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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 377 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 6 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Nukzzack Valley senior Jackson Hester, and you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Walkom Preps podcast for Tyler Anderson Rally of Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings, and welcome to the Gatorade Game Day preview on
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  Speaker 2: the Walkom Preps podcast. This is episode three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: seventy seven and I am Tyler Anderson with Walkham Preps
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  Speaker 2: and we're gonna preview all the games this weekend involving
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  Speaker 2: Walkome County teams. I want to give a special thank
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  Speaker 2: you to Nuxack Valley senior Jackson Hester for the intro.
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  Speaker 2: That guy, Oh my goodness, that guy is one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent effort all the time. And when you're a coach,
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  Speaker 2: you know that's something that when you see that on
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  Speaker 2: the field, is just fantastic, aggressive, controlled aggression, doing it
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  Speaker 2: on both sides of the ball. Love seeing that from
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Hester, the Nuksack Valley senior wide receiver and linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations also to Squalcum's antson Osby Ornson and Khalil Benta
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  Speaker 2: on winning the Week five PEPSI Play of the Week
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  Speaker 2: with their ten yard touchdown connection. Because of that, they
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  Speaker 2: each want a case of Gatorade. Thanks to Walton Beverage,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to step away for a short fifteen
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  Speaker 2: seconds so we can hear from our title sponsor.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't tell all of you how blessed and
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  Speaker 2: thankful I am for a company like Walton Beverage, who's
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  Speaker 2: been a staple in our community for over ninety years
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  Speaker 2: to take an interest in Walkom Preps and allow me
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  Speaker 2: to keep doing what I'd love to do is truly
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  Speaker 2: amazing and it's a game changer for me, and I
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  Speaker 2: will continue to work harder every day to make the
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  Speaker 2: fantastic people at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth sports
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  Speaker 2: in our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment, and
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  Speaker 2: I plan to do the same now. I full transparency.
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  Speaker 2: I am not one hundred percent right now. I am
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  Speaker 2: playing hurt, not feeling very good. It's been a rough week. Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: I was not able to make it out to any games.
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  Speaker 2: Luckily I had people helping me out, sending me pictures.
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  Speaker 2: I put a little thing on social media saying can
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  Speaker 2: can I get pictures taken? I must have had one
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  Speaker 2: hundred pictures sent to me. It was unbelievable, which speaks
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  Speaker 2: to the community and the love, which is amazing. It's
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  Speaker 2: something that I'd never take for granted, so thank you
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  Speaker 2: very much. I'm hoping to be out there on Friday
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  Speaker 2: night at one of these games and we'll just see,
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how I'm feeling. So let's talk some football.
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  Speaker 2: We have a bunch of talked about for this weekend
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  Speaker 2: and all the games are taking place tonight. And here's
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  Speaker 2: the best part. I have all eleven head coaches lined
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  Speaker 2: up to do interviews. Now we're in week six and
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  Speaker 2: it's the first time I was able to get every
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  Speaker 2: single coach on the same so pretty excited about that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start with tonight's five o'clock game. The Lemu Nation
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  Speaker 2: Blackhawks are on the road to face Muckleshoot Tribal Kings.
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  Speaker 2: Lemonation is two and two on the season, muckle Shoot
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  Speaker 2: Tribal is zero to four. Lemon Nation is averaging twenty
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  Speaker 2: and a half points per game and allowing thirty seven
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  Speaker 2: and a half points per game. The Kings are averaging
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  Speaker 2: six and a half points per game and allowing sixty
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  Speaker 2: two points per game. And we are now joined on
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  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Lemon Nation football coach
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  Speaker 2: but Tiko Layton coach. Thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 4: How are you doing doing pretty good? Thank you for
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  Speaker 4: having me, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're welcome, Bud. When you're on the road, when
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  Speaker 2: you're when you're coaching and you're on the road, what
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  Speaker 2: stadium is your favorite to be at? Like just atmosphere
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  Speaker 2: wise or you go there and you're like, man, I
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  Speaker 2: just love when we play here.
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  Speaker 5: For some reason, for some reason, I don't like the
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  Speaker 5: weather there. But Ania Bay ah, yeah, Miabay always has
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  Speaker 5: a warm community and it's really just like backyard football.
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  Speaker 5: So last year the lights went out and for the
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  Speaker 5: last quarter, all the cars along the field turn on
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  Speaker 5: their lights.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my good.
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  Speaker 4: And we finished the game like that And that was
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  Speaker 4: that was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: That is that's like something you see in a movie, right,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that is oh man eight man football, the
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  Speaker 2: movie that doesn't do it?
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  Speaker 6: Man?
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  Speaker 2: That is I love that and that just makes me
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  Speaker 2: feel so good that and that's such a great community.
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  Speaker 2: I could totally see that happening. Oh man, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. And that's why I asked these questions
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  Speaker 2: because I get to learn so much about all these
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  Speaker 2: different things and and just try to absorb.
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  Speaker 6: It all in.
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  Speaker 2: Before we talk about your Week six opponent, let's go
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  Speaker 2: back to your game last week. You picked up the
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  Speaker 2: road win at Concrete. There wasn't any scoring for a
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  Speaker 2: little while. Both teams got on the board just before half.
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  Speaker 2: It remained tight throughout. You're down going in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 2: you come back and get the win. What was your
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  Speaker 2: biggest takeaway from that game?
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  Speaker 5: I feel like just securing our task every single play.
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  Speaker 5: Our kids were able to hold their responsibilities throughout the play,
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  Speaker 5: and our defensive stops. I think throughout the game we
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  Speaker 5: had three turnover on downs near the goal line with
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  Speaker 5: our backs against the wall.
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  Speaker 4: So that was pretty impressive and nice for our kids.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then in your quarterback senior Isaiah Jazzaris had
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  Speaker 2: a great game, one hundred and sixty eight yards rushing,
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  Speaker 2: he scored all three touchdowns. He was out earlier in
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  Speaker 2: the year, So what kind of boost does he bring
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  Speaker 2: to your program now that he's back.
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  Speaker 5: So he brings a good energy, So he's been with
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  Speaker 5: my program since he was a freshman, grew up with him,
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  Speaker 5: and just his energy and presence that he brings to
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  Speaker 5: the team, his desire to win, has been a big
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  Speaker 5: uplift for our kids.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty athletic kid. And I think I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if it was if it was him or not, but
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  Speaker 2: the practice I was out at, I think he hurt
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  Speaker 2: his elbow at that practice, And I was like, oh no,
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  Speaker 2: because I remember talking to him and he was pretty
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  Speaker 2: bummed and he was in the sling and and but
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  Speaker 2: and he was saying, He's like, I think I'll be
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  Speaker 2: able to come back, you know, some point in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the season. So really awesome to see him back.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about this Friday night. You're on
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  Speaker 2: the road against Muckleshoot Tribal School. Tell us about the Kings.
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  Speaker 5: Muckle Shoots a team that likes to space it out
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  Speaker 5: and air it out through a pass here and there.
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  Speaker 5: There are another physical team that we got to stay
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  Speaker 5: disciplined and stay to our responsibilities on the defensive side.
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  Speaker 4: But it should be a nice physical game.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a little bit of contrast as far as Concrete,
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  Speaker 2: who likes to bunch it in and they're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna really kind of space the space the field
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  Speaker 2: horizontally like pre snap or is that kind of what
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  Speaker 2: you're saying.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, there are more quick quick kids that like
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  Speaker 5: to air it out throughout the yeah place.
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  Speaker 2: Find their little spots in space and make plays happen
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that. What kind of challenge does that present
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  Speaker 2: to your defense that maybe you're used to having kind
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  Speaker 2: of all eight guys within the hashes, and now once
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  Speaker 2: the defense gets spread out, obviously that can create some holes.
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  Speaker 2: So what is what do you have to teach your
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  Speaker 2: kids this week as far as defensively about their you know,
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  Speaker 2: their responsibilities.
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  Speaker 5: Just communicating with each other when they go out to
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  Speaker 5: those those spots. Our kids aren't the fastest, but being
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  Speaker 5: able to switch routes when they come to pick and
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  Speaker 5: crossing routes, so communication would be a big thing for
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  Speaker 5: us this week.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have and I you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: the answer to this, That's why I'm asking it, I guess,
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  Speaker 2: but do you have enough kids to replicate eight on
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  Speaker 2: eight at practice? E?
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  Speaker 5: So it varies. Sometimes we do have enough kids to
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  Speaker 5: do eight on eight, but I know it's closer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: with our rosters. Sometimes we can't have a scout offense
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  Speaker 5: or defense.
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  Speaker 2: Do you do you play a little little little scout
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  Speaker 2: quarterback here and there once in a while, or play
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  Speaker 2: some dB or something like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll run around if they have a If our
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  Speaker 5: opponents have a really good kid, all I'll replicate that
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  Speaker 5: kid and show a couple of my moves.
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  Speaker 7: Yea.
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  Speaker 2: For those of you listening and don't know, Watico was
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  Speaker 2: quite the player at Ferndale High School, so I got
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  Speaker 2: to cover him, and I'm not surprised that I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I go out to practices every once in a while
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  Speaker 2: and I'll see. I mean, I was out at Mount
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  Speaker 2: Baker practice a few years ago and Tom Horseman, who
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  Speaker 2: is you know, he's older than I am, just by
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  Speaker 2: a few years. He put his hat on backwards and
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  Speaker 2: was playing defensive end out team, and he was trying
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  Speaker 2: to show a kid like and he was a safety
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  Speaker 2: in high school, but he was he was trying to
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  Speaker 2: show a kid like, this is where you're supposed to go,
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  Speaker 2: this is how you're supposed to step. And he just
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  Speaker 2: went right in there, going up against a guy in
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  Speaker 2: full pads and right tackle, you know, And I just thought,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness. I love it when coaches can get in
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  Speaker 2: there and do that kind of coach, you have a
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  Speaker 2: chance to go above five hundred this week, and what
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  Speaker 2: would that mean to your program as it's been that
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  Speaker 2: journey back up the hill.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Uh, it would mean a lot, you know, it
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  Speaker 5: would show it would show our kids the progress we
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  Speaker 5: had over the last two years. So I've seen the
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  Speaker 5: kids happy and focused on That means a lot for
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  Speaker 5: our program.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, It's so exciting. It's gonna be a five o'clock
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  Speaker 2: game out at Muckle Street Tribal School. Coach, good luck
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  Speaker 2: and against the Kings on Friday. And thank you so
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  Speaker 2: much for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for the support.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler, You're welcome. We'll all be rooting for the Blackhawks
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  Speaker 2: in this one and we and a win would put
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  Speaker 2: them above five hundred for the first time this deep
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  Speaker 2: into the season since twenty twenty one. We now move
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  Speaker 2: on to the seven o'clock kickoffs for tonight, and we
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  Speaker 2: start with the Squalkum Storm going on the road to
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  Speaker 2: face the Linden Lions. Squalkum is three and two, Lindon
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  Speaker 2: is four and one Squalkum is averaging thirty two point
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  Speaker 2: two points per game and allowing nineteen points per game,
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  Speaker 2: while Linden is averaging thirty three point eight points per
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  Speaker 2: game and allowing seventeen point four points per game. And
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  Speaker 2: we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview
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  Speaker 2: by a squalk and football coach, Nick Lucy coach, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for joining me today. How are you doing? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 8: Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah you are. You're the talk of the county.
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  Speaker 2: Quick question when you're on the road, when you're playing
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  Speaker 2: a road game, what stadium is your favorite to play at?
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  Speaker 9: Oh Boy Civic?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because you do have a road game Pacific, I
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  Speaker 2: suppose you know what.
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  Speaker 8: There's let's see, there's a lot of good ones. Anna
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  Speaker 8: Corda's actually has a pretty cool stadium. I miss the
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  Speaker 8: old Ferndale.
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  Speaker 7: Boy where else?
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  Speaker 4: That's a really good question.
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  Speaker 8: Uh Man, the Arlington's got a tough place to play.
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  Speaker 7: There are a lot of good places. That's a that's
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  Speaker 7: a good question.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's I'm always interested because you know, some places,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you just get a fun feeling. It's a
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  Speaker 2: great vibe. But the crowd's always great, So I'm always curious,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and to kind of see. Obviously everyone loves
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  Speaker 2: playing at home, but I was always wondering about when
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  Speaker 2: you go on the road. Before we talk about your
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  Speaker 2: Week six opponent, let's go over your game last week,
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  Speaker 2: a win that'll be talked about for probably a pretty
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  Speaker 2: long time. You had so many different players step up
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  Speaker 2: and do some big things. And you know, years from now,
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  Speaker 2: when you're sitting in the rocking chair thinking back to
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  Speaker 2: this game, when you beat into Coortus twenty four to
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, what do you think your fondest memory will be?
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  Speaker 8: Oh? Man, you know the last play. As much as
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  Speaker 8: I'd love to tell you we drew it up that way,
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  Speaker 8: I should say our last screenplay, it wasn't drawn up
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  Speaker 8: that way. It was supposed to be a thrown back
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  Speaker 8: to our tight end de lane like we'd run earlier
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  Speaker 8: in the game. Just dressed it up a little differently,
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  Speaker 8: and Cole just went the throw to the tight end,
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  Speaker 8: didn't quite feel it, ended up dumping off to Anson
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  Speaker 8: who was just we'd fake too and he was high
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  Speaker 8: candy on it. And then Anson's savvy ballplayer and makes
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  Speaker 8: him play to Khalil, who again been eye candy on
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  Speaker 8: that side, and.
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  Speaker 4: I mean just the same.
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  Speaker 8: Is better to be like God sometimes and you know,
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  Speaker 8: like in a close football.
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  Speaker 9: Game, you need that.
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  Speaker 8: And that's really I think, you know where preparation, you know,
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  Speaker 8: meets opportunity and our guys just being savvy ballplayers. And
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  Speaker 8: Anson had a hell of a night, one of the
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  Speaker 8: best performances I've seen by a player, with two interceptions,
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  Speaker 8: two touchdowns at passing touchdown, at a whole host of other plays.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just gonna bring him up. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about him a little bit. This is your senior wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver and cornerback. He played and just like you said,
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  Speaker 2: he played one of the best overall games I've ever
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  Speaker 2: seen a high schooler play. What has it been like
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  Speaker 2: to coach in the past few.
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  Speaker 8: Years, you know, so cool to see he came on
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  Speaker 8: the stage as a sophomore and really stepped up with
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  Speaker 8: was you know, it was a string being but made plays,
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  Speaker 8: got a couple of touch I think, got like two
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  Speaker 8: big posts against Lakewood, and you knew he's gonna be
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  Speaker 8: a player and played both ways for us last year
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  Speaker 8: and was an impact player, but just really taking the
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  Speaker 8: step from being you know, not just not just an
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  Speaker 8: impact player. But uh, you know a guy that demands
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  Speaker 8: you probably defensively game playing around him, you know where
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  Speaker 8: he's at. But also he's kind of in that echelon
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  Speaker 8: of like the the savviest and smartest players where you
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  Speaker 8: can it's so neat with a guy like that because
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  Speaker 8: he's going to get a lot of attention. So when
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  Speaker 8: you can move him around easily and he can, you know,
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  Speaker 8: adapt whatever the heck you're going to do, and speaks
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  Speaker 8: the same language like that, that's when you getting a
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  Speaker 8: lot of fun. You're talking to players like Ben Peterson, Uh,
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  Speaker 8: you know, Javinski, Shimbaker, Mason Binning, guys like that, it
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  Speaker 8: gets fun.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean you've had You've had a slew of
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  Speaker 2: him there that have gone on and do some pretty
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  Speaker 2: good things. And and uh yeah, I mean when I
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  Speaker 2: first saw Anson play, i mean it was the first
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  Speaker 2: thing that jumped off to me was just as straight
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  Speaker 2: line speed. But now it's a lot of different things.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to him on short yard situations. He's
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  Speaker 2: very shifty, he's smart with the ball, I can return kicks,
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  Speaker 2: he's great on defense, and so it is really fun
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  Speaker 2: to see him blossom into the player that he has become.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I I even sent him a personal message,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Friday night, and I just said that was
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  Speaker 2: or Saturday morning, after I watched the film, I just said,
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  Speaker 2: that was one of the just craziest, best overall games
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  Speaker 2: I've ever seen a high school player have. And and
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  Speaker 2: uh and yeah that play when he when he threw
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  Speaker 2: the touchdown pass, I mean, yeah, it didn't it did
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  Speaker 2: not look like, you know, a setup double pass, but
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  Speaker 2: knowing that it was a lateral, knowing you know who
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  Speaker 2: he had in the end zone, knowing he could make
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  Speaker 2: the play, and he threw it on the run too.
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  Speaker 2: It's a it was pretty awesome to see. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about Friday night. It doesn't get any easier as you're
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  Speaker 2: heading to Linden to take on the Lions. What makes
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  Speaker 2: Linden so great?
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  Speaker 8: Oh man, you know, their it was their will coach.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: They have good players.
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  Speaker 8: Their guys play hard, they're guys uh uh, they're they're
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  Speaker 8: well prepared, so you know, and they're always gonna have
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  Speaker 8: like there, you know, they're loving guys on offensive defense,
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  Speaker 8: like you know, they're they're going to be quality players
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  Speaker 8: all the way through. So you know you're in for
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  Speaker 8: a four quarter game whenever you're gonna play London and uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: the exciting to play Forton.
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  Speaker 7: I know our kids are raring to go.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think last year, in my eyes anyways,
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  Speaker 2: I think the best game you guys played last year
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  Speaker 2: might have been that game against Linden and you know
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  Speaker 2: you took them. I can't remember if that was specifically
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  Speaker 2: that one went into overtime. I believe it did it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And so you know there's something to be said about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, stepping up to your your opponent and giving
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  Speaker 2: them everything they have. But now you're gonna be playing
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  Speaker 2: them at their place. It's been a tough road out
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  Speaker 2: out there playing on the grass. The band is super loud. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: the crowd is going to be crazy. Tell us about
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  Speaker 2: kind of what it feels like. We talked about this
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  Speaker 2: a little earlier in the interview about going on the road.
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  Speaker 2: What's that Linden atmosphere like?
• 16:09
  Speaker 7: Oh, just like you said, it's it's loud. You got
• 16:12
  Speaker 7: the band.
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: I think in this day and age where you know,
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: like all our fields are turfed and you just you
• 16:18
  Speaker 8: don't really play a lot of football on grass, it's
• 16:20
  Speaker 8: an advantage to have to have grass, just you know,
• 16:23
  Speaker 8: being used to running on it, cutting on it, all
• 16:27
  Speaker 8: that good stuff. But what a great setting, what like
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: I mean a grea high school setting at Mount Baker
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: out there on a nice day and going up to
• 16:33
  Speaker 8: a place where you know, the whole town shows up
• 16:36
  Speaker 8: for the game. So we're excited. That's what you live
• 16:39
  Speaker 8: for on Friday nights.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: Absolutely great stuff. Coach, best of luck at Linden on Friday,
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: and thank you for joining me on the Gatorade Game
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Day preview siate it and we are now joined on
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Linden football coach Blake
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Vin Dalen. Coach, thank you for joining me today. How
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: are you doing good?
• 16:56
  Speaker 11: Thank you for having me on, and sorry that you're
• 16:58
  Speaker 11: under the weather.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. When your first question when
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: you're on the road you're coaching a game, not at
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: ly to Costerfield, what stadium is your favorite to play at?
• 17:14
  Speaker 12: Well, in a weird way, civic just because the number
• 17:20
  Speaker 12: of memories that we've had, which usually involved the playoffs
• 17:25
  Speaker 12: and so so I'd say that, but can that be
• 17:29
  Speaker 12: one A and one be a Spark stadium where we
• 17:32
  Speaker 12: won both of our state championships.
• 17:34
  Speaker 11: So both have a special place in my heart for
• 17:37
  Speaker 11: two different reasons. But but that'd be one. Used to
• 17:41
  Speaker 11: be Komba Home because that meant something, But now it's
• 17:43
  Speaker 11: Spark Stadium.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. Before talking about your Week six opponent,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: let's go over your game last week. It was a
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: short week of preparation against a very talented opponent. A
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: lot of action in that game, some wonky plays here
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: and there, a couple of balls that were recovered in
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: the end zone for each team. You picked up the
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: thirty eight to thirty three win over against See Home
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: at Civic. But what was your biggest takeaway from that one?
• 18:09
  Speaker 11: Proud of our kids. You know, we had quite a
• 18:13
  Speaker 11: stepback when you think about the Anaccordus game, not only
• 18:18
  Speaker 11: the outcome, but the injuries. And so you got a
• 18:22
  Speaker 11: short week, some devastating injuries program wise, and you know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 11: our kids, I felt like, didn't take a step back.
• 18:32
  Speaker 11: They found a way to take a step forward. Then
• 18:35
  Speaker 11: you get in the game and ideally you don't want
• 18:39
  Speaker 11: to have a game with I won't even say how
• 18:41
  Speaker 11: many penalties it was, but we found a way to
• 18:46
  Speaker 11: get the w despite all those penalties that we control.
• 18:51
  Speaker 11: We control all that ourselves. So now we get back
• 18:54
  Speaker 11: to work, and this week felt normal again now that
• 19:00
  Speaker 11: we've got some new faces in there and we're starting
• 19:02
  Speaker 11: to rework things. So yeah, that was probably the two takeaways,
• 19:08
  Speaker 11: is it?
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, and this might be an unfair assessment, but
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: does playing on a Thursday maybe add to the penalties
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: just as far as it's just not normal you got
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: school the next day. Is there some mental relapses there
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: or is that not really fair to say?
• 19:25
  Speaker 11: In our situation, we had more to do with the
• 19:30
  Speaker 11: multiple players that we were missing and plugging those holes in.
• 19:36
  Speaker 11: We had kids playing in new positions. Timing was a
• 19:39
  Speaker 11: little bit off, so no excuses, we own it.
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: We need to do better.
• 19:43
  Speaker 11: But I would say almost two thirds of our penalties
• 19:46
  Speaker 11: were attributed to new players in new spots, doing new things,
• 19:52
  Speaker 11: and so it really felt like in a way, week
• 19:54
  Speaker 11: one for many players.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk a little bit about your junior quarterback,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Lucas Logy. He's the only starting quarterback left in the
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: county that hasn't thrown an interception yet, and I don't
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: want to put the kibosh on him or anything, but
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: he really showed me a lot and is passing down
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: the field on Thursday night. What if you liked about
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: his development as a quarterback.
• 20:16
  Speaker 11: Well, we know he can make all the throws. That's
• 20:19
  Speaker 11: never been the problem. He he can grip it and
• 20:22
  Speaker 11: rip it. So the key has been decision making, and
• 20:27
  Speaker 11: we're what we're trying to do with him is understand
• 20:30
  Speaker 11: when to use his legs as a weapon, when to
• 20:34
  Speaker 11: use his arm as a weapon, because sometimes there's a
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: fine line between the two and he'll he'll make a
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: throw that's amazing, but at the same time, if he
• 20:43
  Speaker 11: would have not risked the throw and ran it, that
• 20:45
  Speaker 11: might have been the better decision and vice versa. Yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 11: so I would say his legs his arm gave us
• 20:54
  Speaker 11: the lead early and his legs gave us the win late.
• 20:57
  Speaker 11: So he learns like young Russell Wilson with a dagger
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: at that he knew when to run and it really
• 21:06
  Speaker 11: hurts the defense. And then he also had to be
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: able to make all the throws, which you saw on
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: display Friday night. And now that Danny's out, Gordy's having
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: to play more receiver. So we have a rotation that
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: we like, but it's not always going to be the
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: one that we're going to be able to use when
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: we're playing you know, every possession game, meaning every possession
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: matters game, and we need Gordi at receiver.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: And that's a good point you brought up because you
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: want to do this, you know, have two different quarterbacks.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: And I think they even brought that up on the radio,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: you know, saying, well with with Danny Bowler out, Gordy
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Bedlington is very value. Raises Arises as a wide receiver,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: which in turn makes it so Lucas will play more quarterback.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: And it's interesting that you brought that up because I
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: was I was going to ask about that. It sounds
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: like that kind of was the case. Yeah, let's talk
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: about Friday Knight. You're back at home, You're taking on Squalicum.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: They're riding high after picking up the win over Anna Chordis.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Tell me about this year's Storm team.
• 22:09
  Speaker 11: You know, they had a great game plan going into
• 22:12
  Speaker 11: that Anna Chordas game. And that's that's a typical Nick
• 22:16
  Speaker 11: Lucy thing. He is a great coach who does a
• 22:18
  Speaker 11: great job of getting his guys in position. I don't
• 22:22
  Speaker 11: think people realize the two years that we won back
• 22:26
  Speaker 11: to back titles. We beat Squalakum by three both years,
• 22:31
  Speaker 11: and they were literally a player two away from beating
• 22:34
  Speaker 11: Tumwater and we would have had a state championship game
• 22:37
  Speaker 11: against them at Civic Stadium. And so Nick is a
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: great coach. He's doing the same thing this year. I'm
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: sure he could tell you that there's excuses out there
• 22:47
  Speaker 11: for players going to Seahome or whatever it is, but
• 22:50
  Speaker 11: he has not made one of them. And he's got
• 22:52
  Speaker 11: his team very competitive. He gets them lined upright, he
• 22:55
  Speaker 11: calls really clean plays that they're operating at a very efficient.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Level.
• 23:03
  Speaker 11: And Anna Korda saw that there is no nights off
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: in the Northwest Conference.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And you're so right about coach Lucy. I mean,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: he kind of gives me that mad genius vibe, you know,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: just his he's just his energy and his mind is
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: always going, it seems like, and you'll start to see things,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure you're aware of this, but from week
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: to week he'll throw out new wrinkles of stuff that's
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: similar to what he's been doing, but then he'll add
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: a little thing to it to kind of keep the
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: other team off balanced. How do you prepare for that
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: kind of offense with the man in motion a lot
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: and stuff like that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 11: Well, a sign of a good team is a team
• 23:43
  Speaker 11: that has a few formations and does things really well.
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: We'll use Ferndale as an example. Well, there doesn't isn't
• 23:49
  Speaker 11: the same as a wing team, but it's his version
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: of the wing team, meaning he only has a couple formations.
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: He runs a lot of plays out of those two formations,
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: and he's able to attack strong week, outside, inside, over top,
• 24:04
  Speaker 11: all from one or two formations. And so so he
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: makes you prepare for a lot while not putting a
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: lot on his kid's plate. So really good job of coaching.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, it's it's it's always fun. And you're so
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: right about those about those two years that you guys
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: won the state championships back to back in twenty one
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and twenty two, because those Squalicum teams were loaded those
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: years as well, and those were some battles. I do
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: remember the game out at your place with the rain
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: with sideways and and uh you know there. I think
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: there was a block punt in that game. I mean,
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: it's just it's battles when you two go at it,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and I'm really excited for it. Best of luck, coach
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: against squal come on Friday, and thank you for joining
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: me on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 24:48
  Speaker 11: All right, we'll see you next week.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Well, there you have it from coach Lucy and coachman Dalen.
• 24:52
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• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Next up are the Ferndale Golden Eagles and they are
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: back home to host the Snohomish Panthers. Ferndale is two
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: and three and Snohomish is zero to five. Ferndale is
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: averaging twenty seven points per game and allowing twenty five
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: point eight points per game, while Snohomish is averaging just
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: ten point two points per game and allowing twenty four
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: point eight points per game. And we are now joined
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade Game Day Preview by Ferndale football coach
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Jamie Plankovich. Coach, thank you for joining me today. How
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: are you doing?
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: And I'm doing all right.
• 25:41
  Speaker 13: Thanks for having me.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: You're welcome. Opening question when you're on the road and
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: you're playing when you're coaching a game on the road.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Which stadium do you just love to coach at?
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: Good question.
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: I love the atmosphere at Linden. You know, our game
• 25:59
  Speaker 13: with that was always pretty special. So I'd say out
• 26:03
  Speaker 13: of the gate as far as energy and fans and
• 26:09
  Speaker 13: all that, that would probably be a top pick.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy. I asked every coach this, you know,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: and I haven't done all the coaches interviews yet, but
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: a few of them had said out at Ferndale, So
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: that's that's it has that similar type of feel. You know,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the stands are packed and and the cheerleaders get into
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: it in the band and everything. So really really cool deal.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Before we talk about week six, let's go over your
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: game last week. You were down South at stan would
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: a pretty even game throughout. You had some good things
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: happened with the defensive stand at the end of the
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: first half, the blocked extra point which helped you maintain
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: that one point lead late, but the Spartans made some
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: plays at the end. What was your biggest takeaway from
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: that game?
• 26:54
  Speaker 13: Well, that's stun because we did a lot of good
• 26:58
  Speaker 13: things in that game that you know, allowed us to
• 27:01
  Speaker 13: have an opportunity to come out on the top, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 13: then we did some things that obviously changed the final
• 27:10
  Speaker 13: score in their favor. So it's just, you know, those
• 27:14
  Speaker 13: are those are tough to handle when you're right there
• 27:18
  Speaker 13: and you have a couple things that swing the game
• 27:22
  Speaker 13: the other way. You know, what we talked to our
• 27:25
  Speaker 13: kids about is is it's not just the players at
• 27:28
  Speaker 13: the end of the game that determine the outcome. And
• 27:31
  Speaker 13: we had opportunities earlier in that game to maybe put
• 27:36
  Speaker 13: some more points on the board that we didn't get
• 27:40
  Speaker 13: done that might have changed just how the second half
• 27:45
  Speaker 13: went in that game. So there's this stuff we got
• 27:49
  Speaker 13: to continue to work on and get better. And I've
• 27:52
  Speaker 13: said it a couple of times now. And good thing
• 27:54
  Speaker 13: about athletics is we had another chance on Friday night.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I want to talk a little bit about your
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: junior free safety Parker McManus. I thought he had a
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: pretty good game on Friday. He had that interception, He
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: also had like three passes defended. You know, when we
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: talked back in August, it was very early, but there's
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: a lot of guys kind of up for secondary role,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: or not secondary roles, but roles in the secondary I
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: should say, And and he's kind of taken that free
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: safety spot and done pretty well. He's been your kicker,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: done a lot of things. What has it been like
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: to coach him this season.
• 28:29
  Speaker 13: He's done a great job. He had a tough year
• 28:32
  Speaker 13: last year. He really was injured all of all of
• 28:36
  Speaker 13: last year, so didn't get a chance to do a
• 28:39
  Speaker 13: lot with us, and so he was kind of you know,
• 28:42
  Speaker 13: we knew he had some ability, but not seeing him
• 28:46
  Speaker 13: practice or you know there last year and doing things.
• 28:52
  Speaker 13: He was out of practice every day, so you don't
• 28:55
  Speaker 13: really know what you're going to get. And he has
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: just gotten better and better as a week have gone on.
• 29:01
  Speaker 13: He's doing a great job at free safety for us.
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: He's he's in a lot of run plays as well,
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: where he's right there either in on the tackle or
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: he does a good job with his run pass reads.
• 29:15
  Speaker 13: He's aggressive, and then he keeps getting better at the
• 29:19
  Speaker 13: back end. Like you said, had an interception and some
• 29:22
  Speaker 13: big plays knocking the ball away in that game and
• 29:26
  Speaker 13: coming off of even not necessarily his responsibility, but doing
• 29:32
  Speaker 13: a great job of reading quarterback guys and coming back.
• 29:36
  Speaker 14: Off of.
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: You know, of his deep middle to help on a
• 29:41
  Speaker 13: backside route.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's huge. And those are the kinds of
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: things that you know, you you teach those kinds of things,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: you just hope it sticks. And when you find a
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: kid that it sticks with, that's a that's that's really
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: nice to have. And you know, even on kickoffs, I mean, boy,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: he's down there making tackles on his own kickoffs. I
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: mean I remember, uh, well, Phoenix Finkbonner used to do
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: that quite a bit. You know, it's a you don't
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: see a lot of kickers they will just sprint down
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: and be a part of the tackling team. And he's
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: he's definitely one.
• 30:11
  Speaker 15: Of those guys.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about Friday night. You're back at home.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: You're taking on Snahomish, who was new to the conference
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: last year, so our listeners might not know that much
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: about them. What can you tell us about this year's
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Panther team.
• 30:25
  Speaker 13: Well, they got a new head coach from last year,
• 30:29
  Speaker 13: so they are running a different scheme on offense than
• 30:33
  Speaker 13: they did they did last year. It looks like they
• 30:36
  Speaker 13: have some similarity with what they like to do on defense,
• 30:40
  Speaker 13: So I don't know, I'm not sure if it's the
• 30:42
  Speaker 13: same defensive staff or they're just running something similar. Their
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: their head coach came from Lake Stevens, so they're doing
• 30:52
  Speaker 13: a lot of things that we've played Lake Stevens several
• 30:55
  Speaker 13: times over the years, and we're gonna see a lot
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: of the same things that we'll see next week from
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: Lake Stevens. And they provide some challenges on the offensive
• 31:07
  Speaker 13: side of the ball, that's for sure.
• 31:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: It's uh when I think backup Homis in the past,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, they there was there was moments there in
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: the past when they were a powerhouse in the in
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: the in the state. And it's just crazy how that
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: area has grown and so many other high schools have
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: developed around it, and so it's interesting to see how,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: you know, the changes are made and stuff like that,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: and and but yeah, but it's got to be nice
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: to be back at home and and you know, going
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: forward obviously, you know, looking at playoff potential and stuff
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: like that. I mean, it's a long ways away still,
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: but you know, winning out is you know in conference anyways,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: is you know, almost looking at something like you kind
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: of have to do or is it is it too
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: early to say.
• 31:58
  Speaker 13: That it's too early to say that we're focusing on
• 32:01
  Speaker 13: Friday night, and we can't focus any further down the
• 32:05
  Speaker 13: road on that. Obviously, we have some you know, coaches
• 32:09
  Speaker 13: and players. We got to do things better than we've
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: done the last couple of league games. So that's all
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: we're worried about right now. The playoff stuff will take
• 32:20
  Speaker 13: care of itself. You know, we dug ourselves a whole
• 32:23
  Speaker 13: with with.
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: Having a couple of league losses.
• 32:26
  Speaker 13: So we just got to focus on Friday and hopefully
• 32:31
  Speaker 13: play our best game of the year. It's home coming here,
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: so you know, there's a lot going on and we
• 32:38
  Speaker 13: want to come out with our best foot forward and
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: play well on Friday.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Awesome, we'd love to hear that. It's homecoming. It's going
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: to be a great crowd, great stuff. Good luck against
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Nahomus on Friday, and thank you so much for joining
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 32:51
  Speaker 15: Anytime, Tyler.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Thank you, and we'll see if Ferndale can get back
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: on track after losing two straight conference games in a row.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: A non conference game that will have Flo County buzzing
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: is the Seahome Mariners heading north to take on the
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Linden Christian Links. Seaholme is three and two on the season,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: and Lennon Christian is five and oh Seaholm is averaging
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: fifty point six points per game and allowing just twenty
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: points per game, while Linden Christian is averaging forty six
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: point six points per game and allowing just ten point
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: two points per game. And we are now joined on
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Sea Home football coach
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: Brian Young. Coach, thank you for joining me today. How
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: are you doing.
• 33:31
  Speaker 16: Oh, I'm doing okay, just got off the practice field.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: That's always great. You haven't been able to join us
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: last few weeks. And I've asked some random questions to
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: all the coaches these past few weeks, so I'm gonna
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: run some of these by you here so we can
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: catch up a little bit. Who's your all time favorite
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: football player?
• 33:49
  Speaker 16: My all time favorite football player might be Lawrence Taylor.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Why is that?
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, Lawrence Taylor changed the game. You know.
• 33:58
  Speaker 16: He came out as a defensive football player, completely changed
• 34:02
  Speaker 16: the dynamic, made the left tackle position like really valuable,
• 34:08
  Speaker 16: you know, and he just set a different pace. He's
• 34:11
  Speaker 16: just a different guy. And you had all those guys
• 34:13
  Speaker 16: like Derek Thomas and you know, all these other great
• 34:16
  Speaker 16: outside linebackers who followed in his footsteps. But yeah, he
• 34:20
  Speaker 16: was something else on the football field for sure.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: Man.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Growing up in the eighties, that was the He was
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: pretty scary to watch and I can't even imagine what
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: it'd be like on the field to see that kind
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: of speed and tenacity, and for sure it was. It
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: was crazy, I mean. And then just the double double
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: tight ends was became a thing because of him, Redskins
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: start doing that, I mean, it.
• 34:42
  Speaker 16: Was yeah, yeah, And I grew up on the East Coast,
• 34:45
  Speaker 16: so like I was like immersed in that, and I
• 34:48
  Speaker 16: love watching the old clips of him and Bill Parcells.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, awesome stuff.
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: Yeah, totally.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: And then the other question I asked last week is
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: what's your favorite football movie?
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, my gosh, football movie.
• 35:03
  Speaker 16: Well, Rudy's pretty damn good, and remember The Titans is
• 35:06
  Speaker 16: pretty awesome too.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those you can't go wrong with either one of those.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I'm with you one hundred percent on those. I think
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I think I saw both in the theater.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: If I'm not, I'm not, oh for sure.
• 35:17
  Speaker 16: Because you know those have to go to movie theaters,
• 35:19
  Speaker 16: right like you at home?
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, and then the one I'm asking everyone this
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: week is when you're when you're coaching a game on
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: the road, is there a favorite stadium that you love
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: to go to that you're just like, you know what,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: I just I just like it here for some reason,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: there is there is there a place that you love.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: You can't say Civic and you've coached a zillion games
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: there with most of the teams, So is there another
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: place that you're just like, Man, I love coaching here.
• 35:45
  Speaker 16: So Tyler, this is probably gonna sound strange, but the
• 35:49
  Speaker 16: it's a place I haven't ever coached that, right, I
• 35:52
  Speaker 16: would really like to coach at Ferndale's new stadium. I
• 35:55
  Speaker 16: just I just you know, I see it and I'm like, oh,
• 35:59
  Speaker 16: I remember the old one.
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: You know, coach a lot against.
• 36:02
  Speaker 16: Them, a lot, you know, squall come when I was there,
• 36:05
  Speaker 16: and I just look at that feeling, go damn, that
• 36:08
  Speaker 16: just looks like what it should be, yeah, you know,
• 36:11
  Speaker 16: for high school football. So I'm kind of hoping one
• 36:13
  Speaker 16: day that, you know, we get a game scheduled against
• 36:16
  Speaker 16: those guys. It's always fun to go into an environment
• 36:20
  Speaker 16: where the football is like really community like that.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: So one day absolutely and it's a big stadium. They
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: and they packed the house because you know, it's a
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: it's a big deal out there. And yeah, and so
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: that's that is a that is a great one. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: and it looks really cool with the backdrop now just
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: the trees and the practice field and the train going by.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's really cool. Before we talk about
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: your Week six opponent, let's go for your game last week.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: And it was an extremely hard fought game with Linden.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was just it was kind of everything
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: everybody in Wakam County was thinking it was gonna be,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, to two Titans right now. You know, you
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: were down two scores early, you come back to tied up,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: and then you were down even more later in the game.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: You almost complete the comeback again. It was one of
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: those crazy games. But you know, both teams recovering a
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: ball in the end zone to score a touchdown, one
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: on your block punt, the other one for the other team.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 37:16
  Speaker 16: Well, like, collectively as a group, we know that we
• 37:20
  Speaker 16: just we made too many mistakes. Tyler, right, pretty much
• 37:25
  Speaker 16: anything that kind of could.
• 37:27
  Speaker 17: Go wrong in the football game, kind of happened to us,
• 37:30
  Speaker 17: and we work off of what we call like a
• 37:33
  Speaker 17: twelve percent mindset, right, so we want negative plays like turnovers, penalties,
• 37:39
  Speaker 17: you know, fumbles, whatever it might be.
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: We want that to be less than twelve.
• 37:44
  Speaker 16: Percent of our overall play package. And we didn't hit
• 37:46
  Speaker 16: that goal, and that that was on me. You know,
• 37:49
  Speaker 16: I told all the players at the end of that game,
• 37:51
  Speaker 16: my fault. One hundred and fifty percent. You guys played
• 37:54
  Speaker 16: your tails off, and you know, I got to get
• 37:57
  Speaker 16: you guys better prepared during the week so we can
• 37:59
  Speaker 16: avoid that stuff. So we've made some changes this week,
• 38:02
  Speaker 16: so some things we're doing and you know, we'll see
• 38:06
  Speaker 16: how that pans out. Now, the silver lining is, if
• 38:10
  Speaker 16: it had to happen like that, let it happen in.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Week five and not in the playoffs, right, Well.
• 38:15
  Speaker 16: Yeah, because it basically has reset the bar for us.
• 38:21
  Speaker 16: It's given us the mindset, Hey, our backs against the wall.
• 38:25
  Speaker 16: You know, we don't have opportunities to make mistakes anymore.
• 38:29
  Speaker 9: We have to be on point with what we're doing.
• 38:31
  Speaker 16: So we have a new focus, you know, a new
• 38:34
  Speaker 16: mindset that we're going at this thing with. And you
• 38:38
  Speaker 16: know what minor setback major comeback. That's that's our whole thing.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about your senior lineman, Cole Terrell for
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: a minute. I've always liked to touch base with, you know,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: about a certain player each week with the coaches. And
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: he's you know, he's been a four year starter. I
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: think he gets overlooked at times because he's doing the
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: tough work on the offensive line. Tell our listeners what
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: it's been like to coach him.
• 39:00
  Speaker 16: Well, now, he may be overlooked by some people, but
• 39:04
  Speaker 16: he is not overlooked by our program.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: The first thing I would tell you about.
• 39:08
  Speaker 16: Cole Terrell is as a human being, Coulterrell makes this
• 39:11
  Speaker 16: planet better, right, and that to me is more important
• 39:15
  Speaker 16: than any of the football stuff. Then you get into
• 39:18
  Speaker 16: the football stuff, you know, he'd be the first guy
• 39:20
  Speaker 16: in the weight room, the last guy leaving the weight room.
• 39:23
  Speaker 16: He's picking up weights, he's working with the younger players.
• 39:26
  Speaker 16: If you coach him up, you know what, Cole takes
• 39:28
  Speaker 16: the coaching right. Sometimes you have to kind of really
• 39:31
  Speaker 16: get into it, like, hey man, you got to do
• 39:33
  Speaker 16: this better, and Cole by he'd put his head down
• 39:36
  Speaker 16: for a second, but then Cole's going to.
• 39:37
  Speaker 9: Pick his head back up and go what do I
• 39:39
  Speaker 9: got to do to get better? Coach?
• 39:40
  Speaker 16: So he is what you'd want to model your team.
• 39:45
  Speaker 16: Is an anchor, Like he's one of our team leaders.
• 39:47
  Speaker 16: He's an anchor for us, meaning that he's one of
• 39:50
  Speaker 16: the guys we built the foundation and turn this program
• 39:52
  Speaker 16: around with.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: So he is a joy to coach.
• 39:55
  Speaker 16: He's one of the reasons I I'm you know, happy
• 39:57
  Speaker 16: and excited to come out here every week and I
• 40:00
  Speaker 16: of watching that guy play.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: Absolutely I couldn't agree more. And and uh yeah, it's
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: a very athletic family that I got to be a
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: part of back in the nineties. His dad was one
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: of the best athletes that I, you know, got to
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: play football baseball against. So it's it's it's fun. It's
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: fun to see these generational talents and and so you know,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: it's such a great thing. Let's talk about Friday night
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: really quickly. You're on the road at Lyndon Christian. You
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: get one non conference opponent, and it happens to be
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: against one of the best one A teams in the state.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: What kind of challenges come with playing the Links.
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: Well, there's a couple of things.
• 40:35
  Speaker 16: First, we want to play the best competition we can
• 40:41
  Speaker 16: play like in my mind, you know, unfortunates a couple
• 40:44
  Speaker 16: of teams in our league, they're kind of rebuilding and
• 40:48
  Speaker 16: and those games are tough because they don't really prepare
• 40:52
  Speaker 16: you like down the road to get into a playoff
• 40:54
  Speaker 16: situation or to play those you know, really high ranked opponents.
• 40:58
  Speaker 16: But the links are you know, really good football team.
• 41:03
  Speaker 16: They I don't even think they've played a close game
• 41:04
  Speaker 16: this year. You know, everybody that they've lined up against,
• 41:07
  Speaker 16: they've just basically blown them out. So you know, our
• 41:11
  Speaker 16: challenge is coming off of a loss, you know, kind
• 41:14
  Speaker 16: of licking our wounds still, kind of like figuring out,
• 41:17
  Speaker 16: you know, what went wrong here, what went wrong there.
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: Well, we don't get a brink.
• 41:21
  Speaker 16: We don't get that week where we can kind of
• 41:22
  Speaker 16: go in and go, well, you know we can clean
• 41:24
  Speaker 16: everything up. We get a week where we have it's
• 41:26
  Speaker 16: a fight. Yeah, you know we're going to their place.
• 41:29
  Speaker 16: They're highly ranked. Like I said, I was looking at
• 41:32
  Speaker 16: some of their scores and going geez man, like these
• 41:35
  Speaker 16: games aren't even close. So they're they're super athletic, They've
• 41:39
  Speaker 16: they've got some senior leadership up there. I'm sure they're
• 41:42
  Speaker 16: going to be, you know, very confident in their place,
• 41:45
  Speaker 16: you know, playing on their home field.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: So you know it's a challenge, but pressures a privilege.
• 41:49
  Speaker 16: So we look forward to it and we'll get in
• 41:52
  Speaker 16: the bus and we'll get off and go play our
• 41:54
  Speaker 16: best game.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Oh man, I love hearing that, coach. That's going to
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: be a great one. The radio is going to be
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: out there for that once so and I'm sure you'll
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: be here and hey, hey, coach b why can you
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: come over do an interview really quickly because there'll be
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: out there I think at three o'clock for the pregame,
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: so kind of doing like a kind of like the
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: oble you know, college game day type feel right, Okay, yeah,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: so it'll be that'll be a pretty cool deal. So
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: awesome stuff. Good luck against Lena Krishna on Friday. Thank
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: you so much for joining me on the Gatorade Game
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Day preview.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: Thanks Tyler, have a good night you too.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Preview by Lennon Christian football coach Greg Turpstra coach. Thank
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: you for joining me today. How are you doing again?
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: Thanks for having me?
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you bet you're welcome. When you're on the road
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: as a coach, what stadium is your favorite to coach at?
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: Say again, what's my favorite stadium?
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're on the road in the league, Well,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: it could be around the state. I mean you've been
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: all over the state and you know the last few years.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: So is there a is there an away game or
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: an away stadium that you're like, Man, I just love
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: the vibe here. I have you know, you just you
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: and you want to go back and coach there and
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: you know your coach your team and stuff like that.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Is there a is there a stadium that you get
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: the good feel?
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: I'm partial to bowls. I think bowls are cool, like
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: although it was an unfortunate outcome when we was at
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: cet home when we coached at Liberty, It's like you
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: walk down into a bowl and it was like this
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: big fog in there. That was kind of cool. Kings
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: as kind of a half a bowl feeling sort of there.
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: I love our stadium where it's built into the side
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: of a hill. I know I'm biased, but I think
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: we've got the best setting in the in the county
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: just kind of just kind of being down in it
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: one time. As much as I hate Michigan. When I
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: went through ann Arbor once I saw the big house
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: there and you you walk to the edge and then
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: you look down and that's where you know, nine tenths
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: of the people are in kind of a bowl. I
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: just kind of love that feeling. Yeah. So as far
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: as other places, well, wherever the championship's being held, that's
• 44:15
  Speaker 7: where I love.
• 44:16
  Speaker 6: It that I was.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: You know, it's so funny because I came up with
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: this question and I was like, I wonder if anybody's
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: gonna say Husky Stadium or Tacoma Dome or you know whatever.
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: So you know, we we got to talk to Calin
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: de Boor when he was with the Huskies, and our
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: staff kind of met with him and and we just
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: really bent his ear about getting that game there. I'm
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: not saying we're the ones that tilted it, but we
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: were just all over it with him and and they
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: ended up making that work and at Wow, what a
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: gift to the high school programs. I hope that that
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: never ends.
• 44:55
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: You know, you see a lot of other state championships
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: being played at you know, where the Cowboys play, or
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: you know, in all these different things. So I'm glad
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: it's in a big facility like that, which is really cool.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Why if you would indulge the audience to tell us
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: how your first meeting with Kaylen de borweit many years ago?
• 45:13
  Speaker 7: Oh, I shut him down. I'll tell you what. So.
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: So Kaylin's a year younger than me. He's between my
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: brother Grant and I and we were playing out at
• 45:25
  Speaker 7: Northwestern in Iowa and he was playing for back then
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: it was Sue Falls College then became University of Sue
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: Falls and he was a receiver as a defensive back.
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: He's just a slow old Dutchman and just easy to cover.
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: Actually he was really good. He's and you can tell,
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: very intelligent on the field. And it didn't surprise me
• 45:46
  Speaker 7: that he turned into a great coach early. He went
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: back to Sue Falls and took him to a bunch
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: of our national championships and kind of climbed the ladder
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: from there. That's what I love about him and his staff.
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: You know, they weren't awarded some grad assistant job because
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: their daddy was a big time head coach. They worked
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: from the bottom up. Talking to Grub too, he played
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: at Buena Vista and if you look that up they're
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: a terrible program. And he was from a little town
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: that I asked him once. They said, Hey, which town
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: are you from? And he's like, oh, you'd never know it.
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: I said, try me. He said Kingsley, Iowa. And I said, well,
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: you went to Kingsley Pearson Remsen Union High School, didn't you?
• 46:34
  Speaker 7: And he just flabbergast. How in the world do you
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: know that? I said, my roommate was from there. And
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: I told him my roommate's name, and he knew him
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: right away. And yeah, just a great bunch of guys
• 46:45
  Speaker 7: from just small town Iowa clawed on their way up.
• 46:50
  Speaker 7: And I just love the success that he's had.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Before talking about your Week six opponent,
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: let's go over your game last week. It was the
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: first conference game of the year. It was against Blaine.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: You picked up the forty one zero win and that one.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: Well, first of all, hats off to coach Olsen. He
• 47:12
  Speaker 7: put together a great opening drive, kept them on the
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: field and kept our offense off the field. We had
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: a couple of penalties where we jumped when it was
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: fourth and three or something like that. It's kind of
• 47:26
  Speaker 7: a bunch of dogs on the end of a leash,
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: just just waiting to go, you know, in front of
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: that homecoming hometown crowd. So you know, I can't get
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: too mad at him. They're all kind of aggressive mistakes.
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: But yeah, I thought that the kids performed well. I
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: thought Blaine a great little quarterback there, and they're going
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: to give the league problems when those younger Cats are
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: getting older and you know, their bodies start filling out.
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: But I was proud of our guys, you know, defensively,
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: I thought we were really stout. Offensively, I thought we
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: moved the ball in different ways and didn't rely on
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: on one method. And uh, you know, case in point,
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: the opening drive the second half, the all Trace and
• 48:12
  Speaker 7: Johnson carries that just rumbling, stumbling for I think three
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: plays and score and then throwing in a Veldman and
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: Cooyman in at tight end, getting them some some blocking work.
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: And I thought they all did a great job. So yeah,
• 48:29
  Speaker 7: I was proud of those guys, just kind of being
• 48:32
  Speaker 7: really good in a lot of ways.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and uh, there was a Dawson Hintz sighting, and
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: when you have an athlete like that, you know, he
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: made a tackle on special teams. You put him in
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: a quarterback for a series or maybe two, I can't remember,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: but he did. He ran a little bit, he threw
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: a little bit. You know, obviously we all marvel at hit,
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: you know, when he plays basketball, But what are some
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: of his what's some of his football acumen that you
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: really like?
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: How tough he is. Honestly, it's like, I don't know,
• 49:03
  Speaker 7: I want to wrap him in bubble wrap. You know,
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: he got hurt last year, but he is like I've
• 49:09
  Speaker 7: got to sometimes pull him back in practice. He he's
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: willing to run the ball on scout team and coach
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: let him tackle me all the way to the ground
• 49:20
  Speaker 7: kind of thing. You know when when you're when you're
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: in practicing, you're kind of like, okay, you know, go
• 49:25
  Speaker 7: to a thud or something like that, or you know, hey,
• 49:28
  Speaker 7: stay off the legs or you know that kind of thing,
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: and uh, he's just like, no, give it all to me.
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: I really impressed with that. He is a competitor.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's so much fun to watch. And
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: you know, now him being available for league play is
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: just kind of scary when you look when you look ahead,
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: you know, two weeks ago, Boyce Robertson became the school
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: record holder in career touchdown receptions. In this past week,
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: Evan Mayberry became the school record holder in career touchdown passes.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: Tell our listener with like, uh to coach these two athletes.
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Like I think I've said before, I feel like
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: I'm interfering with something that they've been doing in the
• 50:09
  Speaker 7: backyard for years before they've gotten up to varsity football.
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: And I'm just kind of there to enjoy their athleticism
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: and just their relationship as cousins. And they're just really good.
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: And it's not like we're even just targeting boys. He
• 50:29
  Speaker 7: gets himself open, he creates mismatches. The other receivers are
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: excellent blockers downfield and ball catchers in their own right,
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: so we've got a lot of different weapons. And yeah,
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: it just his athleticism is really hard to ignore. His
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: moves after the ball or after the catch are just
• 50:54
  Speaker 7: really impressive as well. Eli has a great way of
• 50:58
  Speaker 7: finding different guys too, And Eli is not a voice.
• 51:01
  Speaker 7: Isn't always his first look. It might be his third look,
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: I depending on what the defensive structure is.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's been a joy to watch
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: and really really cool to see. And let's talk about
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Friday night. Now you're back at home. It's not a
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: conference game, but it's a great one for Wakam County
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: as you're hosting Sea Home. Tell us about this year's
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: Mariners squad.
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they're fast, they're athletic, they're good up front, and
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: that's all without even talking about that quarterback Nolan is
• 51:32
  Speaker 7: just really really special. He's out of the pocket, he
• 51:37
  Speaker 7: can just slice you and dice you. And so we
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: are really looking forward even though, like you said, it's
• 51:43
  Speaker 7: not a league game, it's a very important game for
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: us just to get better from you know, past defense,
• 51:52
  Speaker 7: you know the past rush and I mean their their
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: run game is stout as well, and stopping all phases
• 51:58
  Speaker 7: of that game will be a real challenge for us
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: and something we really embrace and look forward to because
• 52:04
  Speaker 7: it's great preparation for the rest of our league play,
• 52:07
  Speaker 7: you know against Baker and Nook, Sack and Maratian who
• 52:09
  Speaker 7: were all just tough opponents. So we we feel fortunate
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: to have this game at this point, right before the
• 52:18
  Speaker 7: rest of our league play.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have a history with Sea Home, whanted
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: you to tell our listeners. Kind of the connection there.
• 52:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, I bet I could. I could sing the fight
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: song for you right now, but a little early in
• 52:33
  Speaker 7: the morning. Yeah.
• 52:35
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: I was at home for six years, went there after
• 52:39
  Speaker 7: coaching at Lyndon, then all over the place, and just
• 52:44
  Speaker 7: really enjoyed my time there. When we got there my
• 52:48
  Speaker 7: first year underneath Bob Norvell. Grateful to him to give
• 52:53
  Speaker 7: me that opportunity to call the offense. Well, we lost
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: every game that year and we had just didn't have
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: a whole lot of guys out and the interest was
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: waning and we were looking to shake it up, and
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: I think we did because then the next year Kevin
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: Beeson came on. We lost our first six I don't
• 53:11
  Speaker 7: know how many, what was our streak, but we we
• 53:15
  Speaker 7: we broke that streak down at Seaton Catholic, Yes, on
• 53:20
  Speaker 7: the very first game of their brand new field, and
• 53:25
  Speaker 7: was a junior or Felipe Ariola that the second half
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: they took an on side kick back for a touchdown.
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: And then we won our next four games. So and
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: then the next year after that we beat Archbishop in
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: the playoffs and yeah, we just you know, we we
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: still that staff and I can't say enough about Kevin
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: Beeson and Jordan Shechlfont, Jeff Wood and all those guys.
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: Just a bunch of a great bunch of guys who
• 53:56
  Speaker 7: gave their heart and souls to a program that was
• 54:00
  Speaker 7: a tough spot and brought it back and just great
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: men of character that I just cherished to this day.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and one of the important pieces of that team
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: was the quarterback Jacob Kaepernick, who's now on your staff.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: And what's that been like him as a coach? I
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: mean when when you coached him, he was kind of
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: like a coach on the field by the time he
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: was a senior and has that how has that relationship
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Ben and how has he been on the sidelines?
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: I hope it works out that Jacob is with us
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: for years. I think he's probably a head coach in
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: waiting someday. He is fantastic. And his link between the
• 54:40
  Speaker 7: kids and me he's not that old right, is very
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: important too. We have on our LC staff, we have,
• 54:49
  Speaker 7: you know, several guys who are you know, i'd call
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: me the old dog fifty one, and then Jacob in
• 54:55
  Speaker 7: his twenties, and then we have a bunch of guys
• 54:57
  Speaker 7: kind of you know, in their thirties and so we
• 54:59
  Speaker 7: got kind of the layers of the generations and that
• 55:03
  Speaker 7: is I think kind of important and it's worked out
• 55:06
  Speaker 7: really well. But having him on staff has been fantastic.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so cool to see him out there. He's
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite kids to just you know, when
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I was covering him, I love it when an athlete
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: is easy to talk to, you know, he's not like
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: talking to a kid. Even back then, he was like
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: talking to an adult. I mean I even had him
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: come out and play in a slow pitch softball game
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: with us because we needed a player one time, you know,
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: and not a bad guy to have. A guy went
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: off and played college baseball.
• 55:34
  Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah that was pretty good recruiting.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, it's you know, and it was co ed too,
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: so you know it was it was not it was
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: not too bad. Awesome stuff. Coach always loved talking to
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: you about all this stuff. And and best of luck
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: against the home on Friday. Thank you for joining me
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 55:52
  Speaker 7: Hey looking forward to it. Thanks Tyler.
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: Thanks.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: That's going to be a great matchup with a lot
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: of talent on the field. Both teams are led by
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: their schools all time leading passers. Pretty cool. The Bellingham
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: BayHawks return to conference plays. They will host, they will
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: play host. I'm sorry to the Burlington Edison Tigers. Bellingham
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: is three and two on the year and Burlington Edison
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: is also three and two. Bellingham comes into this game
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: averaging twenty one point eight points per game and allowing
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: thirty points per game, while Burlington Edison is allowed as
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: averaging twenty point two points per game and allowing twenty
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: five point four points per game. And we are now
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Bellingham football
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: coach Adam Leonard, coach, thank you for joining me today.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
• 56:38
  Speaker 9: I'm doing great.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: How are you telling doing great too? When you're on
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: the road. What stadium is your favorite to play at?
• 56:48
  Speaker 10: That's a great question. Again you have each week. The
• 56:51
  Speaker 10: questions keep getting better and better. I would have to say,
• 56:56
  Speaker 10: even though it's a tough place to play, and we
• 56:58
  Speaker 10: actually get him at home this week, would say Burlington Edison.
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: Why is that they have?
• 57:04
  Speaker 10: They just have such an electric atmosphere. Great grass field.
• 57:09
  Speaker 10: I'm not a huge kind of grass field, but it's
• 57:11
  Speaker 10: for both for that type of surface, it's fantastic and
• 57:16
  Speaker 10: they just you know, it's kind of a it's kind
• 57:18
  Speaker 10: of a creepy play that place to play. You know,
• 57:20
  Speaker 10: it almost feels like Halloween. You always seem to have
• 57:23
  Speaker 10: a little bit of a fog coming through. It's it
• 57:26
  Speaker 10: just it's the epitomizers fall football to me, and I
• 57:29
  Speaker 10: think it's a pretty cool place to play.
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: It is. It has a really rich tradition. You know,
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: the stands on both sides, which is cool. Not a
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: lot of grass fields have that. And there's something about it.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I've seen film from the seventies in that stadium and
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: it doesn't look any different, you know what I mean, Like,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: it's just it's it's so cool.
• 57:50
  Speaker 9: How it just.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: You know, a lot of things have changed. I mean,
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: the Meridian Field has completely flipped. It used to go
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: the exact opposite way. It used to go north and south,
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: now goes east and west. So that changed in the
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: mid eighties. You know, there's a lot of things that
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: have changed with different you know, even in the back
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: drops of fields or Knooksack Valley with the trees behind
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: the visiting sideline, those used to not be there. I'm
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: pretty sure they grow those because so they could block
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: the sun at seven o'clock in the early I mean,
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: it's so weird how you can see. You watch the
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: old film and you see different stadiums, but Burlington's never changes.
• 58:26
  Speaker 10: So I think the place I really like to play at,
• 58:31
  Speaker 10: but obviously you know, it's far away and I don't
• 58:33
  Speaker 10: know how this is whatever. I would love to play
• 58:35
  Speaker 10: at Stadium High School in Tacoma.
• 58:37
  Speaker 9: Yeah, what a.
• 58:39
  Speaker 10: Just an amazing setting there right on Commencement Bay. Just
• 58:42
  Speaker 10: a cool setting. But never played there against them as
• 58:46
  Speaker 10: a coach, so I'm definitely gonna go with Burlington.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: As Yeah, that's awesome. Before talking about Week six, let's
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: go over your game last week, A battle until the
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: very end. For the most part, you kept Granite Falls
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: is run game and check and you're able to walk
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: away with the win. What was your biggest takeaway from
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: that game?
• 59:03
  Speaker 10: Well, I mean, you know, we we had some adversity.
• 59:07
  Speaker 10: I think not much of it was you know, you know,
• 59:08
  Speaker 10: self induced. We moved the ball very well, we left
• 59:12
  Speaker 10: points you know out there. We you know, we had
• 59:14
  Speaker 10: a field goal block. We came down in the Renzo
• 59:16
  Speaker 10: the second time and didn't come away with any points.
• 59:18
  Speaker 10: So we were a little frustrated with that. I think
• 59:20
  Speaker 10: some of the frustrated frustration carried into our halftime discussion.
• 59:24
  Speaker 10: But I think I was really proud of the team
• 59:26
  Speaker 10: the way we kind of flushed it, came out in
• 59:28
  Speaker 10: the second half, and I thought I completely dominated the
• 59:30
  Speaker 10: second half to a win. They're a tough team, you know,
• 59:34
  Speaker 10: they were ranked top ten in one A on some
• 59:37
  Speaker 10: polls that I saw, so and they came in undefeated.
• 59:39
  Speaker 10: And a team coming in undefeated get to play at
• 59:41
  Speaker 10: home in front of their you know, fun crowd. They
• 59:44
  Speaker 10: got the they got the fire trucks out there, they
• 59:46
  Speaker 10: got the sound system going, the Roaring Tigers in the
• 59:49
  Speaker 10: background when they moved the ball. It was a pretty
• 59:51
  Speaker 10: cool environment. But I thought we played tough in the
• 59:54
  Speaker 10: second half our I think our defense set kind of
• 59:56
  Speaker 10: set the tone a little bit, and then you know,
• 59:59
  Speaker 10: we we did think some things on the ground over
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 10: one hundred yards on the ground, you know, we try
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 10: to stay around to around two hundred and fifty yards
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 10: through the air. It was a balance attack and threw
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 10: a wrinkle in at the end. And really proud the
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 10: way we competed and got out of there with the win.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: Absolutely and coach. A couple of things about that final drive.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: You know what really impressed me. You did have the
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: long pass to Joe Harward, but a lot of it
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: was chunks in the run game, and that's something that
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: you know, you brought up. The run game ran for
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: over one hundred yards. I thought it was, you know,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: your best rushing performance. I thought the offensive line did
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: a great job. And on that final drive, it was
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of picking up chunks at a time and
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: believing in it and keep on going. Was there now
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: the game at that point? Correct me if I'm wrong,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: but the game was tied at that point.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 10: It was tied. It was fourteen apiece as we were
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 10: going in that final drive.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: Right, And so in the back of your mind, are
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: you thinking we want to score the touchdown, not just
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: because it gives us a bigger lead, but because of
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: the early field goal block, Like you're thinking, you know what,
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: we've just let's let's try to punch it in because
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: it was a fourth down play and when you scored
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: the touchdown.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 10: Absolutely, So we're sitting there and I would say, you know,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 10: and I wasn't completely confident after having a field goal block,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 10: and I didn't want to, you know, put that on
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 10: our special teams. So I said, you know what, we're here.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 10: We thought we got in on one play and you know,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 10: we're fourth in goal from the one or two yard line.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 10: We're like, you know, we got to plant. If we're
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 10: the team we want to be, we got to be
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 10: able to punch this in we got, you know, and
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 10: not put it on our special teams. I think most
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 10: a lot of coaches would have chose to just take
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 10: the three there, play defense and win the game.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 9: But I was, you know, you know, we.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 10: Called the time out. I saw the way they lined up,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 10: called the time out. Coach Nixon and I discussed it,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 10: and then we thought we'd throw in their first wrinkle
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 10: of the day, and we put Owen Hanstead in a
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 10: wildcat formation flanked by Joe Harwood, and we're like, all right,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 10: they're going to try to take one of the two
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 10: guys and we'll.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 6: See what we do.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 10: The other thing I wanted to say is I'm very
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 10: proud of the way some of our back offensive lineman
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 10: came in. Isaac Garcia Junior came in at Garvey Booga,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 10: Julian Fluintez too to tackle. We lost Elike at Buffalo
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 10: in that game earlier to an injury. Hopefully he's back
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 10: this week. But the backups came in did a really
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 10: great job and proud of the way they blocked, especially
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 10: that last play to get us ahead.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a it was a great play, that
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: final play, you know you call the time out. Is
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: that a play that you guys have practiced at all
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: during the season. It was an option run and you
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: got you know, I mean, you got two dynamic athletes
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: where you're right, they have to take away one of them.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: And was that a play that you guys have run
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: at all in practice or did you kind of just
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: draw it up in the in the dirt right there
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: on the sideline.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 10: No, we've been we've been practicing different formations like that
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 10: for weeks. We just haven't broke, you know, brought situation
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 10: where we need to.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that you know, it's nice that you know,
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 2: Owen Hanstt has a little bit of quarterback experience, uh,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: you know, so they're not completely unfamiliar, but it's nice
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: to that your two playmakers can be involved when when
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: the game comes down to it tied, fourth down and goal,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. So let's talk a little bit about
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: Owen Hanstead here. I thought this was his best game
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: past this past week as as a running back, carrying
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: the ball over twenty times, especially in that final game
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: winning drive, he was picking up big chunks of yards
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: moving the sticks. What has it been like to coach
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: him for the past four years.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 10: I mean, Owen is just the ultimate competitor and he
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 10: and you know, we talked about his dynamic abilities as
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 10: a Swiss Army knife on the field, both on offense,
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 10: defense and special teams. He literally can he can.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 9: Play it all.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 10: I'm sure on his on his profile headshot he put
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 10: about seven different positions that he plays because he does.
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 10: He does everything for us at Bellingham and he's just
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 10: been a pleasure to coach for four years. When I
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 10: was coaching at Walkham Middle School with coach Nixon, actually
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 10: he was our quarterback over there, and he just does
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 10: it all. Interesting to note I believe that touch that
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 10: rushing touchdown was his first touchdown rushing in his career.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 9: Great.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 10: It's amazing to think that too, because the guy's got
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 10: you know, double digit interceptions in his career. He has
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 10: a passing passing touchdowns, He's He's done a lot of
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 10: different things for us. And I looked over I go,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 10: I think that might be his first one here in
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 10: his senior year. So he was actually very emotional after
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 10: the game because he was busting his buck the entire game,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 10: running hard between him and Sunny Powell running the ball hard.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 10: Very impressed with our with our running game, I think
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 10: our passing game. I think people know to prepare for that.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 10: So to have that kind of success on the ground
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 10: was huge for us as we build our confidence on
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 10: the offense.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. All right, let's talk about Friday night. You're back
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: at home, back in the friendly confines of Civic Stadium,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: this time against Burlington. Edison. Tell me about this year's
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: Tigers team.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 10: You know, they're tough. You know they've got to win
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 10: over swawl Come earlier in the year. That's a really
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 10: solid win for them. I mean it's tough to you know,
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 10: gauge how they did against Artibishop Murphy when you're you know,
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 10: you lose fifty five to two. But I thought they
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 10: played pretty tough. I thought so that they had some
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 10: break breaks go the wrong way against Home and watching
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 10: some of the film on mat, I mean see Home
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 10: is an incredible team and they I thought they played
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 10: them very competitively. I don't know that the score might
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 10: not show that. So they're going to be an absolute
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 10: huge challenge for us, and it's a key game as
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 10: we as we move into, you know, trying to compete
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 10: for one of those five spots out of the Northwest Conference,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 10: and you know, Burlington is a team that's right there
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 10: that's competing as well. I'm assuming after I'm assuming too
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 10: small Come is going to be our biggest fans going
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 10: into this game as they you know, they lost in
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 10: the first week to them, and there's a lot of
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 10: different moving pieces, but they run the ball well. They
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 10: have a tough quarterback. He likes to run the ball well.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 10: They're physical on the O and D line. That will
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  Speaker 10: present a really huge challenge for us. But we get
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  Speaker 10: to come back home, put those reds on again. We
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 10: feel good in those uniforms, the under the friendly confines
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  Speaker 10: over at Civic and it's our homecoming week. So this
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  Speaker 10: is all enough to be one heck of a game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome. I love it when it's homecoming and
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: all that stuff comes together, and you know, Bellingham and
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: Burlington have been playing each other. My goodness, going back
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: to the a long time, you know, probably close to
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: one hundred years. And uh, it's it's such a it's
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: such a great rivalry that I'm glad that things are
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: starting to kind of become like that again with with rivalries.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Tiger quarterback and I don't know his name.
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  Speaker 2: I don't follow the sketget teams as much, but he's
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  Speaker 2: he's you know, you said he's a dynamic player. He
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: likes to run the ball, but he's a load as well.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: He's not you know, running out of balance. He's going
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: you know, he's going to go through you. And and
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: when you when you face a dual threat quarterback, does
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: it does it present kind of different things on defense
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: that you have to be aware for absolutely.
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  Speaker 10: You know, I think his primary strengths obviously as a runner.
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 10: You know, he's a big, strong back. You know, they
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 10: had Rich Senior last year as their quarterback, and I
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 10: believe that Owen Stewart I believe is their quarterback this year.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 10: He comes in as a senior, so this is his
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  Speaker 10: first opportunity to play and play under center, and he's
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 10: making the most of it for sure. But I think
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 10: his strength is definitely in his ability to run. They
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 10: run a little read option there, you know, back there.
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  Speaker 10: But we want to stop the run, definitely. We want
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 10: to come out and we want to stop the run.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 10: And you know, he's a big part of who we
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 10: have to plan for. So he's pretty dynamic and we're
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 10: going to come out of that game plan.
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  Speaker 2: So that's awesome, great stuff, coach, Best of luck against
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: Burlington Edison on Friday, and thank you for joining me
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 10: Thank you for having me, Tyler Man.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: All this talking is making me thirsty.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 14: You hear that.
• 1:07:30
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• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: Time to look at the one A Conference matchups, and
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: let's start with the Meridian Trojans going on the road
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: to take on the Mount Baker Mountaineers. Meridian is five
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: and oho on the season and Mount Baker's four and one.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Meridian is averaging thirty three points per game and allowing
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: just twelve points per game, while Mount Baker is averaging
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: forty one six points per game and allowing twenty two
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: point eight points per game, and we were now joined
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Meridian football coach
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: Patrick Games. Coach, thank you for joining me today. How
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: are you doing doing well?
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 18: Tyler?
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  Speaker 9: Thanks?
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 18: Always a pleasure, awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Last week you weren't able to join us, and I
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: asked every coach this question, so I'm gonna ask it
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: to you now. What's your favorite all time football movie?
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  Speaker 14: The Best of Times?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 14: Robin Williams and Kurt Russell.
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  Speaker 18: You know what, as much as anything, it's something that
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 18: my dad started watching the night before the first game
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 18: every season, going back to whenever he got it on
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 18: VHS eighty five or eighty six. Yeah, and something that
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 18: my brothers and I then would watch with him growing up.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 18: And it's still something that he and I will watch
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 18: the night before every first game. And it's been a
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 18: wonderfully funny movie.
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  Speaker 2: That's fantastic. What a great tradition that is fantastic. I
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: love that. And then my estion I'm asking all the
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: coaches this week is when you're on the road coaching,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: what stadium do you just love to be at in
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: the atmosphere and when you go there, you're just kind
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: of like I just like coming here, you know, there's
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: something about it.
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  Speaker 18: I wouldn't say there's any one stadium in particular, but
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 18: what I enjoy most is going to new stadiums. It's
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 18: always fun to go play someplace that you haven't played at.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 18: And we were able to play at Izaquah High School
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 18: for week one, where we met Deer Park, and we
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 18: went to Omac High School for the first time.
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  Speaker 14: Week two. We were on the road down to Vancouver
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 14: last week, where we had actually been before a few
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 14: weeks ago.
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  Speaker 18: But I just like being able to, you know, if
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  Speaker 18: we get there early enough and I find a door open,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 18: walk into their school and walk around the school, you know,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 18: check out the gym, check out their walls of honor
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 18: find their weight room. You know, I'm not just a
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 18: coach here at school that I love all things related
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 18: to student life in school, So I'm always walking around
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 18: trying to trying to look in and see what the
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 18: culture might be like in certain schools.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 7: I know.
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  Speaker 18: One of the highlights of going on the road to
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  Speaker 18: new places. I think it was maybe four years ago
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 18: we went to Grandview High School and I think maybe
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 18: we played one of the first games at their new
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 18: stadium or they're just open their.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 14: School that fall. But it was absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 18: And I remember like as soon as our game was over,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 18: they had this huge JumboTron and they put.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 14: On live college football in the stadium after we were
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 14: done planning.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, this is awesome.
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  Speaker 14: So going to new places, I would.
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  Speaker 18: Say, is my favorite aspect of going on the road
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 18: that maybe not one place in particular.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, that's really cool And I love hearing all the
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: different answers and the reasons why, and that's that's really cool,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: you know. It's uh, you're right, and at I jump
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: around every single night to go to a different school,
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: and I always have a different feel. I can't I
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: can't really put my finger on what it is perhaps
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: at certain schools, but I always have a different feel
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 2: at each one, you know, and it's it is. It
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: is a really cool feeling. Before we talk about your
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 2: Week six opponent, let's go over your game last week.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: It was another long road trip for you guys, but
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: you you know, you caught fire early, scored a lot
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: of points, and came out with a forty nine to
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: seven win over Kingsway. Christian, what was your biggest takeaway
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: from that game?
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  Speaker 18: I think being able to go on the road on
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 18: another long trip and be able to come out early
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  Speaker 18: and play well.
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  Speaker 14: I know, our first couple.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 18: Snaps actually we ended up having some less than successful plays,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 18: but then settled right back in quickly, and you know,
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  Speaker 18: I think we had a third and twenty or twenty
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  Speaker 18: five in our first series and we're able to convert
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 18: that in two downs, and then we didn't really look
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 18: back after that, and we settled in relatively well. And anytime,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 18: you know, we didn't have school that day either, so
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 18: you always just kind of wonder how the team is
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 18: going to handle adjustments to the routine and the normal.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 18: So not having school on the day of a game,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 18: with the long travel, playing at five o'clock rather than
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 18: you know, seven o'clock, and then with the rough start,
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 18: those are all things that you know go through your
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 18: mind for you know, for a minute or two, and
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  Speaker 18: then you know, once the once you find your rhythm,
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  Speaker 18: which we were able to do, then it just becomes
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 18: playing football. But as a coach, you worry about some
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 18: of those things, you know, when you're when you're faced
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 18: with a different opponent in a different place at a
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 18: different time.
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  Speaker 2: And this was a relatively new scheduled upon You know,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: we all know about the week before with Forks, but
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: South would be originally scheduled to play. So at what
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: point did that change happen. Was that still in August
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: or was that into the season?
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 18: Uh, they let us know in August that that was
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 18: going to be a possibility, and then week one they
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 18: let us know that they were they were going to
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 18: reschedule some of their opponents, including us. So then at
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 18: that point, you know, you have to start looking around
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 18: the state and seeing what's out there. And Kingsway Christian
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 18: was in a similar situation with a league opponent that
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 18: had to to reschedule.
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  Speaker 14: Some of their games.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 18: So they were left with that with that opening, and
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 18: we took what we could because we knew the longer
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 18: that you wait, especially early in the season with non
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 18: league games, the.
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  Speaker 14: Harder it can get. So that was that was where
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 14: we were left.
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  Speaker 18: We took the first opportunity that was presented to us,
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 18: and like I said, we played there a few years
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 18: ago and it was also a one A team, So
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 18: we we entered into that one with very little hesitation,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 18: just knowing that we needed a game. And that was
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 18: even before we knew that our our Week four game
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 18: was gonna end up being vacated, so we ended up
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 18: being fortunate to be able to play a game.
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  Speaker 14: But certainly that was an all day affair, right.
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 18: I don't think we got back until you know, two
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 18: thirty two forty five in the morning, So we knew
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 18: it was going to be like that, but we were
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 18: we were pretty pretty gratified to go down and and
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 18: and play relatively well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was you know, it was too bad
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: because there was a live feed on huddle Fan is
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: an app that some schools use, I know, Nuk Sak
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: and Blaine at times and a chordus and it was
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 2: on and I was like, oh, five o'clock game, this
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: is great that I can start watching. And it was
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: like right before the first snap, it just stopped. So
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, here we go. So I was communicating
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: with some parents and they do a wonderful job of
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: letting me know kind of what's going on. Let's talk
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: a little bit about your senior tight end defensive end,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: Daniel Larson. Here's a kid has all the physical tools
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: and he's really kind of putting it all together on
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 2: both sides of the ball this year. What if you
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: like the most about his development this year.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 18: As much as anything, what we really appreciate was Daniel's
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 18: willingness to change positions on both sides of the ball.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 18: He's part of a relatively small senior class, and we
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 18: knew in order to be able to really just to
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 18: line up and be able to play, we were going
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 18: to need some guys to change positions and and Danielle
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 18: didn't hesitate, and he's owned his his development at tight end,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 18: he played as a split receiver, really grown up until now.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 18: He played in the secondary really before now, and now
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 18: we've got him at the line of scrimmage. And you're right,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 18: he's incredibly toolsy, right. He's he's a strong kid, he's fast,
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 18: he's tall, and we knew that with those kinds of tools,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 18: if he was going to be selfless enough to be
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 18: able to make that position change, he was going to
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 18: be a really productive player and leader for us.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 14: And that's what really what he's growing into.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so much fun watching him play because he's
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: such a good kid. And you know, even over the years,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: you know, I love it when kids feel okay to
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: reach out to me and ask, hey, did you get
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: did you get a picture of this or did you
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 2: you know, they ask me questions and they're and they're curious,
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: and he's been one of those kinds of kids, very
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: you know, very cordial, very very friendly, very light, but
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: what an athlete, you know, And I hope, I hope
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: it keeps going, you know, because on the basketball floor,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: they're gonna need some some some height, and he's probably
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: gonna be one that they're gonna look to. And of
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: course we all know what he does on the soccer field.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: So let's talk about this upcoming Friday night. You're on
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: the road at Mount Baker. You're finally playing a conference game, uh,
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: the last team in Walkin County to do. So, tell
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: our tell our listeners about this year's Mountaineers team.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 18: I think, in a lot of respects, you wouldn't know
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 18: what year it was when you watch them play, just
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 18: because they're so incredibly crisp and disciplined. And I mean
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 18: this in the most complimentary way possible. They look like
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 18: a prototypical Mount Baker team, and they're doing a lot
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 18: of things well. Obviously you watch them play and you
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 18: know they've they've found a lot of balance offensively and
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 18: they're really sound on defense, and they just play so
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 18: hard and they play so physically and I I I
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 18: know a lot of coaches, the other coaches in our league.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 18: You know, it's a it's a double edged sword, right,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 18: Like the teams in our league are so good, but
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 18: you really enjoy playing them at the same time, just
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 18: because you know, if you can get your team prepared
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 18: physically and mentally and emotionally to be able to match
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 18: up with you know, some of these other teams and
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 18: melt Baker's the first one for us as a league opponent.
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 18: You know, you're doing a lot of things well and right,
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 18: and there's certainly and we're hoping going to bring the best.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 15: Out of us.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know, I recall and I don't know exactly
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: what year was, I want to say it was about
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: ten years ago when and this is very similar as
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: far as just how the schedule lines up. But I
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: remember Baker played Nuksac and Jed Schleimer went off for
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: five hundred and twenty one yards rushing, and it was
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 2: just like, how that you know, state record at the time,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: How in the world is that going to be stopped?
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 2: The next week? I think you guys held them to
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: nine yards on ten carries. So you guys have a
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: back of finding things that other teams do and are there.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, you've played against this wing tea now for
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: years and you know what's coming right. You know the
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: countertray and you know the trap, and you know the
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: double hand off, and it's how do you relay that
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: to your kids? On defense? Is do you run those
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: kind of plays on scout team, like specifically with the
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: tackle and the guard polling and everything.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 18: You try to do the best you can right to
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 18: recreate it, and it's never gonna look as good as
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 18: somebody else is gonna run it. So you just continually
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 18: try to emphasize with your players what tendencies might be
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 18: and uh, formationally what it can look like and.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 14: Where their keys might need to take them.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 18: But at the same time, with the recognition that it's
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 18: it's gonna look you know, twice as fast and twice
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 18: as good on Friday.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 14: Night as as you can hope to run it on
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 14: you know, Monday through Thursday.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: That's when you put an helmet on. Steve Bernardi practice.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 19: Hey, I need you to bowl here, and I need
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 19: you know yeah, he's absolutely yeah, I'd be kind of
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 19: scared as the defensive women facing that awesome stuff.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: Coach, good luck at Mount Baker on Friday, and thank
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 2: you for joining me on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 14: Thank you, Tyler, and we are now.
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: Joined on the Gatorade Game Day Preview by Mount Baker
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: football coach Ron Lepper. Coach you, thank you for joining
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: me today. How are you doing doing well?
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 6: Thanks Taler for having me once again.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: You're welcome. When you're coach, you coached a lot of games.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: Take Bob Tisdale Field out of it. What stadium is
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: your favorite to coach at?
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 6: Oh Man, that's a tough question, jeez, got to thank
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 6: you for a second. Bear with me.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 20: You know, I have to say Civic because I have
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 20: a lot of good memories there and all the way
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 20: back from my college days.
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one, back when it was grass. Yes, yes, yeah,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: is there. Yeah, that's a That's been a popular answer
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: for a few of the coaches, and I can understand why.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: It's there's something kind of about it and that other
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: than the grass to turf hasn't really changed a whole lot,
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: you know. Uh So the visiting stands were put in
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: and I don't know, the sixties or seventies something like that. Actually,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: my grandfather was a carpenter on that and he's my
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: dad still has the blueprints of the visiting stands. So wow,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 2: pretty cool deal. I don't know exactly what you're took place,
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: but I was around there before talking about your Week
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: six opponent. Let's go over your game last week. A
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: game full of momentum swings back and forth. Uh, big
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: time plays made by both teams, and crucial situations. You
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: score right before the half, you score right before the
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: final buzzer. What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
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  Speaker 20: Well, I think you know, as we as you've documented,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 20: you know, over the years, and you know, playing in
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 20: our conference, you just never know what's going to happen
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 20: at times. You know, anytime you can get a road
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 20: win in this conference, you know we'll take it. I mean,
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 20: both teams, you know, have some mistakes. Both teams capitalized
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 20: on those mistakes. You know, that's just like I said,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 20: the ebb and flow of the game. You know, we
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 20: we feel like we get a win on the first
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 20: drive when we they you know, only only convert a
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 20: field goal and we're able to go down and punch
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 20: it in a couple of times, and I feel like
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 20: we're going down to go in there again, you know,
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 20: and then then we have the turnover, they get some
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 20: they get going take the lead, and then like you said,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 20: we're able to get that touchdown right before the half,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 20: which was huge obviously give us the back that lead.
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 20: But you know, third quarter, Nook Sat got after us
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 20: a little bit, and again, you know, both teams making plays,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 20: both teams making some mistakes, and then you know, I
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 20: think it was about what about ten minutes to go
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 20: in the game, and you know, all of a sudden,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 20: you know, we're down thirty one to twenty, and I'm
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 20: pretty sure a lot of people on the Baker's side
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 20: thinking all things aren't great here, and it's actually pretty good.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 20: And then it was kind of a crazy ten last
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 20: tenants the ballgame. We're able to get out of there
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 20: with the w.
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I score four touchdowns in the last ten minutes.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 2: One thing that I loved about it too, was you
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: know that your staple countertrait run it. You know, teams
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 2: that you've played a lot, they're gonna key for that,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: and it wasn't really happening in the first half. And
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: you did get ten yards on it right before a
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 2: punt in the fourth quarter, and then the next three
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 2: times you ran it, two of them went for touchdowns.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: When was a thirty yard run that helped set up
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 2: the game winning touchdown? Do you I mean, I know
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: that you you know kind of call the plays gut feeling.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: Is it something where even if it's not working, you
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 2: felt confident if you just kept going to it, it
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 2: could it could happen.
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  Speaker 20: Well, we kind of realized we saw something, you know,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 20: in that second half that you know, we ran a
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 20: play and kind of how they defended what we did,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 20: and so we made a little adjustment and then when
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 20: it came back to it and it ended up working out.
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 20: I mean, that's the thing you know that you know,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 20: I mean, you've been around us a long time. You
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 20: ask any kid that went through our program, you know,
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 20: fourth down and one, what's coach gonna call?
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: Right, It's gonna be forty four ram right? Yep.
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  Speaker 20: We have got confident, but we also got a block
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 20: it right, and we weren't doing some things there And
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 20: give them exact credit, they did some stuff, but then
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 20: we were able to counter that. And that's you know
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 20: that chess match within the chess match kind of thing.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 20: And and then you know, obviously fortunate to have a
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 20: running back like Bryce who's got some got some you know,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 20: he's dynamic out in space. And but I said, I
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 20: got it on blocks and then you make a couple
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 20: of guys miss and then you know, get him out
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 20: running and that's good news for the Mounties.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he started to catch from behind, that's absolutely true. Uh,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 2: let's talk a little bit about Junior kel Reardan. You know,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 2: he's the move from left tackle to tight end. Not
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 2: a ton of catches, but that's not really what he's
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: been doing great on offense is blocking is evident in
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: the run game as you guys are averaging close to
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: ten yards of carry as a team for the year.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 2: And also his play is as a defensive end has
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: been huge. Had a couple of sacks and knock down
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: that fourth down pass which is huge in the fourth
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: quarter to get you get the ball back in your midfield.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: Tell our listeners what it's been like to coach in
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 2: the last three years.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 20: Well, you know, coming in and you know he's kind
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 20: of a juvenile moose is probably the best way to describe.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 20: And still he's still figuring out his body. At times
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 20: it looks awkward stuff that he you know, he likes
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 20: to play, he's competitive, he's you know, he's a good kid.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 20: He's a good kind of kid you like to have
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 20: on your team. Like he'll do what you ask. He's
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 20: got a little personality to him, but it's not where
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 20: it gets in the way. And if you think it does,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 20: you say something to him, then he's going to write
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 20: the ship real quick.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 6: You know, it works hard. I mean he has hard worker.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 20: From a you know, real solid family and so like
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 20: it's just fun to watch him continue to grow. I mean,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 20: obviously being tight end, you want to catch the ball more.
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 20: And you know, like I said the week before, we
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 20: thought we could get the ball to him, it's all
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 20: did a good job of taking that away. So other
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 20: guys were open, you know, and you know, on the
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 20: one pass at the end of the game last week
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 20: where we were for you know, we had to pass
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 20: interference against us, he was wide open on that play,
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 20: but we were looking at something else. And so I'm
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 20: sure the things will happen down the road for him.
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 20: But he understood, you know why we did that allowed
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 20: us to you know, get some other you know, get
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 20: Jet out of the at the wide receiver spot, which
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 20: has been big for us. And so ultimately, at the
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 20: end of the day, Kell's just a great team teammate,
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 20: a good team player. It's wanting to help guys out,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 20: you know. You know, he works with the young kids
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 20: and just as whatever you ask him to do.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: And you're right about you know, team stuff. Because anybody
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 2: makes a big play, he's the first one there to
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 2: congratulate his teammates, celebrate his teammates accomplishment. I love seeing
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: that he's he gets the other guys involved. He's excited.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 2: You go to a volleyball game, he's right there, front
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 2: and center, rooting on his team. Yeah, and and and
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 2: that kind of positivity can ripple down through everything throughout
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: the school. And and when you're you know six but six,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: you stand out in a crowd. But he makes it
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: in a positive way. And that's been really fun to see.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 2: Let's talk about this Friday night, you're back at home,
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: you're taking on Meridian. What kind of problems do this
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: year's Trojans team present.
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 20: Uh, they got they got a lot of formations. You know,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 20: it makes you have to understand what they're trying to
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 20: do there. You know, we're fortunate if we maybe run
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 20: three different formations in a game, and they run three
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 20: in the first series, so you know they gonna They
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 20: ran the ball very well against Kingsway last week, and
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 20: they've throwned the ball very well all year long, so
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 20: you know, we're gonna have to really be discipine, you know,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 20: clean up the things that we didn't do very well
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 20: on Friday. Defensive wise in the secondary. We got to
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 20: clean that up.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 6: So we're working on that and understanding.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 20: You know, for them a lot of us, you know,
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 20: formation dictates what they're going to try to do, so
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 20: out and down the distance right, and then you know
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 20: if you just think worry about all the passing, they're
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 20: gonna be able to run the ball. So you know
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 20: they they're it's gonna be. It's gonna be. And again
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 20: another chess match you know between the conference school. You know,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 20: we're we understand that. You know, they're coming in on
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 20: you know, being five and zero and they're feeling pretty good.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 20: So we're gonna have to be ready to match that
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 20: and and execute our execute our stuff when we have to.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it always seems like they I don't even know
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: how to put this, but you might be able to
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: articulate it better. But they have their kind of style
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 2: of defense is really kind of a get after it defense.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 2: A lot of guys close to the line of scrimmage,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 2: a lot of guys coming. When you play a video game,
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: it's called Engage eight or like basically eight guys are
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 2: coming and three guys are back in coverage. But it
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: only see seems like it seems like it kind of
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 2: ramps up against you guys a little bit. You might
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 2: see a different kind of front, you might see something different,
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: just you know, just because it is you guys. Do
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: you feel like like it I don't even know how
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: to put it, but like there's so much momentum towards
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 2: you that you kind of have to drop a little
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: different kinds of plays to get them, maybe running the
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 2: wrong way or anything like that.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I mean, you know, we know that because I
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 20: mean obviously the other schools, you know, spread you out,
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 20: so you've got to be able to cover guys. Right
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 20: that guys out of there, We're we're not necessarily going
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 20: to spread you out a ton, And we had realized
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 20: we play them, we're gonna take some hits, like they're
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 20: gonna get some plays on us. But if we can
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 20: get on our you know, we can get where we
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 20: need to be in our blocking scheme and then all
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 20: of a sudden, you know, we get our guy out
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 20: past that first level, then you know, some good things
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 20: can happen, you know, chances of some big plays just
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 20: because if you can get by that first wave, they
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 20: don't have as much.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 6: So that's just always part of.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 20: The deal there, right, You just you understand that some
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 20: of the things they do takes away from some stuff
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 20: we'd like to do because we just can't block everybody.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 6: You know, you're not. Don't be surprised to see nine guys,
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 6: ten guys up.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 20: There, you know, sure, but you know within you know,
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 20: five yards of the ball, right, so our guys know
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 20: that we're you know, we're trying to you know, make
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 20: make our adjustments this week and understand how we want
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 20: to attack that and then I'm pretty sure what we
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 20: make it to make some adjustments, you know, within the
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 20: game itself. But yeah, they do bring a lot of
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 20: heat in. Like I said, they're going to get you sometimes.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 20: But you know, obviously, if you do your job like
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 20: you can you're need to get them sometimes too.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: Absolutely awesome stuff. Coach. Good luck against Meridian on Friday,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: and thank you for joining me on the Gatorade Game
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: Day preview.
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 6: Anytime, Tyler, anytime, and get well soon, buddy.
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 2: Thank you. And finally we have the Nuksack Valley Pioneers
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 2: going on the road to face the Blaine Border Rights.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: Nuksack Valley is two and three on the season, Blaine
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 2: is one and four. Nukzack Valley's Knuksack Pally is averaging
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: thirty two point six points per game and allowing thirty
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: point eight points per game, while Blaine is averaging fourteen
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: point six points per game and allowing thirty three point
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: eight points per game. And we are now joined on
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Knickzack Valley football coach
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: Craig Bartell. Coach, thank you for joining me today. How
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 2: are you doing, I'm not too bad.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 21: Thanks for having me again, and yeah, thanks for your
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 21: continued efforts with for you know, prep sports.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 15: It's awesome.
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'm trying. I'm plugging through. First, interesting question,
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 2: as I've been doing these past few weeks. When you're
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: on the road, when you're coaching a game and you're
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: on the road, what stadium is your favorite to play
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: at or to coach at.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 15: I guess as you say, Wow, that's a good question. Uh,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 15: favorite stadium to coach at. I can tell you the
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 15: ones that don't like to coach at.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be about because of the
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: players or whatever it do. It could be just an atmosphere.
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 2: Feel like, man, every time I come here, it just
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: feels something different or whatever it is.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 15: Yeah, you know, I like I like coaching at Civic.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 21: I think that that's just and probably just because we
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 21: don't play there unless it's the playoffs, but just the
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 21: atmosphere there and and the locker.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 15: Rooms are big.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 21: Probably Civic around Baker's a fun place to play just
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 21: because it's the long walkout and you can you can
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 21: kind of see the crowd. I really like our place.
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 21: I think, not just because it's our home field, but
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 21: I think just especially on a fall, clear fall night,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 21: when the sun is setting and you can see the
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 21: Canada and you can see the sunsets, I think it's
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 21: just a beautiful atmosphere.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I always feel like and I think I may
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: have said this on the podcast or something where those
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 2: trees that are behind the track that separate the you know,
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 2: the track and the practice field at your guys's place.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: I remember when those trees weren't there. Yeah, And I
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: always feel like I wonder if those were planted to
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: block the sun for the film, because for some of
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: those early you know, week one, week two home games,
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: the sun is right there on the film and it's
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: hard to see the first couple drives, and I'm always like,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: I wonder if they planed those trees to block the
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 2: sun for the game film.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 15: I think they did. It didn't work, but Ita, Yeah.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: Now it's just an awesome looking backdrop, and it's a
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 2: it's a it's just a really cool deal.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 10: I do.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: I do love it out there as well. And Civic
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 2: of course that was you know, home field when you
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: played in high school too, so there's got to be
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 2: some kind of fun feels there there. Yeah. Absolutely. Before
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: talking about your Week six opponent, let's go over your
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 2: game last week. And it was one of those games
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 2: where neither team really deserved to lose. You score touchdown
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: in the final minute, convert the two point conversion to
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 2: tie up the game. Baker scores the game winner with
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: eleven seconds to go. When you look back at that
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 2: crazy Friday night game, what's your biggest away?
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 15: You know, I'm really proud of the kids.
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 21: It was. You know, I think on both sides, there
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 21: were some missed opportunities, there's some mistakes, there's a lot.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 15: Of good things that happened. But I think where we've
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 15: come as a program.
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 21: You know, we're up by eleven and all of a sudden,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 21: we're down by eight and with three minutes left to go,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 21: or just just under four minutes left to go, and
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 21: we moved the ball down the field and we're able
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 21: to score, and we converted a couple of third downs,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 21: and one of them, uh, you know, was a holding penalty,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 21: and we had like third and thirteen, uh, questionable holding penalty.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 15: I would add that.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 21: You know, it for our kids to overcome that and
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 21: and very easily could have went, you know what, we're
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 21: not gonna be able to move the ball down the field.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 15: That shows the growth of our kids.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 21: I think that we were able to go down the field,
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 21: score a two point conversion in and tie the game.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 21: You know, that's that's that's a really good positive that
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 21: we'll take out of that now we have to be
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 21: able to finish and play on the other end of that.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 15: But you know, that's tough for high school kids to do,
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 15: especially in that kind of game where there's so many
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 15: momentum swings both.
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 21: Sides, and so to to buckle down and come back
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 21: and score with you know, under a minute left.
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 15: I'm really proud of our kids for that.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And yeah, it's just it was just like I said,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: it's one of those games where neither team deserved to lose,
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: and there was you're you're so right about the momentum swings.
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: I mean it was and it wasn't just the fourth
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: quarter that momentum swings, it was the entire game. Yeah,
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 2: so much back and forth. My goodness, Yeah, it was crazy.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 2: One of the busiest guys on your sideline was former
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 2: Pioneer wide receiver Michael O'Brien, who's not the athletic trainer.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: There were some significant injuries to extremely key players, but
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 2: I thought the guys that came in did a pretty
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: good job.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 21: They did a great job. You know, it's tough to balance,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 21: especially in one ah. You know, we don't have a
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 21: hundred kids out there, and so it's it's tough to
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 21: manage practices a little bit where you want to get
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 21: the quote number two's in and get some reps, but
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 21: at the same time, you still got to get you know,
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 21: what you need to get done with you with your starters,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 21: and it it's it's difficult. And then those kids that
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 21: go in don't have a ton of reps. They have
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 21: some reps, but not a ton of reps. And then yeah,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 21: for for guys to go in and and you know,
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 21: we had.
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 15: Three players that are two way starters to.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 21: Go out, and you know, this season we've had guys
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 21: go in and out, impactful players that you know, We've
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 21: had kids that they have just stepped up and said, okay,
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 21: it's my turn to go in there now, and they're
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 21: they're doing the best that they can. And you know,
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 21: we've got to take a little as coaches, how do
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 21: we how do we get more kids reps without sacrificing
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 21: reps from from from the starters.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 15: And we've done an okay job at that.
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, it.
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 21: Exposed us a little bit and so we'll we'll focus,
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 21: you know, this week on getting a bunch of guys
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 21: some reps while still getting quality reps for the starters.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 21: But yeah, those the guys that stepped into fantastic job
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 21: uh in a you know, like we just talked about
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 21: in a pretty emotional back and forth game, and you know,
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 21: we we spend a lot of time trying to do
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 21: the mental part of the game. And I think when
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 21: you see how some of these kids play, I think
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 21: it's it's refreshing as a coach to go, okay, maybe
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 21: it's maybe some of those guys are listening to what
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 21: we're saying about, you know, the process and just worrying.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 15: About what you have to do, uh in a game.
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 15: And so it's really good to see.
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 18: Uh.
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 15: You know, it's unfortunate that.
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 21: We live that we're losing guys, but it's good to
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 21: see that we have guys that are just stepping up absolutely.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 2: And you know, we talked earlier in the season about,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: you know, the identity of your team, and it was
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: hard to capture what it was early on when you
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 2: play so many different kinds of opponents and you got
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 2: guys coming in and out of your lineup. And but
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 2: after playing a conference opponent, a team that you know
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: very well, and putting up that many points, do you
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: feel like you've kind of found the identity of your team.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 21: No, no, no, And I only say that because we've
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 21: had I don't know that we've had our starting defense
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 21: or starting offense to play two consecutive games, you know,
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 21: where we have our penciled in starters, you know, this
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 21: whole year and we're going into what week six now
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 21: that I don't know that we've had a consistency where
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 21: we've played two games in a row where we've had
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 21: everybody in maybe the first and second game, you know,
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 21: a game and a half, but we still lost guys
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 21: that game.
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 9: So I think we're.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 21: Still trying to figure that out, and it's ever changing,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 21: and you know, we're we're losing some guys, some really
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 21: key guys, and so now we've got to adjust.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 15: Okay, well we've lost you know, so and so and so.
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 15: You know, how does that change our offense? How does
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 15: that change our defense?
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 21: And you know, hopefully we're done with this injury bug
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 21: and our guys can get some consistency. And then it
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 21: affects us in practice too, because we have guys that
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 21: are that are hurting and they're not getting you know,
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 21: some reps just because we're resting them. And so I
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 21: really don't know that we've we've I think we're getting
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 21: closer to figure out who we are. But you know
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 21: that I think it's it's changed from this week. It's
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 21: going to change from what it was the last.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 15: Couple of weeks.
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's crazy. Sometimes seasons are like that
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: and you just you get done with this season and
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 2: you're kind of like that was a whirlwind.
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 14: What just happened?
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 2: And yeah, it's it's really crazy week to week. So
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: let's talk about this upcoming week. Friday night, you're on
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: the road at Blaine. Tell our listeners about the border rights.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: You know, they're they're they're good.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 21: You know, I think they they moved the ball down
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 21: the field against Lennon Christian a couple of times. They're
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 21: in the red zone and just just didn't capitalize. But
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 21: they're they're a good team, and uh, you know, we
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 21: have to be ready to go there. They're able to
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 21: throw the ball. Their quarterback is not very tall, but
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 21: he's he's he's a really good athlete.
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 15: He's elusive to throw the ball.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 21: They've got some big receivers, uh that play well, and
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 21: you know, Andy does a good job over there, and
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 21: those those guys will be ready to go. And they're
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 21: a good football team.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're They're fun to watch, and there's a lot
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: of there's a lot of speed out there. And you know,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 2: it's interesting because they I don't think they look they
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: don't really care about the scoreboard. They care about playing
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 2: and getting better every single play and every single week.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 2: And that's something that your team has really, you know,
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 2: pushed as well over over the years, and you've you've
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 2: talked about and I think when you get two teams
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 2: like that that are just playing every single play for
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: each other and learning the game, it'll it'll make for
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: a good game. And I think that that's what's really fun.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 2: And I think it's a good matchup because you know,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 2: they have a pretty strong secondary. You guys like to
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 2: throw the ball. I think that it's it could be
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun playing on a turf field. I'm
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: trying to think, have you guys played on turf yet?
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: You played at Kings So is that is that the
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 2: only turf field so far this year? I think it is, Yeah,
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 2: So this will be something a little different. I guess.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 2: You know, it's a It's one of those things where
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: you can kind of look at this playing team a
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: lot like you know, your guys' team a while back,
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 2: as far as a lot of sophomore starters, and you
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen in the next couple of years.
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 2: And and when you go against a quarterback that is
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: a dual threat, likes to get out of the pocket,
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 2: control on the run, but can run as well, what
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 2: kind of what kind of how does that affect your
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 2: defense and your game planning.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 6: Yeah, you certainly have to.
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 15: Account for him.
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 21: You know, you can't drop everybody back into pass coverage and.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 15: And uh, you know just let him.
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 21: You can't create little lanes for him to run in
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 21: just because he's pretty good. So yeah, we're gonna, you know,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 21: try to game plan something that you know, around like
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 21: keeping him contained a little bit.
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 15: It changes how you block on the on the outsides.
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 21: You can't just come you know, one hundred miles an
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 21: hour because if you do that, then you've created a
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 21: lane that he can come up underneath with. And so
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 21: you know, we'll we'll mix a match to some different
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 21: schemes throughout the week and kind of figure out what
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 21: we like before going into Friday.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 15: But yeah, he's in. He does a great job. I mean,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 15: he finds the open receivers that to throw some quick
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 15: routes in.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 21: You're right defensively, they're very athletic, and so you know
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 21: we're going to try to figure out again what okay,
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 21: what are.
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 15: We going to be good at now that we're missing
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 15: some guys.
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 21: And yeah, and you know this will be it is
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 21: fun game because you know, we both had similar philosophies
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 21: of Hey, it's it's about the processes about each play
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 21: and they've got some excitement over there, and.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's going to be a big challenge for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 18: I love it.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 2: Coach, thank you so much for joining me and on
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 2: the Greater eight Game Day preview and good luck out
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: at Blaine on Friday night.
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 15: I appreciate it.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: Thank you, and we are now joined on the Gatorade
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: Game Day preview by Blaine football coach Andy Olsen. Coach,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing.
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 9: I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. Tyler.
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 2: You bet when you're on the road, what stadium is
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: your favorite to play at?
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 9: Wow Ah, that is a tough one.
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 2: And I don't think you're allowed to say bro into
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: Edison since you know since you coached when I.
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 22: Was a high school athlete long ago, that was my
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 22: favorite place to play at. Yeah, as far as road
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 22: games went, man, that's really tough. You know, one place
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 22: I always enjoyed coaching at was at Seedrow.
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 9: Woolly. It just did a really nice job. The environment
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 9: was very.
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 22: Like the community bought in and they always had the
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 22: barbecues going and the double sided stadium Kerkfield.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 9: You'd always catch a good sunset there.
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 22: And I mean, obviously I coaching rivalry games back then,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 22: so the place is packed, so it's a little bit different.
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 22: But you know, even dating back before, when you know,
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 22: I was helping out with Lyndon, that was just always
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 22: such a good environment and well coached team and a
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 22: lot of tradition.
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 9: Just a fun place to play.
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, that's a I've only I think I've only
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 2: covered one game there ever. It was Bellingham Seadrow back
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 2: in when I was working for the Herald, probably four
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: maybe something like that, and and uh, yeah, it was
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: it was a little crazy. I mean up in the
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: visitors booth to uh, you know, to take stats and
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 2: stuff like that.
• 1:44:12
  Speaker 9: It was a little you had to climb the ladder.
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 22: Yeah, you know, I've watched two in defensive coordinators really
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 22: struggle with that process. Firsts being Pat Murphy going up
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 22: the ladder and then Blake Whitman going up the ladder
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 22: was always hilarious too. So yeah, that was also an
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 22: added benefit that I'd forgotten about.
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's a it was a different it was
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: a different thing, but you're right. I mean, the atmosphere
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 2: is always awesome, and uh so that's really cool. I
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 2: Before talking about your Week six opponent, let's go over
• 1:44:41
  Speaker 2: your game last week. It was the first conference game
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 2: of the year for you, definitely your toughest opponent so
• 1:44:46
  Speaker 2: far this year. I thought you did some really good
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 2: things on that opening drive and the final drive as
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 2: well when you had that long completion and got down
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 2: the field, I just couldn't capitalize. What was your biggest
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 2: takeaway from that game.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 22: Yeah, I was just really proud of our kids that
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 22: we had out on the field in the way that
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 22: they competed. You know, we had ample opportunities to make
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 22: excuses this week, and you know, to choose not to
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 22: get better, and it's hard when you're going in and
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 22: if you're facing an opponent that you know is at
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 22: a different place in their program and development than you are.
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 22: But our kids, you know, we set our goals and
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 22: our standards, and we defined what success looked like for
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 22: us this week, and we achieved it at each position
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 22: group in regards to the controllables and how we wanted
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 22: to try and get better. You know, playing LS, we
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 22: knew they're gonna be really well coached and really physical.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 9: I was happy that we didn't. We didn't necessarily back down.
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 22: We wouldn't competed all all forty eight minutes, and yeah,
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 22: that first quarter was really fun. We went out and
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 22: executed a nine minute drive that stalled out inside the
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 22: red zone, you know, and had some setbacks there too,
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 22: you know, first play the game, we lost alignment, and
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 22: then we had to throw out a freshman on the
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 22: offensive line who you know, baptized by.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 9: Fire there and never really had that experience. And he
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 9: went out and he competed.
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 22: Where were stepping the wrong way sometimes absolutely, but Kyler
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 22: Reynolds really gave us a good boost there and stepped up,
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 22: which was awesome to see.
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was that was crazy. I mean, but you're
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: right on that opening drive, I mean, some some quick passes,
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 2: some hard counts, you got right down the field and
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: after the first quarter it was zero zero with one
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 2: of the top teams in the States. So you should
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 2: be really proud about that. And and it was it
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: was that was really really good to see. Let's let's
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 2: talk about Friday night. You're back at home and you're
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 2: facing Nuksack Valley. Tell me about this year's pioneer group.
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 22: You know, as coach Leper said last week, the names
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 22: are different, right. They think me lose a couple of
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 22: big skybund kids at the one A level, it's.
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 9: Gonna be pretty dramatically different. But you know, they don't.
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 9: They don't rebuild, They just reload, right.
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 22: They have so many kids in the program out here
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 22: at Nuksack and they just do a really good job.
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 22: The program's in a really healthy state. They have all
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 22: the guys that fly around. They're a physical football team.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 22: They're going to be well coached. They're gonna understand their
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 22: alignment and assignment and they can do it a little
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 22: bit differently too. I mean, Evan Brown wants to throw
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 22: the ball, but he's also a terrific runner at quarterback,
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 22: and they got weapons. Coppenters a great player, and then
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 22: inside I mean, they just they love to hit. So
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 22: another great test for us.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, I don't know if the listeners
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 2: caught that, but you said around here at Knooksack explain.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm a I teach.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 22: I'm currently in my classroom. I'm at the Nuxack Valley
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 22: Middle School. I teach seventh grade social studies in science.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 22: So yeah, I'm part of the Koksack community as well.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 22: It was kind of funny actually when I saw you
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 22: from a distance the other day when we went to
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 22: Baker in Bellevue that football game. I was at the
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 22: Knouksack Valley Middle School on that Saturday where I work,
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 22: wearing my Blain hat, watching my nephew play for the
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 22: LC Little Flag football team, and I'm like, man, I
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 22: feel like Tyler Anderson.
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 9: I'm a man of the people, a part of the county.
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah right, Oh, man, I'm sorry about that.
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 9: Oh.
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 2: Going back to the ELC game, one thing I forgot
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 2: to bring up was probably on Wednesday of that week,
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 2: there was a picture that was texted to me by
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 2: an Elsie parent that had you with a punch with
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: a bunch of not a bunch, but a ton of
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 2: uh those kids that you were going up against that
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: you coach them in little league basketball one year. Yeah,
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 2: so you knew some of those kids you were coaching against.
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 22: Yeah, I know which parent that probably was. Yeah, shout
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 22: out Berry Farms. But uh, yeah, I coached kindergarten basketball
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 22: the Little Seahawks one year. Was one of my first
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 22: years as an assistant coach at Lyndon, and uh, Blake
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 22: Van Dalen actually approached me and said, hey, we need
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 22: somebody coach this little league basketball team. I don't know
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 22: about this, and he's like, now you should go. And
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 22: it was really good for me because I go from
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 22: you know, working with seventeen year olds as we're trying
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 22: to go compete for a state championship to walking out
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 22: the football field and then having five year olds in
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 22: a carpeted gym over at Fisher Elementary School.
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 9: And it's kind of funny.
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 22: I keep tabs on those kids, you know, because there's
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 22: a handful that play It Winded and a handful that
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 22: play at Winning Christian and just kind of see you,
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 22: you know, where their journey took them, you know, thirteen
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 22: years later.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 9: But a lot of them are pretty good athletes.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 22: And you know what they made me look like I
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 22: knew what I was doing for kindergarten basketball, so I
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 22: appreciated that.
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 2: At that level are the what height are the the rims?
• 1:49:23
  Speaker 9: Oh? I mean it's sure enough where I could dunk
• 1:49:28
  Speaker 9: on it. Let's put it that one. Yeah.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah, And we had a you know, matching wristband, so
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  Speaker 22: we knew who to guard. And you know, I got
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  Speaker 22: winning an LC kids there and their dads all played
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  Speaker 22: high level basketball or in college or high school, so
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  Speaker 22: we were we got in trouble for setting screens and
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  Speaker 22: running back picks and things like that, and the other
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  Speaker 22: teams are just trying to guard red on red and
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  Speaker 22: green on green with the wristbands.
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  Speaker 9: So yeah, no, they made me look like I really
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  Speaker 9: knew what I was doing.
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  Speaker 16: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: I love hearing stuff like that. Coach, that's so cool.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what's so cool about coaching just in general,
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  Speaker 2: is that you know, you know, you are a teacher,
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 2: and you are I mean, that's your profession, but you're
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 2: on the you know, on the court, on the field,
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  Speaker 2: you get to teach and it doesn't matter what age.
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  Speaker 2: And then when you when it all comes full circle
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  Speaker 2: and these kids are now you know about ready to
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  Speaker 2: graduate high school, and you know, a bunch of them
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  Speaker 2: that now you're coaching against them again. That's what's so
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  Speaker 2: great about being able to do that and being in
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  Speaker 2: this community and and you know, it's it's just it's
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 2: just a really cool thing, you know. Against the Pioneers, though,
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that really stands out to me
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  Speaker 2: is just their you know, kind of their screen passing attack.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, really, I mean there's so many quick screens
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  Speaker 2: and stuff like that. I don't want to say that
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  Speaker 2: it falls into your strength a little bit with how
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  Speaker 2: quick your secondary is, but do you kind of feel
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  Speaker 2: like like you don't have to tweak as much as
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  Speaker 2: usual on defense.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know about that. I mean, they do such
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  Speaker 9: a good job.
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  Speaker 22: They do it in so many different ways, whether I
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 22: mean it's not very often you see them line up
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  Speaker 22: or see the team line up in shotgun and have
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 22: their tailback be a lead blocker for a tunnel screen.
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  Speaker 22: You know, they have a lot of great wrinkles in
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 22: there that they got from Graham Capalsen, who was kind
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 22: of the mastermind the leading cutting edge of screen games
• 1:51:18
  Speaker 22: in high school football in Washington, and they've really leaned
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 22: into what a tribute to coach Borrow for going out
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  Speaker 22: and finding a new way to do things to match,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 22: you know, the skill set of the athletes, which I
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 22: think is really important and for us, it's it's going
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  Speaker 22: to be a challenge because we have to be able
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  Speaker 22: to mentally recognize it too though, Like it's great to
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 22: be fast, but if you're fast running the wrong way,
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 22: well then you're even further away than if you were slow.
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  Speaker 9: You know, there's where I remember being young and playing
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  Speaker 9: on the D line.
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  Speaker 22: I'm like, man, thank goodness, I'm slow because coach keeps
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  Speaker 22: thinking I'm reading the screen, but really I'm just not
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  Speaker 22: getting downfield. So that part we just have to really
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  Speaker 22: do a good job teaching it. And you know, it's
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  Speaker 22: just we haven't seen a ton of it this year.
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  Speaker 22: I hope we get to see some of it on
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  Speaker 22: Friday night, because again, this year is just such a
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 22: building year for us, and how can we continue to
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 22: teach and develop football players out at blame. Yeah, it'll
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 22: be fun regardless.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. Awesome stuff. Coach. Best of luck against an
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 2: exec Valley on Friday, and thank you for joining me
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