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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 386 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 9 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Hi, this is Dan Patrick and you're listening to the
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  Speaker 1: Walkham not Want Com.
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  Speaker 2: It's Wakam County Football podcast with Tyler and I wish
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  Speaker 2: them the best of luck.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy greetings and welcome into the Gatorade Game Day preview
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  Speaker 1: on the Walkham Preps Podcast. This is episode three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty six and I am Tyler Anderson with Walkham
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  Speaker 1: Preps and we're going to preview all eight games this
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  Speaker 1: weekend involving Walkham County teams. I got to give it
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  Speaker 1: thank you again to mister Dan Patrick for the intro.
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  Speaker 1: Be honest, I got so tied up and busy that
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to reach out to a football player to
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  Speaker 1: get an intro for this episode. I just I just
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  Speaker 1: the time got away from me. So why not use
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  Speaker 1: Dan Patrick again? I mean I should you know. If
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  Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, set a precedent, I would use
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  Speaker 1: Dan Patrick every time. But sorry to you football players
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  Speaker 1: out there. I will reach out. Heck, if you're a
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  Speaker 1: football player and you haven't done an intro before, just
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  Speaker 1: reach out to me and say, hey, can I do
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  Speaker 1: an intro? Then it makes it a little easier. But
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  Speaker 1: I think the kids enjoy it when they get asked
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  Speaker 1: to do it, probably a little more than mister Patrick
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  Speaker 1: did when he was asked to do it, so but
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  Speaker 1: thank you Dan. Congratulations to Mount Baker's Toga Tiglau and
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  Speaker 1: Gage Smith on winning the week eight Pepsi Play of
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  Speaker 1: the Week with their touchdown pass over the top at Blaine.
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  Speaker 1: They each win a case of Gatorade thanks to Walton Beverage.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to step away for a short fifteen
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  Speaker 1: seconds so we can hear from our title sponsor.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell all of you how blessed and thankful
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  Speaker 1: I am for a company like Walton Beverage, who's been
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  Speaker 1: a staple in our community for over ninety years to
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  Speaker 1: take an interest in walking preps and allow me to
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  Speaker 1: keep doing what I love to do. It's a game
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  Speaker 1: changer for me and I will continue to work harder
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  Speaker 1: every day to make the fantastic people at Walton Beverage
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  Speaker 1: proud to sponsor youth sports and our community. They deliver
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  Speaker 1: superior quality and commitment and I plan to do the same.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk some football. We have eight games to
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  Speaker 1: talk about for this weekend and they will span over
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  Speaker 1: the next three days. So unlike last week and when
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  Speaker 1: everything was on Friday night, we got some Thursday, Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and Saturday action.
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  Speaker 2: Here.
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  Speaker 1: I have almost all eleven Walkin County football head coaches
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  Speaker 1: lined up to discuss their games, so let's not keep
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  Speaker 1: them waiting. Let's start with the Thursday games, always going
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  Speaker 1: in chronological order as we head out to Deming as
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  Speaker 1: the Mountain Baker Mountaineers will host the Omac Pioneers at
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  Speaker 1: six o'clock. Mount Baker is seven and one on the
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  Speaker 1: season and Oh Mac is six and two. And we
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  Speaker 1: are now joined on the Gatorade Game day preview by
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  Speaker 1: Mount Baker football coach Ron Lepper, coach, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining me today. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Doing well? And plugures always to be with.
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  Speaker 1: You, Tytler awesome. What's your favorite Halloween candy?
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  Speaker 5: Candy corn?
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, there's three, there's three coaches right there right
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  Speaker 1: away with no doubt.
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  Speaker 5: Candy corn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, classic, and that's probably a reason they don't sell
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  Speaker 1: it year around. But boy, when that first bag comes
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  Speaker 1: out pretty easy. Before talking about your Week nine opponent,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about last week. You scored three touchdowns early
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  Speaker 1: on against the Border Rights, but they battled back to
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  Speaker 1: score two of the next three before you ended strong.
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  Speaker 1: What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, we were able to you know,
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  Speaker 6: find a way to get the ball in the end zone.
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  Speaker 5: Weather was okay, not great. We probably should have thrown.
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  Speaker 6: The ball a little bit more, but you know, we
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  Speaker 6: just kind of stayed on the stay on the ground
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  Speaker 6: that game. You know, I said, Blaine's improved. You know,
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  Speaker 6: they got touched on late and then you know, just
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  Speaker 6: the way it goes. You know, referee can't say, but
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  Speaker 6: there was a kind of illegal block on their first touchdown,
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  Speaker 6: like the receivers blocking our guy before the balls and
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  Speaker 6: out of the quarterback's hand blocking like ten years downfield,
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  Speaker 6: and a little pick off there. But hey it worked.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they got away with it, so that's okay.
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  Speaker 6: And then yeah, I just you know, I think the kids,
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  Speaker 6: you know, probably took I took a maybe. You know,
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  Speaker 6: the first drive is tough because you know, blamed a
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  Speaker 6: nut job run the flock down, doing enough just to
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  Speaker 6: get some first downs and you know, we didn't get
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  Speaker 6: the ball till after under six minutes to go in
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  Speaker 6: the first quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then go.
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  Speaker 6: Down and get after a little bit, which was good.
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  Speaker 6: And I think, you know, maybe just you know, getting
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  Speaker 6: the kids back in the swing after the pretty emotional
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  Speaker 6: game the week before.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, this past Friday, your senior running back Brice Cooper
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  Speaker 1: became the first player in Walking County to reach a
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  Speaker 1: thousand yards on the season rushing. He's averaging over ten
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  Speaker 1: yards per carry on the season as well. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of factors that you know have made him great
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  Speaker 1: this season, whether you know, the offensive line, the passing game, uh,
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  Speaker 1: just his overall abilities. But if you had to point
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  Speaker 1: out some of the biggest ones, what would they be.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I just think that you know, he's worked hard.
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  Speaker 5: He's really looked forward to his senior year.
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  Speaker 6: You know, he probably you know, looking back, probably could
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  Speaker 6: have played a little bit more last year, but uh,
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  Speaker 6: you know, he when he got a chance, he made
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  Speaker 6: things happen and kind of knew that this would be
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  Speaker 6: his opportunity. And you know he and he's taking advantage
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  Speaker 6: of that. He's stronger than he looks, you know, like
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  Speaker 6: he's not necessarily a big guy, but he's got some
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  Speaker 6: pretty good uh he's put together pretty well, and he
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  Speaker 6: you know, runs track through the speed part, and he's
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  Speaker 6: got a pretty good vision. You know, one of those
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  Speaker 6: things where he's not gonna make eight thousand cats, but
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  Speaker 6: he's going to kind of see something. That's the thing
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  Speaker 6: I thought about the LC game. You know, he didn't
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  Speaker 6: really break off any big long runs, but he got
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  Speaker 6: some nice chunk runs and you know, six yards here,
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  Speaker 6: kind of coming eight yards here when it wasn't necessarily
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  Speaker 6: a lot there, but found a hole and exploded up
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  Speaker 6: in there and got the positive yardage.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, you know, and he also catches the ball
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  Speaker 5: pretty well.
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  Speaker 6: We have told him as much as we have because
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  Speaker 6: you know, we had a little more successful the receivers,
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  Speaker 6: but you know, he's, uh, he's you know, primary weapon
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  Speaker 6: for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's a guy that you know, I knew
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  Speaker 1: about growing up obviously and watching him run and and
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  Speaker 1: and he was always a fast kid and when he
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  Speaker 1: was electric with the ball in his hands. But he
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  Speaker 1: just seems so much faster this year. Do you has
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  Speaker 1: there been a speed increase or do you measure that
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff or is it just was it just
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  Speaker 1: last week's game on turf that made him look really fast.
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  Speaker 6: I think I think that probably has our first game
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  Speaker 6: on turf. So that's why he's going to help a
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  Speaker 6: little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, like well you start in the Bellevue
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  Speaker 6: game when you know they had the one play and
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  Speaker 6: and uh you know Bryce Randy kid down right, and
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  Speaker 6: so you know, just you know, he takes pride and
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  Speaker 6: working on that. And again he's got does have some
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  Speaker 6: speed and and we're lucky that he's on our side.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, let's talk about Friday or I'm sorry, Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be at home taking on o Mac. They're currently
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  Speaker 1: six and two, riding a five game winning streak. What
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  Speaker 1: stands out when you watch them on.
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  Speaker 6: Film, you know they got a really big running back
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  Speaker 6: is you know the kids probably I mean they don't
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  Speaker 6: have numbers on their thing, but he's a big kid.
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  Speaker 6: It'd be the biggest running back we've seen. And you
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  Speaker 6: know he gets going downhill. He's got some trouble, you know,
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  Speaker 6: you know, college some issues and then you know they
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  Speaker 6: do some they do a lot of informations and so
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  Speaker 6: they try to get you out of place that way.
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  Speaker 5: They're not afraid to throw.
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  Speaker 6: The ball, but I mean they want to run the ball,
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  Speaker 6: they'd run some option, So we got to make sure
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  Speaker 6: that we're disciplined with that, you know. And then upfront,
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  Speaker 6: they're just they're pretty big upfront. So you know, they're
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  Speaker 6: a solid team, and we know that we're gonna have
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  Speaker 6: a big challenge and we understand that, and so you know,
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  Speaker 6: we've got to try to shut down that run and
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  Speaker 6: then hopefully, you know, we you know, it's one of
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  Speaker 6: the things that's happened a couple of times, but when teams,
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  Speaker 6: you know, throw the ball, you have a chance to
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  Speaker 6: that big play. So we can eliminate that and you know,
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  Speaker 6: and really can try to control things up front, then
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  Speaker 6: I think we'll have a good shot at the game.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that fullback. I remember watching the Meridian film
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  Speaker 1: earlier in the season, and you're right, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: the size, but I mean, if I had to guess,
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  Speaker 1: he might be two fifty. I mean, he is a big,
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  Speaker 1: big running back. Is there a way to replicate that?
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  Speaker 1: At practice? Do you do? You give the ball to
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  Speaker 1: Titan Arnold and you know, I mean, how do you
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  Speaker 1: replicate that.
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  Speaker 5: We don't replicate that.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, we just thought we focus on what they're
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  Speaker 6: going to run out of those formations and stuff, and
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  Speaker 6: then and then obviously, you know.
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  Speaker 5: We gotta go low. You gotta go low on that guy.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, are kind of one of our.
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  Speaker 6: Things that we'd like to do is want to make
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  Speaker 6: sure we try to get to them in the backfield for
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  Speaker 6: and get things going if we get them going sideways.
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  Speaker 6: But once he gets going downhill, he's gonna be a
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  Speaker 6: low There's no doubt about that.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, it's gonna be a good one. Good luck
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  Speaker 1: against the Pioneers on Thursday. And thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
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  Speaker 6: Oh you welcome, Toller. And I know I say it,
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  Speaker 6: but I mean it every week. Thanksfully. Do for the kids,
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  Speaker 6: and have a good weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome, Thanks you too.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, my boy, Well that.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a couple of postseason worthy teams doing battle
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  Speaker 1: in downtown Deming. Next step on Thursday night will be
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  Speaker 1: the Blaine Border Rights traveling to Meridian to take on
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  Speaker 1: the Trojans. Blaine is two and six on the year
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  Speaker 1: and Meridian is five and three, and we are now
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  Speaker 1: joined on the Gatorade game day preview by Blaine football
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  Speaker 1: coach Andy Olsen, coach, thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great, fantastic. Uh. What's your favorite Halloween candy?
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  Speaker 8: Mmm?
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  Speaker 7: Actually not that big of a sweet toeoth guy, Like
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  Speaker 7: this body is built by cheeseburgers and steaks and probably
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  Speaker 7: some pasta. But if I had to pick one, I'm
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  Speaker 7: a big fan. Like the Dad Taxi enact is the
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  Speaker 7: Milky Way midnights. It's the dark chocolate one with more
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  Speaker 7: marshmallow in it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I'll.
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  Speaker 7: Pick through those to make sure, like, hey, you know these,
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  Speaker 7: you probably don't want these. I'll take these ones.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, with a lot of little ones too. I mean
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  Speaker 1: you probably uh, you probably get your pick every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while after Halloween night.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that gig.
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  Speaker 1: Before talking about your Week nine opponent, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: last week. I feel like your team keeps improving every
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  Speaker 1: single week.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You move the ball against a very good Mount Baker team,
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  Speaker 1: got three long passing touchdowns. What was your biggest take
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  Speaker 1: away from that game?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I mean I was happy with our level of competition.
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  Speaker 7: Like we went out, we were fearless, we played hard,
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  Speaker 7: we didn't let the scoreboard dictate how we played. Got
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  Speaker 7: down twenty one zero pretty early there. You know, I
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  Speaker 7: think the biggest thing that we need to do moving
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  Speaker 7: forward is to begin eliminating the mental mistakes. We had
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  Speaker 7: a few mental misques that led to big plays obviously
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  Speaker 7: the other way. And you know, we knew going into
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  Speaker 7: this tackling Baker's always kind of a level up because
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  Speaker 7: they just run the ball hard, and they run it well,
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  Speaker 7: and they're very efficient everything they do and that's what
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  Speaker 7: makes them Baker. So we got to kind of experience
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  Speaker 7: that for the first time, and so we got some
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  Speaker 7: things to work on for sure, but overall, again, just
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  Speaker 7: really happy with our attitude or effort and we continue
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  Speaker 7: to progress absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I mean, like you said, down early twenty
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  Speaker 1: one zero, but you score two out of the next
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  Speaker 1: three touchdowns, So your kids really battled at one point,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was twenty eight thirteen, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: was a game, and that was that's in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: so against a team that's the conference champions, And that's
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  Speaker 1: what I've left so much about. Like you guys go
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  Speaker 1: back and play renting now or pl now it's a
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  Speaker 1: different ball game. And I think that's what's really cool
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  Speaker 1: about the improvement. I know, looking going into the season,
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that you were excited about was
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  Speaker 1: to be able to teach the game and you know, fundamentals,
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  Speaker 1: And it looks like that's all happening right now.
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  Speaker 7: Would you agree, Yeah, I mean, well, it's always there's
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  Speaker 7: always new warning targets. Right if we talked about the
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  Speaker 7: classroom and how that translates to the football field, practice field,
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  Speaker 7: what have you. But we were warning how to play football,
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  Speaker 7: and we're always very open eyes with our kids, like hey,
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  Speaker 7: right now, you know we're losing football team, we're developing
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  Speaker 7: winning habits, we're trying to do things the right way,
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  Speaker 7: and we're warning the game of football. This week we
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  Speaker 7: looked at Baker and we're like, hey, you know, when
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  Speaker 7: we talked on Monday, we breakdown film and said they're
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  Speaker 7: our football team than us right now. Their football is
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  Speaker 7: further developed than our football is. But you look at
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  Speaker 7: some of these things that are positive that we can
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  Speaker 7: take away and some things that we can clean up,
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  Speaker 7: and all of a sudden, this game is a lot
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  Speaker 7: more competitive and our kids have really you know, they
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  Speaker 7: believe that because they see it like, oh, yeah, we
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  Speaker 7: just missed this one assignment and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 7: we're here, or on an offense, I miss this one
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  Speaker 7: block and this could have sprung for you know, ten
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  Speaker 7: yards instead of a game at two. So those things
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  Speaker 7: are just really positive. They're a great group to coach.
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  Speaker 7: They're eager to learn and eager to work, and they
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  Speaker 7: understand the long game here too, of you know, we're
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  Speaker 7: playing for that horizon. You know what the future is
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  Speaker 7: like at Blaine.
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  Speaker 1: You know your sophomore quarterback Connor Brown threw for nearly
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  Speaker 1: three hundred yards three touchdowns against Mount Baker. He's having
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  Speaker 1: one of the best sophomore seasons in school history, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of position. From when you look back at week one
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  Speaker 1: and now going into week nine, what has been the
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  Speaker 1: one thing that just seems to keep getting better each
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  Speaker 1: week and the reason why he's putting up as he's putting.
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  Speaker 7: Up well, super talent and kid who works hard. Like
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  Speaker 7: we I think we'd be lying if we said, now
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  Speaker 7: he's in our coaching stuff that were shocked by these
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  Speaker 7: results because we kind of knew what we had with Connor.
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  Speaker 7: But I would say the biggest area for growth has been,
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  Speaker 7: you know, understand the game of football, which kind of
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  Speaker 7: fits right along with our team, and you know, making
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  Speaker 7: decisions when to be aggressive and when to you know, hey,
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  Speaker 7: we can throw this one away and move on to
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  Speaker 7: another down, you know, and understand the value of having
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  Speaker 7: the football. He threw some picks early on in the year,
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  Speaker 7: and since then it's really kind of dwindled down. He's
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  Speaker 7: not thrown the ball away as many times. But yeah,
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  Speaker 7: he's a terrific athlete with a terrific arm our. Offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 7: Played quarterback down in Burlington Edison. It was pretty good
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  Speaker 7: high school football player. And there's times where I see
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  Speaker 7: him and I'm just laughing at him because he's just
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  Speaker 7: shaking his head and being like, how's this kid making
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  Speaker 7: that throw? I could never make that throw my dreams.
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  Speaker 7: So Connor's got a lot of natural talent. But it's
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  Speaker 7: just been really fun to watch him grow and mature.
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  Speaker 1: There have been times when he's made a throw on
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  Speaker 1: the run, specifically where and I'm watching the film and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're watching from the sidelines, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as he throws it, it's like, oh, he's he's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of getting rid of it and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it's a completed pass for eighteen yards. Like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how he sees it or how he does it,
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  Speaker 1: but there is something there that's pretty fun to see.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Thursday night. Yes you heard that right, folks,
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night, you're heading down downtown Laurel to take on Meridian.
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  Speaker 1: When you watch the film on the Trojans, what stands out.
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  Speaker 5: They're just they're really fast.
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  Speaker 7: They got speed all over the place, and they got
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  Speaker 7: a quarterback that's going to sling it. We know that
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  Speaker 7: they're gonna be well coached and do a good job,
• 14:37
  Speaker 7: but yeah, trying to match that team speed is gonna
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: obviously present itself a different challenge for us, and you know,
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: we're looking forward to the opportunity. But yeah, they're going
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: to sling it all around the field. And you know,
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: normally my offensive lineharts, I want to run the ball,
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: but we haven't been doing that as much this year.
• 14:55
  Speaker 7: We've been throwing it. So this game may last, you know,
• 14:57
  Speaker 7: three and a half hours. We're just gonna throw it
• 14:58
  Speaker 7: all over the place and have some fun.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: On Halloween Eve.
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: They have no qualms about throwing a sixty times, which
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: they did against Nooksack Valley and another forty eight times
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: against Lendon Christians. So you're right that ball is going
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: to be in there quite a bit, and I'm guessing,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: and I've heard that the weather's going to be a
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: somewhat decent finally on Thursday. You know, it's it's crazy
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: because when I will also when I watched Meridians defense,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: and you could correct me if I'm wrong, it seems
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: almost like from game to game you just never know
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: kind of what kind of defense you're going to see
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: from them. They really game plan for the opponent. Do
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: you look at them playing do you try to look
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: at them playing a similar offensive team as you guys
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: and say, oh, okay, this is might this might be
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: how they'll line up against us.
• 15:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we do that every week because you want to know, well,
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: what type of coverages do they prefer to run, kind
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: of what is their base package on defense. But we
• 15:55
  Speaker 7: we know in high school football week the week, teams
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: are going to change. If you're not changing, you're dying.
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: And Meridian has always done a really good job, you know,
• 16:03
  Speaker 7: even dating back to decades ago, of adjusting their defense
• 16:07
  Speaker 7: to put them in the best position to be successful.
• 16:10
  Speaker 7: And when we talked to last week, we talked about
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: how all ideas are stolen. Ideas and coaching. We've definitely
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: stolen that from you know, growing up watching Bob coach
• 16:18
  Speaker 7: at Meridian and how he would always adapt things, and
• 16:23
  Speaker 7: I just thought that that was really powerful. Put your
• 16:25
  Speaker 7: kids in positions where they can be successful and they
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: do a really good job of that.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Absolutely awesome stuff. Coach, good luck at Meridian on Thursday,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining me on the Gatorade Game
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: day preview.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me Tower Go Border Rights and.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: We are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: by Meridian football coach Patrick Games coach, thank you for
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: joining me today. How are you doing.
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: I'm doing well, Tyler.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: How are you?
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. What's your favorite Halloween candy?
• 16:51
  Speaker 10: Anything that Reese's puts out I think is pretty good.
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: And I don't think that this is necessarily a hot
• 16:56
  Speaker 10: take anymore, but the pumpkin shaped are way better than
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: the normally shaped Reese's peanut butter caps.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. There was and there was like
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: a bag of those pumpkin reses at Costco about a
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: month ago. Holy cow, and I think we're almost done
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: with them here at the Walkom Preps household. But yeah,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: those are those are pretty good. Before talking about your
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: Week nine opponent, let's talk about last week. You battled
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Lindon Christian with everything you had and this was a
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: This was one of the craziest stat lines I've ever seen,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: no turnovers, no punts, And did you go into the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: game with kind of the thought process of our best
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: chance against the Links is if we play offense for
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: one more down than they do.
• 17:44
  Speaker 10: I don't necessarily know that that was a conscious thought process,
• 17:50
  Speaker 10: to be honest, you know, going into that game where
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: you know, we knew that they had a tailback that
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: was bigger than anybody we could put on the field.
• 17:57
  Speaker 10: On defense, you just trying to limit the damage, you know,
• 18:02
  Speaker 10: from down to down when when you're trying to defend them,
• 18:05
  Speaker 10: and then on offense, you know, just doing what we
• 18:08
  Speaker 10: can to try to move the ball and hold on
• 18:11
  Speaker 10: to it, knowing that you know, we're kind of at
• 18:14
  Speaker 10: some disadvantages there right now with who we are and
• 18:17
  Speaker 10: who they are. But I am proud of the way
• 18:19
  Speaker 10: that our kids have continued to fight in battle over
• 18:23
  Speaker 10: the course of the last two weeks when we were
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: playing you know, two really good teams from our league.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean, that's what is evident on film is
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: that they are they're busting their butts, they're trying hard,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: and that's all you can ask, right and and if
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: they're making the right football plays and different things like that.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: And you know, I coach came and said something to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: me once about you know, when he's had a team
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: that has struggled. You know, if he went into a
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: game knowing he was at a disadvantage, he would just say,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: at least be in the right place to be blocked,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: you know, don't make it, don't make it so easy
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: for them, and so and and there's none of those
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: kind of issues with your team, I don't think. I mean,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I think it's you know, they're doing the right things.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: It's but you're right about just being a manned and
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: and and it's tough. I want to talk about Pierce
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Berezowski for a little bit. When I when I watch
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: him play and really any sport that he plays, he
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: seems like you'd be such a fun player, a great
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: player to coach. How has it been to coach him
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: over the years.
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: Well, you're absolutely right. He is just a wonderful young man.
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: First of all, very high IQ in all phases in
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: which I know him in the classroom, sports, his football
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: IQ is obviously really really high. And having a guy
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: that can play really any position that you ask him to,
• 19:44
  Speaker 10: and including where we're at right now, where you know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: day to day, week to week, we're not sure exactly
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: how we're even going to line up to practice. Sometimes
• 19:52
  Speaker 10: you know, Pierce will be the first one to jump
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: in on a scout team and play right guard or
• 19:56
  Speaker 10: right tackle in addition to being a quarterback and a
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: tight end and a receiver and a running back and
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: of this and of that. Like, he really is that
• 20:05
  Speaker 10: guy for us that we trust him completely wherever we
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: can put him, and we wish we had more spots
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: that he could play at once, in addition to the
• 20:13
  Speaker 10: one that he's already at. So yeah, and he's just
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: a he's a great dude. He's a great teammate. He
• 20:19
  Speaker 10: has that really kind of steady and consistent demeanor which
• 20:24
  Speaker 10: brings a lot of calm and presence to the different
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: teams that he's on. We're really happy that he's on
• 20:32
  Speaker 10: track to finish the season for US. He sustained a
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: couple of just kind of fluke, non contact injuries the
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: last two years that ended his football seasons early. And
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: I'm really I'm really happy for him that everybody is
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: able to see him consistently on Friday nights and can
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: appreciate the kind of player that he is.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you hit it on the head there with
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the you know, being able to complete the season, and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I remember that. I don't remember it as much as
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: freshman remember it last year, and I was just bummed
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: and talking to him at basketball practice, seeing you know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: when do you think you'll be ready? And he was,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you know, he was good after about the first week
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: of basketball, and it was just one of those things where, yeah,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I'm glad he's able to finish out the season, especially
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: with just the luck you've had, you know, the bad
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: luck you've had. And you know, it's great to have
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a guy like that because when there are injuries that happened,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: that's where a player like him can really stand out
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and help out in so many different ways. Yes, let's
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: talk about Thursday night, You'll be at home taken on Blaine.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I really feel like this border right team has improved
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: every single week. And you know, and I'm sure you've
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you know, been watching film and stuff like that, and
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: if you go back and watch a week one or
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: week two game, it's not going to do you any
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: good because they're a completely different team. And I know
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: you know that already, but but when you watch them
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: on film, what stands out to you?
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: I think exactly what you noted that coming into the season,
• 21:58
  Speaker 10: they had to replace practically everybody that that lined up
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: for them last year. And you know, the mark of
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: a good program is how well can you teach your
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: players your system, even if you're going to be inexperienced
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: or young, And you're absolutely right, Gosh, the progress and
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: the strides that they've made. I'm really impressed by what
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: their quarterback gives them and everything he's able to do
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: for them. And obviously, you know, and they remind us
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: of us a little bit, and that you know, they've
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: got some talented kids, and they're trying to move them
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: around in places to be able to get them the
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: football and making sure that they're trying to put their
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: kids and their system in the best spots to help
• 22:41
  Speaker 10: them compete, and not just saying well, we are who
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: we are this year, and this is what you're going
• 22:46
  Speaker 10: to get that they're they're working as hard as as
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: they're able to to continue to be competitive and continue
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: to improve.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: And I admire that a ton.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny you said that about they kind of
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: your your team, and I was just thinking that about
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: a player like Kay Kerwin, who wears number seventeen for them.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: He's a kid that has been a starting receiver for
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: three years, but the last couple of weeks he's been,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: you know, doing the most of the carries at tailback.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: And it's like, man, that's a Meridian player right there
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: if I'd ever seen one. And and it's just you know,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: he's having a great senior year. Only one of four
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: seniors on the team, which you know you can speak
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to that. And but the one thing that's really unique
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: about them that I see as is, you know, they're
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: really their quarterback is so talented just as sophomore, but
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: he's he's wise. He's a three sport kid as well,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and he's a kid that if you're not careful, he
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: could take off and runs. What kind of challenges does
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: that present to your defense?
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: A ton?
• 23:47
  Speaker 10: And and you'll you'll see him in in games throughout
• 23:50
  Speaker 10: the season that if he's on the move, if it's
• 23:55
  Speaker 10: a path in the pocket and he gets flashed, right,
• 23:57
  Speaker 10: his first instinct is to continue to look down the field.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: And he's made throws, you know, moving both directions to
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: receivers moving either direction. And that makes it really really dangerous,
• 24:08
  Speaker 10: right that he's not just looking to take off. That
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: he's been really well coached and trained by by his
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: coaches over there to continue to try to keep plays alive.
• 24:18
  Speaker 10: But also, like you mentioned, the wisdom is also there
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: of when he needs to take off with the football,
• 24:26
  Speaker 10: and he's really good with it, you know, once he
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: decides to run. So there are a lot of challenges,
• 24:30
  Speaker 10: you know, with a really talented quarterback like that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's one of those things where man, it's
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: that dual threat guy and do you do a spy?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Do you do? You do?
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: You do?
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: You try to stay in his zone? So your eyeballs
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: are kind of that way, and there's so many different
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: things that that kind of problem can present. But you know,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: you got a great staff and I know you guys
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: will figure it out. It's I think it's gonna be
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: a really good game. I'm pretty sure the radio is
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: going to be there, so I'm excited about that. Good
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: luck against the Border Rights on Thursday. And thank you
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: for joining me on the Gatoride Game Day preview.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Tyler.
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: We'll talk to you next week.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: The other seven o'clock game on Thursday night has the
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Linden Christian Links going on the road to face the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Knuckzack Valley Pioneers. Linden Christian is seven and one on
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the season and Nukxack Valley is five and three. And
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: by Lyndon Christian football coach Greg Turpstra coach. Thank you
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: for joining me today. How are you doing good?
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: Doing great this morning?
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Awesome? First question, what's your favorite Halloween candy?
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: It's got to be the candy corn. It's just really versatile.
• 25:37
  Speaker 11: You can have it as like, you know, in a
• 25:39
  Speaker 11: bowl and just grab whatever you want. I don't eat
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: it any other time of the year. I don't think
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: that you can count any candy that you can eat
• 25:48
  Speaker 11: other times of the year, So I'm a purist when
• 25:50
  Speaker 11: it comes to Halloween candy.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Yeah, I think you're right. I don't think
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: you can find it any other time of the year.
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you probably shouldn't.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great, it's so funny. There's a there's a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: there's a big back and forth on candy cord. I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: know people that love it know people to hate it,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and it's there's not a lot of middle ground with it.
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: But well, I'm sure it's a vegetable, so it's probably
• 26:12
  Speaker 11: partly good for you.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. Before talking about a week nine,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: let's talk about last week. The rain held off a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: little bit until about three minutes left in the first half,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and it kind of continued throughout the game. Your team
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: didn't wait for the rain to pour down as your
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: team poured it on the entire game. What was your
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: biggest takeaway from your forty eight to seven win against Meridian.
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: Well, we just had a lot of respect for them,
• 26:34
  Speaker 11: and we felt that, you know, we really wanted to
• 26:36
  Speaker 11: get points on early due to their their passing game,
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: because they could just light it up quickly.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: You know, you just never know when they come.
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: We're watching that game against Nooksack and they scored it
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: on like the second or third play, big bomb. So
• 26:50
  Speaker 11: we were just you know, really guarded, just thought they
• 26:54
  Speaker 11: might just blow up at any time. So yeah, they
• 26:57
  Speaker 11: had a terrific opening drive, kind of like Blaine did,
• 27:02
  Speaker 11: where they just you know, they went went for it
• 27:03
  Speaker 11: on fourth down and kept that ball away for a
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: long time.
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: So credit to them.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is uh, this was probably one of your
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: favorite games. No punts in the entire game either side.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 27:14
  Speaker 11: And also there were no turnovers other than our first kickoff,
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: which was not an intended on side right, But other
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: than that, you know, for both teams to on a
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: kind of a slushy night to uh not turn it over,
• 27:31
  Speaker 11: I think it's quite something.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I know. I was looking at that as well, and
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: it was it was crazy to see a game that.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was looking at Meridian stats and there
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: was no turnovers, no punts, and they scored seven points
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: and I kind of felt like going into it and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: this is not a bad game plan. They're a little outnumbered.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: They're figuring, you know what, we if we get four
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: downs and they play with three downs, this might be
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: our chance. But I thought that, you know, it's it's
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: interesting too because then you might be able to speak
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: to this better as a coach. But I see this
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: a lot in high school football, when when you stop
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: a team on third down, you get jacked up, you
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: raise the fist fourth down and you feel like you've
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: kind of won, and all of a sudden there could
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: be a letdown on fourth down if they go for it.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: But I felt like your team didn't do that at all.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: You made the plays on fourth down when when you
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: needed to.
• 28:21
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you just had to make more of them, right, Yeah,
• 28:25
  Speaker 11: Marion was a tough out for sure.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's talk about your senior wide receiver Boyce Robertson
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: for a little bit. What really strikes me when I'm
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: watching film is just kind of how easy he makes
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: it look. I know it's not easy, but the way
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: he runs routes, gets open, can high point the ball,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: get away from defenders. He's breaking school records left and right.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: What has it been like to coach him over the years.
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: You know, he's just naturally just such a gifted athlete,
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: and then he works really hard on himself, you know,
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: getting his body in shape, the.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: Kids a specimen.
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: He just he's he's just.
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: All around a really good athlete, basketball, track, football.
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: The fact that he's embraced three sports.
• 29:11
  Speaker 11: I think has really helped him out, and I you know,
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: i'd like to say keeps him from injuries. Still nursing
• 29:18
  Speaker 11: his hamstring there, but that's because he's just so explosive, right.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 29:23
  Speaker 11: It's kind of you know, something that you find with
• 29:26
  Speaker 11: real explosive fast athletes as those hamstrings, and he's he's
• 29:30
  Speaker 11: still working on that, but he just you know, he's
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: just such a threat to vertically on the field to
• 29:38
  Speaker 11: check it deep that he also gets other guys open
• 29:41
  Speaker 11: by grabbing so much attention. We didn't really anticipate him
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: getting many balls Friday night due to conditions and maybe
• 29:49
  Speaker 11: how they might play him, but it opened up for
• 29:52
  Speaker 11: him and Eli found him, so that was great.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, three catches, three touchdowns, you know, making making plays.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: And you're right about three sport thing. I remember coming
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: out to a track me out at Ferndale High School
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and I didn't know and you being the track coach,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I didn't know he was going to do track and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: he was out there doing the triple jump, I believe,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: or long jump, and and it was just so cool
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to see. And and you know, I knew we played
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: football and basketball. He was coming back from that injury,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: his sophomore years from his from football, and and I
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: knew he had something special in him. Of course, he
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: broke out last year and he's he's just doing a
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: great job this year. And I, you know, I know
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: him and his family, and it's just such a fun background,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: such great people, and it's really good to see good
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: people do good things. Let's talk about Thursday night. You're
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: heading to Nuksack Valley. Here's a team that's on a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: three game winning streak right now there. I think they
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: kind of took a while to kind of find their identity.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: There was just a lot of weird things going on
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: back and forth. Injuries. Are we a run first team?
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Are we a past first team? Are we a defensive team?
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: And they just defeated one of the best teams in
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the state and Montesano. When you watch the Pioneers on film,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: what's stands out to you?
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: Real good skills and then hard nosed maybe not you know,
• 31:08
  Speaker 11: a big, huge, bullying ball type of kid like you know,
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: like a lens or whatever, but just hard nose, tough
• 31:14
  Speaker 11: kids flying to the ball. Their linebackers read really well.
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: They you know, their their defensive backfield is really good.
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: Not many holes there offensively, you know, quarterback can really
• 31:31
  Speaker 11: sling it and run. You know, they've got some great
• 31:35
  Speaker 11: play designs too. I think that that elevate their athleticism.
• 31:40
  Speaker 11: They've been playing really, really well. And hats off to
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: Bartle for the teams that he's scheduled too. I'm sure
• 31:48
  Speaker 11: it's only made them well. With Montesano and and Tumwater
• 31:52
  Speaker 11: and Life Christian early on. Yeah, those are those are
• 31:56
  Speaker 11: really good games.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kings as well. And and on Alaska is actually
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: you know, they're top five and two and two B
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and I mean it's yeah, it's it's crazy. I mean,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: on Alaska is very comparable to Okanagan, who you played,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: And it's it's a very similar schedule, you know. And
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I know you you know, like to schedule tough and
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: it only makes you better. And and it's is there,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know it. I mean, you go into it,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: you obviously want to win. It's a conference game. You
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: know you're going to be in the round of thirty two,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: But you know it's is it? And I'm I'm sorry
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: around A twenty four for one A but now correct
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong on this too. If you are
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: if you are eligible to host a Round of twenty
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: four game? Do you get to play that at home?
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Or is that would that be? Would they have to
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: be on turf maybe at Blaine or Ferndale or Civic
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: or something like that.
• 32:50
  Speaker 11: It does not have to be on turf. It can
• 32:53
  Speaker 11: be at our home.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: I'm just discussing that with the boys in the weight
• 32:57
  Speaker 11: room this morning. You know, where do you want to play?
• 33:00
  Speaker 11: And the overwhelming thought would be to have it here
• 33:03
  Speaker 11: at our place.
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: And I would love it too.
• 33:05
  Speaker 11: The the argument for having it on turf, whether Blaine
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: or Civic or whatever, would be.
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: Hey, you get used to turfs.
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: Because if you get by that team, then the rest
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: of them have to be on a state approved.
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: Most likely turf site. So I don't know. I mean,
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: We'll probably go with whatever the boys.
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: Want to do, but I'm not going to count any
• 33:27
  Speaker 11: chickens before they hatch. I am dead focused on Nuksak
• 33:31
  Speaker 11: right now.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's and and with their their passing attack,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: it's an unusual one. It's not one that you normally see.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: As far as you know, Meridian is they got you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: hitches and goes and different things. This is a lot
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: of you know, horizontal, using all the field lineman coming
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: out to block and and different things and and uh,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: it's kind of head on a swivel type stuff. For
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: your defensive backs that are do you like, you know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: they're ready for this kind of action, like this kind
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: of passing game.
• 34:05
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll find out today. Today's defensive day.
• 34:08
  Speaker 12: We got to figure out how.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: To stop streams.
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: So yeah, I'm sure that'll be a focus of coach
• 34:12
  Speaker 11: Bauma on the defense.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a unique offense to watch, and
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of like the wing tea. If you
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: run it a certain way and you do it over
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and over again, you can can you can perfect certain
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: things and and yeah, it's gonna be a really really
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: fun game Thursday night. The radio is gonna be out there,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: so it's gonna be awesome. Thank you so much, coach.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Good luck at Nicksack Valley on Thursday, and thank you
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: for joining me on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 34:37
  Speaker 8: Thanks so much for all the covers.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Tyler, You're welcome and we are now joined on the
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day Preview by Nickzack Valley football coach Craig Bartle. Coach,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Not too bad?
• 34:49
  Speaker 13: Thanks, thanks again for our weekly chat.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Love it, Yeah, it's great. What is your favorite Halloween candy?
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: H you know this.
• 35:03
  Speaker 14: I like the candy corn.
• 35:05
  Speaker 12: Yeah, but I think my favorite candy.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Is is Twizzlers.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Twizzlers nice. Yeah, yeah, going away from the traditional chocolate there.
• 35:15
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm not a you know, you get chocolate other
• 35:17
  Speaker 13: times of the year, but Twizzlers, candy corn, candy corn
• 35:21
  Speaker 13: on moderations.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, a little bit of time. There's a
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: reason why you don't see it around your year, around
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: the calendar, right, yeah, right, you only see it in
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the stores in October.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Before talking about your Week nine opponent, let's talk about
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: last week and what a game it was against Montesato.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: You withstood some early penalties, some late weather, oh, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: a pretty good football team too. What was your biggest
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: takeaway from that thirteen to seven win over the Bulldogs.
• 35:50
  Speaker 13: Yeah, like you said all the above.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some.
• 35:57
  Speaker 13: I guess, some penalties early on that.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: You know, kudos to our kids.
• 36:01
  Speaker 13: They didn't they didn't let that uh, you know, disappoint them,
• 36:05
  Speaker 13: and we just had to make a couple of adjustments
• 36:08
  Speaker 13: on that and gosh, you know, I think we had
• 36:12
  Speaker 13: four penalties in the first I don't know, eight plays
• 36:14
  Speaker 13: or something like that. But but the kids did a
• 36:16
  Speaker 13: really good job of of, you know, just overcoming that
• 36:20
  Speaker 13: and and adapting to that. Montasana is a really good
• 36:23
  Speaker 13: football team.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I'm really proud of our.
• 36:26
  Speaker 13: Kids for for the energy that we had for that
• 36:29
  Speaker 13: game and just you know, it was a good game
• 36:32
  Speaker 13: for our kids and coaches in our community.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was. It was something you just
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: kinda I kind of I kind of kept waiting for
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Montsno to. I mean, they had that long touchdown pass,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: but other than that, there wasn't really anything that they
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: broke loose. And I just kind of thought, man, they're
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: gonna do that. That's just what they do. They're gonna
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: pop a big run or throw a deep pass. And
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: it just never happened. And it's like it's like they
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: ran out of time. And you guys held on and
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: I know, you know, you and I have talked about
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: things that you've you know, seen on film, and you
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: work really hard and you and you and you have
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: ideas of what they might do and what could work,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and it's so cool to see it when it kind
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: of starts to happen, right, it's like, wow, this is great.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: You win with a pair of rushing touchdowns. And a
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: few years ago, opposing coaches a few of them told
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: me that you that your offensive line at that time
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: was the best they've ever seen at the one A level.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: This year, it's a lot of new faces on the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: offensive line. Tell us about those kids and how they've
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: been to coach this year.
• 37:38
  Speaker 13: Yeah, well, it's been a revolving door for the first
• 37:41
  Speaker 13: you know, a few weeks. But you know, we've got
• 37:44
  Speaker 13: some guys that are they're they're playing really good and
• 37:49
  Speaker 13: playing hard right now. And so they're young, so they're
• 37:52
  Speaker 13: still making some young mistakes. But the offensive line, I
• 37:56
  Speaker 13: mean that takes a while to get some continuity amongst
• 37:59
  Speaker 13: them selves and compliment each other and try to figure
• 38:02
  Speaker 13: out when to help each other. And so just getting
• 38:05
  Speaker 13: games under their belt has been really good. They're starting
• 38:10
  Speaker 13: to understand each other. And you know, we have some
• 38:13
  Speaker 13: some senior leadership on that line with Landon and Gave
• 38:17
  Speaker 13: Snyder's and so I think they're they're doing a pretty
• 38:20
  Speaker 13: good job of kind of helping.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: The younger guys.
• 38:23
  Speaker 13: And you know, line guys are just they're just different
• 38:27
  Speaker 13: and so they're they're able to kind of adapt right now.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: And it's it's fun to watch. Yeah, it's really really cool.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: And it's because it was such a staple for so long.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: It seems like you had the same guys forever and
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: then now it's this whole new crew and and but
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: it's the same type of plays, you know. It's it's
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: it's fun to see how they can, you know, how
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: their take on it and see them go and you know,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: this past week Gavee Snyder's won the Anytime Fitness offensive.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: I'm another week I thought he did a great game
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: and and uh so, yeah, it's just it's really cool
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: to see them go at it. Let's talk about Thursday night. Yes,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: you heard it right, Thursday night, you're back in conference action.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: You're hosting Lennon Christian at seven o'clock. Out of your
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: eight games so far, I believe that seven of them
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: have been against teams that have been ranked in the
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: top ten at some point and they're classifications. Six of
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: them probably still are. And now you have another highly
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: ranked team in the Links other than coach terps bright
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: orange gloves. What stands out on film when you watch LC.
• 39:35
  Speaker 13: Uh, it's hard to get off of those bright orange gloves.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: But I know they they look like they come out
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: of my closet for sure. I mean I need to borrow.
• 39:43
  Speaker 8: Tho some days.
• 39:46
  Speaker 13: Just they're uh, they're really good. They're their backs run hard,
• 39:52
  Speaker 13: they're line blocks well, they've got great skill positions or
• 39:55
  Speaker 13: quarterback he's yeah, I think this is what his third
• 39:58
  Speaker 13: year starting, and and they're just they're well coach that they.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Do things the right way.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: They're disciplined.
• 40:06
  Speaker 13: So I just what jumps out is how good a
• 40:09
  Speaker 13: football team they are from you know, across the board
• 40:12
  Speaker 13: in all three phases.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just what really stands out to me too,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: is there's just no holes, you know what I mean,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: there's no weakness. You're right, I mean all three phases.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: They're dangerous. In the return game, they had a tremendous kicker.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Their punter leads the league in punting over forty yards
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: of punt. So you look at all those things. That's
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: just special teams. You know, defense, they get after the ball,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: they always have those big tall guys on the edge.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: DB's are very very athletic and offensively, they've been you know,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: doing what they do. It's it's tricky because a lot
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: of times in one A football, especially when you're on offense,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: you can pick out maybe somebody on defense and say, okay,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: this is an area where we can attack, but there's
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: not really an area that you can attack on. LC
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: do you just kind of go at it with a
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: game plan of we just have to play our brand
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: of football and see what happens.
• 41:06
  Speaker 13: Yeah, absolutely, And you're right. There's you know, we've spent
• 41:09
  Speaker 13: hours watching them and and you're absolutely right, especially in
• 41:13
  Speaker 13: one A there's usually somebody out there that you can
• 41:15
  Speaker 13: find and pick on, and they don't have that, and
• 41:18
  Speaker 13: so it's, uh, you know, it's a chess match, and
• 41:22
  Speaker 13: and you hope you can catch them in something that
• 41:25
  Speaker 13: that maybe they're blitzing or something like that. But that,
• 41:28
  Speaker 13: I mean, that's even hard to do because there there's
• 41:30
  Speaker 13: there's discipline across the board. You know, we're just gonna
• 41:35
  Speaker 13: kind of do what we do and see if we.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Can catch a break somewhere. Yeah, it's gonna be it's
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: gonna be a great game. I'm pretty sure the radio
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: is gonna be out there again, and and uh, my goodness,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: it's a I can't believe it's gonna be the end
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: of the conference season already. And man, it flies by.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: It's a grind, we both know it, and but it's
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun, awesome stuff. Coach, Thank good luck
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: against the lane. Thanks on Thursday, and thank you so
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: much for joining me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you bet. Thanks.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: The last game on Thursday night will start at seven
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: point thirty at Civic Stadium and it will be the
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Squalicum Storm facing the Bellingham BayHawks, a great crosstown rivalry there.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Both teams come into this matchup with an even four
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: and four record. And we are now joined on the
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day preview by Squalicum football coach Nick Lucy. Coach,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: Hey?
• 42:27
  Speaker 14: And good thanks for having me.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: You bet. First question, what's your favorite Halloween candy?
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 42:33
  Speaker 15: Man, you know it's probably not a favorite amongst the kids,
• 42:36
  Speaker 15: which is all the better. You gotta go with almond Joy.
• 42:39
  Speaker 15: You know, you get the sweet chocolate and the savory almond.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: You know what, that's probably my number one as well.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: And you're right. When I was a kid, I was like, eh,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: take it.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: Or leave it.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: You know, I'll eat around the almond and my dad
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: loved almond joys and I never understood it, and now
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I get it. It is spare the best. They're so good.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: And it's so funny that you know you said that
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: because miss walkin preps and I we just got the
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: big five pound bag from Costco and ready for Friday night.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: And she's like, and she does not like all them enjoys,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: So she's like, you can have all those whatever, it
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: doesn't count fantastic, let me have it. Yeah, And I
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: gotta give credit to her. This was this was her
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: question to ask all the coaches this week. This was
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: her idea. So it's pretty cool. Before talking about your
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Week nine opponent, let's talk about last week. A tough
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: game against Sea Home. They leaned heavily on the run game,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: especially in the second half, and they ran away with
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: the win. What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 43:40
  Speaker 15: Uh, you know, we I thought our guys came back
• 43:44
  Speaker 15: and competed.
• 43:44
  Speaker 14: Well, we didn't have we didn't have the start that
• 43:46
  Speaker 14: we wanted to have.
• 43:47
  Speaker 15: And you know, we thought, especially being a weather game,
• 43:49
  Speaker 15: but I mean, heck, any game.
• 43:51
  Speaker 14: The turnovers were going to play a big role.
• 43:53
  Speaker 15: And you know, when you're down, I want to say
• 43:55
  Speaker 15: we we had I want to say.
• 43:57
  Speaker 14: Three more turnovers. I can't remember, get three or four turnovers.
• 43:59
  Speaker 14: But you know, when you're down that much, that's you know,
• 44:02
  Speaker 14: you're you're you're you're working up hill. So that was tough.
• 44:05
  Speaker 14: I was proud of our guys battling back.
• 44:07
  Speaker 15: We got some things that we want to work on
• 44:10
  Speaker 15: this week, and you know we're we're on to week nine.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and correct me if I'm wrong talking of talking
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: about battling uphill. I don't know if you were able
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: to possess the ball until the score was already fourteen
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: zero with that line drive kickoff that hit an up
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: man and was recovered by the Mariners. That's that is
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: really tough to come back from. Was that the case,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: if I'm remembering that correctly.
• 44:31
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it was. They got the ball in
• 44:33
  Speaker 14: the first drive, broke down scored. We had him on
• 44:36
  Speaker 14: like I want a third or fourth down, I remember,
• 44:38
  Speaker 14: and I think we had him.
• 44:40
  Speaker 15: It was it was it twice are both drives we
• 44:42
  Speaker 15: had him, you know in situations and yeah, yeah, you
• 44:44
  Speaker 15: get down fourteen nothing and you get down to you know,
• 44:46
  Speaker 15: a good opponent. Yeah, yeah, that's always tough when you
• 44:50
  Speaker 15: know you kind of spot that lead and you're battling back.
• 44:53
  Speaker 15: But our guys, our guys, credit to them, they came back,
• 44:55
  Speaker 15: they battled.
• 44:56
  Speaker 14: We had a drive.
• 44:57
  Speaker 15: We got to want to say, was that our first
• 44:59
  Speaker 15: touchdown on We're we just our guys just gutted out
• 45:02
  Speaker 15: and made some things happen. We didn't get anything easy,
• 45:04
  Speaker 15: and Anson makes a hell of a catch on a
• 45:07
  Speaker 15: on a third down play, and uh, you know, I
• 45:10
  Speaker 15: thought we had momentum going into halftime, and uh, you know,
• 45:14
  Speaker 15: sometimes it goes like that. But our guys, our guys responded,
• 45:16
  Speaker 15: which is, you know, the kind of just shows our
• 45:18
  Speaker 15: character absolutely.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: And you know, I I loved the half back past.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: You know you've done the you know, you've done the
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: double pass, you know, over the years quite a bit,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: but the half back pass that was a little new.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: I love that. Tell me about your senior safety, Reese, Knowlton,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: You've had a lot of these smaller safeties that just
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: know how to come up and make plays, guys like
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Caleb Hawkinson over the years, even even Ben Peterson wasn't
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the biggest guy. What has it been like to coach
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Reese over the years.
• 45:46
  Speaker 15: You know, Reese has been so much fun to see,
• 45:48
  Speaker 15: like progress as a player, you know, because there's guys
• 45:52
  Speaker 15: that come in and they're just talented from the get.
• 45:55
  Speaker 14: Go, and you know, well Reese is talented. He's worked
• 45:59
  Speaker 14: hard to make melf a player.
• 46:00
  Speaker 15: He's a guy that you know, turns over every stone,
• 46:03
  Speaker 15: a cerebral, as coachable, he's like every week he's our
• 46:07
  Speaker 15: he's our top film watcher, which you know.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: Says a lot about him.
• 46:11
  Speaker 15: But been really cool to see him, you know, progress
• 46:13
  Speaker 15: into being the dude this year. I mean, you go
• 46:15
  Speaker 15: back against your against your Mount Baker Mountaineers as a sophomore,
• 46:19
  Speaker 15: he had a big turnover recovery in our Week ten game,
• 46:22
  Speaker 15: and uh, you know we did a lot of key
• 46:24
  Speaker 15: things last year as a as a key.
• 46:26
  Speaker 14: Backup, the guy playing quite a bit too.
• 46:28
  Speaker 15: So just one of those guys you love because you
• 46:31
  Speaker 15: love to see the progression because you know it's due
• 46:33
  Speaker 15: to his work ethic and want to Yeah.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: There's something to be said about when a senior gets
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: his chance and then makes the most of his opportunity.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: And that's and he's been a fun player to watch
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: because he'd come in on special teams and he would
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: thump you for a guy that's not the biggest guy,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: And I always thought, man, he's he's got something. And
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: you can always I watch a lot of film and
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: I can I can tell, like, especially on special teams,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: when you see that guy that backup and you I
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: always think to myself, he's gonna when once he becomes
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: a starter, he's going to be a really good player.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: And and that that was Reese Nolton. I mean, that
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: was so much fun to watch him. And yeah, I
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: just I love those kind of guys. Let's talk about
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: this Thursday night, your final conference game of the year.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: You'll be standing on the other side of Civic Stadium
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: as Bellingham will play host. When you watch the BayHawks
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: on film, what stands out to you?
• 47:23
  Speaker 15: You know, I think it starts offensively. Uh, they like
• 47:27
  Speaker 15: to throw the ball. They got some guys out why
• 47:30
  Speaker 15: they want to get it too. They're tied to number
• 47:32
  Speaker 15: thirteen is really good player, and you know, we gotta
• 47:35
  Speaker 15: we gotta do a good job covering and we got
• 47:38
  Speaker 15: to do a good job defending the run game. They
• 47:40
  Speaker 15: got they got a good running back and they like
• 47:41
  Speaker 15: to get vertical. They really made an emphasis of that
• 47:44
  Speaker 15: this year, so, uh yeah, we got our challenge out
• 47:48
  Speaker 15: in front of us that way. And then defensively, they
• 47:50
  Speaker 15: are a pressure defense. They give multiple looks and uh,
• 47:55
  Speaker 15: you know really really like to uh you know, bring
• 47:58
  Speaker 15: guys from everywhere. So we got to make sure that
• 47:59
  Speaker 15: we're fundamental, got to make sure we get our eyes
• 48:01
  Speaker 15: in the right place and go play ball.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you said that about their defense because
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: they do like to bring a lot have a lot
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: of pressure. They kind of make you, uh maybe maybe
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: bring more than you have blocking type thing, And what
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: can happen a lot of times is they can just
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: run and muck stuff up and your guys are your
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: guys are so precision based and polling and kind of
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: timing wise, is is that can really you know, create havoc,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: especially in your run games. So you know, do you
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: look at that and say, we might need to kind
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: of change a little bit of what we do or
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: is it kind of like that week to week where
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: you based, you know a lot of your play calls
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: based on kind of what the defense is going to
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: give you.
• 48:44
  Speaker 15: Yeah, I think that's kind of you know, if you
• 48:46
  Speaker 15: have an offense, it's built systematically.
• 48:50
  Speaker 14: You know, you should have the answers in there. You
• 48:51
  Speaker 14: should have you know.
• 48:52
  Speaker 15: I think that your offensive plays, you know, especially your
• 48:57
  Speaker 15: the core of your offense should be good against you know,
• 49:00
  Speaker 15: eighty percent of everything you're gonna see.
• 49:02
  Speaker 14: So it's not a you know, we're we're only gonna
• 49:04
  Speaker 14: pull out this much for this week and as much
• 49:06
  Speaker 14: for that. You know, obviously there's.
• 49:07
  Speaker 15: Things we're gonna stress more against teams that bring a
• 49:09
  Speaker 15: lot of pressure different fronts. But you know, like it,
• 49:13
  Speaker 15: this makes a great example. We got today and tomorrow
• 49:15
  Speaker 15: and then we're playing Thursday, so there's no way to
• 49:18
  Speaker 15: you know, do anything different.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. And that's another one of those things
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: is you know, a short week. I mean, you can't
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: say it's it's it's tough because it's tough for them too,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: So it's it's the shoes on the same foot for
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: both teams. But you know, when it is a short
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: week like that, it really kind of you got you know, limit,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: It limits your adjustments, right you have, right, but one
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: that's full practice and all that stuff. So yeah, it's
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: gonna be a great one. I love when these when
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: the city schools get together, you know, and being moved.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: And what I love too is at Civic Stadium. You know,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: you're following the same two schools that are playing a
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: soccer game. So I really hope that the community comes
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: out supports both sports. It's gonna be two great teams,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: you know, for two great games. I think it's an
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: awesome thing out at Civic Stadium on Thursday night. And yeah,
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: you guys will be the You guys will be the finale,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: and I hope you guys put on a great show.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Good luck against Bellingham. And thank you so much for
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: joining me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 50:15
  Speaker 14: Hey appreciate you Tyler and all you do.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: preview by Belling and football coach Adam Leonard. Coach, thank
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: you for joining me today. How are you doing.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: I'm doing okay, Tyler. Just drying off from last week.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was my first question. Are you completely
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: dried out from Friday night?
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: Not quite yet.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: I'm working on it.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: You remember, I'm not a Northwestern or so when you
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: get three inches of rain in three hours, it's a
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: little overwhelming.
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, what's your favorite Halloween candy.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: You know what, I'm gonna have to go with Twigs.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: It's always been my favorite since I was a kid.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, some thing I recently discovered from my youngest son Nick.
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: He came home one day, Sai, Dad, you've got to
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: try this, And it was a Twix ice cream bar.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I've had that.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. It changed my life.
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: And I like that with the Snick But the Snickers
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: ice cream bar.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's when you get because I'm a caramel guy,
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: and so when you when you bite into an ice
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: cream that has the Yeah, and he got that TwixT
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: with the ice It just it was a difference maker.
• 51:17
  Speaker 12: I think.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: I ate the whole thing and put it on the
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: grocery list for next time.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: I had never had one until about like three weeks.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Ago, and then oh that's great, that's awesome. Before talking
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: about your Week nine opponent, let's talk about last week.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: Touch on it again. You scored on a twenty six
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass from Ben Leonard to Joe Harward late
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: in the first quarter, kind of split the two defenders.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: Joe falls back, catches it right in the end zone.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: It turns out to be the loan score of the game.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Well, my biggest takeaway was I didn't realize how much
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: of an impact mother nature could have. And I played
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: in some games.
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: I watched my older son playing some games when he
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: was at Swall from high school, and some rough weather
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: played in that month soon last year against seen Home,
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: but I had never seen such steady rain in a
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: long time. So yeah, my biggest takeaway is mother nature
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: can be a huge impact up here this time of
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: year for football, and I just appreciate the way our
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: team was resilient. It was it was a frustrating game,
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: but our defense just was outstanding, holding MP to twenty
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: one yards or twenty four years of total offense. So
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: I can't say enough about the defense, and offensively, we
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: just did enough to get that.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: I was actually that rain was coming down. I didn't
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: think we were going to complete a pass, but.
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: We still were able to go ten eleven for like
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: eleven of seventeen or something, so I was really.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: Happy with that.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, was there a point in the game where,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: or it could have been in pregame where you thought, ooh,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I got to change the game plan up a little
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: bit because of the weather or was it just kind
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: of We're just going to go out there and play
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: and then see how things are going and maybe change
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: it if we have to.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: We're gonna stick with our game plan. You know.
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: In our pregame it was raining and then it started
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: raining harder. So in the pregame we were throwing the
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: ball really well, Ben was. He was thrown all around
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: the yard.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: He felt good. And then the rain kept coming, the
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: ball got heavier. He went through so many it.
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: Got to the point where it's like, why are we
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: putting new balls out on the field because they're.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: Just it was we really didn't change that. What we
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: did is what we got to a point.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: I think in the second half we were like, you
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: know what, we do see some options on here, but
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: best to just protect this football, run this thing out,
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: get the heck back on.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: The bus, and get out of here.
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: And that was kind of the mentality was it was
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: got the wind, got out of there, but it was
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: just an absolute sloppy, sloppy conditions.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me about your senior center and nose tackle.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Joshua Croll, a three year starter at center, now starting
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: this year at nose tackle, he had a couple of
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: stops behind the line of scrimmage on Friday. Tell our
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: listeners what's been like to coach him over the years.
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I absolutely love Josh Brol.
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: He's I've coached him since he was a young man
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: in elementary school, in middle school, and he's he's just
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: has a contagious positive attitude that is wonderful.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: He's worked through some adversity.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: Earlier this year he lost his father, and I know
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: he's been working through that as well, but he's just
• 54:23
  Speaker 4: he's such a great kid, great human being, such a
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: leader for our team, you know, anchors down our offensive line,
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: defensive line. I love the way he played, and even
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: in our loss again Seahome, he's playing against old teammates
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: and he was holding his own and actually deliberate, you know,
• 54:38
  Speaker 4: he was he was given a seat home.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: They're they're really tough pe line everything they could handle.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: And just proud of his you know, strong character guy
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: and just an overall great teammate. He's been a pleasure
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: to coach for me for like the last eight years.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's always a fun when I going out
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: and taking headshots and talking to these kids. He's always
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: one of my favorites to go see, and it's it's
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: it's you know, it's always sad when I go back
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: out there and I'm now now kids are not there anymore,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: and he's one of those ones I'm going to miss
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: next next year when I come out there to Bellingham
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: High School. Uh, let's talk about Thursday night. You're taking
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: on squalsum squalic them in a crossdown rivalry game. What
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: kind of challenges do the Storm present?
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: Oh? There.
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: First of all, they're tremendous athletes, and they're extremely well
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: coached coach Lucy and my son Josh played for the
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: coach Lucy for three years before coming to play for me,
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: and just a tremendous coach, tremendous coaching staff, foremost knowledgeable
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: coaches in the state. So tries to throw different looks,
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: a lot of pre snab shifts motions just to try
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: to you know, test test the defense. So we're going
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: to keep us on our toes the whole time. And
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: plus they have tremendous athletes, have a great quarterback and
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: Cole Burke. They have one of the most dynamic athletes
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: with Anson s v Ormsen and his little brother asher.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're just you know kids.
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: I've also coached as well in youth ball, but they
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: present so many matchup issues for you.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: So they're just they're a tremendous team.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Again, I'm just one. Much like the Sea home game,
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: there's gonna be.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: A lot of a lot of emotions, you know, with
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: you know, former teammates going against each other, acrosstown rival.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: It's our senior night.
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: I did see the weather report, looks like no rank
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: for Thursday, So I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed on
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: that one.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it is a unique offense that they run.
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: It looks like they do a lot of things early
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: on to kind of see what the defense, how the
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: defense reacts, and then they adjust to that later. What
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: are the things that your defense needs? Like I guess
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: the best, best, best way, but what's the what are
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: some of the things that your defensive players need to
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: key on to kind of is it about staying home?
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: Is it about reading your keys? Is it about you
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: know what? Is it about like how how you can
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: stop that squaalk of offense because you got you got
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: guards going all over the place, you got things kind
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: of you know, you could really get caught up and
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: all the chaos. So how do they stay focused on
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: doing what they need to do well?
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: They need to stay in this assignments and stay home.
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: Small offense is all about misdirection and a lot of
• 57:06
  Speaker 4: window dressing on what they do.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: But it's to you know, keep your assignments and keep
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: win and keep and keep, stay home and what you're
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: supposed to do.
• 57:13
  Speaker 4: Obviously, yeah, playmakers who are super dynamic when they get
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: the ball in my hands.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: But you know, our defense is gonna we're.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: Staying with what has worked for us and just make
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: sure that we don't get caught up in a lot
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: of that a lot of that window dressing that they do,
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: and you know, stay home in our assignments.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be it's always going to be
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: a fun game. I'm you know, I love that it's
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: at the end of the year when all these city
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: schools start playing each other, and it's it's one that
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: everyone circled on the calendar. It's you know, it was
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: gonna be on Halloween night, which would have been you know,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: goodish and spooky and all that, but Thursday night, it's
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: really cool. It's right after the soccer game between the
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: same two schools, Bellingham and Squalor. Theum so a fun
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: night for both programs at Civic Stadium. I encourage you
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: to get out. Their early soccer game starts at four thirty.
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Your guys game, it says seven thirty. Is that set
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: right for the pickoff? Okay? Yeah, so four and seven thirty,
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: get dinner in between, make it a night out at
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Civic Stadium. It's going to be awesome, great stuff. Coach
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: good luck again squalak them on Thursday, and thank you
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: for joining me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Thanks Rommy Tyler. Have a great week.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: There you have it from Coach Lucy and Coach Leonard.
• 58:23
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• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Now let's move to Friday night and we'll start with
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: the earliest game of the evening, which is a five
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: o'clock kickoff out at Lemy Nation as the Blackhawks will
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: be hosting the lo Connor Braves. Loaconnor is five and
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: two on the season and the Blackhawks are four and three.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: preview by Lemon Nation football coach Tico Layton coach. Thank
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: you for joining me today. How are you doing.
• 59:03
  Speaker 5: I'm doing pretty good.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me, Tyler, You're welcome. What's your
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: favorite Halloween candy?
• 59:09
  Speaker 12: Oh? My favorite Halloween candy? I like, uh, just a
• 59:13
  Speaker 12: basic kit cat. I like this small size kid cat.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a good one. That's a good one. I
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: I you know, you know the regular you get like
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: four of them, I think, but just one is good
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: to go, right.
• 59:26
  Speaker 12: Oh yeah, I can't be having too much. I'll be
• 59:29
  Speaker 12: having a little frenzy.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: Oh man, Uh yeah, you don't. You don't want to
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: look like me. You don't want to look like you
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: don't want to look like the walking preps guy. Before
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: talking about your Week nine opponent, let's let's talk about
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: last week. It looked and correct me if I'm wrong.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: It looked like on film like the weather wasn't much
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: of a factor, Like it was a lot for teams
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: up here. How was it done in Tacoma?
• 59:51
  Speaker 12: It was rainy for the first probably quarter and then
• 59:54
  Speaker 12: after that it was just nice and wet, no wins.
• 59:59
  Speaker 12: But yeah, it wasn't wasn't too bad as it was
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 12: I saw up here.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that explains a lot because my next quarter,
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: my next question was the first quarter was scoreless, which
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: you don't see a lot of scoreless quarters in eight
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: man football. But then you come out and score three
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: touchdowns in the second quarter and we're had twenty two
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: to nothing at the half before winning the game. Pretty
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: big over, Charles, right, what was the big difference between
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: the first quarter and second quarter? Other than the.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 12: Weather, I feel like just doing our assignments, holding our blocks.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Our kids.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 12: So we actually showed up to the game with twenty
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 12: minutes left on the clock. We kind of got stuck
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 12: in traffic. Oh, they were able to give us a
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 12: couple more minutes to warm up, so our kids were
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 12: just getting loose and ready and had a real slow start.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: And that I've heard about that, and you know I
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: when you played too, I'm sure you can attest to this.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: With longer road trips, you get those bus legs right
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: where a lot of times that first quarter you're just
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: not where you should be, and especially if you're showing
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: up late. That's even tougher.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: I've talked to coach Ron Lepper about his first ever
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: game that he ever coached as a head coach, and
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: it was a road game at Lakewood and the bus
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: broke down on the way down there. Oh no, could
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: you imagine that your very first game? The bus breaks down,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Another bus shows up, picks up all the everybody. You
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: get there barely in time, and you're already nervous, and
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: that happens. I mean, my goodness, It's just crazy the
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: stuff that can happen that you don't think about. Right,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: let's talk about your big junior, DeAndre James. We saw
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: what kind of force he is on the basketball court.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: He helped the Blackhawks win a state championship, gives a
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: great interview in postgame, as we all saw, and at
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: six foot four, two hundred and twenty five pounds, he
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: does a lot of damage on the football field as well.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: Tell our listeners what it's been like to coach him
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: over the years.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 12: So he's been just a really nice, coachable kid that
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 12: I can give information and give him the opportunity to
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 12: lead this team. As a junior, he stepped up incredibly,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 12: you know, he plays dan.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: He's a big pressure on the edge.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 12: He can stay out on the outside and keep contained.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 12: But he's just a big, nice, physical kid who showed
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 12: out a lot this year.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I was watching that game, and when
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: you go against a pass happy team, he kind of
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: gets his chance right coming off the edge and the
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: blind side, and oh my goodness, that's a kid that
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: could that could do some damage. It doesn't matter what
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: classification it is. He's just such an athletic kid. Let's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: let's talk about Friday night. As far as I know,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: and things change, you're hosting Leconnor at five o'clock on
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: Friday night. Is that still the case?
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's correct.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, So it looks to be a pretty even game
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: when I look at their schedule. They beat kind of
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: the teams that you beat. They lost to the teams
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: that you lost to. So tell us about what kind
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: of team the Braves have this year.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 12: So m'connor is a nice they're smaller but quicker, and
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 12: they run a very compact offense. That's a wing te Oh,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 12: they got their nice lower versus dives. So it'll be
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 12: nice to play against them in their compact offense.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, man, I mean I can imagine, you know, you
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: probably got guys polling and counters and guys giving you
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: all sorts of window dressing and everything, and it's about
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: it's about your reads. So when you talk to kind
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: of like your linebacker corps, what are the things that
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: you're coaching them up on when playing against a wing
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: tea offense like.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 12: This, uh, following, polling, guards and there, their running backs
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 12: will tell us a lot. They don't have too much
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 12: running with their quarterback, but their running backs will tell
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 12: us a lot of their.
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  Speaker 2: Offense that looks like a little.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: Bit yeah, and yeah, so you're used to that? Is it?
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Is it rare to have because it seems like the
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: more eight man football I watch, the quarterback tends to
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: just be the guy that carries the ball the most
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: of the time. Is it rare to see an eight
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: man team where the quarterback is doing just a lot
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: of handing off and doesn't carry the ball a lot?
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 12: Yeah, it's usually the quarterbacks the main guy to facilitate
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 12: the ball and use it. So seeing them not use
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 12: their quarterback and use them more as like a lead
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 12: blocker is kind of different.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: And is he under center doing this wing tea stuff
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: or is he in the shotgun?
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 12: Yeah, he'll be under center.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's another rare thing, it seems like in
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: the eight minutes, so it'll be a little different look.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: They can put up points for sure, but hey, you
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: guys have been putting up points as well, So this
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: is gonna be an awesome one out at lumber Nation
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: at five o'clock on Friday. Good luck against the Connor
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: And thank you so much for joining me on the
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Gatorade game day preview.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, appreciate it.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 12: Thanks for having me Tyler.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: You bet the radio will be out there for that one.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: It's going to be awesome. It's a tremendous atmosphere. I
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: know the guys are pumped to do that. Game. Next
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: on Friday night will be the Seahome Mariners heading south
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: to take on the Archbishop Murphy Wildcats. See Home is
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: five and three on the season, and the Wildcats are
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: are undefeated at seven to zero and fully rested with
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: a bye last week. I was unable to connect with
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: coach Brian Young this week, but his team has an
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: extremely tall task ahead of it. The Mariners have been
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: rolling lately, especially with the emergence of its power run game,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: but this year's Archbishop team is about as dominant as
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: it gets. That game will be at seven o'clock on
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Friday down at Terry Innis Stadium in Everett. The final
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Friday night game will be the Linden Lions playing host
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: of the Burlington Edison Tigers. Linden is six and two
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: on the season and Burlington Edison is five and three.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: preview by Linden football coach Blake Vin Dalen coach, thank
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: you for joining me today. How are you doing good?
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on you bet? What's your
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: favorite Halloween candy?
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 16: Anything with a combination of peanut, butter and chocolate. So
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 16: I'm looking for anything from a basic reseas to anything
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 16: that involves those two.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a winning combination. I don't care
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: what anybody else says. That is about as good as
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: it gets. I got a quick trivia question for you
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: that you're kind of a historic history buff with Walking
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: County football. Only two coaches in Walking County history football
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: coaches have coached at least one hundred games and have
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: a winning percentage of eighty percent. Or higher. Do you
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: know who they are?
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 16: Oh? Man, I might have been roly to cost but
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 16: I just h he's one of them. Okay, because I
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 16: was I was born the year he was hired, so
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 16: I don't remember it, but I thought I remember reading
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 16: it somewhere. And Kirk Craney.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: Maybe, yes, those are the two.
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  Speaker 17: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now, coach, this upcoming Friday is your one hundredth game.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Oh and if you win it, I'm just saying, you'll
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: be eighty and funny. Oh in your career, so you
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: would join that? How about that?
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 16: No pressure, but thank you? That's fun.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: No, I did not know that.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 16: And that's cool.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: That's really cool.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: So you know, I mean I think that it's a
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: pretty cool deal. Yeah, no pressure or anything. And a
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: couple couple of guys that you knew pretty well.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 16: So yeah, that's cool.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: It's really a neat company there. Before talking about your
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Week nine opponent, let's talk about last week. You took
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: care of business down in Lakewood. You get the shutout
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: win and another game where you were able to get
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of kids involved. When you look back at it,
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: what are some what are some of your favorite moments
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: and memories from that game?
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 16: You know, it was your classic get right game because
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 16: of what had happened the week before kind of you know,
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 16: it kind of rocks you a little bit, and so
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 16: it felt good, I think for the kids to feel
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 16: good again. But then yeah, the highlights is, you know,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 16: you put a kid like Alvaro Mendoza in who's been
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 16: happy to be a d lineman for us, but it
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 16: was you know, with Malachi getting injured, it was a
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 16: great opportunity for him to get some reps at running back,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 16: and you talk about take the opportunity and run with it.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 16: He's part of our backfield moving forward because of how
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 16: he handled that, so really excited for him. There was
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 16: other seniors that got in there and got you know, interceptions,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 16: and they don't get to play in JV games. So yeah,
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 16: we got all sixty five kids in the game. But
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 16: I think my favorite moment is anytime you can get
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 16: a senior in the game and all the sideline is
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 16: excited and those kids work as hard as anybody and
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 16: to get to have their moment under the lights.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and it's so funny. And I've talked about this before.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: When I'm watching game film and I'm doing stats, you know,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: you got to have a memory. You got to have
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: a memory of what jersey number everybody is. I don't
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: I hate looking at the roster constantly and going who
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: is that? And once Alvarro was in the backfield taking
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: that whole drive was just him right, And as soon
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: as he carried the ball, I was like, who is that?
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: And it was I started laughing at myself because I
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: know I do stats for him on defense all the time.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: I know it is, but because it was at the
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: different position, it totally threw me off guard. He ran
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: great and getting that long touchdown run was just it
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: was just the icing on the cake. I love that
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: for him, and and and Linden is you know a
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: factory of backup running backs that if you want to
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: play your play defensive line. So really I love that
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: he's able to get that chance and that was really cool.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: A singer that I want to talk about too is
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: Weston cart Obviously stands out on film, looks the part,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: a giant wingspan, made a lot of plays in the
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: passing game, tipping passes, They're doing different things as a
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: defensive end. What has it been like to coach him
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: over the.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 16: Years, Well, he's kind of changed his name. Now he's
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 16: Big West Card. You know, he's, he's, he's he's catching
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 16: on that. As he transitions out of high school next year,
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 16: you know he'll he'll he'll want to be known as
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 16: you know when you're almost you know, well, he's over
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 16: thick thick Now he's just the massive human beings. So
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 16: Big West Card is you how he likes to be
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 16: referred to as always got his booths on. He's a
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 16: fun kid to coach because he doesn't take life too seriously,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 16: Like he wants to go out there and do his best,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 16: but he's not going to let it define him. And
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 16: I think I, as well as many others, can learn
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 16: a lot from that. He really does enjoy, you know,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 16: tearing apart an engine and putting it back together. And
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 16: he just loves life. And I really love that about
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 16: him because he helps me stay in perspective.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: It brings balance right to the team and stuff like that.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: When you have kids like that, it's a there's something
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: about that that that ripples through the rest of the
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: team and brings that ballance and brings smiles and having
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: so many different types of people. That's what's such a
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: great thing about football is It brings so many different
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: types of people together for one common goal, right, and
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: that's I mean, you know that better than anybody. But
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: this is such a cool thing where you get everybody
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: on the same page and and uh yeah, I love that.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: And he's he's just so fun to watch. You know,
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: you never know if he's gonna wear a fifty nine
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: or eighty five or and it's it's just a boy,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: but he does stand out on film. It's it's really cool.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Friday night, You'll be at home taken
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: on Burlington Edison. I you know, I tell you what,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: it does not matter with the re I mean that
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: that's the old cliche, right, throw the records out when
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: these two teams play each other. But it is sincerely
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: like that with with with you guys and Burlington. It
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: does not matter. It's always seems to be a really
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: good game when you play each other. When you watch
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: them on film, what stands out to you?
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 16: Well, it's interesting because I feel like we got a
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 16: glimpse into what will happen Friday night because they played
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 16: in the rain on a grass field, their fields grass
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 16: against Anna Chorda. It's a very good opponent and so
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 16: I feel like Friday night is supposed to be what
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 16: an inch and a half of rain, and we're on
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 16: grass and and so I feel like it's going to
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 16: be a slug pest and exactly what you said. They're
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 16: a really physical team who has figured out their identity
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 16: through the course of the season, and I think they,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 16: as well as us, we're gonna embrace the elements. It's
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 16: not gonna be one of those teams where like they're
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 16: hiding in the locker room because it's cold and wet.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 16: They're gonna love it as much as our kids love it.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 16: So I think it'll be our classic throwdown, you know,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 16: throwing a bunch of hay may. They'll be like watching
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 16: a Rocky Balboa fight where they're just taking turns, slugging
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 16: each other and holding onto the ball will be a
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 16: key factor to it. And they run their quarterback a lot,
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 16: and he's a big kid, and so it'll be it'll
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 16: be a great test. I think both schools are probably
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 16: glad that we have this game right before the playoffs
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 16: because it it's a great opportunity to get better before
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 16: the consequences become more dire.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: If you will, Yeah, I totally agree with you. And
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: and you know you've talked in the past about how
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: the being Lyndon's frankly, you're gonna get everybody else's best shot.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: But it seems like the team that always takes that
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: to heart is Burlington. I mean, you know, I remember
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen or I believe it was when you guys,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: you guys got to the finals that year, but that
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: game was won on an interception at the end when
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: you played against them, Preston King, I think if I
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: remember correctly, But and then you know it was a
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: three point game when on one of the years you
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: guys won the championship on a game winning field goal
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: thirty eight thirty five, there's something about they really taken
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: to heart, they really up their game against you guys.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Is there something you can pinpoint that to or just
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: what how? What is it?
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 16: I think you can pinpoint it to legacy. Back in
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 16: the eighties, their program was one of the best in
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 16: the entire state, all classifications. That's where Kurt Kramey cut
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 16: his teeth. He went there first, was an assistant coach.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 16: And we still have drills, We still have conditioning. For example,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 16: we did flonas special for conditioning last night. Well, Brian
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 16: Flonis played for Burlington Edison and the Seahawks later on,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 16: and we still do that conditioning every time we played Burlington,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 16: and so I guarantee they probably do the same conditioning.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 16: So there are some parallels from their program to ours
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 16: based on Cramey when he was there in the eighties,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 16: and so there's that part of it. And then there's
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 16: also you know, when Andy Olsen was there. He's a
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 16: former Linden football guy. Dalton Schwetz is the head coach now.
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 16: He married Tricia Schnyder, who was a great fast pitch
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 16: player here at Lindon. I think it's gonna be your
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 16: birthday Friday night, so there's even more you know, Linden
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 16: connections and all that fun stuff. So no, I think
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 16: it's it's a very similar program to ours. They I
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 16: remember when we put in our new weight room, they
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 16: called and came and toured it and they put in
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 16: a weight room just like it. So I think that's
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 16: where you get the comparisons. They do things very similar
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 16: to how we do things, and I think when you
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 16: do things right, both programs give themselves a chance to
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 16: win every game, no matter who's the better team each year.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point. And I'm glad you brought
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: all that up. And it's it's something that you know,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: there's little things. There's these little minute things that teams
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: that are that might be struggling or trying to find
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: something to click or find that, you know, something that works.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: They could they could learn a lot from from just
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: being around a London program. And and uh, and just
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: asking questions. I mean, I'm sure you get questions from
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: coaches all the time saying, you know, how can we
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: what can we? You know, how do you guys? And
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: and and it's you know, and it's a fraternity, and
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you help other coaches out and it's just
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: a it's a fun thing. And so I thank you
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: a lot for for being candid about a lot of this.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: And it's so cool to talk to you. And and
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a great week nine. And of
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: course on Halloween night with the rain and the muck
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: and the grass field and all that, this is gonna
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: be great. Good luck against the Tigers on Friday. And
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
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  Speaker 16: Hey appreciate your time. And have a great week you two.
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  Speaker 1: That's always a great matchup and I would expect the
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  Speaker 1: same here. Let's finish this up with the lone Saturday game.
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  Speaker 1: It's a West Go three, a crossover matchup with the
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  Speaker 1: Ferndale Golden Eagles hosting the edmund Edmunds Woodway Warriors at
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  Speaker 1: three pm on Saturday afternoon at Ferndal High School. Ferndale
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  Speaker 1: is three and five on the season and Edmunds Woodway
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  Speaker 1: is five and three. And we are now joined on
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  Speaker 1: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Ferndale football coach Jamie Plankovic. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 17: I'm doing good about yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing all right. The hard hitting first question, what's
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  Speaker 1: your favorite Halloween candy?
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  Speaker 17: I'd probably have to go with Reese's Peanut butter cup.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my girlfriend would be so happy. She was wondering
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  Speaker 1: when a coach would finally say that this is her
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  Speaker 1: question and that's her favorite. So that's a I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever met anyway that did
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  Speaker 1: not like a Reese's Peanut.
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  Speaker 17: But oh kiddy, that's not the like Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Before talking about your week nine opponent. Let's let's go
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  Speaker 1: over last week. It was a tough one down at
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  Speaker 1: Segar Woolley. The undefeated Cups had some explosive plays early.
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  Speaker 1: You're forced to play ketchup a little bit. But again,
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  Speaker 1: I thought your team fought pretty hard. What were your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the game.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, we we can't start out slow and we're again
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  Speaker 9: gave up some big plays early in that game.
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  Speaker 17: That really hurt.
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  Speaker 9: Us and put us, you know, like you said, playing
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  Speaker 9: catch up. We had opportunities to close the gap. We
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  Speaker 9: we you know, our focus we talked about in our
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  Speaker 9: meeting on Monday is we got to do a better
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  Speaker 9: job on third down on defense, and we got to
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  Speaker 9: do a better job on third down on offense and
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  Speaker 9: keeping drives going. So we're not sustaining things finishing on
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  Speaker 9: the offensive side and we're having them. You know, we're
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  Speaker 9: not to the level we need to be to get
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  Speaker 9: teams off the field when they're on third down on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh yeah, that's I mean that's always a tough thing.
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  Speaker 1: And and and and there are so many teams nowadays
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  Speaker 1: that are going forward on fourth down. And sometimes I've
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  Speaker 1: seen this in film this year where a team will
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  Speaker 1: make a stop on third down, and they're so jacked
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  Speaker 1: about it. They got the fist in the air fourth down,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the team's going forward
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  Speaker 1: on fourth down and they they kind of let you know,
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  Speaker 1: they kind of used all their steam on that third
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  Speaker 1: down play and then they give up a first down
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  Speaker 1: and fourth So, uh yeah, it's just it's just crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Over the past few days since your game, you've had
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  Speaker 1: to scout multiple teams, not knowing exactly who we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: you were going to play. Now you know it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be Edmunds Woodway on Saturday afternoon at home. But
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  Speaker 1: before we talk about the Warriors, I'm curious how practices
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  Speaker 1: go early in the week when you don't know who
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  Speaker 1: your opponent will be just yet. Do you just kind
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  Speaker 1: of fine tune your stuff?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah, we went Monday.
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  Speaker 9: We did what we always do, which is a film
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  Speaker 9: review of the previous game with our varsity guys and
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  Speaker 9: a little walkthrough out on the field, get a moving
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  Speaker 9: around review some you know, things that we feel like
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  Speaker 9: we need to fix or adjustments were talking about making
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  Speaker 9: for this week.
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  Speaker 17: And then yesterday was.
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  Speaker 9: Kind of a crisp practice again, not we kind of
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  Speaker 9: went against ourselves and some seven on seven work, just
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  Speaker 9: again to work on some things on both sides of
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  Speaker 9: the ball because we didn't know who we were going
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  Speaker 9: to play, some offensive stuff, and it was a pretty
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  Speaker 9: crisp practice because a couple of us went down to
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  Speaker 9: watch the Kansas City teebreaker last night, so had to
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  Speaker 9: get out of town get down to Seattle, North Seattle.
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  Speaker 17: So it is a little bit different for sure. So
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  Speaker 17: first couple of days we've really focused on ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and let's talk about Saturday afternoon. You'll get
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  Speaker 1: home taken on Edmunds Woodway. Like we said earlier, what
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  Speaker 1: do you notice about them when you watch them on
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  Speaker 1: the film?
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  Speaker 17: They're really big upfront on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 9: They have a very good quarterback, big kid who throws
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  Speaker 9: it really well.
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  Speaker 17: You look back.
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  Speaker 9: They played Seedar really twenty five and had a chance
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  Speaker 9: of winning at the end, had the ball at the
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  Speaker 9: end of the game.
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  Speaker 17: So they're they're a very good football team.
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  Speaker 9: They've kind of had their struggle the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 9: Matt Lake Terris got them previous Friday, and then you know,
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  Speaker 9: you go into a Kansas City tiebreaker and Honestly, we
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  Speaker 9: thought of the three teams, they were the best team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 9: but that's not how works out. You know, when you're
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  Speaker 9: playing just a click overtime, anybody can come out on top,
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  Speaker 9: and that's what happened last night. So they're going to
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  Speaker 9: be a good opponent for us on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That those Kansas City typebreakers. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you've been involved in one, you know, I just can't
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  Speaker 1: recall Ferndale being in one, but there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them in one a recently, and they're you're right,
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  Speaker 1: it's very just kind of blink and it's over. One
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  Speaker 1: little mistake and it's over. Yeah, and there. It's hard
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  Speaker 1: to get a gauge on a team, but sometimes it's
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  Speaker 1: there are certain kind of teams that maybe that are
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  Speaker 1: maybe a spread team. Is it's not really great for
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  Speaker 1: them because they can they like to use a full field.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of their touchdowns are longer touchdowns. It is
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  Speaker 1: tricky to gauge on that. I understand why they do it.
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  Speaker 1: I know is you don't want to play a full
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  Speaker 1: game or even a half if you're gonna play later
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Yeah, I mean, do you know if Edmunds
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  Speaker 1: Woodway has played a wing tea team this year.
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  Speaker 9: No, they haven't. Malc Terrace is definitely a very run
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  Speaker 9: heavy team, so that's probably the closest thing, you know,
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  Speaker 9: and Cedar Woollie obviously, sure version a little different version
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  Speaker 9: has some wing tea principles, but yeah, other than that,
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  Speaker 9: they play a lot of spread teams. So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 9: a little bit hard to try to figure out.
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  Speaker 17: What they might want to do against us defensively.
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  Speaker 9: So you kind of you go into the game and
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  Speaker 9: you know, take the first couple of drives to really
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  Speaker 9: figure out how they're feeling like they want to attack you,
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  Speaker 9: and and then adjust off of that.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, I mean you play your game and then
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  Speaker 1: if it's odd front or whatever, I mean, you can
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  Speaker 1: make an adjustment. You might go on there and just say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: if they're doing this, think you know, think about these,
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  Speaker 1: if you're doing that, think about those and go from there.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right, you probably just do stuff and then
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  Speaker 1: make adjustments off that and just kind of be ready
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  Speaker 1: for anything. And of course, when it's a game with
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  Speaker 1: this kind of magnitude, with a lot on the line,
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  Speaker 1: both teams are probably gonna be pulling out all the stops,
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  Speaker 1: So it's gonna be an awesome one out there Saturday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: three o'clock, kind of only game in town. So I,
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  Speaker 1: you know, advise Olive Walking County to come out root
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  Speaker 1: on the Golden Eagles. It's gonna be great. Good luck
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  Speaker 1: against the Warriors on Saturday. And thank you for joining
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  Speaker 1: me on the Gatorade Game Day Preview.
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  Speaker 17: Thanks Tyler, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: And that wraps it up. I hope you've enjoyed the
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  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day Football Preview for Week nine, and I
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