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- 0:00This is former Merdian offensive lineman Wyat Dueling and you're listening to the Welcome Preps
- 0:05Podcast with Tyler and Ryland. I just lost twenty bucks of Tyler because he
- 0:09proved to me that he can still make a thirty five yard field goal.
- 0:13And now it's time to enjoy the best podcast in Welcome County, the Welcome
- 0:17Preps Podcast. Co Trojans, Greetings and welcome into the Welcome Preps Podcast.
- 0:38This is episode at one at ninety seven, a preview of Week five.
- 0:42I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always Tyler Anderson of Welcome Preps. Tyler,
- 0:48how we doing? I'm doing great man. This is we're getting into
- 0:52complete conference play now all around the board, so this is when things really
- 0:57start to take place. Yeah, we go from ten games last week to
- 1:02seven this week. That's nice too. Yeah, yeah you get Tyler.
- 1:07Just a rough estimate, how long does one game take you to do start
- 1:11to finish? Between three and four hours. Usually you will I'll watch it
- 1:21through three times on film, So I watch it through once to do the
- 1:25offensive stuff, I watch it through again to do the defensive stuff, and
- 1:29then I watch it through a third time to get a kind of a feel
- 1:30of the flow of the game, you know, because if you're just going
- 1:34off numbers, it's really hard to write a story. But if you're getting
- 1:37and I'm taking notes like oh that was on fourth down or oh that was
- 1:41you know. Yeah, and some filmers do like every time there's a change
- 1:45of possession, they show the clock so you can see how much time is
- 1:48left. So that kind of helps with stories. And so the three times
- 1:52through, and then I have to get a picture, and then I have
- 1:55to do the graphic, and then add up all the stats, put the
- 1:57box score in, and then the worst part the actual writing of the story
- 2:01and then posting it and then sharing it and then putting it on this and
- 2:06putting it on that. And so yeah, as about three and a half
- 2:07hours per per game, so you figure three less games you're getting to followed
- 2:13ten hours out of this. Yeah. Well, the goal is to have
- 2:17everything done by ten am on Sunday so I can watch the NFL red zone,
- 2:22the red zone, red zone, big red zone guy over there that
- 2:25Anderson Oh yeah, oh yeah, so that's the goal. I love the
- 2:30red zone, but I haven't been able to I haven't watched basically a snap
- 2:34of NFL football hardly. I watched a little bit of the Seahawks. I'll
- 2:38try to catch like a quarter of the Seahawks each week. And so,
- 2:43yeah, it's it's been tough. Well, Tyler, we need to give
- 2:46a thank you to mister Wyatt Dueling for the intro. And yeah, so
- 2:53Tyler, do you want to do you want to break it down and explain
- 2:54to people what exactly it is or kind of what all happened there? Yeah,
- 3:00what went down? What? Why is he you know, unofficially a
- 3:04sponsor of the show for you know, the last one, the one a
- 3:07couple of days ago, and we'll say today too. Yeah, so basically
- 3:13as a as a joke, a couple like a week ago, I was
- 3:15watching you know a lot of these really good local players are putting up you
- 3:20know, their highlights from week one through three or whatever. Please take a
- 3:23look at my highlights week one through three. And these are good players that
- 3:25are you know, looking to get recruited and stuff like that. And it
- 3:30just it just started making me feel like I was like, I'll make I'll
- 3:36put together my kicking highlights as a joke. And so I went back and
- 3:40found some kicks and put music to it, put NFL Primetime music to it,
- 3:45and just kind of, you know, made it, sparked it up
- 3:49a little bit and and had some fun with it. And I put it
- 3:53on Instagram kind of as a joke and said something like, you know when
- 3:59people ask if I I say yeah kind of and and then I put you
- 4:02know, kickers or people too, and all of a sudden, he was
- 4:06getting a ton of reaction, and you know, Jake Mason and and a
- 4:13lot of guys, you know, Hunter Jones and some former players and some
- 4:15current players were We're commenting and it was pretty funny. And then Whyatt du
- 4:20Ling, who is one of our favorites played at Meridian graduated last year,
- 4:25commented if you can still if you can still kick a thirty five yard or
- 4:29you know, I'll give you twenty bucks. And I'm thinking, there's no
- 4:32downside of this. It's not like if I miss one that I have to
- 4:38give him twenty bucks or anything like. Yeah, it's it's a win win,
- 4:41I mean, or it's a a win no loss is the situation.
- 4:45So uh so, yeah, so I figured, okay, And I know
- 4:48he listens to the podcast religiously h he's big, big fans. So I
- 4:54figured, okay, well let's see what happens. Warm up with a few
- 4:58extra points, go back to thirty five yards, put it through, put
- 5:01it on film, and I shared it and I just put needed the gas
- 5:05money and he doesn't let a little emoji like the like the handshake, and
- 5:12he's like, a deal's a deal. And so he thought it was great.
- 5:16And then I told him, I said, hey, if you want
- 5:19to, if you want to, because he was so jack to record a
- 5:21podcast last year, and I said, hey, if you want to record
- 5:25another earned the intro, say if you want to record another intro explaining what
- 5:29happened, go for it. He's like, yeah, no, no problem.
- 5:30So he did that, and that's what we're using. It's too funny.
- 5:36We yea sometimes, Tyler, we just have a little too much fun
- 5:40on this podcast. I know. Yeah. Hey, we also need to
- 5:43give a thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm dot com. Kurt Mayberry Farm, fourth
- 5:46generation generation, family owned and operated a berry farm committed to growing the highest
- 5:50quality berry strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Tyler, pie, it's stuff,
- 5:58fie fie. You know what's coming up? Tyler? What's every day
- 6:03we get closer to Thanksgiving. Yes, yes, I know. I can't
- 6:09wait for the picture with the giant was it the giant fork that you have
- 6:13or yes? Yeah, yeah, So it's a tradition and so happy.
- 6:17I just Thanksgivings the best, man, It just is. Yeah, and
- 6:23all you people are like, oh Christmas, no, you can wait until
- 6:25we get down with Thanksgivings. That gives you like a whole month. I
- 6:28think it's a great combination because the food and football combination is just right up
- 6:32your ally. Yes. Well, and then you know, you take a
- 6:35nice nap along with it, and then by the time you wake up,
- 6:38but it's Christmas time, it's ready to have some ham. I mean,
- 6:40it's so perfect. Anyway, Tyler, we we got some games here.
- 6:45We as we mentioned the seven games this week, starting with a Thursday game
- 6:49Burlington Edison oh and three oh and one in league play, and so we
- 6:54will explain that one here in a second. But they're coming to town to
- 6:57take on Squalacomb, who is two and two and they are owing to in
- 7:00league play. That is a seven pm game at Civic Stadium. Yeah,
- 7:05so Burlington Edison, Tyler, did you read what it was about their game
- 7:11against Lakewood. I didn't read about it. I spoke briefly to Pete Lockhart
- 7:15about it last week in a volleyball game, and I just know that the
- 7:21second half is going to be replaying. That's about all I know. Yeah,
- 7:25basically, the there was a misspotting of the ball. It was a
- 7:30big play in the game, and the referees misspotted it. And I'll tell
- 7:33you what, I don't actually remember a time in which the w i a
- 7:40A approved the you know, an appeal, Like I just don't remember it.
- 7:45I mean that's not saying that, you know, that's not taking a
- 7:47shot at the w i AA. It's just something that you know, No,
- 7:53it just doesn't happen. I mean, one, games don't get appealed
- 7:55all that often. Like it, it really does not happen very often.
- 7:59And a lot lot of times it's like, well what do you want them
- 8:01to do? Like like a lot of time, or it's like, well
- 8:03it's a fifty point game, guy, I don't think that one play made
- 8:07much of a difference, you know. Or sometimes the team ends up winning
- 8:11and then they take the you know, they don't even need to appeal at
- 8:13whatever. It is, but essentially the ball got spotted incorrectly. The WIAA
- 8:18agreed, and yeah, so they've still got some some things to work out
- 8:20with Lakewood that I can't remember. I think it's the think it said it
- 8:24was going to be replayed in Week ten because the league doesn't play Week ten
- 8:30or doesn't participate in Week ten as far as I know, unless they're gonna
- 8:33go into this year, which I don't think that they are, but I
- 8:35don't know. But yeah, that being said, Burlington Edison is oh and
- 8:41three and oh and one because that game has not been finished, even though
- 8:45they did win that game over Lakewood. Then that's why lake would appeal.
- 8:50Then here we are, that being said Tyler. Burlington Edison Squalacum two teams
- 8:54that are pretty familiar with each other by now. And Burlington Edison a team
- 8:58that we are very familiar with in a way because we've talked about him a
- 9:03lot since this podcast got started, because they play a lot of games against
- 9:07teams in WelCom County. Yeah, you know, uh, stalwart of you
- 9:11know, the Northwest League and now the Northwest Conference. You know back in
- 9:15the you know, you go way back into the seventies, and eighties and
- 9:18coach Glenn Rickert. He was at one point in multiple state champions. At
- 9:22one point he was the state's all time winning as coach, you know,
- 9:28and he was a force. I mean they were they were top ranked team
- 9:31all the time. You know, the big game with them in Ferndale in
- 9:35nineteen eighty five, you know, the number one versus number two in the
- 9:39state. Ferndale wins it seven to nothing on the opening kickoff return for a
- 9:41touchdown by our boy Donnie Finkbunner, extra point kicked by Doug Peterson, and
- 9:48that was it. It was seven zero And uh, a lot of a
- 9:50lot of great history with the with the Tigers, they kind of fell off
- 9:54a little bit in the nineties, kind of came back after that, and
- 9:56they've always been really really strong coaching staff. This year and you know,
- 10:03I've been able to see them now on film from last week and and Squalocum.
- 10:07You know, it's it's just gonna be uh, it's gonna be an
- 10:11interesting matchup. I mean, they won the first two. Now they've lost
- 10:15the last two that happened to be conference games. They've scored one touchdown and
- 10:20the last two weeks combined, So they really got to get something going offensively.
- 10:24They have they have weapons. They just got to find something that's clicking
- 10:28and then and then they have to What they really got to do is get
- 10:31like five or six plays in a row without without something weird happening, whether
- 10:35it's just kind of an errant pass or a guy running the wrong way,
- 10:39or they just got to get the flow going. And so much of it
- 10:43is flow. You know. I think Burlington, UH might be without one
- 10:48of their quarterbacks, so that's gonna hinder them a little bit. Yeah,
- 10:52it's gonna be an interesting game. I love these Thursday games as far as,
- 10:58you know, personally, because I can get a head start on on
- 11:01writing these stories and I can go out there and put all my focus into
- 11:05one game for one night. It was awesome last Thursday night going out to
- 11:09the Civic Stadium and seeing Bellingham and South Whippy. So it's going to be
- 11:13very similar this time. Tyler's got some nuggets, man, Tyler, I
- 11:18here, you got a nugget about this game? What do you got for
- 11:20me? Well, and that was coach Lucy who gave us that that sound
- 11:24bite years ago. So speaking of Coach Lucy, Before he got to Squalicum,
- 11:28the Storm were five and nine all time against the Tigers. And since
- 11:35he's been there, they're undefeated against Burlington four and no. So we we
- 11:41we've talked a lot about, you know, how great of a coach Nick
- 11:46Lucy is and and ever since, I mean right when he got there,
- 11:50right off the bat, you know, state playoffs right away. I mean
- 11:54he did inherit a pretty good team with you know, Christian Jorgensen at quarterback,
- 11:58and they had some they had some dudes, you know, obviously Ben
- 12:03Peterson and those kinds of guys. But he has kept the course and he's
- 12:07been you know, very very good. Already, they're all time winning his
- 12:11coach in school history and h this is his tenth year now, hard to
- 12:15believe he's been there ten years. Wow. And it's just one of those
- 12:20one of those interesting things that I just thought I'd look up really quickly and
- 12:22I just wanted to see all the matchups between the two schools, and then
- 12:26I'd just noticed ever since he's been there, they've been all ws against Burlington's
- 12:30so pretty cool. Does that mean that they're nine to nine all time?
- 12:35Yeah, nine and nine all time? That'd be wild if they tied.
- 12:39I mean, something's gotta get wild if they tied. Since I don't know
- 12:41if ties happen anymore, but I mean they can happen, you know,
- 12:45if if it's tied going in overtime and then you know, I don't know,
- 12:48lightning or something. I mean, heck, I don't know. Yah,
- 12:50yeah, I never know because because there could be a storm. Oh
- 12:54jeez, don't do that anyway. Yeah, Burlington Edison come to town on
- 12:58Thursday to take on I'll come seven pm Civic Stadium. Friday. We got
- 13:03a five pack of games here, Tyler, starting with we'll go with La
- 13:07Connor at Bellingham. It's oh and three La Connor at one and three Bellingham
- 13:11seven pm, also at Civic Stadium. Tyler, does La Connor have much
- 13:18history against the team's of Walcom County. I mean they've always been a smaller
- 13:22school, so you know, maybe below what Wacomb County has other than Lummy,
- 13:26But yeah, La Connor they got much history there, not a ton.
- 13:31We used to play them in baseball quite a bit, like I remember
- 13:35going down there and playing them, but no, not really for football.
- 13:41There's been some non conference games against Nooksack, you know, about fifteen years
- 13:45ago, ten fifteen years ago. I think they may have played Bellingham about
- 13:54seven years ago, something like that, seven or eight years ago. Bellingham
- 13:58had an independent schedule for a year a while back. So I mean there
- 14:03there's there's little pockets here and there, but not really that much history with
- 14:07La Connor playing Walcom County schools. Yeah, and la Connor they are,
- 14:13you know, that's a program that for a couple of years there they were
- 14:16very good in the two B ranks and then you know they've struggled recently and
- 14:22it seems like they always find a way to get things going. But oh
- 14:24and three not looking real great Bellingham though they're coming off. I mean we
- 14:30talked about it on the podcast a couple of days ago. Their most complete
- 14:33game of the season Tyler by Far by Far, Yeah, Bellingham is.
- 14:37You know, they played that complete game. Like you said, the first
- 14:39half's been always been great. Second half they've kind of fallen apart. Last
- 14:43week it was it was a full game, and they are. It's you
- 14:48know, you look at Bellingham schedule and you and you know, you could
- 14:50say that La Connor might be you know, I don't know if you want
- 14:56to say, the easiest opponent, but it looks like maybe one of the
- 14:58most surefire w ends going forward. And so you see, you combine that
- 15:03with Bellingham just coming off their biggest win, it's really hard to see Bellingham
- 15:07faltering here unless they just don't play up to the opponent. And you know,
- 15:11you're kind of you just you want to keep the gas pedal down,
- 15:15is what I'm saying. I guess, And so I think that I think
- 15:18the Bellingham is you know, everything is peaking at the right time. And
- 15:22and you know, there's no there's no conference, there's no nothing. It's
- 15:26just week to week, try to get wins, build confidence so they can
- 15:30get back into that Northwest Conference and you know, whether that's next year or
- 15:33the year after whenever, and and uh, I just I can't wait till
- 15:37that happens, because I love it when Bellingham is playing Squalacum and Seahome and
- 15:41Lyndon and you know, that's that's Walking County football. You know, that's
- 15:46that's what I want to see. And so they're they're in the right direction
- 15:48to make that happen. See Home successfully did that, you know a handful
- 15:52of years ago, five six years ago, and and they went right into
- 15:56the Northwest Conference and did really well. So I hope that could happen,
- 16:00and if they can continue their winning ways, it should happen. Seven pm
- 16:03Civic Stadium, Leconnor coming to town to take on Bellingham. Rolly to Kostro
- 16:07Field out there. Seven pm at Linden. The Lions are three and one
- 16:12on the season, two and oh in conference play after a big win,
- 16:17big last second you know, buzzer beater if you will. I mean it
- 16:21kind of happened as it was going. But uh yeah, two and o.
- 16:25And See Home three and one on the season also, but they are
- 16:27one and one in league play having lost to Sedro Wooly. So if you're
- 16:32Linden, uh, you know, you just kind of want to keep to
- 16:34keep the steamboat moving. If you're Sea Home, this is a game.
- 16:38You know you would love to go up there and steal a win if you
- 16:41can. Yeah, this is gonna be a big one. You know.
- 16:45Last year's game, I think going into the game, it was kind of
- 16:48like, well, Lyndon should take care of business and Sea Home was was
- 16:52right on the cusp. I think the score was twenty one nineteen and there
- 16:56was a really really close call of a of a Sea Home touchdown that was
- 17:02called back or he was marked out at the one or something like that,
- 17:06and and uh, I don't know if they if they got you know,
- 17:08stymied at the one after that, but uh, it was a really really
- 17:12close game. I remember Andre Watson had a punt return for a touchdown that
- 17:15kind of broke the game open. And and that game was at Civic Stadium,
- 17:21you know, this time being at at Linden, the natural grass.
- 17:26You know, Sea Homes got a lot of speed. They got a lot
- 17:27of perimeter guys that that could kind of you know, slow them down maybe
- 17:32a little bit, but uh, and Linden is just so big up front.
- 17:36You know, this is this is a really really good matchup. There's
- 17:38there's been some some good games in the past, you know, at their
- 17:41first ever game. You know, it's funny. Ninety three was like the
- 17:47first year that Lyndon moved up away from you know, the Blains and Radian
- 17:52and Nusack Valley Baker, Lyndon Christian, all those teams, and they've been
- 17:56up ever since. And that first year that they moved up, I think
- 17:59they went like four and five. That year, it was you know,
- 18:00it was an experience to play all these new these new teams and and see
- 18:07Home that year won that that league, that North that Northwest League. So
- 18:11that that year, see Hoome was just loaded with talent. They had the
- 18:15state's defensive player of the year and Josh Smith and Lyndon was just kind of
- 18:18like the new team, kind of you know, hey, we're here and
- 18:22let's see how we do. And now it's Lyndon has turned into this juggernaut
- 18:26and Seaholme is starting to rise back up again. And so you know,
- 18:32it was a really tough one against Segar Woolly. I think Lyndon is they're
- 18:36obviously they're very much like Segar Wooley as we saw last week. So they're
- 18:38gonna have to find some things to do a little bit differently. They're gonna
- 18:42have to pass protect a lot better. They're gonna have to be able to
- 18:45try to run the ball. You know, these are things that it was
- 18:49they were really tough to do. You know, back and a couple of
- 18:55weeks ago against against Sedro and they're really gonna have to get it going against
- 18:59Linden then tells me the grass is going to be a little long there up
- 19:02in Linden. You know, they they held off on the fourth cutting a
- 19:06hey, if you know what I mean, you know, like fucking bales
- 19:08right like, uh yeah, they held off to run the all uh John
- 19:14deer over the over the field. There was a baseball team that was always
- 19:18they talked was it at Wrigley or like historically there was a team that I
- 19:22think it was the White Sox, wasn't it. It could have been.
- 19:26I just remember hearing about like there was always that. You know, They're
- 19:29always a team that was pointed at and said, you know, there their
- 19:33infielders weren't as good or something, so they they left the grass a little
- 19:37higher to help him out. Or I don't know what it was, but
- 19:38I just think it was the same team. It could have been the White
- 19:41Sox. I'm pretty sure it was the White Sox because if I can remember,
- 19:45right, the guy that's the groundskeeper has been there for like fifty years
- 19:51and he it's like a family and like he has kids that have gone on
- 19:55to other places. And I think it's the White Sox, But I mean,
- 19:59who knows. So that sounds like something a lot of teams in Major
- 20:00League Baseball have probably done. I mean, I remember people used to always
- 20:03complain that, you know, the Mariners defense looks so good because they play
- 20:07on AstroTurf. Well, yeah, of course, Like what do you want
- 20:11them to do though, like bobble if you just to get the numbers back
- 20:12to like everybody else. Like anyway, see home three and one, one
- 20:17and one in league play, headed to Linden to take on the Lions three
- 20:19and one, two and oh in league play seven pm. Up there at
- 20:22Linden High School, Blaine one in three, Mount Baker one and three,
- 20:26seven pm, Bob tidal Field, Tyler, you will be there. This
- 20:30is the first game in that Northwest Conference. And I'll tell you what,
- 20:33if you're either of these two teams here, you need this win. I
- 20:37mean sure, it's just the first of you know, of what four league
- 20:41games that they're gonna play here, But if you're either of these two teams,
- 20:44I mean, you really need to start conference play with a w.
- 20:48Yeah. These are these are a couple of teams that you know, it's
- 20:52it's really interesting. They both have the same record obviously in the non conference
- 20:55schedule, but coming from last year, they're kind of looking at as two
- 20:59different person spectives. You got Baker with a lot of new faces on varsity.
- 21:03They're coming off a state championship run obviously well you know, runner up,
- 21:07but a team that got all the way the state championship game, and
- 21:12you are kind of trying to go through it all again with a bunch of
- 21:17new faces and just showing them the ropes and blah blah blah blah. Blaine
- 21:19is you know, have a lot of players back from last year's team,
- 21:25but it's a new coaching staff and and so it's it's it's two completely different
- 21:29things, but they're kind of meeting at the same apex where it's they're both
- 21:33one and three. They both are really looking for that first conference win.
- 21:37And it's just it's interesting because they've looked very similar, you know, this
- 21:44year where it's just you know, like that last week's game, Blaine,
- 21:49you know, had a chance to win that one. They probably should have
- 21:52won that one. You know, Baker is Baker is. They've they've struggled
- 21:57a little bit and and they're just trying, like you know, things are
- 22:02just not clicking for them either. And and and this is kind of when
- 22:06you pull out some stuff that you haven't shown yet, you know what I
- 22:08mean? Like like I was really surprised to see Nooksack Valley with the double
- 22:12pass last week, Like like you don't like you know what I mean?
- 22:15Like you save that for when you really need it, not against oak Woyum,
- 22:19but you could be showing that and then go off of that for something
- 22:22else later. I mean, they're way smarter than I am, So what
- 22:26do I know? But you know what I mean? Like, there's gonna
- 22:27be plays that both teams are gonna run that they have not shown all year
- 22:33because you're saving it for conference play. And I think that this is this
- 22:37is going to be one of those games where you're gonna see some really cool
- 22:40stuff and I'm excited to be there. It's so weird because all seven games
- 22:44are in the county this week and wow, and so it's kind of and
- 22:48five of them on Friday night, and I'm thinking, is there a way
- 22:49that I could be at all five of them at some somehow? No,
- 22:53you're an idiot, don't you. No, No, I'm not going to,
- 22:56but it did go through my mind. The only way to Bopdale Field.
- 23:00I'm excited about this. Yeah, I mean the only way you could
- 23:02have maybe pulled it off is if there was like a double header and a
- 23:06six pm game somewhere else, you know what I mean exactly, because then
- 23:08it would be like what a five o'clock start, a six o'clock star a
- 23:11seven and you can say for the first quarter and then bounce somewhere else.
- 23:15And you'd have to get like Lyndon, Christian and Lynden to both be home
- 23:19with Meridian also home. You know what I mean, Like, Yeah,
- 23:22you'd have to get real lucky. Yeah, it'd be it'd be it'd be
- 23:27too tired. They're all starting at seven, so that would be. But
- 23:30I mean, it was just weird noticing that they were all at home,
- 23:33you know. Now that being said Tyler, if anybody has a helicopter and
- 23:37they want to make it happen, yeah, you can give Tyler a call.
- 23:42Yeah. Uh, let's see here. Tyler's got some nuggets, man,
- 23:47Tyler's got nuggets about Blaine and Mount Baker. What do you got for
- 23:51me? Well, this is the believe it or not, this is the
- 23:53longest running matchup in Walking County history. There was a time, oh boy,
- 24:00probably more than ten years ago, where they played their one hundredth match,
- 24:04one hundredth game, and you know, there there were there were years
- 24:11where they would play twice a year, but I think they started playing each
- 24:15other in the thirties something around there. Yeah, and so there's just a
- 24:21lot of history in this and there was a time in the nineties. Shocker,
- 24:25I'm going to talk about the nineties, but this matchup had three overtime
- 24:29games in a span of four years, So a four game span, they
- 24:33had three overtime games. Blaine won in nineteen ninety two, twenty to thirteen
- 24:38in overtime. The following year Baker won twenty four to twenty one, and
- 24:44then two years later Blaine won thirteen to ten. So and even in between
- 24:49games after that, there was a lot of these were once were one score
- 24:52games. It's always been a really big rivalry, a lot of fun.
- 25:00And yeah, it's just you know, it's so funny because I remember the
- 25:03nineteen ninety three one so well. Uh, Doug Preston was the brand new
- 25:07coach at Baker. He had come from he played at w Natchee and and
- 25:11he even played with the Huskies, I believe, but he was coaching up
- 25:17in Canada for years before he came down to Mount Baker and when the game
- 25:23was tied at the end of regulation, he, you know, he got
- 25:26the team together and he was like, well, He's like, a tie
- 25:30is not bad and da da da da da. He had no idea there
- 25:33was overtime because in Canada they still still had ties and and and a player
- 25:40I believe it was Pete Reardon said, we got overtime. Coach, He's
- 25:44like, we do, and he had to talk to an assistant coach to
- 25:47get the rules. And it was just one of those crazy where you know,
- 25:52one team, you know, one team kicked a field goal, Baker
- 25:56kicked a field goal, and then Blaine had the ball and they were they
- 26:00they were forced to fumble and went out of the end zone. That that
- 26:02was it, and helmet's coming off, and it's just crazy. And you
- 26:04just don't see a lot of overtime games. There haven't been that many in
- 26:08Walcom County. I mean, I can't even remember the last time. And
- 26:11I always make the box scoring. I don't remember having to make a little
- 26:15overtime thing for years. But they had three of them in four years.
- 26:18So now that I say that, they'll probably be an overtime game this week?
- 26:22Who knows? You know who the coach was back when they first played
- 26:26Ron Lepper from Mount Baker High School. That's great. I believe it was
- 26:32Stubb Johnson for Mount Baker, Stubb n Tyler. Why aren't there names like
- 26:37Stubb Johnson anymore? I mean, what a name? Yeah? No Dan,
- 26:44Dan Beagle, but it's or could be bigel. In nineteen thirty one,
- 26:49Mount Baker beat Blaine twenty one nothing nineteen thirty one, their first game
- 26:55against each other. Now, what are the odds that Mount Baker scores more
- 26:57than that in this week's game? Oh? Boy, the over under?
- 27:02I think that's pretty close. Yeah, you know, I think it's gonna
- 27:03be a low scoring game. I do too, especially if the weather is
- 27:07is playing a factor here. And we'll find out about the weather here in
- 27:11a few minutes from Randy Small. But is that the only nugget you got
- 27:15there, Tyler? Yeah, that's it alrighty again seven pm. Bobbed his
- 27:19Dale field out there at Mount Baker. If you see, Tyler, we'll
- 27:22have a code word for you here in a little bit. But yeah,
- 27:26Blaine coming to town, the border rights and the Mountaineers. Uh, let's
- 27:30see here. Also in the one A Northwest Conference, Nooksack Valley and Meridian
- 27:36kickoff league play. Both teams were three and one. This is a seven
- 27:40pm game at Meridian. Tyler. Uh, you know, Tyler, if
- 27:44you went to the first half of Blaine Mount Baker, Nooksack Meridian is like
- 27:48actually on your way home from there, I know it's it's very possible that
- 27:53that's gonna happen. Boy, Yeah, I don't know. I mean,
- 27:59I'm just saying, you know, I know, I know, I totally
- 28:02got it here. I mean, here's the goal. It's tempting, It's
- 28:04very very tempting. Here's here's the goal for you, Tyler. Watch a
- 28:08little bit of every single game in the one A north West Conference this year,
- 28:15a little bit of every single game between conference games of the boy,
- 28:18because you could. I mean, it'd be you could do it. I
- 28:22probably would too, if you really made me try and do that, I
- 28:26would be like, yes, I will do well. The only problem is
- 28:29those games are pretty much all going to be Fridays, and that means you
- 28:33know exactly what teams you're saying every Friday, and that's you know, not
- 28:37really fair to everybody else. Sure that being said Tyler, Nooksack Valley Meridian.
- 28:41What do you got for me on this one here? Well, you
- 28:44know, I remember last year going into the game, it was very hyped
- 28:48up where you know, you know, oh, you know, nook Sacks
- 28:51looking great, Meridian's looking great, and nook Sac just just it was lopsided.
- 28:57And I I'm hoping it's not going to be like that again because it's
- 29:03kind of the same feel. Oh, Nooksa's looking great, Meridians looking great.
- 29:06I think Meridian is much better than they were last year. I think
- 29:08that Nook Sak is better than they were last year. So I'm really hoping
- 29:12for a big game. You know. The big thing for Meridian is and
- 29:17this is this is this is crazy. I was looking at these numbers all
- 29:21purpose yards for the entire county. So all purpose yards the way I do
- 29:26it is rushing, receiving, and returning yards. Okay, kick return,
- 29:30punt punt return. The top two guys in the county for all purpose yards
- 29:33both play for Meridian. That's that is really rare. You know, usually
- 29:38you have a guy and if you have if you have two, they're not
- 29:41the two best in the entire county. So they really heavily rely on Josha
- 29:48Elmer and Landon Downey and and I think that you know, when you rely
- 29:53mostly on just a couple of guys, a really good defense can find ways
- 29:57to at least really camp, you know, lockdown on one and then and
- 30:04try to take one out of the game and then you know, be ready
- 30:07for the others. Now, yeah, you got some other guys. You've
- 30:10got going Fuller, and you got James Headall and you got Kelly Gray and
- 30:14stuff like that. But that's going to be the big key I think for
- 30:18Meridian is is are they going to be able to still rely on those two
- 30:22guys? Oh not? Now on the Nooksack side, Uh, you know,
- 30:26how how healthy is Colton Lentz. You know, even even not at
- 30:30one hundred percent, he still ran for you know, one hundred and forty
- 30:34yards last week. And uh, but you know he only carried the ball
- 30:38six times and you know, played a handful of plays on defense and that
- 30:42that was it, that was all that was needed. But you know,
- 30:45I think that he's if he's back at full strength, that's really going to
- 30:48help him. But Skyler Wittern is the best backup running back in the the
- 30:52state maybe. Uh So, it's kind of like, you know, you
- 30:56got a lot of guys, I just you know this game being at Meridian.
- 31:00When you were at Meridian, this was the matchup, which is kind
- 31:03of cool. H It's it's it's a it's a big one for both teams,
- 31:10and it's a it's another long time rival. Yeah, this is a
- 31:15This is an interesting game, Tyler, because you remember last year with nooksack
- 31:19value. This was kind of with a point where you started kind of going,
- 31:22Okay, maybe these guys are maturing a year ahead of time, you
- 31:27know. And we've talked about Meridian and how young they are, and they
- 31:33are kind of in that point right now where hey, are these guys?
- 31:37Are these guys really good? You know? And this is an opportunity.
- 31:40I mean, don't get me wrong, if Meridian finds a way to make
- 31:42this a really close game, that'll still say something to me. That being
- 31:47said, if they find a way to win, oh boy, look out,
- 31:49I mean look out. You mentioned I mean Elmer and Downey. Doesn't
- 31:55that sound like a I mean, it's it's not a law firm because that's
- 31:57Liam Holton. It's like a carpet cleaning business or something. I don't know.
- 32:01Yeah, yeah, it's gotta be like a like a like a like
- 32:06a yardage, like you know, like a carpet a landscaping business or something
- 32:12like that, carpet cleaning and landscaping. I mean with Tyler, we just
- 32:15hey, blue collar guys there at Meridian. That's what we got here.
- 32:20Yeah. Anyways, seven pm at Meridian, Nooksack Valley and the Trojans of
- 32:25Meridians. So uh yeah, I mean that's your that's your two games there.
- 32:30Oh wait, Tyler, Tyler's got some nuggets, man, I mean,
- 32:34we got nuggets all over the play we got. This is a triple
- 32:37nugget night. Man, this is it is. I don't think we've had
- 32:39one of these yet. Have we had a triple nugget night. I don't
- 32:42know that we have, but I don't know. Perhaps the first week,
- 32:44but but yeah, obviously we talked about I mean, these guys have been
- 32:47playing each other forever. Yeah, and uh, the year, the year
- 32:52twenty ten is really interesting. You know. At that time, Blaine and
- 32:55Mount Baker were both up in two A, so the one A conference only
- 32:59can assisted of Meridian and Nuksak along with Lynna, Christian and Friday Harbor.
- 33:05Okay, that was the that was I didn't know Friday. I knew Friday
- 33:08Harbor had been in you know, the county at one point, I didn't
- 33:12realize it was that recent. Yeah, there was two separate times. It
- 33:15was in the mid nineties and then it was again like late two thousands and
- 33:20early tens, and so they would and they would play each other twice at
- 33:24that time as well, because there was only the four schools, and so
- 33:29in that year twenty ten, Nuksak and Meridian combined for a record of twenty
- 33:32and five. Okay, Nuksak was eight and four, Meridian ended twelve and
- 33:37one, so they were undefeated going into the Semis and lost. The crazy
- 33:40thing was Nuksak's only losses came to the two games against Meridian, the opener
- 33:46against Cascade Christian and they were knocked out of the playoffs in the second round
- 33:52in the quarters by Cascade Christian, So two to Cascade Christian, won to
- 33:57Meridian. Meridians only lost that year in the Semis was the Cascade Christian.
- 34:05So it's just one of those crazy things where you know, they both got
- 34:08knocked out by the same team and they beat everybody else. But you know,
- 34:13of course their matchup against each other, Meridian got both of those,
- 34:15but that they were both very strong teams and that in that year, but
- 34:22they just couldn't get past Cascade Christian in the playoffs. So what you're telling
- 34:24me is that year it was a really bad idea to play Meridian or Cascade
- 34:28Christian. Yeah. I suppose unless you're Cascade Christian then it was all right,
- 34:35Yeah, that's that's pretty wild. There. Give me it again.
- 34:37Who were the four teams in the conference? And twenty ten it was Meridian,
- 34:42Nosak, Valley, Lyndon Christian, Freday Harbor. So Baker was up
- 34:45in two A. Baker and Blaine were in two A from oh six to
- 34:52like twenty eleven. Wow, something like that. I don't remember. Blaine
- 34:57doesn't surprise me because they're you know, they go up. They gone back
- 35:00and forth. Yeah, when when Baker went up there, they would you
- 35:04know, they struggled. Uh, it was it was kind of you know,
- 35:08they and it was you know, they went through some changes at that
- 35:13point, just kind of philosophy wise and different things. And but when they
- 35:16came back, they really started dominating. And I talked to coach Lepp about
- 35:21it years ago, and you know when we were talking about like the like
- 35:24the Cascade Conference and like the crossovers, and it's it's tough for them to
- 35:29you know, when they would play, he would always say, like he
- 35:31goes, they just have to. They just have to. You know,
- 35:35once you start winning, it'll happen. You just gotta keep playing hard.
- 35:37He goes, When when we went up to two A and we were playing
- 35:40Squalacum and like they played Ferndale two years in a row, and like oh
- 35:45nine and ten, they won one of those games. You know, they're
- 35:49playing Linden every year, and Linden's winning state championships. And he's like,
- 35:53when we went up there and we would play those city schools and all that
- 35:57stuff, he goes, we learned a lot about ourselves. Then we then
- 36:00we came back down to one A and then it was different. You know,
- 36:02So it goes every team, every school has to go through that stuff.
- 36:06And you know, it's just that's what makes you better, That's how
- 36:09you get better. So uh, you know, he he taught you know,
- 36:14they weren't the best years for Mount Baker, but he knows how important
- 36:19it was. When when they were up in two A and what it what
- 36:22it did for their future. Yeah, it's interesting. I don't know how
- 36:25much we've talked about that on the podcast before, about you know, teams
- 36:29that moved down that are you know, decent teams at the upper level end
- 36:34up doing really well when they dropped down. I mean, uh, Okanagan
- 36:37is one that comes to mind. You know, they I don't I think
- 36:40they won two states championships and maybe and then they went up to one A
- 36:45and kind of struggled a little bit. But then when they came back to
- 36:47two B, I mean, they've been really good and they're really good again,
- 36:52you know, and uh, it's it's pretty interesting. Like that's h
- 36:57Eatonville. You know, Eatonville struggled in two A they'd dropped down to one
- 37:00A and then they were in the state championship game like two years later,
- 37:02you know. And it's Toppenish is another one. You know, Toppenish struggled
- 37:07in two A and now here they are always a good team in one A.
- 37:09You know, it's it's kind of interesting. I mean it's obviously you
- 37:14know, you don't want to just say, oh, it's it's easier opponent
- 37:15you know, No, that's not at all what it is. You know,
- 37:19It's just I don't know. It's like, it's like playing really tough
- 37:22teams, the good good coaching. When you play those tough teams, you
- 37:27learn a lot, you know, and you're able to then translate it to
- 37:30wins down the road for whatever reason. You know. But yeah, well,
- 37:34you learn how to prep better, you learn how to you learn to
- 37:37coach better, you know, you learn how to change up what you do
- 37:40more often. You know, you just you just get better at everything and
- 37:45then it just carries over. Let's see, that is Noozak Valley three and
- 37:51one at Meridian, three and one, seven pm at Meridian. The final
- 37:53game on Friday night, Marysville pil Chuck the Tomahawks coming to town. Four
- 37:58and oh. They are three and oz in league play. Ferndale three and
- 38:00one, one and one in league play. They have already played their non
- 38:06conference schedule. Ferndale has Marysville Pilchuck still has one game left to play.
- 38:12That is seven pm out at the new Ferndale Stadium. Tyler, we nobody
- 38:15did hit us up to let us know if there's a name or anything.
- 38:16Huh. No, So then you know the name of the stadium, Tyler,
- 38:21you ever seen h he ever seen Paint your Wagon? No? What
- 38:25it's like a I don't know. It's like a Western movie. But it's
- 38:29also like a musical or something like. I don't know exactly, but they
- 38:32ever heard of it? Yeah, it's called no name city. It's like
- 38:35no name stadium, no name stadium. But yeah, Ferndale, Marysville Pilchuck.
- 38:39Obviously, I can't imagine Marysville Pilchuck has a lot of history against Wacom
- 38:45County, but I'm sure against Ferndale they got quite a bit. Yeah,
- 38:49you know, ever since twenty sixteen, I believe it was when they West
- 38:52Coast three A North and and so there's definitely some history there. And and
- 38:58Marysville Pilchuck has had some you know, ups and downs. I mean,
- 39:00obviously they had a big, big run there for a while. Brandon Carson
- 39:06and was the head coach at that time, former Mount Baker player, and
- 39:09and they were just an exciting running team. I mean that it was.
- 39:14They were like a machine to watch. It was unbelievable. And then,
- 39:19uh, last year coaching change and they looked totally different. They were throwing
- 39:23the ball and it was spread out. It was just weird. So I
- 39:27don't know what to expect this year. I just know that they're undefeated and
- 39:30uh, you know it, we'll just we'll just see from there a Ferndale
- 39:36Uh that this is what this is like, exactly what they need to go
- 39:38back home. They've only played one home game so far. This is game
- 39:42number five coming up, and I think, you know, I mean,
- 39:45everybody in Ferndale was out there, but if you weren't out there, you're
- 39:47definitely gonna want to go to this one because you want to experience that that
- 39:52brand new stadium and people that went there the first time I probably loved it.
- 39:55They're gonna go again. So I expect another packed house U big conference
- 40:00game and Mary'sville Pilchuck undefeated. I mean, this is an awesome matchup.
- 40:06But yeah, you know, it all depends on you know, health again,
- 40:12and and you know Ferndale is you know, kind of limping along a
- 40:15little bit, but they just got to get back healthy. And this happened
- 40:20to them last year kind of in the middle of the season. They were
- 40:22out a bunch of guys at one at kind of the same time right in
- 40:24the middle of the year, between week four and five, and that's where
- 40:28we are now. So if you can get everybody right together at the same
- 40:32time and get on this run, this will be a big launching pad for
- 40:37that Marysville Pilchuck at Ferndale seven pm at Ferndale Saturday, Tyler another two pm
- 40:44game there at Lyndon Christian Napavine four and oh the Tigers of the two B
- 40:50level come to town to take on Lyndon Christian, who is now two and
- 40:52two after a loss last week. Yeah, I mean, Tyler, we
- 40:59talked about teams don't have a lot of history in the county. Napavine probably
- 41:02doesn't really have much of anything, but they did come up to Wacom County
- 41:07last year and did not go so well for for Bellingham. But uh,
- 41:12Lynn and Christian a little tougher opponent maybe this year. Yeah, you know,
- 41:15I loved what I saw from Napavine last year. Uh you know.
- 41:19They put up a ton of points, returned a couple of kickoffs for touchdowns,
- 41:22got a safety, they did everything. It was a lot of fun
- 41:27to see them in person during the day. Great great quarterback, good skill
- 41:31guys big, a big roster for a two B school, big roster,
- 41:37and and I believe they won state last year. Is that correct? Oh?
- 41:44Sure, I think they did. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they did.
- 41:47Yeah. Yeah, the top ranked again, and so I'm excited to
- 41:52see them. You know, there was a couple a couple of things about
- 41:55this about about this game. Else still the only team with that hasn't played
- 42:00a conference game yet and still won't this week, which is you know,
- 42:05it was the same last year. And I remember last year looking at Elsie's
- 42:10schedule and seeing these three Saturday games in a row on the road, and
- 42:15the first thing I thought of was, I can't wait till next year when
- 42:19they play three Saturday games at home. And you know, it doesn't always
- 42:22end up that way, but this is their third Saturday two pm start in
- 42:25a row, which is great because I can go to it and there's no
- 42:30other worries or anything like that. And I'm just hoping I have at least
- 42:34three or four stories done before I head out to this one and and and
- 42:39again. Weatherwise, that's going to be a big factor, I think,
- 42:43because when it's sunny out, man, Elsie looks fantastic. They had a
- 42:46lot of trouble with the rain last week, So I'm excited to hear Randy
- 42:52Small and see what he has to say, especially about Saturday, because it
- 42:55could it could really hinder a lot. Nappifne is oh slouch Man. They
- 43:00are a true awesome team. So this is gonna be a very very good
- 43:06game. And props to coach Turpstrap for for scheduling these games. I mean,
- 43:09obviously you had Royal on the schedule going back from last year, but
- 43:14they added Napifying and Lakeside nine mile Falls to their schedule this year. That's
- 43:19you know, they really want to play some good teams before they head into
- 43:22the Northwest Conference, and so I love that. I mean, it makes
- 43:24for really good play and you get to play complete games. You know,
- 43:28obviously the Bellevie Christian game wasn't like that, but you know, you get
- 43:30to play four quarters, you get to have your starters out there while you
- 43:34get to experience a full game. And so I'm gonna be excited about this
- 43:37one as well. Yeah, it's actually pretty interesting when you think about it,
- 43:39Tyler. They went back to back games against what most people would consider
- 43:44to be the number one team in both classifications. Absolutely, yeah, I
- 43:47mean I mean they would I tell you what, They would love to play
- 43:51Lyndon too, you know, but Lyndon only has those two non conference stoopenings
- 43:55and they're gonna play Ferndel every year. So, uh could you that playing
- 44:00that, you know, three top ranked teams, that'd be something. Yeah,
- 44:04I really would. Well, I can tell you this. In twenty
- 44:06twelve, Bothel played Week one at Skyline. They were the number one team.
- 44:13Week two they hosted Bellevue, they were the number one team. Week
- 44:15three they traveled to play Capitol, who was the number one team in two
- 44:20A at the time. Oh wow, yeah, that's how they started their
- 44:22season. I don't think I've ever seen a team play three number ones like
- 44:25that, like right in a row. I mean, I don't know that
- 44:29I've ever seen a team play two number ones in a row, you know,
- 44:32other than that time, Like it just doesn't happen all that often,
- 44:36you know. But uh yeah, Napifne four No come to town to take
- 44:38on Lennon Christian two and two. That game is on Saturday, Tyler.
- 44:43We've got Thursday, we've got Friday, we've got Saturday. And you know
- 44:46who can tell us what to expect with the weather. Oh, I think
- 44:49I know a large guy named Randy Small. Actually he's not a large guy.
- 44:52He's a tiny guy. Not tiny, but yeah, he's small.
- 44:58Yeah. Walcom County w X, what County Weather is where you can find
- 45:02them Facebook dot com, backslash, Whatcom County Weather, or Wacom countyws dot
- 45:07com. Let's head over to Randy and find out what the forecast is.
- 45:12Oh, this is Randy Small of Wacom County Weather and we're looking forward to
- 45:15a mixed bag of weather this weekend or actually Thursday night, Friday night,
- 45:21and Saturday afternoon. Let's start with Thursday nights game. It's going to be
- 45:24probably I would say the worst night of the year. Sorry, but that's
- 45:30the way it's looking. Rain likely Chris Night. By the time the game
- 45:32is over, it's just maybe a little breezed, maybe not overall, it's
- 45:37going to be a bad, bad night, but I think it will be
- 45:39the rainiest night of the year. Coming into the Friday night games, looks
- 45:43like it's going to be a nice night. By the time the games are
- 45:45done, it will probably be the coolest night of the year. Depending on
- 45:49how fast the clouds clear, but I don't think the thread of rain will
- 45:54be around much by that time. There is a chance of showers earlier in
- 45:58the day, but it looks like that will be over by Friday night.
- 46:01And then Saturday looks to be the nicest day of the weekend. For the
- 46:04game at Lyndon Christian in the afternoon, it should be high tempts in the
- 46:07little sixties with some sunshine, kind of opposite of last Saturday's game. Okay,
- 46:14have a great weekend following your favorite team and we'll see you next week.
- 46:17There it is Randy Small walcom County weather walcom county wx dot com and
- 46:22on Facebook wealcom county Weather. You can find everything he's got going on over
- 46:27there, or head over to Twitter and find him at Randy Small right,
- 46:32that's right, Yeah, you can find him everywhere. He's actually like literally
- 46:37everywhere, because I see him taking pictures from all over the county. Yeah.
- 46:40I don't think he sleeps either, like I see. You know,
- 46:43he's a busy dude. It's I always feel bad And it was crazy like
- 46:46getting the weather report from him this week. I didn't even ask for He
- 46:50just sent it to me out of nowhere. Him sending me the weather report
- 46:52reminded me to ask everybody for their picks. So he's he's on top of
- 46:58my game. Yeah, he's keeping you in check, Tyler, exactly.
- 47:01Uh, let's see here, Tyler, let's head over to the pick ums.
- 47:06How about the pick ums? Uh, let's see here really quickly.
- 47:08Let's update the standings. Tyler, Connor, Ben and Tendi is in first
- 47:13place. He's at twenty five and ten. He's having a really really nice
- 47:16year so far. U Nate is twenty four and eleven. Myself, the
- 47:22guests. Last week it was coach Wood. This week we've got somebody new
- 47:29but myself the guests and Joseph Consents is twenty two and thirteen. Tyler pulling
- 47:35up the rear twenty one and fourteen. Yeah, yeah, you sound tired.
- 47:40You sound tired of your your standings there, Tyler show. Yeah,
- 47:45that being said. The guest picker this week is our good buddy Michael noftel
- 47:50Over from Royal High School. Tyler, I assume did you ask him when
- 47:53he was grilling you there at the halftime show. No, I asked him.
- 48:00I asked him today today I did well, I had someone else in
- 48:05mind, but they couldn't. They couldn't get it ready today. So I
- 48:07so I went to Michael and I just thought, well, I just you
- 48:10know, I was like, maybe maybe he'll want to do it. I
- 48:13don't know how much he follows the rest of Walking County, but he's like
- 48:15sure. So I was like, great, see like when you need to
- 48:19buy it, and I'm like a few hours. See. He he's always
- 48:23listening to the podcast because he likes to hear the sultry, soult tones of
- 48:28my voice. Tyler is what it is. Yeah, he just can't get
- 48:31enough of it. That being said, Tyler, we are all picking Nooksack,
- 48:37Valley, Bellingham, Mount Baker, and Lynden. Connor. On the
- 48:42other hand, he's going way off the board. I mean, he's he's
- 48:45he's mister contrarian this week. Connor and mister Noffel there they are picking Burlington
- 48:51Edison to beat Squalicum Connor and you, Tyler, are picking Marysville Pilchuck to
- 48:57beat Ferndale. They tell you, what, Tyler, you're going. You're
- 49:00going off the Wacom County bandwagon here quite a few times this year. I
- 49:05need I'm way behind. Yeah, we know why Yeah, And then Nayton
- 49:10Connor are picking Linnen Christian over Napovine. Those guys. I mean, I
- 49:15don't know. We'll see what happens here Napovine. Uh, I don't know.
- 49:21I'm looking this over though, Tyler, and I see myself picking up
- 49:23three games on Connor. That's what I'm seeing. Yeah, I mean,
- 49:27you're right, it is crazy because Connor's out ahead, and there's three games
- 49:32where he's picking you know, different than than you and and the consensus pick
- 49:37and you know what I mean, Like it's it's uh, you know,
- 49:40he's going a little different. He's either gonna jump way out ahead or he's
- 49:44gonna come back down to life. Here. We'll see. Well, he's
- 49:46got a three game lead on me right now, Tyler, I could either
- 49:50tie it up or I could be so far behind that I gotta start picking
- 49:53teams that aren't even playing right exactly. I'm gonna start picking lummy football just
- 49:58to try to pick up a game on everybody. But yeah, Tyler,
- 50:02Uh yeah, I mean Connor's picking Lyndon Christian over nap Vine. H Connor
- 50:08and Nadar Connor and Tyler, you are picking mary Zelle Pill Chuck Over,
- 50:12Ferndale, Connor and Michael Knoftl Burlington, Edison, Squalacom everybody else picking no
- 50:17Zach Valley, Bellingham, Mount Baker, and Lynden, and we will have
- 50:22a code word here in just a little bit to give you for a way
- 50:28to get the free sticker. I'm getting free sticker out of it, Tyler.
- 50:32I'm running low, man, I'm running low. I gotta tell you
- 50:35I got probably twenty less. Oh, get them while they're hot. I
- 50:39mean, yeah, you're get them while they last. I guess not while
- 50:43they're hot, because it's very possible, very possible that by the time you're
- 50:47listening to this, you will be able to go online and buy yourself some
- 50:52walking preps merch. I'm talking hats, hoodies, t shirts. It's gonna
- 50:59be something. Tyler is very excited. He's as as Bora would say,
- 51:04he very excited. Yeah, Tyler, we gotta pick our fantasy players before
- 51:08we get out of here. You somehow managed to win again last week,
- 51:15which brings the overall standings to one and three for me, which means you
- 51:21know what You're three and one does mean that? Yeah, I mean simple
- 51:24math. But that's how we do things that the like Washington School District here
- 51:29in Kirkland, Washington. Yeah, so Tyler, I'm picking first, and
- 51:32I'm gonna go with the Uh. I wasn't the hefty lefty? That was
- 51:38Jared Lorenzen, Right, Yeah, that guy was unbelievable though, wasn't he?
- 51:45How about this, Tyler? Who is your NFL comp for Josh Leonard?
- 51:52It's gotta be a lefty quarterback? Give it get and don't give me
- 51:55Steve Young. Uh, don't don't give me boom or a size and give
- 52:00me a name that maybe nobody's thinking of. Is there even a lefty in
- 52:05the league right now? Yeah? Tah, oh yeah, that's right.
- 52:10Which I think he just threw another touchdown pass as we were doing this podcast
- 52:15two two hundred and twenty. Now, you know what, here's one.
- 52:19I think this is a really really good one. Actually, I like where
- 52:22Matt How about Matt Leinert? That's actually not bad. You know, stands
- 52:27really tall in the pocket, can throw down the field. Uh, not
- 52:30so much a threat to run. Yeah, but you know he has he
- 52:34has to kill Matt Leiner. What about brock Heward. Yeah, that's another
- 52:39very similar one. Yeah, tall in the pocket, not gonna run.
- 52:44Yeah, yeah, no, no Mark Brunel on the ground right like,
- 52:47No, Brunell's gonna He's a little different. Yeah Brunell could have run,
- 52:52man, that guy could, Yes, he could. Oh yeah, absolutely
- 52:54all right, Tyler, So I took Josh Leonard at quarterback. You've got
- 52:57two picks. Now, who do you got? Well, I mean I
- 53:04haven't stopped, you know, being in awe of watching him from last Thursday.
- 53:08Wyatt Stephen is a dude, and I think he's just gonna do it
- 53:14up some more. Yeah, I think him as a wide receiver for Bellingham.
- 53:21That's that's a pick of mine. And you know, the running back
- 53:29on is tough. But when you only have seven games too, and these
- 53:30teams are going against each other and it's yea, you know, there's not
- 53:35really like a for sure this or that seems like and I'm gonna go with
- 53:40Colton Lentz. But boy, I'm holding my breath because I just hope that
- 53:45he's I hope that he's at least eighty five, you know, and I
- 53:51think that that game is going to be They're going to rely on him if
- 53:55he's healthy. So I'm just having my fingers crossed, and I'm gonna I
- 54:00had the Colton Lnch train on this one, and I'm hoping Skyler winner and
- 54:02runs for three hundred. Maybe I should pick Skylar Winter. Let's see here,
- 54:07Tyler White, Stephen Colton Lentz. I think I'm gonna I think I'm
- 54:14gonna pick your guy, Muscle Beach here, Tyler. Oh yeah, one
- 54:17of us is gonna get some points, because Josh Leonard is gonna give me
- 54:21a lot of points. I can already feel it. Uh yeah, I
- 54:23want to go with Muscle Beach there, Josh tole and you know what,
- 54:29I'm sticking on the Bayhawk bandwagon. I am leading the bay Hawk bandwagon,
- 54:34and I'm taking their offensive line. I'm expecting ninety points, seven hundred and
- 54:39eighty five yards of offense. Come on, Coach Leonard, run it up,
- 54:44baby, Tyler. What do you got here? Oh? Man,
- 54:49Yeah, that's that's some good picks. I'm gonna go defense here, and
- 54:57I again look at these because pest, when you're picking defense, you gotta
- 55:00look at these matchups. And I'm gonna go with Blake Carreski and the front
- 55:05seven for Blaine. He's the middle linebacker for Blaine and he's in on everything.
- 55:09And you know, Mount Baker is gonna try to establish the run,
- 55:14you know, no doubt about that. So I think he's gonna get a
- 55:16lot of chances in the middle of the field. You know. I think
- 55:20they're gonna blitz him a little bit, and I think he's got a chance
- 55:24to do some stuff. And when he goes back in pass coverage. I
- 55:27mean, he had an interception in week one. He could do a lot
- 55:29of different things that did the different levels. So I'm gonna go Blake Careski
- 55:32and then uh and I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna also go some Bellingham.
- 55:37I got Wyatt Stephan earlier. I'm gonna I'm gonna take Evan Eisley the kicker.
- 55:42Uh, he's been money so far. I think he's gonna get a
- 55:45lot of chances on some extra points. He's definitely good inside, you know,
- 55:50thirty five yards. I mean, heck, if I can, he
- 55:52can, and uh, and I think that I think he's gonna put put
- 55:57up a lot of points this week. So I'm gonna go Evan Eisley with
- 55:59as my kick. You know what we should do sometime Tyler I should come
- 56:01up to Walcom County and just like we should get we should get like a
- 56:07couple of kickers, a couple of punters, maybe a long snapper too,
- 56:12and see if I can outdo him. Yeah, I think that would make
- 56:16for some good content. I think it'd be fantastic content. We should think
- 56:21about it, like maybe next like June or July. You know what I
- 56:23mean, pros versus Joe's type thing, Well, more like Joe's versus Joe.
- 56:30Yeah, or more like Slow's versus Joe's. There it is, there,
- 56:36it is. You know what's crazy is a few years ago Eric Trent
- 56:38did this where like like he shot baskets against the best basketball player. He
- 56:44tried to outdrive the best golfer, He tried to hit off the best fast
- 56:46pitch pitcher. See, that's why everybody loves Eric Trent because and he stole
- 56:52my idea. That's what I wanted to do, but he did it.
- 56:55Man, it was it was cool to see. Wait, what did he
- 56:58do for football? I don't remember him doing anything football wise. I can't
- 57:01remember punt passing kick against h against Andy Reid when he was in high like
- 57:08elementary school, and he looked like he was like thirty two years old.
- 57:12Oh he was goal of her. No, other guys were the little Putians.
- 57:15Yeah. You know how I always introduced my buddy Scott Enyart for his
- 57:17birthday. You know when he gets it when he gets in my car,
- 57:21you know, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. A couple of years ago
- 57:23I said, I said he was the nineteen ninety six East Long Beach Boys
- 57:30and Girls Club punt passing Chick punt passing Chick Oversized Division champion. Oh man,
- 57:39his mom loves that stuff too. She thinks it's hilarious. Here,
- 57:44here's here's a question for your starting at Let's start at the goal line.
- 57:47Yeah wait, wait wait fun Like we're facing the goal post. No,
- 57:52the goal post is behind you. You're standing on the goal line. Yep.
- 57:57You get to throw the ball from where it lands. You get a
- 58:00punt the ball from where it lands. Can you make a field goal?
- 58:05I think I could? Nice, So yeah, I think I could.
- 58:09So let me let me explain my thought process here. Well, so,
- 58:14okay, so I'm on the goal line. Do I do I get a
- 58:15at least like take like a one two step throw? Sure? Yeah,
- 58:19yeah, yeah, it's not just like stand and throw. Yeah, you
- 58:22have to release it at the goal line. Yeah. Okay, So I
- 58:24feel like I could probably throw the ball forty yards okay, yeah, and
- 58:29then I feel like from the forty I think I could probably get a solid
- 58:35thirty five or forty yard kick out of it. Yeah, because I can
- 58:37punt. That's that's one thing I know. I know I can punt.
- 58:42Uh So from there, you got to make a thirty to thirty five yard
- 58:45fieldable from the twenty or twenty five. Yeah. See, I'm pretty confident
- 58:47I could pull that off. Are you toe punching? No, because I
- 58:52the ball would go like exit stage right like it was like that's like I
- 58:58would. I would step it off three three steps back, a couple steps
- 59:00over, like I now, do I get a block if I get the
- 59:06If I if I get the block to kick off of, and you know,
- 59:07like you get down and hold it on the block or something like,
- 59:10I feel like I could hammer it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, No,
- 59:14I'm pretty confident I could see. You know what the big key is
- 59:16gonna be with that is the bouncy get right. So on that pass,
- 59:21I feel like I could throw at forty yards. I gotta get a bounce
- 59:24out of it though, you know, like it's gotta I've got to throw
- 59:27at forty and get another five or six out of it. Oh, I
- 59:30was saying, when where where it lands? Oh? See'son that Okay,
- 59:34So now a punt when when I punt it, Man, I gotta hit
- 59:37it. I gotta hit it real good then, like I I gotta hit
- 59:38it solid because if if I like in my head, I'm like, oh
- 59:43well, I'll just hammer it as hard as I can and try to get
- 59:46you know, thirty yards out of it. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 59:50see that's a little different. No, I don't know. You know
- 59:52what, though, I think we need to like, uh, Tyler,
- 59:55this is what we need to do. We need to make that like a
- 59:59charity thing and have people like uh, you know, sponsor. You don't
- 1:00:04like the the walk where they yeah, like a walkathon right where it's like,
- 1:00:08oh, I'll donate a nickel for every lap you do. Right,
- 1:00:12we got to come up with a way for people to donate money based on
- 1:00:15certain things. Yeah, every yard we can kick it or whatever, throw
- 1:00:21it and all that stuff. Yeah, yeah, they would don't it so
- 1:00:23oh fifty cents a yard or whatever? A yard and then we can donate
- 1:00:28it all to the I don't know, the Wacom County Food Bank or something.
- 1:00:30Yeah, Tyler, look at I mean, and people think we're not
- 1:00:34good people. You know what I mean. I don't know about those people.
- 1:00:37Yeah, No, I mean you know who it is. It's it's
- 1:00:39uh people from Skatchet County. Thanks, Scatchet County people, especially now you're
- 1:00:45gonna start Scatchet preps. You know many times I've heard that. Yeah.
- 1:00:49Well, and now that Andy Olsen's not in Scatchet County anymore, we have
- 1:00:52no fans. We have nobody down there, Tyler, I have no idea
- 1:00:57where we were at here. I just picked Evan Easley. Okay, oh
- 1:01:01yeah, I see it here. Okay, I'm gonna go. Nobody's pick
- 1:01:07defense yet, So I'm gonna go with Uh. I'm gonna go Mount Baker's
- 1:01:13defense. Yeah, and I need to go. Let's see, you haven't
- 1:01:17picked a back seven guys. So I'm gonna go back seven here, and
- 1:01:22I'm gonna go with that, you know what, I'm gonna go back to
- 1:01:23where I was a couple of weeks ago. I'm gonna go with Connor Walker.
- 1:01:28That's a good pick, and especially if the Tomaks are still airing it
- 1:01:32out like we're last year. So I'm feeling four interceptions, a couple of
- 1:01:36fourth thump, No, no problem. I'm just trying to win. Yeah,
- 1:01:42let's see where I am gonna go. I'm gonna go Brandt Hepner at
- 1:01:47quarterback. I feel like he really the last couple of weeks, he's really
- 1:01:52the accuracy has really turned up. You know, that first game he wasn't
- 1:01:55as accurate and uh, but he's really starting to hit his spots now.
- 1:02:00And that last drive he was he was money. So I'm gonna hope he
- 1:02:04keeps riding that hot streak. You know, you know what I wish I
- 1:02:06had right now, Tyler, I wish I had from NBA Jam. He's
- 1:02:08heating up. Yeah, and then and then if he throws for like three
- 1:02:14hundred in the game, be like he's on fire. Yeah. Oh man,
- 1:02:17that was a fun game to play. And then I'm gonna go back
- 1:02:22seven and I'm gonna go for the Saturday game. Here, I'm gonna go
- 1:02:27Dawson Bauma. I thought about maybe going Jaden Juliett who had those three picks
- 1:02:32last week, but man, for him to pull off a game like that
- 1:02:35again. I think Napavine's gonna be wary of him from looking at film from
- 1:02:38that last game. But I like Dawson Bauma the corner. Uh. He's
- 1:02:43aggressive, he can pick the ball off, he can make a lot of
- 1:02:45plays, and if he does get his hands on the ball, he's very
- 1:02:47fast, so he might be able to get a pick six for me.
- 1:02:51So I'm I'm rolling the dice on Dawson Bauma. I'm gonna get a little
- 1:02:54crazy here, Tyler, Oh, crazier than you normally are. Uh debatable,
- 1:03:01Okay, this could go either way. I'm gonna pick one guy for
- 1:03:07two positions. I love it. I'm going running back and I'm going kicker,
- 1:03:13and I'm going Ferndale. I'm going Fink Bonner, I'm going Phoenix.
- 1:03:19I mean I'm going, Uh, you know what, I just realized.
- 1:03:22I got a lot of Bellingham and a lot of Ferndel. Yeah, yeah,
- 1:03:25you do, and a little a little Mount Baker sprinkled in there a
- 1:03:30little bit. Uh in that Coach Horseman. Yeah, I know you're sitting
- 1:03:34there listening playing cards over at coach Leaps House, but Rilet picked you for
- 1:03:37the defense. Come on defense. Yeah, no, you're rooting against yourself,
- 1:03:42Tyler. You need offensive line and you need defense. That's all you
- 1:03:45got left. I know. I'm just trying to get coach Horsemen pumped up.
- 1:03:49Okay, I don't think we need to do that offensive line. I'm
- 1:03:52gonna be yo. I'm gonna take Linden. Uh. That's just a massive
- 1:03:58offensive line that averages you know, two eighty up front. I just think,
- 1:04:02you know, love the love the size, and love the push they
- 1:04:05get and coming off that big win and defense as a team. I think
- 1:04:14it's gonna be a low scoring game out at Civic on Thursday, and so
- 1:04:17I'm gonna go Squalicum. I just I love the pressure defense coached all Font
- 1:04:23and the guys getting that get that defense going, and and and shout out
- 1:04:28to coach all Font for helping me out getting some headshots for me that I
- 1:04:30was a little afraid to do after this Friday night game after against Archbishop Murphy.
- 1:04:36And so he hooked me up and got some headshots for me after practice
- 1:04:41this week. So to him, that's a big time money right there.
- 1:04:45Yeah, all right, I need a front seven guy, Tyler. And
- 1:04:53let me guess a guy from Ferndale or Bellingham. I mean, if you
- 1:04:57need to twist my arm, I'll pick Tyler Froth if you want me to
- 1:05:00do it. Okay, I'm taking Tyler front. Who are they playing?
- 1:05:05Oh yeah, look Connor, Yeah, I'm taking You know what, though,
- 1:05:09this is actually kind of a risky move now that I'm looking back on
- 1:05:11things this whole all these guys I picked could be out by the end of
- 1:05:14the second quarter. I don't know, because they want to make sure they
- 1:05:19play that complete game. Yeah, that's true, you never know. Like
- 1:05:24I said, run it up, run it up on him. Let's recap
- 1:05:27real really quickly, especially because we took like a break right in the middle
- 1:05:30of it. I took Josh Leonard at quarterback, Tyler at quarterback. You
- 1:05:34have taken Brant Hepner. I took or excuse me, I took Josh Tole
- 1:05:41at wide receiver. You took Wyatt Stephen and then at running back. I
- 1:05:45took Phoenix Finkbonner, and you took Colton Lentz. I took Bellingham's offensive line.
- 1:05:50You took Lyndon's offensive line. For front seven, you took Blake Careski
- 1:05:56out of Blaine, and I took Tyler Frost out of Bellingham more Belling.
- 1:06:00I am. I took Phoenix fink Bonner at Kicker. You took Evan Eisley
- 1:06:04at Kicker, Mount Baker's defense for me, and you have Squalicum's defense.
- 1:06:11And then in the back seven, I've got Connor Walker and you have Dawson
- 1:06:15Bauma. Yep? Is that everybody? I think that's everybody, although it's
- 1:06:19either one thing. I just noticed here you didn't write down where Dawson Bauma's
- 1:06:23from. Oh you put Elsie flipped, you abbreviated it, and you flipped
- 1:06:28it. Yea, yeah, so we will. We will have an update
- 1:06:31on that on the podcast on Tuesday, and subscribe to the podcast. Make
- 1:06:36sure you're locked in on that. Tyler. We need a code word and
- 1:06:41you've got one down here, and I've got another one I'm gonna throw in
- 1:06:44here. Okay, okay, So you put in. What we like to
- 1:06:47do is we like to put a you know, related a little bit somehow
- 1:06:51to our guest picker, who is Michael Noftel. If you see Tyler out
- 1:06:56of a game this weekend, which, by the way, Tyler got it
- 1:07:00here, you're gonna be out at Burlington Edison squall to come on Thursday.
- 1:07:03You're gonna be a blame Mount Baker on Friday and maybe just maybe look Xact
- 1:07:09Valley Meridian, but don't count on people over there. And then on Saturday,
- 1:07:13Napavine and Living Christian And like you said, Tyler, you only don't
- 1:07:16have a whole lot of them left, so get on it quick. But
- 1:07:19Tyler, the code word that you have written down here Royal Payne. Yeah,
- 1:07:25I originally had. If you came up to me and you said my
- 1:07:29team could beat Royal, yeah that would be the sticker. But yeah,
- 1:07:33I mean, here's here's kind of weird. You know, I like it.
- 1:07:36I just don't like people to lie, you know what I mean.
- 1:07:40Right, Let's not have them walk up and say some nonsense here, all
- 1:07:44right? Uh. The other one, Tyler, the people out at Royal
- 1:07:47had so first off, the people at Royal, they do a really good
- 1:07:49job with their shirts, Like they've always got good shirts and over the years,
- 1:07:55I haven't gotten one in a couple of years now, but over the
- 1:07:57years I got a lot of them. One of them that they had,
- 1:07:59you know, they're they're black and gold is their their color. They had
- 1:08:01one that's had gold Blooded. Yeah, that one I really liked. But
- 1:08:06my favorite one that they have, and by the way, I have I
- 1:08:10have like Royal socks. I have like five pairs of Royal socks. The
- 1:08:14sky you know, like the Skyline socks or whatever they're like the stride Line.
- 1:08:16Yeah, I have like a bunch of those socks. I was I
- 1:08:19don't remember who it was, but I was in the subway slash gas stations
- 1:08:24slash mini mart there in Royal right right on the main drag, you guys
- 1:08:28know the spot I was. I was in there. We were leaving to
- 1:08:30go home, and all of a sudden this family pulled up and I can't
- 1:08:33remember who it was. It was probably a Christiansen because there's like forty of
- 1:08:35them. But I'm standing there and all of a sudden they came walking in.
- 1:08:40They're like, hey, you guys here, they can handle us a
- 1:08:43bunch of socks. I mean, I had Royal socks for like a year.
- 1:08:47But one of the other things that they have out there that I liked,
- 1:08:50and it was probably my favorite saying that they had was Nightmare spelled K
- 1:08:56and ight. So I think if they walk up to you and say Royal
- 1:09:00Payne or nightmare, but they gotta say it with a K. You have
- 1:09:04to say it with a knight, Yeah, night like night. If they
- 1:09:10don't say it with a K. If if you can tell that they set
- 1:09:12it with an end, uh, it's no good. Yeah, and then
- 1:09:15they better know the other one too. But yeah, Royal Payne nightmare,
- 1:09:20nightmare they just walk up to You know, it's funny you're gonna end up
- 1:09:25having nightmare of people saying nightmare. I know it's that's gonna happen, but
- 1:09:29that's okay. Yeah, Royal Payne nightmare. That's your code words, Tyler.
- 1:09:33We're done nothing else. That's it. And it's not even midnight yet,
- 1:09:39so close. No, it's eleven forty five. I gotta be up
- 1:09:42at five thirty tomorrow morning, Tyler. I'm gonna be a I'm gonna be
- 1:09:45a zombie at practice tomorrow. And and you know what it's last I looked
- 1:09:48it was one hundred percent chance of reign right as practice starts. Oh yeah,
- 1:09:54yeah, I got that going for me. Is that Karl Spackler would
- 1:09:57say, Uh, it wasn't that. It was Carl Speck right, Yeah.
- 1:10:00Yeah, when he's when he's talking about when we talk about the Dali
- 1:10:03Lama. Yeah, so I got that going for Yeah, big hitter at
- 1:10:06the Lamma. Uh oh man, we might have to put that on the
- 1:10:15on the old. Uh you guys up for a talka party, big hitter,
- 1:10:19the Lama from Mount Baker High School, the Lamma from Mount Baker High
- 1:10:25School. Uh yeah, anyway, a little little or we're having way too
- 1:10:31much fun here. Yeah, before we go, quick shout out to Kurt
- 1:10:35Mayberry Farm Kurt Mayberry Farm dot com. Be sure to check out their website
- 1:10:39and uh, yeah, we love we love the You know what, Tyler,
- 1:10:42if somebody wants to sponsor, how can they get ahold of you?
- 1:10:44Give it out again? We should have done at the beginning. We'll do
- 1:10:45it next time at the beginning. Yeah, you know, just reach out.
- 1:10:48Find me on social media walking preps. There's all you know, Facebook,
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- 1:11:02o h A w k at hotmail dot com. And or you can give
- 1:11:06me call three six zero six eight four four three zero six, or you
- 1:11:11could text to me at that number. It's even easier so because I turn
- 1:11:15off my phone when I go to bed, that's right, so I'll get
- 1:11:19to you when I wake up. And uh yeah, And it's been it's
- 1:11:23been great so far. The sponsors have been unreal this year, and I'm
- 1:11:27really excited and and I things are growing and it's a it's a huge beneficial
- 1:11:33thing for me to give back to the community and just keep it reciprocating and
- 1:11:39and keep this walking preps thing going as long as we can. I'm gonna
- 1:11:42I'm gonna prank text you want that phone number tomorrow, all right. He's
- 1:11:46Tyler Anderson of Walcom Preps walcom preps dot com. I'm Royland Spencer of Nothing.
- 1:11:53This is episode one ninety seven, one ninety seven Tyler Worlds at two
- 1:11:58hundred. That's crazy. Week five preview here on the wacomb Preps podcast.
- 1:12:02We will talk to you after the weekend. Are you guys up for a
- 1:12:06talker party? I think they like the idea of