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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 310 - Goodbye Seniors Nooksack Bellingham Meridian · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Knuksack Valley senior Evan Bravo and you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Walk Them Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland
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  Speaker 1: Rally the Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the Watch Them Preps Podcast. This
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  Speaker 2: is episode of three hundred and ten, the second a
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  Speaker 2: four podcasts saying goodbye to the class of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: five football. I'm rather Spencer. Along with me as always
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  Speaker 2: is Tyler Anderson of what Preps.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler, how we doing doing great? Doing great? These are
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  Speaker 1: always fun to do, kind of tough to do. Got
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  Speaker 1: three schools here, so yeah, this'll be this will be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of players with a lot of fursty experience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of names to talk about here, so
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  Speaker 2: let's not waste any time.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: We've got Evan Bravo of Knoksack Valley with the intro
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  Speaker 2: really quickly. Though before we go, we do have to say, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: how do they get ahold of you? If they want
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  Speaker 2: to sponsor some things, because we've got winter and even
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  Speaker 2: spring sports coming up here as we wrap up fall.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the best way is to find me on social media.
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  Speaker 1: Just search for walkome Preps and then just send a
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  Speaker 1: message through there. I mean I get a handful of
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  Speaker 1: every day from all random questions and different things. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what was my punding average for the state
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  Speaker 1: tournament in nineteen eighty four. You know who knows what.
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  Speaker 1: I get some weird questions, but I'm always kind of
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  Speaker 1: checking those and seeing and so that's a good way
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  Speaker 1: to get a hold of me. And we can work
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  Speaker 1: out some sort of sponsorship from there. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that are available. A lot of things
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  Speaker 1: are getting snatched up pretty fast, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: things are available as well.
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  Speaker 2: Today we'll be talking about the seniors from Nukxack Valley,
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  Speaker 2: Bellingham and Meridian. This is the second of four podcasts meeting.
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  Speaker 2: We've already talked about a few schools, so Ferndale and
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  Speaker 2: squal Com. You can find us talking about them on
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  Speaker 2: episode at three hundred and nine Wednesday. In a couple
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  Speaker 2: of days here you can hear about Blaine and Linden.
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  Speaker 2: We will wrap up the senior podcast on Friday with Lynden,
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  Speaker 2: Christian Mount Baker and the Seahome. That is December sixth.
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  Speaker 2: Following the Senior podcast, be on the lookout for Boys
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  Speaker 2: and Girls of Basketball previews That will be on December eighth, Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: On the Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Right after that, we will have our first Winter Sports
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  Speaker 2: a weekly wrap up of the season. Then after that
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  Speaker 2: December eleventh, should be fairly early in the day. Be
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  Speaker 2: on the lookout Top fifty Volleyball podcast, Tyler. We did
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  Speaker 2: that for the first time last year, had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun doing it, so we're gonna do it again here.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be when the number one player is announced.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be able to.
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  Speaker 2: Get that podcast. So lots of stuff coming up here soon.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to subscribe to the podcast. You'll get notification
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  Speaker 2: every time we post something, and there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: lot of them because we've got Top one hundred count Down,
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  Speaker 2: we've got the awards show, we've got these, we've got
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  Speaker 2: the seniors, we've got the weekly wrap ups, and it
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  Speaker 2: just continues into the spring with the spring sports wrap ups.
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  Speaker 2: So lots of stuff to talk about, lots of names
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  Speaker 2: to talk about, Tyler. So let's get into it with
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  Speaker 2: Sack Valley. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, let's do it.
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  Speaker 2: The Pioneers. We start with six foot four, one eighty
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  Speaker 2: five pounds tight end and safety. He's ever four Cole abobbin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Cole was. Uh, there was a time like well,
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of his junior year where I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: if he was going to be playing football anymore. There
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  Speaker 1: was some help stuff going on, and and uh, but
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  Speaker 1: so glad that he's stuck with it because this year
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  Speaker 1: he really I mean last year there was a moment
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  Speaker 1: where he kind of shined. Wayne Silbis goes down, he
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  Speaker 1: starts playing that wide position on offense and has some
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  Speaker 1: moments here or there and you're throwing You're thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 1: he could he can do some stuff in this year,
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  Speaker 1: started on both sides of the ball right away and
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  Speaker 1: was an impact player, big time moments. And and I
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  Speaker 1: forgot to put also that he was the punter this year,
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  Speaker 1: So did a lot of different things. I thought he
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  Speaker 1: should have been the All conference punter. For one A,
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was the best, you know, with that
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  Speaker 1: lean body, gets all of it. He gets to all
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  Speaker 1: of it every single time. I don't know if he
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  Speaker 1: shanked one all year. Very very good punter. But in
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  Speaker 1: his career twenty six catches for four hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven yards and five touchdowns, five kick returns for eighty
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  Speaker 1: six yards. You don't see that a lot from a
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  Speaker 1: kid six four hundred and eighty five pounds, one of
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  Speaker 1: the up guys that could make something happen if he
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  Speaker 1: catches the ball. Twenty four punts averaging thirty four point
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  Speaker 1: nine yards of punt and then defensively kind of played
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  Speaker 1: a hybrid kind of strong safety outside linebacker spot in
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  Speaker 1: that four to two five defense. Actually it was more
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  Speaker 1: of like a Holy Cow three. It was different. This
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  Speaker 1: year was a three man front, but with two strong
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  Speaker 1: safeties and uh yeah, all sorts of craziness going on.
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  Speaker 1: More like a three to two six almost defense. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Cole Bauman defensively seventy three tackles, two tackles for lost,
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  Speaker 1: two forced fumbles, seven passes broken up with the long
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  Speaker 1: wing span there, two interceptions returned for twenty five yards,
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  Speaker 1: and one fumble recovery. Kind of started playing his best
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  Speaker 1: football defensively, I think later on in the season. But
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  Speaker 1: a really reliable offensive pass catcher too, I think he
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  Speaker 1: I believe he caught a touchdown pass against Tumbwater, which
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of people can say ever. And and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just had a good rapport with Evan Brown.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the short yardage stuff, especially close to
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  Speaker 1: the goal line and stuff like that, but down the seam,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if he catches it, he could go too,
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  Speaker 1: so pretty fast for his size and a really good
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  Speaker 1: overall player.
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  Speaker 2: Next up, five eleven pounds running back linebacker number five,
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  Speaker 2: a guy who became a very reliable fantasy football player
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  Speaker 2: for US.
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  Speaker 1: It's Colby Martin. Yeah, Colby Martin. Another one of those
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  Speaker 1: kids where it was just a junior stuck behind a
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  Speaker 1: great senior class with such a great athlete. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: started since day one as Ushman year as a baseball
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  Speaker 1: player at third base and is turned into, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the most feared hitters in the Northwest Conference
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  Speaker 1: and is a baseball guy that you know, it's rare
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  Speaker 1: when you see those baseball guys that use wooden bats.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, this guy can really hit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and he's he's one of those kind of guys. But
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  Speaker 1: football wise had some sparks as a junior. He had
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  Speaker 1: to pick six late in the game when the backups
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  Speaker 1: came in, and he just kind of thought, like, you know, okay,
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  Speaker 1: they're losing both their linebackers with the graduation to John
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  Speaker 1: Stremler and Damien Perez and you're thinking, Okay, who are
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  Speaker 1: the two linebackers going to be? Okay, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: move Colton up from safety, and who's the other one
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  Speaker 1: going to be? And it was kind of a no
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  Speaker 1: brainer for the coaching staff that Colby Martin could fill
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  Speaker 1: that spot right away. I remember in week one, I
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  Speaker 1: think he led the you know, the county and tackles.
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  Speaker 1: After week one, I mean, he's so he showed right
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  Speaker 1: away that he was you know, he was the the
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  Speaker 1: guy that was going to take that spot. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he was. My goodness, I don't know if there were
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  Speaker 1: more like suck the air out of the stadium moments
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  Speaker 1: more than his when he would hit guys playing playing
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  Speaker 1: defense and nothing cheap, nothing dirty, just just peer on, straight,
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  Speaker 1: you know, straight on tackles that were just great. He's
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  Speaker 1: one of those guys that can tackle through you and
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  Speaker 1: I just love to see that. And with that size
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  Speaker 1: at five eleven two and ten pounds, that's a great
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  Speaker 1: size for a high school linebacker. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: later on the year was counted upon to do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of carrying the ball, kind of split some carries
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  Speaker 1: early on in the season with with Golton, and then
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  Speaker 1: during conference play he was mostly just playing defense, and
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  Speaker 1: then you know in the playoffs he was taking a
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  Speaker 1: lot more carries. There finished his career with sixty three
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  Speaker 1: carries for three hundred and thirty seven yards and four touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: He also had three kickoff returns for eighty eight yards,
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  Speaker 1: and all of them I think the first one was
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  Speaker 1: like a freshman year where you know, the posing team
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  Speaker 1: they had to kick get high, kick it short and
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  Speaker 1: find the freshman. You hear that all the time, where's
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  Speaker 1: the freshman? Yeah, and he took it like fifty one yards.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like Jesuise Okay, he knows what to
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  Speaker 1: do with it. And so all of his returns were
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  Speaker 1: as an upman, but defensively one hundred and twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: and a half tackles and that's basically one year as
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  Speaker 1: a starter. Nine tackles for lost, two sacks, three forced fumbles,
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  Speaker 1: three passes broken up, and he had the one interception
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  Speaker 1: that he returned twenty three yards for a touchdown. His
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  Speaker 1: junior year against I want to say it was Conell,
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  Speaker 1: I think at home, and they won a game. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was crazy. It was like seventy six to
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  Speaker 1: seven or something like that, where they didn't mean to
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  Speaker 1: pour it on, but they scored a couple of defensive
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns late, I believe. So. Yeah, great great player. It's
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  Speaker 1: tough because you know, you get that one year to
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  Speaker 1: shine as a senior, and he really did. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he was named All Conference first team as a linebacker
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  Speaker 1: and he deserved it. Yeah, just a great overall player.
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  Speaker 1: Loved watching a play linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: Next up, five, ten, one sixty, wide receiver and corner
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  Speaker 2: number seven, the guy that gave us the intro. Wait
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  Speaker 2: a minute, Oh no, last time it was number five,
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  Speaker 2: number seven. They gave us the intro here. Devin Bravo,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, one of the best names in the county.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean we talked about it a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago. How you know, we were talking about him
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  Speaker 1: as a freshman with that great name and as a
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  Speaker 1: great player. I mean he was like a fourth string
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  Speaker 1: quarterback or something like that as a freshman, and he
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  Speaker 1: ended up rushing for a touchdown and then all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, he became this playmaker on both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball that they just you know, he's just part
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  Speaker 1: of that lineup for forever. Earlier in his career, he
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  Speaker 1: was kind of the guy that was looked over as
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  Speaker 1: far as oh yeah, they got Evan Bravo on the
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  Speaker 1: other side, he's pretty good. And then this year, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a captain, he's he's relied upon a lot more,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to do a lot of things. I think
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  Speaker 1: last year as a junior, he led the conference in
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  Speaker 1: for the one a's and interceptions where he tied for
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  Speaker 1: the league for the conference lead, and so this year
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  Speaker 1: he didn't get a lot of balls thrown his way
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  Speaker 1: because of that. On the other side, Cole Coppinger he
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  Speaker 1: led with four interceptions this year, So it's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of that Don factor. I think Dion one year,
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  Speaker 1: you know, was all Pro and he didn't have one inner.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't even have an interception that entire year because
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  Speaker 1: no one threw him the ball, and Evan Bravo did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good things and I mean all over
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  Speaker 1: the place. I think he had close to two hundred
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  Speaker 1: kickoff return yards against Tom Water this year. Obviously, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Warner is kicking off a lot because they're scoring
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but he was making some big time returns
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  Speaker 1: in that game. In his career, eighteen carries for ninety
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  Speaker 1: seven yards, and a touchdown. Caught sixty three passes for
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred and twenty two yards and eight touchdowns. In
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  Speaker 1: the return game, three thirty three kickoff returns for six
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three yards and a touchdown, three punt
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  Speaker 1: returns for seventy three yards. Only had three of them,
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  Speaker 1: but it made the most out of him. And then
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  Speaker 1: and then on defense, eighty two and a half tackles.
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  Speaker 1: Get this, twenty four passes defended, that's crazy, two forced fumbles,
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  Speaker 1: four bumble recoveries, and he intercepted seven passes that returned
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  Speaker 1: thirty six yards. Yeah, and was named All Conference first
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  Speaker 1: team on both sides of the ball this year. Deserving.
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  Speaker 1: I remember coming into the season there were some assistant
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  Speaker 1: coaches that were like, he could be an All State
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  Speaker 1: defensive back. He is that good. He is just so
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  Speaker 1: so good covering guys one on one and you never
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about him. And he did. He had
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  Speaker 1: a great, great year. That game against Lakeside was one
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  Speaker 1: of the best games I'd seen him play, probably his
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  Speaker 1: best game. I think he had like ten catches for
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty yards and a touchdown. I think
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  Speaker 1: he had like two or three touchdowns called back and
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  Speaker 1: then late in the game to kind of it was
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  Speaker 1: a great play where he was covering a guy and
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  Speaker 1: he just wrestled the ball away from and just took
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  Speaker 1: the ball and it was his. Now, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just really love watching him play and what a great,
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  Speaker 1: great four your career for him.
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  Speaker 2: Next up five six one ninety running back linebackers number
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  Speaker 2: fifteen and Tyler. Is it Aiden or is it a
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  Speaker 2: dawn because it's.
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  Speaker 1: At AA D A N. I think it's Aiden. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's what I always hurt. Yeah, yeah, that's so
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  Speaker 1: I've always heard. It's very yeah talk about I mean
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  Speaker 1: built low to the ground. Five six one ninety had
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  Speaker 1: some moments carrying the ball that was pretty fun to watch. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Tough being the third string guy at running back for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, like I think, I don't know, three or
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  Speaker 1: four games in the into this year is when I
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  Speaker 1: realized he was a senior. I body he might have
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  Speaker 1: been a junior. I was kind of thinking, Okay, next
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  Speaker 1: year he'll be the guy, and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's a senior too. That's right, man. That's it's always
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  Speaker 1: tough because you get you kind of you find guys
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  Speaker 1: that you were like you you want to see the
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  Speaker 1: next year and and and then you're like, oh, he's
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  Speaker 1: not playing next year. He did have twenty carries for
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  Speaker 1: seventy six yards. He returned to kickoff eleven yards, had
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  Speaker 1: ten and a half tackles one tackle for loss. Tough
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  Speaker 1: being a running back and linebacker in this class at
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  Speaker 1: that school behind the Colton Lentsen, Colby Martin, but when
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  Speaker 1: he got in there, he made the most of it.
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  Speaker 2: Next up on the list six six two to oh
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  Speaker 2: five is a very big dude wide receiver outside linebackers
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  Speaker 2: number twenty, Tristan camp House.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Just wingspan, Uh the first thing. The first things
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  Speaker 1: I think of our wingspan and a big smile on
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  Speaker 1: his face all the time. And pretty good basketball player too,
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  Speaker 1: and great, great hands. You don't see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: six six holders, you know. It looked like a like
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  Speaker 1: a praying mantis.
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  Speaker 2: Although he could probably just reach out and grab the
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  Speaker 2: ball from the guy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, but he just he was always had
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  Speaker 1: like the softest hands on the team. So he's been
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  Speaker 1: the holder for a while and and my goodness, there
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  Speaker 1: was it was. It's crazy because you'd think he'd be
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  Speaker 1: kind of a guy that would be you know, down
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  Speaker 1: on the goal line stuff like that. But he was
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  Speaker 1: he'd be a guy where he would be the backup
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  Speaker 1: to Evan Bravo, where they would do the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: completely different body types, but the same type of thing
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  Speaker 1: where you get a quick pass straight to him and
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  Speaker 1: have him make plays and then in the last game
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  Speaker 1: of his career, he ends up going deep for a
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  Speaker 1: play and they find him for a touchdown. So that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty cool. Ten catches for one hundred and eight
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  Speaker 1: yards and that one touchdown, returned a couple of kickoffs
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  Speaker 1: for sixteen yards. Started this year as an outside linebacker,
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  Speaker 1: and again that big that big wingspan allowed him to
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  Speaker 1: knock down eight passes. I mean, you know, we talked
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  Speaker 1: about that with like LC last year where they had
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  Speaker 1: all those six four sixty five six six outside linebacker
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  Speaker 1: linebacker types that were just covering the whole field in
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  Speaker 1: the zone and and him and Cole Bauman together and
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  Speaker 1: they you know, they could cover a lot of ground
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  Speaker 1: that way with those wingspans. And he had forty six
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  Speaker 1: and a half TI tackles, four tackles for lost, eight
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  Speaker 1: passes broken up, like I said earlier, to fumble recoveries,
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  Speaker 1: two interceptions that he combined for eighty eight yards, one
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  Speaker 1: of them for a touchdown. That was earlier this year,
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  Speaker 1: when yeah, I just kind of reached that pile out
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  Speaker 1: and grabbed the ball to the air once it was
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  Speaker 1: tipped up, and and uh and then he knew what
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  Speaker 1: to do with it. When he was running with the ball,
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  Speaker 1: I think one of the coaches was saying, that's the
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  Speaker 1: fastest I've ever seen him run. That was pretty awesome
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  Speaker 1: to see. You know, got pretty excited when he had
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  Speaker 1: the ball in his hands and he kept he kept going.
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  Speaker 1: So excited to watch him on the hardwood this year,
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  Speaker 1: but a really good football career as well.
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  Speaker 2: Next up, by the way, I'm still convinced his last
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  Speaker 2: name is cant fus five eight one seventy five running back,
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  Speaker 2: linebacker number forty three, Cameron O'Brien.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is a tough one because love
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  Speaker 1: this kid, just you know, nicest kid in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And then during the jamboree, I think he breaks his
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  Speaker 1: hand or he broke their risks. He yeah, and he
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  Speaker 1: got hurt. It was some sort of and I want
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  Speaker 1: to say, I don't know one hundred percent, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it's his older brother is the is the is
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  Speaker 1: the trainer. Oh and so it's like he's got to
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  Speaker 1: help him. Yea brother, And it's just like and I
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  Speaker 1: think he probably was the one that had to tell him, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you're out for the year, and so he missed the
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: entire year. My goodness, just I hate that, you know,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: because he's he's a guy that in some of these
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: in some of these late game situations, could have come
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: in and carried the ball a little bit, and which
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: he did last year. And when I remember when he
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: scored a touchdown, when I saw the play on film,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I think I I think I even texted TJ right
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: away and I say, and I just but I love
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: that O'Brien scored that touchdown. He was like me too,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: like a lot of E's and O's, you know, and
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: he was so pumped for him to get in the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: end zone because it's a guy that could, you know,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: would work himself into the rotation as a backup linebacker
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and you to get that one moment is really cool.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: In his career, nine carries for forty seven yards and
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: that one touchdown, had a kick off return for thirteen yards,
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: twelve tackles, one forced fumble as well. So it was
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: a guy that you know could have been in there,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: probably on defense a little bit, would have been a
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: special teams demon all year, but a guy that you
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: know was going to be on the sidelines, rooting on
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: his teammates, you know, wearing his letterman's jacket, proud of it. Like,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: I just love that. There's so many of those O'Brien's
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: over the years, you know, the Michael O'Brien and the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Cameron O'Brien and the and you know, I know I'm
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: missing some the little quarterback Austin O'Brien. I mean, there's
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: just been some great ones. And yeah, I think, as
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: far as I know, is kind of the last one
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: of the bunch. So it's kind of tough that his
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: season ends really before it gets started. But yeah, I'm
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: just glad he's had those moments when he was able
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to have.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Him next up, six foot two thirty guard nose tackle
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: my kind of guy, number fifty seven Atlie Whitworth.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, really really bummed that he missed that final game.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: He got injured during practice during the week. Brutal and
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: it was and it was known because I mean you
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: could see they could not run the ball between the tackles,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and he was probably their best interior offensive lineman and
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: without him it was a struggle. He's also such a
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: weapon as a nose tackle. I mean, I don't know
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: if I've seen many nose tackles that could run a
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: guy down the sidelines and get them from behind. What
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a great athlete. Motor never ever ever stops. He's overcome
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: so much just in you know, personal things and stuff
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: like that, and he works so incredibly hard. One of
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the strongest guys on the team. You know, it's rare
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: that I would go into the year and say, this
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: is this kid's gonna be my breakout player. And he's
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: a senior because as a junior he was going down
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: on kickoffs and making every single tackle. And when you know,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: you were talking about that last podcast about like Scout
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: guys and how you know, Scout player of the Year
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and then the next year they become all the guys
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I tend to I tend to see that with guys
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that cover kickoffs and if you make a lot of tackles,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: they'll find a spot for you on defense the next
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the next year, and he was in on the rotation
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: a lot last year on the defensive line and was
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: making so many plays. I mean, he was just chasing
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: quarterbacks around. And then this year he's you know, he's
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: supplanted as a as a starter both sides of the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: ball and was just dominant ninety two and a half
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: tackles in his career, eight and a half tackles for loss,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: five sacks, one force fumble, one pass broken up. And
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I know that the you know, the coaches were just
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: loving having him on the team because what a crazy
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: career too, because as a freshman he played at Baker.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: You know, he started that game at left tackle as
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: a freshman in that playoff game, the game that you
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: came up and saw, because it was kind of a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: last second thing where Roblist was out and they needed
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: that that, you know, they need to start. Somebody started
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: him as a freshman in transfer from Yeah, I remember
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the situation. I didn't realize it was him. Yeah, same guy.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And so he's the only kid out of all these
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: seniors that played in the playoffs all four years. Wow,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So pretty pretty cool deal. Known him a long time.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I think he was like three years old when he
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: was a batboy on my slow pitch softball team. So
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: so it's funny how things come around like that full circle.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And and uh but yeah, awesome kid, And and uh,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I hope he gets to play some work because I
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: think there are some opportunities out there.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Six foot four two fifty tight end defensive end number
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: fifty eight, Lance Van Burkham.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think he meant to say offensive tackle, but
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: tight end.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, although it just says ts yeah, yeah, my bat.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: But I left out either the O or the E.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Well I said the E, I left out the oh.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: He is probably the biggest improvement of any junior to
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: senior this year in the county. Yeah, and it and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: it might not even be an improvement, because it might
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: he might have been that good as a junior. He
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: just didn't get a ton of opportunity to play. Nooksack
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: had so much, had such a great line last year
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: where the only junior that played was Brady Ackerman, And
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: because they had eight really good offensive linemen, they were
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: able to bring that jumbo package in where you bring
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: in all these other guys. You could put Strembler over
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: at full back and you could just pound the ball.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And by doing that it really gave him some great
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: experience especially in the playoffs, and some belief that he
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: could be a pretty good player. You know, he ends
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: up there, end up kind of leaning on him a
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: little bit to say, hey, you're gonna be one of
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the main guys this year, six four, two hundred and
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: fifty pounds playing right tackle, playing defensive end in a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: three man front, and he was. He was like, arguably
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the one of the best if you want to say
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball lineman in the one as
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: a Northwest Conference. I mean I think that. I mean,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: he was voted first team both sides of the ball,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and it was just kind of like, where did this
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: kid come from? And so glad that he stuck it
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: out and kept playing, because that's what happens to these
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: hard working juniors that becomes seniors. You put in the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: you put in the work, and you have the effort.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: This is what happens. Forty seven and a half tackles,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: twelve and a half tackles for loss, four sacks, two
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: forced fumbles, three passes broken up. He returned four fumbles
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: this year, ninth for nineteen yards and the touchdown that
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: was on the blocked punt return. Actually, but I mean
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: it was like every single week he was finding I
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: mean he was named Special Teams Player of the Week
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: one week, he was Defensive Player of the Week one week.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, he just he just came out of I
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: don't want to say he came out of nowhere, but
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: he's you know, when juniors become seniors, every once in
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a while there's a superstar in the making. And he's
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a guy that could definitely go on and keep playing
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: with his size and uh and a good and he's
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: playing basketball too, so he's got good feet, soft hands,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Really really good athlete and became, you know,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: one of my one of my favorite guys, pretty pretty
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: quickly after all that.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Next up five three hundred offensive line, defensive line number
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: seventy two, Jake Lautenbach.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big big kid, been in the program forever. I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: mean he posted. You know, that's another tough thing is
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: when this season, when the season ends for any sport
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: and you see these kids that post on Instagram like,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you know, I can't believe it's over. I can't believe
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: it's over. Year four or four, Thank you so much football,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: like all that stuff. It's like, oh, it just breaks
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: my heart. And his post was crazy because it was
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: like he posted and you see this every once in
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: a while, he put he posts two pictures, one from
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: his senior year and then one from like first grade
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: flag football, you know, and it shows him like snapping
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the ball and it's like, oh my goodness, like he's
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: been wearing that purple all his life, you know what
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I mean. It didn't didn't hardly get to suit up
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: this year for different circumstances, but uh, that man just
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: a kid that loves to be with his buddies and
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: you know, it's just wants to be a part of
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: the program and wants to be uh you know he
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I mean he's been suiting up for all these games
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: all these years and would get in every once in
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a while. And yeah, just really tough because I know
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: there were some coaches that were telling me, like, you know,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: when it was all over, you know, just a couple
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and they're looking around, they're like, man,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I feel I feel bad for this kid. I feel
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: bad for that kid. I really feel bad for Latenbach.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Like he's just he's over there and he's you could
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: tell that he's like this is it. This is the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: last time, and and uh, yeah, it's it's really really
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: tough because some of these other kids, they're going off
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna play in college and different things like that,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: but it's the last time for him and that's that's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: always really tough.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Next up we get into uh the final three. Here
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: six foot one sixty five wide receiver in safety, it's
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: number three.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Coriolne. My goodness, core Olney. I remember going to practice
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: to get head shots his freshman year and based on
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: their offense, like they were not expected to be you know,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: they were gonna be an okay team. But I was like,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: who's gonna be, Like, who's gonna be on the outside.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: And I was kind of watching these drills and he
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: was catching everything and he was six foot one sixty
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: five then as a freshman, and I was like, who
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: is that kid? And I can't remember which coach I
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: was talking to, but they were like, well, he's a
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: transfer from London and it was something like he played it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: He played for Linden in seventh grade, but then he
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: transferred to Nooksack as an eighth grader and because of him,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: it was the first time in like forever, like twenty
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: years or whatever that Knuk sack beat Linden in eighth
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: grade football. And it was because of that, because of him,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and so I was like, wow, I go. I was like,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: is he gonna play? And they go, oh, yes. He
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: will start both ways, and he will return kicks and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: he will return punts from day one as a freshman.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: And I was like, WHOA, Like, you just do not
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: see that very often. And I went to that week
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: one game against Seahome at home on a Thursday night.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: It was still warm out, it was still August, and
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I remember opening kickoff, I'm like, there he is back
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: there and number three's returning kick. Oh, there he is,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: you know, catching passes? There is he intercepted a pass.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Week one freshman year, I'm like, this kid is this
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: is legit? And this this entire class we talked about
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: how this classes. Only one of them was in the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: top one hundred list as a freshman, only one, and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: it was Corey one. And you know, you could say
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: that like he you know, he peaked early, like a
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: lot of kids do that. You know sometimes in eighth
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: grade you got that monster kid and then everyone kind
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: of catches up to you. I wouldn't say he peaked early.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I say He was really good early, but he did
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: keep improving and as he got better about just kind
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: of knowing the defense and kind of running that defense
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: as a as a free safety. He was just he
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: was really really good. I mean you never see him
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: drop a ball on offense, you know. I mean that
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: game when he came in and carried the ball twenty
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: eight times against Zilla in that playoff game, I mean,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: who does that. That is just you know, a guy
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that probably had you know, didn't have hardly that many carries,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you know, in his career, and he goes and he
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: takes over a half back and carries the ball twenty
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: eight times. It's just that's the kind of kid, you know.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: And he is another favorite of mine obviously. I Mean
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: he's a kid that I can just talk to like
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: a like an adult, and I've been able to since
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: he was a freshman, and he's just so I didn't
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: talk to him that much as freshman. I'd try not
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to talk to freshman, but I saw him, you know,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: between freshman and sophomore year. I out at a jamboree
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: out in Blaine, and you know, I think he like
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: kind of hurt his neck and we were talking about
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that a little bit, and he was just like, man,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: this is this is so easy to talk to him,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: and and what a what a career. And was the
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: emergency quarterback you know this year, like if they you know,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: if they needed to, they could go to him. He
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: knew all the plays. What I think is funny too,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: is he had in his career he had one hundred
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: carries exactly and one hundred catches exactly, which is I
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: think is kind of funny. But one hundred carries for
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: five hundred and nine yards and six touchdowns one hundred
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: catches in his career, so I think he became like
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the twenty second player in Walkin County history to reach
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: triple digit for one three hundred and fifty one yards
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: and eleven touchdowns. He was two of four passing, both
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: of them went for touchdowns, both of them were forty
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: seven yard touchdowns. How about that seventeen kickoff returns for
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty nine yards, eight punt returns for
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: eighty yards. And then on defense as a four year starter,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two and a half tackles, that's
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a ton four and a half tackles for lost one
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: fumble recovery eleven interceptions that it returned for seventy nine yards.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: And here's the crazy stat, thirty one passes broken up
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: over his four year career. That is just astonishing. So great,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: great career. He was named All Conference first Team offense
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and defense this year. That is incredible. I mean, that's
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: a lot, it really is. I think as far as
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: all the stats I've watched and had to do, these
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: passes defended and stuff like that, and it goes back
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a ways. I think only three players have thirty one
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: or more and he's you know, he obviously he's one
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: of them. So it's pretty pretty crazy. Yeah, that is uh,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: that's wild. Yeah.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: Next up, sixty four two sixty five tackle defensive end
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: is number sixty four. Brady Ackerman.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that, you know, you would agree with me.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Kind of the offensive lineman of Waukin County this year.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: And he's kind of been that guy for a while
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: where just you know, physically technically everything he's he's kind
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: of has the whole package as an offensive lineman. Super
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: nice guy too. I mean I'm sure he gets after
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it on the football field, but uh, you know, he's
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: another one of these kids. Man four year starter that
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: I've really gotten to know so well. But yeah, but
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: as a defensive player even, I mean, he really would
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: get after it. In his career, eighty eight and a
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: half tackles, twenty two and a half tackles for loss,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: plus sixteen quarterback sacks, So a lot of spending time
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: back there in the backfield. Six passes knocked down at
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, and he recovered four fumbles once
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: he recovered one for a touchdown that was in that
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: playoff game in the quarterfinals against Lyndon Christian his junior year. Yeah,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: this is a kid where I remember when I first
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: saw him, well, I mean that first time when he
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: was like a ball boy and he was like seven
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and he towered over me. And but I when I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: first saw him in high school, I kind of thought, well,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: he's kind of he's kind of he's tall like his dad,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: but he's he's a little more athletic, more like his uncle.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: And so I just thought, man, that's a that's a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: lethal combo to have. I mean, he started right off
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the bat, you know, in the at center and the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: basketball team, and he's kind of the one true post
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: player in the whole County. You know, he never he does.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever taken a three pointer, you know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: which is rare in today's basketball where someone doesn't, you know,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: shoot threes. He posts up. Yeah, they all, they all
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: shoot threes, but he has not attempted one. He knows
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: his role, you know, he's he's gonna that was that
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: one game he blocked like eight shots or something like that,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: and just just super athletic. I mean I remember seeing
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: him doing like a three sixty dunk and showing on Instagram.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I was like, you know, you don't weigh two hundred
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and sixty five pounds and can do that. You know,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: he's he's a different athlete going to Eastern you know,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: just same where his dad and his uncle played, which
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: is great. Uh And I mean he's gonna have a
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: chance to play quite a bit I think in his
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: career over there. But what a great high school career.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: I think three years in a row, All conference first
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: team offensive line, uh, two in a row on the
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: defensive line, and just you know, awesome kid for what
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: him and his cousin the next guy we're going to
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: talk about what they did to help walk them preps
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: out over the summer just you know, as I could
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: go on and on forever and we don't have that
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: kind of time. But they basically made it so Walking
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Preps could keep doing this for another year. Just the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: two of them combined for what they did with the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: youth football camp so really really impressive. I'll always remember that,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: and if that becomes a yearly thing, then then Walking
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Preps might be able to stick around for a while.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Sou for him to him and his cousin to get
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: that started is huge, and it says a lot about
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: them as just people and how they you know, they
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: were told they needed to help the community for a
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: senior project and this is what they chose. They chose me,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: which is just unbelievable. So I can never say enough
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: good things.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Next up and last the uh yeah, I mean there's
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: gonna be so much to say about this thinking guy
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Tyler running back, linebacker number nine.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: It's coldon leents. Yeah. I when I look back, I
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: think I can say probably the best player to ever
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: come out of Knucksack Valley. I feel pretty comfortable saying that,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and there's been some good ones. Yes, Nuksack Valley has
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: never been to a state championship game. But they put
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: out a lot of great talent as far as just
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: individual players. I mean, going back to the seventies, eighties, nineties,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: two thousands, I mean, there's always been these really really
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: impressive athletes that have come out of there, and I
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: think he's the best. I think overall. You talk about
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: everything four your starter on defense. A lot of people
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: think he was a starting player as an offensive players
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: freshman year, but he wasn't. He started. He started a
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: game or two when Jordan Silva was out, but he
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: was actually the backup quarterback as a as a freshman.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: And I remember thinking back then, I was like, Okay,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: well they have Joey Brown for the next couple of years,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: but when he graduates, I wonder if Colton will play
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: quarterback as a senior. And then when I saw him,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: you know, carry the ball, I was like, no, I
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: think they're gonna leave him running back. And there was
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: that game when he did fill in as a freshman
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: against Lynnon Christian and I think he carried the ball
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: like twenty seven times and it was for something like
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: eighty four yards or something, so not a great average,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: but and they lost like forty to nothing. But it
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: was they were missing a lot of guys because of COVID,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: and they just so they just fed him over and
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: over again. I mean, for a freshman going up against
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Kate Eldridge and those guys like to just get battered
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: and you know, carry the ball twenty seven times in
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: a game that showed his toughness right off the bat.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I remember his very first varsity carry went for thirty
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: one yards, which I kind of laughed and I said, Oh,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: it's funny. That's the dad, that's the jersey his dad wore.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: And then I go, what, I remember, what did Britt
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: do on his first carrier? Oh, that's right, he had
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: an eighty r touchdown run. So he'll always be able
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to hang that over him. But he had an interception
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: in his very first game. That game I was talking
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: about against Seahome on that Thursday night in the season.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: My goodness, I mean there was you know, every year
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: got bigger, every year got stronger, every year got faster,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: every year just got better. There was a moment there.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I think it was a sophomore year. As for like,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: every time I saw him, he just looked like he's
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: just getting bigger and bigger and bigger. I was like,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: my goodness, like, how is this happening? You know, he
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: was the recipient the co recipient of the Freshman of
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: the Year ES freshman year, he was the co recipient
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: of Sophomore of the Year as a sophomore, and then
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: last year he won Offensive Player of the Year. So
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: every year he's won an award from Walking Preps. And yeah,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I mean we're gonna go over the stats here and
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: it's pretty crazy, but six hundred and twenty carries, six
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yeah, for four thousand, five hundred and
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: seventy six yards. That's fourth place all time in Walking County,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: one yard behind Javinski schlim Baker, which is kind of crazy.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: How about this rushing touchdowns seventy three? You know, we
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: were you know, remember making that graphic long ago about
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: him passing, you know that, and that he went on
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: for like another twenty after that, when he broke the
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: school record in rushing touchdowns fourteen catches for one hundred
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: and sixty nine yards and three more touchdowns, three of
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: seven passing for one hundred and two yards and two touchdowns,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: doing most of it in that final game, returned seven
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: kickoffs for one hundred and sixteen yards returned three punts
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: for three yards. Defensively, you know, I always talk about
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: when you have over one hundred tackles in your career,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: it's that's pretty darn good defensively, especially the way I
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: keep track of tackles. He had two hundred and thirty
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: nine and a half tackles in his career, eighteen and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: a half tackles for loss, four and a half sacks,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: four forced fumbles, fifteen passes broken up, three fumble recoveries
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: that are returned for one hundred and eight yards, and
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: one of them was a ninety nine yard touchdown. And
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: he intercepted two passes as well. I think the one
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: of them was that one in the week one again
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: his very first ever game, and then another one I
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: think was his sophomore year, was kind of late in
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: the game on a deep pass. And I want to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: say it was at Civic Stadium against the team the
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: team that just played My my goodness, Why can't I
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: think of it? But who did they just lose to
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, Kashmir, thank you. I think they played
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Kashmir in the quarters at Civic his sophomore year, and
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: he think he had an interception in that game too,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: so uh yeah, just you know, verbally committed to Montana
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: as a linebacker, really really excited to see what he
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: can do. And because I think he's just going to
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: get bigger and bigger. I mean I could see him
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: going up to about two forty five and maintaining his speed.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: And and again, you know, it was him and Brady
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: that together came up with the idea for the Walk
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: and Preps youth football camp and they, I mean Colton
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: led that thing. I mean he was he had you know,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: he had the whistle, he had the horn, he they
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: were all rallied around him. He set up all the drills,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: he was in charge. And you can tell that he's
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: going to be a coach someday, Like you can just tell,
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: like you know, it's just and he's the first one
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: to rally around his teammates when they do well. You know,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: we're so blessed to say, oh yeah, we get to
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: see him for the next couple of years and all
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: that stuff. When this is this is it, you know,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: this is it for high school football. And and just
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: really lucky to have witnessed him play football because it
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: was surely great to see.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely a lot of fun to watch. Uh, Tyler,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: that's it for Niokzack Valley. Yep, you're ready to move
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: on to Bellingham. Talk about some BayHawks. Just do it alrighty.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: The first one on the list five eleven, one seventy.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: He's a wide receiver in a safety it's number eleven.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Nate lost.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's was hurt, I think for a big chunk
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: of this year, right in the middle. And so you know,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: that was tough because they could have really used him.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: They had a lot of injuries in the secondary this year,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: and sometimes Owen Hanstead was seemed like he was back
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: there with a bunch of JV guys like it's like, okay, guys,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: so this is what you do. Here's where you go.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: We're in man, we're in zone whatever, and and it
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: was tough without Nate lost back there. But he did
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: come back at the end of the year, doing a
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: little bit here and there, but probably not the year
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: that he wanted. Finished his career with twelve catches for
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: thirty eight yards, one carry for eight yards, sixty tackles,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: five passes broken up. He intercepted three passes. I believe
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: they were all his junior year that he returned eighteen yards,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: one tackle for loss, one sack, one fumble recovery. You know,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: he's a kid that you know, made the top one
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: hundred listens a junior missed. You know, I don't think
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: he's in it this year just because he missed so
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: much time being being injured, and that's just kind of
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: how it happens. I'm just glad he was able to
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: come back at the end of the year his senior
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: year and you can get those final games in because
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: that's that's a lot of what he's going to remember
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: going forward.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Next up five to ten, one to sixty five, tight
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: end linebacker. It's number twelve. Gabe Bowers, Yeah, Gab.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Bauers was was a backup linebacker and then all of
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: a sudden, they were kind of moving guys around or
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: they needed guys, and he would find himself in the
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: game a lot playing linebacker in big key moments. You
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: know a lot. It could be Tyler Frost might need
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: a break because he's running the ball a lot that game,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: or you know, they bring in an extra linebacker because
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: it's against a certain team, maybe like a Marysville Pilchuck
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: or something like that. A run heavy team and he'd
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: be the first guy in. He'd be the guy they
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: would go to. A little undersized, but a pretty good player,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: special teams demon, that kind of guy. Twenty five and
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: a half tackles, two tackles for lost in his career,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: with most of it coming here his senior year.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Next up, six foot one, sep twenty seven, a running
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: back in kicker, it's number twenty eight, Cooper Whipple.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I was really excited to see what was gonna do
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: this year, so probably one of the fastest kids on
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: the team. Watched him during during practice, played in the
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: first two games, and then he got injured and he
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: was out for the rest of the year. So that's
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: really really tough. Four carries fourteen yards, did have one tackle,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: and he kicked three extra points. Really good kicker. I mean,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: this is a guy that he was probably good from
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: forty five yards in but then the injury, you know,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: it was too bad. Soccer player. I'll get to see
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: him play soccer, but turned out for football this year
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: as a senior, and all of a sudden it only
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: got to play in a couple of games. So that's
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: really tough for him.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Six four left tackle is number fifty six Owen Campbell.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a kid. I mean he started the last
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: two years at left tackle, like every game, and he
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: just kind of, you know, that was his spot. Played
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: some defensive end earlier in his career, even as a sophomore,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: played quite a bit. I think probably had his best
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: defensive year as a sophomore. But then as this year
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: wore on, is the years wore on, they would find
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: other kids to fill in spots, so you can just
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: use him as a left tackle, tall, long arms, did
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: really good job protecting the quarterback, kind of that unsung
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: player on that offensive line. Did finish with twelve tackles,
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: four tackles for loss, and a sack, most of it
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: coming as sophomore year. Like I said, they just kind
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: of they were able to fill in other guys. There
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: were times when Bellingham was you know, kind of low
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: on numbers and they had to go young and had
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: to play a lot of those guys both ways, and
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: he was he was caught in the middle of that
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: there for a while, but able to use him just
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: as an offensive player. His senior year.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Six two three h five right tackle, number sixty five.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Finnigan Jensen.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a kid that you know, even as a freshman
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: was probably two eighty five at the time and had
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: had a lot of promise and stuff like that, and uh,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I think he probably was. His best year was probably
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: his junior year when he was playing right guard next
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: to Jesse Harvard is a right tackle. Those two guys
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: together run blocking. I mean, they could just seal off
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: that edge and you can watch Holden Bates just fly
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: through everybody you know, and it's like, holy cow, those
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: guys are huge. And this year got bumped out to
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: right right tackle and and you know, it was not
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: that it was too much of a revolving door next
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: to him at right guard, but it was just a
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: little bit tougher for him this year. Didn't play any
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: defense either this year, which is which was different. He
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: was played a lot of nose tackle the years prior,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: so much like Owen Campbell, you were able to just
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: use him on offense. Did finish his career with twenty
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: seven tackles, six tackles for loss in two sacks, so
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: big time, just disruptor on the defensive side when he
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: when he played there earlier in his career.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Five nine three fifteen nose tackled number sixty eight Carlos
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: of Valdez.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, five nine, three point fifteen, maybe right there. And
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: he could move too. He there were some moments where
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: you know, you kind of see that and you're thinking, okay,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: kind of a Tony Saracusa eat up blockers. No, he's
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: making moves. He's got quick hands. He can get a
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: guy away and then and and you know you put
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: him in like a in like a four yard by
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: four yard box and he could move just as well
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: as a running back, going back and forth and try
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: to get you down. Did some really good things this year,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: especially at the nose tackle spot. Twenty eight and a
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: half tackles, five and a half tackles for loss, one
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: and a half sacks, and a forced fumble. He's another
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: kid that I think junior to senior year had a
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: huge jump and improvement. We talked about Lance van Berkeen
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: with the Knuxack Valley Pioneers. Very similar here. Carlos val
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Does as a nose tackle really up his game.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Six two fifty seven Offensive line Defensive lines number seventy six.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: Ruben Montano Camacho.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, another big ball that later on in the year
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: started playing a lot more, and it was It's one
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: of those where I'd have to keep going, who's seventy six,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: and I'd have to keep looking at my rosters, and
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I hate it when I do that, like three times
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: and like and like a two week period. I'm like, Okay,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't know this by now. Yeah, I shouldn't have
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: to always look down figure it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: He had a big tackle for loss. I want to
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: say that might have been the Pilchet game. Uh, early
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: on in the year, I wasn't playing as much, but
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: later on he could have been injured. I'm not quite sure,
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: but uh, you know, A found spots for him on
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: on the on the defensive line later on in the season,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: and it paid dividends for the team because Bellingham was
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: a much better team in the second half of the year.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Six tight end defensive end number eighty eight The Fabian sing.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Fabian is a He's a basketball player. He played
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: at Squalicum last year and he is a three point
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: shooter extraordinary. He had a I remember he had a
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: huge game winning shot while I It was in the
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: district tournament and it was while I was in Vegas,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: and I think you were helping me out with a
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: scoreboards and I was that game. I was like waiting
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: on it, waiting on and he hits that shot and
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: it was going crazy and I was like, holy cow,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: and I had to I had to like send you
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: the score really quickly so you could do the scoreboard
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: and send it back to me. And and uh. And
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden I heard he's transferred to Bellingham.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I said, oh, And then I find out, Oh, he's
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: turned out for football. He turned out a little late.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: I don't think he started going to practice until like
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: maybe after week one, so everything was just kind of
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: late in the game for him. So he would come
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: in a little bit, uh when they'd run some double
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: tight and stuff like that, he'd come in and play
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: some some defensive end. But really good athlete, just kind
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: of late late to the game. Went out to basketball practice,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: and that Belling m team has a lot of good
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: shooters and they just added him. Oh my goodness, that's
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: gonna be a three point barrage for the old Red,
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: White and Black for the belly at BayHawks. He is
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: one of those kids that can get hot and just
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: and just go go go. So I'm really excited to
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: see him, especially on the basketball side.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Down to the final three here six three, one to
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: ninety wide receiver strong safety's number eight, Bli Henderson.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a kid so physically gifted, I think, and
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: I think if he wants to play at the next level.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: He's one of those kind of late bloomers that I
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: if someone you know, happens to pick him up kind
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: of late, they're gonna be like, whoa, this is a
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: gem here and he's gonna he's so strong and physical
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: and great speed, great hands. And he missed a big
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: chunk of the year too, kind of right in the
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: middle of the year, is like week two to week
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: six or week three to week six or something like that.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: And kind of when they were making that transition at
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: quarterback and things were changing, he was he was not
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: in the lineup at that point when they made that change,
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: and then he came back and was able to play
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: opposite Joe Harward. You know, with the receivers, he's like, Okay,
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: which six to three guy, are you gonna cover here?
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Because they can both make make He found a way
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: he found a niche on like catching short passes and
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: then being able to break a lot of tackles and
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: then break away from everybody and score that way. Finished
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: his career with sixty catches for six hundred and seventy
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: six yards and two touchdowns at eight kickoff returns for
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: eighty seven yards. And then on defense, you know, he
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: was a guy that was a defensive back, I think
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: it was a safety. Then he got moved to corner,
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: and then this year they're like, he's such a good
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: tackler and he's so strong, you got to get him
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: closer to the ball somehow, So they kind of created
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: a strong safety spot just for him where he might
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: be rushing the quarterback, he might be dropping back, he
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: might you know, sit in the box and play the run.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: You just never really knew. But when he started coming,
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: when he came back from his injury, he was really
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: starting to play well, especially defensively. It really stood out.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Finished his career with eighty three tackles, seven and a
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: half tackles for loss, six passes broken up, two and
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: a half sacks coming off the edge there like I
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: was talking about with the safety blitz, one forced fumble,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: two interceptions, and one fumble recovery. So he's a guy
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: that could be a big time project at the next level,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: A nice piece of clay to work with, with great size.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: He is a good kid too. I mean he's super quiet,
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: just does his job, and so I think he could
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: be he could, I don't know, there's just those certain
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: kind of schools where he could fit in there and
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: then just kind of take over. I think he's still blossoming,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: you know, He's just one of those late bloomers that
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: could really, you know, do some damage at the next level.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Six two two twelve tight end linebacker. I feel like
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: he's played a lot more positions than that number. Forty
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: two gave Van Hofwagen.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, another one of my personal favorites. You know.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I no one has probably thanked me enough for doing
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: walking preps. Coming from a student, I should say then
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: gave Van Hoffway and he is just a great person.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: And he was kind of throwing into it as a
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: sophomore where they said, well, all of our quarterbacks are
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: hurt and you're really smart. Yeah, good luck, buddy, yep,
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: here you go, and and they were just throwing the
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: ball over the place. And after the game, I mean,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: he just got the crap beat out of him, and
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: he was so tough and and you take his helmet
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: off and it's just he was just red. I mean
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: his whole face. I mean I just thought, I thought,
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: he's he's not going to play football anymore. He is this.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: And he would come out every year and just bust
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: his butt and and learn a new position and play
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: this and do this. I mean, he was a great
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: tight end as a junior. This year he came out
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: and they're like, we have a lot of tight end bodies,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: including your little brother. How about you try full back?
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: All right? Sure, he started started playing fullback, you know,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: as a lead, lead, lead blocker for Tyler Frost, and
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: it was just but he was always such that great
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: inside linebacker as well. And you know, oh, man, I
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: don't know, he's he was kind of that heart and
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: soul of the team the last couple of years and
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: they you know, he's he's been through it all. I mean,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: he was that starting quarterback on the team that took
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: their lumps and had so many injuries. And then as
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: a move yeah, and then as a junior, I mean,
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: they they were they had a they went six and four,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: and he putting up huge numbers and both sides of
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: the ball, and they had a lot to celebrate about.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: And then this year, you know, you know, only one,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: only won a couple of games and back into the conference.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: So you're taking your lumps that way. And he's always
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: been that that main constant that no matter where you
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: put him, just made a ton of plays. Finished his
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: career with forty catches for four hundred and seventy five
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: yards and five touchdowns. Also ran the ball for forty
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: three yards and two touchdowns. Those numbers are a little
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: skewed because he took the sacks from his sophomore year,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: so he's probably you know, well over one hundred yards
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. Also completed sixty three of one hundred
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: and twenty nine passes for seven hundred and three yards
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: and five touchdowns. And then on defense, one hundred and
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: thirty nine and a half tackles, twenty five tackles for
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: a loss my goodness, four sacks, seven passes broken up,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: two forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries, and an interception. He
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: did every single thing you would ask him to do,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: and he did it at the highest, you know, the
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: highest level, which is so great. I was shocked that
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: he was not an even an All Conference second team linebacker.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I just I could not believe it. I know it's
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: a really, really really good conference, but my goodness, he's
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: a really good player. And so yeah, I'm excited he's
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: gonna play basketball again. Get to see him do that
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: part of that three point barrage that they're gonna have.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: But uh, and he's a kid, like during the layup line,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: he will come over to me and give me knucks
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: like if I'm standing on the baseline there and and
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: always willing to reach out. And I love that about him.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: And he's going to do some amazing things in his future.
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: Last up Tyler five to eleven, two forty eight. I
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: mean you talk about thick running back a linebacker umber
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: forty four Tyler Froth.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, watching him carry the ball is different. I don't
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: think he knew exactly where he was supposed to go
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: with the ball, Like where's the hole? Like he'll just
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: make his own hole. He doesn't, there's no you know,
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: he'll just run guys over, whether it's his own guys
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: the other team. It's very unorthodox. I mean you go
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: back and you watch highlights of Earl Campbell run. It's
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: very much like that. There were certain games like there'd
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: be a game where he wouldn't cary the ball once,
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: you know, because they needed him on defense, or they
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: need him on the offensive line even or there'd be
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: games where he carried the ball fifteen to twenty times
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: and that was because they saw something that was working.
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: And once he gets to the fourth quarter, you don't
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: want to tackle him anymore. And all of a sudden,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: he starts, you know, scoring some touchdowns and you know,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: doing things like that, and he's one of those guys
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: that is super chill. And then he crossed the line
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: and I know some coaches say, like he gets those
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: dark eyes, like he's like, oh, he's like a monster
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: now when he's a totally different player and a little
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: bit psycho in the in the best way possible. And
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just I think he like his freshman year,
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: he had like one carry went for eleven yards, and
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: it was very much like just get out of my way,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: and he's fighting and kicking forevery yard and he had
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: a couple of tackles. And then that next year, going
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: into a sophomore year, we interviewed coach Leonard, you know,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: because he was a brand new coach, and we were
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: doing the zoom interview with him, kind of introducing him
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: to the county, and I asked about him, and he
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: kind of laughed, and he goes, I'm glad you asked
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: about him, because, uh, he will be a force already.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: And I thought, well, freshman is sophomore year. He might
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: not play a ton, but he did and he never never,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: it never ended. He was always great. And his numbers,
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: there's some numbers in here that are just there's a
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: few things in here that it will just make you go, what.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: So here we go, two hundred and eighteen carries for
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: one thousand and fifty three yards and nineteen touchdowns, three
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: catches for thirty four yards. Here's where it gets crazy.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: He actually returned four kickoffs for one hundred and thirty
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: five yards and a touchdown. That kickoff return for touchdown
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: was a sight to see. He did return one punt.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: It went thirty eight yards. He was the upman on
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: the punt. Sometimes they send two guys back, one guy
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: like fifteen yards ahead. He caught a short punt and
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: just did his thing where you can't tackle him. And
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: then he had in his career had one hundred and
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: ninety tackles, two sacks, two interceptions, two forced fumbles, one
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: pass broken up, and here you go, forty two tackles
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: for loss. So if you go back ten years in
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Walkin County, that's the second most after Manny Sabalza. Manny
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: Sabals have played a handful of more games with playoffs
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So Tyler, now, I'm not gonna
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not counting how many misstackles he had because there
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: was a few times where he would just go cowboy
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: and just run and and just try to light you
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: up and it wouldn't work. But there was a lot
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: of times when it when it did work, and we
• 57:16
  Speaker 1: I talked about Colby Martin about how the whole crowd
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: would go whoa, Yeah, that happened a lot with Tyler
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: Frost over the years. And forty two tackles for loss.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: That's pretty that's pretty crazy. So what a great career
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: for Tyler Frost.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: Tyler that is that's a real quick one, almost, it
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: seems for Bellingham, although they did have I think either
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: the least amount of seniors or right about the least
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: amount of seniors, But that leaves us with Meridian. Yeah,
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: which they don't have a ton of seniors, but they
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: got a lot of guys to talk about here. I
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: mean a lot of guys that we're gonna we're gonna
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: go in depth here.
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Let's see.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: We start off with six foot five, one hundred ninety
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: five pounds the tight end, the defensive end, Number seven,
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: James heat All.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: I remember the first time I saw him, I was
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: taking his head shot his sophomore year, and I think
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: they were like, you know, they like to say okay
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: seniors first, and I like, do all the seniors, and okay, juniors,
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: and then the sophomores came in this and I'd never
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: seen him, this lanky kid. I was like, my goodness,
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: and I kind of looked at it. I go, you
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: got some good size. I go, I bet you could
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: do some damage. And he just kind of smiled and
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: walked off, and I'm like, Okay, well I probably shouldn't
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: have said it. Maybe not and uh and uh, and
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: I just you know, I just didn't really think much
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: of it. And then as the year went on, he
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: was coming off the edge and making plays and I
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: was like, that's that kid, that's that kid. I was
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: looking at like that guy's huge, and and he was
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: just kind of like an outside linebacker. That was really
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: all he was doing. His junior year, he comes out
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: and he gets moved to wide receiver in corner, big kid,
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: and uh and does does pretty well. I mean he's
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: he's he's a mismatch problem on the outside. Really really athletic.
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: I mean he went to State as a hurdler. He's
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: the center on the basketball team, and then and then
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: this year he gets moved inside. They play more of
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: a traditional tight end. He's that guy. He's playing the
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: defensive end as well, and you know, usually opposite of
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Hofer, kind of next to Landon Downy and and
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I think he ended up in the top you know,
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: I think he was like third in the county and
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: quarterback sacks and so he just kind of did a
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: lot of a little bit of everything over his career.
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: And he was always really fun to watch. And you know,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: when they kind of needed a big play, they'd call
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: upon him on like a tight end screen or something
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: because they knew that every once in a while he
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: would just break out and do something crazy and have
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: a big, big play. In his career, forty six catches
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: for five hundred and ninety two yards and three touchdowns,
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: and he turned a couple of kickoffs for thirteen yards
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: and defensively sixty six tackles for ten and a half
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: tackles for lost, six quarterback sacks, four passes knocked down,
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: three forced fumbles, two fumber recoveries, and an interception that
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: it returned eighteen yards. Really really exceptional athlete that I
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: get to watch do a couple more sports now with
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: basketball and track.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: Next up five ten one fifty wide receiver, defensive back
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: number fourteen, kaylab Be Young. Yeah, this was man.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: I wish and I don't know if it was injuries
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: or what, but I wish I would have gotten to
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: see him play more. Talk about track, I mean, you know,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I think he was part.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: Of the the the state championship relay team super super Fast,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: but I don't there's I don't know if something happened.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: But I didn't get any stats all year, so I
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: don't know if he was just injured the whole year.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: I know he was on the team, but uh, and
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: he came out this year like he hadn't played for
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: a long time and so but there were so many
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: receivers that they had, and man, I just think of
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: like the different kinds of plays that coach James could
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: have come up with with him if he would have
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: been healthy. It would have been astonishing. But unfortunately we
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: just didn't get to see that.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: Next up, six foot one fifty five running back in
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: linebackers number twenty one, that Ross's driscoll I.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: Could have put in all the positions he played, but
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: you'd still be reading them. Yeah. I love when the guys. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: when there's guys like that, you know. I think there
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: was a game his sophomore year, and I don't remember
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: the exact circumstances, but it was like someone got hurt,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: maybe in warm ups or some crazy thing like that,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: and it was an offensive lineman and they only had
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: like they only had like one other guy that actually
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: had like a seventies number or whatever like healthy to play.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: It was like week one or something crazy, and so
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: he ended up wearing the of some other kid or something.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: He played left tackle in the game, like the whole game,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: and it's like that's the kind of guy, Like we
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: talked about Lincoln Thomas in the podcast before, and there's
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: certain guys that are like you could put him at
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: so many different positions and you don't have to worry
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: about it. And he was that kind of guy, you know,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: a little low on the depth, turt and running the ball,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: but you could put him at so many different things
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: on defense. And he scored a touchdown defensively last year
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: that those stats aren't crazy, but you see all the
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: different things. Twelve carries for fifty six yards and a touchdown,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: had one catch in his career it went six yards
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: for a touchdown. Had fifty seven and a half tackles
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: in his career, probably from like three or four different
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: spots on the defense, nine tackles for lost, five sacks,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: three fumble recoveries, one that he returned for a sixteen
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: yard touchdown. Had a forced fumble as well. I think
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: he had a block punt. Just man, those kind of
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: glue guys that can just do everything. Is just a huge,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: huge thing and and you know, not gonna be up
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: for all conference stuff and things like that, but he's
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: he's that kind of guy. He gets a little gets
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: a little jacked up on defense, gets a little gets
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: a little excitable every once in a while, but the
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: other guys will feed off that, especially early in the
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: game and you get that momentum and he's he's a
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: lot to he has a lot to do with that.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Next up, five to six, one sixty, huge guy, running back, linebacker.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: It's number twenty six, Kelly Gray.
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: Man. It's so funny. You know, we talked about those
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: pictures with Landon Hatchet going from freshman year to senior
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: year and how they look so different. I was looking
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: at those with Kelly Gray. I have his freshman, sophomore, junior,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: and senior year, and if you look at them all
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: long enough, you can go, Okay, that's the same kid.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: But if you just look at him for like three seconds,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: you'd be like, who are these four guys? Totally just
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: different player freshman year to senior year, huge improvement every
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: single year. I think I even thought as a junior
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: he was an All Conference type of caliber player. He
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: wasn't nominated for it, but I thought, Okay, you know,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: I know that. You know this is a really tough conference,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: and and sometimes coaches say like, well, he wouldn't he
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: wouldn't start on nooksack, so how could it be all
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: all conference? And I say, yeah, I get that. And
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: this year he was nominated and by golly. He got
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: voted in as an All Conference player as a linebacker,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: which I loved. He did miss a little bit late
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: in the year, which was really tough. I mean, he
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: missed that game against Blaine, and I'm not saying they
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: would have beat Blaine with him, but he's so good
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: against the run and Piez went off like two hundred
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: and seventy yards and and that's really, really, really tough,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: and he was able to come back. I think he
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: tried to play in that uh, that Kansas tiebreaker, and
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: you know, it was just tough for me. He's playing her.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: He ended up not playing in Week ten. I'm pretty
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: sure in the in the crossover game against Marysville Getchell
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: with the you know, just a Week ten kind of
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: throw away game. But oh, she would have finished healthy.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: Because he was so fun to watch. And he really
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: carried the ball a lot more this year than he
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: did as a junior, which was cool to see. His
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: career numbers one hundred and forty two carries for six
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen yards and nine touchdowns. He caught five
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: passes for seventeen yards, returned six kickoffs for fifty one yards,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: return one punt for six yards and on defense one
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: hundred and twelve tackles in his career, twenty three and
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: a half tackles behind the line of scrimmage, kind of
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: that great, you know joshtn Elmer clone where he's going
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: to just fit through the gap and make it make
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: a tackle, so good at the at the ankle tackle
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: where you fall and you spin. You know, when you're
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: when you're when you're small, you got to find ways
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: to bring guys down, and he was really good at that.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Two sacks, one forced fumble, one pass broken up, and
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: one fumble recovery. I just wish he would have finished
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: the season healthy because uh uh, that could have made
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: a pretty big difference, and there was a lot on
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: the line on those last few games. Most people that
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: I know call the Gator role. Yeah, there you go.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah I've heard that. Yeah.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: Uh next up, six one two oh five guard and
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: defensive tackle number fifty four, Jackson Hurlbut.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds like I think we've been talking about him
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: for a long time. And I remember going to practice
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: his freshman year and and uh, I think Coach James
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: pointed him out and said that kid's a freshman, and
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna start. I was like, oh really,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: he goes yeah, I think he's gonna start at guard
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: and he might start on the defensive line by the
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 1: end of the year. And I was like, holy cow.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: And he wasn't huge. He was a good size for
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: a freshman. Never did it was pretty much the same size,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: you know, most of his career. I mean, what's weird
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: is I think he like he kind of he kind
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: of fluctuated a little bit, like he was a little
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: shorter and a little bigger, and then he got taller
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: and he kind of leaned out and then he just
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: and then by the time he's a senior, he just
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: got bigger and stronger. But it was always a really
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: really good good player and having to fight those older guys.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: You know, throughout his career on the offensive line, played
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: a ton. He missed, He missed chunks here and there.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: It seemed like every year he was he was getting
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: hurt with something. But I think it ended his year
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: his junior year maybe, but it didn't. This year. He
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: was able to come back. And he's a guy that
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: they could move at different spots all over the offensive line,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: even defensively. You know, he played some linebacker earlier on
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: ended up finding a home at defensive tackle. He was
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: named All Conference first team this year as an offensive lineman,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: which was cool to see. He's kind of a it
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: was almost like a career achievement award, I thought, because
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: you know, a four year starter and there was nothing
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: really flashy, but he got the recognition this year, which
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: was great. Finished his career with eighty eight tackles, nineteen
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles for loss, four quarterback sacks, two
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: passes broken up, and a forced fumble. Yeah. Yeah, he's
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: a kid that you know. He he told me, like
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: I think it was like sophomore year. We were walking,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: you know, the same way together for something. I might
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: have been in a baseball game. He was just kind
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: of walking with me and he goes, he goes, by
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: the time we're seniors, it's going to be different. I
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: was like, I know, I know, and it just it was.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: But it just wasn't enough at the very end. It
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: came so close. And he's a he's a football guy,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: and I know it's tough for him, but boy, he
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: had a great year and a really good career.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: Six pounds offensive line defensive line number fifty seven that
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: Sijaj Sitton.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I remember going to practice this year and I
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: was like, who's that kid, because there's some size right
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: right there. Yeah, and and I I think first year player.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: And he ended up playing quite a bit on the
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: offensive line. There was a few things that went on
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: and they had to shuffle guys around here and there,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: and and he ended up ended up playing quite a
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: bit on offensive line. I don't think he played any defense.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: Don't have any stats for him, but at that size
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: and that kind of coaching you have, you still have
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: you know, Bob Ames there, and you got Addison Parron
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: and and and big big Mike Mike Bouthorne and those
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: guys are all you know, like they know line play
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: pretty well. And so you can take a raw talent
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: like that and and or you know a project, I
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: should say, and you kind of mold him into what
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: you want and you know, show him how to use
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: your body. And they did that and he ended up
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: playing some offensive line.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: US senior year, six foot two, twenty five guard, defensive tackle.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: Its number fifty nine at Mason Pelas.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Good, another guy that's gone gone through it over
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: the years. Uh played a lot both sides of the ball, Uh,
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: mostly on offense this year. You know, they had other
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: guys kind of step up and be able to play
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: on that defensive line, so he wasn't needed as much
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: on defense. But uh, you know started at guard the
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: last couple of years. Good size, pretty you know, pretty
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: good athlete, you know, track guy, a thrower. Finished his
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: career with thirty six and a half tackles, nine tackles
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: for lost, four sacks. Always seemed to come up with
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: pretty big plays and big big moments, and and uh,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: you want guys like that that when the when the
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: game comes down to it. Who were guys that you
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: can rely on? And he was a guy that they
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: could rely on.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 2: Five eleven one eighty five center, beautiful nose tackle number
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: seventy six, Carson Campbell.
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't let the five eleven win eighty five fool you.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: He might have been one of the strongest guys on
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: the team. And I want to say, yeah, yeah, I
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: want to say, three year starter at center, and he
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: was probably that exact same size the whole the whole time.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: You know, we I kind of joked about there's not
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of guys you can play at center at
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: football or baseball, and he's a guy that he could
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: play at center at center field as a baseball player.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: Really really good speed for his size and for his position. Uh.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: There we was. There was a time late in the
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: season where he ran down a guy might have been
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: the camat game in Week ten where there was a
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: long run, like a fifty sixty yard run something like that,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: and he ended up there was one guy that was
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: caught him from behind. It was the nose tackle was
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: Carson Campbell. I was kind of surprised he didn't get
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: named All Conference. I was the one counting the votes
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: and he came up just shy on both sides of
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: the ball, and I just thought it's too bad because
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: he is he is a legit player, and I'm gonna
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: give him, you know, some love on the top one
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: hundred list. But yeah, I really really liked watching him play.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Definitely a guy in the running for your Mark Newton
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Award that for the best center. Is a perfect guy
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: for that kind of play. I mean, he's just he's
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: just gritty and you know, he had an injury earlier
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: on in the year, didn't complain, played through it, you know,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: just tough as nails, and yeah, I really really like
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: watching him play.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: It's funny you mentioned the old Mark Newton Award because
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: I was sitting there thinking to myself just a little
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: bit ago, Tyler, like, yeah, you know what, we haven't
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: even talked about that yet.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, yeah, I haven't discussed the centers.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you and I got a we got a little
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: pow wow.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, at some point we'll look at it.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: I mean I got a couple in mind already. But yeah,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: we'll see what we do here. Uh that being said, Tyler,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: we're down to the final three here, and the first
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: one was a big one six two one seventy quarterback,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: defensive back and punter number five, Jagger Fife.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow. Freshman year, I remember asking coach who's the
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: backup quarterback? And I think Tucker Harrison was the starting quarterback,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: and who's the backup quarterback? And he his face kind
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: of lit up. He goes, we got a freshman named
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Jager Fife. And I was like, Jagger Fife, what a
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: great name. And I didn't know anything. I knew nothing
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: about him. And then I was taking the head shots.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: He had the big giant smile on his face and
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: I just thought, Okay, this kid's got some good size,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: about six to one, maybe one hundred and fifty pounds,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: kind of kind of lean. And then I go to
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: some games and he's playing defensive back, he's playing some
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: wide receiver, he's just doing whatever it takes to be
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: on the field, and uh, all of a sudden, he
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: intercepts two passes in one game, and you know, as
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: a defensive back, and I'm I'm hearing the he's a freshman. Yeah,
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: Like I'm like, I think that might have been the
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: first time I ever heard that chant, and now you
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: hear it all the time in different sports and and uh,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, he is a freshman. That
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: was that's pretty impressive, Like two interceptions like might have
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: been the in second quarter and one in the third quarter.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: And uh. And it was great to have him because
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: they like having their backup quarterbacks that could play receiver
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: so you could do the double pass. He was very
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: effective in that. I think he threw a touchdown pass
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: against Mount Baker. And then when Week ten came around,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: I think Harrison was injured, so he played. He played
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: quarterback and he played the whole game and was awesome,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: and he was like seventy five percent completion percentage through
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: for like one hundred and eighty yards or something, and
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, this kid is for real. This
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: he will be just fine the next three years. And
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: there was a lot of things that really impressed me
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: about him. I mean, every year he get bigger, stronger,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: his arm strength would get better, and you know, he
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: was he was always he he he didn't take a
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: lot of sacks like ever, I don't, I don't. I
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: mean he would throw the ball out of bounds if
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: he had to. He was really smart about that, you know,
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: probably because his sophomore and junior year, I don't know
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: what they had for an option as a backup, you know,
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: you to have have Elmer take the snap and just
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: run it, you know, single wing style or what. But
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: but he was still tough. I mean, he's playing defense
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: all the way through it. You know, he played a
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: lot of defense from his freshman year all the way
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: to his senior year. He took over as the punter
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: his senior year. I put a lot on himself to
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: be to be the leader of this of this team.
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: I mean he was, you know, I mean he was
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: a great great He's a great basketball player. I think
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: he might be a basketball first kid, you know, I mean,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: he just puts up a ton of points, can shoot
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: it from deep. Did not play baseball his junior year,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: after being nine to zero on the mound as freshman
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: and sophomore year and playing shortstop and batting like fifth
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: in lineup or fourth in lineup. I mean, he was
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: kind of the main guy. And uh, you know, step
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: step stepped away from it as a junior, and they
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: get all the way to the championship game and just yeah,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: just a really likable kid, really good athlete. The number
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: and then he was named All Conference first Team at quarterback,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 1: which you know that says a lot in that conference,
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: and you kind of look around and you go, well,
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: they have the two teams that made the well you
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 1: have three teams that made the playoffs and none of
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: them were his team. And then the two teams that
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: were left over Meridian loss to Blaine. So it was
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: how often do you have the last place team be
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: the first team quarterback? That says that you're very much
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: respected by your coach, by the other coaches. He was
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: also named All Conference first Team as a defensive back.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: His numbers are pretty staggering, four hundred and eight completions
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: out of seven hundred and thirty seven attempts for five
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: thousand and forty four yards and forty touchdowns. I mean,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: that's just throwing the ball a ton. Two hundred and
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: thirty four carries for five hundred and thirty yards and
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: eleven touchdowns, six catches for eighty four yards. He was
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: doing damage as a freshman there, playing some wide receiver.
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: He had a kick return for eleven yards, had four
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: punt returns for thirty five yards. Like I said, took
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: over for punter this year, averaged thirty five point one
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: yards of punt and then defensively one hundred and eleven tackles,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: six tackles for lost, two fumble recoveries. He intercepted seven
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: passes for twenty eight yards. And I talked about how
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: there's only three players that had over thirty passes defended
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: in his career, and one of them was Corey on One. Well,
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: another one is Jager Fife. He had thirty five passes
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: defended in his career and those long arms and great timing.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: I think he was overlooked as a defensive back because
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: he was the quarterback, and so I think he did
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: some great great things. I thought he was a better
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: defensive player than he was a quarterback, and he was
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: an All Conference first team quarterback, and like he's the
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: guy over the years, you and I joked about with fantasy, like,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: you know, if you need a solid quarterback to get
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: your numbers, you can always just draft Jager Fife, like
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: you guaranteed to get you know, like fifteen points at
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: least from Jager Fife. He's just gonna do it for you.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: He's consistent, he's a great, great athlete.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, if we really wanted to, we probably could
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: have just flipped Heppner and Fife. Like every week, you
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: take him this week, I'll take him. Next week, I'll
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: take Heppner. This week, you take you know what I mean, Like, yeah, yeah,
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: we probably could have the things that those two guys did.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're solid every single week, you knew what
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: you were gonna get.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think there's only like twelve kids in Walking
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: County history something around there, twelve thirteen that have ever
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: thrown for five thousand yards or more in their career.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: He's one of them. And he came out and helped
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 1: in the youth football camp. I mean, he's just He's
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: a good kid, really really really really great.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: Next up six ' five two fifty five tight end,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: defensive ends sixty to sixty two?
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: Is his number? Not six? Too bigger than that. It's
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Hofer. Yeah, yeah, you said tight end again. I
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 1: keep putting just Tea in there here. Oh we probably
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: could play tight end. He could. He did catch that
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: pass for nine yards and the and that one we
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: fell down and then got up. It was all a
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: ruse to catch the ball. And yeah, what a great athlete.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: Another kid that helped out of the youth football camp. Uh,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: really impressive athlete, just to see in person. I talked
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: about when they, you know, were starting that kid as
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: a freshman, hurl. But they also said, and here's our
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: other guard. He's a freshman as well. And I was like, well, geez,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: he looks the part and as because the freshman he
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: was probably about six three and a half maybe two
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty pounds. His dad, Mike was a really
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: really good player tight end, defensive end and punter at
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Nooksack him. You know, he graduated the same year tj
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Ackerman did. And those two playing next to each other
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: as a right tackle and tie end could really uh
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: put the put the block down there for brit Leanz
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: to run through. So so not surprised there, but Lincoln
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: Hofer and young for his grade, really young. I think
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: he just he turned seventeen, like in August. There's late
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: late July, which is you know what a lot of
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: colleges are kind of like, oh really, I mean that
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: he's even younger than we thought. Yea, and so that
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: and what a what a what a project at six five,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty five pounds and that can move
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: like he can, you know, verbally committed to Montana, I
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: believe as an offensive lineman and uh a frame or
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: you could definitely put some more muscle on too, which
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: is really really great. And I mean he keeps getting
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: like an inch taller too every time I see him,
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: So I mean if he ends up being six six
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: or something, that could be huge and puts in a
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: lot of work. You know, I went out to that
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: practice to take headshots. It was pouring down rain and
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: he was the last headshot I took because he was
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: doing bear crawls and all sorts of things up and
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: down the field after after practice, and that's just you know,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: he's a kid that wants to put the work in
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: and and and plays extremely hard and fights through double
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: teams constantly when he's playing defense, and then he's just
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: a maller on offense, and and uh just so it
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: was just so cool to watch him play football over
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: the years. He did have that one catch for nine yards,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: which was which was awesome to see uh finish his
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: career defensively with ninety and a half tackles, twenty eight
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles for lost twenty eight and a
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: half my goodness, gracious, seven sacks, five passes knocked down
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: with those big paws of his two forced fumbles, one
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: fumble recovery that he picked up and ran thirty five
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown. Man, he wasn't going to get
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: caught from behind. He is a lot faster than you think.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: That was against Camiak. That was that it was like
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: a fumble Roosky play almost where they just put the
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: ball on the ground and he looked at it and
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: was like mine got it. Boom gone, just put like
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  Speaker 1: that one paw down and scooped it up and and
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  Speaker 1: went really really eager to see him in his future
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  Speaker 1: playing some college football because like if he does get
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  Speaker 1: bigger and stronger, and you know, like you know, we
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  Speaker 1: see those that Michael Bharman, I mean TJ. Bass, that's
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  Speaker 1: the kind of player that you go, My goodness, he's
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  Speaker 1: still improving. He's getting better, he's getting bigger, he's getting stronger.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows what's going to happen with him. He's just
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  Speaker 1: and he you know, he just turned seventeen and late
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  Speaker 1: late July. Well, we'll have to see. I mean, if
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  Speaker 1: he keeps getting bigger and stronger, and and uh, it
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  Speaker 1: could be really really impressive for him.
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  Speaker 2: Last but certainly not least because he maybe did the
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  Speaker 2: most uh six foot two oh five running back, linebacker, kicker,
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  Speaker 2: and I have picked him in all three in one week,
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  Speaker 2: number thirty two, Landon Downey.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I I don't know. I don't want to say
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  Speaker 1: he's unsung or he's underappreciated, but I don't think people
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  Speaker 1: understand like how good of a football player he is.
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  Speaker 1: He was starting in week one at linebacker as a freshman.
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  Speaker 1: So many kids in this in this class, you know,
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  Speaker 1: have started for for four years. And and and I
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  Speaker 1: remember because I think Ty Harrison was coaching on the
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  Speaker 1: sideline and he was like pointing out and he goes,
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  Speaker 1: We're starting like three or four freshmen. I was like, really,
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  Speaker 1: go he points out and he goes right there, middle
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  Speaker 1: linebacker Downey. He's a freshman. I go, Downy, Is that
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Downey's son? Because Ryan Downey was a really good
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: player at Ferndale. And He's like, yeah, I think so,
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  Speaker 1: and and I just was like, man, I'm always gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep my eye on him. And and he's another one
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  Speaker 1: of those kids. It just kept getting bigger and better
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  Speaker 1: every single year and bigger and stronger, and and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden as a junior. You know, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of from sophomore and junior year is kind of when
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  Speaker 1: you get your biggest growth burner, at least it seems
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  Speaker 1: like it. And he really did. And I remember he
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  Speaker 1: like had a cast on his arm for the second
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  Speaker 1: half of the year, and he's he's just making hits
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  Speaker 1: like crazy, and he would get called for like targeting
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 1: or using the crown of his helmet, but he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I can't wrap up. I'm trying, you know. And and
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  Speaker 1: he's just such a tough player. And I kicked that
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  Speaker 1: game winning field goal against Bellingham as a sophomore and
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  Speaker 1: came back this year, and that he was gonna be
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: heavily relied upon to do so many things. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: Meridane always has that guy that's gonna carry the ball
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  Speaker 1: a lot, but he's gonna catch a ton of passes.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna find he's gonna be lined up in a
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  Speaker 1: different spot every play of one possession. And that was him.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was teams new like you have to
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: watch where thirty two goes all the time. And I
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  Speaker 1: was so pumped when they were doing the voting for
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  Speaker 1: All Conference Defensive Player of the Year and he was nominated,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, well, he's nominated. That's good that he's nominated,
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  Speaker 1: but it's gonna be tough to beat Bosman. And they
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: both tied in votes, so they were both named the
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  Speaker 1: co Defensive Players of the Year, him and Trey Bosman.
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  Speaker 1: And that go I mean, that says a lot again
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  Speaker 1: on it. You know, a team that does not make
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and and he was just so good defensively,
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  Speaker 1: and he's so sound with everything and strong and quick
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: and yeah, just a great, great player. Was also named
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  Speaker 1: All Conference First Team as a running back. Finished his
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  Speaker 1: career with three hundred and thirty two carries for one thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and fifty eight yards and twenty eight touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: That's absurd right there, just running the ball, and then
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  Speaker 1: you look at his catches. He caught seventy passes for
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: eight hundred and fifty seven yards and seven touchdowns, returned
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  Speaker 1: ten kickoffs for seventy five yards, had twenty four punts
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  Speaker 1: for eight hundred and nine yards. That's a thirty three
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  Speaker 1: point seven yard average, and one hundred and eighty eight
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  Speaker 1: tackles in his career. That's that's a ton, twenty three
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  Speaker 1: and a half tackles for lost, twelve passes broken up,
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  Speaker 1: four sacks, five fumble recoveries, three interceptions for forty six yards,
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  Speaker 1: and a to just a playmaker and every single you
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  Speaker 1: know way that you can look at it. Just yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just one of my just one of my favorites
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  Speaker 1: that I know. He's getting some looks college wise, which
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  Speaker 1: I think is which I think is fantastic because he's
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  Speaker 1: been you know, he's been just working so hard and
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: and uh, he should get everything. He's gonna earn everything
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: that he gets because he really is going to deserve it.
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  Speaker 1: And then as a kicker too, I mean, he was
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  Speaker 1: named All Conference first Team as a kicker this this
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  Speaker 1: past year, so he was the only one that was
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: named All Conference in all three phases of the game.
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  Speaker 1: For the one a's uh ended up with fifty three
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: extra points in a field goal. So yeah, just just
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  Speaker 1: a great overall football player that I really loved watching, Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. They we're done.
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  Speaker 2: We're done for recording today. Yeah, we've still got a
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  Speaker 2: couple more to go here. We've got five more teams,
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  Speaker 2: So technically, not only are we done, but we're half.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: Half boay through baby halftime right now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, if you haven't already listened to the previous episode,
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: go back listen to Ferndale and Squalum. We released them
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: on Friday, so go back and listen to that one.
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  Speaker 2: That was episode three hundred and nine. Uh yeah, Tyler,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: We've still got a few to go here, so everybody
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  Speaker 2: please lock in, subscribe to the podcast, and be sure
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: to check out whattcompreps dot com for all the informations.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: We move towards the winter sports season, Tyler. So exciting time.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: We are what beginning the second or the what do
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: you say? We finished a third of the sports season
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 2: is what we want. Yeah, so starting the second third,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: so be sure to check it out. He's Tyler Anderson Watcompreps,
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  Speaker 2: watcompreps dot com on Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: episode at three hundred and ten, the second of four
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: podcasts we say goodbye to the Class of A twenty
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 2: twenty five here on the Watcompreps podcast. We will talk
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  Speaker 2: to you on Wednesday.