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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 389 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 10 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Linden junior Lucas Lougie and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Walkam Preps podcast with Tyler Anderson.
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  Speaker 2: Go Lions. Greetings and welcome into the Gatorade Game Day
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  Speaker 2: preview on the walkom Preps podcast. This is episode three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty nine and I am Tyler Anderson with
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  Speaker 2: Walkham Preps and we're gonna preview all eleven games this
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  Speaker 2: weekend involving Walkham County teams. You heard that right, Eleven games,
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  Speaker 2: seven of them with playoff implications. You can basically call
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  Speaker 2: them playoff games. Got to win that game to get
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  Speaker 2: into the official state tournament. I want to give it
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  Speaker 2: thank you to Lyndon junior quarterback Lucas Lolgy for the intro.
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  Speaker 2: He's really made a splash this year both with his
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  Speaker 2: arm and his legs leading the Linden Lions. And known
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  Speaker 2: about him since junior high. I was excited to see
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  Speaker 2: him once he got into varsity action, and you know
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  Speaker 2: he's he's been playing hurt, but boy, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the guys on that Linden team have been but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's been great to see him play. And thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much Lucas for doing the intro. Also, congratulations
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  Speaker 2: to Mount Baker's Bryce Cooper on winning the Week nine
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  Speaker 2: Pepsi Play of the Week with his big touchdown run
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  Speaker 2: against Omac. He won a case of Gatorade thanks to
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  Speaker 2: Walton Beverage. And I'm going to step away for a
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  Speaker 2: short fifteen seconds so we can hear from our title sponsor.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell all of you how blessed and thankful
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  Speaker 2: I am for a company like Walton Beverage, who's been
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  Speaker 2: a staple in our community for over ninety years to
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  Speaker 2: take an interest in walking preps and allow me to
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  Speaker 2: keep doing what I love to do. It's a game
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  Speaker 2: changer for me and I will continue to work harder
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  Speaker 2: every day to make the fantastic people of Walton Beverage
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  Speaker 2: proud to sponsor youth sports sorts in our community. They
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  Speaker 2: deliver superior quality and commitment, and I plan to do
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  Speaker 2: the very same. So let's talk some football. We have
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  Speaker 2: eleven games to talk about for this weekend, and they
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  Speaker 2: will span over the next three days. And I have
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  Speaker 2: all eleven Walkam County football coaches lined up to discuss
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  Speaker 2: their games. Let's not keep them waiting. We're gonna go
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  Speaker 2: in chronological order. We're gonna start with Thursday night. There's
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  Speaker 2: a couple of games on Thursday night. First game is
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  Speaker 2: at six o'clock at Edmunds Woodway High School. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a regular Week ten crossover games. Squalicum Storm come to town.
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  Speaker 2: They are five and four. They will take on the
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  Speaker 2: Edmunds wood Way Warriors, who are also five and four.
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  Speaker 2: And we are now joined on the Gatorade game day
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  Speaker 2: preview by a Squalicam football coach, Nick Lucy. Coach, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for joining me today. How are you doing, Hey, Wall,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for having me? You bet hey without warming up?
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  Speaker 2: Could you make an extra point kick on your first tray? No,
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  Speaker 2: that was a quick answer, coach. Have you ever have
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  Speaker 2: you ever just tried it?
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  Speaker 4: I think I've gotten lucky, but not warming enough.
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  Speaker 5: There's no chance.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Before talking about your Week ten opponent, let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: last week really quickly. You got up to a great start.
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  Speaker 2: Reese Nolton had that opening kickoff return deep into Bellingham territory,
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  Speaker 2: you score right away. Your team was really clicking in
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  Speaker 2: that one. What made it so dominant in that forty
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  Speaker 2: four to zero win over Bellingham.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I think for.
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  Speaker 4: Us, it's like everything else, it starts with our preparation.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, this team has been good, you know, weekend,
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  Speaker 4: week out, regardless of who we're playing, They've prepared the
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  Speaker 4: same way, and you know that translates into getting that
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  Speaker 4: game started. That was huge by Reese being you know,
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  Speaker 4: savvy scene you're picking up that ball and hitting it
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  Speaker 4: and Daymire getting it in the end zone. But then
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  Speaker 4: you have one to play and you know, Anson makes
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  Speaker 4: a nice play but got a great block by Zach
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  Speaker 4: Watt and Brock Scammel out there, So that was good
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  Speaker 4: to see. And then you know, defensively, we answered and
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  Speaker 4: you know and handled business there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And I'm glad you brought up, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the week's preparation because there's something to be said when,
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  Speaker 2: like when you put a game plan in and you
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  Speaker 2: work hard during the week and then when things happen
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  Speaker 2: on Friday night or on this case, Thursday night, because
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  Speaker 2: of the preparation and the kids realize it. You could
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  Speaker 2: see the change on their face where they were like,
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  Speaker 2: holy cow, like that's how we saw in practice and
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  Speaker 2: this is working. And the elation is is that one
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  Speaker 2: of your favorite moments of coaching is when you see
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  Speaker 2: it kind of click with the kids.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, when they you know, because you go through
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  Speaker 4: the whole process of teaching something and then you know,
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  Speaker 4: the scout team runs it and here's how we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: do this, and it can be a little bit uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, taking it from like the seeing it from
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  Speaker 4: the scout team and seeing how it's gonna work when you're.
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  Speaker 7: Going full speed and when they.
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  Speaker 4: Really start to see that and believe in it and
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  Speaker 4: know that it might be a little different in practice,
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  Speaker 4: you know, just because of the speed in all like,
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  Speaker 4: and when they really start buying in, Like we've been
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  Speaker 4: able to do some really fun stuff on offense this year,
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  Speaker 4: and it's just cool when that clicks and they believe
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  Speaker 4: and you just go that much faster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. You brought up Anson earlier in the interview.
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  Speaker 2: Anson osby Ornsen and he's tied the school record now
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  Speaker 2: for receptions in a season with sixty. I thought he'd
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  Speaker 2: have a big season. I didn't foresee this big this
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  Speaker 2: many catches? Did you see this coming? I know we've
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  Speaker 2: talked earlier in the year about him and kind of
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  Speaker 2: his progression throughout the years, but just talk about his
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  Speaker 2: progression this season and how important he has become to
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  Speaker 2: your team.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he was talented as a sophomore, but you
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  Speaker 4: know he just worked his butt off to you know,
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  Speaker 4: be a guy his junior year, but you know, come
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  Speaker 4: on in and be a stud his senior year. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, we always talk about like there's good players
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  Speaker 4: out there, and good players make plays and do all
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  Speaker 4: those kinds of things. But great players make others around
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  Speaker 4: them better, and you know, there's no selfishness and they
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  Speaker 4: understand like it's tough when you're good, when you're Anson
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  Speaker 4: Asbjornsen good, when you're Ben Peterson good, Like you're going
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  Speaker 4: to get double covered, and you got to realize, like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: that's good.
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  Speaker 7: That opens it up for other guys.
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  Speaker 4: And we've been a like able to move ants and
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  Speaker 4: around be He's just good enough that even if he's
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  Speaker 4: double covered, he's been able to still get open. But again,
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  Speaker 4: he understands like his role in the bigger picture and
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  Speaker 4: is made it Brails better and you know, still get
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  Speaker 4: them the ball, which.
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  Speaker 5: Is nice as an oc.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And and I know the broadcast team for Angels
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  Speaker 2: in the pregame said when you guys played them that
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  Speaker 2: he goes. He said that number fourteen is the best
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  Speaker 2: player we will see all year, and that's that's coming
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  Speaker 2: high praise. They played against Mount Baker and some other
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  Speaker 2: teams down there as well, so that was coming into
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  Speaker 2: the game, and then he proved it during the game.
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  Speaker 2: He played pretty well in that one as well. He's
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  Speaker 2: he's really had a great, great season. It's really fun
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  Speaker 2: to see him do that. Let's talk about your final game.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't know until late Saturday who your opponent would be.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be three A. Edmunds wood Way. You'll
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  Speaker 2: be on the road playing Thursday. So from what I
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  Speaker 2: saw on Saturday, I saw him in person for about
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  Speaker 2: a quarter and a half. They are big, they're athletic.
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  Speaker 2: What do you see when you see the Warriors.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I kind of echo what you're saying. Big athletic quarterback,
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  Speaker 4: can sling it all around. They play tough defense, So
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  Speaker 4: we got we got our work cut out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and in years past, you've done a good job
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  Speaker 2: of being pretty aggressive defensively as far as you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've had some tremendous edge guys, you know, talking about
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  Speaker 2: bryceon Lamb and Javinski Schlimbaker, and you've had some guys
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  Speaker 2: in the past that could come off the edge and
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  Speaker 2: really make some noise happen. The quarterback is pretty good
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  Speaker 2: and they do like to throw it. He's not super mobile.
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  Speaker 2: He stands all back there and throws. And do you
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  Speaker 2: feel like, I mean, do you feel like it would
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  Speaker 2: be a strength to go after him a little bit
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  Speaker 2: or is your secondary good enough to where you can
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  Speaker 2: get some coverage sacks? You know, I think we had
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  Speaker 2: a mix.
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  Speaker 4: I think we got to be able to do both
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  Speaker 4: and uh and keep them on their toes and you know,
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  Speaker 4: do enough things remove them around a little bit, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, but also cover kind of like kind of like.
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  Speaker 5: We always do.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's that that that formula I think is a
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  Speaker 4: mix of bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and I and you guys have always brought,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just made things happen on defense. And we
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  Speaker 2: talked weeks ago about all the pick sixes that you
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  Speaker 2: guys have created and it's just fun to see what
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  Speaker 2: you guys do. And Jordan schall font I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: one of the best around.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: He's such an even keel guy coaching the defense and
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  Speaker 2: I and I really enjoy watching you guys. It's a
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  Speaker 2: shame it's only one more game, uh, but I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: you were able to get one in for Week ten
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  Speaker 2: and so I thank you for that good luck against
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  Speaker 2: Edmunds Woodway and thank you for joining me on the
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  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game day preview.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, appreciate you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for what you do.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler awesome, thanks coach. Also on Thursday night, the Oak
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  Speaker 2: Harbor Wildcats bring a two and seven record into Civic
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  Speaker 2: Stadium to take on the Bellingham BayHawks, who are four
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  Speaker 2: and five. This is again another Week ten crossover final
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  Speaker 2: game of the year for both teams and Bellingham looking
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  Speaker 2: to go five hundred on the season, and we are
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  Speaker 2: now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Bellingham
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  Speaker 2: football coach Adam Leonard. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing.
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  Speaker 11: I'm doing well. How are you fether?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing all right without warming up? Could you make
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  Speaker 2: an extra point kick?
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 12: Extra point? Sure? Yeah, I'll toe boo get through.
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  Speaker 13: There for for bonus point.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely, no.
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  Speaker 13: You don't give me any d for the map because
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  Speaker 13: I've never played soccer and I'm not a soccer style kicker.
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  Speaker 13: I have no idea how I mean, I can teach it,
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  Speaker 13: but i can't do it myself, so I'll tell folkmon
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  Speaker 13: through it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, old school dope punch in it. I
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  Speaker 2: love it. It's one of those things though you toe
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  Speaker 2: punch and you hit it a little off and it's
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  Speaker 2: the ugliest looking thing you ever seen. But if you
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  Speaker 2: hit it just right Mark Moseley style, that book can
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  Speaker 2: go no step, just right, punch it through. That's funny
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  Speaker 2: that we when I was kicking, there was a coach.
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  Speaker 2: He was our special teams coach out at Baker and
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  Speaker 2: now he's been the head coach at Topinish for a while,
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  Speaker 2: Jason Smith, and he he kind of coached me on
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  Speaker 2: different techniques on kicking and one of them was just
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  Speaker 2: to warm up is even though I was a soccer
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  Speaker 2: style kicker and I never played soccer, was have your
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  Speaker 2: left foot right there next to the ball and do
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  Speaker 2: a no step kick yep, and it's just and if
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  Speaker 2: you can make an extra point doing that, do like
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  Speaker 2: five or ten of those and then you can start,
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  Speaker 2: you know, stepping up to it kicking and just go
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  Speaker 2: from there. And another one is he had me try
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  Speaker 2: to make field goals from the corner, from the pylon
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  Speaker 2: from the goal line on each side, so that way
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  Speaker 2: works on your accuracy and you know, the you know,
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  Speaker 2: because you got very limited space to work with if
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  Speaker 2: you're kicking from that angle. So it's kind of a
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  Speaker 2: kind of a cool deal. There was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things about it that it got me, you know, made
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  Speaker 2: it made me better, So all awesome. Before talking about
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  Speaker 2: your Week ten opponent, let's talk about last week. Squalkums
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  Speaker 2: started out with that long kickoff returns, got kind of
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  Speaker 2: got on the scoreboard right away, and it just kind
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  Speaker 2: of snowballed after that. What what was what was the
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  Speaker 2: issue was something to something go wrong against the squalalkum
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  Speaker 2: or was it just kind of he got up on
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  Speaker 2: you quickly and it was hard to you were just
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  Speaker 2: playing ketchup after that.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, Squaalkme's a fantastic team, you know, it's just amazing that,
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  Speaker 13: you know, because of our league, they're not in the
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  Speaker 13: playoffs the postseason, because they're a tremendous team, probably better
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  Speaker 13: than half the teams that it was around to thirty two.
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  Speaker 12: But you know, with that said, you know, we made
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  Speaker 12: a lot.
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  Speaker 13: Of mistakes, especially after we came out on special things
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  Speaker 13: and made some really tough mistakes put our defense and
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  Speaker 13: some really you know, you know, not the greatest situations,
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  Speaker 13: and you know, kind of snowball from there, we had
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  Speaker 13: trouble moving the ball.
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  Speaker 12: I'd you'd like to we you know, we are past
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  Speaker 12: first team.
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  Speaker 13: They are probably some of the one of the best
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  Speaker 13: secondaries we played against in the conference. And our run game,
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  Speaker 13: you know, we did, we did, we wanted to do.
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  Speaker 13: We could have a little bit better there, but just
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  Speaker 13: could have played. We played catch up, and a lot
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  Speaker 13: of that started with our special teams mishaps and then
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  Speaker 13: built their put our defense in tough spots, and then
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  Speaker 13: on our kickoff returns again just deep fields and.
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  Speaker 11: We were playing ketchup.
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  Speaker 13: Felt like we were climbing a hill the entire game,
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  Speaker 13: and it kind of got away from us a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tricky how that happens. You look up and
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  Speaker 2: then it's almost halftime and you go, my goodness, we're already,
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  Speaker 2: you know it Just it's so funny how some games
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  Speaker 2: go really fast in a bad way, really fast and
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  Speaker 2: a good way, you know, really slow in a bad way,
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  Speaker 2: really slow in a good way. Every game has that
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  Speaker 2: different feel to it, and it's it can be tricky
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  Speaker 2: when you're having to play catch up and we're here,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the final week of the season, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm always curious about this, So I'm going to ask
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  Speaker 2: you about it. Because once you're eliminated from the round
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  Speaker 2: of thirty two and you have to find a week
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  Speaker 2: or you don't have to, but most teams want to
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  Speaker 2: find a week ten opponent. Can you explain to our
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  Speaker 2: listeners how that process works because you have to figure
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  Speaker 2: out a venue, a date, all that stuff, and it
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  Speaker 2: kind of explained like kind of how it goes, you know,
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  Speaker 2: all the process that goes into that.
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  Speaker 13: You don't want to ever say you're out until you're
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  Speaker 13: actually out, but back in your mind, you want to
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  Speaker 13: make sure you have a week ten upon it.
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  Speaker 12: That's that's important to me.
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  Speaker 13: It's important for our players, and we want to have
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  Speaker 13: at least ten games. I mean, I love football, and
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  Speaker 13: you know I want to play as much football as
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  Speaker 13: possible to begin to winter sports season.
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  Speaker 12: So you have to for the athletic directors too.
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  Speaker 13: They have an agreement, whether it's Northwest Conference with West Coast,
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  Speaker 13: Northwest Coast South. They're just trying to find really good
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  Speaker 13: matchups of teams who have been eliminated, and sometimes those
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  Speaker 13: you know, you're not sure until maybe a Saturday or
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  Speaker 13: Sunday of the week before of who's actually not in
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  Speaker 13: the playoffs. And what you try to do is the
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  Speaker 13: the athletic directors try to take care of, you know,
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  Speaker 13: neighboring conferences. I obviously have been reached out to the
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  Speaker 13: teams all around the state would love to play Week ten,
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  Speaker 13: but we try to take care of our teams up
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  Speaker 13: here first. Obviously we'd love to see a Walking County
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  Speaker 13: team play a Walkham County team, but sometimes those aren't
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  Speaker 13: agreed upon or favorable, so you try to stay within
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  Speaker 13: the conference. And right now we got set up with
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  Speaker 13: every West Coat north of Pona in Oak Harber this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's it's tricky because there's so many
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  Speaker 2: moving parts, and like you said, sometimes you don't know
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  Speaker 2: if a team is going to be eliminated or if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be eliminated till the very end. I know, Squalkum,
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  Speaker 2: you know, had to wait until the very end to
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  Speaker 2: find their opponent, very very late, and it's a quick
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  Speaker 2: turnaround for them. And and a lot of these Week
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  Speaker 2: ten games sometimes they get kind of washed out. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it gets set up and it doesn't happen, and there's
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  Speaker 2: just so much, so many moving parts, and I applaud
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  Speaker 2: all the ads and officials and everybody coaches to figure
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  Speaker 2: out kind of to make it all work because there's
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  Speaker 2: so much stuff behind the scenes that people don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: All the parents and fans want to know is when
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  Speaker 2: are we playing? Who are we playing? Let's let's just
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  Speaker 2: do it. But there's so much work to it. So
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about this game. You'll be at home taken
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  Speaker 2: on Oak Harbor. Walkom County has really just seen them
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  Speaker 2: once in a loss at Ferndale. Well, what can you
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  Speaker 2: tell us about this year's Wildcat team?
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  Speaker 13: Well, you know, they're they're kind of unpredictable because you know,
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  Speaker 13: you look at the record and they are now two
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  Speaker 13: and seven.
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  Speaker 12: They're one and seven going into their.
• 15:09
  Speaker 13: Crossover game with the West Coast South opponent Monroe, and they.
• 15:13
  Speaker 12: Put up fifty points on Monroe and so and they
• 15:16
  Speaker 12: run a wing tea.
• 15:16
  Speaker 13: They are a power run team, and you know, it's
• 15:21
  Speaker 13: like you talked about that last minute scramble of trying
• 15:23
  Speaker 13: to find out who we're going to play.
• 15:24
  Speaker 12: Once you find out who you're going to play, then
• 15:25
  Speaker 12: you do film exchange and you're in the film room
• 15:27
  Speaker 12: and you're trying to get everything caught up. We're doing
• 15:30
  Speaker 12: here on a short week.
• 15:31
  Speaker 13: You know, they play Friday, and we don't know if
• 15:33
  Speaker 13: we might be playing Thursday, might be playing Friday, but
• 15:36
  Speaker 13: we know it's going to be a home game up
• 15:37
  Speaker 13: here at Civic Stadium. I don't know too much about them.
• 15:40
  Speaker 13: We're just putting a lot of work into film and
• 15:43
  Speaker 13: you know, we're here everything we can to be prepared
• 15:45
  Speaker 13: for them for this week. It should be a fun
• 15:46
  Speaker 13: way to for our seniors and for our team. We
• 15:49
  Speaker 13: have a chance to get back up to five hundred
• 15:51
  Speaker 13: and go five and five on the season, and that's
• 15:54
  Speaker 13: it's I think it's a big It's a big game
• 15:57
  Speaker 13: in terms of how we approach going into I'll see.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Them, yeah, and you definitely want to go out on
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: a high note. But at the same time, again it's
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: it's going to be the final game for your seniors.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Is there ever a thought of, like, you know, if
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: you got that one kid who's always raising his hand
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: going just give me the ball once in my life,
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: just give me the ball once. Do you have requests
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: like that or there little things like that. Maybe there's
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: a you know, someone who's you know, never punted before,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: someone who's never you know, there's always that weird thing.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: There's that lineman who wants to carry the ball the
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: one time, and here's all those things. Is this a
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: game where you can kind of look at those things,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: maybe get them out of the way before trying to
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: get the winner, or do you just go into it going, hey,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: this is a game. We got to take it seriously.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: We're out here to win. How's your mindset on stuff
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: like that?
• 16:43
  Speaker 12: Well, my mindset doesn't change for this week.
• 16:45
  Speaker 13: You know, we prepare the same way we prepared to
• 16:46
  Speaker 13: go out there, compete and Beato Carver.
• 16:49
  Speaker 12: That's our goal.
• 16:50
  Speaker 13: But doesn't you know as a head coach, I know
• 16:52
  Speaker 13: there's so many things serving me in my head. There's
• 16:54
  Speaker 13: players that you know, would have liked to have more touches,
• 16:56
  Speaker 13: especially some of our seniors. The end of the game,
• 16:59
  Speaker 13: I think my little right was within a centimeter of
• 17:03
  Speaker 13: getting his.
• 17:03
  Speaker 12: First down at the end of the game.
• 17:05
  Speaker 13: And you know, he's been such a staple for us
• 17:08
  Speaker 13: at receivers, such a workhorse for us at ass And
• 17:10
  Speaker 13: that's obviously in the back of my mind, but as
• 17:13
  Speaker 13: a head coach, I have to put all that in
• 17:15
  Speaker 13: the back of my mind and realize that we stick
• 17:16
  Speaker 13: to the game plan. We're coming out to compete, you know,
• 17:19
  Speaker 13: and treat it like any any other any other week,
• 17:22
  Speaker 13: trying to get a W and get our team back
• 17:24
  Speaker 13: to five hundred.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, coach, and at bel am team getting back to
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: five hundred, you were over five hundred a few years ago,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: back in the conference now and that says a lot.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Playing through the conference ending the year five hundred to
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: be a fantastic thing. I know Walkin kind of will
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: be rooting for you. Good luck against Oak Harbor, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining me on the Gatorade
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Game day preview.
• 17:43
  Speaker 12: Thanks for having me, Teal, have a great week, and now.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Let's jump into Friday's games that we're going to go again,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: still in chronological order, starting off with a five o'clock
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: kickoff out at Lemmy Nation High School, when the winner
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: of this game will go to the two B State Tournament.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: The Acosta Wildcats are four and four. They will be
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: at Lemu Nation to take on the Blackhawks, who are
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: also four and four, for the five o'clock game. And
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: by Lemmy Nation Football coach with Tiko Layton coach. Thank
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: you for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Doing pretty good? Thank you for having me, Tyler.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: You're welcome without warming up. Could you go out there
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: on your first try and make an extra point?
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Oh? An extra point?
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty basically a twenty yardfield.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Oh see, I I toe kick, I toe kick.
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: So it's about gonna it's gonna be fifty to fifty.
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: There's no wins. Yeah, I'll probably get in there nice.
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: Nice.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I know when you when you oh bunch, it's it's
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: either going to be great, like you hit it just right,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: or if you hit it a little off, it could
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: look really ugly, really fast. So right, it's it's one
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: of those things.
• 18:50
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Before you we talked about your week tend crossover game.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about last week Leconnor came to town. It
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: didn't go the way of the Blackhawks. What was your
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: biggest takeaway from that game.
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: I feel like just doing our responsibilities and staying to
• 19:04
  Speaker 10: the our scheme was our biggest thing. We had a
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: couple small mistakes that resulted in big plays for le Connor,
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: but other than that, we only lost by two touchdowns,
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: but missing our extra points made it look like a
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: three score game.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Three or four.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, yeah, and eight man football going going for
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: two is kind of the what happens a lot And
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: you're absolutely right. It starts getting like that, and it's
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: two points at a time that you're always trying to
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: catch up, and it can look completely different. The weather
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: was pretty crazy out there with the rain. How much
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: of a factor did that play in the game.
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, that was a big one.
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: We had a lot of fumble snaps, loose balls, and
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: it was the same for Leconnor too, But we had
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: a lot of.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Bad issues with the weather.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: It seemed like it affected you guys more than than them.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: It sounds like, yeah, yeah, is it one of those
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: things during practice if you know it's going to rain
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: on Friday, do you during the week do you try
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: to do things I've heard of teams like putting a
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: bucket out there at the line of scrimmage in the
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: center before every snap during practice would switch out a
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: ball that's coming from the bucket of water, just to
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: play with the wet ball. Do you is there any
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: way to replicate like whether even though it's even if
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: it's not raining at practice, do you try things like that?
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: Yeah, So on to offense to the days when we know
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: it's going to rain on our game, we'll bring a
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: little bowl out.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: We have a bowl in our locker room.
• 20:25
  Speaker 10: We'll fill up with water and we'll wet the ball
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: pre snap and same with the center's hands to get
• 20:30
  Speaker 10: it down. Yeah, but just that game was a off
• 20:33
  Speaker 10: game for our snaps and handling the ball with earunning backs.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: That's too bad. Let's talk about this district crossover game
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: you'll be hosting Acosta on Friday at five o'clock. I
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: think I'm saying that right. I hope I am. Tell
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: me about the Wildcats. I know nothing about them other
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: than they're four and four and they've pretty much scored
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: as many points as they've given up, so they're about
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: as five hundred down the line as they can get,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: but they seem to put up some points.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're gonna be a good match.
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: For us there they like to have a pistol looked
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: in their offensive schemes with a lot of runs and
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: quick passes. There are another physical uh, kind of the
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: same speed that we have, not too quick but also
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: not too slow. So it's gonna be a really nice
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: dog fight this Friday night.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: And I mean it seems like a very very even
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: matchup between these between you guys and them. And was
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: it predetermined that, you know, for summer, is it like
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: every other year thing that you guys are going to
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: be hosting this or how did you get the edge
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: to be able to host this game?
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: So we switched every other year with the Southwest Division. Okay,
• 21:43
  Speaker 10: so last year they had the host teams for the
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: top three seeds.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I know, when it when it comes down to a
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: game that's so close like this, sometimes it's that could
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: play a difference. It's just being the home team and
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: you know, the atmosphere out there is fantastic, and you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: and hopefully the weather will be somewhat okay. I think
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Friday is supposed to be pretty decent. I think Thursday, Wednesday,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Thursday not great, but Friday should be okay. So hopefully
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: dry drive footballs and clean exchanges and and if you win,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: you get to keep playing. So is there is there
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: an extra motivation for this week's Is it? You know?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I mean when you talk about your players and it
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: having an exciting season, do you feel like, I know
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: we're early in the week right now, but do you
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: feel like there's this kind of extra push that they
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: that they get it that it's like, if we win this,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: we get to keep playing.
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: Yeah, So they're they're really excited to continue the old
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: tradition of making it to state. This is our first
• 22:43
  Speaker 10: time in a crossover game since twenty twenty one and
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: we haven't made the state playoffs since twenty nineteen season.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: So the kids are very excited to.
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: Get back in that little tournament play and show the
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: Blackhawks what they got.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that's you know when that happens, when it's
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: been six years and if you know and then it
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: starts to happen, if you guys can win that, it'll
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: only keep moving forward and it'll always be remembered. Remember
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: that twenty twenty five team that was a team that
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: got us over the hump. So that's a really that's
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: a really cool thing for the Blackhawks and hopefully it
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: can happen. I'm excited. I'm probably gonna pop out there
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: and check it out for a little bit because it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Friday night at five o'clock. I'm gonna be heading out
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: to another game later out at Ferndale. But I love
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: that it starts at five o'clock because it's kind of
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: open air. Open opens the door for that kind of stuff.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: So I'm excited. Good luck against Acosta, and thank you
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: so much for joining me on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Awesome. I appreciate your support.
• 23:41
  Speaker 11: Tyler.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks you.
• 23:46
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• 23:58
  Speaker 2: There's also a handful of games a Friday night that
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: start at six o'clock. We're gonna start with Bremerton, who
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: has a record of three and six. It will be
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: taking on the Linden Lions, who are seven to two.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: This game will be at Ferndale High School at six o'clock.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: It's a round of thirty two game for two A.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: The winner will go to the advance to the state
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: tournament for two a football and we are now joined
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Linden football coach
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Blake Ben Dalen coach, thank you for joining me today.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: How are you doing good?
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: How are you?
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I'm doing all right, doing all right. This is a
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: fun time of year. It's a lot of it's a
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: lot of change in the weather, and it's a new
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: season and all that stuff, and it's a lot of fun.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna start off off always with the hard hitting question.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I give you ten minutes to stretch. Could you make
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: your first attempt at an extra point?
• 24:53
  Speaker 14: I could, because that's one of those things where I
• 24:57
  Speaker 14: like to go out there every once in a while.
• 24:59
  Speaker 14: And so now field goals, I don't know. We can't
• 25:02
  Speaker 14: move it past the ten yard line there, so, but
• 25:06
  Speaker 14: I can make a field goal pretty pretty consistently.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: That's good. Is you a soccer style or toe punch.
• 25:14
  Speaker 14: In between? I just swing away so it's not ready,
• 25:17
  Speaker 14: but it gets there.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: It gets the job done right. Yeah, it might, it
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: might spiral through or who knows what it's going to do,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: but it gets between the goalposts. I love it. Before
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: talking about your Week ten opponent, let's talk about last
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: week you hosted Burlington Edison. It was kind of had
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: that throwback feel too, hard hitting rivals, a lot of
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: running the football. The conditions may have played a little
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: bit of a part in that. What was your biggest
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: takeaway from that game.
• 25:42
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I told our kids and it came out to
• 25:45
  Speaker 14: be true that, you know, getting ready for the playoffs.
• 25:47
  Speaker 14: We didn't want to play somebody that was not going
• 25:51
  Speaker 14: to be a playoff caliber team, and they are, and
• 25:53
  Speaker 14: they're in the playoffs and I even think they're going
• 25:55
  Speaker 14: to win a first round game.
• 25:56
  Speaker 11: I really do.
• 25:57
  Speaker 14: And it was good because we needed to get better
• 26:00
  Speaker 14: and we made some mistakes and when we made those mistakes,
• 26:03
  Speaker 14: they made us page it's like, well, happen in the playoffs.
• 26:06
  Speaker 14: And then we also had to survive the elements, which
• 26:10
  Speaker 14: there's always going to be a playoff game that's like that.
• 26:13
  Speaker 14: So that was a good test of our mental toughness,
• 26:16
  Speaker 14: you know, and adjusting to those conditions, and you know,
• 26:20
  Speaker 14: as a bummer because it was Burlington, who plays in
• 26:22
  Speaker 14: the mud just like we do, so it didn't phase
• 26:24
  Speaker 14: them at all. Usually we can get some teams in
• 26:27
  Speaker 14: here that they don't like it. You see, their kids
• 26:29
  Speaker 14: are annoyed with it and they're trying to wipe the
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: mud off their pants and off their hands.
• 26:33
  Speaker 11: And our kids.
• 26:33
  Speaker 14: Absolutely love it. But Burlington was exactly the same way.
• 26:37
  Speaker 14: They were in their element as were we.
• 26:41
  Speaker 15: Absolutely it definitely gave that old school feel and two
• 26:45
  Speaker 15: teams that been going at it for a long long time,
• 26:48
  Speaker 15: and it's just a fun rivalry over the years and
• 26:50
  Speaker 15: so many similarities.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Like we talked about last week and kind of like
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: I touched on a little earlier, it's a new season,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: you know. It's, as coach is like to say, now
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: we're into you know, the big, the big boy games here.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Your numbers at practice have probably now grown to around
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: one hundred with the freshmen joining in. Can you feel
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: the different mindset from the players and the coaches at
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: this point in the season.
• 27:14
  Speaker 14: It is it's it is like a fresh start, you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 14: you have new faces. The guys that were getting tired
• 27:22
  Speaker 14: and winding down, they get new energy because I think
• 27:24
  Speaker 14: they want to kind of impress the young guys. The
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: young guys obviously want to impress the old guys, so
• 27:29
  Speaker 14: they're playing their hardest. And then yeah, just the you know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 14: we have the third bus now and so we got
• 27:34
  Speaker 14: one hundred kids, so we take the field. There's a
• 27:37
  Speaker 14: little bit more energy, and the seniors want to have
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: an impact on those freshmen that as the seniors did
• 27:44
  Speaker 14: to them, you know, three years ago. So the energy
• 27:47
  Speaker 14: is off the charts. And then any coach, for example,
• 27:50
  Speaker 14: that might have been getting worn out or tired, you
• 27:52
  Speaker 14: see light at the end of the tunnel. You know,
• 27:54
  Speaker 14: there are no guarantees, so you enjoy each practice, each week,
• 27:58
  Speaker 14: each film session as if it's your last, because you
• 28:01
  Speaker 14: just don't know.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, because every day, you know, Mondays you do this,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Tuesdays you do this. It could be the last Monday.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: It could be the last Tuesday. So you're right, it's
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: it's it's that one. It could be the last one.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: And and and you brought up a good point to
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: about you know, a little bit ago about the weather,
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: and there's always that one weather game. You know, making
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: a deep run in the playoffs years ago meant if
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: you get past the quarters now you're indoors. The rest
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: of it. Well, it's a little different now where if
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: you go far, you play all games, they're all gonna
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: be outdoors. And as it gets later towards Thanksgiving and stuff.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: The weather's just gonna get worse and worse, and so
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: you're totally right about that as well. It's nice to
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: kind of have those kinds of games leading into it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: And I think you're absolutely right about Burlington Edison. I
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: think they're very, very good. I think they could they
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: could get this one, which would be fun to see
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: as well. Let's talk about this round a thirty two
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: state playing game. You'll be taking on Bremerton at Ferndale
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: High School on Friday night. And correct me if I'm wrong,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: But didn't you play them recently of last few years
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: in a playoff game?
• 29:05
  Speaker 14: Yeah, we played them at Civic a couple of years back.
• 29:07
  Speaker 14: It was interesting because their head coach was actually in
• 29:11
  Speaker 14: his first year because he had taken on over for
• 29:14
  Speaker 14: the coach that had won the Supreme Court decision. So
• 29:18
  Speaker 14: he wanted to come back and coach one game to
• 29:20
  Speaker 14: prove that he was allowed to. I don't know if
• 29:22
  Speaker 14: you remember that whole journey. And then but then this coach,
• 29:25
  Speaker 14: Terry All, he took over for him. So he's been
• 29:27
  Speaker 14: there now a couple of years and we have a
• 29:29
  Speaker 14: really good relationship and and we liked to play on
• 29:33
  Speaker 14: Fridays and they didn't have school on Friday, so it
• 29:35
  Speaker 14: worked for them to come over. So yeah, they have
• 29:37
  Speaker 14: there's some definite familiarities. Our kids don't remember it as
• 29:41
  Speaker 14: much because they were freshmen on the sideline, but.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: We remembered as coaches.
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: It feels very familiar.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Awesome and when you see them on film, what do
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: you see wing Tea.
• 29:52
  Speaker 14: But it's a little bit of a tweak because it
• 29:54
  Speaker 14: reminds me kind of the old seedraw woolly wing Tea
• 29:57
  Speaker 14: where they do like to attack the edges, probably more
• 30:00
  Speaker 14: than downhill, and so you could see some things they
• 30:03
  Speaker 14: do that Ferndale does, but I would point out the
• 30:05
  Speaker 14: subtle differences. You know, Ferndale does this, and here's how
• 30:08
  Speaker 14: they do it. This team's going to attack it a
• 30:10
  Speaker 14: little differently this way and so so they have a
• 30:13
  Speaker 14: lot of speed, but they are a wing tea pretty
• 30:17
  Speaker 14: consistent on defense. So we feel like we know what
• 30:20
  Speaker 14: we're going to get there, and you know, we just
• 30:23
  Speaker 14: want to make sure our kids are kind of taking
• 30:25
  Speaker 14: the next step. You know, I felt like we got
• 30:27
  Speaker 14: better Friday night. We're actually starting to look like a
• 30:31
  Speaker 14: veteran team. All our young guys are getting in their
• 30:34
  Speaker 14: third and fourth and fifth game, and that's what we
• 30:37
  Speaker 14: want to build on so that each round of the
• 30:38
  Speaker 14: playoff well is going to get tougher. We are getting better.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And you know when I hear that it's
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: a wing tee that attacks the edges, makes me think
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: right away of your defensive end, which has been both
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: their defensive ends, which has been such a staple in
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: your program over the years. And coach Barmber coaches those
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: guys up, you know, Dan Marty and Big West Card
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: and those guys, how are they What will they have
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: to do for you guys to be successful against this
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: kind of offense?
• 31:07
  Speaker 14: Yeah, it's it's it's integrity, meaning they need to set
• 31:11
  Speaker 14: the edge and keep everything inside. You know, these are
• 31:15
  Speaker 14: those weeks where you say, I wish we had Max Haussing, right, yeah,
• 31:19
  Speaker 14: because he was a combination of strength and speed, and
• 31:22
  Speaker 14: we kind of get the combo between our two guys.
• 31:24
  Speaker 14: So we'll often, you know, use some strategy there to
• 31:27
  Speaker 14: make sure Big Wes is in an appropriate position to
• 31:30
  Speaker 14: make plays using his size and Dane Marty is more
• 31:33
  Speaker 14: of your speed Dn that can do both inside and out,
• 31:37
  Speaker 14: so they'll kind of set the edges. We'll try and
• 31:39
  Speaker 14: give them really good support from the safeties. Both our safeties,
• 31:42
  Speaker 14: Brody and Lofa, have been outstanding. I was looking at
• 31:45
  Speaker 14: their stats. I think one has forty four tackles, the
• 31:48
  Speaker 14: other one has forty five tackles, and so they've been
• 31:51
  Speaker 14: a key to this. And then obviously are our linebackers
• 31:54
  Speaker 14: and d line, you know, taking care of the line
• 31:57
  Speaker 14: of scrimmage.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Yeah, it's gonna be a fun one. I love
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: it that you guys are playing on Friday night. So
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: many games on Saturday, so it's kind of that big
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: game in town, so hopefully a lot of people will
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: come out to Ferndale High School. You guys have done
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: very very well there since the new stadium has been
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: put up, so hopefully that's a good omen and good
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: luck against the Knights on Friday. And thank you so
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: much for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: Yeah six o'clock.
• 32:22
  Speaker 14: We move a game up an hour. I want to
• 32:23
  Speaker 14: make sure I point that out. And it's at Ferndale,
• 32:25
  Speaker 14: which week now consider our home away from home, so
• 32:28
  Speaker 14: we love it there. So thank you, Tyler, appreciate your time.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: You bet coach, Thank you the next six o'clock game
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: to talk about will be at Meridian High School in
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: a regular Week ten crossover game, final game for both
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: teams as the Cedar Park Christian Eagles at four and
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: five taking on the Meridian Trojans who are six and three.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: A couple of really really good teams that just missed
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: making the playoffs. And we are now joined on the
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game Day preview by Meridian football coach Patrick Ames, coach,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 33:00
  Speaker 16: I'm doing well, Tyler, thanks for asking how are you?
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: I'm doing great. I always going to start with the
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: hard hitting question. If I gave you ten minutes to stretch,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: could you make an extra point kick on your first try?
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Could I? Yes? Would I? That might be a different question.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's uh. I just like bringing it up
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: because it's a lot harder than it looks, and you know,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: it's just one of those one of those crazy things.
• 33:28
  Speaker 17: But how's this actually?
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: I find? Uh?
• 33:31
  Speaker 16: I think the physical toll and demand of executing what
• 33:35
  Speaker 16: is still completely legal a drop kick to be easier
• 33:40
  Speaker 16: than for some dude my age to be kicking when
• 33:42
  Speaker 16: off the tee.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: You mean for somebody our age to do that.
• 33:48
  Speaker 16: Yeah, to hit a rock kick, which is right.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Right, like Doug Flutie did the Patriots. Yeah yeah, I think, boy,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: that's hard to do. I've seen I've seen people do it.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: But boy, you got a time that just right.
• 34:03
  Speaker 11: Yep.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Man, if you broke that out in a game, that
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: would be awesome. That would be awesome that it would
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: be so cool. Yeah. So before talking about your Week
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: ten opponent, let's talk about last week really quickly. You
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: defeated Blaine forty three to twenty five in a game
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: that featured ten passing touchdowns. I don't know if that's
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: a walkin County record for a game. Might be a
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: lot of big plays on both sides of the ball.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: What did you like the most about your team's performance
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: in that one?
• 34:35
  Speaker 16: You know, we yeah, we gave up at least four
• 34:37
  Speaker 16: of those passing touchdowns, I think, which is not real gratifying. However,
• 34:43
  Speaker 16: we we tried as best we could as we were
• 34:46
  Speaker 16: mixed and imagine you know, personnel and scheme and approach
• 34:50
  Speaker 16: to try to get some of those things cleaned up.
• 34:52
  Speaker 16: And we did clean up you know, a couple of them,
• 34:54
  Speaker 16: and we had a weird situation with an inadvertent whistle
• 34:57
  Speaker 16: on went and play where we end up giving up
• 35:00
  Speaker 16: really long touchdown, And that was one where you know,
• 35:02
  Speaker 16: in consulting with the officials, we just had to kind
• 35:04
  Speaker 16: of throw our hands up over and just continue to
• 35:08
  Speaker 16: play and to battle. And you know, every coach in America,
• 35:10
  Speaker 16: you know, we'll tell his team, you know, you just
• 35:13
  Speaker 16: move on to the next play. And we were able
• 35:14
  Speaker 16: to have enough next plays in that game where we
• 35:17
  Speaker 16: were able to to continue to be successful in some
• 35:21
  Speaker 16: of the things we were doing on both sides of
• 35:22
  Speaker 16: the ball and finished with what was ended up being
• 35:25
  Speaker 16: a pretty hard fought victory.
• 35:27
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, a really entertaining game. I'm glad the radio was there.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I bet they had a blast because you know, when
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: you know, the football purist would love a you know,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: a ten to seven game, but when you're a fan
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: and you just like to see the ball in the air,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: that was a great one to see. I was talking
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: to coach Olsen and I kind of brought it up
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: and reminded me of Texas Tech versus Hawaii, you know,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: circa two thousand and two. You know, it was just
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: holy cow, It's a lot of fun. Trey Alexander completing
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: six touchdown passes. Not only does that tie him for
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: a school record, but also ties the Walkham County record
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: for a game. Aim he's having a He's having a
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: great season despite not having a Week four opponent missing
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: some time due to an injury. Tell us what it's
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: been like to just coach him this year and at
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: the quarterback position.
• 36:10
  Speaker 18: Oh, it's been a lot of fun.
• 36:11
  Speaker 16: First of all, he's such a steady, consistent presence, and
• 36:18
  Speaker 16: that's one of the things I've always appreciated about him
• 36:21
  Speaker 16: that just, uh, the regulation is always dependable, and when
• 36:28
  Speaker 16: you have that kind of approach as a quarterback, you
• 36:32
  Speaker 16: really don't have to worry too much about managing moments
• 36:36
  Speaker 16: because you know what you're going to get from that position.
• 36:39
  Speaker 16: And with a team like ours, where we've been pretty
• 36:43
  Speaker 16: reliant on the quarterback position, whether it's Trey or Pierce,
• 36:47
  Speaker 16: in order to be able to move the ball and
• 36:49
  Speaker 16: and stay competitive, he's been so instrumental in that and
• 36:55
  Speaker 16: it's been really fun for us as an offensive football
• 37:00
  Speaker 16: to be able to depend on him. And even as
• 37:03
  Speaker 16: he's been hobbling around out there on a on a
• 37:05
  Speaker 16: really sore ankle for the last month or so. Still
• 37:09
  Speaker 16: to know that you're gonna you're gonna get a really
• 37:13
  Speaker 16: not just steady physical performance, but he's going to continue
• 37:18
  Speaker 16: to work really hard on making the right reads and
• 37:21
  Speaker 16: anticipating what throws are going to be there for him.
• 37:25
  Speaker 16: And and obviously we've matched up with some unbelievable football
• 37:29
  Speaker 16: teams right in our league. But to know that he's
• 37:31
  Speaker 16: still going to give us a great, great opportunity to
• 37:34
  Speaker 16: continue to move the ball, and and we're really proud
• 37:37
  Speaker 16: of his development as a first year starting quarterback.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just he's one of those kids. And I
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: think you nailed on the head with that steady presence. Boy,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: just just talking to him after a big basketball win
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: doing an interview, I mean, he looks like, you know,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: he's you know, like his dog just died.
• 37:56
  Speaker 19: He's just so like just steady, and he just one thing,
• 37:59
  Speaker 19: just won a game, you know, and then I mean
• 38:02
  Speaker 19: it could be the same thing. And that's such a
• 38:03
  Speaker 19: nice thing to have as a starting quarterback because you
• 38:06
  Speaker 19: got to something bad happens, you got to go on
• 38:08
  Speaker 19: to the next play. And I feel like he's he's
• 38:10
  Speaker 19: very good with situations like that.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about week ten. I mean, it's been a
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: whirlwind for you. You had an opponent, mary's Vill Pilchuck.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: They cancel on you, I believe, your third cancelation of
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: the season, but you were able to schedule Cedar Park
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Christian to come to town. Tell us about the difficulty
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: of lining up a game in such short notice and
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: also what to expect with the Eagles.
• 38:34
  Speaker 16: Well, yeah, it is difficult, and you're right, we've had
• 38:38
  Speaker 16: to go through this three times now during our season
• 38:41
  Speaker 16: and it hasn't gotten any easier. When we were sitting
• 38:46
  Speaker 16: here in our coaches meeting on Sunday and discovered that
• 38:49
  Speaker 16: Mary'sville Pilchuck had no intention of playing this week, you know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 16: we got on the phone, credit to Brian Michaelson, our
• 38:56
  Speaker 16: athletic director, who's worked tres tirelessly every time that we've
• 38:59
  Speaker 16: had a cancelation to find us an opponent, and we
• 39:02
  Speaker 16: went through, you know, so many different teams and leagues
• 39:06
  Speaker 16: and districts all over the state trying to make sure
• 39:08
  Speaker 16: that we could have somebody to play this week, and
• 39:13
  Speaker 16: we we didn't land on an agreement with Cedar Park
• 39:16
  Speaker 16: Christian until Monday evenings, when I guess it finally was
• 39:20
  Speaker 16: was finalized.
• 39:21
  Speaker 12: So usually, like.
• 39:22
  Speaker 16: In the in the normal flow and rhythm of of
• 39:26
  Speaker 16: of a week of preparation, we will have done all
• 39:28
  Speaker 16: of the scouting, all of the work, all this the
• 39:31
  Speaker 16: scouting report will be finished, our plan will be finished
• 39:34
  Speaker 16: by the time we come to Monday afternoon and have
• 39:37
  Speaker 16: a scouting report meeting. So we just we we hit
• 39:40
  Speaker 16: the field Monday without a lot of certainty. We knew
• 39:43
  Speaker 16: that Cedar Park at that point was a possibility, but
• 39:48
  Speaker 16: we didn't know exactly if if we were going to
• 39:49
  Speaker 16: be playing them or not. So you know, we focused
• 39:52
  Speaker 16: on things that we wanted to clean up from our
• 39:54
  Speaker 16: game on Thursday and hopes that we were going to
• 39:57
  Speaker 16: have an opponent, and then when that got finalized, we
• 39:59
  Speaker 16: went back into catch as catch can workbode in the
• 40:03
  Speaker 16: middle of the school week, trying to get some film
• 40:05
  Speaker 16: broken down and a plan in place, which we started
• 40:08
  Speaker 16: working on in earnest that practice yesterday. So that part
• 40:12
  Speaker 16: of it is a little bit of challenging when you
• 40:14
  Speaker 16: get out of the rhythm and flow of what you
• 40:16
  Speaker 16: know you've established through an entire season. And with Cedar
• 40:20
  Speaker 16: Park Christian they like us, are the first team out
• 40:24
  Speaker 16: of the playoffs in their league, and you know, you're
• 40:27
  Speaker 16: looking around the matchups for the state, and you know,
• 40:30
  Speaker 16: for us, this looks like probably the best two teams
• 40:33
  Speaker 16: on the West Side who didn't make the Week ten playoffs.
• 40:37
  Speaker 16: So we're excited to have a quality opponent. Their head
• 40:40
  Speaker 16: coach is somebody that we played with. When I say we,
• 40:45
  Speaker 16: me and some of our coaches played with. He was
• 40:49
  Speaker 16: class in ninety three, Kurt Roy, and was a really
• 40:52
  Speaker 16: great football player here. So it's going to be fun
• 40:55
  Speaker 16: to be able to match up with him and his
• 40:57
  Speaker 16: team this week.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to bring that up, you know,
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: because he's had some they've had some games against Walking countypponents,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: they've played Blaine the last few years and non conference
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: games and and good to see. Uh. I mean, he
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: was the Swiss Army Knife of that team that you
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: guys had when you went to the semi finals. They
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: did a lot of stuff, uh, you know, backup, quarterback,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: tight end, receivers, safety, punter, holder. I mean he was look, yeah,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: he was just he was doing so many different things.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: And so it's really cool. I know his son went
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: through the program and played played quarterback, and and yeah,
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: it's uh you're so right about you know, like you said,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: the the two best teams on the West Side not
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: playing in a game, and when you're looking for a game,
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: all all of a sudden, half the teams are unavailable.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: That's the other tough part, right, because they're all have
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: a scheduled game for this week ten thing, and so
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: you're it really limits you. So I'm really glad you
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: got this this crossover, and I'm really glad it's at
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: home too, because you did miss that home game against
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Forks as well. Is it is it kind of the
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Cedar Park person that we've seen the last couple of years,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: kind of you know, four receivers, little spread action kind
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: of stuff.
• 42:08
  Speaker 16: Yeah, They've they've got some really talented skill position players
• 42:13
  Speaker 16: that are seniors. Their quarterback is a really athletic sophomore,
• 42:17
  Speaker 16: and they're able to get out of you know, what
• 42:19
  Speaker 16: you would normally call personnel groupings without having to substitute that.
• 42:23
  Speaker 16: They've got some positional flexibility with a guy that can
• 42:26
  Speaker 16: play full back and tied end for them and then
• 42:29
  Speaker 16: end up in the slot if they're going to spread
• 42:31
  Speaker 16: you out a little bit more so, they present some
• 42:34
  Speaker 16: challenges that way and try to make sure that you're
• 42:36
  Speaker 16: appropriately matching up with them on defense.
• 42:40
  Speaker 11: And yeah, they look.
• 42:41
  Speaker 16: Really schematically similar to the team that we've seen play
• 42:47
  Speaker 16: Blame the last couple of years, as you mentioned, and
• 42:49
  Speaker 16: we played them a couple of years ago, so on
• 42:51
  Speaker 16: a short week of preparation, at least there's a little
• 42:54
  Speaker 16: bit of familiarity with them and their attack.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: And this game will be at six o'clock at home
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: on Friday. That was that, right, Yeah, Okay, so yeah,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: six o'clock bob Amesfield, Cedar Park, Christian. So glad you're
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: getting a week ten games. Sometimes it just doesn't happen.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be really really cool for your seniors
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: to be playing at home last one last time. Good
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: luck on Friday. Coach, thank you so much for joining
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 43:19
  Speaker 16: You're more than welcome, Tyler, thanks for having me.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: Bet.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: Next up, we go to the three A Division as
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: the Ferndale Golden Eagles bring a four and five record
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: to Eastern Washington to take on Cheney. This game will
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: be at six o'clock at rus Field at Eastern Washington University.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: You've probably seen that field on TV quite a bit
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: with the red turf, the inferno as they call it.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: So that's gonna be a great game. Round of thirty two.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Game winner goes to the three A State Tournament. And
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: by Ferndale football coach Jamie Plankvich. Coach, thank you for
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: joining me today. How are you doing?
• 43:53
  Speaker 18: I'm doing good about yourself?
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: I'm doing all right. And now the hard hitting question
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: without without taking any practice swings. You can stretch a
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: little bit if you want, but could you make an
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: extra point kick on your first tray?
• 44:12
  Speaker 18: Oh?
• 44:12
  Speaker 20: God, no, probably not not without a not without a
• 44:15
  Speaker 20: very serious warm up. Yeah, I'd pull something if I
• 44:21
  Speaker 20: went to try to kick an extra point without.
• 44:23
  Speaker 12: A warm up.
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Oh man, Yeah, I know. I've been asking this question
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: to all the coaches and I I should have rephrased
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: it by saying, you can stretch all you want, but
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: can you make it on the first try? You know?
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: And but yeah, it's it's one of those things where
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: it looks easy, but sometimes it's not. Before talking about
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: your Week ten opponent, let's talk about last week you
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: hosted Edmunds Woodway and the West Coast Crossover game, they
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: get the early lead, it's twenty one seven at the half,
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: but you come out in the second half, probably play
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: your best half of the season. Your team wins thirty
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: five twenty seven. And what was the biggest difference in
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: that second half?
• 45:03
  Speaker 20: I just love how our kids stayed competing and you know,
• 45:09
  Speaker 20: they we were patient, made some plays when we need to,
• 45:14
  Speaker 20: and really just got down to kind of an attitude.
• 45:18
  Speaker 20: We ran a lot of our short yardage offense in
• 45:22
  Speaker 20: the second half and really controlled the line of scrimmage
• 45:25
  Speaker 20: and had some you know, both Elliott and John Stanek
• 45:30
  Speaker 20: made some great runs, but it started with our guys
• 45:32
  Speaker 20: up front. You just see us coming off the ball
• 45:36
  Speaker 20: aggressively in that second half, and and then defensively we
• 45:41
  Speaker 20: did enough to get stops and get our offense a chance.
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: I was going to ask you about that, about that
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: what I call hurry up heavy. You know, it is
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: kind of your your thing that you do. And and
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: when you guys did that. I think it was John's
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: touchdown run on fourth down from midfield. You know you're
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: going up the line quickly, it's fourth and one or whatever.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: He pops the fifty two yard or and I think
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: I believe that one tied the game. Did you see
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: something and say, man, we can we might if there
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: we can, we might be able to do this consistently,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: because I think it might have been the next drive
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: or the drive after where there was like five or
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: six plays in a row that you just kept going
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: up there and getting big pops at a time. Was
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: it just one of those things where they weren't adjusting
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: or was it just you just kept doing it because
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: you loved what the line was doing.
• 46:34
  Speaker 20: Well, we actually saw it in the first half when
• 46:36
  Speaker 20: we ran it down by the goal line, okay, or
• 46:40
  Speaker 20: our touchdown. Our kids came off the field and they
• 46:45
  Speaker 20: they they struggled to line up against it. So our
• 46:50
  Speaker 20: our kids were like, they pretty certain, they were pretty
• 46:54
  Speaker 20: confused on what we were doing. So it was something
• 46:56
  Speaker 20: we just wanted to keep in our back pocket. And
• 46:59
  Speaker 20: then you know, we we start. We got momentum on
• 47:03
  Speaker 20: that fifty yard run by John and our kids were
• 47:07
  Speaker 20: jacked up, and it was something like, hey, until they
• 47:09
  Speaker 20: stop it, let's come back to it. And it just
• 47:11
  Speaker 20: set a mentality, yes for our team that we were
• 47:16
  Speaker 20: getting off the ball, we were dominating the line of
• 47:19
  Speaker 20: skirmage and it was something that we just wanted to
• 47:23
  Speaker 20: keep doing. We felt like it, you know, was a
• 47:26
  Speaker 20: chance to maybe break their will a little bit by
• 47:28
  Speaker 20: continuing to to come out in that and our kids
• 47:33
  Speaker 20: executed really well.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean it's a tricky thing to do because
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: you got to go fast, then you got to stop
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: for a second, and then you got to go again.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: So I would imagine it's something you practice quite a
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: bit because it can it could be sloppy if it's
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: not run right, and and the reps are really looking
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: for that stuff. And it's been called a few times
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: in the past, but boy, it looked really good. I
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: want to talk a little bit about your senior, Cole Larson.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: It's it's a it's a it's a funny thing because
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: you know, he's a Ferndale kid. He transfers back to
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Ferndale after being at Lindy Christians, so so because of that,
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: he's kind of behind the eight ball. Happened to sit
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: out a bunch of games. He played a little bit
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: the week before, but he made such a great impact
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: this past week. He was the you know, the lead
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: blocker on those plays, returned the return the ball in
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: the kickoff game, for over one hundred yards total, led
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: the team in tackles, had a sack. It's like it's
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: like getting a free agent at the dury guy at
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: the trade deadline. How how kind of what? What kind
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: of impact has Cole had this past couple of weeks.
• 48:33
  Speaker 11: Yeah, he's been great.
• 48:34
  Speaker 20: I mean, like you said, it's it's a little tough
• 48:37
  Speaker 20: to integrate him, you know, this late in the year.
• 48:41
  Speaker 20: He's been with us all season, but he's really been
• 48:43
  Speaker 20: playing scout team right and getting the scout team n
• 48:47
  Speaker 20: So last week we we wrapped him some at our
• 48:54
  Speaker 20: strong safety position.
• 48:56
  Speaker 18: He's he had played d line.
• 48:59
  Speaker 20: We had some injuries at the line and really needed
• 49:03
  Speaker 20: to put him back there, and I think that was
• 49:06
  Speaker 20: a great fit for him. Maybe a little less to
• 49:10
  Speaker 20: learn and more just playing on instincts, and he was
• 49:13
  Speaker 20: a difference maker, like you said, in several aspects of
• 49:16
  Speaker 20: that game. So it's nice to nice to have him
• 49:20
  Speaker 20: on our crew. He's been like I said, he's been
• 49:23
  Speaker 20: patient and played scout team all year and took advantage
• 49:26
  Speaker 20: of an opportunity when he got it last couple of weeks.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it was just so cool to see and it's
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: you know, it's tough because it is your senior year.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: You want to be able to play, and like you said,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: he just had that kind of odd stacked against him,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: and then when he got his chance, it was it
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: was great. And You've had a lot of great players
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: that are extremely good at other sports. You know, you
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: think of Jacob Gandhi as a rugby player, and Elliott
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: Lenzon is tremendous at lacrosse, and the Prosels were awesome wrestlers.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: All those sports lend something to the game of football.
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Do you do you think that there's a sport that
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: does it the most.
• 50:01
  Speaker 18: That's a really good question.
• 50:02
  Speaker 20: I for football specifically, I we have a lot of
• 50:07
  Speaker 20: kids that play rugby that I think is is has
• 50:12
  Speaker 20: a lot of transferable skills to football. And then wrestling,
• 50:16
  Speaker 20: because wrestling it's just you, uh, and you're gonna have
• 50:20
  Speaker 20: some You're gonna have some adversity and failure, and it's
• 50:24
  Speaker 20: you know, really for everybody to see you're one on
• 50:27
  Speaker 20: one with somebody on the mat, and it just develops
• 50:31
  Speaker 20: a good sense of toughness, and you know, it's great
• 50:35
  Speaker 20: for alignment and leverage and all those things. But both
• 50:38
  Speaker 20: those sports I think are are really equally good for
• 50:43
  Speaker 20: our kids to do outside of football.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And I love it when there's non specialization,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: you know, when kids play multiple sports. I think it's
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: just the best thing for everybody. And and I know
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: college coaches want that, you know, they want you to be, uh,
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: you know, have lots of skills and lots of sports
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: and grow up with that. Let's talk about this round
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: of thirty two state playing game. You'll be on the
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: road to take on Cheenie on Friday night at roos Field.
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: I guess I should say at Eastern Washington University the Inferno.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: I know nothing about the Blackhawks except that they're eight
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: and one. What do you see on film?
• 51:20
  Speaker 20: Oh, they're just a really good football team. They play
• 51:23
  Speaker 20: in the Greater Spokane League, which is a three A
• 51:26
  Speaker 20: four A mix, so they're playing good competition all year.
• 51:32
  Speaker 20: They really have had a great turnaround.
• 51:36
  Speaker 18: The last couple of years.
• 51:37
  Speaker 20: I want to say two years ago or three years ago,
• 51:40
  Speaker 20: they didn't win a game.
• 51:42
  Speaker 18: They've got a new coaching staff.
• 51:44
  Speaker 20: In there that's done an incredible job with them. The
• 51:49
  Speaker 20: most points they've given up in a game this year
• 51:51
  Speaker 20: is fourteen. I believe it was fourteen or fifteen, So
• 51:55
  Speaker 20: They're really good on that side of the ball. Their
• 51:57
  Speaker 20: kids play really hard. They're they're gonna be a big
• 52:01
  Speaker 20: challenge for us. We're excited to. Yeah, we get to
• 52:04
  Speaker 20: go play on on the inferno on the red field
• 52:08
  Speaker 20: and take a road trip and bring our our lunch
• 52:13
  Speaker 20: box and work hat and let's.
• 52:14
  Speaker 18: See what we can do.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be It's gonna be really really cool there.
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: You know, I've been there just one time. I went
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: to the football camp there in twenty twenty three, I
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: believe it was, and got to see Nook Sack and
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Lyndon and LC and and all kind of practicing there.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: It's such a fun atmosphere and even though it's not
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: too far away, it feels like you're in a different
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: state because it's just something you don't see very often.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: And it's a it's gonna be a great, great it's
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: atmosphere and game and I'm excited and I really hope
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: you guys can pull it off so I can talk
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: to you again next week. Good luck against Cheenie on Friday,
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: And thank you so much for joining me on the
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: Gatorade game day preview.
• 52:56
  Speaker 18: Appreciate it. Tyler Well role hopefully talk next.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Week awesome, thank you. And the final game on Friday
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: will be the Blaine Border Rights with a two and
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: seven record, going to Lakewood to take on the Cougars
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: who are one in eight. This game will be at
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Dick Cardinal Stadium at Lakewood High School and it's just
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: a regular Week ten crossover game, the final game for
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: both schools this year. And we are now joined on
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Blaine football coach Andy Olsen. Coach,
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: thank you for joining me today.
• 53:23
  Speaker 7: How are you doing doing well?
• 53:25
  Speaker 11: Tyler?
• 53:26
  Speaker 7: Thanks again for having me.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Do you bet without warming up? Could you make an
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: extra point kick?
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: No shot?
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: I don't think I could make one.
• 53:34
  Speaker 11: If I was warmed up.
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: That'd be a disaster.
• 53:38
  Speaker 21: I'd probably tell pun shit and it'd be kind of
• 53:40
  Speaker 21: like my golf swing, and which also is about the
• 53:43
  Speaker 21: same warmed up or not, or i'd probably just you know,
• 53:46
  Speaker 21: hook it pretty hard to the left of the call today.
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Oh man, Well, you're you're totally right though, kicking if
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: an extra pointer or a field goal is very much
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: like a golf swing. So but other than that, yeah,
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: that's pretty funny. Before talking about your Week ten opponent,
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: let's talk about last week. As I said in the
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: football Recap podcast, it reminded me of kind of Texas
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Tech versus Hawaii circa two thousand and two. The ball
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: was put in the air a lot, ten total touchdown
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: passes in the game. What was your biggest takeaway from
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: that game against the Meridian.
• 54:23
  Speaker 21: Yeah, I mean, I think it was exactly what we
• 54:25
  Speaker 21: thought it was going to be.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Ball full of round.
• 54:27
  Speaker 7: Game lasted about three hours, but it was.
• 54:31
  Speaker 21: It was a fun night in summer regards and summ
• 54:33
  Speaker 21: regards too, it wasn't as fun because we made some
• 54:35
  Speaker 21: mental mistakes and you know, Meridians really good and then
• 54:39
  Speaker 21: you're going to capitalize when you do make those mistakes.
• 54:41
  Speaker 21: But again, everything this years about warning and our kids.
• 54:46
  Speaker 21: We talked about I think I did a poor job
• 54:48
  Speaker 21: getting them ready to go play this week because it
• 54:50
  Speaker 21: was it was just an off week and sometimes you're
• 54:52
  Speaker 21: going to have those and trying to figure out how
• 54:55
  Speaker 21: to get them motivated to play at the highest level possible.
• 54:59
  Speaker 21: So some of those things we had to learn young
• 55:01
  Speaker 21: football team, and we we realized and we talked about
• 55:04
  Speaker 21: this on the field after the game. In order to
• 55:07
  Speaker 21: win Walkham County it's not just physical sacrifice, it's also
• 55:10
  Speaker 21: the mental sacrifice, right, So if you want to if
• 55:13
  Speaker 21: you want to have success up here, you got to
• 55:15
  Speaker 21: be willing to do both. And I think we weren't
• 55:17
  Speaker 21: that one the hard way this week.
• 55:19
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, going into that game, I you know, you
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: guys go down and score first, but you're right, the
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: mistakes here and there, and it was just kind of
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: it was one of those games where it just so
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: many big plays and so you could look at, you know,
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: mistakes on either side even but boy, it was it
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: was just it was just kind of exciting to watch
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: just as a fan of football. And so I really
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: feel like the improvement has taken place going back to
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: week one to now for your team and going into
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: the season, you know, it was known that you came
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: into it with the least amount of varsity experience. It
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: was a season of learning the game of football, playing
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: you know, the best of their ability in each play.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: When you look at the season as a whole, now
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: that we're going into the final week, there has to
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: be a lot of positive things that you can take
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: away from it.
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: A ton of positive things.
• 56:10
  Speaker 5: We've had some kids that you.
• 56:12
  Speaker 21: Know, maybe weren't on our radar in June when we
• 56:15
  Speaker 21: got it going all of a sudden pop up and
• 56:17
  Speaker 21: be you know, major role players for us that are
• 56:19
  Speaker 21: going to be, you know, stepping the bigger roles as
• 56:22
  Speaker 21: they only get older and bigger and faster and stronger.
• 56:25
  Speaker 21: As a whole, this group has been really fun. If
• 56:27
  Speaker 21: we look at collectively the season as it's gone, We've
• 56:30
  Speaker 21: played to our standard, We've played to our own scoreboard
• 56:32
  Speaker 21: that kids bought into that and the sense of improvement
• 56:35
  Speaker 21: each week has been has been very clear. You know,
• 56:40
  Speaker 21: the big challenge is going to be do we want
• 56:43
  Speaker 21: to continue on this path when the lights aren't on?
• 56:46
  Speaker 21: So winning football really is built in the offseason.
• 56:50
  Speaker 7: So are they willing to continue to go and.
• 56:53
  Speaker 21: Find their way into the weight room and to push
• 56:55
  Speaker 21: each other and hold each other accountable like they did
• 56:57
  Speaker 21: throughout this year because they did a great job this
• 56:59
  Speaker 21: year during our season. And as far as kids go too,
• 57:03
  Speaker 21: I told you this earlier on. Yeah we are, we're
• 57:05
  Speaker 21: a students seven football team. But I'm having more fun
• 57:08
  Speaker 21: coach in this group than I have sometimes if we've
• 57:10
  Speaker 21: been seven to two. They show up every day and
• 57:13
  Speaker 21: it's it's a fun group to be around. They enjoy
• 57:16
  Speaker 21: working with each other, they're coachable. So overall, it's been
• 57:20
  Speaker 21: a fun year.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: That's awesome to hear because it can be rough when
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: the wins aren't coming, but if you're looking at it
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: just that way, that's why it becomes rough. And so
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: you you know, I put a lot of that on
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: you of creating a culture to where it's about getting better,
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: it's about teammates, it's about learning the game, and and
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: that ripple effect is making it so it's great for
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: everybody around. And so I gave you a lot of
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: credit on that because it's not an easy thing to
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: do with a young football team in one of the
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: toughest conferences in the elite in the state. Let's talk
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: about your final game. You're going to travel down south
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: to take on Lakewood, a team that is that you
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: fail multiple times from your days at Brlington Edison. Their
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: head coach is a former Border, right, so there's some
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: fun ties in there. What do you see on film
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: when you watch the.
• 58:08
  Speaker 21: Cougars, Yeah, I think coach McShane down there, he's got
• 58:12
  Speaker 21: a similar group to us, just at that two A level,
• 58:14
  Speaker 21: which makes a week ten matchup fun they're really young
• 58:18
  Speaker 21: as well. They have maybe a couple more seniors than
• 58:20
  Speaker 21: we do, which makes sense because it's a bigger school,
• 58:23
  Speaker 21: but they're they're by a two way standards, they're incredibly young.
• 58:27
  Speaker 21: They've had a lot of kids step up and play football,
• 58:30
  Speaker 21: you know, under the wives for the first time this year,
• 58:33
  Speaker 21: and I see a lot of similarities where, you know,
• 58:35
  Speaker 21: those kids keep playing hard and they do some fun
• 58:38
  Speaker 21: things that are you know, kind of almost like essence
• 58:41
  Speaker 21: of coach Dan Teeter back in the day, and his
• 58:44
  Speaker 21: finger prints are still on the program and all the
• 58:48
  Speaker 21: headaches that come with that. Lakewood Week was always my
• 58:51
  Speaker 21: least favorite week tower and I've toltally in there all
• 58:53
  Speaker 21: the time, the amount of the time we had us
• 58:54
  Speaker 21: practice swinging gates and trick plays and smoking mirrors.
• 58:58
  Speaker 7: There'd be times.
• 58:59
  Speaker 21: We'd be doing special teams and I'd have to go
• 59:00
  Speaker 21: take a walk because we're gonna waste fifteen minutes. And
• 59:03
  Speaker 21: it's not waste, but it felt like wasting fifteen minutes
• 59:05
  Speaker 21: lining up to stop the swinging gate stinking Lakewood, which
• 59:10
  Speaker 21: was part of why Dan did it. But yeah, it
• 59:14
  Speaker 21: should be a really fun night. We're gonna put some
• 59:16
  Speaker 21: kids in some new roles too, and you know, we
• 59:18
  Speaker 21: want to It's a balance. It's kind of like college
• 59:21
  Speaker 21: Bowl season, right. You want to honor the seniors, yeah,
• 59:25
  Speaker 21: and give them one last great final experience under the lights,
• 59:28
  Speaker 21: but you also want to build the future and answer
• 59:30
  Speaker 21: some questions that maybe you wouldn't get answered until Week
• 59:33
  Speaker 21: one next year if you're playing the postseason.
• 59:35
  Speaker 7: So we're gonna put some kids in some roles.
• 59:36
  Speaker 21: To find out, you know, you know, what's it look
• 59:38
  Speaker 21: like and maybe realize what we have to do in
• 59:41
  Speaker 21: order to improve and clear up some of those spots.
• 59:44
  Speaker 7: But it should be a great night.
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: These Week ten games are very interesting as far as
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: you know, yeah, you know, you you do honor the
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: seniors and you make sure you know it's their final
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: time and that kind of stuff, But you're so right
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: about you kind of have to figure out a few things.
• 59:59
  Speaker 2: Is your last chance really to find out a few
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: things going into next year about are they ready for
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: this or are they ready for that? And it's so
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: funny because I think back at I mean, they didn't
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: play these games back in the day, but there was
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: a crossover game back in nineteen eighty eight between Nook
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Sac and Ana Chordis. It was a couple of teams
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: that just you know, failed to make the playoffs and
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: they just played a Week ten game out of nowhere.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: And Dave Longoria was a freshman. He ran for two
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty two yards and they said, ooh, we
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: have something here, and then he went on to become
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: Walkam County's all time leading rusher. Has since been passed.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: But it's funny how the little things that you're gonna
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: find out, and that's what makes these games fun. I'm
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: glad you were able to get a Week ten game in.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it doesn't happen, so I'm really glad it is happening.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: Good luck against Lakewood, and thank you for joining me
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Tyler, go board rights.
• 1:00:56
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• 1:01:00
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• 1:01:07
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• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: And now let's get on to Saturday. There will be
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: four games at Saturday, all of them in Walkham County.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: And if you time it out just right, or if
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: you're crazy like me, you will jump back and forth
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: to all of them. The first one will be at
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: noon at Blaine High School. It's a one A matchup
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: between Nachi's Valley and Linden Christian. Natchi's Valley is five
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: and four on the year, Linden Christian is eight and one.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: This the winner here will bring you into the round
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: of twelve for the one A state Tournament. We are
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Lyndon
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Christian football coach Greg Turpstra coach, thank you so much
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: for joining me today. How are you doing.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 8: It's my pleasure. Good morning, doing good, awesome?
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: Without warming up? Could you make an extra point kick
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: on your first try?
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 8: I wouldn't want to.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: Because you'd want to warm up. Make sure you don't
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: pull something.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 22: Yes, yeah, Wait, when you cracked the fifty barrier, you
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 22: make decisions that are for the rest of your next
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 22: thirty years.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 8: If you're blessed with those.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 22: And you know you might make it, but man, you're
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 22: gonna pay for it, and some Tendon's gonna do something
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 22: you're not gonna like.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 8: So I'm just gonna say I opt out.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a good call. I used to do a
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: thing every year whatever age I am that year, I
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: would try to make that yard of a field goal.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: Oh that's cool, because I.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: Was kind of curious to see at what point, you know,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: because it's gonna get harder and harder, obviously, and you
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: get older and older, And I think thirty nine was
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: the last year where I was actually able to make
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: a field goal on my age. Once I tried forty
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: to forty, there was no shot.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 8: So that's when you pulled your name from the draft.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, exactly, good move. Yeah, Before talking about your
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: Week ten opponent, let's talk about last week. You came
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: out to nooks Val, you took their best shot, came
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: out with the win. Even though the Pioneers never held
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: the lead in the game, it appeared they started to
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: get a little bit of momentum late down by one score,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: driving and but you were able to get that fumble
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: near near midfield. There was some other fourth quarter turnovers
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: that happened, and you capitalized on them. When you look
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: back at that game, what carried you to victory there?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 8: Oh?
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 22: Yeah, the defense did a great job for takeaways in it.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 22: You know, I mean a credit the defense on those
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 22: rather than like I don't think it was a really
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 22: a nook secon miss Q like we were ripping, we
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 22: were going after the ball, and coach Bawman does a
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 22: good job of teaching them that, you know, forcing turnovers
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 22: rather than getting a turnover. It's kind of what we're
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 22: looking at there. Veldman made a really nice drop in
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 22: a passing lane right at the end. Was a second
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 22: to last interception, but coach Bauma threw a little something
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 22: different at him, so it changed the site line for
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 22: the quarterback. And so yeah, you know, I think those
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 22: there's those turnovers were forced more than just.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 8: You know, anybody else being sloppy.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and ve all been playing inside linebacker spot. Was
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: that something that you know you had to make ya?
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: I saw you had trey it nose tackle and you
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: moved some things around. Was that something you just thought
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 2: of during the week or was it something like on
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: Friday you're like, oh man, we need to make a
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: change or something, or was that something you had been
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: kind of practicing during the week getting ready for that game.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 22: I think, like every one a team, we got some bumps,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 22: some bruises, and some banged up guys, and we fortunately
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 22: have guys that love to play different positions and are
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 22: very willing to and yeah, we just felt on that
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 22: night those guys were the best gave us the best
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 22: shot to win that game for Thursday night. Yeah, so yeah,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 22: we did mix and match a couple of guys around.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 22: We were missing Eli Stamps had to give him a rest.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 22: He's healing up from like an ankle injury. So yeah, yeah,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 22: we did do a little shuffling, but yeah, we feel
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 22: really comfortable with that, and now that gives us the
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 22: confidence going ahead that we can do it.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And when you have another senior like Hayden Herward
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: and that can come in and play outside linebacker, you know,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: you don't really miss too much of a beat. You
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: still have a bunch of you know, guys that have
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: played a lot of varsity football out there, and it
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: kind of worked out for you.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's the kid who has done a really, really
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 8: good job.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 22: Yeah, you know, he got hurt in the North Kids
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 22: app game early in the year last year, and I
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 22: think he's grown five feet and his wingspan six feet
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 22: since then.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 8: And he's just a gumby out there who's.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 22: Also really tough, Wiry's strong, So yeah, we're really pleased
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 22: with him.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember as a sophomore he got a few
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: carries late in the game at home, you know, just
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: kind of garbage time, and I was like, oh, yeah,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: I remember that kid, And then you're so right. He
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: is so tall now you just sprouted out of nowhere.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: And you know, it's great when a kid can do
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: that and give you that extra length on the football field.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: And traditionally Lena Christian outside linebackers have that great wingspan
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: and can really clog up passing lanes and different things
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: like that. A lot has been said about this group.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: You have going into the season, a lot of outside
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: expectations and noise from other people that do silly things
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: like podcasts, and with all the distractions, you have to
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: be proud of how your team has performed all year.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 22: Yeah, yeah, I mean they're probably Again I mentioned this
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 22: about camp House, I think.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 11: We could go.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 22: They are their biggest critics, and so you know, coaching
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 22: them is guiding them. I did warn them that this week,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 22: you know, playoff coaching is a little bit different. There's
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 22: no more warm fuzzies and snuggles and things like that.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 8: We just have such high hopes for.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 22: Them, and they have high hopes for themselves, and we're
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 22: just gonna leave no stone unturned, and the attention to
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 22: detail and the crispness of practice is just going to
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 22: be at its highest level this week.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And it's you know, and they they went through
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: it a little bit last year, so they kind of
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: know what to expect, and I'm sure you're gonna turn
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 2: it on just the same way. Let's talk about this
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: round A twenty four game you'll be taking on Natchi's
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: Valley at Blaine High School on Saturday at noon. Coach,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: I know nothing about the Rangers. Helped me out. What
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: do you see on film?
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 8: Bootball on the phone booth?
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 22: Kind of like you're you're on Alaska type team what
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 22: Tanino used to be.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 8: I think Toninos spread now.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 22: But yeah, there's it's a lot of dudes in not
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 22: a lot of space foot to foot splits, throw it
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 22: maybe a couple times a game, but you know they
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 22: can lily get asleep and pop it over top.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 8: They come from a really tough league.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 22: Their last two games are against Royal and Cashmere, which
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 22: is no small task, but they beat some others. I
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 22: think they beat the Apato team that Baker's gonna play.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 8: So yeah, they are.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 22: If you don't come into a game like that with
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 22: a plan, you're in for a long day. So yeah,
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 22: it's not like a team that we've played before, so
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 22: it'll be new.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And that's something that you know, this week
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: of practices is gonna be vital. I mean, you do
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: have that extra day playing on Saturday. I don't know
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: how much you would actually really do on Friday since
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: you're gonna turn around and play at noon on Saturday,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: but just that extra little bit of my goodness, five
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: to six down linemen, maybe maybe less defensive backs, more linemen.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: There's all sorts of changes that you'll have to make,
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: and you know, it's it's how the kids can adjust
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: to it. And you know, you probably could watch a
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: lot of you know, talk to coach Vin Dalaen. That
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: game against Franklin Pierce was very much like that. You
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: know where they've threw the ball a few times, but
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: everything was so bundled up and you're right on Alaska,
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: which else he did play a little while back. But
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: uh and and you know.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 22: That, yeah, I played him billion in the year. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 22: they popped a couple on them.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 22: Yeah, if you have to tackle everybody coming out of
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 22: the backfield. Yeah, we were kind of looking at film
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 22: early on, and you know Counters with two guys pulling
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 22: in vogue, the last couple of years of Super Counter
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 22: where it's three guys pulling.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 7: They've got plays where they pull five guys, goodness.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 22: And then they got the running back behind that. It's
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 22: just like a student body left right, yeah, right, And again,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 22: if you don't have a plan, if you don't have
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 22: keys that you've got to read, it could be a
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 22: long night.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I would just imagine the quarterback is going
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: to be lead blocking sometimes.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 8: Two yeah, or running it right.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So that's the thing that you know, you saw
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: a lot of that back in the seventies where a
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: quarterback would pitch ball and then he brought out and
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: start lead blocking. You don't see it a lot now,
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: but you do every once in a while with teams
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: like this. So you got your work cut out for you.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a great one. It's gonna be the
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: only game in town at noon on Saturday out at
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: Blaine High School. Go check it out. It's gonna be awesome.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: Good luck against Natchi's and thank you so much for
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: joining me on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: The next game will be at two pm out at
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  Speaker 2: Civic Stadium. It's a two A game. It's the round
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 2: of thirty two where the winner here will move on
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: to the two A state tournament. It's between Sela who's
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: five and four, and Sea Home, who's also five and four.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 2: preview by Sea Home football coach Brian Young coach, thank
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: you for joining me today. How are you doing? Oh,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: I'm doing just fine. Tonum great. Since we missed you
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: last week, I have to start out with last week's
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: opening question. It's it doesn't hit as hard as it
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: did last week, but what's your favorite Halloween candy? Oh?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 6: My gosh, I am a big time Reces guy.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, those peanut butter cups.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 7: Man like love them.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it's a popular answer. I don't I don't
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: know if I've ever met anyone who did not like them.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 7: There's just a really good.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: They found a found a great combo.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: And now and now the hard hitting question, without warming up,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 2: could you go out on the football field right now
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: and make an extra point kick?
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: If I want to blow my hamstring. Sure, that's a
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: popular answer too.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 6: You have to have a bed at Saint Joe's ready
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 6: man becausely Macy.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, if it's a forty yarder, I
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: get it. But extra point you might be able to
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: just toe punch it and just have it just skim
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: over the bar man without warming up.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: Man, I don't know.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 6: Man, kicking is a lot more difficult than people really know.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, before talking about your Week ten opponent, let's talk
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: about last week really quickly. You went out Effett and
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: to take on Archbishop Murphy. You were without numerous starters,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: a lot of two way guys, but one player that
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: really showed me a lot of fight was Tyson Goodman.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure the last time he ever played running
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: back in his life, but he looked pretty good. Did
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: he get some decent reps during practice last week?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 6: Tyson might have taken three or four reps. But the
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 6: deal with Tyson is Tyson is what we call a
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 6: football player. So the situation, we're down eleven guys who
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 6: either start or play significant minutes. So you know, we
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 6: weren't even able to really be formidable in that game.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 5: So we were able to try.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 7: Some things that we can actually use going forward.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 6: So Tyson during the week to said, hey, coach, you
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 6: know what, Hey give me a ball man, I'm on
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 6: a rock and I'm like, you know what, great opportunity.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 6: So he actually rushed for one hundred plus man, which
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 6: was awesome, and he had one really long run, but
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 6: everything was down the hill. Everything was, Hey, you know what,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 6: I'll fight for two years. I'll get six here, you know,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 6: break off a thirty forty yard or so. We found
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 6: a new guy to actually give the ball to periodic.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, another embarrassment of riches there. On defense, he had
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: a great game as well. Led the ten tackles, blocked
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: a field goal. Really liked what he did. And I
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: thought last year, second half of the year and into
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: the playoffs he really played. He had some key moments
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: in your run last year. So I'm glad that he's
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: taken that senior year by Storman and playing so well
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: and it was so cool to see. And speaking of
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: running backs, I mean, I want to talk about Sawyer
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 2: Woods for a little bit. Broke a few school records
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: the week before. I mean, yeah, yeah, he ran over
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: three hundred yards, but forty two carries in one game.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: That says a lot about his toughness, his conditioning. You
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: played the position at a high level. Explain how difficult
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: it would be to carry the ball forty two times
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: in a game.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 6: Well, the word part is when you're in the game
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 6: and your adrenaline is going, like you know, some running
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 6: backs will get stronger. You know, as the game goes on,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 6: the more times they touch the ball, the more in rhythm,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 6: may it the offensive.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 5: Line gets going.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 6: I think the difficult part is the next day.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 7: You know, how does your body feel right?
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 6: And you know that was kind of a testament to
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 6: our offensive line and what our team had to do
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 6: because you know, people don't really know this about us,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 6: but we're not pass happy.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 5: We're not to say, let's steal the ball. We got
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 5: this great quarterback.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 6: But we made a commitment, Like when we went into
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 6: the LC game, that was us going, hey, let's work
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 6: on this run game thing because if we get an
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 6: opportunity in late November we're in the playoffs, that's how
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 6: we're going to win a game.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 7: So you know, Swry took that, you know on his shoulders.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: I told him earlier in the year, I said, I
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 2: think you can.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 6: Be a thousand yard rusher this year, right, And so
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 6: you know he should be back this week full strength,
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 6: and you know we're going to put the ball in
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 6: his hands, you know, more often than not, and you know,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 6: really trying to get him going. But you know a
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 6: lot of that's just sorry made up his mind, that's
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 6: his mentality. His team needed him, and he's like, hey,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 6: give it to me. And you know we call him
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 6: the bell cow baby, right, so ring the bell, give
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 6: it to your bell cow and let him do work.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, guys, I think of or that got better and
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: as the game went on, guys like Emmitt Smith, Edger
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: and James those are the first two that popped in
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: my mind as guys that in the fourth quarter they
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: were just getting they were just getting started, right yep.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: And I love those kinds of guys. Let's talk about
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: the round of thirty two state playing game. It's great
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: that you'll be back at home Civic Stadium hosting two
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 2: pm against Sila. I know they're traditionally good at baseball,
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: but I couldn't tell you one thing about their football team,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: So help me out, coach. When you watch film, what
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: do you see a lot like Burlington.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 6: You know, they've got some good athletes. They do some
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 6: things that make you go oh, you know, we have
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 6: to prepare for that. They're coming from that same leave
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 6: with off Fellow, and we learned last year when we
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 6: went over to playoff Fellow that's kind of a tough
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 6: county type league. You know, the kids are you know,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 6: they're pretty physical, kids are tough kids. But Tyler, you
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 6: have to look at our season and we've been like
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 6: a little bit like a roller course.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 7: We've been up, we've been down, but all of.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 6: That adversity has gotten us to a place where hey man,
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 6: we're ready to go play this game.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 5: We're ready for that challenge.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 6: You know, we're We're going to get together as a team,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 6: have a team breakfast, watch a little college football, have
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 6: our pregame meeting, get on the bus, and when we
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 6: get off that bus, we're gonna be laser focused on
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 6: winning that football game.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: I'm excited about it. I know this this group is
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: you know, this has been I'm sure it's been a
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: goal because you have before you can get the state tournament,
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: you have to win this game first. That's for everybody.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: So the goal is to get to this game. You're there,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: you get to host it, which is great, and boy,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: it's just a you know right there, two o'clock Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I hope it gets packed at Civic Stadium. So glad
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: that you'll be able to keep the season alive and
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: hopefully all be able to talking again next week. Good
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: luck against the Vikings, and thank you so much for
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: joining me on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 11: Thanks Tyler, have a good night.
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  Speaker 5: I appreciate you, Bud.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 8: You Bet.
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: Next up at four o'clock, we head back to Blaine
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: High School as it's another one A game as Wapaitou.
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  Speaker 2: The Wapatou Wolves bring a four and five record into
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: town to take on the Mount Baker Mountaineers where eight
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: and one. The winner here will advance to the one
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: A state tournament. And we are now joined on the
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game Day preview by Mount Baker football coach Ron Lepper. Coach,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: thank you for joining me today, how are you doing?
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  Speaker 10: Uh?
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  Speaker 11: Doing well? And thank you very much for having me
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 11: on you Bet.
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  Speaker 2: And now always the hard hitting question to start out.
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  Speaker 2: If I gave you ten minutes to stretch, could you
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: make your first attempt at an extra point?
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 11: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: I love the confidence. How much time would you really
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: need to stretch really to make that first extra point?
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 11: None?
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: Just toe punch it, yeah exactly.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 11: You know my rubber boots that yeah, now farther.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: Stretch, yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 13: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I love the confidence and I believe
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: it too.
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  Speaker 11: How about you? How much time would you need?
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: I think I could make my first I think I
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: could walk out there and make my first one soccer style.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: The key would be to get under it. That would
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: be my big thing. Yeah. I wouldn't be worried about
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: getting it twenty yards. It'd be more about No, I
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: would just be I wouldn't worry about the distance. I
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: would worry about line, driving it off to the side
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: or something like that, and trying to be too cute.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: But I think if I got under ay to be fine.
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  Speaker 11: And we better do it on turf because I don't
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 11: want you slipping on grass.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: You got that right. I'd definitely have to bring cleats
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: and all that. But I did a thing for a while, coach.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I ever told you where every year,
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: every age I got every you know, my birthdays in April,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: But and then in the summer I'd go out to
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: a football field somewhere and kick that field goal based
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: on my age nice and I tried to like, well,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: at what point will that end?
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 9: So you'll go being alone from twenty seven yards out
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 9: this year right exactly?
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: No, Yeah, the furthest one I hit was thirty nine.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: Once I tried forty. At forty, there was no chance.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: That's when that's when the decline really happened. And I
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: was out at sea home, I was on turf, I
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: was I was doing everything I could, but there was
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: no shot. I do. When I at pregame, though, I
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 2: walk over there and I see the net there and
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: I'm like, man, I kind of want to just give
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: it one go here, but I'm always I'm in regular
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: shoes though, and like, I don't you know, I don't
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: want to fall, and you know, whatever color I'm wearing, I.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 11: Don't want to We don't want that to happen.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 9: But yeah, on our sideline, you want to take a swing,
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 9: go ahead, I love it.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: Before talking about your Week ten opponent, let's talk about
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: last week. You hosted O Mac and shut him out
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: thirty to zero. That's a pretty good Pioneer team that
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: you beat and after a little bit of a slow start,
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: you put up three touchdowns in the second quarter. What
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: did you like the most about that game?
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 11: Well, you'll, I said, we knew it was a It
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 11: was kind of for us.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 9: It was a big game from the standpoint that, you know,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 9: a non leaguer, but a team that's in the round
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 9: of twenty four, you know, a team that we lost
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 9: to last year. They got you know, and we wanted
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 9: to make sure we went out and played well and
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 9: not like, you know, just kind of get through it.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 11: And so give them some credit.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 9: You know, they run the ball well, you know, they
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 9: wait until the clock got down to the five seconds
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 9: to snap it again, like just trying to shorten the
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 9: game a bit, took some chances off fourth down, which
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 9: didn't you know, eventually didn't pay off for him at times,
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 9: you know, at big times. But yeah, you know then
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 9: that they caused they ran a couple of things that
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 9: we weren't expecting to see defensive wise, so it tak
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 9: us a little time.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 11: To adjust to it.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 9: But yeah, I would say, overall, you know, I'm pleased
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 9: how we played, especially defensively. We had a lot of
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 9: guys put up some monster club points this week. You know,
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 9: evolved in tackles, that we were flying to the ball
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 9: really well, you know, and that running backs pretty good.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 9: So you know, we you know, we didn't finish some
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 9: tackles at times with him, That's gonna happen, but you know, overall,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 9: I was the only pleased to defense. And then offensively,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 9: you know, we kind of got going a little bit
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 9: in the second quarter and then you know, we did
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 9: what we needed to do at that time.
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 2: Absolutely one of those guys probably probably picked up a
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: bunch of Monster Club points. Was your junior linebacker, nohen
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 2: Nicole Mills. Yeah, I thought he'd played great defensively, a
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 2: lot of tackles, stops fan the line, and interception. He
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 2: won our Max Hair Studio Defensive Player of the Week
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: for the county. Tell our listeners what it's been like
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: to coach him this year and in the past, Like
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: last year, I mean, you know, he kind of kind
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 2: of came out of nowhere. He had to play him
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: out of position a little bit as for as a need,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: and this year he's kind of fitting in. But tell
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 2: us what it's been like to coach him.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, no, you know, he's a football player
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 9: like some one of those guys. He's not again, he's
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 9: not gonna shock you with you know, how he looks,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 9: you know, and if he throws away a ton of ways,
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 9: but he knows the game. Like you said, we ended
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 9: up put him at defensive end last year, which was
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 9: big for us. Had a really good year, but we
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 9: knew he was a linebacker, but we had, you know,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 9: some seniors in front of him, and so we knew
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 9: this year. You know, we start out outside linebacker and
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 9: now we've got him kind of in the middle of
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 9: most of the time as an inside linebacker. And I said,
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 9: good instincts, good tackler, our good tackler. You know, he
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 9: can go from sideline to sideline.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 9: Offensively, he's you know, he's we haven't probably given him
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 9: the ball as much as we probably should. That's not me,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 9: but you know, sometimes I just kind of get locked
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 9: in on some things. But you know, if he's going
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 9: to be in the ball game, we don't we don't
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 9: worry too much. You know, it's not that big of
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 9: a difference for us. And so yeah, just it's just
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 9: a good kid shows up, play hard, and that's what
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 9: we want to have out here.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: Amut Baker absolutely football players exactly right. Let's talk about
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: this round of twenty four state playing game. You'll be
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: taken on Wapitou at Blaine High School on Saturday afternoon.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: I've seen two different times. I've seen three o'clock. I've
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 2: seen four o'clock. Can you set us straight on that one.
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 9: Yeah, we're gonna play at nine o'clock in the morning.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 9: Now we're going at four o'clock because Linda Christian is
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 9: gonna at noon. Yeah, and so we pushed it back
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 9: an hour just to make sure there was you know,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 9: we're not worried about getting next game started on time
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 9: and the proper warm up and stuff, unlike the Fay
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 9: Championship game in twenty twelve.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 11: But I'm not bitter about that at.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: All, not at all. Yeah, I mean, and that's that's
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 2: a good point because the parking might be limited, and
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: if there's kind of an overlap there, that'd be really
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: really tough to you know, people to get in and
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: things to happen and yeah, travel everything.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 9: I've worried to all our fans that parking will be
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 9: a challenge. Yes, you know, so there's a lot of
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 9: stuff going on Blaine that day. There's also the district
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 9: has a play playback game for soccer after our game
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 9: or so, and I believe there is a rather large
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 9: a basketball tournament going on right.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: So, yeah, parking will be limited, but.
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 11: Market for the school on the on the other side
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 11: of the football field.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. There is a big long parking lot
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: right in front of the school's entrance. And uh, you know, yeah,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: there's there's stuff you can do, so uh get there
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 2: early and watch your team.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 19: Uh Wapato the Wolves, I know nothing, tell us what
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 19: you see on philm.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you know, they had to win a mini playoff
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 9: game on Saturday against Cascade Levenworth to get in, which
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 9: they did, and so you know, they were the number
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 9: I want to say, the number number seven team out
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 9: of out of their league and played the crossover with
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 9: the number three out of the number two out of
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 9: the carib betrayal. They you know trad it's been a
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 9: bit of a struggle, I think. Uh, their their ad
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 9: told me this is the first time in twenty five
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 9: years they've been in a postseason game, so they're pretty
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 9: excited about that.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 11: You know, their coach was a coach at top finition.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 9: We played them in the playoffs a couple years ago
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 9: with Jason Smith, and so I see some of the
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 9: stuff that they wanted to do there. They're gonna they
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 9: want to kind of spread it out a little bit.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 9: I guess a couple of funky formations where the moves
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 9: guys around, you know, in motion a lot, and you know,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 9: if you've never seen it before, like you might know
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 9: what are they doing there? But ultimately, you know they
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 9: want to run the ball number twenty one. It's a
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 9: pretty good running back for them. They got a little
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 9: bit of size up front. You know, we just got
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 9: to you know, what we told our kids this week
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 9: is we're going to focus on what we need to do,
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 9: what we needed to get better and and then get
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 9: ready to play on Saturday.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: Absolutely playing at Blaine High School too. It's it's uh,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: you guys have been pretty successful there since they put
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: in the new stadium. Not not a loss there is
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: it is? It just one of those things. I don't
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 2: know if you had your pick as far as Civic
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 2: or Ferndale or Blaine, was it something where how does
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 2: that how does that decision making go into it? You
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 2: being the athletic director, probably have a pretty big say
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: in that.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 9: Well, you know, obviously you got to once you find
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 9: out who you're playing, you need to talk talk to
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 9: them and see, you know, if they want to play
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 9: Friday or Saturday, and then and if the schools, you know,
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 9: so many miles out of range wise, they have a
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 9: lot of input on on the on the day and time,
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 9: not necessarily the place per se. And then you know,
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 9: looking around Civic is you know, the scoreboard is not
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 9: working there. Although I love playing the Civic and stuff,
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 9: so we you know, and to be honest with you,
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 9: it's it's they charged quite a bit of money to
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 9: play there, sure for now when we're sure about so,
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 9: I mean blames and we've been and so the good.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 11: Locker room situation and stuff like that.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 9: You know, I didn't expect to have all the other
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 9: stuff going on there, which is fine, And so that's
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 9: not how that played out. And you know it's not
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 9: for us. It's not that far to drive and actually
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 9: for Wappato is probably in about the same amount of
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 9: time wise to get there going to our place because
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 9: you stay in I five so turn it off, so
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 9: time wise is not going to add anything way for them.
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. And I just I wanted
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: to bring it up because it's so interesting how it's
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: such a quick turnaround. I mean, you were really busy
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: over the weekend with other stuff as well, and there's
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: all these these moving parts where the parents and the
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 2: fans and the players, they're just like when and where
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: are we playing? That's all they care about. But there's
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: so much work that goes behind the scenes and I
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 2: and I just I'm glad you touched on that because
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: I'm always curious to what it all, what it takes.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: I know it takes a lot, and so it's a
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: it's a big, big deal.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know that I had some I have some
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 9: personal stuff going on, nothing bad. You know, my son
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 9: got married in Colorado on Sunday, So Sunday morning we
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 9: have our Zoom meeting, and you know, we're getting the
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 9: matchups done. And so I asked permission to be able
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 9: to reach out to WAPATOL before it became public, just
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 9: because I wanted to get stuff done so I can
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 9: make sure I sent the wedding on time.
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 11: And you know, so you.
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 9: Know, so let's call on the other coach, because once
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 9: the parents come out, there's a sad amount of time
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 9: where you have to exchange film between the two teams,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 9: but then you know there's there could be some discipline
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 9: for the coach that doesn't do that. And then that
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 9: was my most important thing getting film on there, because
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 9: I want to get that up and post it on
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 9: on huddles are coaches could start breaking stuff down until
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 9: and so I'll wait until Monday, and then you start
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 9: working on time and date and and all that kind
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 9: of stuff. And then you know there's all that stuff,
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 9: like you said, going behind behind the scenes there and
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 9: then I said, we first sart time, it was gonna
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 9: be three o'clock, and then LC ended up playing it
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 9: there also.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 11: So then moving around.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 9: But yeah, so I mean it's part of that, it's
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 9: part of the excitement of being at this time of year.
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 9: And yeah, we're looking forward to going out and getting
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 9: after it on Friday or on Saturday.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: And you know, for for those who remember, your son
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 2: Zach played quarterback for you a while back, and I'm curious,
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: did he ever did he ever take you the play
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: that you gave him and then make it and make
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: an audible at the at the line of scrimmage there?
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 11: How do I answer this? He might have attempted it
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 11: a couple of times. You know.
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just curious because now there's a new head
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: coach and his family and he couldn't audible the date
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 2: of the wedding.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 9: It sounds like exactly, and it's like, yeah, that was yeah,
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 9: we had but you're able to work it out. It
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 9: really just though it cost me a little bit asleep,
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 9: but you know, no, it was good. It was good
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 9: and everything. We had good weather back in Colorado. We're
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 9: up at Ess Park and out past there, so anything
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 9: worked out. But you know, really, after the soon the
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 9: wedding was over, I'm not gonna lie. I was pretty
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 9: anxious to get back and start getting ready for walking
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 9: to him.
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 2: Awesome, thanks so much, coach. Good luck against the Wolves
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. Thank you so much for joining me on
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade game day preview.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 11: All right, thanks to again. I appreciate anything to do
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 11: for the kids. It's awesome.
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: Thank you, You're welcome, coach. Thank you very much. And
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 2: the final game of the weekend will be out at
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 2: Civic Stadium at six o'clock Saturday night. It's a one
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: A round of twenty four game. The winner gets to
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: the one A State tournament. We have the Kings Nights
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: who are five and four taking on the Knuckzack Valley
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: Pioneers who were also five and four. And we are
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Nuckzack
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: Valley football coach Craig Bartell coach, thank you for joining
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: me today. How are you doing?
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 5: Thanks?
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: Thank you pretty good? What is this?
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 11: Nine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Ten?
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  Speaker 1: And it's been uh, you know what every year that
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  Speaker 1: it goes faster and faster, and thanks for having me again.
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  Speaker 2: You bet it does go faster and faster. There's no
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  Speaker 2: doubt about that.
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  Speaker 12: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: My traditional crazy opening question, without warming up, could you
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  Speaker 2: go out and make an extra point kick on your
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  Speaker 2: first tray?
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  Speaker 17: Absolutely, no, no doubt, no doubt.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, drill out right through the uprights to punch. Uh,
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 2: you know I either way, it doesn't matter. You got it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's great. I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Watched enough YouTube videos to in my mind I think
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  Speaker 1: I have the technique down.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's so funny is I remember my first
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: varsity road game. We were going on the road to
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  Speaker 2: Coopville and and you know, on the bus and we
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: got out of and everything and Coach Preston was our
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: head coach, and he gave me this little booklet. It
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: was like this tiny little booklet that was probably twelve
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 2: pages on how to kick and it was by Yon Stenerud,
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  Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame Kicker, and it was kind of
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 2: like all these little like diagrams and what to look
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: for and everything, and he just gave it to me
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 2: and I was like wow, And I'm just sitting here
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: reading this book on the way there, and I thought
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: it was the coolest thing. And then like ten years later,
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 2: maybe less than that, I bought like a tee and
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: a football from like Walmart or something and it came
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: with that booklet, and so I thought, oh, he just
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 2: it just came to him when he bought a tea
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 2: or something and then he's just like, oh, I'll just
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  Speaker 2: give it to Tyler. So I just thought that was
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 2: always funny. And I still have that book at around somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: And jon Stenrude first ever kicker to make the Hall
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  Speaker 2: of Fame, So well, I.
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  Speaker 1: Would I think I can make it, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if I could walk after that, because I bought
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  Speaker 1: him for a muscle, I'd probably do something, be one
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  Speaker 1: and done.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing is that an extra points not
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: too far, Like I wouldn't say, like, can you make
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: a forty yarders? I don't want anyone getting hurt. But
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 2: but yeah, before talking about week ten, let's talk about
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 2: last week really quickly. You played Lennon Christian tight for
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: three quarters, you had momentum down by one score in
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter, but Elsie turned you over a few
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 2: times got the twenty eight to fourteen win. A good
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 2: team is going to take advantage of turnovers. Obviously. What
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  Speaker 2: was your biggest takeaway from that game?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, I mean, I think you hit it on the head.
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  Speaker 17: It's you.
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  Speaker 1: You have to win the turnover battle and we didn't.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, they're they're a really good team and we
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: can't make.
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  Speaker 17: Mistakes like that. And the positive is they're not mistakes.
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  Speaker 17: They're not lazy mistakes. Like we have a couple of
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 17: the fumbles.
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  Speaker 1: We have guys just trying to get those extra yards
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  Speaker 1: and we just need to do a better job of
• 1:32:54
  Speaker 1: protecting the ball.
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  Speaker 17: But you know, it's one of those where you're really
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 17: want your.
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: Kids to keep going and keep going and fighting for yards,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, you know, we just gotta gotta protect the
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: ball a little bit more.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard to do, and you could tell LC's
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: out there ripping it late, and that was good on
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: them because that's that's what you're taught to do. If
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 2: you if you look like the tackle is, you know, happening,
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: another guy can come in there and try to rip
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 2: it out. And they've they've been kind of doing that
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: all year and it worked for them in the fourth
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 2: quarter and they capitalize on it. One thing I did
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: notice about that game too, was senior Cole Koppenter was
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: a big factor out there, especially offensively, you know, catching
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: those short passes, making some some things happen. He's been
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: doing it all season. What has it been like to
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: coach him over the years.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, you know, he's he's been making place as a
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 17: good athlete.
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  Speaker 1: And when you you know, when you get him in space,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 1: he's he's allowed to kind of create his own, uh,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: running lanes.
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  Speaker 11: And do some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's he's been you know, great out there,
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: and you know he's deceptively fast, and so yeah, he's
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: been really fun to have and you know he's one
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: of our go to guys.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and every time you can kind of feel it,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: especially at home when you guys when you guys play
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: at home when when is a quick pass to him,
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: you almost feel like this collective like breath of something
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: big could happen. And because it has happened, and so
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: it's it's exciting to get the home crowd excited and
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: and uh yeah, it's a home run threat is really
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: nice to have. Let's talk about this round of twenty
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 2: four state play in game. Most teams get to this
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: round and then play a team that they have no
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: clue about. You know, you play against a team that
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: you know you have to You're like, okay, well we
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: don't know anything. We just load up on film. You
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: might see an offense that you haven't seen all year.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: Who knows what you're gonna see here? You are playing
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: a team that you seem to play every year, including
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 2: this year with the Kings Knights. You'll be hosting the
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: them on Saturday night, six o'clock Civic Stadium. They got
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: to win against you, your team earlier in the season.
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: What can that game teach you for this week?
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  Speaker 17: You know, I think we looked back again and watch
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 17: that game and watch how we.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: Played, and it wasn't our finest moment. I think across
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: the board that includes us as coaches, and so I
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: mean that after that game, we had you know, we
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: reflected as coaches, what do we need to do?
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 11: As players?
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: What do we need to do, And so we kind
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: of put that in the you know, we we forgot
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: about that, but you know, now that that's kind of
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: come back. We we looked at a little bit see
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 1: you know, what worked, what didn't work, and then try
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: to anticipate some adjustments that you know that we need
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: to make and some adjustments the on.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 5: Need to make.
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  Speaker 11: That game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we had some guys in positions for the
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: first time. We had a couple of injuries then and
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: so you know, the guys that that was their first
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: game in certain positions have now played you know what
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 1: six games, five games, and so they're a little more comfortable.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: And so I think both teams are different, uh than
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: than that week, and so it'll be exciting to see,
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: you know, the chess match and see the adjustments made.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, the familiarity is there. You know, King
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: Kings just feels like a you know, they just feel
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: like a Northwest Conference team. Uh, you know, they just
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 2: have that you know, we just seem to see him
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: every year in multiple sports. There's all sorts of things
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: going on, traditionally great in basketball as well, boys and girls,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: and but it's just it's such a When I first
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: saw you know, the draw, you know, I I just
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 2: I just I was kind of wiping my eyes, like
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: really like, I don't I don't know anything about Natchez
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 2: or Wapatoa, but I know stuff about Kings and that
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: was such a fun thing. And and to see that,
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: to see that happen again, and you right that that
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 2: you know your team and week you know three or
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 2: four or whatever that was, it was a different team.
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 2: And and you know, you and I talked earlier in
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: the year, and even even after that game, you were
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 2: still kind of like, I don't, you know, I don't
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: really quite know what our identity is just yet I
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: feel like it's you have a different team now. I mean,
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 2: do you look at your team now and go or
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: do you watch the old film and go, who was
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 2: that team?
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 11: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: One hundred percent, we did. Uh watching that game maybe
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 1: a little sick to my stomach. Just we did stuff
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: that are very uncharacteristic of us.
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 17: And we played.
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  Speaker 1: I hesitate to say we played scared because I don't
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: think that's the right term. But I don't think we've
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: played confident for whatever reason. And so you know, we've
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: talked about we've got to just play every play and
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: trust the process, and in.
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  Speaker 17: That game, I think we're still learning how to do that.
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  Speaker 12: And so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like our mentality right now. And you know,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: we we've talked about this before. We don't think about
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: the past. Ye, So this is this is brand new season,
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: and so we're going to focus today and the rest
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 1: of this week on just each day and each rep
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: and practice. Uh, and we're gonna get better on that,
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 1: but we're not going to really reflect on anything the
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: first nine games.
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 17: And so this is new and we're just gonna move forward.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I can't wait, Coach. I'm lovering that these
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 2: games are all staggered. You got a noon game at Blaine,
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 2: a two game at two o'clock game at Civic, and
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: then a you know, three or four. I keep seeing
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 2: different times for another game out at Blaine than you guys.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: At six o'clock, I'll be buzzing. I five man is
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 2: going to be busy with my little Hyundai accent going
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: back and forth. So I'm excited with the you guys
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: having to be the nightcap out at Civic Stadium. Like
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: you said earlier, Civic Stadium has been good to you guys,
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 2: and good to you specifically, so we're all hoping for
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 2: that up here and walking cany good luck against Kings
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: on Saturday. And thank you so much for joining me
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 12: Thanks Tyler.
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: And yeah, hopefully the troopers aren't on I five when
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: you're cruising up and down there.
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 2: I don't even think my car can get to seventy five,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 2: so I think I think we'll be okay. Thanks coach.
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 17: Yep, thank you you hear that.
• 1:39:21
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  Speaker 2: And that wraps it up. I hope you've enjoyed the
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game Day Football Preview for Week ten. I just
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 2: want to thank all of the coaches that made time
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: out of their busy day to join me here. I
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 2: can't wait to do it again next week. I know
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: I'll be missing a few of the coaches that this
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: was their last interview this past week. Hopefully for the
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: other seven, we'll be able to talk to them again
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 2: next week. If they all get wins, that'd be fantastic.
• 1:39:55
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