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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 270 - 2024 Ferndale Golden Eagles Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is senior Talent Banguard and you're listening to the
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Speaker 1: Ferndale football preview on the walcom Preps podcast with Tyler
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Speaker 1: and Ryland. It's a matter of pride.
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Speaker 2: Meetings and welcome into the watcom Preps podcast. This is
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Speaker 2: episode at two hundred and seventy seventh of ten football
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Speaker 2: team previews. I'm Ronda Spencer. Along with me as always
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Speaker 2: is Tyler Anderson of a watcom Preps.
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Speaker 3: Tyler, how are we doing doing great? It's another beautiful
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Speaker 3: morning and we are just one day closer now to
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Speaker 3: Friday night football. Getting excited.
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Speaker 2: Every two podcasts that you and I record is one
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Speaker 2: day closer. Yeah, as we get closer. Let's see here
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Speaker 2: we need to give a thank you to Talent bun
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Speaker 2: Guard for the intro, which means we you are talking
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Speaker 2: Ferndale Golden Eagles today. We also need to give a
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Speaker 2: thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurt Mayberry Farm is
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Speaker 2: a fourth generation, family owned and operated a berry farm
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Speaker 2: committed to growing the highest quality berries, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries.
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Speaker 2: You can find them online at Kurt with A C M,
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Speaker 2: A B E R r WI farm dot com. As
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Speaker 2: I said this podcast is about the Ferndale Golden Eagles.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday we previewed Meridian and Squalicum. We have also already
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Speaker 2: posted the two Linden schools, Bellingham and Blaine. Will be
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Speaker 2: sure to go back and listen to those. So, Tyler,
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Speaker 2: we are on the downside of things here. We're really
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Speaker 2: full force headed towards the season at this point. But
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Speaker 2: we're picking up momentum. Yeah, exactly, even though I don't
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Speaker 2: know about you, I'm getting a little tired. We're getting
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Speaker 2: closer to the season. That's not a good thing. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: here we go. I mean, it's every year about this
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Speaker 2: time we're doing the same thing. But let's see here.
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Speaker 2: Later today we will have the Mount Baker Mountaineers and him.
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Speaker 2: We will have them at five pm tomorrow. We finished
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Speaker 2: with Seahome and Nooksack Valley. After we finish the team previews.
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Speaker 2: The very next day, we will have a week one
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Speaker 2: preview and then the entire County of Volleyball preview on
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Speaker 2: that's all on Thursday, and then we got games on Fridays,
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Speaker 2: and I believe them on Saturday the first week I
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Speaker 2: can't remember. Yeah, a couple on Saturday, yes, yeah, so yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean right into it. So if you're listening to this,
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Speaker 2: this would be what Tyler Tuesday. Yes, if you listen
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Speaker 2: to us when it came out, it's Tuesday, which means
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Speaker 2: a couple on Wednesday preview and volleyball on Thursday, games Friday, Saturday.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. But yeah, be sure to subscribe to
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Speaker 2: the podcast. And like I always say, if you're listening
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Speaker 2: to this and you're not looking at wakompreps dot com,
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Speaker 2: you're doing it wrong because all of this stuff we're
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Speaker 2: talking about it's all right there, and it's easier to
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Speaker 2: read and listen at the same time as you do things.
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Speaker 2: Let's see, hear Tyler Friday morning, you major we have
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Speaker 2: to meridianalked about them yesterday, then you went over to Ferndale,
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Speaker 2: we're talking about them right now. And then later today
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Speaker 2: we talked about Baker, which is where you went after Ferndale.
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Speaker 2: But while you were at Ferndale, general thoughts, what'd you see?
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Speaker 3: Well, headed straight over there from Meridian and it was
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Speaker 3: just a downpour the whole time, and I thought, Okay,
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Speaker 3: here we go, but maybe there's some covered area where
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Speaker 3: we can stand with our you know, our sheets that
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Speaker 3: the kids have to fill out. And it was so
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Speaker 3: funny because I get there and I when we went
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Speaker 3: there last year, they were still doing the finishing touches
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Speaker 3: on the stadium, so there wasn't like an open way
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Speaker 3: to get in there. We had to walk around all
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Speaker 3: this big path and get finally get into the stadium.
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Speaker 3: So this was a little easier. But I'm getting in
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Speaker 3: my car and I'm looking and I and I don't
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Speaker 3: have any of my sharpies. I usually have like five
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Speaker 3: to eight sharpies for the kids to fill out their sheets,
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Speaker 3: and I don't have any of them. And I realized
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Speaker 3: I left them all at Meridian, Oh, because they had
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Speaker 3: to go inside this container to fill out, so it
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Speaker 3: was dry, and I have all the sheets that they
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Speaker 3: filled out, but I didn't have any sharpies. And I'm thinking, oh, man,
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Speaker 3: in practice is probably gonna end in less than an hour.
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Speaker 3: So right as that happened, Mikayla rolled in, I let
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Speaker 3: her know. I said, hey, just hang out for a
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Speaker 3: little bit. Luckily, I live about four miles from the
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Speaker 3: high school, so I have more sharpies at home. So
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Speaker 3: I ran home grabbed what I had left, which is
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Speaker 3: about six of them left. Buzz it just hurry up.
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Speaker 3: And came back. We went, we walked in the stadium
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Speaker 3: and the first thing you notice is just I mean
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Speaker 3: it's a beautiful new stadium obviously, but just a lot
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Speaker 3: of kids. You know, they got all the freshmen on
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Speaker 3: one side and all the upperclassmen on another. And you know,
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Speaker 3: you're looking at a hundred kids out there, which is
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Speaker 3: you know, I mean that's a three A school, right,
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Speaker 3: that's what you're that's what kind of what you're expecting.
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Speaker 3: And saw Jake Locker out there, and he's back with
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Speaker 3: the program with helping the offense, which was cool to see.
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Speaker 3: Saw his boys running around. They are more muscle mass
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Speaker 3: than I do. And they're you know, kindergarten, first grade,
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Speaker 3: second grade age, and you know, they just they looked
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Speaker 3: they looked sharp and and I remember last year going
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Speaker 3: to practice and they did not look good at all.
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Speaker 3: I was a bad day of practice. And then they
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Speaker 3: come out and beat Lyndon in week one, so I
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Speaker 3: was like, well, geez, what do I know?
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Speaker 4: So uh, but they.
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Speaker 3: Looked they look good and and a lot of new
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Speaker 3: faces and and uh but there's something about Ferndale where
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Speaker 3: they can just plug and play and do their thing
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Speaker 3: really well and they do fine, Tyler.
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Speaker 2: While you were out there, you got to sit down
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Speaker 2: with the coach Jamie Plankovic, who, by the way, in
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Speaker 2: his twenty first season with FERD Ferndale twenty fifth overall.
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Speaker 2: And when you talk about a guy we talked about
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Speaker 2: with coach Lucy, a guy that's kind of very straight
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Speaker 2: to the point and not a whole lot of I
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Speaker 2: don't know what you say, hubble blue or whatever, you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like, he's pretty straight to the point.
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Speaker 4: He tells you what he what he thinks.
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Speaker 2: And so another a little over four minutes is where
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Speaker 2: we're at with coach Plankovich instead of the long winded
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Speaker 2: Blake Van Dalen, like eight and a half minutes Coach,
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Speaker 2: I know you're listening, but yeah, four minutes with coach Plankovich,
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Speaker 2: and yeah, Tyler, take it away.
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Speaker 3: This is Tyler Anderson from Walkom Preps on location at
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Speaker 3: Ferndale High School at the new stadium. Still new to
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Speaker 3: me anyways, sitting here with coach Jamie Plankovich and coach
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Speaker 3: you were just talking about this. You've been here this year,
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Speaker 3: twenty first years the head coach. What does it mean
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Speaker 3: to put some roots down and just be.
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Speaker 4: Here for a while.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's been obviously a great experience for myself and
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Speaker 5: just being a part of this program, which has been
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Speaker 5: special long before I got here. It's it's just kind
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Speaker 5: of unique. We got some throwback with how important sports
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Speaker 5: and athletics are in Ferndale and now you know, having
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Speaker 5: a new school at a new stadium. It's been really
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Speaker 5: exciting to be a part.
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Speaker 3: Of the West Go three A North. You know, I'm
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Speaker 3: focusing on Walking County, so I don't know a ton
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Speaker 3: about the other teams. What do you expect out of
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Speaker 3: the conference this year?
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Speaker 5: Well, it's always going to be a challenge weekend and
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Speaker 5: week out. We have Arlington and Marysville who now have
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Speaker 5: Arlington moved to the for a division in Marysville is
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Speaker 5: up here now in the Northwest Conference. And we added
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Speaker 5: Cedar Wooley who is always a very good football team,
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Speaker 5: and Snohomish comes from the South up to the North
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Speaker 5: to balance the divisions. You know that the other players
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Speaker 5: are all still there, so yeah, we're gonna have our
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Speaker 5: work cut out for us. Stanwood returns a ton of guys,
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Speaker 5: so I you know, just looking at in the preseason,
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Speaker 5: I think they're going to be really tough, and you've
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Speaker 5: got to be ready to play every week, which we
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Speaker 5: saw last year.
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Speaker 3: One key player over the last few years for you
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Speaker 3: has been Talon Bung Guard. He's a senior now. He
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Speaker 3: looks fantastic, passes the eye test for sure. And what
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Speaker 3: has he meant to the program and what do you
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Speaker 3: expect that him this year?
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Speaker 5: Well, it's nice having guys that have you know, been
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Speaker 5: three year starters. He'll be a three year starter. He
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Speaker 5: was a captain last year as a junior. Tells you
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Speaker 5: a lot about just the type of person who is
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Speaker 5: in his leadership. He is one of our hardest workers,
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Speaker 5: which you love when it's your leadership. He's put in
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Speaker 5: the time in the offseason to get ready for the year.
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Speaker 5: And yeah, he's just one of our core guys that
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Speaker 5: is going to be kind of driving our team both,
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Speaker 5: you know, just from the leadership side and then what
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Speaker 5: he can do on the.
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Speaker 3: Field offensive wise. I mean, wing Tea is rooted into
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Speaker 3: the Ferndale offense, has been for a long time. Ferndale
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Speaker 3: fans that come to games are they can expect to
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Speaker 3: see kind of that same type of offense.
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Speaker 5: Well, certainly that's our base, but you'll and we've looked
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Speaker 5: at it a little bit. You'll see some some things
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Speaker 5: mixed in there that, you know, trying to take advantage
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Speaker 5: and spread the field both vertically and laterally. So we've
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Speaker 5: been in some guns stuff with some spread formations that
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Speaker 5: will continue to develop. We'll be in the offense this year,
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Speaker 5: so we just tried to do a good job of
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Speaker 5: enhancing our wing stuff with some spread stuff that still
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Speaker 5: keeps things simple for our line and has a lot
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Speaker 5: of the same concepts, but then we can feel like
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Speaker 5: we can attack the field, not just inside the.
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Speaker 3: Box right defensive wise, for me anyways, watching a ton
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Speaker 3: of film, watching games, I'm always impressed with just how
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Speaker 3: well you swarm and how well you tackle, you know,
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Speaker 3: and what do you like so far about your defense?
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Speaker 3: And I'm sure those are going to be staples again.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously we really feel like we win games on
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Speaker 5: that side of the ball. We kind of varied our
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Speaker 5: scheme a little bit last year, as you're seeing so
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Speaker 5: much spread now, getting another defensive back on the field
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Speaker 5: in a lot of situations to depending on what teams
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Speaker 5: were playing. So there's some adjustment there last year. But
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Speaker 5: I thought, are you know, for year one in somewhat
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Speaker 5: of a new scheme. Our guys did really well. We
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Speaker 5: have always prided us ourselves on getting to the ball
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Speaker 5: and being good tacklers, and it's part of just being
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Speaker 5: mentally tough, which we talk about in our program. So far,
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Speaker 5: we're seeing some good things. We have some returners, which
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Speaker 5: always is nice, uh and and we'll fill in with
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Speaker 5: guys around it. But it's been very competitive in practice
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Speaker 5: this far.
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Speaker 2: Thank you to coach Plankovic for his time. As I
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Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, twenty first season at Ferndale, twenty fifth overall
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Speaker 2: hundred and ninety and sixty seven. So a guy that
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Speaker 2: in theory could get to that two hundred win Planteau
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Speaker 2: this year. Last year they went eight and three. The
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Speaker 2: key losses here are not only some high quality, but
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Speaker 2: also very a lot of them. There's there's que few
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Speaker 2: names here the top attorneys.
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Speaker 4: Tyler.
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Speaker 2: I see a name that we'll get to here in
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Speaker 2: a second, a name that we did not get to
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Speaker 2: really talk about last year other than saying he wasn't
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Speaker 2: playing football. As we look over last year's schedule, Tyler
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Speaker 2: three wins to start off the season, including a good
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Speaker 2: one over Lindon, a good one over a good Glacier
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Speaker 2: Peak team, and then a lost to Arlington, a team
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Speaker 2: who ended up I believe, in the quarterfinals of the
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Speaker 2: state tournament before losing to eventual state champion in Bellevue.
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Speaker 2: And then they get a win over Marysville Pilchock, and
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Speaker 2: then they end up losing a game to Marysville Getchel
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Speaker 2: fourteen thirteen that I think Ferndell would want back. You'd
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Speaker 2: mentioned to me before that Connor Walker was not playing
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Speaker 2: in that game. They had a chance to win it
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Speaker 2: with a game winning field goal. But when you look
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Speaker 2: at that score, you just kind of go, wow, how
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Speaker 2: did they only put up thirteen? But then they got
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Speaker 2: on a hot streak, finished out the season with four
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Speaker 2: wins before getting into the state tournament and losing to
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Speaker 2: Mount Dahoma Tyler. Just really quickly, when you look at
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Speaker 2: that that schedule there from last year, what are some
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Speaker 2: things that kind of come to your mind? I mean
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Speaker 2: that that Marysville Edule game is a game that still
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Speaker 2: is just kind of leaves you a little perplexed, if
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Speaker 2: you will.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's there's games where you have an off
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Speaker 3: night and just something's not right, and that that's basically
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Speaker 3: what happened. I think they've been playing each other every
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Speaker 3: year since twenty sixteen, and that was the first time
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Speaker 3: they lost to them, and yeah, it was just kind
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Speaker 3: of unique. I remember that that Week one game against
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Speaker 3: Lyndon very very well. I was there for that one.
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Speaker 3: They looked really sharp and what You're absolutely right about
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Speaker 3: that hot streak. Once they got on that things things
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Speaker 3: rolled pretty well. I remember that crossover game with Timberline
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Speaker 3: and just kind of thinking, I don't know what to expect,
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Speaker 3: and they just came out and they just were awesome.
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Speaker 3: I was out for that game as well. You know,
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Speaker 3: it's so strange because last year going into the year,
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Speaker 3: they lost so much high end talent with all these
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Speaker 3: d one kids going off to school with Lannon Hatchet,
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Speaker 3: Jake Mason, and Isaiah Carlson, and then Zach Nielsen doesn't
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Speaker 3: turn out, and you're just kind of thinking, oh, my goodness,
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Speaker 3: like this is gonna be a tough year. They're gonna
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Speaker 3: probably go about five hundred, and then they make the
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Speaker 3: state playoffs at three A level. So that was just
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Speaker 3: kind of you know, I just kind of said, you know,
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Speaker 3: these guys, they're so well coached. There's a tradition there,
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Speaker 3: leave it all on the field. It's a matter of
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Speaker 3: pride all that stuff. It's just you know, as a
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Speaker 3: first year playing in the brand new stadium. And I
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Speaker 3: think once they got once they lost to Marysville Getchel,
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Speaker 3: things really turned around and they kind of looked at
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Speaker 3: each other like, hey, we gotta you know. I don't
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Speaker 3: want to say what Tom Berenger said in Major League,
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Speaker 3: but you know what I mean, like, they got to
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Speaker 3: they have to win. They have to keep now, they
13:48
Speaker 3: got to win. If they want to get there, they
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Speaker 3: have to win. And and they just kept winning and
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Speaker 3: and it was it was a really great thing to see.
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Speaker 3: And I love it when the local teams do well
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Speaker 3: because it means more more football and they got to
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Speaker 3: keep playing.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Now, when you look at the backfield on the offensive
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Speaker 2: side of the ball, obviously it's weird because you know,
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Speaker 2: Bishop Utsi maybe doesn't put up the huge numbers that
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Speaker 2: most quarterbacks around the county do. But arguably there's not
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Speaker 2: a guy that was, you know, quarterback wise that maybe
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Speaker 2: was more important to his offense with the fakes and
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Speaker 2: just knowing how to you know, get that engine going
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Speaker 2: over there if you will, and then losing some other guys.
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Speaker 2: You know, Connor Walker is obviously a huge loss, Phoenix
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Speaker 2: Fink Bonner. But when you go and you look at
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Speaker 2: the stats, Talon Bung guard over a thousand yards. Zach
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Speaker 2: Nielsen obviously did not play last year, but in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty two ninety eight carries six hundred and forty one
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Speaker 2: yards average six and a half yards of carry and
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Speaker 2: had six touchdowns. So there are some real pieces, and
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Speaker 2: then they're gonna do what they always do. They've got
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Speaker 2: guys that maybe we know their name, maybe they're on
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Speaker 2: this list right here, you know, Jacob Gandy, Jonathan Stanik,
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Speaker 2: maybe it's one of these guys. But Tyler, who are
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Speaker 2: the guys that maybe aren't household names that could become
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Speaker 2: those names this year?
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Speaker 3: Well, I think Nolan Boliac at quarterback. He really separated
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Speaker 3: himself in this in the spring. He's he's about six
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Speaker 3: ' two now, really strong arm pitcher on the baseball team.
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Speaker 3: And you know when sophomores become junior sometimes they have
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Speaker 3: that growth spurt, and he really had that strong arm.
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Speaker 3: I would imagine they might throw it more than usual,
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Speaker 3: maybe going to like the Mark Slicking days. You know,
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Speaker 3: he had a really really strong arm and they weren't
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Speaker 3: afraid to air it out quite a bit, and so
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Speaker 3: you could see that happening. Just because of his ability
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Speaker 3: as a passer. You know, having Zach Nielsen back is
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Speaker 3: huge and obviously talon bung guard is you know, kind
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Speaker 3: of the you know, the focal point and the engine
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Speaker 3: and kind of what is Ferndale's famous for is having
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Speaker 3: a full back that's just going to plow through the line.
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Speaker 3: So having both of those guys in the backfield is
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Speaker 3: really really dynamic. I mean, that is going to be
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Speaker 3: a big, big deal. Jacob Gandy, as you said, one
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Speaker 3: of the best wrestlers in the state, extremely tough, not
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Speaker 3: the biggest kid, but like I said, extremely tough. He
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Speaker 3: could play some halfback, he could play some wing back.
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Speaker 3: He could be moved around, and his big focus will
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Speaker 3: probably be on defense, but he'll definitely find you know,
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Speaker 3: ways to get him the ball as well. And then
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Speaker 3: and also as a wing back. Eli Kennerley, who I
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Speaker 3: really liked last year in the return game, he did
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Speaker 3: some good things. He had a couple carries last year
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Speaker 3: were in total forty yards from the wing spots. So
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Speaker 3: he's a guy that could be doing some good things.
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Speaker 3: He's a really good rugby player, and so those are
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Speaker 3: kind of the main, the main you know, spots and
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Speaker 3: stuff like that. Zach Nielsen is intriguing just because he
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Speaker 3: did get some reps at camp at quarterback as well.
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Speaker 3: So you might see some unusual packages or stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: And if that's the case, then you could see Gandy's
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Speaker 3: slide over to halfback Kennerley come in it wing. So
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Speaker 3: they have guys that they could spill into spots if
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Speaker 3: they decide to do some different types of packages. And
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Speaker 3: zach Nielsen, I mean, you got to see him up
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Speaker 3: up close in that Stanwood game and that was when
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Speaker 3: he was a sophomore. He made the he made his
17:14
Speaker 3: decision last year to go play tennis. He loved tennis.
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Speaker 3: He was the number one tennis player on his team.
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Speaker 3: But he came back and and played is going to
17:22
Speaker 3: play football this year and and and it's wonderful. I
17:26
Speaker 3: coach Plankovich, you know, lit up talking about him. And
17:31
Speaker 3: so it's a it's just a nice luxury to have.
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Speaker 3: And and we'll see him all over the field on
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Speaker 3: the offensive side of the ball.
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Speaker 2: Now, the first thing you think of when you think
17:39
Speaker 2: Ferndale Football are receiving targets, Tyler exactly. Obviously we're joking there.
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Speaker 2: That being said, Tyler, their leading receiver coming back is
17:50
Speaker 2: actually Talon bung Guard oddly enough, seven receptions seventy nine yards,
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Speaker 2: two touchdowns, which is kind of crazy.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 2: But when you start talking receiving targets coming back, Lincoln
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Speaker 2: Thomas the tight end four receptions seventy one yards. But
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Speaker 2: other than that, Tyler, there's not a lot of production
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Speaker 2: on the outside. I mean there's not a lot of
18:06
Speaker 2: production on the outside in general, typically in the offense.
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Speaker 2: But you talk about potentially throwing the ball a little
18:11
Speaker 2: bit more this year, Well, yeah, if they're gonna do that, Tyler,
18:14
Speaker 2: they we got to have some guys. So who are
18:16
Speaker 2: we talking on the outside that's gonna maybe join Lincoln
18:18
Speaker 2: Thomas's I mean, obviously Nielsen can catch out of the backfield.
18:22
Speaker 2: Bung Guard is obviously did some of it. There's the
18:25
Speaker 2: running backs are always going to be involved also. But
18:27
Speaker 2: when we start talking tight end, it's Lincoln Thomas. But
18:30
Speaker 2: when we start talking receivers, who are some of the guys.
18:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, Lincoln Thomas for sure, about six two two two
18:36
Speaker 3: twenty now he just built really really well former quarterback
18:40
Speaker 3: you know, years ago, but you know, move to tight
18:43
Speaker 3: end to fill the spot. Last year did really well.
18:45
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna put up much bigger numbers this year.
18:48
Speaker 3: I mean he could be catching twenty five thirty balls,
18:50
Speaker 3: which is you know, not now you start talking about
18:53
Speaker 3: record books for Forndale. You know, It's funny because when
18:55
Speaker 3: I asked coach Plankitch about the receivers, the first thing
18:58
Speaker 3: I said was you got some good blockers out there,
19:00
Speaker 3: and he started laughing because you know, that's what they
19:03
Speaker 3: are asked to do. But like you said, and I
19:05
Speaker 3: said earlier, I think they're going to open it up
19:07
Speaker 3: a little bit. I could see Eli's twin brother, Israel Kennerley,
19:12
Speaker 3: being a wide receiver out there. Another you know, and
19:14
Speaker 3: he's another good rugby player. They both have really good size,
19:17
Speaker 3: about six to two, you know, one hundred and ninety pounds.
19:20
Speaker 3: Another really good athlete that I'm very intrigued about, but
19:25
Speaker 3: I haven't say I seen him play football is Cooper Vincent.
19:28
Speaker 3: He's a junior. Saw him a lot on the basketball
19:32
Speaker 3: court last year. He was kind of like the star
19:34
Speaker 3: of the JV team as a sophomore and then he'd
19:36
Speaker 3: come up and get some good minutes on you know,
19:39
Speaker 3: on the varsity team. But you know a guy that
19:41
Speaker 3: could just you know, is fluid, can dunk, you know
19:44
Speaker 3: that that kind of athlete. And you know, I think
19:48
Speaker 3: he is really intriguing as far as put him out there,
19:51
Speaker 3: have him get some jump balls, get and he's about
19:53
Speaker 3: six to two as well.
19:54
Speaker 4: So, uh, he's a.
19:56
Speaker 3: Guy that I could see doing some some really good things.
19:59
Speaker 3: I just I've never seen and play football. I'm sure
20:01
Speaker 3: he played. His His dad, Ashley Vincent, was one of
20:04
Speaker 3: the best players that see him had in the decade
20:06
Speaker 3: of the nineties. He was a really athletic lineman.
20:09
Speaker 4: So I'm thinking.
20:10
Speaker 3: That that could that could you know, turn into some
20:12
Speaker 3: good things. So there are some guys out there you
20:15
Speaker 3: mentioned bung Guard coming out of the backfield. They they
20:17
Speaker 3: do some really unique plays with the full back, you know,
20:21
Speaker 3: you know, with play action where they fake it to
20:23
Speaker 3: the full back and then they kind of go through
20:25
Speaker 3: the line and go out to the flat and it's
20:27
Speaker 3: it's worked over the years and talent bun Guard. I mean,
20:30
Speaker 3: they've been guys that have done it over the years
20:33
Speaker 3: that have caught touchdown passes when they get like inside
20:36
Speaker 3: the ten and but no one's done it as well
20:38
Speaker 3: as bung guard, so again a weapon in the receiving
20:42
Speaker 3: game as well. And and Zach Nielsen's a kid that
20:45
Speaker 3: if he's lined up at wing, you might see some
20:47
Speaker 3: of that pro cell action where he just goes right
20:50
Speaker 3: down the that's down the seam and he's gonna outrun
20:53
Speaker 3: somebody and you could throw it deep to him. So
20:55
Speaker 3: there definitely are some options in the passing game this
20:58
Speaker 3: year for Ferndale.
20:59
Speaker 2: Ferndale has been very blessed in the in history with linemen,
21:05
Speaker 2: but especially the last I would say few years where
21:09
Speaker 2: you know, you had the Hatchet Brothers, you had Jake Mason,
21:12
Speaker 2: you had Camden Raymond, Kellen Lefay, those last two they
21:16
Speaker 2: were there last year. They're gone now. But Tyler, there's
21:19
Speaker 2: still a couple of guys left. One that you're very
21:21
Speaker 2: high on Culshan La Valley and then Whyat's straight as well.
21:24
Speaker 2: But other than those two guys, not a lot of
21:27
Speaker 2: names that people will know. So defensive line, offensive line,
21:32
Speaker 2: what do we got there?
21:33
Speaker 3: Well, those two guys are going to be the main
21:35
Speaker 3: guys on both sides of the line. You know, both
21:38
Speaker 3: of them started on the offensive line the entire year.
21:41
Speaker 3: Culshal the Valley is just You're right. I'm very very
21:45
Speaker 3: high on him. I think he's got big time potential.
21:48
Speaker 3: He's already about three h five right now and is
21:51
Speaker 3: very very athletic, can move he is, you know, and
21:55
Speaker 3: he's just a junior this year, so I'm expecting some
21:57
Speaker 3: pretty big things. Whyatt's straight. I think he took second
22:01
Speaker 3: in state at wrestling at the heavyweight spot. He is
22:05
Speaker 3: just a stud, uh and he has a lot of
22:08
Speaker 3: experience at the varsity level now, so he'll kind of lead,
22:10
Speaker 3: he'll kind of help with that. You might you might
22:15
Speaker 3: see another Hatchet on the offensive line. So chance Hatchet
22:19
Speaker 3: now is a freshman. He's about He's not as big
22:22
Speaker 3: as the other Hatchets were at that age, but he's
22:25
Speaker 3: very very athletic. He's about six feet tall, two hundred
22:28
Speaker 3: and fifteen pounds, and he could get some run. There's
22:32
Speaker 3: another freshman that looks really intriguing. His name's Trey Munson.
22:36
Speaker 3: He's six two, two thirty five and and he's working
22:41
Speaker 3: out with the varsity guys. And that's all I know.
22:44
Speaker 3: So I don't want to push too much, but I
22:46
Speaker 3: think that he might, you know, have a chance to
22:49
Speaker 3: do some things eventually. I don't know if he's ready
22:52
Speaker 3: right now. Helston Hadrath is a kid that would come
22:57
Speaker 3: in on goal line, plays on the on the defense,
23:00
Speaker 3: and he's about six two three point fifty and he
23:03
Speaker 3: could just plug up the middle. They're kind of a
23:05
Speaker 3: Tony Sarahgusa type. And I don't know if he's gonna
23:09
Speaker 3: get some run on the offensive line, but I think
23:11
Speaker 3: he'll definitely be in the rotation there on the defensive line.
23:14
Speaker 3: The trick now on the defensive line is finding ends
23:18
Speaker 3: to replace Fink, Bonner and la Valley because those guys,
23:23
Speaker 3: and they've always had really good defensive ends. And you know,
23:27
Speaker 3: there's probably a lot of guys that are in the
23:29
Speaker 3: running for that right now, but it's just gonna be
23:32
Speaker 3: we'll just have to see on Week one who ends
23:34
Speaker 3: up taking those spots.
23:36
Speaker 2: If there's one position here that you're gonna look at
23:38
Speaker 2: and go, they really don't lose much out of that position,
23:41
Speaker 2: it's linebacker Tyler. And when I say they don't lose much,
23:46
Speaker 2: they returned a lot of production, and I mean some
23:48
Speaker 2: serious production here. Jacob Gandy sixty three and a half tackles,
23:52
Speaker 2: Tallan Bungard forty one and a half, Lincoln Thomas thirty
23:55
Speaker 2: and a half, and all those guys are getting tackles
23:57
Speaker 2: for losses, they're forcing some fumbles, they're defending passes. Heck,
24:02
Speaker 2: bung Guard even intercepted a pass. I mean there's a
24:05
Speaker 2: lot of production out of that linebacking group. What all
24:09
Speaker 2: do we need to know? Are there any other names
24:10
Speaker 2: we need to know about?
24:12
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean those are the three main ones, and
24:15
Speaker 3: they are all veterans, and they've they've done a really
24:17
Speaker 3: really good job. Bung Guard and Thomas are now seniors.
24:20
Speaker 3: Gandy's a junior. Gandy's just one of those guys kind
24:23
Speaker 3: of reminds me a little bit of like Elmer, like
24:26
Speaker 3: just puts up a lot of numbers, shoots through the gap,
24:29
Speaker 3: smallest guy on the field, toughest guy on the field,
24:32
Speaker 3: and and I love watching him play. There are games
24:35
Speaker 3: where he gets on a streak where it seems like
24:37
Speaker 3: he's in on every single tackle for like an entire half.
24:40
Speaker 3: You know, it's just crazy. Another name you can add
24:44
Speaker 3: to that could be Chance Hatchet. He's working in with
24:47
Speaker 3: the with the linebackers. So now he got four there
24:49
Speaker 3: that are kind of for two or three spots. So
24:53
Speaker 3: you think you start going, well, now what we need
24:56
Speaker 3: is defensive ends, and we got all these linebackers, so
24:59
Speaker 3: you never know you're gonna put your best eleven on
25:01
Speaker 3: the field, and just finding that mix and how it's
25:03
Speaker 3: gonna work is gonna be a big, big thing for
25:06
Speaker 3: the Ferndal defense. Who's always been known for really you know,
25:09
Speaker 3: really good at tackling, swarming to the ball, stuff like that,
25:12
Speaker 3: which we talked about with coach Plankovic.
25:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, very.
25:17
Speaker 2: In your face, hit first, ask questions later in the
25:20
Speaker 2: front seven at Ferndale. I think that's I mean, that's
25:23
Speaker 2: actually a really good way to put it. Like not
25:25
Speaker 2: trying to pump my own tires there, but that is
25:27
Speaker 2: like that's Ferndale. When you start looking at the back end,
25:30
Speaker 2: Tyler and there's again the one name that we've talked
25:33
Speaker 2: about a little bit here, zach Nielson. You know, in
25:36
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, playing defensive back, this young man had
25:39
Speaker 2: sixty two and a half tackles, two and a half
25:42
Speaker 2: tackles for a loss, two forced fumbles, nine passes defended,
25:46
Speaker 2: and one interception. So It's almost like picking a guy
25:50
Speaker 2: up off waivers that has really good year already, you
25:52
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Or signing a free agent is
25:54
Speaker 2: kind of what they did here. So they're picking up
25:56
Speaker 2: a guy that's got some production and in a way
25:59
Speaker 2: could be the leader of that secondary.
26:02
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think he'll kind of slide into that spot
26:04
Speaker 3: that Connor Walker was in last year. Kind of a
26:06
Speaker 3: strong safety, a guy that you know, you play against
26:10
Speaker 3: a run oriented team, he's gonna play up in the
26:11
Speaker 3: box a little bit, you play against a pass oriented team,
26:14
Speaker 3: and he's gonna be playing back more as a as
26:16
Speaker 3: a regular safety. He can do a lot of good things.
26:19
Speaker 3: You mentioned the two and a half tackles for loss.
26:20
Speaker 3: He is good against the run, very very good against
26:23
Speaker 3: the pass, extremely athletic, and he will lead that that
26:26
Speaker 3: that defense. Uh just got really good hops, really good instincts.
26:30
Speaker 3: I mean, everything about him, you know, screams out safety.
26:34
Speaker 3: And on the corners you'll bring you know, you'll have
26:38
Speaker 3: the Kennerley Twins probably on the corners along with Cooper Vincent.
26:41
Speaker 3: All those guys are about six one six two, So
26:44
Speaker 3: got some really good, tall, athletic corners out there. And
26:48
Speaker 3: then joining you know free Safety, it's it might be
26:51
Speaker 3: kind of a free for all with some younger kids,
26:54
Speaker 3: with some sophomores and and or you know, Ryder Bevin
26:57
Speaker 3: has looked good. He's a he's just a junior. But
27:00
Speaker 3: then there's a handful of sophomores behind them. It's gonna
27:03
Speaker 3: be interesting to see because and that's that's always kind
27:06
Speaker 3: of been the case with with Ferndale, is these guys
27:10
Speaker 3: just kind of show up and are awesome, and I
27:12
Speaker 3: don't I don't know anything about them, and so I'm
27:14
Speaker 3: sure there'll be somebody that I don't know very well
27:16
Speaker 3: that's gonna uh start there at Free Safety and or
27:20
Speaker 3: if it could be right or Bevan, but like I said,
27:22
Speaker 3: it could be one of these sophomores that is new
27:25
Speaker 3: to the whole deal, and and uh they'll be They'll
27:29
Speaker 3: be thrown right into it. And it could be in
27:31
Speaker 3: Week one against Lindon, who has got a pretty darn
27:34
Speaker 3: good quarterback, so they might get tested early.
27:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be really interesting to see. I mean,
27:40
Speaker 2: there's there's some holes to fill, but I also feel
27:43
Speaker 2: like the leadership of this group, the guys that they
27:46
Speaker 2: have returning man, Yeah, like those are some high quality
27:48
Speaker 2: guys and if you can, you know how they say,
27:51
Speaker 2: like you can build a team around that guy or
27:53
Speaker 2: you know stuff like that. Like I feel like they
27:54
Speaker 2: can build a defense around those linebackers and they could
27:58
Speaker 2: do some really good things. I mean, this is gonna
27:59
Speaker 2: be fun to watch. So let's talk return game. Let's
28:02
Speaker 2: talk kickers, punters.
28:03
Speaker 4: Tyler. Yeah, we know Phoenix stink.
28:06
Speaker 2: Bonner did some of that last year and as a
28:08
Speaker 2: matter of fact, he got some rushing yards out of it.
28:10
Speaker 2: A couple of years before Kayden Eldridge is back. What
28:14
Speaker 2: are we looking at out of the kicking game? And
28:16
Speaker 2: Zach Nielsen, I would assume he's going to factor into
28:18
Speaker 2: the return game.
28:19
Speaker 3: I would imagine. I mean, coach Plankvich has no qualms
28:22
Speaker 3: about putting his studs back in the return game. A
28:24
Speaker 3: lot of coaches kind of worried about that every once
28:27
Speaker 3: in a while, you know, they want them to have
28:29
Speaker 3: a break here and there. But he will put his
28:33
Speaker 3: dudes back there. And I would imagine Nielsen will be
28:35
Speaker 3: returning some kicks. Eli Kennerley did a great job returning
28:38
Speaker 3: punts and kicks last year as well, so he could
28:41
Speaker 3: be the putt returner Kennerley could be back there with
28:44
Speaker 3: Nielsen with the kickoff returns. You're absolutely right about Eldridge.
28:47
Speaker 3: He kind of he kind of came on halfway through
28:49
Speaker 3: the year and to take over for Phoenix Pink Bonner
28:53
Speaker 3: as the kicker. And what I noticed about him is
28:56
Speaker 3: he had some major thump, some big time kickoffs that
28:59
Speaker 3: would go into the end zone for touchbacks and and
29:02
Speaker 3: uh so he's definitely has range and I think his
29:06
Speaker 3: accuracy is only going to get better as he goes. So,
29:09
Speaker 3: uh being the being the pat guy, sometimes it's not
29:12
Speaker 3: about the thump. He just gotta you just gotta make
29:14
Speaker 3: the kick. He made twenty nine of them last year,
29:16
Speaker 3: so he had a lot of chances. He did really well.
29:18
Speaker 3: He's gonna come back. I'm not quite sure who the
29:20
Speaker 3: punter's gonna be it. It might be Eldridge, I'm not
29:23
Speaker 3: quite sure. You just you know, and Ferndale's had a
29:27
Speaker 3: lot of these. You know, they've put quarterbacks back there.
29:30
Speaker 3: You saw it, like you said, you saw fake Bunner
29:32
Speaker 3: run for a touchdown from the punning spot in the
29:35
Speaker 3: state playoffs a couple of years ago. I think it
29:37
Speaker 3: was against Seattle Prep maybe, And then you know, they
29:40
Speaker 3: had Schlickting punt, they've had the Brosel's punt, so they
29:44
Speaker 3: like having some athletic guys back there. Maybe Nielsen could punt,
29:48
Speaker 3: you know. It's it's one of those things where I've
29:50
Speaker 3: been I went to these practices so early that sometimes
29:53
Speaker 3: when I bring up kicking and punning, they just laugh
29:55
Speaker 3: and shake their head and they say, we haven't even
29:56
Speaker 3: we haven't even looked at anything with that yet, you know.
29:59
Speaker 2: And I understand that unless you have a guy that
30:02
Speaker 2: you know is returning, that is that Yeah, yeah, yeah.
30:04
Speaker 3: Right absolutely, and right now they don't have anyone who's
30:07
Speaker 3: ever punted before at the varsity level. So so we'll
30:11
Speaker 3: see what, you know, how that goes, and and uh,
30:15
Speaker 3: you know, and it's just gonna be the way that is.
30:17
Speaker 3: But again, a lot of teams like to put athletes
30:19
Speaker 3: back there, or maybe a quarterback back there that uh,
30:23
Speaker 3: you know, can make a read or do something and
30:26
Speaker 3: kind of keep the return team.
30:27
Speaker 2: Honest, I was gonna say, what the heck was I
30:33
Speaker 2: gonna say, dang it, there was something.
30:37
Speaker 4: You mentioned.
30:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe it'll be a chance hatchet since we know
30:41
Speaker 3: hatchets can punt.
30:41
Speaker 2: Now, yeah, oh don't even get me started at that,
30:44
Speaker 2: because you know he's gonna end.
30:46
Speaker 4: Up listening to this. Mm hmm. Yeah.
30:48
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, Tyler, let's talk breakout player. Tyler,
30:53
Speaker 2: that's the roster, so let's talk breakout player here. And
30:55
Speaker 2: when I first looked at it, I'm sitting there going, Tyler,
30:58
Speaker 2: you're picking a senior for a break player? Yeah, what
31:01
Speaker 2: are you doing here? Then you start talking about potentially
31:03
Speaker 2: throwing the ball a little bit more, I'm like, oh, okay,
31:05
Speaker 2: well makes a little bit of sense. We got the
31:07
Speaker 2: tight end. And then yea, as I'm looking into it more,
31:09
Speaker 2: I'm going, yeah, Lincoln Thomas thirty and a half tackles,
31:13
Speaker 2: this is a guy that this year could have sixty
31:16
Speaker 2: five seventy tackles.
31:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that the abilities there when I saw
31:22
Speaker 3: just how big he got, Like I saw him last
31:24
Speaker 3: year and I don't even know if he was around
31:26
Speaker 3: two hundred pounds, he was probably close to that. Saw
31:29
Speaker 3: him in basketball, and he was that guy that was
31:31
Speaker 3: just you know, I don't want to say, like the
31:35
Speaker 3: garbage guy, like the guy that does all the dirty work,
31:37
Speaker 3: but he would be the guy, like the defensive stopper.
31:39
Speaker 3: He would guard the other team's best player and just
31:42
Speaker 3: work really hard. He'd be good for six or seven points.
31:45
Speaker 3: But that's not why he was out there. He was
31:46
Speaker 3: out there to outwork you, out hustle you guard, you know,
31:50
Speaker 3: ester be in the face of the other team's best player.
31:55
Speaker 3: And then when I saw him out for football and
31:57
Speaker 3: he's up to two twenty five, I just thought, my goodness, like,
32:00
Speaker 3: looks great. I think he's gonna really break out and
32:04
Speaker 3: be a good player. I mean, yeah, he was a
32:05
Speaker 3: two way starter last year. It's really rare that I
32:08
Speaker 3: pick a breakout player that was a two year starter
32:11
Speaker 3: of the year before. But I think his offensive production
32:13
Speaker 3: is gonna is gonna soar, like like you said, and
32:17
Speaker 3: and defensively it could it could double as well. Maybe
32:21
Speaker 3: he's one of the guys that's in the running to
32:22
Speaker 3: get moved to defensive end. If that's the case, he
32:25
Speaker 3: might put up a bunch of sacks. You don't know,
32:27
Speaker 3: he's got that kind of athletic ability, he's got that
32:29
Speaker 3: build as well, where he could you know, fill in
32:32
Speaker 3: as a defensive end if he stays at linebacker and
32:34
Speaker 3: one of those other linebackers goes to defensive end. You're
32:36
Speaker 3: absolutely right he could be racking up tackles, He'll be
32:39
Speaker 3: all over the field, And I really do think he's
32:42
Speaker 3: gonna have one of those years where you're gonna start,
32:44
Speaker 3: you know, at the coaches meeting, they're gonna talk about
32:46
Speaker 3: him for all conferences. So uh yeah, I really expect
32:49
Speaker 3: some big things at a Lincoln Thomas this year.
32:52
Speaker 2: As we start to look over the schedule, Tyler, I
32:55
Speaker 2: noticed something here. It just I kind of forgot about it.
32:59
Speaker 2: Cedral Willis, Yeah, yeah, I mean the good thing is
33:03
Speaker 2: we get to continue to talk about sed because I
33:05
Speaker 2: do like those guys, you know what I mean. I
33:07
Speaker 2: don't mind them. They've always been a good program down there.
33:10
Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm sitting there looking at the schedule, I'm going, oh,
33:13
Speaker 2: it seems kind of weird that they're playing Siedrow Ollie
33:15
Speaker 2: that late.
33:16
Speaker 3: Oh wait a minute, No, they have to.
33:19
Speaker 2: Play Steddrow Wilie that late. And speaking of late, playing
33:23
Speaker 2: Lake Stevens very late in the season this year. You know,
33:27
Speaker 2: that's week eight, that's or is that week seven? That'd
33:30
Speaker 2: be week seven because week eight, two, three, four, five, six, seven, Yeah, yeah,
33:34
Speaker 2: week seven, because week nine they do the crossover. That's right,
33:37
Speaker 2: that's right, So so yeah, I mean playing a non
33:40
Speaker 2: league game that late and then playing the you know,
33:44
Speaker 2: defending state champ, two time defending state champion. That's a
33:48
Speaker 2: it's a very interesting schedule there, starting off though, with
33:52
Speaker 2: Lyndon at home seven pm game on Friday the sixth. Actually,
33:56
Speaker 2: I guess a couple of days from now is when
33:58
Speaker 2: people are hearing this. And then they get another home
34:01
Speaker 2: game against Oak Harbor and then they go on the
34:03
Speaker 2: road for two Mary's will get you where they're gonna
34:05
Speaker 2: be looking for some revenge and Mount Vernon. Then they
34:09
Speaker 2: come home for Stanwood and then they get Snowhomish and
34:13
Speaker 2: Lake Stevens both What am I trying to say here?
34:19
Speaker 2: Both on the road, both on the road, Tyler, I'm
34:23
Speaker 2: a little tired, you know this. Yeah, there's this crazy
34:27
Speaker 2: thing that right now is really kicking my butt. It's
34:29
Speaker 2: called football. And the season hasn't even officially started, you
34:33
Speaker 2: know what I mean, we haven't play our first game yet.
34:35
Speaker 2: I'm already really tired. But yeah, so you know, Tyler,
34:39
Speaker 2: when you look over the schedule, I mean, it's it's
34:41
Speaker 2: always funny because with with Ferndale you only get the
34:45
Speaker 2: one Watkam County game typically with Lyndon, and it's the
34:49
Speaker 2: way that it is again this year. But there's some
34:51
Speaker 2: new names here, you know, I mean new names to
34:54
Speaker 2: them obviously with Sedro Woolley, but then Snowhomish. We don't
34:57
Speaker 2: really talk about Snowhomish a on. It feels like Lake
35:01
Speaker 2: Stevens obviously we seem to get them once a year
35:04
Speaker 2: for the last couple of years, or whether it's in
35:07
Speaker 2: season or in the what do you call it, like
35:10
Speaker 2: the fall or spring scrimmages, stuff like that where you
35:14
Speaker 2: see like Stevens and Ferndale and stuff. But a couple
35:17
Speaker 2: of new names, a couple of names have moved on
35:19
Speaker 2: to other places, and but very similar schedule in terms
35:22
Speaker 2: of top to bottom. Starting with Linden.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the Linden game obviously is I love
35:28
Speaker 3: that game. It's always great. It's been week one the
35:31
Speaker 3: last couple of years or last you know, handful of years,
35:34
Speaker 3: and it's a big, big way to kick things off.
35:36
Speaker 3: And that'll be at Ferndale, will be the first time
35:39
Speaker 3: Lyndon's been at that new stadium. And you're right, gone
35:43
Speaker 3: is Marysville, Hilchuck, and gone is Arlington and so bring
35:48
Speaker 3: in Sedro, Wooley and Snahomish. And you're right. I remember
35:51
Speaker 3: seeing Snahomish a few years ago against Squalicum. I think
35:54
Speaker 3: you may have even come up for that game. I
35:56
Speaker 3: think that was the Jeleek the Jeleek Artin was playing,
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Speaker 3: I think yeah. And I think they played them that
36:03
Speaker 3: year in a non league game, kind of in the
36:04
Speaker 3: middle of the year. Only whenever I think of snow
36:08
Speaker 3: much football, I think of Christopherrames and his kids played there. Yeah,
36:11
Speaker 3: you know, that's that's that's what I think of. So
36:15
Speaker 3: but yeah, so that'll be interesting. A new, a new
36:17
Speaker 3: part into the WESTCO three A North the Seed Drow
36:21
Speaker 3: Willie game. I mean Sieddrow and Ferndale have a long
36:23
Speaker 3: history playing in the old Northwest League together since going
36:27
Speaker 3: back to the my goodness sixties, you know, sixties, seventies,
36:32
Speaker 3: and they were together all the way until twenty fifteen.
36:36
Speaker 3: So Ferndale and Sidrow have a long history of playing
36:39
Speaker 3: each other. Sea Drow always a very very good program.
36:42
Speaker 3: I know that. I know a lot of the two
36:43
Speaker 3: way teams are saying, hey, you know, best of luck,
36:47
Speaker 3: We're not going to miss you. Because they were always
36:50
Speaker 3: a thorn in a lot of teams sides so and
36:53
Speaker 3: kind of in that mix every year for the for
36:55
Speaker 3: the playoffs, and I would imagine they're going to be
36:57
Speaker 3: a big time contender now in this West Go three
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Speaker 3: A North. So and Ferndial knows them very very well.
37:03
Speaker 3: It's been you know, eight years since they played them,
37:06
Speaker 3: nine years or so, but they're always very very good.
37:10
Speaker 3: You're right, it's you know, the Mount Vernon game. I
37:12
Speaker 3: mean Mount Vernon has struggled last couple years, but in
37:15
Speaker 3: Week ten last year, they put up a huge performance
37:19
Speaker 3: against Seahome. I think they won forty to three. And
37:21
Speaker 3: so Mount Vernon, I've heard they have a lot of
37:24
Speaker 3: good athletes on the rise right now, So that could
37:27
Speaker 3: be a tricky one much kind of that could be
37:29
Speaker 3: a lot like the Getchel game from last year. So
37:32
Speaker 3: and Marysville. Getchel's just had one of those seasons where
37:34
Speaker 3: I think it was three weeks in a row they
37:37
Speaker 3: won against opponents that they were probably not favored against
37:40
Speaker 3: and they won them all by one point each.
37:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it was something weird like that.
37:45
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so they kind of got on that Cinderella
37:47
Speaker 3: run a little bit, and that could spark a lot
37:49
Speaker 3: of things within the community, within the program, the coaches,
37:52
Speaker 3: the players, and that could elevate them as well. So
37:56
Speaker 3: I think overall, up and down, it's going to be
37:59
Speaker 3: a tougher schedule than it was last year, and so
38:04
Speaker 3: the Ferndale Golden Eagles have to work cut out for him.
38:06
Speaker 3: But it always seems like they just kind of find
38:09
Speaker 3: a way to get through it, and all of a
38:10
Speaker 3: sudden they've got a handful of wins. And that's why
38:13
Speaker 3: coach Plankovich is knocking on the door with two hundred
38:15
Speaker 3: wins in his career.
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Speaker 2: I'm trying to pull it up here really quickly, but
38:20
Speaker 2: doesn't really seem to want to happen. If I remember,
38:22
Speaker 2: I believe the Marysville getrual thing was they beat Pilchuck,
38:26
Speaker 2: Ferndale and Stanwood all by one. Yeah, I think it
38:29
Speaker 2: was what it was. And it was just like shocking,
38:31
Speaker 2: you know. Yeah, it's funny you mentioned mary.
38:34
Speaker 3: Shocking because they're the Chargers. I get it. That's good.
38:37
Speaker 4: No, definitely not. Didn't.
38:38
Speaker 3: Wasn't going over that.
38:41
Speaker 2: You mentioned Pilchuck going away and and Arlington going away,
38:45
Speaker 2: and oddly enough, they're right next to each other and
38:47
Speaker 2: they went opposite directions. One went to A, one went
38:50
Speaker 2: to two. A. How how that happens? I have no idea,
38:52
Speaker 2: but but yeah, they went opposite directions. We actually play
38:56
Speaker 2: at Bathel. We played Arlington week two this year at Ourington.
39:00
Speaker 2: Should be a fun one. But yeah, yeah, Tyler, what
39:04
Speaker 2: else we got anything?
39:05
Speaker 4: Here?
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Speaker 3: I I you know, it's interesting. The only thing about Ferndale,
39:11
Speaker 3: which which is really really interesting. We talked about this
39:13
Speaker 3: a little bit off the air is they always seem
39:16
Speaker 3: to find their best eleven and a lot of guys
39:19
Speaker 3: play both ways, and so when there are new faces,
39:22
Speaker 3: they're really new to me and I and so it's
39:25
Speaker 3: gonna be fun to see kind of who steps up.
39:30
Speaker 3: Now that I'm covering other sports, I'm noticing kids like
39:33
Speaker 3: a Jacob Gandy as a wrestler, Cooper Vincent as a
39:37
Speaker 3: basketball player, Linka Thomas as a basketball player. So I
39:40
Speaker 3: am kind of starting to know these kids from other sports.
39:42
Speaker 3: But you know, it's uh, I'm always intrigued when I
39:49
Speaker 3: hear a name like a writer Bevan. It's like, Okay,
39:51
Speaker 3: I've never seen him play play football, but I've heard
39:54
Speaker 3: good things.
39:54
Speaker 4: So here we go. You know, bring it.
39:57
Speaker 3: I want to see it and It's so fun because
39:59
Speaker 3: right off the bat against Lindon, here we go. I'm
40:02
Speaker 3: really intrigued to see what chance Hatchett does. Got big
40:06
Speaker 3: footsteps to you know, you know, and that he has
40:08
Speaker 3: to fill, but our big shoes to fill. But he
40:13
Speaker 3: looks pretty good. He's different and you know, does he
40:17
Speaker 3: is he going to get moved to the line. I
40:19
Speaker 3: think he will. He's been playing running back and quarterback
40:22
Speaker 3: is you know, his youth career, and you know, if
40:25
Speaker 3: they find Lineman, could he get moved back to running back?
40:27
Speaker 4: Who knows?
40:28
Speaker 3: And so there's a lot of different options that they
40:30
Speaker 3: can do. And and I think with Jake Locker back
40:33
Speaker 3: in the fold calling the offense, helping out the offense
40:36
Speaker 3: and kind of seeing different things and having a guy
40:40
Speaker 3: that's dynamic like Zach Nielsen, he might say because when
40:43
Speaker 3: Jake was there, they did some they did the wing
40:45
Speaker 3: tea out of the shotgun a lot of the time. Yeah,
40:47
Speaker 3: and they did some really unique stuff that they might
40:50
Speaker 3: look at and go, wow, you know, we could do
40:52
Speaker 3: that with Zach as a quarterback. And so it's going
40:56
Speaker 3: to be a lot of fun and I think it's
40:59
Speaker 3: gonna be a little more wide open it's not going
41:01
Speaker 3: to be you know, the same six plays, you know,
41:05
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like, I think it's gonna
41:07
Speaker 3: be a little bit more intriguing to watch and and
41:09
Speaker 3: I'm excited and and it always stinks, you know for me,
41:13
Speaker 3: because they only played that one Walking County team. But
41:16
Speaker 3: I get it. They are three A and and I
41:20
Speaker 3: will I will catch them here and there when I can,
41:23
Speaker 3: and and uh, yeah, it's gonna be.
41:25
Speaker 4: A fun season, Tyler. If you notice that the hatchets
41:27
Speaker 4: are like.
41:30
Speaker 2: They're like a signal on like a cell phone, how
41:32
Speaker 2: like really tall and big to like kind of in
41:36
Speaker 2: the middle to now like maybe a little bit smaller.
41:38
Speaker 2: But also like I remember, like Landon was not a
41:41
Speaker 2: whole lot bigger than Chance. What you're telling me, Like, yeah,
41:45
Speaker 2: Landa was probably heavier, I would assume.
41:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah they were. He was about six feet He's
41:48
Speaker 3: about six foot two forty as a pressureh So it's
41:52
Speaker 3: it's it's got a little bit of a slope to it,
41:55
Speaker 3: you know what I mean? Yeah, right right? Yeah, you
41:57
Speaker 3: got three bars there.
41:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you got three bars, which is more than
42:00
Speaker 2: I get when I'm at school. So but yeah, I mean,
42:04
Speaker 2: it's it's always fun. I like Ferndale football because the
42:08
Speaker 2: names change, but they kind of seem similar at times.
42:11
Speaker 2: And the offense doesn't, you know what I mean? And
42:14
Speaker 2: to me it's my you know, I want to run
42:17
Speaker 2: the ball. So I appreciate Ferndale's offense like nobody other
42:22
Speaker 2: other maybe Kevin Beeson. That guy loves ground and pound
42:25
Speaker 2: more than I do. Probably if he could play football
42:28
Speaker 2: in a phone booth, as he says it, he would
42:29
Speaker 2: probably do.
42:30
Speaker 4: It a lot.
42:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, We're done. No more Ferndale Golden Eagles
42:36
Speaker 2: until two days from now when we talk preview for
42:38
Speaker 2: Week one and their game against Oh yeah, Linden. So yeah.
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