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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 230 - Top 100 #5 Jeremiah Wright · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Lending Christian Senior Jeremi Right. You're watching the Top one hundred Coundown
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  and Welcome prehaps podcast for Tyler and Rylan go Links Meetings and welcome into the
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  Watcome Preps podcast. This is episode two hundred and thirty, the sixth of
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  ten podcasts in the top one hundred Coundown. I'm Roland Spencer. Along with
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  me as always is Tyler Anderson. What Come Preps? Tyler? How are
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  we doing doing good? This is this is a get where it gets interesting
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  because usually when people are hearing these top one hundred podcasts, uh, they've
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  already known who's been named up to that point. So it's kind of like,
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  yeah, you know, you talk about a kid that was named a
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  week ago or so, and you're just going through the names, and now
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  it's like one at a time, here we go. This is where it
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  gets to the crunch time, and this is where it gets pretty fun.
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  We get a really delve into some kids. Yeah, there are people that
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  are hearing this right now that are subscribed to the podcast. Tyler. Yeah,
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  they got a notification today that said who number five is and they didn't
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  even have to look at the website to figure it out. Now that being
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  said, go to the website and take a look at everything. We're gonna
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  well, for the most part, we're going to talk about a lot of
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  it here. But that being said, before we go any further, Tyler,
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  we need to think Anytime Fitness. They are the official sponsor of the
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  Top one hundred Countdown. Visit any of their three locations in Ferndale, Linden
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  and Linden North. Anytime Fitness great great sponsors of Watcom Preps and Watcom County
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  high school athletes. So thank you to them, Tyler. As I mentioned,
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  we are down, I mean, we're really into it. This is
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  number five and we've already done one hundred all the way down to number six.
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  So if you want to go back, you can listen one hundred down
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  to eighty two, eighty one to sixty three, and so on and so
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  on and so on, nineteen of them at a time, until we got
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  down right here today here we are what would this be January tenth. Yes,
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  by the way, we're still in hey, Tyler, this is a
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  year away. You and I are in twenty twenty three right now talking about
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  this. It's pretty crazy. Some Doc Brown Martin McFly kind of stuff were
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  doing. Now, yeah, one point twenty one. Jiggawats right, that's
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  all right, that's right. That being said Tyler, let's talk about number
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  five. He is six foot five, two hundred and twenty two pounds quarterback,
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  outside linebacker, senior from Lyndon Christian It's number six, Jeremiah Wright.
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  Yeah. Wow. I remember the first time I ever saw him was playing
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  football, playing defensive end is sophomore year and just kind of kind of I
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  didn't know anything about him, kind of came out of nowhere. I wasn't
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  watching a lot of basketball at that point. I had no clue that about
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  him as a basketball player. But two time state champion as a basketball player
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  and has turned into a great football player as well. It blessed with great
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  size and ability and just athleticism, but really, you know, turned all
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  the other knobs that needed to be turned to be a great leader and all
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  those kinds of things that you need to be as a senior. And really
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  had a great year, very very similar stats this year as to last year.
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  Passing wise completed one hundred and eighteen out of two hundred and six passes
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  for one four hundred and thirty one yards and fourteen touchdowns. Not not like
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  a next level quarterback by any means, but a lot of times at the
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  high school level, you put the you know, a dude at quarterback.
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  He just just put him there and that's it kind of fell into his lap
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  that way. But a two year starter that you know, had a great
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  record, had a great win loss record as a as a starting quarterback.
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  I want to say, it's something along the lines of eighteen and four or
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  something like that. So some some crazy thing like that. And just you
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  know, is a physical specimen back there, and and a guy that you
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  always had to account for, especially if he's going to keep the ball.
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  Seventy two carries for four hundred and seventy nine yards and twelve touchdowns, long
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  strides not necessarily fast, but fast enough even to get outside and and and
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  you know he had some long touchdown runs and and he can you know,
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  bulldoze ahead for the to the yards when needed. So accounting for twenty six
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  touchdowns on the offensive side of the ball, also scored two touchdowns on the
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  defensive side of the ball. You know, I think he did. He
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  may have won Defensive Player of the Week two weeks in a row. I
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  think it was just crazy that had never happened before. Also caught a pass
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  for twelve yards. Definitely a mismatch problem on the outside. And maybe just
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  to show a scout here or there, this is what could happen if you
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  split him out wide the defensively, you know, coming off the edge was
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  was down. Put his hand in the dirt. As a sophomore the last
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  two years, you know, with coach Chirpster coming in his three four defense,
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  put him on the outside as an outside linebacker. Forty four and a
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  half tackles this year, ten and a half tackles for loss, four sacks,
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  four passes deflected, two forced fumbles. Just makes a ton of plays.
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  Like I said, the two fumble recoveries that he returned for touchdowns.
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  You know he could drop back and pass average, has a humongous wingspan and
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  could you know, just covers a lot of ground and just closes a lot
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  of windows for high school quarterbacks to see. Uh, it's just you know,
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  all four of those linebackers were are these they're you know, there are
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  four guys that are playing on the basketball team right now. They're all forwards.
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  They're all just these big, long stretched arms guys that they if they
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  all drop back and just put their arms out, it's really hard to to
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  find an open lane. And and and He's he's he's you know, he's
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  the tallest out of all of them and very very athletic and a guy that
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  you know, it's so weird you start thinking of guys, you start thinking
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  about all the local teams. It's like, man, if he played for
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  Ferndale, like what would he be playing? What position would you play?
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  If he played for see Home, what position would he be playing. It's
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  just it's interesting because he's one of those guys that you could say he could
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  he could play this position on this team and fit really well. He could
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  play this position on this team and fit really well. And that's just an
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  athlete, just a pure athlete. And you know, I was at the
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  game. I'm trying to remember who was against. I think it might have
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  been Blaine and I was there, and there was a scout from Idaho there
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  and and I believe he was there, you know, to see Jeremiah.
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  And he had a great game that game, just an awesome game. I
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  think it was one of the ones he won. Defensive Player of the Week,
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  and he probably could have won offensive too. He was that dominant on
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  both sides of the eight. I was just looking at somebody's comment on that.
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  Oh yeah, So I was just looking at it, Tyler, because
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  I was like, I wanted to go back and remember what you were talking
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  about. Steve Gole. Yeah, I'm not sure who it was. Well
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  Steve, Steve Gole, g l E. Do you know who that?
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  Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, he commented, said quite a week
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  for him, could arguably be the offensive player of the week. Also,
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  you said, you're right overall player of the week because he had five and
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  a half tackles, three sacks, one force fumble, one fumble recovery,
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  and a touchdown on defense. Yeah, I mean, and and he didn't
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  win because Nolan Wright got it. And by the way, he had a
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  huge game. He had four passing and one rushing touchdown. That's right.
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  Yeah, that was against Squalkum. That's crazy. I remember you and I
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  talking on Sunday night before we recorded, and you you said to me,
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  you were like, hey, I'm gonna make it Nolan write, but let
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  me throw this at you. You're like, this is what Jeremiah Wright did
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  on offense. I remember going, good God man, like like that's a
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  heck of a week, and you were like, I know, yeah,
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  but I think I'm gonna go Jeremiah right now. And then you told me
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  what it was and it was like it's I mean, he had pretty dang
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  good numbers soon. Man, this people don't understand. Man, that's a
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  lot harder than people think for what you know, for what it is that
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  you do there in terms of picking these guys, there's a lot of discussion
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  that we go through at times. Yeah, there's there's lots of things.
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  I mean, there's been weeks where it was really hard. There's been there's
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  sometimes every once in a while it's like, well it's obviously that guy,
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  but boy, a lot of times it is really really tough. I want
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  to say that that that that game, Yeah, that game against Blaine,
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  he ran for three touchdowns and threw one. He had three carries for one
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  hundred and eleven yards and three touchdowns, so you know, his only three
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  times he ran the ball, Yeah, went went went for touchdowns. So
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  my goodness, just just an overall unbelievable athlete, just you know, and
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  I love it when these guys come out and and dominate playing playing football,
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  and it's it's such I don't know, I just feel so lucky, I
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  guess is I don't even know how to the best way to say it,
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  but you know, we get to watch these kids to do those things and
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  just to go and like see him at practice close up and and and and
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  you know he stands out. You know, he really really stands. I
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  mean when he picked up that fumble and scored the touchdown, the one that
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  he did a against Baker, I think it was it was so funny because
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  I was standing in the end zone, like he was running towards me,
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  and the ball was just kind of I think he forced it too, and
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  it came it went on the ground, but like it wasn't really noticeable,
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  like it was kind of in a scrum a little bit, like the crowd
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  didn't gasp or anything, and all of a sudden he but he knew it
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  because he caused it. And the way he just put his left hand down
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  and just palmed the ball and picked it up and then like ran that way
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  with it in his hand, it just really stood out as like the physical
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  specimen that he is, Like just the way he picked the ball up the
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  way he the way it was so easy for him, and and doing those
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  kinds of things. He really stands out as a on a one a school,
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  you know, like those kinds of things that are like whoa, okay,
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  yeah and and not you know, I remember even doing like the Quarterback
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  Podcast, the Senior Quarterback Podcast before the year started. Him and Joey Brown
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  and Josh Leonard and Bishop Bootsy and the five of us were talking about different
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  things. And this was this was before we went on the air, just
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  the five of us talking, and I was asking Joey about, what's the
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  farthest you've ever thrown a football that that that like you know of you know,
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  and he goes like sixty three sixty four yards and and then and Josh
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  said, it's kind of the same thing. He goes, yeah, I'm
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  kind of right in that spot too, And Jeremiah started laughing and he goes,
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  I don't even know if I could throw it forty five, you know,
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  like like he's not like he'll be the first to tell you, like,
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  you know, it's not what I'm best at. Yeah, you know
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  what I mean and what it is. Yeah, he understands the offense knows
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  where to go. Being a leader. He could run the ball, but
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  on defense, it was just so awesome. Uh to see him, boy,
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  when he would come off on the blind side sometimes and was untouched totally
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  cow. That was stuff like that was really scary and and uh, yeah,
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  it's just just a lot of fun to you know, see him play.
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  It was so unfortunate to see the injury that he had also averaged thirty
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  seven yards of punt for crying out loud too. I mean that kind of
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  came out of nowhere. And that happens with kids a lot, like by
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  the time their seniors, maybe they graduated their punter. Oh hey Joey Brown,
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  you're gonna punt. Hey Jeremiah Right, you're gonna punt just you're a
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  good athlete, and then they end up averaging almost forty yards of punt.
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  It's that happens all the time. It seems like it's like, holy cow,
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  these guys are great athletes. And he launched a few that were just
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  like holy cow. You know, you get that big six five frame and
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  you do that and you could see it. But so cool to see him
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  now recovering from that elbow injury and playing basketball, you know, I was
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  at his first game back where he came off the bench and did some things.
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  Still had a big sleeve around the right elbow there. But but then
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  you know, is now back into the starting lineup. He started against Blaine.
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  I believe that was the first game he actually started back in. And
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  and and uh, I expect big things from the basketball team this year,
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  so uh, you know, he's a big leader in that as well,
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  and and uh really cool to get to know him over the years and and
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  and watch his development in a position where you know he did play it growing
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  up as well. But it's it just it's uh, it's it. It
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  kind of looked a little unnatural. I mean, it looked like Bam beyond
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  ice, to be honest. When I first saw it, like his junior
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  year in August, and they were still trying to figure out who the quarterback
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  was going to be. There was just some it just looked like you would
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  see that, but then you'd see these moments where you go, holy cow,
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  like nobody can do that. And it was fun to see him as
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  a junior where he's in the back of him and Kate Eldridge standing back there.
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  I mean, that's daunting to see those two guys back there a couple
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  of six or five guys that are just like right, and so it just
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  the just the visual of that can go a long way against other one A
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  schools. And yeah, I mean when they beat Royal, you know,
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  at Royal, I want to say the score was like twenty one to fourteen
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  or twenty one to seventeen or something like that. He scored the three touchdowns.
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  You know, a lot of people forget about that. Kate. You
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  know, Kate Eldridge had a great game. He ran for like one hundred
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  and thirty five yards and picked up a lot of big time first downs,
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  but the touchdowns were scored by Jeremiah Right. So there's there's a lot to
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  be said for big you know, big time players doing big time things and
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  big games, and to be shot up the list and number five this year
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  is a huge accomplishment. Yeah, as of right now, I see here
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  an offer from Lynnfield. Here's what he has. But you know, if
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  I'm a school I'm looking at him. And if I'm a football coach,
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  I'm trying to I'm trying to get the basketball coach on board too. Yeah,
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  I'm just saying, hey, let's both pull together some money out of
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  our you know, scholarship allotments here, and let's try to pull something off
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  because that kid's he can play both, you know, and eventually it gets
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  to a point where maybe he needs to make a decision and he's got to
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  play, you know, one or the other. And at that point then
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  then you make a decision, you know what I mean. And if it's
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  football, then maybe football chips and some more money. But you know,
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  when I look at him, I see a guy that, you know,
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  I think myself, I would probably say is a tight end defensive end.
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  I think it's there too. I just don't know if he has the aggression
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  to play defensive end, you know, I don't know if he has that
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  kill you know what I'm saying. Whereas it tight end, tell you what,
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  man, the guy can move, he can jump, he can you
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  know, go get a ball. And yeah, I think there's plenty to
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  be to be had from Jeremiah right at the next level. And if somebody
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  wants to go get him, they're going to have the opportunity because as of
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  right now, Field's the only one that's that's come out and said anything apparently,
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  so you know, there's I'm sure. I'm sure he's heard from some
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  schools. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, well, just looking
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  over twenty four to seven sports here, they've got some other schools listed Idaho,
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  Ohio, Oregon State, UC Davis, Washington, and Washington State.
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  But those are just schools that have have interest or have had interest at one
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  point. As I said, the only one that has offered is Linfield.
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  Now that being said, Linfield, he could go there be an All American
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  football and All American basketball, and probably like an All American in track,
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  you know what I mean, Like he could he could he could go you
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  know, probably do the high jump, you know what I mean, or
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  the pole vault or something. I don't know what they have there. Well,
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  he's another kid that's like track wise, could be you could look at
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  and go, that's a possible decathlete. Yeah, you know he's he kind
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  of has that ability to to just like, oh he could run to the
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  hurdles and he could you know, so he's kind of has those abilities.
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  Let's see if they have they have track there at Winfield, they do track
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  and field. Yeah, because he could absolutely go be a multi sport type
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  All American. There's no doubt in my mind he could. So yeah,
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  Jeremiah Wright Tyler. I mean it's kind of crazy. One of those things
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  that I remember early on we were talking, is he gonna play football?
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  Is he? You know, is he just gonna kind of stick to basketball.
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  What's gonna be his thing? And then you know, he comes out
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  and plays football and it's like, all right, this is pretty intriguing.
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  This is very intriguing from a you know, collegiate type standpoint. And then
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  yeah, you know, he just got better and better and better, and
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  he was a lot of fun to watch, that's for sure. Yeah,
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  yeah, definitely. It's uh, it's like I said, he stands out
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  on the field and it's gonna be it's gonna be different next year with without
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  a guy that big, you know, at quarterback. You know, it's
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  gonna be Eli Maybury, who I like a lot, is going to be
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  a great quarterback for the next couple of years. But it's just it's different
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  than Jeremiah Wright. Eli Maybury's more of a pocket passer, very accurate,
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  very very smart. You know, Jeremiah Wright might had might have had to
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  read and if it wasn't there, take off and run and show what you
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  can do, so it'll be a different dynamic at quarterback. Not exactly sure
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  who's gonna take over the outside linebacker spot too, So big big shoes to
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  Phill and he left a big imprint on the Linden Christian legacy on the football
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  field, Tyler, I have a pretty good idea of who's going to replace
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  him it outside linebacker. Oh yeah, I don't have a name, but
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  they'll be six foot four and about one hundred and ninety pounds. Yeah,
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  you know, I think you're right. You know, there's another segment coming
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  up and that might be a pretty good spot for him. Caden Veldman is
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  a freshman this year that was a kind of a tight end defensive type that
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  has big time ability, awesome basketball player as well, been playing on the
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  varsity team on the undef you know, at the time we're recording this undefeated
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  varsity team, and he's a kid that you know could take over that spot
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  as the outside linebacker as well. So, uh, yeah, you're right.
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  They always got guys coming in. By the time next year rolls around,
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  Caiden Veldman will be about six four, one ninety So I think you
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  probably nailed it on the head right there, All right, Tyler, any
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  last words on Jeremiah right before we get out of here. I think we
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  covered it already. Another thank you to Anytime Fitness in Ferndale, Linden Linden
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  North for their continued sponsorship of watcumb Preps. He's Tyler Anderson. I'm Ryland
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  Spencer. You've been listening to episode two hundred and thirty. It's the number
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  five on the top one hundred countdown. Jere maya right here on the top
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