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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 7 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Greetings and welcome to episode seven of the Bothel Football Coaches Show. I'm your
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  host, Rylan Spencer along with me as always the head coach of the Bothel
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  Cougar's Tom Painter coach. How we doing doing fine? Thank you. Today's
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  episode of the Coaches Show is proudly sponsored by Steve Breda and Mellan Vien Cheach
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  of Wilson Realty. If you need help with your real estate or just have
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  two ninety nine zero nine. Steve Breda and Mellan been cheach your community real
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  Robin. Visit Red Robin at twenty one twenty one to five Bothel Everett Highway
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  and treat yourself and your home team to a delicious gourmet burger. Coach.
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  The football program went two and one since we last spoke. We'll start with
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  the freshman win for the freshman Koog's. They moved to six and oh on
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  the season with a forty one to six win at is a quad. What
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  do we have to report from that game? Coach the first game, I
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  didn't get to see a part of it, you know, they the reports
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  were funny, you know. Coach Go says we didn't play our best football.
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  And so I love it when you when you win by a lot and
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  you feel like you're not playing well. So, you know, I think
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  sometimes when you get a big lead, it's easy to kind of start to
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  relax. And I think that's probably what he meant. And but you know,
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  brought a smile to my to my face and a warmed a warmness to
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  my heart when when we win by that score and coaches saying we didn't play
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  our best games, So that that's good stuff. Yeah, you always like
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  to have that. I mean, for lack of a better term, maybe
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  that kill mentality at all times, you know what I mean. We talk
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  about it sometimes before games. You know, if you're you're playing a team,
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  you say, hey, you guys, just keep going. We'll call
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  the dogs off, you know. And maybe that's a little bit of what
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  he's saying there. But JV Monday night, they got a seven nothing win
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  on the road at Woodinville. Back to back shoutouts for the j V Koogs.
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  Uh did you head over to that one? We got out of practice
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  a little bit late, but did you head over that one. I got
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  there at halftime. Yes, I saw the second half. It was it
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  was seven nothing at halftime, and it stayed that way in the second half.
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  And you know, typical typical Woodinville Bothel game at at you know,
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  at any level, both teams fighting hard to the end, and and uh,
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  you know, it could have win either way. And you know,
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  luckily for us, you know, we got seven and shut them out and
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  and preserved the win. And so yeah, it was a fun fun.
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  Uh it's always fun to win. And it was fun to see our guys,
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  you know, get back on the winning side, to get us on
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  the winning side after Friday's game, and and uh, yeah, it was
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  a it was a good win. So yep, happy about that. Before
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  we get into Friday's game. Want to give a little bit of a shout
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  out to former Bathel head coach Dan Bunton. He was out of practice on
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  what was it, Thursday, I believe, And you know, it's it's
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  always fun to see former head coaches, former players, you know, alumni,
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  you know, whoever it is. It's always fun to see those people
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  out of practice. And you know, some of us probably don't know the
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  effect that he had on the program. He was directly before you, but
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  he also some of the traditions that we have the uh, some of the
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  things that go on after the game, like the the one two three four
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  that everybody hears that came around from you know, coach Button's time. So
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  coach yeah, you know, it was it was fun to have him out
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  there. And a lot of people maybe don't know, and if they saw
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  the picture online, maybe it didn't make a whole lot of sense. But
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  Coach Rimkus actually played for both Coach Bunton and yourself. Yeah. Absolutely.
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  Coach Bunton was the coach prior to to me getting here. He's the one
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  who helped the transition and showed me where things were and talked to me about
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  players. And you know, actually he left and went to Sacramento, I
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  believe, with his with his wife and and he you know, he opened
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  up a job for me too. I became the health teacher here and so
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  you know, Dan Bunton is a wonderful human being. You know, he
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  likes people, He loves uh loves kids, and and you could see that
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  in the first second he got on the football field, and you could tell
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  he was kind of back in his element and where he wants to be and
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  where he likes to be. And there's a there's a wonderful pride he has
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  for Bothel High School in the Bothel student body. And and you're right,
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  a lot of the things that that we do traditionally were were from the Dan
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  buntn era and uh, you know, the songs we sing and some of
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  the things we do, we're all part of what he brought. And it
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  was you know, it's a wonderful thing and and so uh fun to see
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  him there. Fun he got to speak to our kids at the end.
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  His message was wonderful, like it always is. I wish he lived here,
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  and I wish he could coach here. You know, he's he's that
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  kind of a human being and it was fun for me to see our kids
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  get a glimpse of that. I know Coach Rimkeus loved having his old coach
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  back as well. Yeah, I think there was quite a few times when
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  he was given his little speech to the team where some of us coaches looked
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  at each other and thought like we might have to strap the pads on him
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  and put him out their middle linebacker scout team or something. My goodness,
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  he was he was getting fired up. And you know, I think my
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  favorite thing about Coach Button Coach I heard he's he's a little bit of a
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  fan of the show here. So so he's probably listening right now and I'm
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  sure, well we will hear about it later, but yeah, it was
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  good to have him out there. Junior coog Knight also on Friday night.
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  I think that's something that is special, and you know that's not unique to
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  Baffle. It goes on at a lot of different places. But it's really
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  cool to have the junior players in the parade down the hill. Second half,
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  they line up and it was it was such a big line that our
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  guys almost had to run to our own sideline turn then get down into the
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  end zone just to warm up. So it looks like the program is healthy,
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  The program is strong. I was talking to some of the players on
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  the sideline and they're saying they're having good seasons. So yeah, Junior coog
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  Knight always a fun one down there at the Pop. Yeah, it's it
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  is, and it's it's a it's it's an indicator a little bit of future
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  success as well. You know, we we we split school about whatever it
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  was six or seven years ago. We lost half of our kids there.
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  We had went through COVID and kids didn't play. You know. We we've
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  been through the concussion and the you know, the Tom Brady's of the world
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  saying I don't know if I'm gonna let my kid play and all this stuff.
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  And we just saw reduction in the number. We get a lot of
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  kids who just played one sport and and so it's it's, uh, the
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  numbers have been down. And and not just Boffel, everybody. You know,
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  I'm sure Woodinville, Inglemore in the North Creek are all filling the crunch,
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  and so uh to see numbers start to grow again, to see numbers
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  elevate, you know, we'll we'll know for sure when we can we can
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  field full teams at the small levels, the rookies and the cubs, and
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  and if we can get back up to eleven man football and have you know,
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  twenty five kids on a team, you know, we'll know the growth
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  is back. But we're in the right direction. Certainly. We have great
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  coaches down there. And a great uh you know, uh, you know
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  Bathel football program, and you know, with the board and president and members
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  that are working hard to do all the things to rejuvenate football at that youth
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  level, and we're seeing growth and so we're excited to see that. Yeah.
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  And as somebody who you know, the last thirteen years, I've really
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  viewed the whole state, not just you know, this one area. I
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  think people don't understand how fortunate they are to have such a great junior football
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  association. The Greater east Side Junior FOOTBA Association is truly I know some people
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  don't like the way that some things are done, but man, I'll tell
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  you what, there are a lot worse options in the state. The Greater
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  east Side League does a tremendous job at you know, moving the kids up
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  the ladder and into the right program and doing the right things. So it's
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  definitely cool to see. Let's talk about the game thirty eight to twenty lost
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  to Woodinville. You know, I think the first thing we need to talk
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  about here is, you know, some definite self inflicted wounds, but a
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  lot of the credit has to go to the way that Woodenville played the game.
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  Yeah, absolutely. You know, you know the number of times I
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  can look back over the years and say, you know, Woodinville played uninspired
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  and unmotivated football as zero. I mean, especially against the baff of Cougar.
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  So you know, you know it's going to be a dogfight. We
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  talked about it last week. Woodinville's well coached. They'll have a great plan.
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  Their kids are fired up, they like to play bothel and and their
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  student body came out and you know, it's it's what high school football is
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  all about. It was perfect and yeah, they they they you know,
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  it was a good old fashioned tail whooping is what it was. Every fifty
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  to fifty ball I think they got. You know, if the ball was
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  around, they were, they were there to get it. You know,
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  whatever intercepted. We turned the ball over too many times, we tried to
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  we try to play We felt a gave us. We didn't execute it back
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  in our end zone, and so you know, we we we did have
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  some self inflicted wounds, but they created some of those, and and and
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  certainly capitalized on all of them. And so you know, I would tell
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  you that you know, they beat us, They beat us. Coaches did
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  a better job, their players did a better job that night, and and
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  so you know, back to the drawing board and you know, learn from
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  some of the things we did incorrectly and some of the stakes we made,
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  and and you know, we'll try to get back to a higher effort game
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  for sure. Yeah. And when I say self inflicted, I mean it's
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  one of those things where it's like if you put the opportunity out there and
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  the other team doesn't take advantage of it, well, then it's not self
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  inflicted. I mean we there was things that we did where you kind of
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  do it and then you go, oh man please, oh, and there
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  it goes the other way. So you know, credit to those guys.
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  You know, they did a tremendous job. One of the things, coach,
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  I think you hear a lot in press conferences different things, and I
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  never believe it to be true when I hear it is, oh, we're
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  just gonna throw that tape away. We're not I'm not even gonna watch that
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  tape. We're gonna throw it away. We're just gonna move on. If
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  you do that, you're not growing and you're not figuring out what you did
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  wrong. You may think you saw something on Friday night then you watch on
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  film and you go, actually, that was much better play than I thought.
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  We just didn't hold onto the ball or whatever it was. So you
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  know, when it comes to something like that, coach, I mean,
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  you don't just throw the tape away. Never, absolutely you you you know
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  the the old cliches you can learn way more from a loss than a win,
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  and there's there's a lot of truth to that. When you lose,
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  your your errors are magnified, and and then you can see more clear on
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  the things that you didn't do well, you didn't execute well, perform well,
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  whether it's a technique, a scheme, uh, an effort whatever,
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  and and and then you you you know, I've always said your the goal
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  to success is making your weaknesses stronger. And and when you lose, your
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  weaknesses are magnified. And so it was. It is easy, it's glaring
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  at times to see some of the things that we need to do better,
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  and and we certainly know what to work on. But no, you don't.
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  You don't ignore those those times. You learn from them. And that's
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  what we're going to do this week. Second half, you know, going
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  into the half, I believe it was twenty eight seven. Second half though
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  the route. I think there were some positives. The offense kind of got
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  some things going. Now. You know, some things could be said,
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  you could say, you know, well, Woodenville was playing a little bit
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  deeper. They were trying to you know, they're allowing some stuff underneath,
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  or maybe they weren't as aggressive because they're trying to sit on a lead.
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  I don't think that was the case at all. I mean, I felt
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  like they kept coming. I felt like they kept I mean, you mentioned
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  it earlier. It's a game where it's a rivalry game. Anytime you're playing
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  another team that uses Popkini for their home stadium, you just you're not gonna
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  they're not gonna let up. It's just it's it's exactly what it is.
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  So some positives in the second half, though, I think there were some
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  things that went well, you know, which when you do take that loss,
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  as long as you kind of maybe start moving towards the right direction,
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  there's definitely some good things and maybe you feel a little bit better going forward.
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  Yeah, you know, I think there's two critical times in the game
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  to me, and we gave up, you know, after that that botched
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  fake punt that we did, and and they scored right away. It turns
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  it into a three score deficit if you keep it at too you know,
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  then you come in it in the second half getting the ball and you got
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  to come down and score to make it a one possession game. Well it
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  was a you know, it was a three possession game. We do a
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  wonderful job at after half of getting the ball and we go on a twelve
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  play drive and we overcome a holding first and twenty play and we get a
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  penalty for us on a PI that that helps us on a long third down,
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  make it a more manageable third down, and we execute that and we
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  go in and score, and it's twenty eight fourteen, and you know,
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  you can kind of sense that if we can get a three and out,
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  if we can get a stop, that the momentum swing will will you know,
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  definitely be back on my side. But I'll tell you what the most
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  important drive of the game, you know, for both teams was was what
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  was going to happen next? And they went on a long drive. We
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  did hold them out of the end zone, but they they created enough offense
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  and plays and executed well enough to get into field goal range. And then
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  they executed the field goal, and and and even though it was you know,
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  thirty one to to fourteen, now, it still became a three score
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  game. And that that's the that's the part where you're now in the middle
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  ish near end of third quarter and and you've got a quarter and a half
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  to now make up three scores. And against a team like Woodenville, it's
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  just going to be, you know, difficult to do. And and you
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  know it was it was difficult for us to overcome. And so, you
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  know, again, hats off to them. They played a complete game,
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  they played the better game, and and you know they were they were they
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  were really good that night. Yeah, I think we'll just you know,
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  throw the tape away and move on to the next one. Coach, what
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  is it? No, I'll be I'll be suffering through that one for years
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  to come. All Right, let's take a look around Kinko Conference other scores
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  from around Kingo from last week. Eastmont defeated the Skyline twenty one to three
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  in the lone non conference game. Er, excuse me, did I say
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  east Lake or east montas Eastmont? Okay, east Lake defeated Mount Side thirty
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  to twenty eight on a last second field goal. That's a last second field
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  goal that could have huge implications all around. North Creek shuts out is Aqua
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  fourteen nothing on Saturday night at Popkini. This week's games battle for the Cole
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  Bucket Skyline travels to Izaquah. North Creek will play Woodenville Friday night. On
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  Saturday, Mount Side hits the road for the non conference game. They are
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  headed to Chijuana. Friday night. We hit the road for some manage to
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  take on the east Lake Wolves. East Lake six and one on the season,
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  four to zero and Kinko Conference play. Coach, I think, first
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  off, Baffle. East Lake played a lot of meaningful football the last few
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  years, a couple of Kinko Conference title games, just lots of real big
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  football games, and this kind of feels like another one. Yeah, it
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  certainly is. I mean, they're all they're all important now they are in
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  our conference. You know, there's five teams that any given Knight can beat
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  one another. And you know, if you look at the east Lake games
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  many they've beaten a really good wooden Bill team by ten. They beat I
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  mean, they overcame a fourteen point deficit in the fourth quarter to miraculously win
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  against Mount Sai and they had a last second win Mount Tahoma earlier in the
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  year. They they they have a knack of moving the ball down the field
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  and score and when they have to. And very talented group. Uh you
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  know, you know, two two outstanding receivers and maybe one of the most
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  outstanding players in our league with with Grady there at receiver and dB and the
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  quarterbacks outstanding. Their lines big and physical, they have depth, they have
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  linebackers, they run well, they they're they're a good football team and they
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  and they've found a way to win at the end. And so, uh,
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  you know, it will be a great challenge for us, and but
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  wonderful, wonderful opportunity as well for for us to go up there and play
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  a solid game and and uh you know, maybe come out with a win
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  and and and now hold our own destination again in our hands for for a
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  King Co championship. So you know, that's what we're trying to do.
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  And we'll focus on us and and and improve on the things we can improve
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  upon, and then we'll see how it goes. First year head coach up
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  at East Lake, Scott Hare, comes up from Arizona where he was very
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  successful. East Lake had Don Bartel than Kyle Snell, who was the OC
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  before Bartell, so you kind of knew when Snell took over, you know,
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  a whole lot probably wasn't going to change. And it's kind of interesting,
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  coach, and I I'd like maybe to get your thoughts on the challenges
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  that come from facing a coach a team that you know, with a new
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  coach from outside the area where maybe you don't really know a whole lot about
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  that coach, you know, before the season starts. Yeah, you know,
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  I've never even really officially met him. We've we've emailed a couple of
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  times with you know, hel hello and welcomes and all that, but didn't
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  didn't get an opportunity to meet him at our kinco meeting. And you know,
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  I think it was it'd probably be a little more difficult for teams early
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  in the season, you know, with with the film situation we have in
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  huddle, uh, you know, and the opportunity to see games and watch
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  it from different angles. And you know, we went to the the game
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  against Skyline and so I've seen him live. I've seen him live a couple
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  of times. You know, we we kind of know who they are are,
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  and like they'll know who we are, you know, just because of
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  that. So uh, you know, I think the interesting things with with
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  co chair and the staff is there's not very many of them. Yeah,
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  uh, there's there's four guys. They they don't wear headsets. I can't
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  wait to ask him. I've heard so many rumors about their his brother,
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  the d C. I've heard he flies up on game days and and I
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  heard he lives with him and and so it'd be kind of fun to to
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  know. I know they have case and Williams is is over there, and
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  man, I've always had so much respect for him as a player and a
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  and a coach when he would come around and work with our receivers in the
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  summer at times and doing his thing. And and so they do a great
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  job. They've got their kids playing well. They they run to the football,
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  they block well, they're physical, they're fast. They they're gonna be
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  a challenge for anybody they play, and and uh, you know, certainly
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  one that we're looking forward to. Yeah, and even with a smaller staff
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  than most I mean, I'll say, but the most you know, even
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  two A one A schools in this state, they do do a tremendous job
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  of getting their kids prepared and keeping them motivated. You know, when you're
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  down in a game at a I'll say a hostile environment like Mount Sai,
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  to stick in it and come back and win is you know, truly a
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  testament to coaching as much as it is the athletes and you know, getting
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  things done. So yeah, coach, thanks for your time, good luck
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  Friday night, and yeah we'll see you out there. Thank you very much,
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  Rollan. Later today, the freshmen are home against Woodenville. Kickoff slated
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  for seven pm at Boffel High School. Admission is free and the concession stand
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  will be open. JV is back in action on Monday when they host east
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  Lake. That game is also a seven pm kickoff and the concession stand will
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  be open for that one as well. As mentioned earlier, Varsity hits the
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  road on Friday. Kickoff at East Lake High School in Smamish is set for
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  seven pm. That game will be streamed and if you are on the social
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  nine zero nine. I'm Rylan Spencer. You've been listening to episode seven of
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  the Baffel Football Coaches Show with head coach Tom Banker. We'll talk to you
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  next week and go KOs