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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 2 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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Greetings and welcome into episode two of the Boffel Football Coaches Show. I'm your
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host Ryland Spencer along with me as always the head coach, Tom Bainter coach.
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It's kind of weird how it overlaps and we are posting this Wednesday morning,
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so kind of a weird the way the way the things set up. But
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the football program goes three and oz in the last week, Freshman, JV
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and varsity all getting wins. Let's start with the last Wednesday, the freshman
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team twenty eight to six win over Lake Washington. Coach Lego and the staff
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just doing a tremendous job with the young bucks. Uh, you were out
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there, what you see? You know, the first thing you notice is
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the number of players. We're back up over forty freshman football players. And
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you know, numbers are so important to football programs, and so we haven't
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had those numbers since before the split. So it's nice to see that.
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You know, we have athletic kids, we have size, we have talent.
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It's a fun group and they do a coach Go, like you said,
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does a great job and his staff and it's a little version of the
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varsity, right, That's what you hope it is. And certainly we saw
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that kids flying around, lots of kids playing getting excited. That you could
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see the joy in their heart playing football, and it was fun for me
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as the head coach to watch that. Yeah, the coaching staff there,
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Coach Maz, coach Harden, coach Owen Bainter out there doing his things.
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So it's really cool to see that group. One of the things I especially
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love this is something new to me. I've I've never been to a freshman
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game. Excuse me, I've been to a freshman game in probably fifteen years
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i haven't been to a JV game because I've been watching varsity football. I
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love how our group was out there on the sideline support in the squad,
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the varsity guys, and even with the freshman game, the JV guys and
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the varsity guys were both out there supporting the squad. So that was really
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cool to see. And then coach a couple of nights ago, on Monday
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night, the JV they took on Cedarcrest thirty five to seven win. Jacob
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Oky got most of the reps at quarterback. He did get some time in
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the varsity game as well. He looked really good. The thing it impressed
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me the most was maybe how much they moved the ball around a bunch of
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different guys getting touches, which was kind of a theme with the varsity game
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as well. But we'll get to that here in a minute. But Kyle
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Seachov getting a touchdown, I know, Jake Thomas got a touchdown. It
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was really cool to see so many different guys getting touchdowns. You were out
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there at that one also even given some commentary on the sideline, which was
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pretty fun. But what were your thoughts on that game? Well, you
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know, I will tell you. First of all, when we played in
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New York, it it's it was irregular. You never play a JV game
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before the varsity So when we played that game, we had to we had
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to decide which kids could play, how many quarters, And normally what you
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do is after the varsity game, you know how many quarters of kids has
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to play for JV. So it was backwards. We we aired on the
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side of caution and probably could have played some of our two both both side
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JV and varsity. Split guys a little bit more on the JV game.
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But this week we know and and uh, we got to play a lot
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more uh, you know, guys who suit up for varsity, but maybe
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didn't get as much action as we'd like in so you know, it was
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fun to see. You know, defensively, we played well, we played
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we did things well on special teams, and certainly we did move the ball
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around and Jacob did have a great game, and and you know, he
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does a great job of understanding defenses and and distributing the ball to the person
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that's open and when they needed it to be there. So running backs did
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well, the old line did well. I was very pleased. It's fun
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for me to sit back and watch our coaches in action and our kids doing
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their thing and and and again with fun and having fun, joy in their
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heart, I like to call it. And so another another great win for
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the Cougars. Yeah, and it was cool to see, uh, you
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know, guy Savon, Tyson Brown, some of these guys that are are
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big time varsity players down there supporting the young guys. So that was really
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cool. I'm glad you mentioned the defense because defensively, I mean just as
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a program not giving up a lot of points right now. And that's a
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testament to obviously coaching, got good athletes, but guys really buying into the
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defensive system and just going out and as coach Jason Rimkis talks about, just
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do your job, do your job, and that was something I noticed last
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night, is guys weren't trying to do too much. They you know,
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linebackers sometimes can get real out of position just trying to do too much.
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But it seemed like all those guys were just doing their job and really making
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things happen out there. Yeah. You know, the greatest thing about football
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is it takes eleven people. And when when when you break that down,
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you're just doing one eleven. So we know mathematically that that's not a big
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percentage. But when when eleven players are doing their job at the same time,
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it helps the team to be successful. You know, example, a
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balls run off to the defensive right side in our in our right defensive tackle
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takes his B gap, causes the back to flow back inside into the A
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gap, and our linebacker meets him there for no gain. And you know
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the linebacker. People in the stands are gonna go, wow, that linebacker
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made a great tackle, but but really it was the defensive tackle doing his
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job that forced it back inside so the linebacker could make his play. And
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now that's a small example of the game of football in in you know,
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in its many aspects, because it takes eleven people in special teams, offense
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and defense to execute a great football play. Let's move on to talk about
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the varsity game forty one three win over Central kitsapp at Popkini, a place
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I've called many times the greatest setting in high school football. And you know
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what, it was a great setting on Friday night. The crowd was really
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out there. The band was rocking a roll in the students section. I
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mean they were all over it. The cheerleaders we got seems like we got
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about two hundred cheerleaders on the sideline coach and they are just doing awesome things.
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Just speak to the community Friday night. The atmosphere they're at Popkini,
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you know, you know, for a Saturday night game, it was a
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It was a great crowd. You know, you often don't get as many
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students on a Saturday night. You know, families got things planned and things,
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things are happening on weekends. That decides you just football. But we
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had a wonderful crowd. Our band is incredible. They they will not only
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play great music, but they energize us. They it's a large group.
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Our cheer staff is the best around. They they compete nationally and they show
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what they can do every game night. And and there were I think there's
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thirty five cheerleaders and that's awesome, and it was. It was a wonderful
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experience for the first timers to play at home and feel that. But I
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do want to throw a special uh uh, you know, thank you or
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you know that's an awesome thing. Out there is a one of the apartments
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above on the scoreboard side above the goalposts, who have cougar lights written in
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there and it's all decked out in blue. And I noticed when things went
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well for us that the cougar would flash. So I don't know who lives
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up there, but thank you so much. We appreciate the support. And
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that's yet another thing that adds to the cool environment of POB Kennie on a
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Friday or Saturday night. You mentioned the band, and it's funny because we
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were out there on Monday night, or excuse me, last Wednesday night and
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we were watching the freshman game and the band was over practicing on the baseball
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field. And I don't know if they timed it right. I don't know
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if they did it on purpose or what. But after that first freshman touchdown,
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all of a sudden, you hear you look over and here's the band.
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They're playing the fight song. I don't know if they did that on
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purpose or not, but they were over there practice and and it's it's cool
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because you know, obviously we put it in a lot of practice and the
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cheerleaders are constantly in Uh is it the commons. Yeah, we always see
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the cheerleaders and they're you know, working hard, and the band's working hard.
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They're always out there. I mean we were you know, Cam't Bottlehood
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when we have that going on, the band was up there. We had
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to kind of maneuver things to make sure the band could get their time on
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the field. So it's it's really cool to see, you know, so
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many different pieces of a game night working hard to prepare so that they can
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be on top of their game. Yeah. And when when when I saw
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that the cougars from the from the the pop apartments over there, that was
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that was pretty cool. And it's, uh, it's cool to see all
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the people up above kind of doing their thing, having a good time there.
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Uh. Coach Week one, shout out Week two just three points allowed.
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Let's talk about the defense a little bit. They give up a field
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goal on their first drive, but then they really put the clamps on.
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Yeah, you know, coach Rim Kissing In the defensive staff do a great
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job of game planning. They're always prepared. Uh, they understand what the
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opponent's strengths and weaknesses are and we put together they put together a plan to
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to attack those things. Uh. We we gave up a little bit of
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yardage and a and a you know, we had a penalty, an unfortunate
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penalty that I thought was a wonderful hit, but uh, uh you know,
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and and gave them some extra field space that led to a field goal.
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But after that it was lights out. And we we're not afraid to
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run after you, and we're not afraid to hitch. And uh nobody,
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nobody likes that more than me to see our kids flying around and and again
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doing their their one eleventh and trusting their teammates do theirs. And so our
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defense has been outstanding and and very proud of the way we've prepared and and
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we we've been playing. I guess maybe before we even talked about the defense,
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we probably should have talked about Tyson Hoak returning the opening kickoff for a
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touchdown. I mean one. You just don't see kick returns all that much
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at high school football, especially at the four A level, is there anything
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more exciting than starting the game with an opening kickoff return for a touchdown.
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Now, now one is your team. You know, if you're the return
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team, that's the greatest thing that can happen. And and uh, you
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know again it was it was great blocking up front and in the timing between
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the second wedge and and the returner was was perfect. And you know,
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to score, you've got to hit that hit the ball up in there,
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and Tyson grabs it and he goes, he goes all the way and made
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two really good athletic moves to set himself free and set up blocks and and
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you're right, Uh, you know that's fun when you run from one end
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zone to the other and get to celebrate at that other end. Fun way
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to start the home season at pop KEINEI. Yeah, seemed like half of
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the sideline ran down to the corner. Had to get those guys back real
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quick before we got a penalty there. But that was a very exciting way.
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I think even on Twitter, I think I went all caps on the
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post because I was so excited about it. But let's talk about the offense.
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Well, we're gonna start with quarterback Jaalen Yers, who another nice week
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fourteen of nineteen, two fifty two and three touchdowns. I mean, you
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know, coming into the season, he had, you know, yet to
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play a game here at Boffel and kind of you know, trying to figure
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some things out. Had a really nice week in New York. But there's
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always the question, is is that something that he's gonna is he you know,
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is it a one off? Is it what? Is it? Another
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great night for him? But really, I think the way he distributed the
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ball was truly impressive. Because you and I tried to count beforehand. I
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think we came up with nine. I mean we might have even had more
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receivers than nine guys catching the pass, and some of those guys were catching
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their first varsity pass, which I thought was really cool too. But let's
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talk about the offense, and let's talk about the passing game. Specifically.
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We'll get to the running game because there's some nice perform is there as well,
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but specifically the quarterback play distributing the ball to the receiver's coach. Yeah,
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I think when you start with the pass offense, you start with the
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offensive line, and man, there are some times when our quarterback sat in
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there without a soul around him, and and you know, that's that's always
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fun as a quarterback to be able to sit back there and have space and
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time to to read coverages and throw on time. But and when he did,
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he was accurate. He throws a deep ball for a touchdown on the
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first drive. His most impressive throw is a rollout to the left's He's becoming
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a really good quarterback on the run. He squares his hips and shoulders really
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well. And his touch he is starting to understand when when to place touch
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on the ball, when you have to put a little air under it,
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and when it's got to be on the line. And you know, the
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improvements are are continually occurring in week to week and as he as he becomes
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more familiar with defenses and more familiar with timings on deeper routes, you know
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you're just going to continue to see him grow. And then you know,
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Jacobacki comes in and he's he's five for six and so we are. We
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are completing passes at a high percentage in two games. That that is it's
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really encouraging to me. And of course, you know there's another side of
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completions and that's catching the ball. So our receivers are doing a wonderful job
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of getting open, looking the ball all the way in. We have great
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pass pro and our quarterbacks are are utilizing those two things and getting the ball
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to the right guy at the right time, and so fun to see.
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Fun to see for sure. And then in the in the running game,
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I mean, you know week one, why at Mickleberry got a lot of
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carries, Cold Brooke got some carries. This week, Cold Brooke gets some
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carries. Jayden Donald gets some carries, Jade Donald gets into the end zone
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twice. The one run was was impressive. You know up the middle,
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bounces at outside, takes off from there. Uh, just kind of speak
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to the I mean, I guess kind of the depth that we we got
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here at running back right now. You know, running back was a question
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mark for us coming in only because of the lack of varsity experience. That
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the talent is great, the work ethic is incredible. You know, I
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don't know that there was a group on our football team that spent more time
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after lifting and together doing drills than our running backs. So it was it
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was not a question of would they be able to play, It was you
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know, just what would it look like when when they got out there,
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and you know why, it had a wonderful start to the season. And
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he's he's, uh, you know, the hardest maybe the hardest working kid
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on our football team. But but the other two guys got their chances and
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when they when they did, they they they have they're shining. They look
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good. They're running hard, they're breaking tackles, they're hitting the holes appropriately,
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following blocks appropriately, having good patience for for young I'll call them young,
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they're juniors, but but young in terms of experience, just really pleased
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and proud of the job they're doing and their their their growth at at pass
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pro and and at at pass running will continue to grow and and continue to
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develop, I should say, And so look forward to to watching those guys
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as as they get more experience and they get more comfortable with playing running back
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at the high school level. Obviously, there's no such thing as a perfect
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game. I mean, you just there's always going to be some things you
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want to work on, some things you need to get better at, and
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we'll stay away from maybe the actual like between the whistle side of it.
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In an extent, there's a lot of penalties on Saturday night. I think
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that's something that needs to be cleaned up. Offensively, there was probably even
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more than on defense. Yeah, I mean the penalties, that's uh,
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maybe a little bit of a concern because it was kind of a little bit
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of something from from New York that maybe upped itself here in week two.
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Yeah, you know, we had sixteen penalties. I had. I had
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a long time great teacher at BOTHO has been here as long as me asked
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me. Is at a school record? I don't know if it was or
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not, but it certainly is. Uh. You know, I can't remember
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back when we sixteen penalties in a football game. Ten on offense, nine
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on first down. You know, I guess you can look at it two
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ways. Number one, you know, most of the most of the penalties
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are discipline issues, and so the D and LEAD stands for discipline and it
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is certainly one of our core covenants and something we've got to improve on.
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We're holding too much when we get tired, we we we tend to grab
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instead of move our feet. So, uh, the conditioning that will gain
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throughout the year, hopefully we will help that we have a goal no pre
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snap or post play penalties. We haven't made that yet on offense, and
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and that's a discipline thing. A couple are easy fixes. You know,
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we've got to get a quarterback to be louder on the cadence. Uh,
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those those are easy fixes. We've got some of our kids are trying this
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whole technique thing that's that is flat out just we're not going to do it,
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and and so we'll stop that. But I think conditioning helps your mental
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discipline and physical discipline, and so that's something that we hope to improve upon.
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You know, the other side, as you look at it this way,
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we had nine first down penalties and did not punt. So we're overcoming
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the penalties. But I will tell you this, we play a really good
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team this week, and the schedule continues to get tough the rest of the
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way, and against good football teams who play with discipline, these will will
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hurt you in the end. So we definitely will address penalties and something that
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we will improve upon. Forty one three over Kitsap on Saturday night. Coach,
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you mentioned it a good opponent this week, the final non conference game
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before we get into Kingco League play and headed down to Vancouver, Washington to
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the Kickins Bowl to take on the sky view Storm, a team who is
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their two and oh and their defense has yet to give up a point,
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so they're three points better enough defensively right now. But this is a team
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that you played last year. Was a Saturday game. It was kind of
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a mid afternoon game. It was really hot. I remember twenty eight ten
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loss to sky Viewing twenty twenty two. I don't really want to talk about
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that game. I mean, I think that's a game that it's it's best
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to just almost kind of ignore it and let's look at this game because I
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think that there's a lot of different players on both sides of the of the
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of the coin here. And I think the biggest thing is we're headed down
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it's a probably what a three and a half hour drive down there. A
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road trip, as they say, can bring a team together. Coach,
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you believe that absolutely. You know, the best play to place to play
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a football game is wherever it's scheduled, right, and that's the mindset you
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have to have. But there is something special about going on the road,
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and you know, kind of the old adage of circling the wagons and and
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uh, it's just us against everybody. And and that mindset obviously lends towards,
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uh, you know, putting our team first. And and we we've
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had some wonderful team bonding experiences. We went to camp, we had camp
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uh Bottle Hood. We we go to New York. Our kids know each
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other better than than they would had we not been on trips. And this
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is another one of those long trips down and back where where your your kids
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are going to spend some time together that that's outside of football, sitting on
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a bus together, eating lunch together, all of those things. And and
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certainly I think that can only help that the team, the team part as
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far as sky View goes. Wonderfully coached football team, perennial power in the
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Vancouver area. Uh you know, funny fact coach Kaiser and myself went to
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the same high school or two White Center kids. We were talking on the
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phone Sunday night about that he is a little bit older than me. I'd
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like to you know, stress that right now. But uh, you know,
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he always has his kids ready to play, and they're a physical bunch,
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they're well coached, they'll come after you, and they feel really good
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about themselves. As they should. It'll be a wonderful challenge for us.
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We'll find out a better barometer of who we are after we play this this
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game, and we really look forward to it. There's no revenge factor,
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there's no I mean, they got they took it to us last last year,
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and I'm thankful that you didn't want to focus too much on that.
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But we are certainly looking forward to the challenge down there and the excitement of
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playing down in the Kiggins Bowl, and so we'll prepare to the best of
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our ability and we'll see what happens. You mentioned coach Kaiser twentieth season down
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there at Skyview as the head coach career record of one thirty six and sixty
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eight, so a guy that clearly proven they can win a lot of ball
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games down there, and they returned quite a few all league players. They
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returned seven offensive starters, six on defense. So as you said, it
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should be a great matchup. That game will be streamed and we will have
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a link to it on social media and on the bothel Football dot net website,
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so I'll be sure to keep an eye out for that coach. Yeah,
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Skyview, we will see what goes on down there and then we'll have
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three games to talk about again next week because the freshman, the JV,
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and the varsity are all playing again this week. We will talk to you
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next week. Coach, thanks for your time. Thank you very much.
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Go Coogs. Freshmen are hosting Meadowdale tonight at Boffel High School, Kio office,
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slated for seven pm. As we mentioned a few minutes ago, varsity
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has down to sky View on Friday for a seven pm kickoff at the Kiggins
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Bowl. That game is going to be streamed by sky View. It is
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actually done by there by their school district. We will have a link on
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social media game day posts and on Bothel football dot Net. Be sure not
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to click any links that you see in the comments of anything because those are
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all spam. So yeah, Monday, JV's back in action when they travel
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to link In High School to Tacoma to take on the Apes. Today's episode
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I'm Ryland Spencer. Are you been listening to episode two of the Boffel Football
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Coaches Show with head coach Tom Bainter. We will talk to you next week
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