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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 180 - Bellingham Bayhawks Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Bellingham senior Jesse Horward and you are listening to the Bellingham football preview
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on the walcome Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland Go BayHawks. Greetings and welcome
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to the WACOM Preps podcast. You're listening to the twenty twenty three Bellingham BayHawks
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team preview. I'm Rylan Spencer. Along with me as always, is Tyler
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Anderson of watcom preps dot com. Tyler, how are we doing? Doing
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great? We gotta keep chugging along with the football previews. Uh, you
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know, hopefully they don't get sick of our voices because we're gonna be talking
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a lot, yeah, for the next like four months. If they're sick
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of our voices, are ready, they're in some serious trouble, they are,
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Tyler. This is the second of ten team previews as we get ready
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for the upcoming season. Tomorrow, the twenty seventh, we'll be talking about
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the two Linden schools. Earlier today we kicked off the previews with the Sea
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Home Mariners. I guess you can just like set a reminder noon five pm
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every single day day for the next couple of days. You're gonna get it.
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So, yeah, if you'd like to listen to the Sea Home preview,
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head over to Walcome preps dot com. Find the preview right there on
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the front page, and be sure to subscribe to the podcast. You can
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get notifications when we post future shows with these team previews, though, you
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kind of need to have the preview up in front of you on the computer
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and have the podcast going. It's kind of what it is, so just
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Walcome preps dot com. There it is. We would like to thank Jesse
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Harword for the intro. Young Man. We'll talk a little bit about here
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later. He's a kind of a big guy, kind of yeah, little
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little little, big guy, large individual. Tyler, So Bellingham, you
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hit that one on Friday also right like you. So you were at Sea
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Home, rolled down the hill, maybe hit boomers on the way? Did
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you hit boomers on the way? Probably not. Oh I did eat between
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though on that one, luckily, uh, because I was scheduled to go
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to Squalachum. But it just I just knew I was not going to get
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there in time. I was held a little bit late at Sea Home.
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I was trying to get all three schools, you know, the Bellingham schools
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done. Boom boom, boom. Uh. So I had a little bit
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of time, so I went and got some lunch at me Mexico. Of
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course, I knew you were going to say that. I was just I
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was prepared. If you didn't say where you went to to ask? Like
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I was, I was ready to go on that one. Why why am
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I not surprised? Yeah, exactly. And then I showed up Bellingham and
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and uh yeah, I got to see the entire practice and and it was
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crazy because they you know, I you know, in years past. I
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remember when they had that season when they had to stop early because they just
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didn't have enough kids. Yeah, I was, and you know, they
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played only seven games that year. I think something. They just guys were
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getting injured, big freshman class. I tell you what, I out of
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all the city schools, you'd be shocked to know that, I think Bellingham
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had the most kids. What's that? Yeah, I got that right,
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Jim. It's oh my goodness, it was they were. They had a
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ton of kids out there. It was awesome to see and and just haven't
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seen that in a while. So a lot of a lot of good numbers
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and big kids too. Well, you know what, let's just get right
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into it, and let's talk about these guys. Adam Leonard head coach over
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there second season with the BayHawks three and seven, last season two and seven
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in twenty twenty one. So I guess technically a little bit of a point
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five game improvement, isn't that how it goes? In the baseball standings?
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They play their games over at Civic Stadium. Lots of I would say,
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lots of names that people know. I mean, I guess if you listen
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to the podcast, you know these names with Logan Steves, Liam Poulton,
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Claypool, Lucas Cousins, Max Rasset. There are some names here of guys
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with their key losses, but when you look at their top returners, man,
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there are some serious names here. I mean, right off the top,
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Tyler Frost, when you talk about big boys like that is a large
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individual that is not playing in the line. By the way, we're talking
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running back in his eye, linebacker. So we've got some names here Tyler
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and a couple of guys transferred in. This is a team that has the
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makings of maybe making a pretty big step here, and I think a lot
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of it starts to at quarterback, where oddly enough, We've got three names
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listed as having thrown passes last year, but one of them it's not passes
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that were thrown at Bellingham. And he has a little bit of a familiar
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last name here, Tyler. Yeah, you got that right. Yeah.
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Josh Leonard led Walker County last year with sixteen touchdown passes playing for Squalacum.
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Transferred over. Just wanted to, you know, for his senior year,
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wanted to go to high school with his brother to you know, wanted to
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play for his dad. It just h and he's been a great leader,
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you know, since he's come over. Everyone respects him. He's got a
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big time arm. When we're talking, he can throw the ball probably close
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to seventy yards, and he could put touch on it too when needed,
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and he can make all the throws. He does all the things you want
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as a quarterback. And and I know that coach Leonard loves to throw,
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and you know Josh Leonard loves loves to throw it himself. So it's a
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it's a good mix. You know. They went through I think five different
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guys took a snap under center last year. It was just a lot of
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injuries, a lot of different things happening and so it was really really tough.
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They even went you know, they even went wildcat with Logan Steve's they
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they you know, and he threw some passes. I mean, it was
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it got to be tough. And so to bring in somebody that you know,
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could play the whole year last year as a quarterback and can and get
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you know, big, you know, six three, two hundred ten pounds
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strong kid, left handed thrower, I think that can that can really the
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ripple effect throughout the rest of the program can really help. And then you
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could take a guy like a Gay van offwag And who started the majority of
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the games last year for them, put him back at his natural position as
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a tight end where his toughness can show. And he's he's put on about
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fifteen or twenty pounds, so you know what you see how that you know,
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it just all works. So you can put guys that there's their more
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where their natural positions are and it's just going to help the squad throughout our
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Tyler, when we talk about the running game, Tyler tell us about Tyler
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Frost, who is their leading rusher that returns And actually, Tyler, I'm
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just looking at the stats here and if you're on the website walcome prep dot
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com and you're looking at the preview, you can do this too. Tyler
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Frost is the returning like leader in quite a few different categories here. So
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I'll probably mention his name about thirteen, fourteen, fifteen more times on this
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podcast. But he's the only one that returns that has plus yardage. There's
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three other names that return. Those guys gonna get some carries? Is it
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just? I mean, there's Tyler Frost. I mean, obviously I would
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think he's gonna be the feature back. But last year, Locan Steve's got
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a lot of carries, So what are we looking for in the backfield for
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the BayHawks. Yeah, you're right, Steves did get the majority of the
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carries, and Tyler Frost got some here and there, you know, and
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here and there, Tyler sixty two total carries. That's that's a decent chunk
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of carries. It is. It is, But like there was times when
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you know, he put on alignment number and played right tackle just because they
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needed they needed to help up front, and so I don't think they're gonna
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need that this year, So he'll be more featured. But as as valuable
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he as he is on defense, you gotta have another guy. And and
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we remember Isaac Bates last year as a really speedy senior receiver. He's got
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a younger brother that's a senior now holding Bates, who's uh you know,
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first year player, built really well, five seven, one hundred and seventy
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pounds, so he'll be kind of that that change of pace. That guy
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they'll give Frost, you know, a break. Tyler Frost is still very
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raw as a running back, you know. Talking to coach Leonard, he
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says, you know, he still needs to learn how to like, you
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know, go to the hole, and he goes, but sometimes he just
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creates his own He just you know, he just plows through and and just
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gets some extra yardage. And he's just really hard to tackle. He's so
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physical. He's such a big kid, you know, about two hundred and
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forty seven pounds now and uh and can move and uh boy, it's a
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lot of fun just watching him carry the ball. And he's probably gonna get
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a lot more carries now. But you still you gotta have that guy that
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can help him out a little bit so he can be really ready to go
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on defense. I think Holden Bates will be that guy as a running back,
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and they're probably gonna go single back most of the time. You're gonna
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start having an offensive and defensive lineman just getting out of the way when Tyler
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Frost has the ball. You know, it used to be guys making business
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decisions on defense. Some of the offensive linemen are gonna go. They're gonna
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be peeking over their shoulder, shoulder going oh oh, here comes to the
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t F train like it's time to get out of the way. Here receiving
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Tyler. Oddly enough, Tyler Frost leading them in options coming back only two
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receptions for twenty four yards, but he's the only one. So I gotta
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feel like you're gonna throw some names at me here that maybe we don't really
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know of yet. Yeah, this was a big question I had for coach
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Leonard because he likes to throw the ball. Well, you're returning two Frosty
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receptions so from your run back and they're from the running back exactly, and
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so uh, you know, he'll probably go you know, he likes to
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go three wide with an h tight tight end type guy, so uh,
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you know, on one end, Bli Henderson is a really athletic kid six
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two hundred and seventy five pounds. Uh, still kind of raw, but
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very very athletic. I believe his dad played at Florida Atlantic. And it's
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just a really, you know, really quick, speedy kind of kid with
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good size, probably the best size out of all their wide receivers. On
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the other end, on the other side will be a senior Josh Toll,
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who is a kid that's coming out to play football for the first time in
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a while. But his nickname is muscle Beat. He's really well put together.
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Yeah, five eight hundred and sixty pounds, but but can play an
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outside receiver and can out jump guys and very very super athletics. Gonna open
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some eyes. And then in the slot, Nate Loss as a kid is
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a five nine hundred and fifty pound junior that's been really, really impressive.
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And then you could throw a guy like like Owen Hanstead in the mix,
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who's a who's the Swiss Army Knife of all Swiss Army knife. I mean
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he could play quarterback, running back, receiver, He returns kicks, he
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can he can play you know, defense, he can kick and punt and
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he could do so many things and so you could see him maybe coming in.
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He's five eight hundred and forty five pounds sophomore, Uh, and you
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could you know he could get into the mix a little bit. And then
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now so back at the tight end spot gave Van Hofwagan, who played majority
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of quarterback last year. I was talking about it earlier. Big strong kids
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six two hundred and ninety five pounds a junior will be right at home.
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He could do some devastating run ball locking. But he's a smart, kidding
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get out, catch passes, do all the right things, you know,
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play that spot that Poulton Claypool played last year on offense, and so he
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fits into that tight end spot really really well. It's uh, you know,
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these are all kids that yeah, none of them are coming in with
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varsity receptions, but they're all catching the ball at practice. So you know
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they have the talent to do it. Now they're just gonna get their opportunity
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to do it. Not too many teams have a guy that threw five touchdown
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passes and he's not gonna throw one this year. Probably It's true. It
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doesn't not happen very often. You're absolutely right. I mean there's the occasional
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like, oh, he had one touchdown pass. Well, yeah, it
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was a double pass or whatever. No, he had five touchdown passes last
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year and he had one hundred and twenty eight attempts. I mean that's a
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seven hundred yards passing and he's not gonna Hey, you mentioned Tyler Frost played
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some right tackle. I know there's a name that had transferred in and we
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talked about him. We thanked him for the intro earlier. But when we
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start talking about the big boys up front, Tyler on in the trenches in
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general, on the offensive side of the ball, who are you looking at?
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Yeah, you know you're referring to Jesse Harward, who was an All
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Conference first team guy at the one A level last year as a right tackle.
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So he'll fit right in at the right tackle here, protect the blind
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side of the left handed quarterback. It's a perfect fit. I think that
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he's he is one of those kids that you know, we've talked about it
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in the past with like a Caleb Newman. Those types of kids, when
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they cross the lines, they're a compeller. It's a complete one eighty.
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It's a it's a it's a scary individual. You go back outside the lines.
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Super nice guy boy scout right, and that's kind of Jesse Harward right
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there. He's he's a fun loving kid, but once he's in the game,
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he is mean, he is nasty. He brings toughness. Uh.
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And and that's kind of what this Bellingham squad needed. It's a perfect shot
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in the arm. So he'll fit right in at right tackle, right next
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to him at right guard. Finnegan Jensen's a kid that I've had my eye
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on for a while. He's a junior now. He's a six two,
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three hundred ten pounds and and athletic kid. And and you put to put
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those right next to each other. Hardwood's about six three to seventy right now,
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So, uh, those guys next to each other, that's a that's
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a pretty strong right side of the line to run over. And then you
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know you got Frost carrying the ball at two hundred and forty seven pounds.
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This is looking like a college squad. You know, these guys are big,
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big kids. Rourke O'Malley really impressed me at center. Super smart kid.
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He's up to about two hundred and twenty pounds. Now, you know
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he's so athletic that I don't know if they might move him out to left
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tackle perhaps, And he's the smallest one on the line. Uh, he
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could he could play center. But they really like Josh Kroll, who's a
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sophomore about five eight, two eighty he and he's just yeah, just a
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sophomore. He he played some defense last year and made some plays as a
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freshman, and I think they really like him as a perhaps as a center.
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So if he gets in and play center, they're gonna kick Rourk O'Malley
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out to left tackle, I would imagine, and then at left guard.
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Uh. Singer Alex Horai is a is a new kid coming out. I
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think he's played football in the past. He's six one, two seventy.
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So you're talking about a line here that's averaging, you know, in the
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tie two sixties, two seventies. Here tackle the tackles some Linden beef they
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got there in Bellingham. They absolutely do. Like it's like they went up
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to the county fair up there and just plucked a couple of cows or something.
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Oh my goodness. Yeah, there's some big, big kids. So
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the offensive line is, uh, it's looking it's looking pretty big, you
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know, and they got coach Gavin over there used to play at Western Washington
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University of lineman and and coach Jack's is a lineman, you know, old
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line coach, and so they have you know, they have the guys that
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are kind of like you know, that know what they're doing, and that's
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just that's been an issue in the past. Is is protection and blocking and
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man and these guys that they have now it's really starting to come together and
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they're gonna lean on those guys a bit. It's a pretty big strength for
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this team on the defensive side of the line. I would think maybe this
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is possibly maybe they their strongest position group. Yeah, it's up there.
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I mean, there's a there's a lot of talent there. Jesse Harvard was
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a great player last year on defense, so he's gonna you know, he
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could be kind of a you know, a guy that could play inside or
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outside. You know, he could. He's got the strength obviously to be
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a defensive tackle, but you can kick him out to defensive end. And
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at two hundred and seventy pounds, he's very athletic. He plays basketball and
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baseball. You know, he can really move. And you put a guy
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like that on the edge, and that can really help, especially when you
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got these big three hundred pounders that you could put in the middle Josh krole
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like I was talking about it to eighty. Wyatt Asher played some last year.
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He's five ten, three hundred pounds as a senior in the in the
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inside, Owen Campbell was pretty impressive last year at four tackles for loss coming
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off the edge as a defensive end. He's six three hundred ninety pounds junior.
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So you do have these guys, you know, Finnegan Jensen can fit
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in there. You know, Uh, Tanner Lob is another guy who's about
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two fifty or so. So there's just they have some size and they have
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bodies. They got guys they can rotate, and that's again that's when one
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of the other things is they just didn't have the depth before which they have
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now and that's going to really help the program and as they you know,
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fight their way to get back into the Northwest Conference, uh, you know,
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in the years to come and and you need to take those steps.
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It doesn't happen overnight. So that's it's it's really going a long way towards
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accomplishing that goal. Yeah, it sounds like they've got like Bellingham heavy machinery
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inside, you know what I mean, a bunch of big old front loaders
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with those thick tires. You know what I'm saying. Yeah, totally.
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What about linebacker Tyler? Who are some of the names we need to know
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they're at the linebacker spot. Yeah, well, Tyler Frost returns, you
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know, and it was it was quite an accomplishment last year. He was
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named All Conference second team and playing an independent schedule in the Northwest Conference.
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That's yeah, I mean, and that's that is really impressive, especially when
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you know the other coaches you know, didn't play against him. But he
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got noticed enough out there and put up big enough numbers to where he deserved
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that honor. And so he returns as an inside linebacker. He might get
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some time as an outside linebacker too, but he you know, fourteen and
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a half tackles for loss. Uh. He's he's just a playmaker. I
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mean, he really is. And there there could have been ten more that
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he just you know, he just didn't wrap up that he could have had.
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You knows, as he's learning the game and and learns and he keeps
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getting better and better. He's just gonna make more and more plays. I
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think Rourk O'Malley too was a pretty good linebacker last year, and he you
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know, he could be a guy that could play him inside linebacker but also
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could play some defensive end maybe. You know, he's got the ability to
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dupo things and on the outside linebacker spot. I think Gabe ben Hoffwagan showed
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a lot of good stuff last year. Played some strong safety, but he's
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getting bigger now and he can come down and play outside linebacker. Josh Tole
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muscle Beach, I think he could be another linebacker guy. And Ian Malone
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is another kid that was probably more of a safety type before, but he's
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he's getting a little bigger and five eleven hundred and eighty five pound junior now
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he could be an outside linebacker two. So again, they got some more
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bodies there to fill out. Tyler. Who would your muscle Beach Seahawks comp
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be oh Man, maybe DK Metcalf, but you know I would That's a
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great one, you know, Yeah, that is hilarious. Yeah. Uh
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secondary Tyler only returning two interceptions, but one of them happens to be from
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of all people, Tyler Frost. I mean, what doesn't that kid do?
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Actually, from look at the stats, uh didn't have a sack,
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didn't have a fumble recovery, or a past defended. So those are three
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things he apparently didn't do last year. But he did have an interception,
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yeah, and a forced fumble and a lot of tackles and a lot of
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tackles for a loss. So I mean, sixty nine and a half tackles
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from a guy like him is just nuts. Fourteen and a half tackles for
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a loss. But in the secondary, Tyler, who are we looking at?
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Who are the names we need to know that are gonna be flying around
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making plays? Well? I think the strength here will be in the safeties
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with Owen Hanstead. He had a pick six in week one last year as
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a freshman. I mean, imagine that you go out there as a freshman
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in week one and you get a pick six. I mean, just just
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you know how you're supposed to live up to that the rest of your career.
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But yeah, he I think he's gonna be He's a smart kid and
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and he can really you know, he's not big, but he's tough and
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so he can hit. And then Nate Loss, who will be who's one
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of the slot receivers. I think he'll be the other safety back there.
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And neither of these kids are are super big, but they're both just heavy
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players that are will be that will play really well. Bli Henderson has got
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really good speed and he's got that size. He's six foot two. So
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many teams and you probably see it around all around high school levels. Is
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man corners back in the day, always the smallest guy. Now you see
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these six two six three corners around and it's you know, I get it.
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You know, you're trying not to get mismatched and stuff like that.
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And and Bly Henderson falls into that a six point two corner within he can
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really turn and go and uh and keep up with a receiver. And there's
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you know, there's a battle going on for the other corner spot. There's
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a few guys that are maybe not quite ready for offense yet, but uh,
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there's a few different guys that could be in the mix for the other
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corner spot. And yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting. You
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know, there's uh, there's still gonna be some time. And by the
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time you're listening to this, yeah, week ones getting really really close and
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and I'm sure they'll make their decisions soon, but there are some guys to
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choose from now. In the kicking game, and again I'm looking at it
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here punt return. They only return one punt return and that's thirty eight yards
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from Tyler Frost. I mean, what are the odds? Tyler? He's
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he's he's living up to the Tyler name is what he's doing. And then
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obviously, like I said, he leads in every stinking category you can think
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of. He also leads in kick returning with one hundred and thirty five yards
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and there was that one touchdown. Bli Henderson had some own handstead So they've
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got some options back there at the in the kick return and the punt return.
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Liam Polton Claypole was doing some kicking last year. It maybe not have
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been the prettiest thing, but he was good at it. What are we
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looking for this year? Who's gonna be kicking punting in the special teams game?
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Yeah, and the in the kicking game, I think that junior Evan
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Eisley comes over. He's six feet tall, one hundred and sixty pounds.
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I think he's going to kind of take over that spot. It's another spot
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that owen hand Stead could do if needed, but he'll probably be the holder,
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you know, stuff like that is he'll probably do the punting as well.
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And I don't I mean, you're right about Tyler Foss leading kick return,
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punt return. I don't see him doing those things. You got to
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give him a break every once in a while. He punt return. That
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punt return he had for thirty eight yards was he was kind of like the
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upman in the punt and he just a short punt and then just took off.
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He was pretty cool to see. The guy's a well oiled machine.
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Yeah right, you know the kickoff return was uh, you know that's for
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the for the touchdown. I mean, he wasn't a main guy and when
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he got his chance he could do it. So one of those ones that
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as a coach you go no, no, no, just drop okay or
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score. Yeah yeah, that works too exactly. Yeah. So I think
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the other names you mentioned Bly Henderson, owenhand said, you can see those
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guys in the return game. There's also a really fast kid they have named
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hell Dale. He's from Fiji, six ft one hundred and fifty pounds junior
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and he's he's clocked at a sub four seven, and he's new to the
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game. He's loving it and you know, but he's still learning. But
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if you know, if he gets around the corner on a kick return,
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they might not be able to catch him. So so I'm kind of excited
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to see what he could do with the ball in his hands. And and
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but you know what it's like. I mean, he turn on the friday
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you know, turn on the lights on Friday night, and he could really
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open your eyes and be it's a difference maker. So once he adjusted that,
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he could be a he could be a playmaker for this team. I'll
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tell you what, Tyler. In all the years I've done media, I
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if when there's a when there's a young man who's uh, you know clearly
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wasn't you know, born in this country, or or has you know,
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ties to another cut whatever, I'd like to ask where they're from, you
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know what I mean, because it's you end up with some cool I don't
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think I've ever had anybody say Fiji. So that's pretty cool that you just
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said he's from Fiji. I love that. Yeah, yeah, that's really
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really cool. Maybe he's a big Jimmy super flash snooker fan. But yeah,
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stop, Yeah, so I'm excited. I'm excited to see what he
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could do. I'm you know this, there's a lot of new names here
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and a lot of kind of like names from other teams that we're seeing together.
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So it's all how how they're gonna gel together? And and uh and
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you know, you you look at the schedule, you know you're gonna have
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some games that are win the book games and that can help Jill. You
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know, yeah, absolutely, And you know, I think I think when
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you look over their schedule, the first one on the list the Cleveland one
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PM. I believe that's a Saturday, right Saturday game. I'm there.
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Yeah, first off, that's huge, so Bayhawk's better come to play.
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But yeah, I mean you look at it and they started off two and
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oh last year and it was kind of like wow, Like I think we
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were both maybe a little bit surprised, especially with that first game forty eight
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fourteen over Cleveland. But you know, then they had some some tough times
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and a couple of games that got out of hand, you know, where
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they were kind of seemed like they're maybe going in the wrong direction, and
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then played a real strong game against Friday. Harbor got to win there,
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and then you know, slipped up the last couple of games of the season,
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but there was some promising things at times out of them, Tyler.
24:51
When you look over this year's schedule, it's is it essentially a flip from
24:56
last year for the most part? Uh? Kind of Yeah, Yeah,
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they're not They're not going to play Napavine instead, they're probably probably be a
25:03
good idea and that that the Connor matchup is more even and yeah, other
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than that, it's it is a sweet flip there, so yeah, And
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I mean it's it's kind of an interesting schedule. You get two at home,
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one on the road, three at home, and then three on the
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road to finish. So kind of a weird uh, you know, three
25:21
in a row at home, three in a row on a row, three
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in a row on the road. That doesn't necessarily happen too often, but
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this is I look over the schedule and I see I see a handful of
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games that you look at and go, you know what, offensive line with
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the improvements that they look as though they have probably made, you know,
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Josh Leonard at quarterback, there's some definite possibility here for them to to.
25:47
I mean, honestly, I'm kind of like, looking at the schedule,
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Tyler, they we might be a little bit of the the the breakout performer
25:53
might just be the team. I mean like they might be doing some damage
25:59
here. Any games specifically you're looking at, going, that's that's me.
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I you know what, I don't even need to ask blame Radian. I
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see, I see, I see a couple of a county games here.
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Yeah. I love those games. I love when they play against other walking
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county teams. And and you'll probably find me at least one of those,
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if not both of them. Uh. It's uh, And I love that,
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you know, you know, they plays some you know Saturdays. Uh,
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they play there's a double header at Civic in week two. So that's
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yeah. So it's like stuff like that. I'm really I like to I
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like to be at I you know, there's definite wins here, you know.
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I I'm excited for the team. I think it's gonna be a big
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step up. And that big thing is how well does the offensive line play
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and can you keep your quarterback healthy? Those are the two biggest question marks
26:56
last year. They're kind of tied in together. Obviously. Uh. And
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you know, if those things can go well, then it just has a
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great effect on everything else, and you can start winning more games than you
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lose, and then you get back on that right track to where you're headed.
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Now, Tyler, tell me this because I don't I don't know the
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I don't know the ferry system up there, but if they're going to Friday
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Harbor, they gotta go all the way down to Anacortis to do that.
27:22
Yeah, I would imagine. Yeah. I mean I played at Friday Harbor
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a long time ago, and I can't remember exactly how it happened or where
27:30
we went to, but I think you're right. I'm pretty sure it's in
27:33
that area. That's an interesting that's an interesting road trip, you know what
27:37
I mean, because it's and I mean Friday Harbor is actually I guess in
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a way like straight west of Anacortis. Yeah, I mean, for the
27:45
most party, they used to be in the league, you know, the
27:49
old Yeah, I remember you talking about that before. Yeah, Well,
27:55
Tyler, we we've kind of talked about the team, We've talked about what
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you think there. We got to talk about your breakout player this year,
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and it's a name that you kind of threw out there a little bit,
28:07
but didn't go real in depth on Josh Tole. Yeah, muscle Beach.
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I think that it's rare that I pick a senior as my breakout player.
28:15
You know. I did it last year with Chris ellen Boss. I do
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it every once in a while with a guy that maybe waited his turn.
28:21
And I think this is a good one because of a few different reasons.
28:23
He hasn't played football in a long time, and I think the offense is
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going to be predicated towards Aaron the ball out a lot, and I think
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he can become that main weapon, you know, that's that's gonna just haul
28:37
in a ton of passes and then make moves, you know, stuff after
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the catch, the yak if you will, all those kinds of things.
28:45
I think that he brings a lot of ability to be able to do that.
28:48
I think he's gonna be a playmaker on defense as well. So I
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think that he just has that chance. I mean, before I went to
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practice, I didn't know anything about him, you know. And sometimes I
29:00
have I have an idea for breakout players. Sometimes I have a bunch of
29:03
questioners. I don't know who the breakout player is going to be. And
29:06
when I'm at practice and I'm watching him play, it's like, Okay,
29:10
you start to go, who's that because I don't know who that is,
29:12
but I need to know who that is. And that was who that was
29:15
Josh Tole. So I'm excited to see what he does this year and and
29:19
I think the team will go, you know, kind of how he does.
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It's I think a lot it's going to be put on him, but
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rightly so he's a great athlete and I'm excited to see what happens. You
29:30
know how they say like, oh, this guy will run through a wall
29:33
for you, like Josh Toll. He'll just walk up and lift the wall
29:34
for you. Yeah, he move the wall out of the white Yeah.
29:40
Uh. Tyler, any final thoughts before we get out of here. No,
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that's that's about it. Bellingham football is on the improvement and excited to
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see it. Well, there it is. You've been listening to the twenty
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twenty three preview of the Bellingham of BayHawks. I'm Ronan Spencer, He's Tyler
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