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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 23 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Speaker 1: Greeting X and welcome into the Bathel Football Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host a Ryland Spencer. Along with me, I
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  Speaker 1: was always the head coach of the Bothel Cougar's Tom Painter.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, how are we doing doing great? How about you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing good. First time we're doing this podcast here
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  Speaker 1: and there's I don't know if there's anybody else on
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  Speaker 1: campus there there might not be another person on campus
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  Speaker 1: right now. Coach, it is Veterans Day, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a it's it's It always feels weird to
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  Speaker 1: me to say stuff like Happy Veterans Day, because it's
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  Speaker 1: not really necessarily a happy thing, but we are kind
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  Speaker 1: of celebrating the military and those who have served. You know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a long history of people from Bothel, from North
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  Speaker 1: Shore that have served in the military, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot of parents that served in the
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  Speaker 1: military and a lot of former student athletes, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: we want to say thank you to all who have
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  Speaker 1: served this great country. Right now, I know we have
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  Speaker 1: a couple of guys that are currently serving in the military. Coach.
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  Speaker 1: I saw Jordan Price, what would he have been twenty
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  Speaker 1: four graduate? I believe I think, Yeah, yeah, down at
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  Speaker 1: POPKINI saw him on Friday night in his full Navy
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  Speaker 1: attire and it was great. He came up, he gave
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  Speaker 1: me a giant hug, and I didn't even know what
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  Speaker 1: to say to him. I just said, wow, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: know he was in the Navy, which is super cool,
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  Speaker 1: and just thanked him, you know, for his service. And
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  Speaker 1: it was it was, tell you what, man, he's looking fit,
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  Speaker 1: looking really fit for a guy that played offensive line
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  Speaker 1: and defensive line here at Bappele. But then you know,
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  Speaker 1: we also have Cole Brook, who was a tremendous two
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  Speaker 1: way player for US. He is out at the Military Academy.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys are currently serving. There's so many guys that
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  Speaker 1: have come through this program that you know, put in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of blood, sweat and tears here and then
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  Speaker 1: obviously blood sweat and tears for our country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's a it's a wonderful day today
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  Speaker 2: to reflect and to thank those who you know, do
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  Speaker 2: you risk their lives to fight for the freedom that
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  Speaker 2: we enjoy, and so can't thank them enough, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and can't name them all. There's there's so many we
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  Speaker 2: work with people here at BOFEL who have done that,
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  Speaker 2: including officer where and you know we all know relatives
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  Speaker 2: and and but it's really special to see many of
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  Speaker 2: our former players have got into the to the military,
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  Speaker 2: to the police academies, to firefighting, and it's a it's
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  Speaker 2: a funny brotherhood. I guess if you would that continues
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  Speaker 2: that you know, maybe starts in football, and and you
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  Speaker 2: love the discipline and the dedication to the WII. And
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  Speaker 2: they're special men out there, and and so to everybody
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  Speaker 2: who who fights for our freedom, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: We got to talk about the freshman game from last week,
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  Speaker 1: the varsity playoff win over Battleground, a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an opponent preview, and we do have players of the week.
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  Speaker 1: We will start with the freshman game. Coach, and last
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  Speaker 1: week we talked about the freshman team having a chance
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  Speaker 1: and the season with a winning record, and well, mother
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  Speaker 1: nature had other plans. A couple lightning delays forced the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game twenty one tie. Again, I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to get coach Jim Munson's opinion on some of these things.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I need to have him in here sometime. We'll
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  Speaker 1: just have the bleep button ready to go. But freshman
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  Speaker 1: Game twenty one twenty one tie. From what I saw,
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  Speaker 1: I saw a couple of videos and pictures looked like
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  Speaker 1: it was raining pretty good before the lightning came along.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, we were sitting out there in the
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  Speaker 2: rain and my son Eric and I had you know,
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  Speaker 2: had range stuff on, but we also had an umbrella.
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  Speaker 2: And then Jim Munson walks out and he's got a
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  Speaker 2: rain slicker on with a hood and it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: put over his head. And Eric had said to me,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever seen it rain this hard
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  Speaker 2: in my life. And I'm thinking, well, you haven't lived
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  Speaker 2: that long yet. Then, and then it got worse, and
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  Speaker 2: I was staying the same thing, and I've lived a
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  Speaker 2: little bit longer than him. So Jim and I and
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  Speaker 2: Eric were enjoying the rain and it was all great
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  Speaker 2: until the lightning came and then kind of ruined the atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what I was told. The teams went into the
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  Speaker 1: locker room, kind of dried off a little bit, got
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  Speaker 1: warmed up a little bit, came back out only a
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  Speaker 1: couple of plays later to have the lightning show up again.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the referees at that point were like,
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  Speaker 1: I think we're good, guys. I think we're good. Let's
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  Speaker 1: shut her down. So North Creek Boffel twenty one twenty
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  Speaker 1: one tie to end the season. So the freshman Coogs
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  Speaker 1: finish four four and one on the year. But overall,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot a lot to like about
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  Speaker 1: that freshman team. Man, there was some some players that
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  Speaker 1: really stepped up. There's some size on the offensive line
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  Speaker 1: or I guess offensive and defensive line. And now some
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  Speaker 1: of those guys are practicing with the varsity team kind
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  Speaker 1: of I guess for the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we always give our kids an opportunity to stay
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  Speaker 2: out if they want. You know, there's a we really
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  Speaker 2: push our kids to be multiple sport athletes. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's most of us won't go on to the NFL
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  Speaker 2: or Division one in anything we do. You know, you
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  Speaker 2: gotta have to be born that way at times. But
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  Speaker 2: the fact is, uh, there's a limited number of years
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  Speaker 2: where you get to play organized sports, and and uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think you should make the most of it. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we were at the banquet last night talking
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  Speaker 2: to our kids about that, and and the ones that
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  Speaker 2: still want to stay out are able to and and
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  Speaker 2: they're doing they're doing great things. I think the the
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  Speaker 2: playoff atmosphere, that the way practice changes when you get
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  Speaker 2: into this time of the season. I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful uh you know, teacher to the younger kids on
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  Speaker 2: how to handle yourself during a playoff run like this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh you know, coming up here, basketball gets started, wrestling,
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  Speaker 1: they're swimming, lots of great sports in the in the winter,
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  Speaker 1: and then obviously we get to the spring where there's baseball,
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  Speaker 1: there's track, there's so many different things going on, and
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  Speaker 1: it's good. It's good to see student athletes really trying
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  Speaker 1: to play more than one sport right now, because, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a weird thing in the society where
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  Speaker 1: people only want to focus on one sport because they,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, kind of maybe think they're going D
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  Speaker 1: one or to the NFL or to wherever. So it's
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  Speaker 1: good to see all those other sports kind of rare
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  Speaker 1: and getting getting going.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the varsity game. Before we get too
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  Speaker 1: far into it, though, we need to talk about who
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  Speaker 1: pulled the horn on Friday Night. A little new tradition here.
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  Speaker 1: We had doctor Jensen do it, we had Ardoni do it,
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  Speaker 1: we had Mike Dale, do it now this time? Arturo Sahagan.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if people really know the
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  Speaker 1: name Arturo Sahegan. He's the owner of Passion Tequila Family,
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  Speaker 1: Mexican restaurant who we talk about multiple times every week here.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, we walked him Arturo into the booth pregame
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  Speaker 1: to pull the horn. You know, more than just Passion Tequila,
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  Speaker 1: He's truly a member of this community that is so
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  Speaker 1: supportive of everything we do here at Bothel, not just football,
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  Speaker 1: really Bothel Athletics in general.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Artururo is a you know, I would consider him
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  Speaker 2: a good friend end of mine. His his his Passion
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  Speaker 2: Tequila family. They support our community so well. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we see it in football all the time, but I
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  Speaker 2: know it happens in baseball. I know it happens in basketball,
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  Speaker 2: and I and and I'm and I wouldn't be surprised
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  Speaker 2: if it were other areas too. They're a They're a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful piece of our community. They fit perfectly. They're all
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  Speaker 2: about the we and the us and and uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was fun to see our turro from the field.
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  Speaker 2: I looked up because, uh man, there's never been a
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  Speaker 2: horn blown quite like that. And and you know, since
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  Speaker 2: we got the whistle and I had to take a
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  Speaker 2: double take up to see if something got stuck or
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  Speaker 2: you know, if there was a smile on his face
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  Speaker 2: or what. But I saw my wife up there laughing. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: It's a fun tradition. And and you know who better
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  Speaker 2: than him in our community to come in and do
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  Speaker 2: that for for our first playoff game this year. So
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  Speaker 2: lots of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had I don't remember who it was, it
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  Speaker 1: was somebody within the last couple of days. Agoes. Man,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who pulled the horn on Friday, but
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  Speaker 1: boy did they lay it on heavy. My goodness, And
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  Speaker 1: I said, well, yeah, you know, hey, when the blue
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  Speaker 1: chain's rolling though, you got you gotta just lay that
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  Speaker 1: horn down big. You know something, I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: many people know, but you know, they passionate the quila.
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  Speaker 1: I think a couple of different times they sponsor our
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  Speaker 1: team meals at not only at Camp Batha Hood as
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  Speaker 1: far as long as I've been here, only a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years, but they've always sponsored the the team meal
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  Speaker 1: before homecoming. And you know, I couldn't tell you how
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  Speaker 1: many times after a baseball game or a football game
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. We've been down there as coaches and and
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  Speaker 1: they'll stay open late for us and and and really
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  Speaker 1: you know, make sure that our coaches get a good
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  Speaker 1: meal and coach and I I have to say, the
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  Speaker 1: first time I ever went there with you, I was
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  Speaker 1: shocked when you said, so, you guys want to order
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  Speaker 1: some wings. They got good wings down there.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: You would never think at a at a family Mexican
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  Speaker 1: restaurant to go in and order chicken wings. But I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what I was sold the second they've showed up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, it's a good thing. We don't
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  Speaker 2: have a million listeners because I'm about to tell you
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  Speaker 2: something that I probably shouldn't. But you know, they make
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good food, and some of the best
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  Speaker 2: food you could ever want. Is sometimes when you go
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  Speaker 2: in and say surprise, which means surprise, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: if our turo's in there and it's not too busy,
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  Speaker 2: and he'll come out with something and not on the menu.
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  Speaker 2: And and they're talented down there, not just in the
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  Speaker 2: way they serve food, but their ability to connect with
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  Speaker 2: their patrons and our community. Like we said, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're ever in a pinch if I'm ever in
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  Speaker 2: a pinch, would I would ask him? And I know
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  Speaker 2: for sure, without question, they would do whatever it takes
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  Speaker 2: to help out. And so, you know, sometimes you feel
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  Speaker 2: guilty because they've done so much and they just keep
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  Speaker 2: doing it like it's like it's what they're supposed to do.
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  Speaker 2: And so I can't say enough about our Turo and
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  Speaker 2: the whole group down there at Passion Tequila.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on. Talk about the game twenty to seventeen
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  Speaker 1: win over the Battleground Tigers on Friday night. If I
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  Speaker 1: said to you first thoughts following the game, what would
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  Speaker 1: you say?
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  Speaker 2: Hallelujah? We won the game. I mean, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a funny thing. We played in twenty nineteen kent Wood.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we had the ball first and we threw
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  Speaker 2: it just a silly little, you know, boot pass to
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  Speaker 2: the flat and our you know, Colin Fisher Keller caught
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  Speaker 2: it and went fifty five for a touchdown and we
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  Speaker 2: won ten seven, and we got off the bus. We
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  Speaker 2: came into the to the gymnasium and everybody was down.
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  Speaker 2: The fans were down, our team was down, and and
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  Speaker 2: I was the only one excited. It is unbelievably difficult
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  Speaker 2: to win in the playoffs rounds and and you you cannot,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot feel bad about anything that has to do
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  Speaker 2: with the victory. Can we improve in some areas? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 2: Can we? You know, we won't miss as many kicks
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  Speaker 2: as we did, and we won't catch the ball going
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  Speaker 2: out of bounds. And those are young kids in their
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  Speaker 2: first playoff experience, and you know, bless their heart, and
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  Speaker 2: you know they're going to be great this week. There's
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  Speaker 2: no doubt in my mind. And there's some things that
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  Speaker 2: we did to ourselves, but you know, first and foremost,
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  Speaker 2: I would tell you that that a lot of what
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  Speaker 2: happened was what Battleground did. Unbelievable game plan, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, especially their defensive side, they put pressure on
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  Speaker 2: us constantly. They made they made us change some of
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  Speaker 2: the schemes we had and blocking and and not only
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  Speaker 2: was the scheme good, they were they were great technicians
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  Speaker 2: at it. Uh, you know, hats off to their staff
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  Speaker 2: or you know, you know, I don't know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people who are listening know this much about football,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, there's cutting and then there's crawling, and
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  Speaker 2: they had the ability with their athleticism to get low
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  Speaker 2: on us and then move the line of scrimmage back,
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  Speaker 2: which you know was just disruptive to what we want
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  Speaker 2: to do. So uh, you know, hats off to them.
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  Speaker 2: I think we did enough to kind of move the
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  Speaker 2: ball when we had to, and we were able to
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  Speaker 2: make some adjustments ourselves at halftime that I think helped us.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they score on the second play of the game.
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  Speaker 2: They throw a long touchdown pass, very athletic quarterback, very
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  Speaker 2: gifted receivers, a tough O line. But but then after
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  Speaker 2: that we make some great adjustments defensively, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: we hold them to ten points the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: way and none in the second half. And so you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think people get caught up in records and and
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  Speaker 2: you know, rankings and and I'm here to tell you
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  Speaker 2: you just don't know what a what a team from
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  Speaker 2: Southwestern Washington does in their league versus what we're doing.
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  Speaker 2: And and for us to go out there and win
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  Speaker 2: that game was special. And I'm proud of our kids,
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  Speaker 2: and and you know, again I would I would. I
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  Speaker 2: can't say enough good things about Battleground and the way
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  Speaker 2: they fought.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, there was you know, as somebody
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  Speaker 1: who watches forty football around the state. I knew some
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  Speaker 1: of these names, right. It was interesting to me as
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  Speaker 1: the game went along as the public address announcer when
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  Speaker 1: my spotter keeps going, it was number fifty. It was
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  Speaker 1: number fifty. Em at Ordway. They're one of their middle
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  Speaker 1: linebackers there. The other one seth Waldall number nine. Those
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  Speaker 1: two guys seem like they're in on everything, and I
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  Speaker 1: think they would probably be the first one to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that their defensive line was really the ones making
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  Speaker 1: that all possible. And when I watched the way they
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  Speaker 1: played defensively, it was very even though it was two
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  Speaker 1: guys making most of the tackles, it was a full
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  Speaker 1: team effort. I mean the way that they played. I
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  Speaker 1: was after at about halftime, somebody asked me. They're like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on here? What's going on here? And I said,
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  Speaker 1: this is a good football team, man, this is it's
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  Speaker 1: playoff time though, that's what happens. You end up every
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  Speaker 1: week is a good football team. You know, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: just get there for any reason. You got there because
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  Speaker 1: you're a good football team and battleground. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: think a lot of people like you said, I think
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  Speaker 1: they get caught up and looking at records and they say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this team's five and four, this team's you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: not their records, not nearly. It doesn't matter. Like they
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  Speaker 1: played a completely different schedule we than what we played.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I think a lot of credit has
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  Speaker 1: to be given. You mentioned it no points in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. When you can shut a team out in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, when you can shut them out for a
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  Speaker 1: whole half, you give yourself a really good shot to
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  Speaker 1: win a game. And the adjustments that were made by
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  Speaker 1: our defense, and really the overall effort that our defense
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  Speaker 1: had throughout the game with so many guys playing both ways,
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  Speaker 1: was truly tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you're absolutely right. I'm sitting here as
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  Speaker 2: you're talk and thinking about those inside linebackers in the
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  Speaker 2: game that they played. We we we have to we
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  Speaker 2: have to we have to kind of do a double pass,
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  Speaker 2: double move pass for a touchdown. We do kind of
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  Speaker 2: a flow one way throw back to the other for another.
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  Speaker 2: And and that was you know, those were the things
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  Speaker 2: they made off our offense to our defense made them
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  Speaker 2: get out of what they wanted to do. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they want to they want to get you to drop
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  Speaker 2: guys and then create lanes for their quarterback so that
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  Speaker 2: if he is not if he doesn't have an open receiver,
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  Speaker 2: he can use it with his legs. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we had to battle between you know, do we do
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  Speaker 2: we just rush and contain and give them time in
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  Speaker 2: the pocket, which we did early, and he made it pay.
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  Speaker 2: And then we decided, let's let's kind of be more aggressive,
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  Speaker 2: and of course then he gets a couple of runs.
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  Speaker 2: And but but I think, you know, our our defenders,
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  Speaker 2: our defensive staff did a wonderful job of containing him
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  Speaker 2: and controlling the run game and the pass at the
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  Speaker 2: same time. And you know, really proud of our guys.
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  Speaker 2: They put in a lot of work. They're smart, they
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  Speaker 2: know football, and it really helped him show to you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially in that second half.
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  Speaker 1: Again, twenty seventeen win over Battleground. That means we are
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  Speaker 1: now headed into the state tournament game this Saturday over
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  Speaker 1: at Moses Lake. We'll talk more about that in the
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  Speaker 1: partners for the players of the week that is Passion
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  Speaker 1: Tequila Family Mexican Restaurant and Alexis Cafe and Catering. Each
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  Speaker 1: athlete will receive a forty dollars gift card to two
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  Speaker 1: local baffle favorites. Be sure to check out Passion Tequila
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  Speaker 1: and Alexis Cafe. Starting with the offense coach, the player
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  Speaker 1: of the game at a fantastic game when the team
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  Speaker 1: needed him to step up, he did so with command.
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  Speaker 1: That is Matt Small, junior quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I coached with Frank Nash for three
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  Speaker 2: years actually two years early in my career, and I
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  Speaker 2: learned a lot of football from Frank. One of the
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  Speaker 2: things I remember, the first playoff game as a coach
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  Speaker 2: I ever coached, was with him and he talked about
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  Speaker 2: how he gets excited for the end of the year
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  Speaker 2: because the cream kind of rises, players start to play
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  Speaker 2: their best at that time, and you know, we I
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  Speaker 2: was kind of curious to see, and sure enough we
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  Speaker 2: had some players do that. So I'm telling you every
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  Speaker 2: ever since I've been a head coach, and when we
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  Speaker 2: make the playoffs, I used the same speech and we
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  Speaker 2: did this week. And Matt was one of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: We had a number of them, but Matt was one
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  Speaker 2: of those guys. You know, we always were curious if
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  Speaker 2: somebody could take away our run, what would we be
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  Speaker 2: able to still move the ball. And there's no doubt
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  Speaker 2: now you know, Matt made made some great throws. The
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  Speaker 2: double move touchdown pass was just outstanding, and he threw
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  Speaker 2: the ball about as far as he came, about fifty
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  Speaker 2: yards in the air on the on the money we
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  Speaker 2: we but his better passes were when he's getting a
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  Speaker 2: little pressured on third and fourth down and medium with
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  Speaker 2: good coverage and you have to put it right on
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  Speaker 2: the right spot. And he did that a number of times.
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  Speaker 2: And we had clutch catches by you know, Carlin and
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  Speaker 2: by Kyle ce chob and and Cam Wallace made a
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  Speaker 2: clutch catch and our tight end Hunter Small made a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful catch and run after that, and I think we
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  Speaker 2: threw it to six different players and you know, but
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  Speaker 2: but hats off to Matt. I'm I'm hard on him.
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  Speaker 2: I demand a lot from our que and and uh
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  Speaker 2: he takes it though you know you can't, I can
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  Speaker 2: because he he's a He's a man that that looks
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  Speaker 2: you in the eye and says, uh, I'm looking at you,
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  Speaker 2: let's go, let's do it. His commitment to wanting to
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  Speaker 2: get better and to improve and is uh really mature
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  Speaker 2: ability to understand that that I'm not I'm not on him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on our quarterback and is special. And boy, he
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  Speaker 2: responds all the time really well. And I'm just so
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  Speaker 2: happy for the kid. Uh. He works hard, he he Uh,
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  Speaker 2: he's a gamer. If I'm if I'm going to a
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: poker tournament, I got a you know, I gotta get
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  Speaker 2: a partner. I'm playing with him because he's got the
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: right face, the right attitude, the right I don't play poker,
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  Speaker 2: but if I did, you know, Uh, I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: he's he's that kind of a guy. And and so
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  Speaker 2: I'm really happy for him.
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  Speaker 1: The connection that he had in that game. I believe
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  Speaker 1: Carlon Gaughner had six receptions. A lot of that people
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  Speaker 1: don't maybe understand that freshman football, that team went undefeated.
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  Speaker 1: They were nine to oh and you see the the
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  Speaker 1: you know, connection the chemistry that those two have at times.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a couple of throws Matt made that
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  Speaker 1: I've watched a lot of football, and when you're throwing
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  Speaker 1: what I call an ABC ball, you've got an A
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  Speaker 1: route in front, you've got a B route in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: and a C and he's thrown to the B. That's
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  Speaker 1: a tough throw. You got to get it over some guys,
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  Speaker 1: and you got to get it under some guys. And
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  Speaker 1: a couple of different times he put it to the
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  Speaker 1: sideline and I looked at my spot and I said that,
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  Speaker 1: right there is an impressive throw. It is a truly
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  Speaker 1: impressive throw. And then you know the out and up.
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  Speaker 1: You hit him over the top. A couple of times
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  Speaker 1: it was, you know, third and seven and Carlin runs
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  Speaker 1: it to eight, and you know, Kyle Siechov made a
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  Speaker 1: couple of really big catches, and you mentioned Cam Wallace
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  Speaker 1: with one along the sideline. I mean, there's some things
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  Speaker 1: that we haven't had to do this year as far
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  Speaker 1: as in the past game. And I think it was
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  Speaker 1: truly impressive what Matt was able to do from the
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks spot. There's you know, like all quarterbacks, even Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: there's a couple of throws that you go, that one
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  Speaker 1: wasn't very good, but to be able to bounce back
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  Speaker 1: and make an even better throw on third down when
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  Speaker 1: needed is truly impressive. So that was a lot of
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  Speaker 1: fun to watch on Friday night. Let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: defensive Player of the Game. Steven Millen say. This week's
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  Speaker 1: selection did not necessarily show up on the stat sheet.
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  Speaker 1: It seems like it kind of happens every week like this,
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  Speaker 1: but when given the opportunity, he stepped up with some
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  Speaker 1: impactful tackles at critical moments. Defensive Player of the Game
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  Speaker 1: number twenty Knaknawa. Yeah, you know, this kid's been fun
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  Speaker 1: to watch just grow. He's young, he's a sophomore. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he looks the part and then you know, early in
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  Speaker 1: the year, I think when you're learning, you're not as
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: physical as you you are because you're thinking right and
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  Speaker 1: you're not just playing. And well he's not thinking anymore
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  Speaker 1: and he's playing, and boy, there's a physicality to his play.
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  Speaker 1: He's a great kid, soft spoken, polite, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: good sense of humor. Just love the kid, and man,
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  Speaker 1: it is fun to see him when he is uh,
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  Speaker 1: when he is physical, you know, any linebacker will tell
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  Speaker 1: you when they do well, it's because the guys in
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  Speaker 1: front of him, and and you know, we just were
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  Speaker 1: starting to play good football as a as a you know,
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  Speaker 1: entire eleven person unit, and it's it's fun to see.
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  Speaker 1: Uh the job they did, you know, is special. And
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  Speaker 1: you know when we needed a physical stop, when the
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  Speaker 1: when the running back needed to be stopped right there
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  Speaker 1: and not an inch further, you know, that's what ConA
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  Speaker 1: brought us. And there were some short yards plays that
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  Speaker 1: that came in our favor with a with just short
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  Speaker 1: stops you know, the fourth down one, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: and those uh, special plays fun to see and happy
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  Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, ConA is a kid. I see him
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  Speaker 1: in the lunch room. I think he and I have
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  Speaker 1: the same lunch every single day. And uh, he's always
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  Speaker 1: got this goofy smile on his face. I always got
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  Speaker 1: a goofy smile. And I always say, I always look
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  Speaker 1: him and go, ConA, you get your fruits and veggies,
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  Speaker 1: and he's he's always got some tater tots and he
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  Speaker 1: goes potatoes a veggie, and I go, come on, man,
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  Speaker 1: come he's a He's a really really fun kid. So
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  Speaker 1: Congrats to Matt and Kona. They will receive gift cards
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  Speaker 1: to either Passion Tequila or Alexis Cafe, both a couple
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  Speaker 1: of spots there in Bothel that I think everybody loves.
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  Speaker 1: So congrats to those two guys. Let's talk opponent Preview
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  Speaker 1: and we'll go right back to Passion Tequila. They are
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  Speaker 1: north of pop Kini Stadium. Passion Tequila serving great food
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  Speaker 1: you can enjoy with your family and friends. They are
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  Speaker 1: the opponent preview sponsor coach. Another week, another really really
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  Speaker 1: good QB. This this week, Brady J. Committed to the
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  Speaker 1: University of Montana, a young man that I don't know
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: if you know this coach. When his father was coaching
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: at Hanford High School, we were doing a couple of
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson quarterback events up here at Bothel, and his
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: dad drove all the way over just to work out.
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  Speaker 1: And then and I said to his dad, I go,
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  Speaker 1: I go, oh, you guys, are you guys are over here?
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  Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah, yeah, we're just gonna We're just
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  Speaker 1: coming over and turn around going right back home.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For three and a half hours each way. To try
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  Speaker 1: to learn to be a quarterback. And uh, I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you what that that work ethic truly shows because you
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  Speaker 1: watch him on film and there is there's a good
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  Speaker 1: challenge this week.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, you know we go from from one great
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: quarterback to one that might just be a little bit greater. Uh,
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know that they're both talented. What what this
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: kid does is he's super accurate. He's gotta he's got
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  Speaker 2: to coach his mindset. You know, you can blitz him
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  Speaker 2: and he'll he'll like that because he already know where
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: he's going before the ball gets to his hands, and
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: he won't let you get to him. You drop, you
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: drop eight and he'll be patient and and his feet
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  Speaker 2: can extend plays and and uh and tell somebody then
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: in there, you know, scramble mode gets gets open and
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: he find mind him. It's uh, you know, you don't.
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  Speaker 2: I used to not like playing these guys when I
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  Speaker 2: was a younger coach, because you know, the fear is
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  Speaker 2: that beat you. But what I've learned over the years
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  Speaker 2: is you you gotta you gotta love playing great athletes
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  Speaker 2: because you'll talk about it for years and when you
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: see their success later on in life. You'll go, you'll
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: you'll have fond memories of the fact that that you know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: you got to play that kid. And you know what
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  Speaker 2: he's doing now on TV. We we we saw firsthand.
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  Speaker 2: So uh love the challenge for our kids, Love the
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: way he plays, Love that his dad is the head coach.
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  Speaker 2: His dad's had success as you and I've talked about
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  Speaker 2: all over the state wherever he goes, and he's doing
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  Speaker 2: a great job there, and it'll be a wonderful challenge
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  Speaker 2: for us, and and uh, you know, we'll uh you know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: the the D the D staff didn't didn't look as
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  Speaker 2: happy as they did on uh, you know Sunday after
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  Speaker 2: our meeting as they did uh Friday night. So uh
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  Speaker 2: uh we'll, we'll, we'll, uh we're working and and we've
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  Speaker 2: got our hands full for sure.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned his dad, and you know he's had success
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  Speaker 1: at Riverview. I don't remember exactly how long or what
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  Speaker 1: his record was at Monroe, but then he goes to
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  Speaker 1: Hanford over in the Tri Cities area, had some really
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  Speaker 1: tremendous success over there with the Falcons. You've been through
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: it where you're coaching your sons and you know what's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: it like as a dad to also coach your kids,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: but you have to be able to separate it and
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  Speaker 1: at times you're not dad your coach. So can you
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  Speaker 1: give people listening just what is it like to do that?
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  Speaker 1: But also maybe on a Friday night you get to
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  Speaker 1: see the success and just kind of sit back and smile.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, there's nothing like coaching your own kids.
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  Speaker 2: It is special. You know, we spend so much time
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  Speaker 2: away from our families during the football season, and when
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: your family's with you, it's so much better. So I
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: love those years coaching both of our sons, and you know,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: wouldn't trade those for anything. But I think that, more
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: so than the player, the coach is the ability to disconnect.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm a coach versus I'm a dad, and
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: and it's just what are what we're in that mode
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  Speaker 2: for and we're able to do that. And uh so,
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  Speaker 2: I know he's having a great time. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: the coach, not the kid. I bet you they both
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  Speaker 2: are with the season they're having the success. But but
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: coach Jay is he is, he's having a blast. I
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  Speaker 2: know there's nothing more fun than having success and winning
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  Speaker 2: and your son's right there with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh, you know, it's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: where it's it's got to be hard because you have
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to be able to separate that not only at home
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  Speaker 1: but on the field. The you know, uh, I know
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  Speaker 1: coach Jay is also a teacher in Moses Lake, so uh,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: there's got to be I guess almost like three different
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: types of separation from teacher to student to coach the player.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Two at home going I want to ring his neck,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: but I can't, you know, type of thing.
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  Speaker 2: But well, you know, to cut you off real quickly,
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  Speaker 2: there's a there's a there's a third person that's extremely
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  Speaker 2: important in this, and you know it's it's it's the mom.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: It's the wife and their ability to you know, understand
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  Speaker 2: football and passion and the two relationships is is kind
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: of what helps, you know, smooth it over. And it's
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: it's usually a behind the scenes one on one with
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: the player, one on one with the coach. And and
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I'm quite certain that they've got this mastered over there
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: because you see it on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's gonna be fun. Another road trip of
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the first road trip of the year, much longer over
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  Speaker 1: to Lewiston, but a road trip coach and We've talked
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: about this before. How you can you can even build
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and get a little bit closer to your teammates. Headed
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: over to Moses Lake, not exactly a real long trip,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: but gonna go over the day before and stay the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: night a one pm game. I don't know. I always
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: get excited for road trips because I know there's gonna
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: be some bonding, there's gonna be just a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great memories. But there's also still a job at hand.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's no question, And everything revolves around the
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: job at hand. You you, that's the paramount. Uh, you
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: know what you're what you're going to do, and so
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: everything builds around that. So you want to know, you know,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: is it better to sleep at home or in you know,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: in a hotel. Is it better to wake up and
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: eat and go, you know, five minutes to the game,
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  Speaker 2: or is it better to sleep in your bed and
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: travel you know, three and a half hours with a
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  Speaker 2: stop or two on the way there. Uh, all of
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: these things are taken into consideration. And then there's a
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  Speaker 2: financial side, and you know, we're we're very fortunate that
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  Speaker 2: we have a booster club and a community that sports
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  Speaker 2: football really well, and we're able to do whatever we
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  Speaker 2: think we is necessary for us. And so we we
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  Speaker 2: are looking forward to the trip. We uh, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do a stop and and uh a walk through
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  Speaker 2: at Central Washington University, get our kids on a college
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: campus and you know, practice on a college field, and
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: and you know, I think that's a great experience. We're
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna have dinner together, We're gonna you know,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: do some type of a team activity together before we
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  Speaker 2: before lights out, and then we're gonna get up and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's you know, it's time to go to work
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  Speaker 2: and time to do what we came to do, and
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  Speaker 2: that is to play our very best against a really
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  Speaker 2: really sound, undefeated quality football program. You know.
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  Speaker 1: And I think one of the things that we have
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to mention here is just the tremendous work from our
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: booster club. You know, Kim Munson is overseeing things, but
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: there's so many people behind the scenes, and I'm not
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: even gonna name one of them because I'd have to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: name them all and I'd probably forget one or two. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the tremendous work they do getting the funds
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: for us to be able to do stuff like stay
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the night one of the other things I want to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: mention and I forgot to do it during the Battleground
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: talk was, you know, coach John File and prost Our
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Insurance sponsoring last week the students section and you know
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: kind of go and have these if you will with
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the Booster Club to make sure that our students could
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: get in. This week there is a router bus headed
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: over to Moses Lake. So just I love things, the support.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime something is needed, people step up. Last week it
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: was pro Star. You know, there's so many different companies
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and people that make all of this possible, and it's
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: it's it's really just truly cool to see. And the
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Booster Club is kind of the one kind of the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: heads of it all. They're the ones out there kind
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: of getting this, you know, orchestrating everything on the back
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  Speaker 1: end so that at the end of the day we
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: can just play football.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's really cool to see. It really is. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: it does take a village, and we have a wonderful village.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: You know. You you talk about the work our Booster
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Club does, and then our Booster Club doesn't do well
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: unless the community sports the events that the Booster Club's doing.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: And we have that, and we have members in our
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: community like the Passion Tequilas and and the Alexa Cafes
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: and all the other supporters. And then we have individual
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: supporters that people don't even know about who come out
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: and want to help in this way or that way.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: And we have a parent group that is, you know,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: supports foot ball and their kids playing a game. And
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: and when it when it's like that, it's really good.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: And it can sometimes help out a district who you know,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: like most of them in our state, are are in
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: a little deficit and finding ways to you know, to
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: crawl out of a financial hole. And and so you know,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: it's working. It's working here. It's it's a it's wonderful support. Uh.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: We care about kids and and their experiences and and
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  Speaker 2: so it certainly shows on a on a weekend like
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: the one we're about to have.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Well, coach, Uh, that's all I got for this week's show.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for your time. We will talk next week.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Rollin. I appreciate what you do.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, one pm Saturday in Moses Lake. Tickets are
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: available through go fan. You need to look that up.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: There will be no cash at the gate. They will
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: have card readers available at the gate, but save yourself
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the time going to go fan purchase the tickets before
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: you leave to head east to Moses Lake. Other than that,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I'm Ryland Spencer. He's Tom Bainter. You bo's been listening
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  Speaker 1: to episode twenty three of the Bafel Football Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. And there's always Go
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