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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 319 - Top 100 Countdown 81-63 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Mount Baker senior Seawan Dugger, and you are
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  Speaker 1: listening to the Top one hundred Countdown on the waltcom
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  Speaker 1: Preps podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Baker.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 2: episode three and nineteen, the second of ten podcasts in
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty four Top one hundred Football Countdown. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Ryland Spencer along with me as always is Tyler Anderson
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  Speaker 2: of watcom Preps.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler, how are we doing? Doing great Merry Christmas to
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  Speaker 1: everybody out there listening? Probably on Christmas Eve? And uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is this. We're just gonna gonna keep plugging away
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  Speaker 1: on this top one hundred list and another another uh
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  Speaker 1: what is it? Nineteen names to go on this list
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  Speaker 1: here for just just for today, yep. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Before we get into that, we need to give a
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  Speaker 2: thank you to Sean Dugger from Mount Baker High School.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Coch. He is the young man that gave us
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  Speaker 2: the intro and obviously that means we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 2: him at some point today. But he also need to
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  Speaker 2: give a thank you to Anytime Fitness in Linden North
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  Speaker 2: and Ferndale. They are the sponsors of the Top one
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  Speaker 2: hundred Countdown. And they've sponsored a lot of things over
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  Speaker 2: the last what year or so, Tyler, And I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: there'll be sponsoring more in the future because they love
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  Speaker 2: everything that goes on here at Walkham Preps. But Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: if somebody would like to reach out to you to
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  Speaker 2: become a sponsor about anything, I mean, it could be
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  Speaker 2: a sport maybe that's not being you know that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have a sponsor yet, or maybe they want to sponsor
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  Speaker 2: a team. How do they get a hold of you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, through social media search for Walkom Preps, send a
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  Speaker 1: message and we just go from there. It did pick
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  Speaker 1: up a sponsor for the daily recaps for boys basketball
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  Speaker 1: about times still yeah, I know, still looking for a
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  Speaker 1: girls one and you know, plus other a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other things, anything wrestling related. Going into spring sports, there
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  Speaker 1: will be lots of stuff. So and even just if
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  Speaker 1: you just want your logo on the website on like
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  Speaker 1: the sidebar, you know, it's one hundred bucks a month.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's three dollars a day basically, so it's
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  Speaker 1: a and and that that homepage gets clicked on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it gets clicked on like twenty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: times a day. So for three dollars, you're in your
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  Speaker 1: logo with a link going right to your website could
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  Speaker 1: be seen twenty five hundred dollars for twenty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: times for three dollars. So just think about that, is
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  Speaker 1: do you think that's worth the investment? Probably? So send
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  Speaker 1: a message, we get things going, and yeah, I usually
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  Speaker 1: like to call right after that so I can, because
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  Speaker 1: sometimes with messages things can get kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know if when the other person's going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to read it, and it kind of takes
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  Speaker 1: a long time going back forth. I try to jump
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  Speaker 1: on it as soon as I see it and get
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  Speaker 1: the ball rolling from there.
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  Speaker 2: I might give you one hundred bucks just to put
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  Speaker 2: my face on the page.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I don't want to detract viewers either, but
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I'll shut this podcast down right now, make you walk home, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Don't make me pull this podcast over.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, exactly exactly. You do have the control there,
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 2: I do as a matter of fact, high school what
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  Speaker 2: that Tyler's got some nuggets, man.
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  Speaker 1: See that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, assert my authority. Yeah, anyway, reach out to Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: who gets you taken care of but Tyler, we got
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  Speaker 2: a lot to talk about here, so let's get into
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  Speaker 2: it here.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Football Top one hundred Countdown. Today.
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  Speaker 2: We will be going from eighty one down to sixty three.
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  Speaker 2: The next podcast will be released on the thirtieth at
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  Speaker 2: six pm. That one we will count down to forty four.
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  Speaker 2: If you would like to hear the first installment of
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  Speaker 2: the Top one hundred Countdown, go back and find episode
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  Speaker 2: three hundred and seventeen where we went from one hundred
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  Speaker 2: down to eighty two. I mean, Tyler, we're moving right
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  Speaker 2: along here in basketball is going crazy to you and
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  Speaker 2: I are recording this right now. We're actually recording like
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  Speaker 2: out of sequence, and we were recording this is three nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: We're we haven't even touched three eighteen yet. We're not
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  Speaker 2: even doing it yet. I mean three eighteen will be
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  Speaker 2: recorded tomorrow and then out on Monday, and then this
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  Speaker 2: will come out, I believe the next day. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and as you said it was, it's uh, this is
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  Speaker 2: coming out on Christmas Eve. So yeah, I'm Merry Christmas
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  Speaker 2: to everybody. I know myself, Tyler. I've got Christmas Eve
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  Speaker 2: at my aunt's house, Christmas Day at my sister's house.
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  Speaker 2: My sister actually sent me a message today. She goes, so,
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  Speaker 2: are we supposed to be doing the primary dinner that
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  Speaker 2: we always do? And I'm like, well, what what kind
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  Speaker 2: of question is that?
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  Speaker 1: Of course? Like what do you well? What first off, why.
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  Speaker 2: Would you ask me?
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  Speaker 1: Like if you're trying to get out of it? I
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  Speaker 1: was the wrong I'd ask like A right, right, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're supposed to be doing that. You're like, who do
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  Speaker 1: you think you're talking to?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Like, am I bringing the rolls in the dessert?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's what I thought I was doing. Like I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting easy into the deal here, I mean, if I'm
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  Speaker 2: being honest, but you know I could, I mean, what
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  Speaker 2: do you want me to do? Just come over and
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  Speaker 2: bring some jumbo jacks or something, because that's all I'm making.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, Tyler, we've got nineteen names to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say? We get right into it here?
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  Speaker 2: Let's do it alrighty at number eighty one, six foot three,
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  Speaker 2: eighty five pounds, he is a corner sophomore from Squalcum.
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  Speaker 2: It's number twenty hunter callaway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, superior athlete. Kind of surprised that he didn't play offense.
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  Speaker 1: At all, but I think that I'm sure the coaches
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  Speaker 1: would be happy if he did. I think he just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to play defense, lockdown kid all the time. Squalicum
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  Speaker 1: loves having a really tall athletic corner that they can play,
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  Speaker 1: bump and run on and they don't need to worry
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  Speaker 1: about that side. You know, Kay Posey was that guy
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  Speaker 1: for a while. They had Marcus Nickson out there last year,
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  Speaker 1: and Hunter Calloway's kind of taken that spot now as
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  Speaker 1: just a sophomore. He's a basketball kid, so I think
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of his first love, and I'm hoping that
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  Speaker 1: he'll keep playing football. I've heard rumblings that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he might stop. I'm not quite sure, but boys, he talented.
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  Speaker 1: Right in that first game against Burlington Edison. He had
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  Speaker 1: like something like five or six passes defended in week one,
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  Speaker 1: so right off the bat, I mean he was leading,
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  Speaker 1: and he never relinquished that lead. You know, he finished
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  Speaker 1: with thirteen passes defended to lead the county and just
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  Speaker 1: a you know, didn't didn't get a lot of balls
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  Speaker 1: thrown his way. After Week one. I've think all the
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  Speaker 1: coaches saw the film and was like, yeah, we're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna get a lot done over there. Great size, awesome
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  Speaker 1: leaping ability. I mean you see him during warm ups,
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  Speaker 1: He's just thrown down dunks like it's no problem at all.
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  Speaker 1: So he's just got that kind of athletic ability. Super
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  Speaker 1: nice kid too, you know, is just a just a
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  Speaker 1: you know, smiling, happy, enjoying life kind of kind of kid.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I always love that as well. I
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  Speaker 1: really hope that, you know, he keeps playing football because
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  Speaker 1: he is a difference maker out there. He finished the
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  Speaker 1: year with eighteen and a half tackles, thirteen past defended,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery that
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  Speaker 1: he returned forty seven yards for a touchdown, and he
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  Speaker 1: had half of a tackle for a loss. And if
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  Speaker 1: he does, I really hope he starts playing some receiver too,
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  Speaker 1: because holy cow, he could be you know, big time playmaker.
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  Speaker 1: And they got him. They they've returned some some major
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  Speaker 1: you know skill guys, or they graduate some major skill guys,
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  Speaker 1: I should say, but you know, the quarterback returns. You
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  Speaker 1: got Anson Osby Ornson on one side, this would be
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  Speaker 1: great to have him. On the other side, you have
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  Speaker 1: Lockie coming back in the tight end spot. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it could be pretty dangerous, you just pure athleticism wise,
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, just an awesome kid, awesome player, and and really,
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  Speaker 1: I mean he was thrown into it a little bit
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  Speaker 1: as a freshman. You know, probably you know, shouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have played a ton, but with injuries, he was
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  Speaker 1: he was kind of forced that he had to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and play and and was you know, had
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  Speaker 1: some moments where yeah, he looked like a freshman, but
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  Speaker 1: he had some moments that really shined as well. But
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  Speaker 1: this year was totally different. I mean, he was probably
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  Speaker 1: three inches taller, you know, twenty five pounds heavier of
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  Speaker 1: just muscle, and he was a completely different athlete and
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  Speaker 1: he really belonged out there. And then boom, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, he shows up and he's on the top
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  Speaker 1: one hundred list. And he could keep climbing if he
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  Speaker 1: keeps playing.
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  Speaker 2: Number eighty on the top one hundred count down. Six
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  Speaker 2: foot three, two hundred pounds running back and outside that linebacker.
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  Speaker 2: Just a sophomore from Lyndon Christian it's number six, Chris Coyman.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, another sophomore. You know, I knew about Hunter Callaway
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  Speaker 1: coming into this year, and I would you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you would have said, do you think he'll be on
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  Speaker 1: the top one hundred this, I would say yeah, probably
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  Speaker 1: just based on his athletic ability and and just knowing
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  Speaker 1: what he can do. I didn't know anything about Chris
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  Speaker 1: Coyman coming into this this year. When I was doing
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  Speaker 1: head shots, there was a big sophomore class in both
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  Speaker 1: just numbers and size, and they seem to have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of these kinds of guys that were about six
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  Speaker 1: three two hundred pounds. And I remember when I was
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  Speaker 1: talking to coach Chirpsterra about replacing those great outside linebackers,
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  Speaker 1: I said, so, who do you kind of got there?
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know what you have in the middle
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  Speaker 1: with Trey Bosman and Paulasol and stuff like that. And
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  Speaker 1: he goes, you know, we have like four or five
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  Speaker 1: sophomores that we really like. We just don't really know
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  Speaker 1: kind of what we're gonna who there too were gonna be,
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  Speaker 1: or if we're gonna rotate guys or whatever. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: but we got like four or five sophomores that kind
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  Speaker 1: of all have similar bodies, that are very very athletic,
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  Speaker 1: and and he was one of them, and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: play a ton early on, but it seemed like every week,
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  Speaker 1: especially when they got into league play, he would become
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  Speaker 1: more and more part of the game plan on defense
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  Speaker 1: and especially on offense. And not built like your traditional tailback,
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  Speaker 1: you know, built more like a tight end. But you
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  Speaker 1: know that last name Coyman. There's been some Coyman's over
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  Speaker 1: the you know, over the years at LC that have
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  Speaker 1: been really good, so I'm not surprised there. But just
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  Speaker 1: a huge physical you know, great great runner. Does not
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  Speaker 1: go down easy at all. And it's crazy because you
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  Speaker 1: know the other running backs that they had, they were
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  Speaker 1: they were about two hundred pounds as well, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: about four inches shorter. And but he was like the
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  Speaker 1: almost like the speed guy, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Like he was the guy that they pitch out, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and and have you know, a like a
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  Speaker 1: forty eight you know, I I want, I can't think
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  Speaker 1: of the name, but like you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like through the eight hole like way on the outside,
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  Speaker 1: like like uh, and they would even do like where
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  Speaker 1: they just do like a quick pass to him to
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  Speaker 1: the outside. They were like trying to get him in
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  Speaker 1: space at that size, and boy, he he just kept
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  Speaker 1: getting better and better and better, and they gave him
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  Speaker 1: the ball more and more as the season war on,
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  Speaker 1: and and I just thought, holy cow, he is the
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  Speaker 1: future for Lindy Christian. He was so good and defensively
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  Speaker 1: as well. I mean he ended up playing a lot
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  Speaker 1: as an outside linebacker, made a ton of big, big plays.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is this is a guy that, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I didn't know anything about coming into the season,
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  Speaker 1: and he's he's he's a blow up guy, which means
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that kind of blows my list up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's always like ten or fifteen of these
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  Speaker 1: guys I know nothing about, and then they show up
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  Speaker 1: and they show out, and I'm like, oh man, you're
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  Speaker 1: just you're just blowing my list up now, and now
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  Speaker 1: I gotta move guys around and figure out no he belongs.
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  Speaker 1: Now gotta kick this guy out. Oh man, this is
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  Speaker 1: you know, this is tough, but what a great year.
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  Speaker 1: Ninety carries four hundred and forty three yards and six touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: caught six passes for forty eight yards. Defensively forty nine
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  Speaker 1: and a half tackles, four passes knocked down, three sacks,
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  Speaker 1: two four fumbles, a tackle for loss, and a fumble recovery,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of playing time in his sophomore year, and
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  Speaker 1: he's a guy that I could see having big jumps
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  Speaker 1: the next two years on this list.
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  Speaker 2: Number seventy nine on the top one hundred count down,
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  Speaker 2: five foot ten, one hundred and fifty five pounds wide
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  Speaker 2: receiver and corner. He's a junior from the Blaine Border
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  Speaker 2: Rights at number seventeen. Kay Kerwin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a kid that did really came on to
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  Speaker 1: scene last year as a sophomore and then this year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, coming into the year, one of my questions
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  Speaker 1: I had was, you know, all your receivers are gone
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  Speaker 1: except for Kerwin, so I don't know who else is
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  Speaker 1: going to be catching a lot of the passes. Turns out,
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  Speaker 1: they just didn't throw very much. They didn't have to.
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  Speaker 1: They had some great running backs, great big offensive line
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  Speaker 1: and a good running quarterback. But when they did throw,
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  Speaker 1: he was he was the main target. And he's he's
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  Speaker 1: one of those guys that, like I heard multiple opposing
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  Speaker 1: coaches just say something like, well, you know, we don't
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  Speaker 1: want to kick it to seventeen or well seventeen was
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  Speaker 1: on him, so we went the other way. It's like
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  Speaker 1: the coaches don't really know him yet. They just know
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  Speaker 1: him by his number, you know, like he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: getting into that stratosphere where they're starting to know him
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But man super athlete might be the
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  Speaker 1: fastest kid on his team. Had a punt return for
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown, which was the first time in twenty it
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  Speaker 1: was like twenty two years, twenty three years and since
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  Speaker 1: Blaine had a punt return for a touchdown, So that
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  Speaker 1: was a pretty exciting moment. Yeah, just kind of just
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  Speaker 1: kind of lightning when he has the ball. Super quick
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  Speaker 1: feet trying to get him balls, you know, on fly sweeps,
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  Speaker 1: different things like that. Did have two carries for twenty
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  Speaker 1: four yards, twenty three catches for three hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: nine yards, and a touchdown. Started at corner. All year
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  Speaker 1: thirty two and a half tackles, four passes deflected, he
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  Speaker 1: tackles for a lost, two interceptions returned to kicks and punts,
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  Speaker 1: ten kickoff returns for one hundred and sixty five yards,
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  Speaker 1: and then really dangerous as a punt returner. Ten punt
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  Speaker 1: returns for one hundred and forty nine yards and the touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough next year because you lose so
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  Speaker 1: many seniors. So him and him and Malachi Morillo are
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  Speaker 1: the two. Like it's a really small class. I think
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  Speaker 1: there's only like three or four kids in that class,
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  Speaker 1: you know, total, And so he's gonna be really relied
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  Speaker 1: upon next year. Those two guys, along with like Axel Shelton,
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Bauma, you know, Connor Brown, those guys are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be you know, and then it's gonna be just sprinkling
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  Speaker 1: a lot of new kids that have not played that
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  Speaker 1: much varsity experience. But he's gonna be the main guy.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean he's a guy too where and every
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  Speaker 1: team has this and I'm sure you had it, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not at the for a level, but we're like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: your emergency quarterback guy, like a really good athlete that
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  Speaker 1: you're not worried you could put him in at quarterback. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that starting running back. Yeah yeah, So he's that kind
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  Speaker 1: of guy. He's the starting point guard in the basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: He just, you know, kind of all those things that
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  Speaker 1: you just loving a player. And I'm sure that coach
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  Speaker 1: Olsen is listening and shaking his head or you know,
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  Speaker 1: nodding his head, I should say, and just be saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really glad he's coming back next year. So and
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  Speaker 1: I am too, because I love watching him play.
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  Speaker 2: Number seventy eight, Tyler, it's great number on the top
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  Speaker 2: one hundred countdown, six foot three two and forty pounds.
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  Speaker 2: I love that you picked an offensive lineman defensive lineman
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  Speaker 2: for that number, Tyler. He is a sophomore from the
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  Speaker 2: Seahome Mariners. It's number fifty. Logan Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: Here's another kid that blew up my list. Knew about
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  Speaker 1: him a little bit even as a freshman, just because
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  Speaker 1: of his sheer size. And I remember, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know how it is when a freshman gets into
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  Speaker 1: a game and you see him for a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: you go ooh freshman. He kind of did that for
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  Speaker 1: me last year. But this year he played a lot
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  Speaker 1: and was just a road grader on offense and a
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  Speaker 1: trouble maker on defense. I mean he and And this
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  Speaker 1: happened a lot in the beginning of the year where
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  Speaker 1: I would go fifty and I'd have to look at
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  Speaker 1: my roster and go Rogers, okay, And I just had
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  Speaker 1: to keep doing that and going I got to remember
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  Speaker 1: that this is him, because it's always him every time
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  Speaker 1: I have to look, it's always him making a play
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, like you know, I'm watching them,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm at the game. I'm up in the press box.
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  Speaker 1: I see fifty and I'm like, yeah, I know that
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: is I'm like raising my hand, Yeah, I got it,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: I got it. I know who he is, and he's
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: another one of those guys like I said, that just
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: forced his way onto the list by making plays. Fourteen tackles,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: four and a half of them behind the line of scrimmage,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: and two more were quarterback sacks. So you're talking almost
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: half of his tackles were behind the line of scrimmage
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: and he had a fumble recovery. You know, I think
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: he blocked a couple kicks earlier in the year too.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: He had a big blocked extra point I believe against
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Burlington Edison that was a one score game. But when
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: that when that block tick happened, I think it secured
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: a one point lead for Seaholme at the time late
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, which was huge. So you know
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: what I mean, like big, big plays, great size. I
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: mean we're talking to we're talking a project here for
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: you know, the next level, because he if he keeps
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: growing and he gets another inch or too taller. Uh,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be pretty dominant. You know. Almost kind of
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: reminds me of Bryce Andrews that you that played at
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Seahome you probably remember very very similar really, you know,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: very athletic, big, strong, And I really really like his
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: future because boy, it's you know, see him for a
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: while was kind of a lot about skill guys and
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: then a lot of young offensive linemen. You kept hearing
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: about young offensive lineman. When now those guys are starting
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: to get bigger and stronger and they're starting to get
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: experienced now and he's he's one of those guys, and
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: he still has another two years to go. Uh, you know,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Steelm's gonna start turning into an offensive line heavy team
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: like they were a few years back. So yeah, really
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: excited about his future.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Number seventy seven on the top one hundred countdown, five
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: foot eight, one hundred and sixty four pounds. He is
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: a wide receiver and outside linebacker. A senior high school
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: and the young man that gave us the intro tonight.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: It's number nine to Sean Dugger.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what a great year he had. I mean, I
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: love it when seniors get their chance, you know. I mean,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: he played a lot as a junior on defense and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: was in on a ton of plays and and I
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: think he even led the county and fumble recoveries as
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a junior. Just one of those kids that has a
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: nose for the ball. And then this year, coming into
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: the year, he was he was gonna be the starter
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: as the wing back. And when you're the wing back,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: you're also like the Z receiver when you know half
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the time you're gonna be split out and you're gonna
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: be off the line of scrimmage. And boy, he was
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: great at both. And you know, I'm not saying he's
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Aiden Rodriguez because he was pretty darn dynamic, but there
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: were some plays that were just awesome to see, and
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: they used him very specifically. I mean, there would be
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: games where you kinda knew, like, okay, third and eight,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: third and eight in the middle of the field, this
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: could be a Sean Dugger play because you're not giving
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: him the ball really any way that is that is obvious.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: You know, there's gonna be kind of misdirection and a
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: rounds double handoffs, things like that. And then in the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: passing game, you're you're probably gonna You're probably going deep
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: to him. So he's a he was a big, big
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: play guy. I mean on offense, he only touched the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: ball forty three times or I'm sorry, fifty three times,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and eight of them ended up in touchdowns. And that
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: last game they had against Zilla, Zilla was really stout
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: up the middle, and so they were kind of stopping
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: anything between the tackles, and so coach Lepp was kind
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: of forced his hand a little bit to you know,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: do some outside stuff to dugger a lot of you know,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: double handoffs or end of rounds and things like that.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And he ended up running for like one hundred and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: eighty yards that game. And he never carried the ball
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: more times than he did in that game. I mean,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that was I think the only time he ever carried
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the ball in double digit times. But it showed what
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: he could do against this, you know, a state tournament team.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: And he had a huge game that game, probably the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: best game of his varsity career, and it was his
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: final game and that game. I'm not saying that that
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: game put him on the list, but I think it
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: moved him up the list a little bit. Uh thirty
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: seven carries for three hundred and ninety eight yards. So
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: there's your you know, Lake Washington School district there. That's
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: a first down every time. You'd carry the ball for
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: six touchdowns, sixteen receptions for two hundred and forty seven yards,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and two more touchdowns, and then on defense, twenty five
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles, two pass deflections, two and a
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: half tack was for loss a fumble recovery. He also
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: had six kickoff returns for sixty four yards, not ever
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: playing kick returner, but was one of those guys that
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of near the sideline, one of the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: up guys that you know, a lot of teams are
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: doing that, especially up here. I don't know about down there,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: but it seems like a lot of teams like to
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: kick it high short, kind of towards the sideline. Did
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that's yeah, and that's where he was, and so he
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: would return those And what an awesome year, you know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: great kid, and uh yeah, just a guy that took
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the most, made the most of his senior year. And
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I you know, I just love, love love.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Seeing that number seventy six on the top one hundred,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: countdown five to nine, two forty five, beautiful center. He
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: is a junior from the Bellingham BayHawks and number seventy seven.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Josh Kroll. Yeah, my favorite story. And I told this
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: during the preview. I don't know if you'll remember this,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: but I was out at Bellingham practice and and you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: you know how this is. I mean, you run a
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: play and then when the play's done, you got to throw.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: You know, someone tosses the ball back to the center
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: so he can place the ball and get ready for
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the next play. And he's the center and he started
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: last year as a sophomore and now as a junior.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Now he's like cemented in and that at that spot.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: And there was like, you know, the play was a
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: deep pass player something, so somebody from like thirty yards
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: away just bullets of pass like right at him and
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: he just reaches one hand out there and just caught
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: it with one hand. It was like, holy crap. And
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: he did it. And like I think he looked around
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and he was like, no one saw that. Well I
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: saw it, and I was kind of giving him not
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: a hard time about it, but I was telling him
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: during when I was doing the head shots, I was like,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: I saw you catch that ball one handed.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: He goes saw that, I said, yeah, I saw that,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: So that just that just those little things. I love
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: those things and those are the things I remember. But
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: as a player, I mean.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: He he really shined. He was the best offensive lineman
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: for Bellingham this year. And they had some they had
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: some dudes up there. I mean, you had Finnigan Jensen,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: and you had you know, Owen Campbell, and you had
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Kaiser Barker and these big dudes. And he was he
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: was the guy man. He was. He was a lot
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: of fun and and it kind of took me by surprise.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Another one of those guys that I didn't know if
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: he was a junior or a senior. I at one
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: point during the year, and I was so excited to go, like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: he's a junior. That's right, because he started as a sophomore.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: This is this is great, you know. And what's really
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: cool is, you know even though Bellingham you know, hadn't
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: been in the league. You know, they were in the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: league this year, but even when they were not in
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the league, they would be participants in the All League Awards,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and it was really hard for them to get really
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: any notoriety because they're not playing any of those other
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: coaches who were voting on those awards, so every once
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: in a while you'd get like maybe a Tyler Frost
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: would get a second team linebacker. Jesse Harward was a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: second team off defensive lineman. But now that they're in
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the league, you know the the you know, the coaches
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: know their players better. And Josh Crole was named second
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: team All Conference in that really really tough Northwest Conference
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: two ways. So that was a huge accomplishment for him. Uh,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be one of the best centers come into
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: the end of the league next year. Uh, and they're
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: in the county, I should say, so, uh really excited
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: for him. Did have two tackles one tackle for loss,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: but he is he is basically an offensive player.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: They do not want to play them on defense if
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: they don't have to. Uh, they're you know, they have
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: enough kids at Bellingham, which is a really cool deal
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: just to even think about, uh, to be able to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: have a lot of guys go one way. So uh,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: he's gonna be a big time pillar of that offensive
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: line next year. And and uh they returned some they
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: returned some other big time players as well, So uh,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: we'll see how they do. I think they're gonna be
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: much improved and he's gonna be a big, big part
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: of it.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Number seventy five on the top one hundred countdown, six
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: foot four two, one hundred and seventy pounds, big guy here,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: right tackle, defensive tackle. He is a senior from the
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Blaine Border Rights. It's umber seventy seven. Jayden Winslow.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the big grizzly bear man is And I love
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: seeing the big seven to seven on like the big time,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the big huge player too, because this they just stretch out.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: The sevens look really tall, and he's just like and
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: he's he's athletic man. And before this year, I'd never
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: seen him play defense, so I didn't expect him to
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: play defense this year. I just thought, Okay, he'll be
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the right tackle. You know, they're gonna be run heavy.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: He's a big dude. You got Auto Shelton next to him.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: This is you got two sixty five and two seventy
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: right next to each other. This is gonna be awesome.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: They're just gonna they're just gonna pull, They're gonna push down, block.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna down on that side and it's
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: just gonna open up and Jade and Piez is gonna
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: fly through and that's basically what happened. And then I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: see him coming in on defense and he's like jumping
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: over piles and making tackles. I'm like, holy cow, I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: did not expect that from him. Uh, he looked awesome.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: And again one of those kids that you know, I've
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: said this a million times about him, but you know,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: he'll always come up to me shake my hand. Hey,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: mister Anderson, No no kid has ever asked how's your
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: family doing? Like he's asked me that. Like that's like
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: he's just like the super most respectful kid. And then
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: and then you go and then you watch and play football,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh yeah, yeah, he's he's an animal out there.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: And you know, I love it when kids are like that.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: But I just I mean, obviously, his offense was was fantastic.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, one of the biggest reasons that
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Jade and Piez had that career year. But man, defensively,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: he was a force. Thirty two and a half tackles,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: five and a half tackles for loss, a pass knockdown
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. He was he was just
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: a beast. And uh, it's that Blaine senior class is
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: gonna be remembered for a long long time. To get
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: them to seven wins for the first time in you know,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: eleven years or however long it's been twelve years. And
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and to get them you know, within you know, inches
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: away literally from playing in that round of thirty two.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: So it's they were they got so close. It's gonna
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: be you know, tough sledding next year, like we've talked about.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: But you know, you start looking at that entire class
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and how good every single player was. And and I
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: don't know if any of them made a big of
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: an improvement from junior to senior year that Winslow did. Uh.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Maybe Piez has something to say about that, but but
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: he he had a he had a great, great year,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and and just loved watching him play. I hope he
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: goes out for track again so I can have some
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: fun conversations with him at the shot put pit.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Shot put pit Easier said than done. Yep number seventy
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: four on the top one hundred count down to five
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: ft nine sixty six pounds. He's a running back and
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: inside the linebacker. He is a junior from high school.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Thanks got number forty four Camden Moa.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what I that was the weird That was probably
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the strangest thing out of everything is when I was
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: typing in one hundred and sixty six pounds, I was like,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: he plays so much bigger than that. He is. He
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is a tackling machine. I was a little surprised he
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: wasn't named All Conference first team linebacker. But there were
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: some really really good linebackers in that in that conference,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and he was just voted. He was just didn't get
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: at the votes. And and but he's got another year
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: to go. Last year he kind of came on the
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: scene late and made some big time hits and and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I thought, well, this is this is awesome because I again,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: even as a sophomore, I didn't think he was going
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to be playing football. He kind of showed up played
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: He's a baseball guy. He ended up playing doing doing
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: really well. Ends up playing a lot. This past year.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: He was the backup full back, would coming every once
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: in a while to spell his cousin Dylan Moa and
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: but as on defense, and he was there all year
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and he had a great, great season. You remember the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: last time we saw each other in person was that
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: semi final game. Knuksack Valley and Baker and that extra
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: point that was oh so important against the wind for
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker and they won that game fourteen thirteen. He's
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the one that snapped that extra point and he was
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: a freshman and they brought him up, I think just
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs just to snap for extra points and
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: that was a huge one. So he's gonna be a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: guy going into this next year that has experienced playing
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: in the state championship game that I don't think anybody
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: else will have. So that's a pretty cool deal too.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: And he's gonna be I mean, he's gonna be that
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: full back in that wing te offense next year. So
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: you're gonna expect a lot of carries this year though
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: twenty eight carries for one hundred and ninety eight yards
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and two touchdowns. He had eight kickoff returns for one
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: hundred and five yards. But on defense, this is where
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: it really shines. Seventy three tackles, three fumble recoveries, two
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles for loss, two passes is deflected,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: an intersection and half of a sack. And he's one
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: of those guys too. And we've talked about certain guys
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Fisher Hall, Colby Martin. There are certain linebackers that when
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: they tackle, they tackle through you every single time, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: that is Camden mo is very much like that. And
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: like I said, five nine, one hundred and sixty six pounds,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: he plays so much bigger than that, and yeah, he's
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: gonna be a great one next year.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Number seventy three on the top one hundred countdown, six
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: foot two, two hundred and forty five pounds, beautiful center
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: and defensive lineman. He is a junior from the Linden
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Lions at number seventy nine.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Logan Austrie really excited that he's just a junior. I
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: another one of those kids. I thought, is he a senior? No, No, No,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I think he's a junior. And I had to look
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and he is a junior, which is great because he
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: did end up playing a handful last year, started all
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: year this year. And when Linden finds their center that
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: they like, they just they just say, you got it,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: You're you're not going anywhere now. And you know, I
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: could think of guys over the past that were just
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: these great Linden centers and he's just that next one
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: up in line. And uh, really athletic, you know for
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: his size, which is awesome to see, can get out
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: and move really well. Comes in a little bit on
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: defense when they when they get like inside the twenty,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you know, when they really need to kind of hunkered down,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and did end up with twelve tackles three and a
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: half tackles for loss in a pass deflection. But uh,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: you know his main thing is the center spot. Next year,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: they're going to be returning the left tackle and the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: left guard as well as him at center. So man,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: when you get those three guys in a Linden based
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: offense that can go like that, boom boom boom, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: you know they're going to have, you know, a great
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: option running thread at quarterback next year, you can do
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: some fun things with that offensive line. And especially with
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: how athletic he is. I mean, don't be surprised to
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: see him poll and do do do different things like that. So, uh,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the first Linden player on the list definitely won't be
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the last. And but yeah, just really really athletic, strong
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: and a great great center, just a guy that I
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: think you would enjoy watching quite quite a bit. And
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a pretty good defensive tackle too. But like I said,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: you know, really entrenched on that offensive spot at center.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Number seventy two on the top one hundred count down,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: five foot nine and ninety pounds. Inside. That linebacker is
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: a junior from the Meridian Trojans. It's number thirty six
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Xavier Pairing.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just I love watching him play. You know, last
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: year he played at See hom and this and his
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: freshman year he was at Meridian on the JV last
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: year at SEEM this year back at Meridian, and and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I was, I know the kind of abilities he has
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: at state for track last year, and I just thought,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you know, if they can find the right spot for him,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I thought maybe even like nose tackle. I had this
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: weird kind of feeling that, you know, his dad was
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: such a great defensive lineman. I thought, maybe maybe that
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: will be kind of what his his niche will be.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: But they have so many guys that are like that.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: They had so many defensive linemen kind of in that program,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: but what they didn't have a ton of was inside linebackers.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: And he kind of found that spot earlier in the season,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, it's like every game
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: he's leading them in tackles every single game, over and
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: over again. I just thought, Holy cow. And then he'd
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: have these huge, huge games. I remember the game he
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: had a kickoff return for a touchdown and he's not
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: even a kickoff returner, like he was one of the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: up guys, and they just he got it and it's like,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm just gonna run faster than everybody. Boom touchdown.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: And you know, he had a rushing touchdown also. I
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: remember that was on the road. That was earlier in
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the year. He had five carries for seventeen yards and
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: a touchdown. He caught two passes thirty three yards, and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: then the five kickoff returns for one hundred and twenty
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: eight yards and a touchdown. But defensively is really where
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: it was at sixty and a half tackles, four and
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: a half tackles for loss, one and a half sacks,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: an interception, a fumble recovery, a forced fumble, and a
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: pass deflection. I mean, you don't see that too often
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: where a guy has one of everything basically, But that
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: just shows you what he could do. Really good nose
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: for the ball, can drop back and coverage, can can
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: you know, get after the passer, just a little bit
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: of everything and I'm really excited to see what he
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: does as as a senior because this Marine class is
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: pretty senior heavy, so there's gonna be a lot of
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: new kids, but he's gonna be that one constant in
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the middle of the field. And I don't know if
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: he's gonna get a ton of carries on offense, they
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: might just find unique ways to get in the ball
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: because he's so explosive. But defensively he's he's just a beast.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: And his improvement from sophomore or junior year it was
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: just off the chart. So, uh, if he keeps improving
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: like that, he's gonna shoot way up this list.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Number seventy one on the top one hundred count down,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: six foot one and eighty pounds running back and corner.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: He's a senior from the Seahome Mariners is number one.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Colby Chambers.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like we've been talking about him forever.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I'm I'm almost positive this is his third year on
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the list, and uh, it didn't there. I don't know
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: if he was injured or something late in the year,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: but he just he wasn't out there as much. He
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: was suited up. But and all I had heard is
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: that CEO had a bunch of injuries on defense. I
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: didn't really hear names too much, and so putting two
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and two together, I think it's possible. But man, he's
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: one of those guys that you love corners that can
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: play the run and that are tough and he is
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: just man, he will just get after it. I mean,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if you could hear that. I
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: just like punched my hand, like you know what I mean,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: like booh, Like he just he he is really really
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: physical as a corner, really athletic. I'm glad they found
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: this spot for him as like a backup running back
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: kind of like as a scat back. And I remember
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Coach Wood was out at the game and he was
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: telling me about it. He goes, yeah, they put him in,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and they had like specific plays just for him that
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: would work with his kind of athletic ability or his
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: kind of running style. And that was really unique because
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I'd never seen him take a handoff ever. I mean
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: it might have been since junior higher peewee football or
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: something since he's played un played running back, played a
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: little bit of receiver last year as a sophomore, he
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: was purely a defensive player. So I wasn't expecting this
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: at all, but he had some He had some good runs,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: ended up with fourteen carries for ninety one yards and
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a touchdown, had four kickoff returns for thirty seven yards,
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: and then on defense, forty and a half tackles, five
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: passes broken up, two tackles for loss, two fumble recoveries,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: and a forced fumble. He's a guy that's gonna be
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: tough to re place. I mean, he's been a fixture
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: as a corner for three straight years and uh, definitely
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: one of my one of my favorites. Uh just loved
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: watching him compete, and he just gave it a little bit.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: You could tell he just gave it like a little
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: bit more than a lot of guys like he just
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: really you know, I just keep going back to that,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: those physical corners. I mean, you know, you could say, oh,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Richard Sherman was awesome and coverage and he was so good,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. He was a physical, tackling, run, you know,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: run stopping corner that that you just don't see very often.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: And that's what I always thought made him stand out.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: He's big and and physical and did not you know,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: have had didn't have any trouble going up one on
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: one against a running back, and that's Colby Chambers.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Was very much like that number seventy on the top
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: one hundred poundown six foot three, one hundred and eighty
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: five pounds. He is a quarterback, a junior from the
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Nuksack Valley Pioneers. Number twelve of Evan Brown.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, crazy to see him wearing number twelve because that's
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: what Joey wore. And they there's their stance back there
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: to receive the ball in the shotgum position is I
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: look identical, you know, and they're both six foot three.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's freakishly too because I even just like
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: if you just if they're standing next to each other,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's even hard to tell the difference beat between
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: them because they look so much alike. And I remember,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: you know, talking to some coaches and I said, so
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: this is easy, right, just plug and play. You can
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: just do all the same things you've been doing for
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: the last four years that Joey's been the starter. And
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: they're all kind of said, he's different. He's different than Joey.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: If you really think about it, think about other think
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: about other sports. Joey played basketball. Evan is not. Joey
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: went to you know, Western on a track scholarship. Evan's
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: a baseball player. Like they're very different kids. And they
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: might look alike and have to be the same size
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: and both be right handed, and both were number twelve.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: But Evan was more of a pocket guy and I
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: think more maybe better, a more natural thrower than Joey.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Joey's a better athlete overall and was always a threat
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: to take off and run. And Evan wasn't gonna run
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: too much. He could run when you need it, but
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna run like Joey would. But uh, he
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: had some pretty big games. I mean he had one
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: of his biggest games was against Tumbwater, which is saying
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: a lot. I mean that's a big time opponent. And yeah,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: I thought he was. I thought he came into that
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: offense and took command and did did great. I mean,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: not a lot of guys that are first year quarterbacks
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: can bring your team all the way to the quarterfinals.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: I know he'd want to take his game back from
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: the quarterfinals. I mean that was he did not have
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: a great game, and it was just one of those
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: days and and that sucks, and you know he'll come
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: back next year and be and be ready for it,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: and he's going to be great, really really hard worker
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: does and we'll play, you know, we'll do whatever it takes.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: And he's very good at you know, he's not gonna
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: argue with anything. You know, he's just gonna say yes, coach,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: and go and go do it. And I kind of
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: learned that in baseball. I mean, there was a time
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: in a game where I think I was at the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: game where they kind of I don't know, there's some
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: there might have been an injury or a kid missing,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: but there was they needed someone to pitch. Someone came
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: in a pitch, and now they don't have a shortstop
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and he just went in and played shortstop, Like that's
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: not a position you just go in and play. You know,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: he's not built like a shortstop at all, but he
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: went in there and all of a sudden, he's starting
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: at shortstop like half the games for the rest of
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: the year. And that was just because he's just that
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: kind of kid they could just you know, go in
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: and do it. And that was him as a sophomore.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: So really excited to see him in the spring for baseball,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: super excited for you know, what he can do next
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: year As a senior quarterback, he completed one hundred and
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: thirty four out of two hundred and forty passes for
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: one thy seven hundred and twenty four yards and thirteen
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: touchdo downs. Yeah, really really strong year. Uh, you know,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: during the during the season and he's you know, and
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: his first year as a starter, he wins the conference championships.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: So you know, that says a lot. Not gonna play defense.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe he might punt this next year, but just strictly
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: a quarterback and a pretty darn good one.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Number sixty nine on the top one hundred countdown, six
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: foot two and seventy five pounds. He is a quarterback,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: a junior from the Squalkum Storm. Number six.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Cole Burke very comparable to Evan Brown, who's putting together
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: this list. Those guys should be right next to each other. Uh,
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: very very very similar where first year starter both juniors
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and you know, relied on a you know, a big
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: time stand out running back that can help them out
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but have weapons to throw when when
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: when they need to hold Burke the big thing, Well,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: there's a couple of things that really stand out to me.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I think that he is super calm all the time,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: and like what I mean by that is, I don't
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: think he gets too high or too low if things
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: get great or things go horrible, which is an awesome
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: thing to have as a quarterback. So you start with that,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: which is great. But the other thing is just for
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: a high school quarterback, super accurate, I mean, and I
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: love that. And there are certain kids where I have
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: big arms or whatever, and then like they just overthrow
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: a pass or they throw it, you know, they don't
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: lead him correctly, and it's just like, oh man, he
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: was open. But it's like if a guy was open,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Burke hit him every single time. And then he had
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: some deep balls that were super accurate. So I really
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: really loved that about his game. I just thought, you know,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: I had only seen him play basketball. I'd never even
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: seen him play football before. I didn't even know he
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: played football. Evidently he was the JV quarterback last year,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: and so he'd played the position. I had no clue.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: So coming into this year, you know, I thought, I thought,
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: you know, they have the kid, the sophomore, Phoenix Price.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna be the quarterback because I
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: didn't know about Colberg, Like I said, I only knew
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: him from basketball, but he shows up, he plays does awesome,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: and man, I mean I think he had one of
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: the highest completion percentages for a season in Walking County history.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, right up, it was one hundred and eight
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: for one fifty nine. So let's break out the old
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: calculator here, because the math is fun. Sixty seven point
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: nine percent completion percentage. I mean, that's that's really high
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: for high school. Yeah, and you know it's especially you
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: know up up here where you know, we don't throw
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: a ton and and uh, you know we're not're not
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: pumping out all these d one guys. And and I
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: thought he did a great, great job at one hundred
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: and sixty two yard and sixteen touchdowns as well, So
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: a pretty high touchdown percentage, which is pretty pretty cool
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: to see and not afraid to to, you know, throw
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: it deep and complete those passes as well, and a
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: lot of great plays like as far as scrambling and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: then coming up right. You know, he's staying behind line
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: of scrimmage and then throwing it where you can bring
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the defenders up and then know when to throw it
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: over their heads and just little things like that, like
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: you could tell he's been playing the position for a while,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: which I had no clue about. So and then coach
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: coach Lucy will put him in the right spots and
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: do in all those things, which which is great. Is
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: obviously is an amazing coach. But I think that he
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: used his strength really really shined. Reminded me a lot
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: of Garrett Sorenson, you know, the former quarterback at Squalicum.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Very very similar and so I think he's gonna have
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: a pretty big year next year. Really excited to see that.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Number sixty eight on the top one hundred countdown, six
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: foot three, one hundred and seventy six pounds. Another quarterback,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: but this one also plays safety. He is a senior
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: high school. It's number four. Luke Smith.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, just another you know, another Smith playing
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: quarterback at Mount Baker. But he is man. His improvement
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: of just throwing the ball, I was gonna say from
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: junior to senior year was pretty incredible, but throughout his
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: senior year was great. And Baker likes to have you know,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: they want to have a guy with a pretty big arm,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: even though they don't throw it a ton, but they
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: like to go for the home run ball four or
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: five times a game. They might only throw the ball,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: you know, ten eleven times a game, but they like
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: to go deep here and there. And they have some
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: fun players where it's like play action, like they fake
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: two handoffs and you kind of stand back there and
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: then you just unload it fifty yards to the wing back.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: They they just liked to run on just a straight
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: up ninety four go baby, everybody go throw it deep
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: and all and like all of a sudden, like every
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: time Luke Smith would throw it deep, it'd be right
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: on the money. And I wasn't seeing that at practice,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: and I wasn't seeing that last year, and I wasn't
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: even seeing it early early in the year. But as
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I think he got more confidence, maybe he hit a
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: few of them. They started they started, you know, happening
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: for him, and he just he just got better and
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: better and and it was awesome to see. And he
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: could run a little bit too. He did. He did
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: run for twenty three yards. Not a huge threat to
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: run the ball, uh, you know. And but what a
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: great leader and good basketball player too, amazing family, I
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: mean all those things. I mean, this Smith family is
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: kind of entrenched at Mount Baker High School, which is
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: really cool and and uh but and defensively, I mean,
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: I can't overlook what he did on defense. He was
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: an All count All Conference first team selection as a
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: defensive back, kind of a you know, a bone rattler
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: back there. You know, you don't want a guy that
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: you got to be aware of running across the middle
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: of the field, really good instincts and timing on breaking
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: up passes, you know, like getting there right as the
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: ball is getting there. And that's a that's a skill
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: that just you just kind of develop, you know, as
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: you've seen it over and over again and you start
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: to get the feel for that. And he did it
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: eight times this year. I mean, I put I have
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: on there eight passes defended, but those were basically him
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: breaking up passes at just the right moment. Also at
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: twenty four tackles and did pick off a pass and
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: then and then him behind center. He was completed fifty
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: one passes for seven hundred and seventy six yards and
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: eleven touchdowns. So a big play threat throwing the ball
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: down the field. Had those guys, had those athletes out
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: there to to go catch the ball and yeah, it was.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: It was great. It was great, great to watch. And
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: now I'm watching him light up on the basketball court.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Baker's looking better, and they've looked in a long time.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: And he's a big reason why.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: Number sixty seven on the top one hundred countdown, six
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: foot two, one hundred and ninety pounds, a wide receiver
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: and corner. He's a senior from the Ferndale Golden Eagles.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: It's number six. Israel Kennerley.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I misspoke when we talked about that when
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: we did the seniors podcast with the Ferndale kids, I
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: was talking about Israel and Eli Kennerley as these great
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: lacrosse players. I got the wrong sport, rugby players. They're
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: rugby guys, and I knew that. I just said lacrosse
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: for some reason. I don't know why, but anytime you
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: have rugby players playing football, you're just kind of like, Okay,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: these guys are different, you know, and then they usually
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: kind of know how to tackle the right way. And
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: the great size for especially for a corner. I mean
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: there was one week where I think he had two
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: interceptions and he won Defensive Player of the Week and
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: and really really athletic kid and like I said, for
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: that size, for six two, one hundred and ninety pounds,
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: there's NFL teams that want corners that are that size.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: It was split out as a wide receiver, but you
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: know they didn't go to him a ton. Only cut
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: four passes for forty two yards, but he was kind
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: of that guy where you know, third and eight across
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: the middle, that's who you're gonna go to. Pretty very
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: dependable that way. But on defense, thirty two and a
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: half tackles, ten passes, broken up, three interceptions, and a
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: quarterback sack. He also returned six kickoffs for one hundred
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: and eleven yards and three punts for forty seven yards.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: So a guy that was didn't come off the field
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: very often, but you know when he was on there,
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: he made a ton of plays on both sides of
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: the ball. And like I said, a good a good
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: returner and that rugby background, scary man and yeah, just
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: a just a g great football player and a guy
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: another guy that was given that chance as a senior
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: and made the most of it.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Number sixty six on the top one hundred count down,
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: six foot three, two hundred and four pounds. He's a
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: tight end and outside linebacker, just a sophomore from Lynden
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Christian number twenty five, Caden Veldman.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I I don't want to draw those comparisons to
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: Cayden's stite, but it's it's really hard not to do that,
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: not just because they both go Lindy Christian, not because
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: they both wore number twenty five, but even when Caden's
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: stite and they had the same first name. When Caden's
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Site was a sophomore, he kind of kind of opened
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: my eyes a little bit. Pretty good sized kid. I
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: think he had like, you know, hand a lot of tackles,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: defensive touchdown stuff like that, and I think he may
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: have made the list and he was like number like
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: ninety two or something like that. And now I see
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Cayden been making list as a sophomore at number sixty six.
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, Cayden Stite, as we know last year, was
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: ranked number one on the list. So he made those
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: jumps up and I would not be surprised at all
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: if Veldman does the same thing. And I don't want
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: to put you know, the pressure on him and stuff
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: like that. I'm just saying he has that kind of ability.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, I gushed about him in the preview this year,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: and I had never seen him play a down of football,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: but because I you know, I know the name, and
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: I know I saw what he did on the basketball
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: court as a freshman, you know, on a team that
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: got third and State, that had these major, you know,
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: post players ahead of him, the Jeremi right, Cayden Stite
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: and those guys. And he had games where he had
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: like twenty rebounds in a game. He's a freshman, and
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: I just thought, holy cow, this guy is physical. He
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: gets after it. He's super athletic. It says six three
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: two of four right now, he's probably like six four
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: two twenty right now. You know, this is just a
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: three month difference from when I got when he wrote
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: down the height and wait for me during the head shots.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: He is. If he keeps growing, he's going to be scary.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: And he came on late as an offensive player kind
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: of because they had a lot of injuries as they're
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: at the receiver spots. But and I noticed this. I'm
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: trying to remember which game it was. It might have
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: been Cascade Christian. It is either that or the round
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: of thirty two game that they played against Kingsway Christian
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: I can't remember which game it was, but there was.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: What would happen a lot is they would go four
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: wide and they go trips on one side, and they'd
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: go Boyce Robertson on the other for you know, to
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: try to get you know, one on one or whatever.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: And they'd always put two on Boyce Robertson, which then
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: can make it so you got a you know, a
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: favorable thing going on the other side with three guys.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: And then they would put Veldman elated on one side
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: with three on the other and they would double Veldman,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: which told me, well, either they just do that thinking
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: it's Robertson, I don't know why, but or they know
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: something about him too, and but it kind of it
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: kind of made me think like they're almost grooming him
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: to be like Cayden and Stite, because they that's what
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: they did with Cayden Stite too. They go one and
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: then three on the other side, and it's just and
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: he ended up with eight catches for ninety four yards
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: and a touchdown, all very late in the year. I
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: would just say that the majority of those came in
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: the state playoffs, and he's going to be a huge
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: weapon the next few years. Defensively, he was a force
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: fifty one tackles, four passes knocked down, five and a
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: half tackles for loss, three sacks, a force fumble that
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I believe was returned for a touchdown, and he had
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: an interception. I also returned a couple of kickoffs for
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: fifteen yards. As one of the up guys, He's gonna
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: be a guy that they're gonna use, I'm sure as
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: a true tight end, but they're gonna, you know, have
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: him a mismatch problem on the outside. He's gonna be
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: coming off that edge. Yeah, it's just another one of
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: those great, lanky, strong, lending Christian guys. You know. That's
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: that's coming up next. And and yeah, just so much
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: fun to watch. And I think that if you're talking
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: about like buying stocking a kid or like a sure
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: thing guy, you know, he's he's like that. I don't
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: want to put any I don't want to compare him
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: to Kate Eldridge either, but there's there's names that are
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: going through my head right now that's like, yeah, I could.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just putting my hands up and I'm
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: saying I'm just saying, you know, he's uh, he's one
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: of those conference you know, MVP type kids down the
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: road that other teams are gonna have to be worried
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: about for the next couple of years.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Cover sixty five on the top one hundred countdown five
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: to eleven, one sixty five. He is a wide receiver, safety,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: and a kicker. Oddly enough, he's senior from the CEO
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: Mariners number eleven.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Grady Evans. What an awesome kid. So glad that he
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: did so much for the team other than just kicking.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, he broke the school record for
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: most career field goals. He's done a lot of great
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: things in the kicking game over the last three years,
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: but this year was a was a you know, a
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: big time contributor on defense and you know, a big
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: play guy on offense. Only caught eight passes, but three
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: of them went for touchdowns. Caught those eight passes for
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: eighty five yards. Defensively, twenty six tackles, two passes broken up,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: two fumble recoveries. He also had four interceptions, which tied
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: the county lead, which was just awesome to see because
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: you know, when you're a guy that is just a
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: great athlete, that happens to kick, but you're not finding
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: the field just yet. And let but but you're just kicking.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: I think the conception is that he's a kicker only,
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: and then he starts playing other positions. And he's a
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: guy that you know, he grew up as playing a quarterback.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: You know, he was he was you know, he's that
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: kind of kid. But when you had the you have
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: a kid that's younger than you, that's the starter. It's
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: gonna be hard to find the field. So you play
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: other positions, you play a wide receiver, you know. And
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: then this year as a safety, he really came on
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: and did did great. Like I said, the four interceptions,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: he had thirty seven extra points this year, three field goals.
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: The crazy thing is that on the basketball team, I mean,
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: he's only five to eleven, he's basically playing like the
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: center spot, you know, and it's just because he's outworking opponents.
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: He's never he's he shoots the ball like once a game,
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: but defensively he's just he just gets up in your
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: grill and he's just go, go go. He's one of
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: the he's one of those guys that's like going to
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: be the sweatiest guy. After the game, you know, And
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: I love watching that because he could tell how much
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: of a hard worker he is. And then on offense,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: he's just in the middle. He's just you know, he's
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: just there and if he gets a pass, he's thrown
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: it to somebody else. Like he's he's just there to
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: take up space and and draw guys away and set screens,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: and he's only you know, he's going against guys that
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: are six five. You know. It's just like I love
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: that and kind of a sad deal though. I was
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: at the game against Lennon Christian and it happened about
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: two feet away from me. He got he landed weird
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: on his ankle and and it didn't sound good. And
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: I've reached out to him after the game and just
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: to see kind of how he's doing. He's like, it
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't look good. We'll find out tomorrow. And I haven't
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: reached out again to really find out, but it's possible
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: that he could be out for the rest of the
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: basketball season, which really sucks because he's just such a
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: great kid. And and right now see Home is you know,
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: half their team is injured, so you know, you got
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: three guys on the end of the bench on crutches,
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: and it's just it's just a really really tough thing.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: But man, what an awesome kid. Uh. You know Ice
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Water as a kicker, I mean he makes everything and
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: been a fun, fun guy to watch over the years
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: for the Seal Mariners.
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: Number sixty four on the top one hundred countdown, five
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: foot ten and eighty five pounds. He's a wide receiver
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: and his safety. He is just a sophomore from the
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Linden Lions, number six.
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: Lofa Tiglau apologize for that because he's a junior. I'm
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: sorry about that if I put sophomore on the list,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: but he did start as a sophomore, started at linebacker,
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: and uh and this year, you know, it was very
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: interesting because the inside linebacker spot at Linden is they
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: a lot of times they like having I mean, you
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: got to you got to have two studs, obviously, but
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of times they hike having two guys that
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: are in different classes so you can kind of like
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: groom the other one and then you can kind of
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: keep going. And they basically have four sophomores and and
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: Lofa is a junior, so it was kind of like, well,
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: I don't really understand why you're moving him, but they
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: had some big time guys at linebacker and they really
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: needed to fill spots at safety, and boy, he had
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: a great, great year as a safety. I mean that
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: fantastic year. And the beautiful thing about it is when
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: you're going against these run heavy teams, you can move
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: him up in the box because he's used to playing
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: closer and being a run stopper. So it was kind
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: of the best of both worlds because he did so
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: well as a safety and he's so athletic, and he
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: ended up playing some receiver too, which was which was great.
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, they kind of have their three main targets
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: and you know, if anybody else can catch a few passes,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: that's just gravy. But he was able to do that.
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: Caught four passes for forty one yards. He had a
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: punt return for nine yards. But on defense, fifty nine tackles,
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: four passes broken up, two and a half tackles for loss,
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: a force fumble, and an interception. Well, his tackles really
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: just kept, you know, kept I don't I want to
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: say doubling, but they just kind of get kept getting
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: bigger and bigger as the season war On and on.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: I think the more he got comfortable at that new position,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: the better that he was playing, and the whole the
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: better the whole defense really was playing. So awesome year
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: for him. I'm excited for another year coming.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: The last one on the list for today in at
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: number sixty three five ten, one hundred and fifty five pounds.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: He's a wide receiver and a corner a junior from
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: the Squalicum Storm. It's number fourteen. Anson Osby Ornson.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, saw a little bit last year, saw some sparks
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: of big, big plays, and so I was really excited
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: coming into this year. And it was funny because when
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: I was talking to coach Lucy about guys coming back,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: you know, we talked about him a little bit and
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: he goes, you know, the thing I love about Anson
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: is that he's just kind of steady eddie, Like he's
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: the guy that you don't have to worry about. He's
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: gonna make plays. You know, there's nothing flashy about his game.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: He just you know, and then I watch it, I'm like, dude,
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: he's flashy, Like he's really fast, Like he's really good there.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: He had a great connection with the on the deep
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: ball with him and kimm and Cole Burke, and I
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: think I even said at one point, you know, there's
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: like these top tier receivers and then there's this next tier,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: and I think he's in that next tier. I mean
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: he's he's right there and you know, a big time
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: play guy. And then on defense, I mean he was
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: one of the guys that also had four interceptions, so
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: he he was a big play guy on defense as well.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: He had thirty one catches on the year for four
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two yards and six touchdowns. And on
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: defense he had fourteen tackles, eight passes broken up, a
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: tackle for loss, a forced fumble. Like I said, he
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: intercepted four passes that he returned for a total of
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty yards and one of them was
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: for a touchdown, returned three kickoff returns for thirty eight yards,
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: returning three punts for ten yards. I think with the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: graduation of you know, Nixon and Ortez and Malachi Smith,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: he's going to be that main guy in the return game,
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: the main guy of Okay, let's get him the ball
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: in creative ways. I mean he might even take Ortiza's
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: spot maybe where he's coming in motion or just kind
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: of doing whatever. I mean, I think probably Reese Nolton
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: will take that spot because you want to keep you
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: want to still keep him on the outside. He was
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: a great route runner, and he's super tough, like he'll
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: go across the middle, he'll take hits, he pops right
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: back up. And I thought that, yes, he did have
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: a few moments as a sophomore, but he had a
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: ton of moments his junior year and really shot his
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: way up this list. Every single week when I would
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: see him, I just would I would, you know, I
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: make little tick marks, and I make little things that
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: I I keep and I in my memory bank, and
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: I'm like that guy, that guy, and then all you know,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: when I do the list, I mean there's a lot
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: of things that I that come to my mind and
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: I remember and then I'll move guys up because of
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: it or And he was one of those guys that
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: I think coming into the area was like he was
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: a guy I was aware of, but then as the
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: season were on, it's like, yeah, he's definitely gonna be
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: on this list. Okay, he's moving up. Okay, he's moving up.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: And he just kept doing it, and I wouldn't be
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: surprised if next year he's he's one of the big time,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: you know, play guys in the county on offense and
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: on defense. I mean with those four interceptions, I mean,
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean that's yeah, he's he's just he's
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: just a beast on both sides. And he might be
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: the main guy in the return game too.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: We'll have to see. That's it for today, Tyler. I'm
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: looking over the next nineteen we got listed here, and
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: boyd do we got some heavy hitters. Yeah, I mean
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: some big time, heavy duty hitters in this next group,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: guys that I kind of look at and I'm like,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: wait a minute, how are they in the fifties? And
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: then you started looking ahead and you're like, oh, actually, okay,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: it makes a little bit of sense. You see some
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: of the guys that are in the forties and thirties
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: and the twenties, and you kind of go, all.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it was one of those years. Like I said,
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: it was by far the typest SHARE had to do
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: to make the list. I've never had to cut more
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: guys off a list, and like, I like people, I
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: mean I've been already asked like three or four times
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: just this year when since the list has started, what's
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: your qualifications or what's your how do you do this
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: or whatever? And there's a lot of things that go
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: into it, but basically I go through all the rosters
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: and I put little ticks next to guys who I
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: think are that should be on the list. And usually
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: what happens is at the end I count them all
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: up and there's usually like one hundred and eight. I'm like, Okay,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: that's not bad. I don't have to cut eight guys off.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: This year, there was like one hundred and thirty. I'm like,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: oh no, this is by far the most guys I've
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: ever had to cut off. And so you know, that's
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 1: that's so making this list is huge this year. And
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: like you said, you're looking at ahead at this the
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: midpoint of it and going, these guys are great. I
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: can't believe they're here. Then you start looking even further
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: and go, oh, okay, is it's uh, it's quite an accomplishment.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: And I and I've you know, I love that I'm
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: able to do this, and you know, people people love lists.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I don't know what the big
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: thing is, but the anticipation that it stretched out a
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: little bit. You know, it's three every single day. People
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: look forward to it. It's a really really cool deal.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: So hopefully we'll get to keep doing this and keep
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: bringing excitement, you know, to the county about it.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: Alrighty, well, let's wrap it up right there, Tyler again
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: before we head out, thank you to Anytime Fitness in
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: Linden North and Ferndale for their continued support of the
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: Top one hundred Countdown and watcom Preps. Yeah, and thank
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: you to Sean Dugger for the intro. He's Tyler Anderson Wacompreps,
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