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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 203 - Week 8 Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Ferrindo Senior Phoenix sink Bonner, and you're listening to walcom Preps Podcast
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with Tyler Rowland. As a matter of friend readings and welcome into the watcom
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Preps podcast. This is episode two zero three, a preview of week eight.
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I'm Rylan Spencer along with me as always is Tyler Anderson of hotcom Perps.
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Tyler, how we're doing a little bit under the weather, but other
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than that doing great, living to dream and we get to talk some more
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high school sports. So it's can't get any better than that. Yeah,
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nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with it at all. That's right.
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Yeah, big fans of high school sports here on the podcast. That's why
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we do it. I want to give it thank you to Phoenix fink Bonner
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for the intro the I would say as far as fink Bonners go, he's
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up there on my list, he's up there quite far. We also want
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to give a shout out to Kurt Mayberry Farm mc kerr Mayberry Farm dot com.
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Fourth generation family owned and operated berry farm, committed to growing the highest
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quality of berries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries. Tyler, when when our
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listeners are listening to this. Yeah, it's very possible. I have already
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had team dinner on Thursday night, right, and we always get a handful
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of strawberries, and I'm looking forward to it because the moms that come to
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the team dinner for us, they always take out the little green top of
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it, you know what I mean? Oh wow, Okay, cut it
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out and everything. All you do is you you could just go you can
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just dive in at that. Oh yeah, I mean you could literally go
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face first into your plate if you wanted to. Yeah, well, you
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know, I kind of do. Yeah, And actually, you know what,
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we did have some blueberries a few weeks ago. We haven't had any
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raspberries, No raspberries at the team dinner, but we do usually like a
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banana. We always get chocolate milk, chocolate milk. Yes, I was
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just gonna say, I love the chocolate milk. The chocolate milk is just
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so good. Yeah. I think it's the Smith brother farms. I don't
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know like I think it is, but yeah, man, it is absolutely
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delicious. Tyler. We've got six games to talk about this week, just
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six only. Yeah, We've got three what do you call them, Inner
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County? Yeah? Three games? Yeah, Inner County. I guess Walking
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County versus Walkam County, which always delights me. And yeah, makes my
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life easier, makes your life easier, And thank you to Nooksack Valley for
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taking the week off. That makes our life easier too. Yeah, I
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do love watching him play, but yes, it does. It frees up
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three hours just like that. So yeah, now for those guys, apparently
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they're all going was it turkey hunting or something, I don't know what that
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happens. Yeah, at least half of them. Yeah, a good chunk.
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They're all probably going to the same place. They're just going to hang
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out out there. Yeah, probably watch some film on huddle and shoot some
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animals. I mean, I'm in. I mean, thanks for the invite,
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fellas. Yeah, let's let's just dive right into it. All Friday
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night games as well. So Tyler, you get Thursday night off this week.
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I mean, in theory you get Saturday night off, but you're just
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gonna be watching films. So yeah, well Thursday night I'll be probably at
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a volleyball match. Touche. Yeah, and actually, you know what,
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Sunday, you might actually get to watch a little NFL this week. Oh
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man, I would love that. But we'll see. We'll see, because
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I gotta, you know, finish up volleyball stats, figure out volleyball players
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of the week. It's a Seahawks are one PM game this week, Tyler,
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I think, yes, hosting Arizona. Yeah, oh that's right.
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Oh yeah, yeah, hosting. I remember I give of the game.
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I was telling miss Walker prehaps she's got to make another trip down to Harbor
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View on Sunday for an appointment early Monday morning. So she was like,
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I'm gonna go down. She's going out with her mom on Sunday. And
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I said, hey, you're driving to Seattle on a Sunday and the Hawks
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are playing? Yeah, what time? I said, leave when the games
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starts that way. If I'm them, if I'm them, being as far
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away as you are, you can leave it noon and be just fine.
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Yeah. So, I mean, I just didn't want her to leave,
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like, you know, yeah, at the exactly, because then you know,
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who knows somebody from them and Gadget are all going so well. Especially
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I was well aware. I was well aware of the afternoon game. Yeah.
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Well, and once you get to Northgate or so, it starts getting
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backed up all the way into the city and the way that the stupid city
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is and maybe it's the state. I don't know whoever it is. They
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always seems like every weekend the stinking carpool lanes are either turned around the wrong
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way or they're not working at all, So you can't even use the carpool
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lanes to try to get into the city. It's just a gong show trying
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to get down there. That's why I go down early. I go down
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very early, and then yeah, really tired on Sunday night. Yeah,
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Tyler, let's talk about Bellingham and Friday Harbor. Who tell you what,
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in all the years we've been doing the podcast, we have hardly talked about
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Friday Harbor. And I remember you told me before that they used to play
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a lot of games against Wakham County. But Bellingham four and three headed to
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Friday Harbor four and two for Friday Harbor. Tyler, Yeah, six thirty
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game out there on the island. What do you got for me there?
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Yeah, you know, playing I just remember happened to play there. We
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always had to play there on Saturdays because they didn't have lights on the field
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at that point. Uh way back in the good old days and which is
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always funny because we always thought, how come we never get to play Friday
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Harbor on Friday. It's oh, you know, I always had to play
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on Saturday. But this will be interesting. You know. Bellingham beat them
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last year at Civic Stadium. I was at that game. I want to
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say. It was a Saturday afternoon game, kind of only game in town
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thing. So I was there for the whole game, and I remember I
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was sitting. I wasn't up in the booth. I think I was sitting
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in the stands because it was I don't know, it just felt like it
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had a nice breeze and everything, and it was just felt good to sit
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in the stands and I was sitting there doing stats. And you know,
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they won it at the very end when and Claypool intercepted a pass. And
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it was just one of those games that came right down to it. And
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I think both teams have improved greatly from last year, so it could be
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another really close game. Now Bellingham is going on the road. Bellingham has
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a ton of speed. They rely on a fast track. This will be
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their first time playing on natural grass for quite a while. I'm trying to
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remember if there's if they played, because they played so many games at Civic,
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and then they've been on the road at Granite which is track, or
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As which is a turf now and Blaine, so I don't know if they've
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played a game on grass yet this year. So we'll see how that,
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you know, throws a wrench into stuff. But Bellingham's on a roll man
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and and the offense has been there all year. The defense is really done
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so much better in the you know, the last four games as opposed to
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the first three. That's been the difference. Kicking game has been great all
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year. Evan Eisley's automatic. So uh, it's just that they but the
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bell well, the one thing is Belling had had was missing some key guys.
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Last week. Now they did fine, they won, everything was great.
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They had some guys come in and and fill in those spots and do
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really well. Joe Harward, we know Jesse Harward. How about little brother
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Joe Harward about six three and eighty pounds playing an outside linebacker. He did
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did really well. Sonny Powell playing the defensive line, played really well.
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They've he's another sophomore. So they've had some guys come in and do well.
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You know, without holding baits Owen, Hanstead punning Tyler Frost being the
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main running back. So I don't know, you know how they're looking this
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week, but it seems like depth has not been an issue, which is
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something cool to say about Belling and we haven't been able to say the last
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few years. Just looking at over Tyler, I think the last time they
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played on grass was uh what did there be? One two three four one
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two three four five week six? Last year at Coopville? Wow? Yeah,
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because I'm looking at it. And the after Coopville they went home to
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Blaine, home to Friday Harbor, home to Meridian, and then at Sultan
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and Sultan is a is a turf field? Oh geez. Yeah, that's
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not something to just look away from, you know what I mean? Yeah,
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there's something to be said. It's a it's always a little different when
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you go off on the grass. You know. Do they have you grass
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at Bellingham High School where they could have like maybe run a practice or two
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this week or is it all turned Oh it's all turf now, there was
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grass about five years ago. All turf now that'd be interesting. Maybe uh,
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maybe do a walk through down at a park or something. You know
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what I mean. I think though, we did that on our way down
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to h Vancouver. This year. We went down to Vancouver for a game
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and we stopped in Kelso and had lunch in a park and then did a
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walk through and there was like some guy doing yoga next to us, Like
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it's like sorry, sorry, Brown, but we got to do this real
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quick. Uh yeah. So anyway, Bellingham at Friday Harbor six thirty pm
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Friday night. Let's see here, Blaine two and five, one and one
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in Northwest Conference play. They are headed to Linden Christian to take on the
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Links five and two and ohero in League play. That game is scheduled for
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seven pm at Lyndon Christian High School. Tyler, tell me what you got
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there? Well, this is gonna be a tough one for Blaine. You
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know. They they they won that game. That put everything into that effort,
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beating Meridian the last second. They hung with Bellingham for most of the
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first half, and they just couldn't stick with them in the second half.
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It seemed like they were affected by the rain a little more than Bellingham was.
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With trying to complete passes. There were some balls going through the hands
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and and and they were missing some key guys as well, obviously right with
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Riley eyed out, but also Coolby Ship was out. And this is a
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this is gonna be a tall task. No pun intended with lynnon Christian.
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Who is you know tall? They averaged Yeah, their averaged six to four.
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You know, it seems like on the whole defensive side of the ball.
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But you know, you just you never know what's what what can happen
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and if you can, if you can get some breaks early, you just
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go from there. It's kind of what Meridian did to them there, but
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they were it was hard to hang on after that. Uh then Christian,
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they've been on the road a lot recently. They're coming back home. You
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know. I heard something before the season started about they're doing like a I
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don't know if there's there's gonna be like a helicopter landing or something before this
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game at the soccer at the soccer field across the way. Yeah, they're
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doing like a law enforcement night and somebody needs to record this for us.
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I've got it. Yeah, well I think I'll be there for the first
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half of this game. There you go. If you don't pull it off
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til you're fired. Yeah, So this is just what I heard. Uh.
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And if they're doing like a you know, like a law enforcement night,
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so they're doing like border patrol. And that's why they wanted to have
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it be the Blaine game because you know a lot of border patrol stuff in
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Blaine, also in London, and they're doing this and then yeah, and
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then something something something about a helicopter. I don't know, but and the
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and I heard about this in August, so I don't know if the logistics
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have all been worked out or anything. So we'll see. But uh,
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but Lenny Christian is they're you know, they're kind of they're on a role
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right now too. You know, uh lost that Week one game, it
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was just kind of a fluky game where they just didn't play well, you
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know, four interceptions and you know, rainy conditions. And then the Royal
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game, you know, they they intercepted the ball four times, but they
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just couldn't come up with the win against Royal, And there was another kind
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of sloppy game, and you know, two really good teams in the one
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A you know division. But uh, coming back home, you know it's
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gonna be there's just gonna be so hard to beat in the in this one.
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It's uh, you know, they have a lot of history, but
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it's uh, it's just gonna it's just gonna be really tough for the Border
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Rights. The Links are playing very very well. Right now. Tyler's got
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some nuggets. Man. All right, Tyler here, you got a nugget
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about this one, and you just said something about they got a lot of
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history. So is that where we're going here? Yeah, a little bit.
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You know, Blaine was the first Walking County team to win a football
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state championship. Really, yeah. It happened in nineteen seventy eight, and
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yeah, pretty it was. It was a crazy year in that season.
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The Border Rights actually started one and two and then they went they they won
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out from there on out. They had a team meeting and things changed a
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little bit. But one of those losses came against the Links, which was
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led by sophomore quarterback Dan kaming el S's all time winning as coach. Right,
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Okay, now, since that season, yeah, since nineteen seventy eight,
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Blaine has won the league championship once. Wow, which was in nineteen
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ninety five, when the Border Rights were led by senior lineman Jay Dott.
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Blaine's all time winning as coached. Okay, so you got you know,
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so we're got a little theme going here. Blaine cemented the league championship actually
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by beating LC which was coached by Kamink. At the time, I was
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going to say and and Jay Dodd told me about this story. He said,
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he blew out his knee in that game, and when the game was
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over, Blame won twenty one to fourteen, and all of his teammates and
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coaches were celebrating this monumental achievement. And while he was stuck sitting on the
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bench with his leg up, he said, the first person that came over
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to him to congratulate him was coach kam Ink. That's it. And he
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said he never forgot about that. They basically knocked Elsie out of the playoffs
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and and won a league title. And and cam Ink went over there and
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just check on on Jay and to see how he was doing and and congratulate
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him. And yeah, pretty pretty pretty cool. But you know, those
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are just two awesome guys, you know, Dan Kamink, Jay Dodd.
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They're both each school's all time winning his coach. Uh neither of them coaching
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anymore, but they you know, they have a history with each other as
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far as you know, as players and all these things. And I just
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thought that was pretty cool how they have these moments against each other with different
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things. So yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, Blaine headed the Lyndon
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Christian seven pm Friday night, Meridian three and four zero and three in Northwest
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Conference play. They will head to Bob Tisdale Field to take on the Mount
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Baker Mountaineers, who are two and five overall and one in one in league
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play. This is a seven pm game, Tyler, And rumor is you
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might be in the house. Yeah, I'm gonna try to be out there
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for the second half of the game. This is this is just always one
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of those you know, we've talked about it before about rivalries and back when,
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back when we were players and stuff like that, and this was always
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the big game back back in the nineties, you know, Mount Baker Meridian.
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I have so many just great you know, like like photographs in my
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head of different moments of this game, you know, whether it was played
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at Bob Tisdell Field or at Meridian High School. And and you know,
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they just they had our number, you know, for a while there we
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were able to get them my sophomore year actually and my freshman year. But
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uh, but it's always been such a such a fun game, and I've
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been there was a there was a time there was kind of a moment when
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I wasn't really covering high school sports, kind of late two thousands, early
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teens, but I always seem to make it to like one game a year,
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and I'd go out to Baker Meridian. It seemed like that was just
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kind of the one I always wanted to go to. And I didn't know
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what was going on too much with the teams, but and I loved going
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out and seeing like a ten to nine game, and they were always really
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close, and and I just I don't know, there's just something about it.
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So I'm excited to to go out and be there a person in the
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game. I think is gonna be really good game. I think it's gonna
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be really close. I you know, I think that you can never you
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know, count Baker out as far as just their will and their toughness and
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and how well coached they are. I think Meridian has them, you know,
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in the talent, you know, just as far as just they have,
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you know, more talent than they do. But but Uh, Meridian
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really, like I've said this before, Meridian really relies on about fourteen kids,
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you know, to go both you know, to play eleven at one
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time. And they you know, they really they really need those guys to
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play all four quarters. And Baker is always extremely well conditioned. So sometimes
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if it's close, Baker can you know, can win that game in the
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fourth quarter when you really need it. So that's it's just it's all those
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things combined. I I love this matchup. I always have. It's always
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a great one. And I'm pretty sure the radio will be there, which
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is which is always cool. And at Bakery there's no room for the radio
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in the booth, so they're sitting on the roof just you know, just
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sitting up there and I, you know, I called the game up there
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and I loved it, just sitting on the roof of the table and and
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in the element, you know it just ye, I don't know, it's
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football man Tyler from Baker High School. Yeah, that's Meridian three and four
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headed to Mount Baker two and five, seven pm Bob Tisdale Field, see
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home four and three, two and three in Northwest Conference play. They are
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headed to well, they're Home Stadium, but they're gonna be on the other
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sideline to take on Squalicum three and four one and four in Northwest Conference play
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seven pm, Civic Stadium. Tyler, what do you got, well,
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I mean, this is this is this is you know, the quote unquote
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city championship, although I think this year Bellingham would have a lot to say
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about it. Uh, this is a rivalry gain. I think it'd be
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really cool if like both bands showed up, you know that happens every once
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in a while, which would be fun. You get them on each side
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of the stadium, playing back and forth, all those things combined, it's
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it's it's just a really really cool matchup. And you know there's been some
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close games with this one too in your in years past, and it's always
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I always hear from like different all here, from different people, like in
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the beginning of the season, where you know, people come up and ask
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questions you've been dealing with this forever or where they'll say, what do you
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think this you know, blah blah blah, blank fill in the blank here,
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and a lot of times I hear who do you think is gonna win?
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Between Sea Home and Squalicum? This year, you know what I mean,
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Like, that's just one of those games that people talk about because you're
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getting the whole community involved. And I think it'll be I think it'll be
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a really close game, very very different styles. Squalicum is is pretty run
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heavy. Seahome likes to throw it a lot, throw it around a lot.
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You know. Defensive wise, they look very similar with the three four
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defense on both sides. This could be a really really good game too.
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A lot of great athletes on the field too, so it's gonna be a
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lot of speed, you know, the fast track at Civic. We'll we'll
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find out later from Randy Small with the weather forecast will be but if it
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if it looks like it might be dry, this could be one of those
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high scoring games with a lot of long touchdowns. You know, it might
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see a kick return for touchdown or you know, stuff like that, or
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an eighty yard pass for touchdown. This could be a really exciting one.
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Tyler's got some nuggets, man, I see it. Tyler's got some nuggets,
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man. Note here, Tyler, what do you got? Well?
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Thank you Nick Lucy for the sound by speak. Speaking of Squalicum and another
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thing about squalkm A couple of their assistants are former Seahome Mariners in Jordan Schalfont
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and Steve Airs. Shall Fon is one of the best defensive coaches we've witnessed
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over the years. I mean, he's he's done some really good things at
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see him over the past and now he's taking over the Squalicum defense and and
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just kind of learning the personnel there and and trying to get them in line.
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And that, you know, I have all the faith in the world
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that he's gonna do a great job. And he also coached the girls golf
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team to a state championship last spring, so he knows what he's doing coaching
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and Airs. Steven Airs might be the best lineman in Seaholme history. He's
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he has coached at Sea Home, He's coached at Bellingham, now he's coaching
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at Squalkum. He also holds the Walkham County record in the shot put.
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Okay, And I don't know, like how much you follow high school track
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either, like what or Okay? So like you know, a really good
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shot putter in at the high school level, a really good one, like
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a state contender, throws at about fifty feet Okay, Okay, and most
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shot put pits at high school stadiums are sixty feet deep. Okay, he
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threw one sixty four feet seven and a half inches, I think, and
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I think he did it at state to win state. Yeah, and you
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know, state state champion wrestler at heavyweight. If it was not for if
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like concussions were not a reality, he would probably be wrapping up his NFL
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career right now. He was a big time starter at Wazoo, really good
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player. What's his name, Stephen Airs, Stephen As. Yeah, he
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was. I think he was like a two or three year starter at guard
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at Wazoo, and he was legit and he was, but he had some
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really bad concussion issues near the end of his college career. And I'm so
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glad that he's involved with coaching and he's just an outstanding guy. Love talking
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football with him and seeing him up in the booths sometimes. But and whose
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record did he break for Wakam County all time? Your buddy Pete Calaghias,
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Oh, who threw one sixty two feet in nineteen eighty nine. So no
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coaches at Wazoo. Yeah, how about that? So Ryland's got some nuggets.
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So so those some pretty cool things there with a couple of Squalicum coaches
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that are former Seahome mareors Seahome at Squalcum seven pm Civic Stadium. Also still
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in the county. We haven't even left the county yet, have we?
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No Friday Harbor, I guess we started outside the county. Yeah, we're
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gonna start outside the county, come back in for four and then we'll go
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back outside. Stanwood three and four, two and three in what is that?
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West Co three A North Play Ferndale five and two, three and two
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in Westcoat three in North play seven pm, Ferndale High School. And Tyler,
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you know what, we're really bad at her job because we should have
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taken the time to figure out what the standings look like, to figure out
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exactly, you know, what's going on or what this means this week.
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But uh yeah, stan Wood Ferndale, Tyler, I was at this one
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last year. It was a good football game and coach Plankovic got the boot.
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But you know, well, what do you got here? Well?
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I did. I did a little bit of homework and from what I from
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what I found out, if Ferndale wins this, okay, they are second
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place because they have a pre seasoned tipe breaker. Yeah, they take a
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coin or something. Yeah, right, so I think they as long as
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they win it, they have they kind of wrap up second place. Okay,
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well that's good. Yeah, and then they would play you know,
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whoever if it's a homish or however, that all works out, you know.
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Yeah, And that's a good question. I don't know. Week nine
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I should say, yeah, it's a crossover and I can't remember. I
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don't think they do. You know, what I'll do, I'll look it
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up really quickly and I can probably figure out for the moment as part how
23:00
it should work. But yeah, you know, I don't want to do
23:02
that because I don't want to give people bad info. And you know what
23:04
I mean, Yeah, I mean basically, take care of business here.
23:07
You know, you're you're you're at home. I think Stanwood just based on
23:12
the record. I haven't seen one play of them this year, but based
23:15
on the record, looks like they're a little down from last year. They
23:18
were pretty good last year. Uh And but from what I've heard is it's
23:23
the same type of offense. So it's just discipline defense. You know,
23:29
Ferndale sees it all the time at practice. If you just you know,
23:33
you're just kind of used to seeing now. Ferndale's wing tea is not exactly
23:37
traditional. They do a lot of odd things, but Stanwood's is a little
23:41
bit more traditional. You know. It's it's you know, if this,
23:45
then this, stay at home, you know all that stuff. And I
23:49
think, you know, Ferndale has had some weird kind of ups and downs,
23:53
but getting back on track last week at home. They're back at home
23:57
again this week. You know, I really thought about trying to get a
24:03
hold of Land and Hatchet to be have him be the guest picker, since
24:06
I know how much he loves stan would Uh but but I but I you
24:14
know, I didn't. I didn't. He's busy. Uh they're doing pretty
24:17
well down at the U dub and yeah so I but yeah, so this
24:22
is gonna be, you know, a big game for the Golden Eagles obviously,
24:26
and they just have to take care of business. You know, I
24:29
think Getchell, I think if I if I'm familiar, I think Getchell got
24:33
them by one. Last week. They've won three game. Yeah they got
24:37
They've won three games in a row by one. I think. So,
24:41
I mean, it's just one of those crazy things and it's thrown this whole
24:45
you know, standings and everything up kind of upside down, and which is
24:49
exciting because it's like, man, it really comes down to the end,
24:52
and you there's games that you have to win and and uh so Ferndale's kind
24:56
of in playoff mode right now. That's how I would look at it.
25:00
And I think that they have a great coaching staff, and they have some
25:03
really good senior leaders, and I really like how good their line's playing and
25:07
talent. Bun Guard looks to be back on track. So you know,
25:11
I really like the Golden Eagles in this one. Yeah, you're right.
25:15
Mary's Fiel Catual beat Mount Vernon twenty eight twenty seven, Ferndale fourteen thirteen,
25:18
Stanwood twenty one to twenty Yeah, yeah, crazy. Matter of fact,
25:23
there are only two losses on the year are non conference. Oh no,
25:29
is against Arlington, which yeah, everybody beatings into them, and then Maryville
25:33
Pilchuck, who's lost of them twenty eight six, and then they beat Mariner
25:38
Big in a non conference game, and then yeah, here we are,
25:42
I mean, wow, wow, Yeah, that's pretty wild. It's been
25:47
an interesting conference this year. Yeah, I mean Arlington is Arlington is you
25:52
know who they are? Yeah, Arlington's the class. It's just kind of
25:55
after that, it's just kind of like everyone's just kind of beating up everybody
26:00
else kind of thing. Yeah. I mean, so, just looking at
26:02
the standings here, just to kind of give it to you in league,
26:04
Arlington six and oh, Ferndale three and two, Marysville Pilchuck three and two,
26:10
Marysville Getchell three and two, Stanwood two and three. So stan Wood
26:15
they're fighting for their life here. Ferndale is obviously playing Stanwood in that game,
26:21
Marysville Pilchuck is playing Mount Vernon who is zero to five in league play,
26:29
and then Mary'sville Getchel is playing Oak Harbor, who is one in four
26:33
in league play. And I would assume their one win has got to be
26:34
over Mount Vernon, right, maybe it has to be like right, sure,
26:40
it's interesting. And you know what's crazy is when I see Arlington doing
26:42
doing so well. I think back at that that June scrimmage I was at,
26:48
and and the four teams that were there was four A. It was
26:52
A four eighteen three A, two A and one A. And how crazy
26:56
would it be if at Lake Stevens Arlington Linden and Knokseck Valley. We're all
27:04
like at Husty Stadium and they were all together at that same scrimmage. And
27:08
yeah, and these are these are four teams that are you know, playing
27:12
very well. You know, you kind of went into the season knowing that
27:15
those four have a good season. But they're all doing very well. I
27:18
think Arlington maybe is the biggest surprise out of all of them being undefeated.
27:22
Uh but but yeah, it's just it's just cool, you know. And
27:26
and uh be Forerdale, hey man, they're good too. And and playing
27:33
at home against dan Wood, Uh you know, I think that go take
27:37
care of Yeah, yeah, exactly. And just to give you an idea.
27:42
The other side of West Co, Monroe five and oh they're on top
27:47
and they have locked in the number one seed. They've been good for a
27:51
little for a little while now. Yeah, they've been good for I don't
27:55
know, seven eight years about you know, some big kids. Yeah,
27:57
they always do somehow. Yeah. I don't know if it's because the penitentiary's
28:00
next door or something and they got like extra weightlifting. I don't know what's
28:03
going on over there, but they are five and oh they've locked up the
28:07
number one seed, which I would assume that game last year with Ferndale was
28:11
at Monroe right in week nine, So yes, so that would mean Arlington's
28:17
going to get that home game. But they are also seven and oh overall,
28:21
and Arlington's seven and oh, so we've got a major matchup coming here
28:25
real soon. But then Edmunds Woodway and Montlake Terrace they're both four and one
28:29
in league. So those two are fighting because they play this week. Those
28:33
two played this week on Friday at Edmund's Woodway High School or it's a what
28:38
is it Edmunds District Stadium? I think it is. You've been there before,
28:42
haven't you. Yes, I have kind of a cool stadium, but
28:47
it's all on one side, kind of weird. And then they have like
28:48
the coolest lights of any high school stadium. Yeah, and then called the
28:53
oh really, yes, that's the home miss in Monroe they're playing, and
29:00
then Shortcress is right behind them. Shortcress has wins against the two teams that
29:06
have been pretty much eliminated at this point. So I think there were week
29:11
when I was there, it was a week ten and twenty eighteen, it
29:12
was blaining against Mount Lake Terrace and it was Ferndale against Meadowdale. Gotcha those
29:22
were that That was a double header. That was a long night, but
29:26
a fun night. Yeah. Oh it's a cool stadium too. Oh and
29:29
did you hit Dix on the way of that town? Y? Yes,
29:30
we did, Yeah, we did, we did, we did before and
29:34
I remember a guy got a picture of it, like sitting in the in
29:37
the press box and and uh, yeah it was good. Yep. Yeah.
29:42
Stanwood at Ferndale seven pm on Friday night, the final game of the
29:48
week, at least as far as our you know, schedule goes. Here
29:52
is gonna happen down at Lakewood High School Linden six and one, five and
29:55
oh in that Northwest Conference play, they're gonna take it on the Lakewood Cougars
29:59
two and four on the season, one and three in Northwest Conference play.
30:03
The uh the artist formerly known as the Fighting Dan Teeters Tyler, What do
30:07
you got for me here? Well, they like to throw the ball.
30:10
You know, I've only seen one game, but I watched the whole game
30:14
as it was happening live online. And yeah, the Thursday night game.
30:19
And they they can throw, they can move the ball. Throwing the ball
30:23
Squalakum has a you know, they they're no slouches on defense, and so
30:27
they were able to move the ball. So, you know, Lindon is
30:32
I'm not gonna say they're young in the secondary. They're just they're kind of
30:36
inexperienced. And so that's gonna be a really you know, that's gonna be
30:42
one thing that they're really gonna have to key on is they got a lot
30:45
of new varsity starters in the secondary. You know, gone are the calling
30:52
Anchors and and Kobe Barrs and those guys, and new Safe these the Western
31:00
Vandalians and Zach Welches, those guys are gonna they're gonna see a lot of
31:03
action back there. And uh but Linden's defense always has a way to see
31:11
see things as they're happening, make the changes, and then do very well.
31:15
They'll give up some yards, but they rarely give up touchdowns. And
31:18
I think that's gonna be a big, big thing because like we can put
31:21
up yards, but once they you know, once the field shrinks down and
31:25
you're at the ten yard line, how does that passing game work? Then?
31:29
Did they have to rely on the run. You know, Linden's defense
31:32
really clamps up when that happens. So if that's where it really goes into
31:34
Lindon's favor, and then you know, offensively, I think every week the
31:38
running game has gotten better and better. You know, Heppner's looked really good
31:42
throwing the football. So you know, they had that week off last week
31:47
because of the forfeit, and but they look pretty good on the seven on
31:52
seven drill. I watched the game film of the field goal kicking contest and
31:56
the seven on seven and all that stuff. Uh, pretty pretty fat they
32:00
recorded it. Oh of course they did unmolievable bad lineman catching punts in the
32:06
contest, you know. And who won that Well, I don't know about
32:10
any of the you know, winners or anything. I just watched, but
32:15
uh, there was there was some guys that could that could catch punts.
32:16
There were some that couldn't I know. I know witmen and or Van Dalen
32:21
are listening. Just shoot a text. I need to know who won the
32:24
lineman punt catch competition er. I don't even know what it is, but
32:28
Tyler's talking about it. I need to know what was going on there and
32:30
who won because somebody owes that guy an underground Burger. It was pretty it
32:37
was pretty cool stuff. And you know, Lyndon, uh they have secured
32:43
a playoff spot, I believe, and so because I think the worst they
32:49
can do is second, and they could be tied with Sidrow at that point
32:52
and they beat Si Dro So I think that's kind of how that works at
32:58
this point. So Undefare did in conference play. Again, we've talked about
33:01
how they haven't lost a conference game, and I don't know since twenty seventeen
33:07
or something like that, it's been it's been a while. So uh So
33:12
again, like I said, though, the Cougars can move the ball,
33:15
so you just got to be ready for that. But but if Lindon plays
33:17
the Linden way, they should be able to take care of business. Just
33:22
looking at the standings really quickly, Tyler and I'm I'm almost positive you're right
33:25
here and a Coortus five and Oh Linden five and Oh Seedrew Wilye three and
33:29
two, Archpitche Murphy two and three, see Home two and three, So
33:32
nobody can the worst. Yeah, the worst they could do is two losses,
33:36
and if they did that, the only other team that could potentially be
33:38
there would be Sedual Willie And like you said, they've already beat him,
33:40
so right, yeah, so yeah, I would assume they have. But
33:45
yeah, uh yeah, Lindon six and one at Lake would two and four
33:51
seven pm Friday night, Tyler, Yes, it's time to reach out and
33:59
get a hold of and Small Wacome County WX. Wacome County Weather on Facebook.
34:06
Wacom COUNTYWX dot com is the website. Mister Randy Small, what do
34:09
we got for a forecast this Friday night? Oh, this is Randy Small
34:13
of Wacom County Weather and we're looking ahead to week number eight. And I
34:16
believe all the games are on Friday night this weekend, so that limits my
34:22
forecast. And just happening to do one night and after last Friday night,
34:24
with the rain coming in a little quicker than I thought. I thought I
34:28
was going to hold off until overnight into Saturday. HiT's like living on the
34:32
edge here with this forecast, especially with on and off PRECEIP earlier this week
34:37
and then potentially PRESIP at the end of the weekend. But as of now,
34:42
as I record this on Tuesday morning, well Tuesday afternoon early afternoon,
34:45
I feel that Friday is going to be dry. For all the games as
34:50
far as I can tell. Now, that can change, just we're in
34:53
that stretch of weather where things are kind of well literally up in the air
34:59
at time, and having to do this three plus days ahead, it's a
35:01
little bit hard to pull the forecast in case the rain that may come Saturday
35:07
comes a little earlier. But as now, probably mostly cloudy, you know,
35:12
hides in the upper fifties, low sixties, probably upper fifties at game
35:15
time, dry, not a lot of wind. Looks like just about all
35:20
the games are at seven PM, So have a great, great time following
35:23
your favorite team. Looking forward. Playoffs are coming soon. We'll talk to
35:28
you next week, you know, Tyler, when we get into basketball and
35:31
wrestling, we're gonna have to get a forecast from Rionny smile, so people
35:34
know what they're getting into when they walk from their car to the gym.
35:39
Man. That's yeah, it's crazy though, because I mean he's right,
35:44
man, playoffs are so close now, Yeah, it's nuts. You know.
35:49
Coach Bayinner said it at practice this week. He said, if you're
35:52
a senior, you're only guaranteed three more weeks because we have qualified for the
35:55
playoffs. You're that's it. You're only guaranteed three more weeks. That's Week
36:00
eight against East Lake, Week nine against Mount Sai, and then whatever happens
36:04
in week ten, that's it. Yeah. It's like, man, it
36:07
seems like just the other day we were taking like three days straight of nothing
36:12
but football in the gym and you know, and doing what we call camp
36:15
Bobblehood, and I mean, wow, like here we are. Yeah,
36:19
I mean, it's almost over. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
36:21
I'm just gonna have to sit here and talk to you. But I mean,
36:22
I don't even do a lot of We hardly even do that, you
36:24
know what I mean, we do our thing, sure, but what else
36:28
am I gonna do? Tyler? It's gonna be. It's gonna be.
36:30
It's gonna be crazy. Man. I'm gonna like send you all these stats
36:34
from winter Sports and then you're gonna know more than me, and we're gonna,
36:37
yeah, who knows what's gonna happen. We're gonna I'm sure we're gonna
36:40
keep this going. Yeah, it's gonna get wild, that's what's gonna happen.
36:44
Yeah, uh yeah. Thank you again to Randy Small of Watcombe County
36:49
Weather Walkom County w X dot com and on Facebook backslash Watcomb County Weather Tyler.
36:53
Let's talk about the pick'ems. Our guest picker this week, a guy
36:58
who is pretty well known on the county, a guy that dug in a
37:01
little bit, did some awesome stuff. What was it he won? It
37:05
was like sports writer of the Year or something. Yeah, he's he's won
37:08
all sorts of awards, you know, he's he's done all sorts of good
37:12
things. And he's kind of backed off the sports stuff recently, and he's
37:15
doing news more more news stuff, but Cascadia Daily News, and and he
37:22
did write some stuff when Connor was on vacation last week he did some more,
37:25
did a little bit of sports and filled in. But yeah, our
37:29
buddy Eric Trent, one of the first guys to do an intro for for
37:31
us, may may have been the very first, I can't remember. Yeah,
37:36
and uh yeah, just one of those awesome people, you know.
37:39
It's that's what's fun about doing what we do is is we we find these
37:45
like minded people that are crazy like us. And and but Eric, Eric's
37:50
just like a stand up guy, like he's just one of those really nice
37:53
guys and Uh, it's a lot of fun to talk to him. Were
37:57
always in a great mood. He's a fantastic right and he knows his stuff,
38:00
so I thought i'd reach out to him. He's been a regular picker
38:04
for us for years. This is the first year that he's not and now
38:07
that he's not really doing sports and stuff like that, so I wanted to
38:09
reach out to him have him be a guest picker. And he was really
38:13
quick on the turnaround with getting his picks in, so gotta love that.
38:16
Yeah, you know, I went through his Facebook trying to find a good
38:20
picture for him, and you know, I realized that guy posts more memes
38:22
than anybody I've ever seen, and they're always really funny. They're always hysterical.
38:28
I know, they're always like dying black and his sense of humor is
38:30
like perfect it. It fits right in with with what I like too.
38:35
So now it's a lot of fun. That being said, if you're hearing
38:37
this on Thursday, make sure make sure you come back to the website Welcome
38:44
preps dot com. Make sure you come back, or at least head to
38:46
the social media where you can see the picks, because Eric's got a great
38:52
looking picture this week, I went through I went through pretty much all of
38:55
his pictures trying to find a good one, and I found a good one.
38:59
And so if you're hearing this on Thursday, you need to wait.
39:02
You got you gotta just wait. Don't text me if you have my number,
39:06
don't do it. But make sure you get up there and you take
39:08
a look at the website, because it is funny that being the set Eric
39:13
Trent our guest picker, he is picking Seahome, Ferndale, Lynden, Lynnen,
39:17
Christian, and Bellingham. Just like the rest of us. We're all
39:21
picking those guys. Yeah, Ferndale, see Home, Linden, lynn and
39:24
Christian, Bellingham, Tyler. The only fighting that happened this week you and
39:31
me were picking Meridian while the other guys they're all taking Mount Baker. Yeah,
39:39
that's it. So I got a shot. I got a shot to
39:44
to even it up and take, you know, take a little bit of
39:46
a piece of that that top spot there with Nate. By the way,
39:52
you said Connor was on vacation last week. Yeah, a week and a
39:55
half ago something like that. Yeah, Oh, that's that's right, because
39:59
I remember his his picks kind of later to get in Yep. And you
40:02
said to me that Nate is on vacation this week. Well he was.
40:07
He was coming back on Tuesday, so I was. I emailed him on
40:10
Monday, needing the picks. I didn't hear anything till Tuesday. Well,
40:14
who are these guys taking vacation during football season? I don't know. I
40:21
wasn't gonna ask the question, but you know, it's just somehow, that's
40:27
just how it rules. Sometimes maybe they add something planned already a long time
40:30
ago. Who knows. I mean, I can tell you this much.
40:31
These are both the types of guys apparently that they get married. They're probably
40:37
getting married in the fall. Don't invite me. I ain't going. It
40:42
ain't I mean, who goes on vacation during football season? I know?
40:45
Anyway? Crazy. The last time I actually missed like a weekend of high
40:50
school football was I because I was in a wedding and my buddy, my
40:55
buddy Taylor, and he told me about it, like during March mad this
41:00
because he comes over every year and we watch March Madness together and he's like,
41:02
come here, I go, I gotta tell you something. We went
41:05
for a little walk down the road and he's like he's like, I got
41:08
good news and bad news, Like what are you talking about? It goes,
41:10
good news is I'm getting married and and I'm like that's awesome. And
41:15
he goes and I want you to be in the wedding. And I was
41:16
like, sounds good. And he goes. I go what's the bad news?
41:20
And he goes, it's gonna be in October on a Friday night.
41:24
And I'm like, oh, Taylor, I take it he's divorced. No,
41:30
no, no, he's not. But the crazy thing was it was
41:34
that not It was a huge game. Mount Baker was hosting Lyndon Christian and
41:37
that was when Zach Sima ripped off the fifty yard run on fourth down and
41:43
and it was a huge, huge game. You still talk to this guy,
41:49
it's been it's been a little bit. It's been a little while,
41:51
but he's busy. He's got two kids now so and you got a kid
41:54
too. It's called the walk on prefs. Yeah, that's right, all
41:58
right, Tyler. All we got left here is the uh the old fantasy
42:01
picks. And you know what, we don't have the uh the standings here
42:06
in front of me. I want to I think it's four and three me
42:07
right, yes, yes, you're at four to three. Yeah, oh
42:10
that's right. I won week one. You won three straight. Now I've
42:14
won three straight exactly. It's almost like playing Madden, you know, where
42:17
like you score a couple of touchdowns earlier than the computer like makes the other
42:22
team come back, you know, and then they go ahead, and then
42:24
all of a sudden you come back. Well, Tyler, unfortunately for you,
42:29
I'm going straight to the moon right now and you're not catching. So,
42:31
you know, speaking of that Madden thing, my buddy Clayton would always
42:37
he'd be at like twenty one nothing, then they score a touchdown and he'd
42:39
go catch up. Logic what he would say, because he felt that same
42:46
thing you're just talking about. Anyway. Well, now now it's like a
42:49
real thing, like you can like put it on. I don't remember what
42:52
the mode is, but like competitive MODELO yeah, yeah, yeah. And
42:55
I don't know how long it's been like that. I say, now you
42:59
can, but I know it's been like that for a little bit. But
43:00
there's been plenty of times where I've been playing a game and you know,
43:04
all the and I'm up by like thirty and next you know, it's like
43:07
you know, thirty four thirty one, and I'm like, no, this
43:09
is not happening. I'm trying to run two clock man. Anyway, that
43:15
being said, Tyler, you have first pick, and we kind of we
43:20
we did a coin flip before because we wanted to. We we we had
43:23
to make a little bit of a ground rule here, and because we couldn't
43:27
really remember how we've done in the past. The Linden guys that we picked
43:30
last week, are we allowed to pick them? We didn't really know what
43:32
we were doing here, so we did a yes no coin flip. It
43:36
came up with no. So yeah, so when each had three picks where
43:39
we picked Linden players that ended up not playing, so we were, yeah,
43:44
we were curious if we could pick that player in that same position.
43:46
It came up no. So we're kind of going by the basic ground rules
43:51
of we can't pick the same player at the same position two weeks in a
43:53
row. It doesn't even matter if their game got canceled. So yeahactly,
43:58
yeah. Uh So that being sa, Tyler, you got the first pick.
44:00
Go ahead, Colton Lentz. I think he's gonna beg a lot of
44:07
geese and or whatever, you know, I'm just kidding, what are they
44:09
shooting? Do we even know? I don't know, but I am not
44:14
opposed to Venison. Uh really, I I Yeah, it's been a while,
44:19
but man, it was so good. I'm gonna go. I'm just
44:23
gonna you know, I pick quarterback late a lot, and I'm gonna go
44:28
straight out of the gate with a quarterback. I'm gonna take Brant Heppner.
44:30
Uh. And I love the dual part of his game. He's been throwing
44:34
for you know, between one hundred and fifty and two hundred yards a game,
44:37
gets in a lot of touchdowns. But then he he's been running the
44:39
ball a lot lately. Lately, I think a couple of weeks ago ran
44:42
the ball twenty times. He gets in the end zone a lot both ways.
44:45
So I think that's a pretty safe pick. I'm gonna go Brant Hepner.
44:50
Yeah. That's uh, it's a solid pick pretty much any game.
44:52
It seems like, let's see here, I'm gonna go. Speaking of getting
44:58
in the end zone here, I'm gonna to go with Wyatt Stephan. I
45:01
feel like I've been picking Bellingham receivers a lot. I'm gonna go with Whyatt
45:07
Stephan at receiver. Which is funny to think about Tyler how many times he's
45:09
probably been picked now, and before the season started, we didn't even know
45:13
who he was. Well, I mean, you know, as far as
45:15
football goes, we didn't know who he was. Yeah, I mean,
45:17
he's the best basketball and track guy on his team that football. Just glad
45:22
he's playing. Yeah, no, I'm sure the Bellingham coaches are too.
45:28
And then I'm gonna go Lyndon Christian's offensive line against Blaine. That's why I'm
45:32
gonna go for my first two. Okay, I am gonna get on the
45:39
Ferndale train. I think I think it's I think it's time, you know,
45:44
with the weather getting colder, and they like to run the ball eighty
45:46
five percent of the time anyways, So I'm gonna go talentim bung guard or
45:51
running back. I don't I don't think i've picked him all year. I
45:52
think you've picked him a few times maybe, Yeah, I know I picked
45:55
him at least once. Yeah, and I just I have I don't think
45:59
i've picked him yet. So uh so I'm gonna go with him, and
46:01
then I am also gonna go on the defensive side of the ball. I'm
46:05
gonna go Connor Walker for back seven. I know Stanwood likes to run the
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ball a lot, but you know he's he's a difference maker in the in
46:15
the even in the secondary. He'll creep up and get in that linebacker spot
46:19
and he can make some play. So I see him flying all around the
46:21
field a bunch and making a lot of tackles in this one. And if
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Stanwan wants to throw the ball up, he'll be right there. So I'm
46:27
gonna go Connor Walker back seven. Wouldn't surprise me if he's more down in
46:30
the box this week. With the way that they run things kind of go
46:34
to more of a four to four type. Sure, yeah, just go
46:37
big and heavy in the in the in the middle there and yeah, all
46:42
right, let's see here, quarterback, wide receiver, offensive line, running
46:45
back, back seven. So our choices here are defense, kicker. Front
46:52
seven has not been picked yet, So I'm gonna go, you know what,
46:55
I'll just double up here. I'll go Lenny Christian's defense, and then
47:00
I'm gonna go front seven and I will pick I will pick uh, you
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know, I pick a guy. I haven't picked him in a few weeks
47:08
at least, I'm gonna go Josh tin Elmer front seven. Yeah, that's
47:13
a good pick. I mean, Baker likes to run the ball obviously,
47:15
and he just like I always say, you can get around him for double
47:19
digit tackles, yes, and he'll he'll shoot the gap and make make stuff
47:22
happen behind the line too, So he could do a lot of stuff like
47:25
that. And then there was a game earlier this year. I'm trying to
47:30
remember where it was. I think it was the makeup like the game they
47:32
had to that was replaced. They played Nathan Hale and I think in that
47:36
one he had like two picks in that one, so he picked him in
47:38
that week. Yeah, I think he could do He just can do so
47:42
many things. So I'm also gonna go front seven. I'm gonna go Caden
47:46
Stite. I just think that he is one of the best defensive players around
47:52
regardless of position. And you know, I keep I keep thinking in my
47:57
head like he's going to Eastern to play linebacker, but he's going to play
48:00
tight end. But you know how, you know how it is a kick
48:02
can show up and then they can go, oh we got twelve tight ends.
48:06
What do you think or they read shirt him and he puts on thirty
48:08
pounds and they go, you know what, never mind, let's go here.
48:10
Yeah right, So yeah, I think I just you know, he's
48:15
leading the whole conference and tackles. He had an interception that he almost brought
48:19
to the house last week. I just love everything about his defensive games.
48:22
So Cain stype Front seven and I'm gonna go kicker. I'm gonna go Grady
48:29
Evans. I you know, I just think that when they kicked that field
48:35
goal, even though it was early last week, I think it it tried
48:38
to It kind of made them go like we can rely on this, we
48:42
can do this, and we can win with it. And Grady Evans is
48:45
he's audit. He's about as automatic as it gets in Walka County. I
48:49
think that's gonna be a little bit of a high scoring affair. I think
48:52
he might kick a couple of field goals and I think he's going to have
48:57
a big game. So Grady Evans a kicker, see him? All right,
49:00
Tyler, I'm gonna get a little nuts oh here, oh shocker,
49:05
what does that mean? I've been kicking your butt. You can't say anything
49:07
about nuts. Ely Well, you know how you are. Yeah, that's
49:12
true. And it's eleven twenty at night. I'm tired, and I have
49:15
to be up really early tomorrow because your boy's working as a substitute again tomorrow.
49:20
So I'm gonna go land and Downy and land and downy. Okay,
49:28
back seven kicker, you're taking him twice? Yes, I'm taking him landed
49:34
down back seven landed downy kicker. You know what, though, tell you
49:37
what if Baker somehow puts up a lot of points, I could be in
49:39
some serious trouble here because I got Josh and Elmer and landed Downey and but
49:45
you know what, maybe I get some points back in the kicking game.
49:46
Maybe they need to kick some field goals or something. Yeah, you never
49:50
know. I'm talking myself into a bad game. Here is what I'm doing.
49:54
Well, I'm gonna go. I mean, I like your picks.
49:58
I mean he's a difference maker. I'm gonna go Bellingham's offensive line. Uh,
50:05
you know that offense has just been been dynas so good. And you
50:09
know Jesse Harward and Finnick and Jensen and Josh Kroll and Owen Campbell and Rourke
50:15
O'Malley and Tanner, Lobb and all those guys that we just never talk about.
50:20
Those guys are been doing a great job at offensive line. And so
50:24
I'm gonna go with them, the Bayhawk offensive line, and I'm gonna go
50:28
defense, and I'm gonna pick Lyndon's defense. And I know, I know
50:32
Lakewood, like I said earlier, they can give up. They can you
50:36
know, they could put up points. I should say, uh, but
50:38
are They can put out the yards. But I just think that Linnon's defense
50:43
is is they will make the play when they need to. They're gonna put
50:49
in some sort of scheme to to go against that certain offense, and they're
50:53
so good at that you might see a pick six. Who knows. Yeah,
50:58
I'm excited. So I'm gonna go. And in his defense, well,
51:05
I'm relying on my man, Blake Whitman. Yeah, oh boy,
51:08
wow wow. So chock up a win for Island. Tell you what,
51:14
Tyler, you know what, I'm gonna stay on the crazy here. Okay,
51:17
you heard me, Jim, I'm staying on the crazy going land and
51:21
Downy running back. Yeah you hear that? Landing Downy. You got a
51:25
fan, Yeah, triple Downy, That's what it is. Triple down.
51:29
Like it. Yeah, I like it, like the triple lets, the
51:32
yeah, the land and triple oh. And you know what's great about him
51:37
as a running back is I mean he led them in rushing and receiving last
51:40
week. I mean he ran for like fifty some yards and he had ten
51:44
catches out of the back. I mean that's you get. You get a
51:47
half of you get a half a point for each catch too, so you
51:51
could really he can. He can wreck up the points. You know what
51:54
you're doing right now, You're talking yourself into a loss, That's what you're
51:58
doing. Yeah, you know, I just like to pump up all these
52:00
kids. You know, it's so good. My last pick, I gotta
52:04
go quarterback, and I'm gonna pick one of the rights here. Uh,
52:09
two rights, make a right? How about Nolan? Right? We're going
52:14
Nolan right here at quarterback. I feel like I haven't picked him for a
52:15
few weeks. I don't know if I picked him at all. It seems
52:19
like you've picked him a lot more than I have this year I have.
52:21
And what I like about him, especially lately, is he seems to be
52:24
running a little bit more. He's so athletic, he's got a great arm,
52:29
but he's been you know, he's been picking and choosing his spots to
52:31
run a little bit. So so well, I apologize to coach Losey,
52:36
but I hope he runs wild. I hope he runs wild on you,
52:39
brother man? Do you Jesse? Okay, So only one pick left,
52:49
and I got to pick a receiver, and I'm kind of torn between a
52:53
few of them. Here. I was looking at Okay, looking at Anson
52:57
Asbjornsen, looking at Radick Duckworth. You know, I you know, Land
53:04
and Handstack could go off crazy, but I think I'm gonna go Cooper Moore.
53:07
I'm gonna go with this combination with Brant Heppner and Cooper Moore has kind
53:15
of separated himself. It's very even with those four guys. They're very,
53:20
very good. But Cooper Moore has been a guy that can do like kind
53:24
of like the short possession stuff and the deep stuff, and I really like
53:29
his versatility is toughness, his hands, his speed, all that stuff.
53:32
So that's who I'm picking for my wide receiver. Well, Tyler, you're
53:37
taking Brent Heppner at quarterback. I am taking Nolan right at quarterback. At
53:43
running back, You've got Talon bun guard. I've got Landon Downey. I
53:46
feel like I'm gonna say that a few times. Yeah, let's see here
53:50
wide receiver. You have Cooper Moore, who you just took last. I've
53:54
got Wyatt Stephan offensive line. I've got Lynden Christians off of a line,
54:00
while you have Bellingham defensively, I have Linden Christian's defense. You have Linden's
54:07
defense. So we're going all out in the city of Linden. Here for
54:09
the defense. Front seven eight, gotch you ain't much Jesus, joshin Elmer
54:17
for me in the front seven, Cayden Stite for you, Land and Downey
54:22
in the back seven for me, Connor Walker for you, and then at
54:25
Kicker, Land and Downy for me, Grady Evans for you, Oh my
54:31
goodness late, Landon Downy, Land and Downy and Land and Downy. As
54:37
a matter of fact, that's the most you can pick somebody is three times.
54:40
And I decided to go for it. You know what I should have
54:44
done. I should have taken Josh and Elmer running back, because then I
54:45
would have had two Elmers and two Downies. Oh yeah, that have been
54:50
pretty funny. Yeah, and you know what, I could have taken Jagger
54:52
five at quarterback and then Coach Lepp would have had a stinking heart attack.
54:59
Yeah that's it, Tyler. We ain't got nothing else, do we.
55:01
I don't think so. And I gotta tell a really quick funny story about
55:05
stickers, because this is usually when we talk about the stickers. Of course,
55:08
I don't have any. I was getting dressed to head out to the
55:13
uh you know, Laura's mom's birthday and and uh, I got my nice
55:16
black shorts and uh and uh you know, they're they're my night. They
55:24
were like my dress shorts and uh, you know, got the shower and
55:30
got already came out, put the shorts on, and I was like,
55:31
what is And I put my hand in the pocket and there's like twenty stickers
55:37
in there that went through the washing machine. Ah, so they're not good
55:40
anymore. But I just thought I knew I had some left at some point,
55:45
but now I knew where they were. They were in my nice shorts
55:49
pockets. If anybody would like a used washing machine sticker, come over and
55:53
grab him out of the trash. Yeah. Yeah. So if you see
55:58
Tyler out out at a game, which by the way, he'll be at
56:00
Blaine Lenning Christian for the first half. I assume Tyler, Yeah, and
56:04
then Meridian Mount Baker for the second half. Oh and you know what,
56:07
I guess we should have mentioned coach would he'll be back by the way,
56:10
talk about taking vacation in the middle. No, he's gonna be at Seahome
56:15
Squalicum. And then you mentioned Michaela. What game is she going to be
56:17
at? She will be at Stanwood at Ferndale. She has not seen a
56:22
game at the new stadium yet, so we were out there together at practice,
56:25
so she's been there at practice, but she hasn't seen one in the
56:28
new stadums. So she's excited about That's pretty pretty cool. Nice And then
56:31
yeah, maybe she can find out if there's a name for the stadium.
56:35
Yeah, and if there isn't, or maybe if there is, somebody could
56:37
tell us by now, huh do you think people? You know, Ferndale
56:43
people are usually on top of things. When we make a mistakes, they
56:45
usually let us know. So I'm just gonna assume there isn't one. Yeah,
56:49
you know, at this point there has to be no name. It's
56:51
the no name stadium. Yeah, it's a matter of Pride Stadium. Yeah,
56:54
oh that's not bad. All right, Well, Tyler, that's it.
56:58
We don't have anything else. Blake Whitman, you can go to bed.
57:01
And it's uh, Tyler, this is the what is the last time
57:05
we did a podcast that was under an hour? Oh? Man, this
57:07
is under an hour. I thought you're gonna tell Whitmen to get some shut
57:09
eye. Who I did this? Goodness? Uh? You know, usually
57:17
it's me that says the things that make people cringe. I feel like we
57:22
should just talk for like another three minutes just to get over a full hour.
57:24
No, I don't. What do you think about Pete Kavilia. I
57:30
think he was born to play slow pitch softball, That's what I think.
57:32
I mean. Honestly, if you look at the guy when he was in
57:36
in the in the majors, he can't look like a softball player. He
57:38
did, man, but he was. But he was one of those guys
57:42
that, how about this, Tyler worry about every time. Let's just say
57:45
this. If you could pick three major League baseball players that look like they
57:49
should be playing softball, Okay, it would be Pete Kavilia, It'd be
57:53
Carne Lanceford, and who Steve Balboni. Balboni belongs Steve Balboni. Man he
58:02
Vukovich, who was a pitcher, but he played He played the first baseman
58:07
on Major League. Clue Heywood, Yeah, Clue Heywood. Yeah, he
58:09
was a pitcher for the Brewers, but he played the first baseman in that
58:13
movie. Yeah. Do you know that he leads league in the most offensive
58:15
categories, including including noshairs? Yes, I don't worry. Nobody's listening anyway,
58:24
still got that one on hand. All right, let's get out of
58:28
here. We're under an hour. It is eleven thirty pm on what is
58:31
it Wednesday night? I believe so? Al right it? Well, yeah,
58:36
everybody have fun out of the games this week. If you see Tyler
58:39
walk up, give him a friendly fist punch. How about that? Yeah,
58:43
little pow. How's it going, Tyler? How are you doing there,
58:45
buddy? How's your health? Yeah? He's Tyler Anderson. WACOM Preps
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wakompreps dot com. I'm Roland Spencer of Nothing, Episode two hundred and three,
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preview Week eight here on the wakhom Preps podcast. We will talk to
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