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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 215 - Senior Goodbye Mount Baker Lynden · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Lyndon Senior Charlie Ers, and you're listening to the Walcome Preps podcasts
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  with Tyler and Ryland. Go Lions, Reading Xen and Welcome into the watcom
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  Preps podcast. This is episode two hundred and fifteen, the first of four
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  podcasts. As we say goodbye to the class of twenty twenty four, I'm
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  Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson. Watch coume prep.
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  Tyler, how are we doing doing great? These are always really fun
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  to do talking about the seniors. And it's crazy because we've done these in
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  the past and I'm always looking, I'm always thinking of when I create these
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  and get these ready. I'm like, oh, that guy's only a junior.
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  Oh, I can't wait to talk about him next year. And so
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  it's kind of cool that we actually hit all these kids at least once,
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  and so this is gonna be a lot of fun. I'm doing great.
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  We need to give thanks to Charlie Ayers for the intro, which maybe gives
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  you a little bit of an idea of one of the teams we're talking about
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  today. We also need to give a thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurt
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  Kurt Mayberry Farm dot com. That's Kurt with the C. Mayberry m A
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  b E r r Y Farm dot com. Tyler. Today we are talking
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  about from Mount Baker High School, the Mount Baker High School fighting laps the
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  Mountaineers, and we're talking about the Lynden Lyons. So this is being released
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  Thursday, November thirtieth. The next one that you will find is Lynnen Christian's
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  Squalicum that's set from Monday, December fourth. Blaine Bellingham Meridian will be Wednesday,
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  December sixth, followed by Ferndale Niksack Valley, Seahome. They finish it
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  off on Friday, December eighth. Sometime hopefully the following week, we'll have
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  the Volleyball Top fifty podcast that we plan on doing here, and then right
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  after that it's right into the football Top one hundred. As a matter of
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  fact, when we post the Volleyball Top fifty podcast, the Top one hundred
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  for football might already be going. Yeah, it would probably be started by
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  that time, right and then with the top one hundred podcasts. Usually the
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  way we do it is it nineteen. I think it's nineteen at a time.
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  Yeah, all the way down to number five, four, three to
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  two and one where they get their own right. So like the first podcast
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  will be counting down from number one hundred to number eighty two, and those
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  nineteen players will be talked about on the podcast, and then and then the
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  next one and then the right and it's a lot of work. Yeah,
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  it's like six six, six days later close to that, we'll do another
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  one with the next nineteen guys, and yeah, we'll time it all out,
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  make it all work. It ends up being ten I believe it's five
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  and then yeah, and then the top five, the top five a five,
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  yeah, five podcasts of nineteen kids each, and then a podcast dedicated
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  to each of the top five that make the list. Yeah. So there
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  are going to be a lot of podcasts here for the next little while,
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  and and the honest truth, some of them will be on random days.
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  So there might be a podcast that comes out, you know, Saturday at
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  two pm. So you're gonna want to you're gonna want to subscribe to the
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  podcast because they're going to come out some random times, because what we do
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  is what do you say, one hundred down to eighty two? Right,
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  So right after eighty two the podcast will go live, and then right after
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  whatever the next one down is, the podcast will go live. So they're
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  going to be at some weird times. I mean, we might have a
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  ten A or you know, ten am podcast, we might have a ten
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  pm pot They're going to be a random time. So subscribe and follow walcomepreps
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  dot com because Tyler, you will have everything up there constantly updated. And
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  basketball, boys and girls. What do we got swimming and diving coming up?
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  Right? Yeah? Yeah, boys swimming and diving, wrestling, girls
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  wrestling. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff coming up in the fall,
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  or excuse me, in the winter, even though technically we're still in the
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  fall right now, right, yeah, for another couple of weeks, Yeah,
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  a couple of weeks, but the winter sports are starting here and then
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  right after that, I mean, and we're going to be talking about football
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  basically almost all the way through winter. I mean, yeah, that's just
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  the way it's been last couple of years, and it just it flows well
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  and the people enjoy it, so we keep talking about it and there's gonna
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  be some other podcasts that come in. You know, we we're not even
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  you know what, we haven't even completely talked about what we're going to do
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  for the winter, right, so, like you and I don't even know
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  what we're gonna do yet. But I'm sure there's gonna be podcasts with weekly
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  talking about all kinds of different stuff because there's so much to talk about now.
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  And then I mean, there's gonna be points where they might even get
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  three podcasts, you know, in one week, because there might be two
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  Top one hundred podcasts and we might have one about basketball and wrestling and everything.
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  Yeah, right in the middle of it. Who knows, So subscribe.
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  Be sure to check out walkomprepswalkompreps dot com. All kinds of different things
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  going on. That being said, we've got Mount Baker and Linden today,
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  and we are going to start with the Mount Baker Senior class, which has
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  what am I looking at here? Eight kids? Yeah, just a small
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  class. Eight kids, yeah, eight kids from Mount Baker High School.
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  Yes, and boy that's a lot of lemons. No, no, no,
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  Coach, they're good kids. They're not lemons, they're good kids.
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  Coach, My goodness, guys just all over the place. Tyler, We've
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  got eight guys to talk about here, and we're going to start with a
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  five foot eight, one hundred and fifty three pound wide receiver, corner number
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  twenty one, Hayden Arosa. Tyler, tell me about Hayden Rossa. Yeah,
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  very quiet, good athlete, you know, really really good player.
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  Played a little bit as a sophomore. Could play some wing back, was
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  a backup tight end and and but you know it doesn't have that tight end
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  body, but could do it and then would be split out. Could you
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  know, still play some wing back. Has always been a good defensive player.
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  He had an interception last year in Week one against Nolan Wright. It
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  was that first it was, you know, kind of Nolan Wright's first game
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  as a quarterback and he was intercepted by Hayden Rossa. And then Hayden intercepted
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  a pass and returned it for a touchdown against against Topinish this year. That
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  was a big turning point because I think they won thirteen to seven and that
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  was the only score of the second half, I believe, so so some
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  big, some big plays out of him. A good baseball player in his
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  career, twelve catches for one hundred and fifty seven yards and a touchdown one
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  carry for six yards. But on defense, he really racked up some number.
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  Seventy nine tackles, eleven passes broken up, four tackles for loss,
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  had a sack as well a fumble for a loss. Yeah, four tackles.
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  Well yeah, well you know you get those those quick outs, those
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  okay plays and stuff, and you know Niuk sack. Runzo's my head.
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  I think running game and I'm like, wow, I like that kid a
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  lot. But okay, that makes a little bit more sense what I mean.
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  I still like him, but make sure and there could be some plays
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  where and he did plays like some strong safety a little bit too, so
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  he could do some different things. Had a force fumble, He had the
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  two interceptions that I talked about for thirty three yard returned for a touchdown on
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  that one. He also had a game against the Center this year where he
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  caught four passes for one hundred and two yards, and so his twenty five
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  and a half yards per catch in that game is the ninth highest in school
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  history for a single game. So you know, a guy that could do
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  a lot of different different things. Gonna, you know, hopefully gonna watch
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  him play his senior or of baseball. There's been a lot of Baker kids
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  that once they get seniors, they turned to track for some reason. But
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  I think he'll be playing baseball and excited to watch him play that sport in
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  the spring. Tether. I should have prefaced this whole thing by saying,
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  if I say a name wrong, it's Tyler's fault. Yeah, that's fine.
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  Yeah, because there are some names now, not on these first couple,
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  but there's some names down the line where I look at it and I'm
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  like, I have no idea how to say that one, and then you
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  go, this is how you say it. So if I say it wrong,
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  it's on Tyler. I just want everybody to know that. So if
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  you're going to email him, email him at hotmail at hotmail dot com.
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  That's right, that being said. Five to eleven one sixty running back,
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  linebacker number thirty two, it's Bryson Moa. This kid is ripped to shreds.
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  There's a lot of strength and really great physical specimen and plays like it
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  as a as a linebacker just wants to hit and rarely loses a tackle if
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  he has you, he's he's gonna have you. He's gonna bring you down,
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  or at least he's gonna at least hold you there until someone else gets
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  there. You know, played that unselfish role of a lead blocker from the
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  wing position where you back up and then you just ram forward. That Brady
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  West did it last year, which is really very much responsible for a lot
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  of Marcus George's yards. And he did the same for his cousin Dylan this
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  year. You know, the unselfish play, the lead blocking. He's a
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  kid that is just I just wouldn't want to be hit by him, you
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  know, any of the Moas really, but but Bryce a Moa is a
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  really strong kid. Still put up some numbers in his career. Twenty six
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  carries for one hundred and forty yards and three touchdowns. Defensively, fifty one
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  tackles, four and a half tackles for loss, had a half a sack,
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  a pass broken up, a fumble recovery. He also returned four kickoffs
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  for thirty yards, like kind of that up you know, kind of that
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  that up back position in the kickoff where a lot of teams like to kick
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  it short and high, and he has no problem. He's not gonna fair
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  catch that. He's tough as nails. He's gonna catch it and go and
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  try to and try to get some extra yards that way. You know,
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  he was He was injured a little bit last year, so they kind of
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  missed him for a big chunk of the year last year when they went on
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  their their big run into the playoffs. But got to play the whole year
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  this year. Was really excited to see him play. And and uh,
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  I'm glad he had a good senior year nine two two right tackle hold on
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  five to nine right tackle Tyler hey Man wing tea baby, Oh yeah,
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  good point right tackle defensive tackle number fifty five alder grd. Yeah, and
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  a senior that earned that spot at right tackle. He started there all year.
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  Didn't play a ton of defense. It played a little bit that they
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  had a lot of rotation early on in the in the kind of the interior
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  the defensive line, and they had a lot of you know, they didn't
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  have a lot of lineman period, so they tried to find ways where certain
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  guys would just play offensive line, certain guys would just play defensive line and
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  just kind of keep it at that because if someone gets injured. They were
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  really thin for line players. I want to say they had less than I
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  think they maybe had eight on their whole team that were you know, numbers
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  fifty through seventy nine type thing, and so they were they had to be
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  aditioned and and play great and play all the way through. Uh. I
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  don't I don't recall him ever even taking a snap off at right tackle.
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  It seemed like he was there the whole year. Did get at one and
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  a half tackles and on the defensive line. But like I said, mainly
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  just uh an offensive player, you know, the you know the big the
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  big counter run. The right tackle is very instrumental on that on on down
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  blocking while the other the guys on the left side come come through. A
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  really strong kid. Uh great hair, you know, love the hair coming
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  out of the of the the helmet there and uh yeah. It just it's
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  a shame that only got to see him for for for one year. You
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  know. This coming into this year, he had to replace you know Jesse
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  Harvard who moved on who started at right tackle for a couple of years and
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  he transferred to Bellingham, So that was a spot that was kind of up
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  for grabs. He took it and he held onto it the entire year,
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  which is when it when a player becomes a senior, you get that opportunity.
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  You don't want to miss it. And he didn't miss it and stay
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  with it the whole entire year. Five foot five one and thirty three pounds
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  wide receiver and corner number eighty two Ben Ruiz, Santana. Yeah, another
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  kid just had a one and a half tackles, played some corner late in
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  the year. And uh, I think a first year player. I don't
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  recall seeing him in prior years. And but you know, not a not
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  a not a big kid. I mean five five one thirty three. I
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  look at that and go, I remember those days in high school and uh,
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  but you know, did some things on special teams. You know what
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  they could bring him in. They had a lot, they had a lot
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  of depth actually at corner, so he didn't get a ton of playing time,
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  but he got in there and made some plays. Like I said,
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  he had a one and a half tackles as well. Uh yeah, five
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  five one thirty three. Either Tyler knows how you feel or you're a senior
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  in you're six foot one eighty five at Meridian, that right, that being
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  said Tyler five foot one thirty one wide receiver, corner and kicker number eighty
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  three, Tanyan Staton, Yeah, one of just probably could be the fastest
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  kid on the team. Uh, you know, slight, I mean,
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  very small, but man, he's tough. There was a play in the
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  state championship game last year where and you'll remember the name of the kid from
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  Royal. It's not coming to me right now. Is that really tall receiver?
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  Oh yeah, I can't think of his name either, but you know
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  who I'm talking like sixty four, yeah, two pounds, he's he's oh
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  my goodness, what was his name? Edgar? No, yeah, Edgar
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  Dela. Yeah, yeah, that's who it was. And Tanyan's covering you
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  know, and so and it was and he played great. There was a
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  play when Tanian was caught the ball and Edgar was covering him and he basically
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  just picked him up and threw him on the ground and Tanya just popped right
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  back up. I mean, tough as nails, super fast and could kick
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  some too. And the one thing that always wowed me about his kicking was
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  he's so fast. And I think Troy pets dealt with this early on when
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  he was a sophomore. When you're that fast, like you don't have to
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  run so fast to kick the ball, like on an extra point, just
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  take a couple of steps and kick it and just and just have it be
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  that like repetitiveness every single time. And and that was one thing that he
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  looked like he struggled with a lot because he's so fast, like he's almost
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  too fast to be a place kicker. But his junior year he made it.
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  He made a ton for his career twenty five catches for five hundred and
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  thirty five yards and four touchdowns, So that tells you're right there, averaging
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  over twenty yards a catch in his career. Definitely a big play threat,
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  and Baker likes to throw the ball deep, and he was one of those
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  guys they were looking for a lot. Also had to carry for eight yards.
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  Defensively, sixty four tackles in his career, three tackles for lost,
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  eight passes broken up, He had an interception. He also kicked forty extra
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  points in his career, had twenty three kickoff returns for four hundred and seventy
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  seven yards, and he returned seven punts for fifty three yards. Now there's
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  a few things in the record book as well. So he caught five passes
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  for one hundred and twenty yards against the center this year, and so that
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  twenty four yards per catch in the game is tied for eleventh highest in school
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  history for a game. His thirty six extra points kicked as a junior is
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  the ninth most in school history for a season. His forty career extra points
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  kicked is the ninth most in school history. For a career. Three hundred
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  and thirty eight kickoff return yards is the fifth most in a season. Four
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  hundred and seventy seven career kickoff return yards is the sixth most in school history.
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  His twenty two point five average per kickoff return is the eleventh highest in
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  school history, and his twenty point seven average yards per kickoff return for a
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  career is the tenth highest in school history. So he put his name up
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  there, and I when on my record book, I have it as the
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  top fifteen in every statistical category. So just to get you know, a
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  few more names in there, and and and he's all He's plastered all over
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  it. So a really good career for Tanian State. Five foot eight one
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  fifty seven wide receiver and corner number twelve, big play land in Handstead.
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  Yeah, he became a favorite of ours. You know, even as a
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  sophomore. You know, right off the bat he was catching those long touchdowns
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  and you were always marveling at hey, you know, two catches for eighty
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  yards or something like that. Yeah, and two touchdowns. And and he
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  slowly he was a big play guy, but he turned into a guy that
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  was really dependable, that could catch the short passes, do lots of things.
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  He was you know, he's the main guy on the outside. This
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  this the last couple of years. Uh, kind of that, kind of
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  that main target. A kid that has another really good baseball player, second
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  baseman, leadoff guy. If he gets on first, he's stealing second.
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  There's no doubt about it. Just love his toughness and just that Baker kind
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  of player, you know, not that big, really scrappy, very fast,
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  good hands, dependable. In his career, he put up some pretty
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  big numbers, especially as a receiver in the Mount Baker system. You know,
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  it's that's sometimes it's tough to put up those numbers. But he finished
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  his career with fifty five catches for eight hundred and seventy six yards and ten
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  touchdowns. Also had thirty eight carries for three hundred and sixty seven yards in
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  a touchdown. He was a hard guy to bring down. Not the biggest
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  kid, but he was hard to tackle. And then on defense, sixty
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  and a half tackles, twelve passes broken up, six interceptions, two tackles
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  for loss, a fumble recovery, and he did return a kickoff for twelve
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  yards. In the record book, he had seven catches against Topini Ish that's
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  tied for the tenth most in school history for a single game. He had
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  fifty five career receptions, that sixth most in school history. Eight hundred and
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  seventy six career receiving yards is the sixth most in school history. He average
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  fifteen point nine yards per catch, ninth highest in school history. Seven touchdowns
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  in one season receiving it's tied for tenth most in school history. Ten career
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  receiving touchdowns is tied for eighth most in school history, and six career interceptions
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  are tied for fifteenth most in school history. Wow, yeah, I know
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  people better. Oh oh, pope, people are ready for the statistical onslaught
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  with some guys, but I want to give them their due because it's long,
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  it's it's it's it's a lot of work to get to those numbers.
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  It really is now a guy with probably hardly any numbers, but definitely a
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  beautiful man. Uh five eleven center. That's right, defensive end number fifty
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  seven, Vance Lawrence. I first saw Vance Lawrence as a sophomore on special
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  teams, and I swear every kickoff he's the first guy down there making a
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  play. And what I love about Vance Lawrence was that that never ended.
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  Going to his final game as a senior, it was the same thing.
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  He wanted to be on kickoff return or kickoff coverage and he was always one
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  of the first guys down there. Also as a sophomore, he was kind
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  of like a third down specialist guy to rush the passer, and he ended
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  up with like eight and a half sacks as a sophomore. About halfway through
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  the year, the center goes down and he gets put in to play center,
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  and he was probably one hundred maybe one hundred and sixty pounds maybe and
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  going in there and snapping the ball to Davin Beeson, who you know who
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  you want to play center, But because of you know how everything turned out.
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  Yeah, and it was just hilarious. I got a great picture of
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  you know, Davin Beeson standing over Vance Lawrence to get the ball and he's
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  twice a size, you know, but Vance Lawrence a wrestler, just tough
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  as nails and turned into an un believable defensive player. And you know,
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  it's it's crazy because as a sophomore, just from his pass rushing abilities on
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  third down, his special teams play and having to fill in for center for
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  the second half of the year, I had him on the top one hundred
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  list. He just barely made it. But last year I didn't have him,
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  and he was one of those guys that was so close. Now this
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  year he's definitely gonna be up there. He had a huge year and in
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  his career one hundred and thirty one tackles I would say at least thirty five
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  to forty of those on special teams. So we're talking, I mean,
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  big time special teams player. How about this twenty and a half quarterback sacks
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  in his career, Wow, ten and a half tackles for loss, four
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  fumble recoveries, three forced fumbles, and three passes knocked down at the line
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  of scrimmage. So big time player on defense again started center for two and
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  a half years. A guy that's really really going to be missed. His
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  nine and a half sacks this season lead Walkham County. It's the seventh most
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  in school history in a season. He also had eight and a half sacks
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  as a sophomore, which we talked about, which was the tenth most in
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  school history for a season, and his twenty and a half career sacks is
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  the third most in school history. So a guy. Some guys just have
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  that knack of getting after the quarterback, don't I don't you know, sometimes
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  you just can't put a finger on it. You look at a guy like
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  Jake Mason, you go, well, yeah, he's he's strong as fast,
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  he's good with his hands, Yeah, great athleticism, Like there's so
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  many things about Jake Mason. No offense to Vance Lawrence, he ain't Jake
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  Mason. But he gets after it like Jake Mason does right there. Just
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  but we watch a guy like Vans Lawrence and you just go, man,
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  if he just zeros in on the quarterback, he does so well at that
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  still could play the run. Like I said, ten and a half tackles
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  for loss as well, So one hundred and thirty one tackles on his career.
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  What a great career he had, and he's really gonna be missed next
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  year on both sides of the ball and on special teams. Now, Tyler
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  the next guy we're going to talk about here. He's six feet tall,
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  which is the tallest guy that we talked about today. He's two hundred and
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  eighteen pounds, which is the heaviest guy we talked about today. Oh and
• 22:11
  he's the left tackle. I mean, not exactly Walter Jones, maybe more
• 22:18
  like Walter Jones's meal. He's also a defensive end. He's also a punter.
• 22:22
  He's number sixty four in Alex Molowly man, what a what a career.
• 22:26
  I saw him get a quarterback sack at Blaine during the COVID year as
• 22:32
  a freshman. Yeah, and I was like, WHOA, who's that kid?
• 22:37
  You know, wearing number ninety nine? And were you broadcasting that game?
• 22:40
  I was broadcasting, I remember this, I think I was, yeah,
• 22:44
  yeah, and probably in the YouTube comments probably, And I and Molowly
• 22:49
  I knew the name mololy He had an older brother that was playing and and
• 22:53
  but he was built different. He is a big tight end defensive end.
• 22:57
  He starts as a sophomore at tide end and and just kept playing defensive end
• 23:03
  and and uh and was more of a run blocker as a tight end,
• 23:07
  but had some athleticism. It took a little while till he had his first
• 23:11
  catch, and then I think he ended up with six catches that year for
• 23:14
  ninety seven yards. And then going into his junior year, you know,
• 23:18
  last year it was you know, coach talked to him and said, hey,
• 23:22
  to help the team, what we really need is for you to play
• 23:25
  left tackle. And at Mount Baker, especially the left side of the line,
• 23:30
  especially the left tackle left you know, left guard. Those guys are
• 23:33
  super crucial in their the way they run their plays. And and him and
• 23:40
  Ethan Larson last year on that left side was just I mean, there's killers.
• 23:45
  Yeah. And and so he comes back anchors that line at left tackle
• 23:49
  as a senior defensive end, defensive end playing the run. There's hasn't been
• 23:56
  many like him in school history. And we'll get into that a little bit.
• 23:59
  But and then punning the last two years as well, Like you said,
• 24:03
  he was named first team All Conference on both sides of the ball as
• 24:07
  a junior and a senior, which it says a lot, and especially with
• 24:11
  the lineman in the county, like also in the conference, and especially in
• 24:15
  that conference where only do a first team right exactly, and you know you
• 24:21
  got you got these guys that have been playing doing it forever, like the
• 24:23
  Strembler's, Nackerman's and the every year Blaine Lenny, Christian Knooksack, Valley and
• 24:30
  Meridian, they all have at least one guy that should be in consideration for
• 24:34
  both sides, you know, or like you know what I mean. So
• 24:37
  yeah, then you that only leaves you with one. Well, last year
• 24:40
  Ethan Larson needs to get some recognition, you know what I mean. So
• 24:42
  it's like it's really impressive for him to do that two years in a row
• 24:45
  in that conference. It really is. And and he was also named this
• 24:49
  year first team punter as well, so three positions for him for first team.
• 24:56
  Just a just a crazy good athlete, you know, is a guy
• 25:00
  that was a catcher in baseball transferred to track last year. I think he
• 25:04
  ended up getting like fifth in the shot but or something like that first year
• 25:07
  doing it, so really excited to see what he does this year in track
• 25:12
  just strong as an ox. I mean, just a stud. I mean
• 25:17
  that's all you could say. He's a stud. Had some had some fake
• 25:21
  punts that he ran, sometimes successful sometimes not. Think about that your left
• 25:26
  tackle taking off running a fake punt. Yeah. Yeah, And he's and
• 25:29
  he's he's fast man, he's athletic. Yeah. Overall in his career,
• 25:33
  one hundred and thirty eight and a half tackles. These are the numbers that
• 25:37
  will bought. Thirty four tackles for a loss, wow, and twenty one
• 25:41
  sacks, so fifty five total stops behind the line of scrimmage in his career.
• 25:48
  He forged that forty one sacks between the two Yeah, between the two
• 25:52
  guys. Yeah. Yeah, these dwo that have been teaming up forever on
• 25:55
  the ends. And think about that. You had those guys on the ends
• 25:57
  and you had Ethan Larson on the two, so you were rotating for a
• 26:02
  few years. Believable. Yeah, four forced fumbles, four fumble recoveries,
• 26:07
  three passes knocked down. He averaged almost thirty two yards of punt over two
• 26:11
  years. And then in the record books this year he had twenty and a
• 26:15
  half tackles for loss to lead the county. That's the second most in school
• 26:19
  history. In a season, thirty four career tackles for loss is the third
• 26:23
  most in school history. Eight and a half sacks as a sophomore is tied
• 26:29
  for tenth in a season. Twenty one career sacks is the second most in
• 26:33
  school history. We just talked about Vance Lawrences having twenty and a half being
• 26:36
  third most. They're both behind TJ. Bass, who's doing some things.
• 26:41
  Is thirty two point seven average yards per punt this season is tied for twelfth
• 26:45
  in school history, and his thirty one point eight yards per punt and a
• 26:48
  career is the ninth highest in school history. Boy, what a stud I
• 26:53
  mean, he's a guy, that is. He was the guy for Mount
• 26:57
  Baker. He was an everybody kind of knew it, you know, the
• 27:02
  big, big guy coming back from that team that made it all the way
• 27:04
  a state championship game last year. And what an amazing career he had.
• 27:10
  Tyler, that's it. From Mount Baker High School. From Mount Baker High
• 27:15
  School. That's right. Yeah, only eight of them. Any any last
• 27:18
  words before we move on to Lyndon. No, I just I mean,
• 27:22
  I mean, I guess I should say yes, because I'm about to say
• 27:26
  you said no, and then you're gonna start talking. So yeah, I
• 27:27
  know it's I know, I got to stop doing that, but uh,
• 27:32
  it's it was a it was a rough year for them, you know,
• 27:33
  going three and seven, especially after you know a lot of these guys experienced
• 27:37
  some big time things the year before. But the thing about Baker is that
• 27:42
  it's just it's always gonna be tough playing them. And these guys are you
• 27:48
  know, a perfect example of that where they're not going to give up.
• 27:51
  Uh, They're going to play all the way through the echo of the whistle.
• 27:55
  And it's it's a lot of fun watching them play. And it's cool
• 27:57
  that you get to see the these guys continue in other sports, whether it's
• 28:02
  Vance Lawrence and wrestling or Alex Moloian track or you know, Handstead and Rossa
• 28:07
  playing baseball, and and uh yeah, it's it's a it's a small class,
• 28:11
  but it was a great class. Yes, it really was. I
• 28:15
  mean, Tyler, you did, did I hear you right when you said
• 28:18
  Vance Lawrence led the county in sacks and Alex mololely led and tackles for loss.
• 28:22
  Yeah, think about that on a team that had a losing record,
• 28:26
  you know what I mean, Like that's really saying something. I mean that
• 28:30
  that tells me, even with a losing record, there were no pushover you
• 28:33
  know what I mean, Like it wasn't we're just gonna walk right over you,
• 28:34
  which is truly remarkable when you only have eight seniors, you know,
• 28:38
  So that's really cool to see. Uh and maybe no surprise when it comes
• 28:42
  to uh, when it comes to Mount Baker, because yeah, Mount Baker
• 28:45
  kind of does that, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
• 28:48
  they they they find a way. Let's just put it to you that way,
• 28:51
  like there's never an easy It's never an easy game against Mount Baker,
• 28:53
  no matter, no matter who you are. Let's see here, I guess
• 28:59
  Rond de Linden. Yeah, yeah, sounds good. Now, this is
• 29:02
  a pretty big senior class here. This is not as big as the senior
• 29:06
  class we had last year. But that being said, we've still got what
• 29:10
  twenty one? Is that where we're looking at here? Yeah? Twenty one
• 29:12
  kids yet me whate that's really good math on my part because I had to
• 29:15
  subtract the first row and then I had to subtract row twenty and twenty one
• 29:19
  and went to twenty four. So that's pretty good quick math in my old
• 29:23
  cranium there. Good job that being said, Tyler. Let's start off with
• 29:27
  a five foot eleven one and seventy pound wide receiver and corner number zero.
• 29:33
  So he lacks value Cooper More Yeah, yeah, I don't think he lacks
• 29:38
  much better. No, he doesn't, but he does on his jersey number.
• 29:41
  Let's say that. Yeah, the first number zero in Walking County in
• 29:45
  a long time. They had that, you know, going back to the
• 29:48
  seventies before that, but but before. It was wild to see some zeros
• 29:52
  out there this year, Like, yeah, it caught me off guard at
• 29:55
  first because I knew it was happening, but I wasn't prepared for it,
• 29:57
  you know. Yeah, right. Uh. And Cooper More is you know,
• 30:02
  he was my pick for breakout player of the Year this year for Lindon
• 30:06
  and he did not just disappoint. He had some moments last year you know,
• 30:11
  on that on that on that drive to win the state championship, he
• 30:14
  had an amazing diving catch, I mean, just a crazy diving catch on
• 30:18
  third down that kept the drive alive. And the crazy thing was is he
• 30:23
  was playing second base in the state championship baseball game and in the in the
• 30:27
  bottom of the seventh inning or top of the seventh inning, or you know,
• 30:30
  I guess it was bottom of seventh because they were even though it was
• 30:34
  at Bellingham, they were the visiting team. He had an amazing catch in
• 30:37
  short center field and it was like, man, if he has a diving
• 30:41
  catch to help preserve a state championship in two different sports, Wow, this
• 30:45
  is going to be crazy. Yeah yeah, And and to do them both,
• 30:49
  you know, as juniors and in his junior season. But Cooper more
• 30:55
  super athletic, incredibly strong, older brother Max Moore, you know his dad
• 31:00
  Andy Moore. These guys were unbelievable players, just kind of keeping that traditional
• 31:04
  live. I believe he's going to be playing in the Cleats Versus Cancer game,
• 31:08
  which is really cool. Just one of the better, maybe the best
• 31:14
  tackling corner in the county. Very very very physical, but you know,
• 31:19
  a weapon on offense too. He was named All Conference second team as a
• 31:23
  defensive back and the really tough Northwest Conference two. Way finished his career with
• 31:30
  forty catches for six hundred and three yards and three touchdowns and then defensively sixty
• 31:33
  three tackles, twelve passes defended, four interceptions, and one tackle for loss.
• 31:38
  He returned four kickoffs for seventy eight yards. Again, these are all
• 31:41
  career numbers. His ten passes defended this season was tied for ninth most in
• 31:48
  school history for a season, and his twelve career passes defended is tied for
• 31:52
  fourteenth most in school history for a career. So it's so tough at Lindon
• 31:57
  when and we're going to say this about a lot of these guys where you
• 32:01
  had these super studs ahead of you, so it was really hard to play
• 32:07
  before your senior year, you know. So we didn't get to see a
• 32:08
  lot of them play. You saw them shine as seniors. But he's one
• 32:14
  of those guys where man a lot of other schools, he'd be like a
• 32:16
  three year starter type guy. But but he really played great this year,
• 32:21
  started on both sides of the ball. And a wonderful career for Cooper Moore
• 32:24
  six foot one and eighty pounds defensive lineman number one. Gabe Button shown.
• 32:30
  Yeah, really enjoyed this kid. And the main thing was I was standing
• 32:36
  on the sidelines on the Linden Squalicum game and I was kind of going down
• 32:40
  towards the end zone. I was walking behind a lot of the players and
• 32:45
  he turns around and he goes, are you Tyler Anderson from walkam Preps?
• 32:50
  And I said yes, and he goes, man, I love that podcast.
• 32:53
  It is awesome and he if this is right during the game, And
• 32:57
  you know, that's really cool to hear because as uh, you think that
• 33:01
  no one's listening and you you just you just don't know. And for him
• 33:06
  to say that and you get excited about that and to kind of jack him
• 33:08
  up a little bit was really a cool feeling for me. Uh. Another
• 33:13
  kid that you know, they Lindon likes to rotate a lot of defensive players,
• 33:17
  especially the three down linemen, and they'll have kind of six that they
• 33:22
  that they rotate in and out. You know, they have three here,
• 33:23
  three there, and they just kind of it's like almost like a line change.
• 33:27
  You've seen it, and you've seen enough hockey to see, you know,
• 33:29
  see a lot of line changes. But he was kind of maybe that
• 33:32
  seventh guy, you know, Uh, he'd get in there a little bit,
• 33:36
  very athletic, he had, did have four tackles, did have a
• 33:39
  tackle for loss. You know, a guy that was you know, a
• 33:43
  good scout team guy that probably could have got a more and more run on
• 33:47
  a different team. But you know, listed as a running back and defensive
• 33:52
  lineman, but they love to have their defensive lineman almost just just play defense
• 33:59
  and just keep rotating fresh bodies in there. And a very good athlete.
• 34:01
  Played some special teams as well. Six foot one sixty five wide receiver and
• 34:07
  corner. It's number two, Brady Elsner. Yeah, he's a boy route
• 34:12
  running He's he's up there. I mean, Andre Watson is a great route
• 34:16
  runner. There's certain guys that just know how to get open. They just
• 34:21
  know how to move their body. But the route he ran to catch that
• 34:27
  two point conversion to win against Cedar Woolley was one of the best I've ever
• 34:30
  seen. We've seen Kay Posey run some great routes, you know, you
• 34:34
  see these guys over the years, but that one just blew me away,
• 34:37
  like it looked like and it's so fun to watch, Like Antonio Brown was
• 34:40
  so great at that, you know, getting open, and Cooper Cup's really
• 34:45
  good at it. There's certain guys that just know how to get open and
• 34:47
  use their feet and and and Brady Elsner being a point guard, you know,
• 34:53
  on the basketball team. He probably just has that ability to you know,
• 34:58
  drive by somebody or use his feet kind of do deek somebody or whatever.
• 35:01
  And he's really really good at it. Great on both sides of the
• 35:06
  ball this year. Another player that probably could have played a lot last year,
• 35:08
  but he just had so many guys ahead of him and came in this
• 35:13
  year as a main focal point of the team and did not disappoint. Forty
• 35:16
  one catches in his career for five hundred and forty yards and nine touchdowns,
• 35:21
  nineteen and a half tackles, two fumble recoveries, three interceptions which returned for
• 35:25
  a total of fifty eight yards. Also returned ten kickoffs for two hundred yards,
• 35:30
  returned five punts for forty two yards. He was named All Conference first
• 35:36
  team as a defensive back and second team as a wide receiver. So guy
• 35:40
  that didn't play a ton of varsity that gets moved into the spot and his
• 35:45
  All Conference on both sides of the ball. Just an awesome athlete. Excited
• 35:50
  to see him on the hardwood this year. Six one one seventy wide receiver
• 35:54
  and safety Number three Weston Van Dalen a boy I saw him over at Eastern
• 36:02
  Camp and I did. I traveled with the Knooksack team, but of course
• 36:06
  Linden and Lynden Christian were there, and there were a few players for Linden
• 36:09
  that would come up and say, hey, mister Anderson, how are you
• 36:13
  doing. Are you enjoying yourself? You know? And Weston was one of
• 36:15
  those kids, always a great smile on his face, and you kind of
• 36:20
  you almost kind of look at him and go, is he mean enough to
• 36:23
  play football? You know? You just kind of like, is he is?
• 36:27
  He? Is? He? And then you see him and he's man.
• 36:30
  He's a He's a no doubter man. He could pop up. He
• 36:32
  started at safety all year. Had a really key interception early on in the
• 36:37
  season. I wanted to think, I want to say it was that that
• 36:39
  Squalicum game had a couple of catches. There were both toe taps on the
• 36:45
  sideline. It was almost like they'd put him in to just specifically for that
• 36:50
  sideline catch to get a first down, like he was kind of a master
• 36:52
  at that. So he did have those two catches for twenty one yards,
• 36:55
  also had twenty one tackles, two passes broken up, and that one inner
• 37:00
  reception. Boy, just a great person, a great kid. I remember
• 37:05
  going over to you know, coach's house when he was boy. He was
• 37:09
  probably, oh, my goodness, fifth grade, sixth grade something like that.
• 37:15
  And and I was interviewing coach Ban Dalaen and this was when he was
• 37:17
  an assistant coach. And and uh, and seeing you know, Weston running
• 37:22
  around seeming as a ball boy for years and then waiting his turn and then
• 37:27
  getting it and earning it to start at safety. Really really cool deal.
• 37:30
  And and wearing number three. That's that doesn't that's kind of a prized number
• 37:37
  at Lyndon. You you know a lot you think of a lot of great
• 37:40
  players that have worn that that number over the years. And and really cool
• 37:45
  deal for him to wear that this year and a great season for him.
• 37:47
  Five eleven one sixty five wide receiver and corner number five. Joshua Grace,
• 37:53
  Wow, speed man. Just certain guys have it. And we talked about
• 37:58
  Tanyon Stayton during the Mount Baker segment. Uh, he's a lot like that,
• 38:01
  just kind of speed to burn. Played a little bit of defense,
• 38:07
  a lot of special teams. Did have a couple of carries for one yard,
• 38:09
  seven and a half tackles, three passes broken up, returned three kickoffs
• 38:14
  for forty two yards. But you know, going into the quarterfinal game against
• 38:21
  against North Kitsap, they needed to replicate the North Kidsap quarterback on Scout.
• 38:28
  Yeah, and it's it's hard because it's who you know. And Joshua Grace,
• 38:34
  who is super fast, stepped up did that and gave them a great
• 38:38
  look. And there were there there there were times that coaches said that you
• 38:43
  know, he took off and ran and just ran right through the first team
• 38:45
  defense and scored and and it was great because it they were they were able
• 38:50
  to really grill the defense and say that's what this kid can do, so
• 38:52
  be ready for it. And so to give them a great look goes a
• 38:55
  long way. And I know Lyndon really really value use their Scout Team guys.
• 39:00
  And you know they give out Scout Team Players of the Year awards at
• 39:04
  the banquet. It's a huge deal. Such a cool deal. And a
• 39:07
  player like Joshua Grace, who again would probably play at a lot of other
• 39:10
  schools, was able to help his team that way. And and it's a
• 39:15
  great it's a great thing to do for your team to give up yourself that
• 39:20
  way and knowing that you're gonna take a beating during the week, but it's
• 39:22
  gonna help your team win. Five ten, one eighty wide receiver and safety.
• 39:27
  It's number seven. Zach Welch. Another kid that I think he told
• 39:30
  me as a sophomore after a game. Might have been after that Archbishop game
• 39:34
  that you and I were both at. You know, we went and talked
• 39:36
  to Troy Petts after the game and and yeah, the doubleheader day, he
• 39:43
  he kind of looked at me and he goes, He's like, hey,
• 39:45
  I follow you on Instagram? How come you don't follow me? And I'm
• 39:49
  like, I don't even know clue who this kid is. You know,
• 39:51
  I have to look at the roster and I'm like, okay, Zach Welch,
• 39:53
  sophomore, Okay, I'll remember that. And then all of a sudden
• 39:57
  he's you know, he's they're putting him back to return pun They're doing something
• 40:00
  there. He's a backup. But then as a senior he's starting at safety
• 40:05
  next to Van Dalen, and boy, he could have played linebacker. He
• 40:08
  had that linebacker mentality, He's gonna tackle everything, and he as the season
• 40:16
  went on, he just got better and better and he I think he ended
• 40:21
  up being second on the team in tackles this year. I mean, just
• 40:24
  you know, and you don't want your safety obviously to lead to lead your
• 40:27
  team in tackles, but to be second. But he played the runs so
• 40:30
  well. Ended up his career with fifty six tackles, three passes broken up,
• 40:37
  one and a half tackles for loss, had a fumble recovery, two
• 40:38
  interceptions that a returned for fifty six yards total. He did have a kickoff
• 40:44
  return for nineteen yards return to punt for four yards. He was also named
• 40:46
  All Conference second team this year as a defensive back. And I believe he's
• 40:51
  also going to play in that Cleats Versus Cancer games. So man, that's
• 40:53
  a kid that when he said that as a sophomore to now, that's what
• 40:59
  I love because I don't know who's going to be that guy that's going to
• 41:02
  keep working hard and earn that spot and then earn recognition and play in a
• 41:06
  big game like the Leaves Versus Cancer game. I mean, that's it's such
• 41:08
  a cool deal because I wouldn't have been able to tell you that. I
• 41:12
  was like, I don't know who this kid is. And then he goes
• 41:14
  on and becomes an All Star player. I love that. I just absolutely
• 41:19
  love that. Great, great player on defense, and again, Linden has
• 41:23
  that ability to put a kid just on the one side of the ball and
• 41:25
  just have him thrive there. And Zach Waltch definitely did that at a safety
• 41:30
  position. Six three, two hundred pounds tight end, outside linebacker and number
• 41:34
  nine Trey Bar. Yeah, so many of these Bar kids that are just
• 41:37
  big bodies right and and long arms and perfect for that Linden outside linebacker spot.
• 41:45
  And he'd come in, you know, they go double tight. He'd
• 41:47
  come in a lot of times. You put Autman on one side and Trey
• 41:51
  Bar on the other. You got these big, strong kids that can that
• 41:53
  can elongate your offensive line and have a really strong wall. So he did
• 41:59
  that quite a bit. You know, got in a little bit on defense,
• 42:04
  not a ton. They really like to have four outside linebackers that they
• 42:07
  that they rotate a lot, and you know he was he would probably be
• 42:12
  the fourth one, but he got in there, had nine tackles, two
• 42:15
  and a half stops behind the line of scrimmage, and those long arms he
• 42:19
  batted down to pass as well. Yeah, a really really strong kid,
• 42:25
  uh Like I said the long arms. And there's been there's been a lot
• 42:29
  of those bars, you know, over the years, whether it was Chad
• 42:31
  Bar and Kip Bar and Kobe Barr and you know, uh it's handle those
• 42:37
  Yeah, it's it's a lot of it's you know, you see that coming
• 42:43
  up and you're like, oh boy, here we go, you know.
• 42:45
  And it's just fun to see these names keep re repeating themselves and watch them
• 42:50
  play football. It's been a joy. Six foot two five defensive lineman,
• 42:54
  number thirteen. What an interesting number for a defensive lineman, although I guess
• 42:58
  we already had a number one playing d defensive line. Yeah, it's Jesse
• 43:01
  Stewart. Loved watching this kid play. There's there's times when and this happens
• 43:08
  with seniors, not as much with seniors, but it did happen with him
• 43:12
  where going into the ear, didn't really know that much about him, and
• 43:16
  I knew he was in the rotation. He had the black jersey on it
• 43:21
  at practice meeting. He's one of the main guys. And I went,
• 43:23
  I always go to a defensive practice on that first Saturday practice or the first
• 43:28
  one with pads, and so I'm like, okay, okay, what do
• 43:31
  I need to know about him, okay, And I'm watching him and you
• 43:36
  know, and then all of a sudden, go to I go to the
• 43:37
  week week one, and he's starting on the defensive line. I'm like,
• 43:39
  all right, and he just looks that physical part, like he looks muscular,
• 43:45
  you know, like with the jersey on already, It's like, oh
• 43:47
  man, this guy's an animal. Could really really get after it makes a
• 43:52
  lot of just makes creates chaos and that's what Linden defensive linemen are just known
• 43:58
  for doing. You know, it didn't have any sacks or anything, but
• 44:01
  that wasn't what he was asked to do. Did to play great on special
• 44:06
  teams as well. Made a lot of tackles on kickoffs, but thirty eight
• 44:09
  tackles on the year, a really good year for a defensive lineman. Two
• 44:13
  and a half behind the line of scrimmage, forced to fumble, recovered to
• 44:16
  fumble. He did return to kickoff for twelve yards. I believe that was
• 44:20
  earlier in his career. Another kid that was, you know, probably like
• 44:23
  a running back growing up, where they find a way to say, hey,
• 44:28
  if you want to get on the field and really contribute, put your
• 44:31
  hand in the dirt and and and get double teamed, you know. And
• 44:35
  he's a kid that took that on and and you know, we you and
• 44:38
  I talked about the like a Scholastic award type kid. Yeah, this guy,
• 44:45
  this guy would be that kind of guy, just just smart as heck
• 44:52
  and you know, on the field, off the field, kind of everything
• 44:54
  that you want in a in a player and and a guy. It opened
• 45:00
  my eyes and that doesn't happen very often. I feel like I know these
• 45:02
  guys inside and out, but sometimes when players become seniors, they really surprise
• 45:07
  me. Where I kind of have an idea of my of my top one
• 45:10
  hundred, and then a kittle, a kid here or there will go,
• 45:14
  Okay, Anderson, you think you know it all, you haven't seen me
• 45:17
  yet. And that's what he did to me this year. And that's I
• 45:21
  love that. I love when kids step up and show me what they can
• 45:23
  do, and when they get their opportunity and they make the most of it,
• 45:27
  you know, Tyler. One thing we've talked about over the years here
• 45:29
  is how there's so many names that we recognize, you know, or that
• 45:32
  I recognize. You know, I remember, you know, I just thinking
• 45:37
  the last name Cooper Moore gave button shown Brady Alisoner Weston Van Dalen, Trey
• 45:43
  Barr. We start getting this, so I start looking over the roster here
• 45:45
  a little bit more, and I still see some names I recognize, but
• 45:47
  I also see some names that I don't know. This next guy is one
• 45:51
  of them. Five nine one fifty wide receiver, defensive back, number thirty
• 45:54
  five. Julian Nuniez. Yeah, a first year guy. Also another guy
• 46:00
  where it's that getting in on special teams, getting in on scout team,
• 46:07
  stuff like that where it could be super valuable to the team. Linden is
• 46:12
  you know, Linden has a lot of kids over the years, especially recently
• 46:15
  with these state these state titles and stuff like that and deep playoff runs where
• 46:20
  you want to be a part of that program. And a kid like Julian
• 46:23
  Nunez will come out and play on the team and just be a part of
• 46:28
  the team and and uh and that's man, that's awesome because you get to
• 46:32
  be it's a huge part of growing up and learning about life after football,
• 46:37
  life after high school and being something that's bigger than yourself, being something that's
• 46:44
  part of a team. And that's what he could that's what he learned from
• 46:45
  this six one one sixty five wide receiver and safety number seventeen. Isaac Lower.
• 46:52
  Yeah, a you know, really athletic kid, a backup player,
• 46:55
  another special teams guy, but got on got in. It's late in some
• 47:00
  games. Had a couple passes broken up, really really long arms. Again,
• 47:04
  boy, Linden's got those man. Linden and Lyndon Christian Man, they
• 47:07
  got the wingspan going. Uh. Also three tackles. A guy that was
• 47:10
  in on a lot of stuff on special teams, whether it's you know,
• 47:15
  filling that filling that uh assignment, you know on kickoff where you don't want
• 47:19
  to you know, you want to fill your lane type thing. Yeah,
• 47:22
  and uh and and he would force a lot of guys the other way and
• 47:24
  he'd be one of the first guys down there. Really good speed, really
• 47:28
  good athlete. Six two three hundred offensive line defensive line tyler number seventy three.
• 47:34
  It was a big kid. It seems like Linden's always got And here's
• 47:37
  another name that I don't really recognize, but it seems like Lyndon always just
• 47:39
  has these random guys. It's like six to three hundred and there's a you
• 47:44
  know, Mount Baker's going, Hey, we could take one or two of
• 47:46
  those, you know. Uh, this one here though, Josh Brettison,
• 47:51
  Yeah, six two, three hundred man, that's a that is a big,
• 47:52
  a big body. I want to say the biggest kid on Baker this
• 47:57
  year was like two thirty and I was that's a soft trent. That's a
• 48:00
  meal for this kid. Yeah. And so man, you're right, Lynnon
• 48:04
  can produce some big, big athletes. And and you know another guy that
• 48:08
  give you a good look on scout team. You're going, you're going against
• 48:10
  the three hundred pounder. This is what it looks like. You know.
• 48:13
  Here you go and uh, boy that Josh Bretteson can fill the bill and
• 48:17
  you can and uh and fill the pads up, that's for sure. Yeah.
• 48:21
  I mean you're talking about a kid at six two that's a low center
• 48:22
  of gravity or a lower center of gravity right lower, right right, no
• 48:29
  lower kind of yeah. Now't tyler on this one. Here we kind of
• 48:34
  get back into the into the last names that we kind of recognize here five
• 48:37
  ten, one eighty five running back outside linebacker number twenty eight, Luke Human.
• 48:42
  Yeah, we always saw body human for a while and then we saw
• 48:45
  Luke Human for a while, and it was it was a rough senior year
• 48:49
  for for Luke because he missed a big chunk in the middle of it due
• 48:52
  to an injury. You know, started the year starting out at running back
• 48:54
  and outside linebacker. He was. I thought maybe he'd be grouped. See
• 48:59
  this was weird because coming into the year he was Him and Charlie Ayres were
• 49:02
  the backup inside linebackers last year. You know, they had they had a
• 49:07
  really good set both seniors last year. So you're going to open up that
• 49:09
  spot for Airs and Human and but I, for some reason in my head,
• 49:15
  I thought, I think they're gonna put Human as a deef as a
• 49:19
  down lineman because they liked the smallers, quicker, scrappy downs. Yeah,
• 49:25
  and I just I just had that feeling. But they surprised me and they
• 49:30
  put him an outside linebacker instead, which hey, you know, usually they
• 49:34
  had those big six to three guys an outside linebacker. But he was able
• 49:37
  to do it and play really well over there. And as they were kind
• 49:43
  of going through a rotation of running backs, you know, Charlie Errs was
• 49:45
  getting carries. Then Max Austinc really started to step up and it kind of
• 49:50
  took that all those offensive touches away from human, but he was able to
• 49:53
  still do some good things on defense. He was injured, he came back
• 49:57
  started again on defense in the playoffs and and uh, you know, bigger
• 50:01
  than his than his brother. Uh, you know, a little bit taller,
• 50:06
  So you're so maybe it is better to play on the outside. Uh.
• 50:08
  Still finished his career with eighty four carries for four hundred and thirty three
• 50:13
  yards and five touchdowns. He had an eight yard reception, also had forty
• 50:16
  one tackles, three and a half tackles for loss, and two passes broken
• 50:21
  up. Uh. You know a kid that you know, he he had
• 50:24
  some big runs in the playoffs last year even Uh and man, heart not.
• 50:30
  I don't want to say he got lost in the shuffle so much with
• 50:32
  all these Linden guys around, because he but that injury was really tough,
• 50:37
  especially right in the middle of the year. And yeah, and uh,
• 50:40
  but at least he got to start it and finish it. So that's that's
• 50:45
  all you could ask for as a senior. Now we get back in the
• 50:46
  names that I don't recognize Tyler five eleven one sixty five wide receiver, defensive
• 50:52
  back number eighty eight, Clay Oweisen. Yeah, another I believe first year
• 50:57
  player. Uh, senior and and well of course senior, right because we're
• 51:01
  talking about seniors. Yeah, I don't know, maybe I've been saying senior
• 51:06
  this one of them. You know, I haven't caught it, so I
• 51:07
  hope you haven't. But because if you have been saying it, then I
• 51:10
  haven't done my job and making fun of you for saying it. No,
• 51:15
  but again, you know, special teams, scout team, all those things.
• 51:19
  I mean, I love going to Linden practice and watching the efficiency and
• 51:24
  every single play, every after every single play, there's three or four coaches
• 51:29
  that grab a kid and coach them up on something every play. Yeah,
• 51:34
  and it's just go, go go, And the scout team is so important.
• 51:37
  And and another kid that's that can deliver that for the for the starting
• 51:43
  offensive defense six one five running back inside linebacker number thirty six, Pasas Somanu.
• 51:50
  Yeah, boy, another first year kid that looks impressive. He would
• 51:53
  get in there every once in a while and man, I just I was,
• 51:58
  I was all smiles, you know, watching him play. And he's
• 52:02
  another guy that you know, raised his hand and said you know, let
• 52:07
  me be the Ana Chortus running back this week. And they were like,
• 52:12
  are you sure you're gonna get You're gonna get pounded at practice and he's like,
• 52:15
  I'm I want to do it. And a good sized kid, good
• 52:21
  good speed, and and did it and took a pounding and again to make
• 52:27
  your team better. He did have three carries for ten yards. He had
• 52:29
  to tackle and the pass broken up. But man, what a presence on
• 52:34
  special teams again and a guy that was probably up him, Josh Grace are
• 52:39
  the kind of guys that are up for like that Scout Team Player of the
• 52:44
  Year award, I mean almost big time. Yeah. I just love watching
• 52:50
  those guys. I mean, you know, when they get their chance on
• 52:52
  the field, and and you know, not many people understand what they go
• 52:55
  through during the week, you know, And but I know the lending coaches
• 52:59
  and and and parents and fans do six foot four two sixty offensive line deep
• 53:04
  now, Tyler cheez? I mean there's six four two sixty. I get
• 53:08
  going, and then all of a sudden it's like, wait a minute,
• 53:10
  what did you just say? Talk about a guy that could give you some
• 53:13
  some looks as a big body here uh on the line, number eighty nine.
• 53:16
  I always love it when linemen are wearing weird numbers. Justin Phillips.
• 53:22
  Boy what I mean? Yeah? Talk about six four two sixty man,
• 53:24
  I just I just look at that and go, that just doesn't happen around
• 53:29
  Walkham County. You don't. You don't see that very often. You might
• 53:31
  have one or two guys maybe you know Bigger didn't have anybody like that,
• 53:35
  you know, media why Maridan right, Meridian had one kid link Lincoln Hofer
• 53:39
  about that size. But boy, it just doesn't happen very often. And
• 53:43
  another first another first year kid that could give a look, like you said,
• 53:47
  a lot like Josh Brettison. Uh, just some just another big body
• 53:52
  that. Uh. Once Lynnon can get deeper in the playoffs, they're gonna
• 53:55
  play against some guys that are bigger like that. North kids have had some
• 53:58
  huge guys on the line and really physical and strong guys. So that's always
• 54:01
  helpful. Uh five nine, three hundred offensive line, defensive line. How
• 54:07
  about that three hundred at five to nine, I mean that is a stout
• 54:09
  like powder keg dude just waiting to blow here. Uh number sixty six Isaiah
• 54:14
  Bueno, Yeah, boy, he he had. He had some really good
• 54:19
  stops too in that Bremerton game when he would when he would get in there,
• 54:22
  he was he was hard to block. I mean that low center of
• 54:25
  gravity was Isaiah no Bueno. Yeah, exactly. He was a kid that
• 54:30
  I'd love to see, like how much he benches and I you know,
• 54:34
  I might get a text right now from Van Dalen saying, yeah he benches
• 54:37
  about you know three something. Uh, super strong. Uh and again just
• 54:44
  hard to block in on that rotation on the defensive line. Put it right
• 54:47
  at nose, tackle and and and and set him free watch him go because
• 54:52
  boy, uh just like like you said that, you know that barrel chested,
• 54:58
  low center of gravity. Uh, those are the kind of guys in
• 55:00
  the trenches that it's hard to get under, hard, hard to stop.
• 55:04
  Six foot one and ninety pounds defensive line number eighty one, Javier Zavala another
• 55:09
  guy that just has kind of that knack of making plays behind the line of
• 55:15
  scrimmage. Not the biggest guy, pretty athletic. If you're trying to block
• 55:19
  him one on one, he's he's gonna win a lot of the time just
• 55:22
  on just on pure moves alone. I recall and this is so funny.
• 55:29
  I recall last year in the state playoffs. I don't know what round.
• 55:31
  I want to say it was the quarters maybe, And I'm in the booth
• 55:36
  with the Linnen coaches and and I swore I heard Whitman say because he's he's
• 55:43
  on the radio down to Noteboom, who's coaching the defensive line and stuff like
• 55:47
  that, and he says, tell Javier to sack the quarterback on the next
• 55:53
  play. That's what he says to him. Like he gives the play and
• 55:57
  he says, tell Javier to sack the that's his instruction. Yeah, And
• 56:01
  he gets a sack on the next play. And I just started laughing because
• 56:06
  I couldn't believe it. And that's the kind of like, you know what
• 56:08
  I mean, Like that's just the that's the kind of player. Like he's
• 56:13
  like, yeah, you might just had to tell him, just go do
• 56:15
  it. He has the ability to go do it. A two year starter
• 56:19
  on the defensive line, he's been through the battles and the playoffs, state
• 56:22
  champion, all that stuff. Fifty seven tackles in his career, seven and
• 56:25
  a half tackles for loss and five sacks. Man Like I said he missed
• 56:31
  a chunk this year too. He was injured in the middle of this year,
• 56:34
  kind of the same time when Luke Human was started the year, was
• 56:37
  out for a while, came back at the end of the year. Very
• 56:42
  very similar, but Man could make an impact on that defensive line where it's
• 56:45
  really hard with those three down linemen, especially the way they do it.
• 56:49
  Those guys don't typically make stops behind the line, but he had that ability
• 56:53
  at times when he was motivated to make a big, big play and be
• 56:58
  one of the you know, the wrecking guys out there. You just make
• 57:00
  stuff happen. Now, Tyler, this next guy, it's a number that
• 57:05
  you really don't see very often in high school football. You see it a
• 57:07
  lot in the NFL. But before we get into it, here, who's
• 57:13
  the best ninety nine of all time? Tyler? Oh my good, Wayne
• 57:15
  Gretzky, Well, I was thinking football, but yeah, I mean,
• 57:19
  you know what you're right. Let's move on, uh five, ten,
• 57:22
  two thirty offensive line, defensive line. As I said, number ninety nine,
• 57:25
  Brandon Luna, Yeah, i'd well, I'd probably go Travis Galberth is
• 57:30
  the best ninety nine of all time. He played at Mount Baker tight end,
• 57:31
  defensive end, best ninety nine in the county, in the county.
• 57:36
  Yeah, yeah, he was boy, he was a beast. Yeah again,
• 57:43
  yeah, ninety nine. That's so ever since I've graduated high school,
• 57:46
  every softball team i've been on, any you know, city league basketball team
• 57:51
  or whatever I'm doing, I've always been ninety nine. Wild thing and yeah,
• 57:54
  wild thing. I love wild thing. I love Mitch Williams. Say
• 57:59
  the other one was Mitch Williams that came to mind and was, Yeah,
• 58:00
  was Turk Wendell. Ninety nine. Turk Wendell was ninety nine. You know,
• 58:06
  two Turk Wendell references in like four weeks. That's a good point.
• 58:09
  Yeah. But I loved it because in little league I'd always get number one
• 58:14
  because it was space by size. Yeah yeah, And I just I always
• 58:19
  wanted to be I was like, if I'm okay, I'm gonna be the
• 58:21
  biggest number I can be now. And that's what I've done ever since.
• 58:22
  I've got dozens of softball jerseys with ninety nine on them. But anyways,
• 58:28
  Braydon Luna another big, a big guy that could give you some look five
• 58:30
  ten, two thirty, kind of kind of built like Isaiah Buyno, not
• 58:35
  as big, but again that same body type. Stout, yeah, stout
• 58:39
  that could give you some stuff, some looks on you know, on scout
• 58:44
  team and a special teams guy as well. Got a couple of a couple
• 58:46
  of guys here in the next three that I'm excited to talk about. Six
• 58:50
  to two, one to ninety guard defensive line number seventy Bennett Roorda. I
• 58:55
  think you blew. I think you meant to say two ninety What did I
• 58:59
  say? One? Oh? Yeah, he's definitely not one ninety six.
• 59:02
  Yeah, yeah, Bennett Roorda. He got put into right He got put
• 59:08
  in it right guard as a sophomore, and it was kind of like is
• 59:15
  he ready for this type thing? This is the team that's ready, now
• 59:19
  is he ready? And boy, he proved he was ready and just stuck
• 59:24
  played there for a couple of years when we removed and played left guard this
• 59:28
  year and you know, again Lynden, much like Mount Baker, they like
• 59:32
  to put kind of their two stud linemen on the left side, left tackle
• 59:36
  and left guard and just watch them, you know, create havoc on trap
• 59:40
  and and different plays. And boy, he is what he's a rarity and
• 59:47
  I'll tell you why he's not on Instagram, and it's it's so rare when
• 59:52
  I'm doing a top one hundred list or I'm doing this or that and I'm
• 59:55
  taking kids and I can't find him. Yeah, you know, Isaac.
• 59:59
  Isaac packs was like that with Lyndon Christian. There's a few kids that just
• 1:00:01
  aren't on Instagram. Brady Brulin is not on Instagram, or at least I
• 1:00:06
  can't find him, and that's super rare. But that tells me kind of
• 1:00:09
  an old school mentality. Boy, he can just block out the sun.
• 1:00:15
  And what a great interview too. He gives thoughtful answers, super nice,
• 1:00:21
  polite, but on the football field, he will knock your head off.
• 1:00:25
  He was an All Conference first team selection this year, well earned. I
• 1:00:30
  thought that. I don't want to say he was snubbed last year, but
• 1:00:32
  he could have he could have gotten it. There's so many great linemen in
• 1:00:36
  this conference. But super glad that he got first team this year, because
• 1:00:40
  boy, he's just a mauler. I mean, and he was six two
• 1:00:44
  two ninety as a sophomore. I mean, he's been this, he's been
• 1:00:46
  this same kid. He's just gotten better. Physically and smarter and knows what
• 1:00:51
  to do. And then every once in a while they'll put him at nose
• 1:00:53
  tackle. If they really need to make it play in a really important situation,
• 1:00:57
  they'll put him in at nose tackle. He did get three and a
• 1:00:59
  half tackles, but he is he is a guard through and through and a
• 1:01:06
  kid that I don't know if he has any desire to play football at the
• 1:01:08
  next level, but he's a guy that, you know, you could say
• 1:01:12
  I could see him doing it. He's got the size, He's played at
• 1:01:15
  a high level for a really good team for three years as a varsity starter.
• 1:01:17
  I mean, he's you know, he has the pedigree for it.
• 1:01:21
  So Ben urta great, great career, six foot one eighty running back,
• 1:01:25
  inside linebacker, number four. Charlie ayers, Wow, try not to get
• 1:01:32
  emotional about this one, because just he is a lion, a linen lion
• 1:01:37
  through and through. As someone posted something a few weeks ago and said something
• 1:01:47
  and I'm paraphrasing here, something to the effect of, Linden's been really successful
• 1:01:53
  over the years, but how come they don't produce any like D one athletes?
• 1:02:00
  And I didn't respond. I didn't feel like I needed to. But
• 1:02:04
  what I thought in my head was that tells you how good Linden is as
• 1:02:09
  a team, as a unit, as the coaches, and they produce tremendous
• 1:02:15
  high school football players and that play as a team. And when I think
• 1:02:20
  of that, the first thing I think of is Charlie Ayres. He's a
• 1:02:23
  kid that you know, King five did a special and before the season started
• 1:02:28
  and he had a quote on there that said, my dream is not to
• 1:02:32
  play college football. My dream has always been play on roly To Costerfield as
• 1:02:37
  a Linden Lion. And that's like the epitome of what I'm talking about.
• 1:02:40
  And he's a kid that, holy cow, another kid that like the Eastern
• 1:02:45
  Camp will come up, hey mister Anderson, how you doing it? Just
• 1:02:47
  like a like a grown up like it, just a just a great human
• 1:02:52
  being and grew up all his life playing quarterback and defensive back all his life.
• 1:03:00
  I mean, that's what he's done. He knows he's got this stud
• 1:03:06
  behind him grade wise that's going to be the quarterback. And you know,
• 1:03:10
  Lindon has ran this two quarterback system and he knows to help the team,
• 1:03:16
  he has to be the main inside linebacker, calling the plays, getting everybody
• 1:03:21
  ready, and that's going to take a lot out of you. So how
• 1:03:23
  much can you really do on offense. Plus when he runs the ball,
• 1:03:27
  he runs with a purpose. He is going to get the extra yards.
• 1:03:30
  He would probably rather lead block than carry the ball, So you can't have
• 1:03:35
  a quarterback really do that. So you could put him at running back.
• 1:03:38
  So all of a sudden his senior year, now he's playing two brand new
• 1:03:40
  positions. I think, oh, I think he played a little linebacker last
• 1:03:45
  year too, and he played a little bit of running back last year two,
• 1:03:47
  but he was most mostly a backup quarterback and a guy to take on
• 1:03:52
  these new role, these new roles as the starting the main inside linebacker and
• 1:03:59
  that power running, and you're also filling the shoes of Laine Herringe. That's
• 1:04:04
  a lot to ask, but that's what he's been dreaming about. That's what
• 1:04:08
  he has been wanting to do. And then to go out there and right
• 1:04:13
  off the bat, week one defensive Player of the Week and have a ton
• 1:04:16
  of tackles, a little little cowboy here and there going rogue sometimes, but
• 1:04:23
  he's just he's just wants this so bad and he's gonna be in on so
• 1:04:27
  many tackles, and he was named All Conference first team at linebacker and running
• 1:04:33
  back. To be named All Conference first team at running back and not and
• 1:04:38
  be mostly a blocker, you know. Yeah, uh, that's that's impressive,
• 1:04:44
  and that's he has the respect of the all the coaches. He had
• 1:04:48
  that medical scare in the middle of the year after the Archbishop game, and
• 1:04:54
  but he was able to come back and finish the season strong. Uh.
• 1:04:58
  It's I love player like this. It's you know, it's like when John
• 1:05:01
  Madden did, like his All Madden team. It wasn't necessarily the best players.
• 1:05:05
  It was his favorite guys. Yeah, and if I end up with
• 1:05:09
  all fullback that nobody's ever heard of. But then they'd show a couple of
• 1:05:12
  clips of him just absolutely blowing up some detach or something. He always had
• 1:05:15
  Bubba McDowell on his team, you know, Bubba Bubba McDowell was an average
• 1:05:19
  safety for the Oilers, but he'd be like, well, I gotta have
• 1:05:21
  a Bubba on my team if I'm going to have a Jumbo and a fridge.
• 1:05:26
  I remember he had he had Randall McDaniel on his team one time and
• 1:05:30
  it was something like, oh, he look at the way he gets in
• 1:05:33
  his stance and it's like Randall McDaniel, if you remember, had that just
• 1:05:36
  really weird stance. Yeah, but that's what he loved, you know.
• 1:05:41
  Madden loved guys that were blue collar, hard workers, guys that just football.
• 1:05:45
  Yeah. Yeah, And that's like if I created like an All Madden
• 1:05:48
  type Walking County team, Like he's my first pick, Charlie Ers. I
• 1:05:51
  want that guy. And in his career, you know, the numbers are
• 1:05:57
  not as gaudie, but they're not bad. One hundred and two care for
• 1:06:00
  four hundred and twenty seven yards and seven touchdowns. He completed fourteen of twenty
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  passes in his career for one hundred and thirty nine nights. Yeah. Yeah,
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  I got a two quarterback. Yeah, I mean he was grew up
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  as a quarterback. Two catches for eleven yards on defense, ninety one and
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  a half tackles, four and a half tackles for loss, He had a
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  sack, three passes, broken up, a fumble recovery that returned twenty one
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  yards for a touchdown, and he had an interception in his final game.
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  Boy, I you know, I could talk about Charlie Ers forever. I'm
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  not going to I feel like I already have. But there's just something special.
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  There's something different about certain players, and he's one of those guys.
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  Excited to see him play basketball. You know, I don't see a ton
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  of hoops, but you know, I went to a couple of Linden basketball
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  games last year and he came up and shook my hand and said, hey,
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  mister Anderson, And I'm just like, man, this kid is.
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  You know, his parents did the right thing, you know, they just
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  raised him right, and he's just an awesome kid. Last, but certainly
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  not least, six foot three, two hundred sixty pounds left tackle, defensive
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  lineman number seventy one, Walter I mean Kuyper Austin, Yeah, Walter Jones.
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  Right, Holy cow, He'll be in the running for Lineman of the
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  Year this year, that's no doubt. He another three year starter. And
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  to start as a sophomore and a junior on those state championship teams on the
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  offensive line is you know that goes That says a lot. And I believe
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  he played a different position every year. Wow, that's tough to do.
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  Yeah, and he played center one year. Yeah, and he just yeah,
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  of course, and knowing that they need that stud at left tackle,
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  you know, to take over for Dan Gaterman and boy Man. And and
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  I found out that Dane Gaterman had like a summer birthday to where he could
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  have been as senior this year. How crazy would do you imagine? Yeah,
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  especially because that that would have meant in theory, he could have started
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  as a freshman. That's the first thing that went through my mind. Exactly
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  exactly, that would have been a big ass freshman man. Yeah, yeah,
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  that's a bit, I mean, and that's including the hair, you
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  know, even without the hair though, right, But man, kuiper Ossinc.
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  It's just that name just screams like Linden offensive lineman, doesn't it.
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  Oh yeah, oh yeah? And actually so does Bennett Rorda. Like these
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  are not normal names here people, Yeah, I mean Rorda and Austink those
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  names have been in the annals of Linden for like a hundred years. But
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  that the full name Kuyper Ossinc. Bennett Rorda, Man, you run a
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  run behind those guys. What really impressed me. And the offensive line stuff,
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  you know, he's he's near the top of the list in Walking County.
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  The defensive line stuff. I think that a lot of times they have
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  these guys where like you know Ortiz last year, where you had these offensive
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  linemen that they want to get in there every once in a while on defense
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  and then they can't get them out of there because they're playing so well.
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  But you want to you want to preserve these offensive linemen. I kind of
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  felt like that's what happened this year with kype rossinc. But he was so
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  darn good as a defensive lineman. He made so many plays. He had
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  seven sacks this year. You know, like that is that doesn't happen from
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  the from the I mean, it could happen from the outside linebacker spot or
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  maybe even Laine herringat blitzed up the middle, or Tavin Van Dalen throwing his
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  body around like crazy, but well they're not exactly asked to really get after
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  it, like exactly. Yeah, and and and he had an amazing year.
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  He was named All Conference on both sides of the ball. And that
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  elevated his stock in my eyes to one of the best. And and uh,
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  boy, Linnen has had some great guys, and he's right up there
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  with him. Thirty four tackles on in his career, eight sacks in his
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  career seven this year, four tackles for loss, one pass broken up.
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  His seventh sacks this year is tied for the seventh most in the season in
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  school history, and his eight career sacks is tied for twelfth most in school
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  history. Uh. You know, if I had the time to go back
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  and and capture pancakes, oh boy, Uh, he might be way up
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  there. And it's great that Linden has been able to just keep this this
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  thing going with the studs on the on the all on the whole line really
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  and and they've got some young guys coming to you know, Cardiff Reeling and
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  Zachdikstra, and they've got some young guys that are gonna be great players.
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  But uh boy, just a just an unbelievable season for Kuiper rossinc Well,
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  Tyler, that is it for Linden and for Mount Baker. Actually, I
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  guess last thoughts on Linden before we close it out. Well, obviously not
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  the way they wanted to go out, you know, losing in the quarterfinal
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  round. A lot of these guys are got you know, multiple state championships
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  and and you want to be you know, you don't want to be the
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  one to end it without a state championship, but man, they gave everything.
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  They had so many first year guys and it was it was so fun
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  to just watch so many new guys come in and be and be dominant.
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  And you know, you think of like the Zach Welches and Western Van Dalen's
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  and you know, these guys that got their chance and did awesome. I
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  love it. The coaching was fantastic. As Blake Van Dalen has said before,
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  he goes, man, look at these assistant coaches, and he just
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  starts pointing him out and he goes all state, all State, all State,
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  Whitman, all State, all State. I forgot about that women part.
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  Yeah, and uh so you got you got, you got these awesome
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  guys coaching and you know Ed Bomber. I mean, my goodness, these
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  guys are legends and it's it's and it's amazing that they stick together for so
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  long. And that's that's a big, big key. And obviously the youth
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  program and and you're just never going to count Linden now ever. And I
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  remember back in twenty sixteen, I kind of went int the year going well,
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  they lost a lot of talent from the year before. I think they'll
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  think they'll go like five and four, six and three, and of course
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  they went to the Semis and lost to that crazy Archbishop team. Yeah,
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  so I didn't know. I mean so I just I just put my hands
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  up and go, I just don't know. They're gonna They're just gonna be
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  great. They're gonna be great, and I'm not gonna question it. They
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  know what they're doing, and uh yeah, it's gonna hopefully, I mean
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  right around the corner. I'll be right out there again on that that middle
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  Saturday of August, the last you know, Lynnen Faar day, uh and
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  and that first day of practice with pads at nine am. I. I
• 1:12:43
  you know, it's like clockwork. I can't wait. It's gonna be It's
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  gonna be a lot of fun. It's just so far away. Yeah,
• 1:12:49
  it really, it really is. It feels like it. Let's see here
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  Tyler. Before we go, reminder that we will have uh, Lynn,
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  Christian and Squala com up now. That will be on Monday, December fourth.
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  That is when you can hear the next podcast from us. And before
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  we head out, let's give one last thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm and Kurtmabury
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  Farm dot com, Kurt with a C M A B E R R Y
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  farm dot com. Uh yeah, he's Tyler Anderson from Walcom Preps walkompreps dot
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  com. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've be listening to episode two hundred and fifteen,
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  the first of four podcasts. As we say goodbye to the twenty fourteen
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  class here on the WACOM Preps podcast, we will talk to you in a
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  couple of days. What Chad