a good chunk of it.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm excited though. I think it's gonna be
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: fun and.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Tyler, let's wrap it up right there. I mean,
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know that there's anything else left to say.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: I mean maybe what we should have done was like
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: a preview to the previews and had all these discussions
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: somewhere else, right like Nooksact Value. People are going, hey,
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: come on, guys, wrap it up. I need to hear
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: your outro. Ryland, okay, final, I'll get to it. He's
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Tyler Anderson from Walkompreps watcompreps dot Com.
• 56:30
  Speaker 3: I'm Ryland Spencer.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: You've been listening to episode of two hundred and seventy three,
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: the last of ten football team previews as we head
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: towards too and now are basically at the twenty twenty
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: four football season here on the walkum Preps podcast. We
• 56:44
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