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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 189 - Week 1 Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Sea Home Senior Alden Jacobs, and you're listening to the Welcome Preps
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  Podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Mariners. Greetings, and welcome into the
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  Welcome Preps Podcast. This is episode at one eighty nine U preview of Week
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  one. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always Tyler Anderson of oh coom
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  Perhaps Tyler, how are we doing? Dude? Great? This is crazy
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  week one right, it's right here, it's right now. Let's let's get
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  into it. Yeah, none of these thinking team previews anymore. Now we
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  are into football. We are rocking and rolling. We are ready to go.
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  I guess, Tyler, you know what, I guess. One thing
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  we do gotta do. We kind of have to let people know we are
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  recording this way earlier than we normally would. It is Sunday night when we
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  are record this. I got a football game to go to a New York
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  city that we are flying out to. Two forty five am is when we
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  have to be at the school on Wednesday. Normally we'd be recording, uh
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  not at two forty five am, but normally we would record either Tuesday night
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  Wednesday night somewhere around there and then away we go, so we're recording it
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  a little bit earlier and the show that we are recording, we do need
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  to give a thank you to mister Alden Jacobs of Sea Home for the intro
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  back Ready to Attack, The man is ready to go back in town.
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  Yeah. By the way, if you want to hear a little team preview
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  of the Sea Home Mariners and mister Alden Jacobs, you can head over to
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  wacom prepps dot com. All ten previews are now officially up Tyler. Yes,
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  all ten of them. Fifteen hours of work on our part, maybe
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  even more. I don't know how long it actually was, but that being
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  said, all of them are up there watcom preps dot com. Be sure
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  to subscribe to the podcast, Tyler. Where is the where's the podcast button
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  on your on your homepage? There, Well, there is a tab that
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  just says walcome Preps podcast and you click on it and you can see every
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  single podcast that there ever has been. But at the very top of that
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  it says click here to listen to the most recent podcast, And so it
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  makes it easier to listen to whatever the most recent one is. But if
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  you want to search for one, you can do that and you can search,
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  you know, see home preview and boom, it'll show right up and
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  once you get there, subscribe to the podcast because you may or may not
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  be hearing this when it was actually released. If you are not subscribed to
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  the podcast, you probably didn't find this until Friday morning when Tyler put it
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  out on walcome prep dot com. If you are subscribed to the podcast,
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  you should have got a notification Thursday. I don't even know, Tyler,
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  we even talked about what time we're going to set this up. No,
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  what do you think ten am? I mean I'm gonna I'm gonna do my
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  Friday morning one, probably eight am. That's kind of how I've always done
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  it. Okay, then I'm gonna set this for eight am on Thursday of
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  what I'm gonna do, So that's when it'll go out. From now on
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  eight am Thursday morning, you will be all to listen to the preview of
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  that week ahead if you are subscribed to the podcast. If not, then
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  I mean, I guess you could go to the to the page and find
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  it, you know, like you can't go to walcom preps dot com.
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  I guess I guess they could actually technically couldn't they, Tyler, They could
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  go to the podcast and then click the what is it? Listen to the
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  latest one or whatever, and I guess technically it would be there, but
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  Tyler will have it also embedded into the weekly preview that he puts out Friday
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  mornings, so yeah, you can find it there. And Tyler, we
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  have a lot of stuff to talk about today. And when I say a
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  lot of stuff, we've got we're gonna go through every game. Randy Small
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  has a weather forecast for us way early back. He's back, the man
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  is back, and yeah, and he's rock and rolling too. It's like
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  a full minute this time, so he is, he is raring to go.
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  But and and we'll talk about it more when we get there. We're
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  way early for him to be doing a forecast for us. Yeah, we
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  got to thank him for doing it because it's it's it's kind of putting his
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  neck out on the line to do a uh, you know, a forecast
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  that's like a week out. So well, those guys are always wrong anyway,
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  right, it's not the it's not the mo o on those weather guys.
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  Yeah, I mean, it's not like they have control of anything unless
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  they're named Steve Pool than they did back in the day. But we've got
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  our pickums where we are going to pick every game, and then Tyler,
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  you and I are going to do a fantasy draft every week like we did
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  last year. And if you stick around, you'll get the code word or
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  this week is a code thing, but you will get it. And if
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  you see Tyler at a game, you can do what it is that you
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  need to do and you can get yourself a free sticker. Tyler, how
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  many stickers do you do? You estimate you have left? Two hundred six
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  nine hundred? How many? Jeez, not that many. I would say
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  less than one hundred, but probably more than fifty. So basing off last
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  year's numbers, what are we talking about? Four weeks? Five weeks?
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  How many weeks? I'm hope. Yeah, I mean they'll be out before
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  the season ends. Let's just say that. Okay. So if you're a
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  one A school, before you get in the league, play, you need
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  to get one of these, right, I mean, you gotta get on
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  it. So, yeah, listen all the way at the very end,
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  do not skip. Do not skip to the end, because you want to
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  hear everything that is leading up to it. And how you can get yourself
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  a stickert. Tyler, do you even know what games you're going to this
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  week? I mean, I guess we can. I mean I have a
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  pretty darn good idea, because usually I'd be like, hey, if you're
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  out there at you know, Civic Stadium, head over and find time,
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  you know. But yeah, we can talk about that when we get to
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  it. Yeah, Tyler, before we get too far, we do need
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  to talk about something. Walcomb County lost a pretty big name as far as
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  broadcasting, and I think, Tyler, we I think we could say one
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  of the great ambassadors for high school athletics in Walcomb County and and just sports.
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  And you know, Mark Scolton passed away, and Tyler, it was
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  somebody that you know, I think I saw some but he posted and I
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  just forwarded you along a picture. I just said, hey, this seems
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  pretty big or something like that, and you said, yeah, I'm devastated.
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  Whatever it was, this is something that was that hit you really really
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  hard. Why don't you tell us a little bit about who Mark was and
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  kind of what he meant to you and you know what he means to even
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  walk on preps because I'm sure that the inspiration kind of had a little bit
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  to do with it. Yeah, definitely. Mark's Mark was around since the
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  you know, early nineties, covering Walcom County high school sports. He was
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  a big, big deal. You know. He started doing it right out
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  of college in nineteen ninety two. And it's so funny because nineteen ninety two
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  was the same year when I started keeping stats, so that that's just coincidental.
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  But and I was not out of college at that point. I was
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  an eighth grader. But the thing is that I've had this long connection with
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  Mark in so many different ways. You know. It started out as a
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  player. I remember he was doing color commentary at a football game that I
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  was at. We were playing against Meridian, and he was on the sideline.
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  He had the big like headphones with the with the antenna on it,
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  you know, and he was doing he was like doing like sideline covers,
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  but he was doing the color commentary from the sideline. Color from the sideline.
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  Yeah, it was really cool. Not it was big headphone holding you're
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  saying color. He wasn't doing the Hey, let's head down to Mark on
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  the sideline for a for a report. He was like, yeah, the
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  play by play commentary from the side. That's unbelievable. Yeah, and it
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  might have been. I mean, he was he could have been doing kind
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  of both of that too. He could have been, you know, saying,
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  you know, funny things from the sideline. But he was right behind
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  me, and I heard him saying, you know, I I'm seeing something
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  pretty pretty interesting down here. Uh, I'm standing in behind the biggest guy
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  on the team and the smallest guy on the team. And he was right
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  it was. I was standing next to Jeff Eisenhardt, who also recently passed
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  away over the summer, and who Jeff, who we called House, was
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  about six six three two and I was about five four one one twenty and
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  we had to sit together on the bus at road games, and we were
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  really good friends because he had to go two to a seat, you know,
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  and I was the only one that could fit in a seat with him.
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  But uh, and it was just funny that I could hear him saying
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  that like behind me, and I looked up at House and he kind of
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  he kind of chuckled and looked back at me and and I and so I
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  was kind of my first you know, rush up with him, and then
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  uh, and then I was calling games, PA games, he'd you know,
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  he'd be up in the booth. And then I was writing for the
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  Herald and he'd be up there. And it was always kind of like the
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  thing about Mark was if he if he was at the game, you knew
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  that was the game. It kind of gave us special importance to it.
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  He also, you know, him and Doug Lang together for at least twenty
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  years, did a show called The Zone, which all the locals know about.
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  It was on KPU KPUG eleven seventy from three to five week days where
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  they just talked. They would have anyone anywhere between, you know, like
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  walking county athletes on there too, coaches to you know, I mean Rick
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  Flair was a guest once. Your Boy. No, they had yeah,
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  they I mean Pete Carroll, Sue Bird, a lot of Seattle athletes.
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  Roddy Piper came through once. When I heard that, I drove right up
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  there so I could meet him in person. It was, you know,
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  and that show is so memorable, and I just loved his humor, his
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  wit, everything, his his knowledge. They would play these games where you
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  could win tickets. I've probably won about twenty Sonics tickets. Uh, probably
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  twenty Mariners tickets on the and and I won Bell's tickets just like a week
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  and a half before he passed away, So that was the last time I
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  got to talk to him. And and uh, it's just, you know,
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  so many times I remember being up in the booth even last year,
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  where he's doing the game. I'd pop in during a radio break. I'd
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  scratched something down on, you know, and give it to him, and
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  he would announce it when he'd come back on the air, like, oh,
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  you know, Javinski schlimp Akers, you know, is now fifth all
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  time in Walking County leading rushers, you know. And I just got this
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  information from Tyler Anderson of Walking Preps, and it was just it was just
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  really cool. We just kind of had this this neat kind of back and
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  forth relationship. And I always looked up to him, not because he's a
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  foot taller than me, but I just loved everything about what he did.
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  And it's one of those guys too. And you probably have experienced this where
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  you run into somebody you know them, but when they start talking, you
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  go, whoa. It's that voice that you've been hearing all your life,
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  you know, it's like if you like I did the same thing with Kevin
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  Callabro. I started he started talking like, wow, you Kevin Callabro,
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  Like now I can hear it. And I always felt that with with with
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  Mark as well. And he starts talking, you go, that's the voice.
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  I know because he was doing ads on the radio. You heard him
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  all the time. Everybody in Walcom County loved him. And and it's a
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  it's a really tragic loss and a huge hole that needs to be filled.
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  And and uh, he it did. It did hit me hard. You
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  know a lot of people reached out. I knew I needed to publish something
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  right away, and and yeah, it was a it was a tough day.
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  If you would like to celebrate Mark's life, the family has set a
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  public celebration ceremony held will be held Sunday, September seventeenth, three pm at
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  the Bellingham High School Performing Arts Center. So I'm sure you'll be there,
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  Tyler, Yes, yeah, yeah, I definitely plan on it. We
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  maybe have some Walcome preps with a code word and they can get a sticker
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  now about just kidding. So yeah, that's you know, it's obviously an
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  unfortunate loss and it's something that, uh, you know, it seems like
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  we it seems like we deal. I mean, Bob Barker just died yesterday,
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  is what somebody told me. Yeah. Wow, as close to one
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  hundred without going over the retail value there, that's that's pretty as impressive.
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  That's a pretty good when there, Tyler. By the way, born in
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  Derrington is what I read, which is wild because Bob Barker really Derrington of
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  all places, Tyler, we have got what have we got here? One?
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  Two, three, four, five six? We got eight games to
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  talk about this week week one, week week one, Tyler. One of
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  the high school football season. It is here. I'm sweating more than normal
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  because I'm so excited for this season. Yeah, we're just gonna go right
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  down the list here talk about the eight games. And really it's I mean,
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  if I'm being honest, I just copied and pasted something here and the
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  first game on the list, Nooksack Valley is traveling down to a mountain View
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  about four and a half five hours, maybe five and a half with a
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  bus. It's gonna be a long ride though, down to mountain View.
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  It's actually at Evergreen High School. It's Mackenzie stadium at Evergreen High School.
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  It's a district stadium, four schools using one stadium. The game is set
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  for four thirty pm. We've also been told there is no second game that
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  night, so the game could get pushed back just a little bit. I
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  mean it's yeah, I mean you obviously nook exact Valley needs to get home
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  at a reasonable time. And uh, yeah it was. I mentioned four
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  and a half five hours to get home. That's a heck of a heck
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  of a bus ride home. But uh, Tyler, these two teams played
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  last year kind of a instant classic if you will out there at what is
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  that one? Sid Lambert right? Yes, yeah, said Lambert Field.
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  Sid Lambert Field out there? Yeah. I mean, Tyler, what do
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  you see here? And uh, what are you looking for out of this
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  one? Well, I'm you know, last last year, we kind of,
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  you know, week one, you go into it not knowing a whole
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  lot. You know, you'll learn a lot in week one. And I
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  think we all kind of went into it with you know, Nooksack is they're
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  still pretty young, but they're very talented. But Mountain View is a very
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  good three A school, So we just kind of said, well, we'll
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  learn a lot this one. You know, mountain View was up late.
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  Uh Colton Lentz rips off that you know, eighty yard run for a touchdown
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  late in the game to take the lead and and and win it. It
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  was a huge run. It was a huge play, but a huge game,
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  and it kind of kind of vaulted them into that next level, you
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  know, of like we can beat these kind of teams, and I think
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  they just kind of rode that momentum the rest of the season. It was
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  a really close game last year, you know this year now Nuksak has to
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  go on the road. It's pretty Uh it's a long drive, as you
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  said, but this is a group that really loves being around each other and
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  sometimes those long bus rides can really help those kinds of moments. I think
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  it's gonna be another good game. We just don't know him that much about
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  mountin View. Uh. Coach Matheson has moved on. Former Western Viking defensive
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  back. He's a you know, former Ferndale football coach, so he's got
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  some walking country ties that he's no longer the head coach now mountin View,
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  So we don't really know what to expect with them. But but you never
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  you know, you just never know. I think it's gonna be a think
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  it's gonna be a pretty pretty good game. And you know if nuksack.
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  You know, that's one thing that coach Barlow said when I interviewed him,
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  is they he kind of feels like we're way ahead of schedule as far as
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  you know, a lot of teams and when you return a lot of starters,
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  you get that feeling. It's all like Lyndon last year where they went
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  into week one feeling like they're already in week five because they you know,
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  they returned so many starters. So that's gonna be a big benefit for the
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  Pioneers. Yeah, Mountain view of their new head coach is Aaron Hart.
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  He comes over from Lincoln High School in Seattle and it was kind of a
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  late higher. There's some interesting things going on in that school district down there.
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  They've essentially how do I say it, like long stories short becomes They
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  wanted to pass a bond and to get it past they said, hey,
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  we're gonna we're gonna hang out this. This will allow us to keep our
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  athletic directors Tyler and you know what they did, They passed the bond and
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  then they got rid of their athletic directors in the school district. So yeah,
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  so Adam Matheson now he's actually I think he's at well he's at Camus
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  and he's coaching at Camus High School, and I think he's also working at
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  Campus if I can remember correctly. I'm pretty sure he's like a counselor or
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  something over there at Campus High School. But but yeah, Aaron Hart comes
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  over from Lincoln High School in Seattle. Lincoln a school that hadn't had football
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  in a long time because it wasn't even a school for a long time.
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  It was a school, and then they closed it down and then they opened
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  it back up. Kind of a weird thing they had going on there.
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  But yeah, not who knows, you know, really don't know what they're
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  gonna do there, partly because the fact of the matter is he's got a
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  completely different set of athletes than he had at Link In High School. In
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  Seattle, Lincoln High School was, you know, they didn't have a ton
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  of talent, whereas that Mountain View they're always very talented and they've always got
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  a couple of guys, right, no matter what they've always got a couple
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  of guys, so it'll be interesting to see what they do there. Now,
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  Tyler, we got we got a new thing we're gonna do this year.
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  You're already laughing because it's funny. It's funny, but it's also not
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  funny because you're gonna get a you're gonna get a throw in some stuff that
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  that is gonna be kind of fun where it's gonna be called what is it,
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  Tyler's nuggets. That's right, Tyler's nuggets. So essentially what it is
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  is our good friend coach Lucy over at Squalcumb gave this sound bite Tyler.
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  How long ago is this? This was five years ago? Five years ago.
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  He gave us this sound bite right here. Tyler's got some nuggets,
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  man. Tyler's got some nuggets man. So what we're gonna do is,
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  anytime Tyler's got some nuggets to give out, I'm gonna hit this button.
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  Tyler's got some nuggets, man, Tyler give us the first nugget here on
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  k Nooksack Valley Well I mentioned him a little earlier. Junior running back Colton
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  Lenz is currently the career ninth leading rusher in Nooksack Valley history. So if
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  he rushes for thirty five yards, which I would imagine he'll do, he
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  will surpass Andrew Larson for eighth place all time. Another five yards and that
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  will jet impast Austin O'Brien for seventh place all time. So yeah, I
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  mean, it's only gonna take forty yards and he can go past two more
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  guys to get the seventh place all time in Pioneer career rushing history. Tyler's
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  got some nuggets, man, Tyler, I heard you got a second one
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  for k Nooksack Valley. Yeah, we've talked about Joey Brown as a track
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  athlete, So how about this nugget. Okay, He's currently tied for fifth
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  all time and career passing touchdowns in Pioneer history with twenty two. You know
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  who he's tied with, This is crazy, his very own track coach,
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  Tyler Perry. So how about that. So, yeah, he's tied with
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  him for fifth place. He throws one on Friday and he has fifth place
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  alone. He goes ahead of his own track coach, Tyler Perry. He
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  throws one the rest of the season. He's not going to be allowed to
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  do anything on track. This year. That's right, Tyler's got some nuggets,
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  man, Tyler. That's it. You don't have any more nuggets from
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  Nooksack Valley. I just wanted to play it again, Tyler's got some nuggets,
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  man, because that is a funny sound bite and we are going to
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  use that quite a bit this year. The second game at Tyler on the
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  list for this week, We've got Ferndale at Lyndon. This is the yearly
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  matchup between these two squads, this time seven pm at Rolle to koster Field.
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  Tyler, what do you see here? What do you know? The
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  number? Like, what do we what do we got here? Ferndale Linden.
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  Everybody's pretty much everybody waits for this one every year to start, right,
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  Yeah, this is this is a this is a great one. It
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  just started just recently became the Week one game. It was a Week two
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  game for quite a while, uh, you know, kind of ever since
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  they weren't conference foes anymore or didn't count as am you know, they're in
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  the same conference, but you know what I mean, and so they still
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  wanted to be able to play each other in non conference because it is a
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  great matchup. It's an awesome rivalry, and it's just one of those games
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  where I mean a lot of times, you know, like the like the
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  I want to say national news, but like the regional news, right like
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  the King five game of the week, and for the whole state. You
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  know, they'll that that will be the game, and they'll set the crew
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  out there and people know around kind of like you know, King five player
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  in the game or whatever. Uh, that happens all the time. It's
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  it's stuff like that, you came up and did a game years ago.
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  It was a Ferndale lending game. So it's always kind of just been a
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  big deal. And and even though it doesn't count against the conference, there's
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  a there's a ton of pride. There's great respect with both both coaching staffs.
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  Uh, you know they you know, they golf in each other's you
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  know, golf tournaments all that kind of stuff. It's it's a really it's
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  a really cool kind of rivalry. And it's and traditionally it's two top programs
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  in Walking County too, So it's a good game. It's it's all that
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  stuff. The last time that Lyndon lost a football game was the last time
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  Ferndale came to Lynden to play him. So wait, hold on, Tyler's
• 20:36
  got some nuggets. Man. Yeah, yeah, I didn't even mean to
• 20:38
  be that one, but but that's it's true. It's been a long time.
• 20:41
  It's been you know, almost twenty four months now, and that was
• 20:47
  the last time. Uh so, uh, it's it's gonna be it's gonna
• 20:51
  be a really good one. It's always a good one there. Now,
• 20:52
  this is an interesting game, too, Tyler, because you've got Linden who
• 20:56
  lost what like two hundred and forty SENI years off last year's team, and
• 21:00
  got Ferndale who they lost quite a few seniors, but they lost some massive,
• 21:03
  massive players in terms of you know, well a couple of big,
• 21:07
  big bodies, sure, but a couple of guys that, you know,
• 21:11
  three guys that are arguably three of the best players in Ferndale history. So
• 21:17
  you lose that, and then you know, Lynden loses so many guys,
• 21:19
  I mean, they the list of names that we had on the preview podcast
• 21:23
  was about a mile and a half long. So we're gonna find out a
• 21:27
  lot about these two teams, especially because there's gonna be some guys stepping in
• 21:32
  that we know the names but we don't know them. You know, we're
• 21:36
  not sure who they are yet. I mean, if you go back and
• 21:38
  listen to the podcast, Tyler, you're throwing out names that I'm sitting here
• 21:41
  going, I've never heard of this guy before, and he'll probably rush for
• 21:44
  a thousand yards, right Like that type of thing is going to happen,
• 21:47
  and we're gonna learn something here or there about those two teams. Now,
• 21:51
  Tyler, I heard. Tyler's got some nuggets. Man, You got a
• 21:53
  nugget or two about this game, So give me your first one. Well,
• 21:57
  first, I mean, if if Lyndon kicks off to begin the game,
• 22:00
  you know how cool it will be for Michael Kainan's son Malachi, to
• 22:04
  kick off to his dad's former high school team. I just I think that's
• 22:08
  such a neat deal. Michael Canon, of course, kicked at Ferndale in
• 22:14
  the late nineties. His son, now, as a freshman, will be
• 22:17
  kicking at Lyndon, and the first game is against Ferndale. So I just
• 22:19
  I just love the tie in there, and and and for it to kick
• 22:23
  off the season, it could kick off that way. I'm pretty excited about
• 22:26
  that. Tyler's got some nuggets, man, a second one? You got
• 22:32
  one? Yeah? Yeah? How about this? How about this? These
• 22:33
  two teams have faced each other dozens of times over the years, and they
• 22:37
  you know, they were Northwest League rivals for years, with their matchup usually
• 22:41
  determining the league champion back in the old North the Northwest League before it was
• 22:45
  the Northwest Conference. In these games against each other, okay, the most
• 22:51
  yards ever rushing yards in a game by a player is two hundred and eighty
• 22:56
  seven yards. Okay, on either side, the most rush yards by player
• 23:00
  in this matchup is two hundred and eighty seven yards in one game. Now,
• 23:03
  I know that you're not the historian that I am about these two teams,
• 23:07
  but if you had to guess who that was, do you have a
• 23:10
  do you have a guess? How about this? Give me give me like
• 23:12
  a general time for give me like a five year window. Uh, mid
• 23:18
  nineties? Uh nope, Oh how about I don't know Fink Bonner? Okay,
• 23:25
  Well I thought you might guess Matthias Wilson, right, Oh, Mathias
• 23:27
  Wilson, Man, he was a good one. Yeah, but it's pretty
• 23:30
  crazy that it's not from the ground based Golden Eagles. It was actually Ben
• 23:34
  wall in nineteen ninety three, So and that was also the first year that
• 23:40
  these two teams had faced each other since the sixties, and that was back
• 23:44
  when Ferndale moved up a classification, so they didn't they weren't playing them anymore.
• 23:47
  And then in nineteen ninety three Lyndon moved up with them, and so
• 23:51
  they started playing each other again and they've been doing it ever since then.
• 23:52
  So that was the first matchup again. Ben Wall as a junior ran for
• 23:56
  two hundred and eighty seven yards against Ferndale. So now that was those Linden
• 24:02
  teams though, didn't They were kind of run heavy back then, right they
• 24:04
  were? Yes, yeah, they definitely were. But I mean, you
• 24:08
  you know, you think about the matchups over the years and we don't think
• 24:11
  about them like that now very much. Run versus pass And you know,
• 24:17
  the funny thing was in nineteen ninety three Ferndale was they were air raid if
• 24:21
  you could believe that what they went over and nine that year. But they
• 24:23
  were they were spreading it out. Well maybe when now we know why they
• 24:26
  don't. Sure Tyler's got some nuggets, man, Well he does. Tyler's
• 24:33
  got some nuggets there. Uh yeah, Ferndale at Linden That is Friday at
• 24:37
  seven pm. Port Angelis is coming to town Tyler to take on the Blade
• 24:41
  Border Rights. Our guy Andy Olson getting his first game as head coach over
• 24:49
  there at Blaine seven pm, Tyler. Uh, these two teams played last
• 24:53
  year, correct, Yeah, they opened up the season at Port Angelis.
• 24:57
  Yeah, and I don't remember what the score of that one was, do
• 25:00
  you know off the top of your hand, I will say like thirty three
• 25:02
  to nineteen or something like that. Port Angelis got the wine somewhere in there.
• 25:06
  Now. Port Angelis traditionally if they played games against teams in Wacom County
• 25:10
  over the years, not that much. You know. I saw the film
• 25:15
  last year and that was most I'd ever seen, so, uh, not
• 25:18
  really that much. Yeah, I mean Port Angelis Port Angelis to blame,
• 25:22
  like as the Crow flies, not super far, but Port Angelis to blame
• 25:26
  on a bus. Not exactly a whole lot of fun. Yeah, what
• 25:30
  do you see in this one? I mean I think there's maybe I don't
• 25:33
  want to say there's a lot of excitement around the program, but I think
• 25:36
  that you were really excited when you left there, and you kind of felt
• 25:40
  like maybe Andy Olsen kind of had some things going over there. Yeah,
• 25:44
  you know, I really liked what I saw practice, And after I took
• 25:47
  the headshots, there were a couple of players that stuck around and talked to
• 25:49
  me for a little while, and they were just they just had a different
• 25:52
  kind of feeling, a different kind of attitude, a different kind of excitement
• 25:56
  where they were. They were really excited to get the season going, and
• 26:00
  they were kind of excited to surprise some people. I think they're pretty jacked
• 26:04
  up. I think they're excited about the direction right now. They're excited about
• 26:08
  the new offense. There's just a lot of new stuff and that could be
• 26:14
  tricky with high school kids, like changing everything and saying, Okay, here
• 26:18
  we go. But you know, you saw it with Lynn and Christian last
• 26:22
  year, completely new offense and they went eight and one, so you just
• 26:26
  you kind of never know. Kids can pick things up pretty fast, especially
• 26:29
  if they have a high football IQ. I think that there's so many returners
• 26:33
  for Blaine and a lot of really good seniors that are wanting to kind of
• 26:38
  put their steak into like this is what we want to be remembered for,
• 26:44
  and you know, that beautiful stadium opening it up for this season. New
• 26:48
  coach, new new coaching staff, new offense, a lot of new stuff
• 26:53
  going on. When you have all those new things and when you start the
• 26:59
  year, you can start on a really big high and playing at home.
• 27:03
  I just all those things combined could be a really really beautiful thing for the
• 27:07
  border rights. Blaine's got a little new car smell over there with Andy Olsen.
• 27:11
  Yeah right, that game seven pm on Friday night at Blaine. Granted
• 27:17
  Falls has come to town to take on the Meridian Trojans seven pm. These
• 27:21
  two teams, I feel like they've played each other quite a bit. I
• 27:23
  know when we talked in the past about Granted Falls used to play maybe quite
• 27:26
  a few games, but I think they didn't usually fare very well if I
• 27:30
  can remember correctly, against the teams from Wacom County. But Tyler Granted Falls
• 27:33
  headed up to Meridian. Yeah, this is these are two teams that have
• 27:37
  played each other quite a bit. Like you said, there was one matchup
• 27:41
  in like a play in game in the late eighties, I want to say,
• 27:45
  like eighty eight maybe, and that Maridian won that one and then and
• 27:51
  then they joined the conference in the in ninety seven. But even before then
• 27:57
  they were playing week won games against Meridian, and so they've played Meridian a
• 28:03
  lot in the past. And I know the past is the past, but
• 28:04
  I think that they probably played each other like ten or twelve times, and
• 28:08
  like the average score is, you know, fifty eight to two or something
• 28:12
  like that. It's it's pretty lopsided. But I've heard that Granted Falls got
• 28:18
  it has a quarterback that's pretty good. So I've heard there's some pieces that
• 28:22
  are pretty good out there, but Meridian got him pretty good last year.
• 28:27
  This one's gonna be at Laurel home game for the for the Trojans, and
• 28:33
  and uh, I think that they'll they'll take care of business at least,
• 28:37
  you know, that's just kind of how I see it. But again that
• 28:40
  Week one, man, you just never know. There's always surprises. I
• 28:44
  mean, I'm sure that all of us lost like two or three games in
• 28:47
  the pick them last year in Week one, just because you just you don't
• 28:49
  really know. You just don't really know. There's a lot of guessing going
• 28:52
  on, let's face it. And yeah, here's the thing about Grant Falls.
• 28:57
  It's interesting as as that area starts to develop more, you know,
• 29:03
  the lake Stevens is going through a ton of construction on the roads up there,
• 29:10
  the widening roads, you know, doing making them bigger and better.
• 29:12
  And part of the problem for Lake Stevens becomes people start driving past Lake Stevens
• 29:18
  and going out to Grand Falls because Grand Falls is just right up the road.
• 29:21
  I mean it's it's really it's right up the road from Lake Stevens.
• 29:25
  So Grand Falls is one of those programs. I mean you start looking at
• 29:29
  some of the development in that area and there's lots of new housing going in
• 29:33
  and stuff out there. So it's gonna be a program it's gonna be interesting
• 29:37
  to watch over the next you know, five to ten years, is that
• 29:40
  area continues to grow because you know, it's just like a mount sigh.
• 29:45
  You know, people wanted to get away from away from Seattle, so what
• 29:48
  they do they would have to snow quality, you know, And that area
• 29:51
  is exploding and it has been exploding for the last ten years. And Cammas,
• 29:55
  you know, Camus was awful and I mean absolutely awful when I was
• 30:00
  growing up, and now they're one of the best programs in the state.
• 30:03
  And wash Google is just a little bit east to them. So people are
• 30:07
  starting to move out to wash Google right like, it's all starting to move
• 30:10
  out that way, and so it's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be one
• 30:11
  of those teams that I think in the next yeah, five to ten years,
• 30:15
  people are gonna really want to pay attention to again. Grand Falls at
• 30:19
  Meridian the seven pm on Friday. See Home at maul Baker the only other
• 30:23
  game featuring two teams from Wacomb County. So I know Tyler's jacked about this
• 30:27
  one that is seven pm at what is it, Bob Tisdale Field. Yes,
• 30:33
  sir, look at that. I mean, my brain isn't quite going
• 30:34
  just yet. See Home mel Baker. I'm if I remember correctly. This
• 30:38
  was a real score, real low scoring game last year. Correct. Yeah,
• 30:42
  this game was at Civic Stadium last year. I was there for the
• 30:45
  first half of it. And yeah, see Home one fifteen to twelve.
• 30:49
  You know, coach coach leapt told me, you know, he takes responsibility
• 30:53
  right away on that one. He said that he coached far too conservatively and
• 31:00
  there was just moments where he didn't feel like he could do certain things and
• 31:04
  it kind of kind of, you know, kind of you know, bid
• 31:07
  him a little bit, and he would you know, he he knows that
• 31:12
  he would do that one differently, so he knows that going into this one.
• 31:15
  And and this is one of those games where, oh man, I
• 31:21
  see overtime all over this one. It is a contest where, you know,
• 31:27
  I think that Sea Home's strength is in their passing game, but but
• 31:33
  I think Mount Baker's strength this year defensively is in their secondary. So okay,
• 31:38
  that kind of cancels, you know, and I'm not gonna say it
• 31:41
  cancels it out, but strength versus strength, I think that Mount Baker is
• 31:45
  always gonna want to run the ball, and I think that, uh,
• 31:49
  I think that Sea Home. I think their strength is also in the secondary
• 31:53
  too. But if you're gonna if you're gonna line up athlete for athlete,
• 31:56
  I think Sea Home has got the edge there. But you're talking about a
• 32:01
  coaching staff that's been together for you know, decades against with against a whole
• 32:07
  new coaching staff. So you got you know, these guys have been there
• 32:10
  forever against a brand new coaching staff. And and it's on the road,
• 32:14
  right it's at Mount Baker, and it's it's a team that's really fast on
• 32:16
  turf, playing on natural grass and it's just like it's every little thing that
• 32:20
  you could think of to give the other team and advantage, and the other
• 32:22
  one goes up and kind of knocks the other one down, and it's just,
• 32:25
  man, this is like a pick a man to me. Anyways,
• 32:29
  I think it's I think it's gonna be a really great game. And I
• 32:35
  think I'm gonna be at this one for half of it, and I'm gonna
• 32:38
  be at the Ferndale Linen for the other half. I just don't know which
• 32:43
  halves I'm gonna do yet, you know what I mean, So so just
• 32:46
  be on the lookout. And uh, I'll probably wear like some throwback NFL
• 32:52
  jersey and some bright shorts. I'm just guessing. And but I think that
• 32:57
  it's this is this is one where you know, we did our pickums and
• 33:00
  this is the one where I just sat there and just you know, thought
• 33:06
  and thought and thought, and it was just hard to come up with an
• 33:07
  answer on this one. Yeah, I think this could be a fantastic football
• 33:10
  game. I mean, we know we know how prepared the coaching staff at
• 33:15
  Mount Baker gets, you know what I mean, we know that they they
• 33:20
  know what they're doing. They they they have at times been able to take
• 33:23
  lesser talent and do great things because they're really good at what they do.
• 33:28
  And then to see home. You know, we know the names on the
• 33:31
  coaching staff, but they haven't really worked together, you know what I mean.
• 33:36
  And heck, Brian Young never been a high school head football coach,
• 33:40
  so he's got his thing going on. I think it's gonna be fun.
• 33:44
  I think this is I think I think when we when we break it down
• 33:47
  on you know, next week, when I get back from New York City,
• 33:51
  I think it's I think this is gonna be like the game, you
• 33:52
  know what I mean, Like we're gonna we're gonna talk about this one a
• 33:55
  lot because I just think that these are two teams that are one just I
• 34:01
  don't know if they're evenly matched, but I think that they match up really
• 34:05
  well against each other, you know. And yeah, I'm excited for this
• 34:08
  one again, seven pm on Friday, out there endeming of all places,
• 34:14
  Tyler. I mean, when you think about which way to do this,
• 34:17
  you kind of have to go to Linden Ferndale first, right, I mean,
• 34:22
  if you go to the other one first and then you try to drive
• 34:23
  to Linden Ferndale. How the heck are you? I mean, you guys
• 34:25
  walk a mile and a half just a part right, I know that's kind
• 34:29
  of what I'm looking at. So when I usually do two games, there's
• 34:31
  a couple of things I think about. That's one of them. I have
• 34:35
  shown up to Lynden Ferndale at halftime multiple times, and you're right now,
• 34:42
  Sometimes you never know. Sometimes someone has to leave at halftime, you know,
• 34:45
  got to get Grandma to bed, and there might be a spot open
• 34:49
  up. Now, if I was Linden or Ferndale, I would just try
• 34:52
  to find a way to maybe like put a cone in a parking spot for
• 34:54
  you. No, no, no, no, Tyler, I know you're
• 34:58
  not asking for it. I am get the guy parking spot Linden. No
• 35:00
  no, no, uh wait, hold on, women, I won't.
• 35:07
  I will. I will stop playing that sound bite until next week. If
• 35:10
  you get the guy a parking spot, no, no, I think I'm
• 35:14
  gonna go there first. That's just the way. Now. The other reason.
• 35:16
  The other thing I think of when I do a double game like this
• 35:20
  is I think which game will be closer at the end? Yeah, And
• 35:23
  I just and I think baker se Home will be very very close at the
• 35:28
  fourth quarter. I think it has a better chance of being close than the
• 35:31
  Ferndale Linden game, let's just put it that way. Well, and you're
• 35:35
  talking overtime potentially, Like you even mentioned that. You said overtime and I'm
• 35:38
  looking ahead right now at eight year pick them and you picked the score that
• 35:42
  could mean overtime. So yeah, I know where you're going. It would
• 35:45
  be beneficial to go that, to go that way for the second half.
• 35:49
  So it's so I think you're right. I think I'm gonna do Lynden Ferndale
• 35:52
  first half and see him Mount Baker second half. That's quite a trek from
• 35:57
  Lyndon to Deming, So I know I got a kind of time at where
• 36:00
  I leave with like five minutes to go in the second quarter. Does anybody
• 36:04
  have a helicopter of the second half? See? Now, since you don't
• 36:08
  need a parking spot, now, I'm going to say, what Lindon needs
• 36:12
  to do is have food for you so that you can eat it on the
• 36:15
  way and you don't have to make any stops or anything. You just drive
• 36:16
  right through. Tyler. See, I'm trying to set you up here,
• 36:19
  Tyler. I'm like your ag I know you're always looking out for me like
• 36:22
  that. Uh, let's see here out of country team a team coming from
• 36:27
  really really far away, about thirty five forty minutes up the road in New
• 36:30
  Westminster, British Columbia. I guess it depends on the border rate. Wait
• 36:34
  wait right, like it's it's New west is not that far, but getting
• 36:37
  once you get to the border, you just never know. Man, New
• 36:40
  Westminster, British Columbia. The high Acts they've come down over the years,
• 36:45
  they've I've I've seen them, you know at the what do you call it
• 36:49
  the week zero scrimmage, or maybe it's even the spring scrimmage out there in
• 36:52
  June. They're coming down to play Squalicum seven pm at Civic Stadium. Yeah,
• 37:00
  I mean, Tyler, you mentioned to me off the air that Newestminster
• 37:05
  kind of had a shot to beat Linden a few years back. How many
• 37:07
  times I mean, obviously you don't know off the top of your head,
• 37:09
  but Newestminster they come down quite often, though, I feel Yeah, I
• 37:14
  mean that. I mean I've gone back and looked at, you know,
• 37:16
  old newspaper clippings from the seventies and they were coming down to play games back
• 37:21
  then quite a bit. I mean it was like every single year they would
• 37:24
  come down and sometimes they would they would hammer at Bellingham School. You know,
• 37:29
  it happened a lot back then, and it just seems like it just
• 37:32
  kind of happens every once in a while. You know, I want to
• 37:36
  say that. You know, every single Walkom County team has played at Canadian
• 37:38
  School. Blaine's done it a lot recently because you know, they don't mind
• 37:43
  just traveling right popping right across the border playing a game going back. I
• 37:46
  know that I believe it was against New Westminster when Josiah Westbrook caught five touchdown
• 37:52
  passes in one game as the Walcom County record when he was playing for Blaine
• 37:54
  as a sophomore, and and his after his fifth one, they went for
• 38:00
  two for the win and they didn't get it and New west won thirty five
• 38:02
  thirty four. Is that the Tyler's got some nuggets? Man? Would that
• 38:07
  would that be like the last time that the BC team be to welcome county
• 38:10
  team? Oh? Man, I don't know for sure, very well.
• 38:15
  Could be. What was that? Wasn't there a a BC team that came
• 38:20
  down and it was like an insanely high score, like was Squalicum. I
• 38:23
  was there for the first half of that that was eighty five to seventy.
• 38:29
  Squam won that game. Okay, And I tell you what taking stats of
• 38:32
  that game was. I can't do you use it? I would assume you
• 38:37
  use a pencil. Yeah, it's crazy. Did you go through a hole
• 38:44
  in my first Taykondo roga? What's that? Sorry? You're cutting out a
• 38:47
  little bit? Oh, I said, did you go through a hole my
• 38:50
  first Taykondo roga? Like one of the real big ones first? Yeah,
• 38:53
  it felt like it was crazy. It was. It was nuts. I
• 38:58
  mean it was. They had a really good quarterback and uh boy he was
• 39:01
  He was a big, big part of that offense. And they had that
• 39:05
  one kick. His name, I think his name was Grant McDonald was a
• 39:07
  linebacker running back for them. That was a big dude, Like he was
• 39:12
  nasty. Yeah. So Tyler Newstminster Squalacum. I mean, we get the
• 39:17
  debut of Marcus Nixon at quarterback. Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be it's
• 39:22
  gonna be interesting. You know. It's obviously as a running threat, he
• 39:28
  can throw the ball around a little bit. I love the combination of him
• 39:32
  at quarterback and Nick Lucy as a head coach. You know, it's just
• 39:37
  like, oh boy, it gets so many possibilities things too for creativity and
• 39:45
  you know, putting guys in the right spots and different things. And I
• 39:47
  foresee we saw it a lot where Layton Smithson would run like a power run
• 39:53
  with a guy in motion. He fakes it to him and Javinski schlem Baker
• 39:59
  was lead block and Smiths and would run behind him and that was man,
• 40:04
  that was a heck of a play. And I could totally see that again
• 40:07
  with you know, DeAndre Dunmore lead blocking or Maliki smith lead blocking with Marcus
• 40:12
  Nixon running off tackle or that's gonna be one powerful play. There's gonna have
• 40:16
  a lot of powerful players. I just I love that combination and and and
• 40:21
  I'm excited for the the new defense with the coach Shalfont going over there.
• 40:25
  It was the defensive coordinator at Sea Home for years, one of the best
• 40:29
  to do it. And I love this. I would love to see what
• 40:31
  he does with this Squalacom defense, you know, and they're gonna have you
• 40:37
  know, it's it's gonna be a great game at Civic Stadium. I'm excited
• 40:40
  to watch the film on that one. As you said, Civic Stadium seven
• 40:44
  pm on Friday and night lyndon Christian they make a long track over the lakeside
• 40:50
  of Nine Mile Falls, which is a little north of Spokane. Uh,
• 40:53
  that's a seven pm game on Friday. Now. The last time Lakeside Nine
• 40:57
  Mile Falls played a game, they lost to Mount Baker. So what they
• 41:01
  do? They decided to try to get the Walcom County taste out of their
• 41:04
  mouth and schedule Linnen Christian week one. Yeah, Tyler, I mean,
• 41:08
  what do you see here? I know a couple of players over there at
• 41:12
  Lake Side. They do have a guy who's, honestly, he's probably their
• 41:15
  best athlete last year, and he's gonna be stepping in at quarterback this year.
• 41:19
  So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens there. But uh,
• 41:22
  yeah, lynnon Christian Lakeside Tyler, Yeah, I remember, you know from
• 41:24
  watching the film. Obviously, the lot of talk last year was about their
• 41:28
  quarterback, but there was a receiver they had that made a ton of players,
• 41:30
  and I'm assuming that's the kid that you might be talking about. I
• 41:35
  don't know, I don't remember his name, right, off the back Nicholson.
• 41:38
  But but but they looked pretty good and Lynn and Christian obviously is loaded
• 41:45
  with athletes. So I think this is gonna be a very dynamic game.
• 41:47
  This is one of those ones where they could play each other in the postseason.
• 41:52
  You never know. This is two really really good teams. Uh there's
• 41:57
  all sorts of rankings out there, and you see both these teams plastered all
• 42:00
  over the one A ranking. So they're very highly thought of from from different
• 42:05
  you know, different media outlets out there. Uh So again traveling on the
• 42:10
  road. You know, Lenny Christian made the trek out to Eastern Camp a
• 42:14
  few months ago, so they're used to this, to this drive. They
• 42:16
  got that down. You know, you're gonna see a little different offense within
• 42:22
  a Christian, like a true tight end for the first time in quite a
• 42:25
  while. Uh So, yeah, I mean again week one man, you
• 42:30
  just never know. So, but this is one of those ones where it
• 42:36
  kind of reminds me a little bit of the Mountain View Nooksack game. Right,
• 42:39
  It's two really good teams where uh it's where there's traveling, you know,
• 42:45
  you know, hours away, and it's just it's one of those games
• 42:51
  where Uh, it's hard to predict what's gonna happen, but you know,
• 42:58
  I'm very high on Lenny Christian again this year. So with a lot of
• 43:00
  talent coming back, so they're gonna give it their best shot. That is
• 43:06
  seven pm at Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls. Yeah, Lyndon and Christian Lakeside
• 43:12
  should be a should be a good one. Uh. The only Saturday game
• 43:15
  this week, actually, the only non Friday game this week is a Saturday
• 43:19
  game one pm. Cleveland of Seattle is coming up to play the Bellingham BayHawks.
• 43:23
  Tyler, Uh, this is a game that Bellingham won in Week one
• 43:28
  last year down in Seattle. Yeah, first off, what do you remember
• 43:31
  from that one? And what are you what are you looking for when the
• 43:36
  Eagles come to take on the BayHawks. I loved the excitement that the BayHawks
• 43:39
  had last year in Week one. They came out and they looked like they
• 43:45
  were playing at different speed than Cleveland was. They came out firing and they
• 43:49
  could not do anything wrong. It seemed like offensively, defensively, special teams,
• 43:53
  they were doing everything fantastic. They won by you know, five touchdown
• 44:00
  something like that. They had a couple of pick sixes, in that game.
• 44:04
  Everything was just going right. Yah. Bellingham's got a got a lot
• 44:08
  of new names that we're gonna see, but guys that have experienced, you
• 44:13
  know, guys that have transferred from other schools. And and I love these
• 44:16
  afternoon Saturday games, the only games in town, like I like to say,
• 44:21
  So you know, I'll be there, And it's one of those where
• 44:24
  you know, I if I can take stats at a game and kind of
• 44:29
  knock it out so I don't have to rely on the film later, I
• 44:31
  can do that. And I might be doing that. I might go down
• 44:35
  on the field take some pictures. I don't know yet. It's gonna be
• 44:37
  It's gonna be fun. All I know is that I'm gonna be there.
• 44:39
  It'll be a nice break from watching film on Saturday to go go watch a
• 44:44
  game for a little bit. And and we're gonna we're gonna hear from Randy
• 44:46
  Small pretty soon. So he'll tell us what the weather will be like during
• 44:50
  the day. Well, let's get right to it. Then Cleveland at Bellingham
• 44:53
  one pm on Saturday. And that brings us to our Randy Small weather forecast
• 44:59
  Watcome count WX, Walcom County w X weather from the Pacific Northwest, Facebook
• 45:05
  dot com, backslash watcom County Weather. That is the man. Randy Small
• 45:09
  is unbelievable. The pictures that he takes. I'm trying to remember what is
• 45:14
  his Is it just at Randy Small on Twitter? I think it is,
• 45:17
  yes, Yeah, on Twitter it's at Randy Smallen. I mean he posts
• 45:22
  some of the most amazing pictures and stuff that you can ever find on there.
• 45:25
  That being said, we mentioned it earlier. We asked him way far
• 45:30
  in advance, so if he's wrong, only tweet him to let him no,
• 45:36
  just kidding. If he's wrong, then he did. He gave us
• 45:40
  his best effort and that's all we can ask for in week one. Hey,
• 45:43
  you know what, everybody needs a little preseason. Randy Small gets week
• 45:46
  one off. So yeah, this is being well. And actually he sent
• 45:52
  this to you Win Tyler. Was it this morning? He said it to
• 45:54
  me Saturday night because it was busy this morning. So yeah, so yeah,
• 45:59
  So he's doing basically a week out pretty basically a week out. You
• 46:04
  go to weather dot com and they're not accurate a week out, but Randy
• 46:06
  Small he's gonna be. And this is what he has to say. The
• 46:08
  weather is going to look like for games this weekend, Greedians, Walkom County
• 46:13
  football fans. This is Randy Small from Walkom County Weather and we are off
• 46:17
  and running for well. This will be my second season of doing weather,
• 46:21
  but for another football season Friday night lights, Saturday games as well coming up
• 46:25
  this weekend. I'm doing this a little bit long term, long range.
• 46:30
  I don't like doing it quite so far ahead, but because of needing to
• 46:34
  get walking preps this sooner, I'm looking at this a little further out,
• 46:37
  but that's okay right now. Things as of Sunday look like they'll be pretty
• 46:43
  nice overall, probably some sixty degree temperatures on Friday night and maybe seventies on
• 46:50
  the Saturday afternoon game as of now. Not much for presip, although that
• 46:53
  could change, but overall looks like a beautiful weekend coming at this point.
• 47:00
  And hope the start of the season's a great one for everyone, and looking
• 47:02
  forward to a great run again for Walcom County teams. And hope you all
• 47:07
  have a great time following your favorite football team this coming weekend. Thank you.
• 47:14
  Randy Small, Walcom County WX. Dot com is his website and on
• 47:16
  Facebook dot com. Backslash Wacom County Weather. Randy small the man, the
• 47:22
  myth, the legend. I mean, he's freaking unbelievable, isn't he.
• 47:25
  I mean, yes, he is. He's a Walcom County treasure. Yeah,
• 47:29
  there's there's a there's a few of them. There's a lot of them.
• 47:31
  But then there's a few that are kind of stand up like he does.
• 47:35
  And he's he is is. Everybody loves Randy small Well and the guy
• 47:38
  just he just he eats, sleeps and breeze Walcom County in general, you
• 47:44
  know what I mean, Like he just he's he's one of those guys.
• 47:46
  Oh, by the way, he says at the beginning, this is his
• 47:50
  second year of doing weather. He's talking about for us, not in general.
• 47:52
  Like when I heard him say that, I went, I didn't catch
• 47:55
  it when when I heard it earlier and I just heard it and I just
• 47:58
  went, okay, yeah, I better make sure people understand he didn't just
• 48:01
  start, you know, doing the weather here. The guy knows what he's
• 48:04
  talking about as far as weather goes. You know, it's funny. I've
• 48:07
  learned more about Walcom County weather in the last year that I've really started following
• 48:10
  stuff than I could. Why why do I need to know what the weather's
• 48:14
  like there? I don't even know what it's like outside my house house right
• 48:16
  now, other than the fact that I'm sitting here in my office sweating.
• 48:20
  It is brutal. Yeah, Walcom County WX dot com. Be sure to
• 48:23
  follow everything Randy does over there, Tyler, let's get into the pickums.
• 48:28
  You me, Connor, Bend and Tendy. We're back. Joe Consensus is
• 48:31
  back with his steriless look he's got going on over there. Uh. And
• 48:36
  then we have a guest this week that we'll get to in a second.
• 48:38
  But we have a new face to the to the pick hum this year,
• 48:42
  Tyler. Who is it. Yeah, Nate Schumach from the Lynden Trimune met
• 48:46
  him last year actually at the Lynden Ferndale game, and right off the bat,
• 48:52
  I think I think it was. It was you know, very very
• 48:55
  very very positive. I really liked him. Uh, he knows the game.
• 49:00
  He's funny. We talk about lots of stuff. Uh. You know,
• 49:02
  we've been on the sidelines a lot over the you know, this past
• 49:07
  year for football. Got to see him during the spring at the fast pitch
• 49:10
  tournaments you know, and I saw him at some baseball games and and I
• 49:16
  just he has that has that really dry sense of humor, which I really
• 49:21
  like. And and uh so we get along really really well. So I'm
• 49:23
  glad to bring him in and and uh and yeah it's great. And Connor
• 49:29
  now is working for Cascadia Daily News and so, uh yeah, it's glad
• 49:32
  they could both do this for the entire year. A couple of young bucks,
• 49:36
  a couple of old heads, you and me. And then this week
• 49:40
  we have the picker of all pickers, the man, the man, Jeff
• 49:47
  Bearden Tyler. So give us a quick give me the ten second. Who
• 49:52
  is Jeff Bearden. Well, he's been our guest picker for Week one every
• 49:58
  time we've done this. I both well, he was a picker with us
• 50:00
  the first year, right, yeah, he picked with us the entire year
• 50:05
  and then and then since we have moved on to other uh sports writers.
• 50:09
  Uh, he's been our guest picker one week one. And you know,
• 50:14
  Jeff and I go way back. We were part of the Cover three podcast
• 50:16
  with Doug Lang five years ago. It's uh, he's a baseball guy.
• 50:22
  Uh, his baseball's his first love. I mean he he had Ken Griffey
• 50:27
  Junior's phone number in his pocket at one time. Uh. So he goes
• 50:30
  way back with the you know, the Bellingham Mariners. Was a was a
• 50:34
  clubhouse guy back when he was in high school. And just he's got a
• 50:38
  he's just a fun guy to talk sports with. And he has recently moved
• 50:43
  to Michigan, but he stays in contact. He knows what's going on in
• 50:45
  Walcoon County. Uh sending us pictures of high school football stadium. Yeah,
• 50:51
  in Michigan, huge stadium too. What's that That stadium that they have there
• 50:55
  is unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, it's uh, it's pretty cool, you
• 51:00
  know. And and so yeah, he's a guy that as soon as we
• 51:02
  start this up and we need a guest picker for week one, he's always
• 51:06
  the one we go too. So and I joked with him about, you
• 51:08
  know, you gotta set the guest set the tone, and and it's hard
• 51:12
  in week one for all of us, but he kind of joked, he
• 51:15
  goes, yeah, I gotta do it bet a lot better than last year.
• 51:16
  I got all the guest pickers. Have got to dig me out of
• 51:19
  the hole there. So he's along with the joke. There, and I
• 51:22
  said, yeah, because you know, Ryland's gonna dig at you every chance
• 51:24
  he gets, and he agreed, he knows what's coming. Oh yeah.
• 51:29
  Well the good thing is by starting off Jeff with you know, week one
• 51:32
  for the guest picker, we know that the pickers aren't coming back to beat
• 51:36
  us, so we don't have to worry about that joking. Census is obviously
• 51:38
  the big dog, and then we got the other three. We got the
• 51:42
  two young bucks now that we gotta contend with. So last year it was
• 51:45
  tied. I believe at the end you and Eric Trent, you guys both
• 51:50
  tied for the for the championship. And I got a little while at the
• 51:52
  end of started picking games that I knew I wasn't gonna win, just hoping
• 51:54
  that it was gonna happen, just so I can come back. But that
• 51:59
  being said, Tyler, just taking a look over the picks for this week,
• 52:01
  we are all picking Linden, Lyndon, Christian Nooksack, Valley, Squalcomm
• 52:06
  and Meridian, which means so is Joe consensus. Uh, Tyler and Jeff
• 52:09
  are picking Mount Baker to beat Sea Home, whereas Nate Connor, myself and
• 52:16
  Joe consensus are taking Sea Home. Connor and Jeff are picking Port Angelis to
• 52:22
  beat Blaine, which means that the other four are taking Blaine, and then
• 52:30
  Nate and Connor are picking Cleveland to beat Bellingham. So basically what I'm saying
• 52:34
  is between Connor and Jeff, they're not allowed at Sea Home, Blaine or
• 52:37
  Bellingham anymore. I mean, it's just Connor Connor not allowed. Us are
• 52:45
  mirror images here on these picks. Since it sounds like he's gonna have to
• 52:49
  change his Twitter bio, he agrees with me. Yeah, exactly. Uh
• 52:54
  So, yeah, we will have updated excuse me, we will have updated
• 52:59
  every single week the standings and then who we're picking. So yeah, we
• 53:02
  will. I think I'll just I don't know, I think I just feel
• 53:07
  like it. I'm just gonna go eight to oh this week and call it
• 53:09
  good, Okay, as though I really have controller or anything. Tyler.
• 53:16
  The last well not the last thing technically, because we still got the code
• 53:20
  word. The last thing we gotta cover here though, is we got to
• 53:22
  do our little fantasy draft that we do every week. So just really quickly,
• 53:27
  Tyler quarterbacks, running backs, those are being picked on their own,
• 53:30
  and then we have a wide receiver tight end position. We have an offensive
• 53:36
  line, a defensive line, front seven which includes the defensive line and linebackers,
• 53:43
  and then back seven includes linebackers and defensive backs. And then the last
• 53:49
  one is kicker. So we are picking eight quote unquote positions for our fantasies
• 53:53
  here, and then Tyler, you do all the stats and everything, and
• 53:59
  how do I It's kind of a traditional stat or excuse me, traditional scoring
• 54:05
  system as far as uh as far as the scoring system for ours goes,
• 54:08
  right, Yeah, yeah, it's pretty it's pretty traditional. You know,
• 54:13
  I have to come up kind of with my own thing for offensive line,
• 54:16
  but an offensive line seems to it basically how the offense goes. And you
• 54:22
  know, those seem to be the big, big point grabbers. There's a
• 54:24
  lot of like forty and fifty point games by offensive lines. And then you
• 54:30
  did say defensive line. Up front, it's a team defense, yeah,
• 54:34
  team defense, and then front seven and back seven. Front seven includes defensive
• 54:38
  linemen, yes, and line so yeah, so it's pretty it's pretty standard
• 54:43
  how the how the points go. And you know, there was a few
• 54:45
  times when we were really close within a half a point of each other,
• 54:49
  so these are always a lot of fun to do. Granted that being said,
• 54:52
  overall, I won by a million, but yeah, there was a
• 54:55
  couple of weeks that it was really really close. I remember one week you
• 54:59
  were howling it up while we were sitting there, and before you even said
• 55:01
  who won, you just started laughing and you were just like, I cannot
• 55:06
  believe this, And it was like four point difference or something like, which
• 55:10
  is really hard to do. I mean, when you consider the amount of
• 55:14
  points that some of them can score. You know, wasn't it was it
• 55:17
  week one when Seaquam played Lennon Christian and didn't I score a ton of points
• 55:22
  with Lennon Christian's defense. Yeah, I think they had like three pick sixes
• 55:24
  in that game. And yeah, that one you just went off. But
• 55:29
  there were there were times when we picked players that didn't play. Oh yeah,
• 55:32
  you know there was. There was all sorts of craziness things. So
• 55:36
  we have some fun with this thing. And and from what I've heard from
• 55:39
  you know, players and coaches is they get a kick out of it,
• 55:42
  so that makes even funner for us. Heck, Tyler, I picked a
• 55:45
  guy that got like kicked off the team or quit, like, yeah,
• 55:50
  now granted we didn't know it, just all of a sudden we got a
• 55:52
  message, Hey, yeah, that guy's not gonna put up any points this
• 55:55
  week. And there was a couple of times where, like, you know,
• 55:59
  we picked a g I like, I think I had like a three
• 56:00
  week in a row at running back. So whoever I pick at running back
• 56:05
  this week, I like, I apologize right now. But there was like
• 56:08
  a couple of weeks where guys got hurt on like the third play of the
• 56:13
  game and I had him picked or you know. And what we try to
• 56:17
  do with this is we look at the schedule and go, hey, okay,
• 56:21
  I think this is a good wide receiver matchup this week for uh Squalicum.
• 56:24
  Right, Okay, well, then I'm gonna pick a Squalicum receiver,
• 56:28
  you know. So we try to kind of play the game a little bit.
• 56:30
  And then sometimes it'll be like, oh, yeah, let's pick a
• 56:31
  squalcumb receiver this week, and then they throw the ball five total times and
• 56:35
  you're just like, are you kidding me? Lucy. It's almost like that
• 56:37
  guy listened and you try to purposely have you win or something. I don't
• 56:42
  know that being said Tyler before we started recording. We did a little coin
• 56:47
  flip here and you won on tails tales never fails. You won the coin
• 56:52
  toss, So that means you get to pick first. So go ahead,
• 56:55
  pick whoever it is you want, because you have literally literally every player in
• 57:00
  the county other than Blake Whitman. Oh, I can't pick Blake Whitman Man.
• 57:06
  Okay, we should do that. We should pick an assistant coach every
• 57:08
  week and one of us has to pick Whitman. It'll just go back and
• 57:12
  forth. Well, I guess you could pick Lyndon's defense, you know,
• 57:15
  so there's away. But I am you know, speaking of Lucy. You
• 57:22
  just brought him up about a minute ago. I am gonna go with the
• 57:27
  new quarterback, Marcus Nixon. I think that he can put up big fantasy
• 57:31
  numbers on the ground and the air, all sorts of things. Obviously,
• 57:36
  if he returns a kickoff or touchdown, I don't get those kinds of points.
• 57:38
  But what he does on offense, he could do it in multiple,
• 57:43
  multiple ways. So I like my chances with him as my fantasy quarterback for
• 57:46
  Week one. That is a brilliant pick. You won't you won't hear me?
• 57:52
  Give you props too often, Tyler, But that is a really you
• 57:54
  know what, I have a feeling Marcus Nixon might get picked three or four
• 57:58
  times this year, like you can imagine. Yeah, especially if things are
• 58:00
  going well, he might just go back and forth between you and me.
• 58:05
  So now I get the next two picks, and I'm gonna go I'm gonna
• 58:08
  go defense here, and I'm gonna pick Joshton Elmer on the defensive side of
• 58:15
  the ball in the front seven. All right, I look at a guy
• 58:19
  that not only does he rack up a lot of tackles, but he has
• 58:21
  some tackles for loss. I mean, that's the guy that's going to be
• 58:23
  all over the place when they take on granted falls and probably make things a
• 58:28
  little tough on them. Now, Tyler, this is where it gets interesting
• 58:30
  because we hadn't talked about this. If you pick a guy on offense and
• 58:36
  he plays defense too, you can pick him on defense. So I could
• 58:39
  go Joshton Elmer on offense here, Yeah, you could. I mean,
• 58:43
  he he can do it both in the same game. I've seen him have,
• 58:47
  you know, twelve tackles and run for two hundred yards in the same
• 58:51
  game. He's capable of that kind of stuff, and it wouldn't be the
• 58:53
  first time somebody did that, because I'm pretty sure I took the Funk Master
• 58:57
  Tommy Funk on both sides of the ball last here. I would imagine you
• 59:00
  did. Yeah, I do some crazy stuff, but you know what,
• 59:02
  I won by a million. I'm actually gonna go. I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 59:07
  go running back here, but I'm not gonna go Josh and Elmer, I'm
• 59:10
  gonna go down to Uh, We're gonna go. We're gonna go down to
• 59:15
  Vancouver and see what Colton Lenz does down there. For nook Zach Valley.
• 59:20
  That's a great pick obviously. I mean he the game he had last year
• 59:22
  against them was something. I mean, they might be keying on him a
• 59:25
  little bit, but I think he's pretty used to that by now, and
• 59:28
  he can put up some big numbers. Yep. Okay, So now I
• 59:32
  have two. And the key is always like, and you know this as
• 59:37
  well as I do, and I'm sure the listeners do too, is we're
• 59:40
  the only ones picking. So once a position is gone, we try not
• 59:44
  to pick that same position because it's almost like wasting of picks. So I
• 59:47
  gotta look at positions that have not been picked yet. So I'm gonna look
• 59:51
  at wide receiver and when I look at the matchups the guys returning, what
• 59:57
  I think could happen. I really like Tyson Bima of Lyndon Christian. I
• 1:00:04
  think that that's gonna be a close game. I think that I know coach
• 1:00:07
  Tripter loves to throw the ball, and it's a game where they might have
• 1:00:14
  to throw quite a bit just kind of stay with them. So I think
• 1:00:16
  Tyson Bima might have a breakout game. I love the big six four target
• 1:00:22
  over the middle or down the sideline, and so he'll be my receiver this
• 1:00:25
  week. And now I'm gonna look at defense. And I love these linebackers
• 1:00:31
  that we have in the county. I mean this is just every It's like
• 1:00:35
  every every few years there's like, you know, really good, really really
• 1:00:39
  good linebackers. And I love that we can pick him for back seven or
• 1:00:43
  front seven. You picked a great one for front seven. I'm gonna pick
• 1:00:47
  one for back seven and I'm gonna take Tyler Frost out of Bellingham. I
• 1:00:52
  think that he's gonna rack up some tackles for loss as well, maybe some
• 1:00:57
  sacks. Ton of tackles do we get any points for like a cracked face
• 1:01:01
  mask or anything like that. I don't know you're the one doing the stats,
• 1:01:06
  because you know then I'm I'm taking Tyler Frost all the day. But
• 1:01:09
  that will be my That'll be my back seven. Guy. I know this
• 1:01:13
  much. Tyler, you're sitting here trying to make up stats right now.
• 1:01:15
  I'm gonna I'm gonna look over the stats this week just to make sure you
• 1:01:19
  didn't throw in five extra points and win by four. Okay, I'm looking
• 1:01:22
  it over. Okay. So, and what you were talking about earlier is,
• 1:01:27
  hey, when when when I picked Colton Lance at running back? You
• 1:01:30
  don't need to pick a running back now, so you can you can wait
• 1:01:31
  so one of your last couple picks will be a running back because I can't
• 1:01:36
  pick another running back. So uh So, basically quarterback, front, seven,
• 1:01:40
  back seven, wide receiver, and running back are off the board,
• 1:01:44
  which leaves me what O line, defense and kicker is really what I should
• 1:01:50
  be looking for here, So I'm gonna go. You know what I mentioned
• 1:01:54
  how much I like Josh and Elmer on the offensive side of the ball also,
• 1:01:59
  so I'm gonna go with Radian's offensive line. I think they could put
• 1:02:01
  up some huge numbers. I mean, especially when you consider the fact that
• 1:02:06
  the way Tyler, do you want to give just a brief kind of like
• 1:02:08
  how we do it with the offensive line and what it is, because I'm
• 1:02:12
  looking at it going Jager five could throw for four or five touchdowns in this
• 1:02:15
  and that, and that kind of helps me in a way, right,
• 1:02:19
  Yeah, I think it's it's kind of a mixture. I have to kind
• 1:02:22
  of go back and look at how I did the scoring, because I believe
• 1:02:23
  it's I want to say it's like a point for every twenty five total yards,
• 1:02:29
  yes, okay, and then I think it's I want to say it's
• 1:02:36
  like six points for every touchdown scored by the offense, and that might be
• 1:02:42
  it. I think it's just purely those points and then the yards, yes,
• 1:02:46
  but really no no extra points of field goals, just touchdowns and and
• 1:02:52
  touchdowns by the offense only, and then every point for every twenty five total
• 1:02:57
  yards of offense. And so that's that's kind of what I'm in there.
• 1:03:00
  Is like when you look at it, they're gonna probably put up a lot
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  of passing and rushing and that helps me on both sides. So that's a
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  good thing. Yeah. Yeah, And that's a really good pick because I
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  think last year in this matchup, I'm ready went for over two hundred and
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  fifty passing and rushing each Oh baby, I'm winning Week one of those great
• 1:03:17
  games. Yeah, I'm winning Week one. So now I basically I kind
• 1:03:22
  of want to pick a defensive team or a kicker, and I don't.
• 1:03:25
  I don't like taking kickers too early here, So I'm gonna go Nooksack Valley's
• 1:03:30
  defense because I just want I feel great about that defense in general. But
• 1:03:37
  I don't know that I'm super high on the Mountain View offense this year.
• 1:03:42
  So I'm gonna take Nooksack Valley the Pioneers. They're on the defensive side of
• 1:03:45
  the ball, which covers pretty much, you know, your your typical stuff
• 1:03:50
  like an NFL fantasy where it's you know, some if you have some pick
• 1:03:53
  sixes, it's worth points and sacks and all that stuff. So yeah,
• 1:03:58
  Nooksack Valley Tyler. So that means you still need kicker, front seven,
• 1:04:01
  running back, defense, and offensive line. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna
• 1:04:06
  definitely go with a kicker first, just because that's the one position that hasn't
• 1:04:11
  been picked yet, and I was thinking about going with the freshman out of
• 1:04:16
  Lyndon, but he's got a way to turn a little bit. He'll have
• 1:04:19
  many chances. So I'm gonna I'm gonna go out to the old border city,
• 1:04:25
  the old Homestead and and take Matthew Hayes out of Blane. I you
• 1:04:31
  know, I liked what he did last year. He was the one A
• 1:04:34
  All Conference first team kicker last year. And you know he's I don't I
• 1:04:40
  don't think that coach Olsen is afraid to kick a field goal with him if
• 1:04:44
  needed. That will kind of boost your points a little bit. And uh,
• 1:04:47
  you know, I think they'll put some points on the board too,
• 1:04:49
  so that always, that always helps. And speaking of kickers, yeah,
• 1:04:54
  oh we gotta talk about this Tyler. Well, first off, I want
• 1:04:57
  to say one thing about Matthew Hayes really quickly. You said he was first
• 1:05:00
  team All Conference kicker. Yes, and they had quit kick, you had
• 1:05:06
  you had boom boom out there at Nooksack Valley and Tanyan Staton did a pretty
• 1:05:12
  damn good job himself out there. It was Tannyon Staton, right, Yeah.
• 1:05:16
  And Eli Jensen, Yeah, a guy that we picked quite a few
• 1:05:18
  times. I mean, that's that's saying something that about Matthew Hayes. Now,
• 1:05:21
  if you really want to talk about Matthew Hayes, what are we talking
• 1:05:25
  about here, Kickers Special Teams Tyler. We finally got a sponsor here and
• 1:05:30
  it's and it's kind of special in a way. So pretty much this is
• 1:05:34
  what we're gonna end up kind of saying, here's most special teams talk,
• 1:05:40
  special Teams Player of the Week, things like that. We now have a
• 1:05:43
  sponsor, Tyler, and it's kind of one that's a little bit special to
• 1:05:46
  us in a way because we talked about last couple of years Troy Pets being
• 1:05:53
  you know, kind of getting his own award almost because it seemed like,
• 1:05:56
  you know, he had a chance to win it, or he basically could
• 1:05:59
  have won it every dang week. We kind of had to give it to
• 1:06:00
  other people at times. And the last guy to win a Special Teams Player
• 1:06:04
  of the Week award I assume was him, right, Yeah, he won
• 1:06:09
  it for the state championship week, and he won it for the year the
• 1:06:12
  last two years Special Teams Player of the Year. That being said, Tyler,
• 1:06:15
  what is the connection with Troy Pets and our newest sponsor. Well,
• 1:06:19
  this is really really cool. This is this is uh Pets real Estate.
• 1:06:24
  Jacob Pets reached out and wants to sponsor the Special Teams Athlete of the Week
• 1:06:30
  this year. And I think that's such a really cool thing and the Special
• 1:06:32
  Teams Player of the Year as well. So it's going to be, you
• 1:06:36
  know, the Pets real Estate Special Teams Player of the Year and he's gonna
• 1:06:42
  get his logo right there on the graphic and and uh, that's just a
• 1:06:45
  really really cool deal. So there's a fun tie in with that. I
• 1:06:49
  love that he's supporting local youth sports. And if you if you own a
• 1:06:54
  business or you're you know someone that does it, wants to support walk and
• 1:06:57
  preps and keep this going, and you want to sponsor an award or anything
• 1:07:02
  like that or a team or games, Uh, just reach out to me,
• 1:07:05
  you know, reach out on social media and heck, you give me
• 1:07:10
  a call three six zero six eight four or four three zero six, I'll
• 1:07:13
  give it out right here. Uh and just and just and that's what that's
• 1:07:16
  what Jacob Petts did. He just texted me and said, you know what,
• 1:07:18
  I'm interested. We talked about it and uh, he's in. So
• 1:07:23
  it's a really cool deal. And uh so, yeah, so you're gonna
• 1:07:27
  so that's a that's a that's just a really really fun thing. And and
• 1:07:30
  I just want to I just want to thank Pets Real Estate for jumping on
• 1:07:33
  board. Yeah, and obviously the connection to the special Team side of things,
• 1:07:39
  you know, with with Troy, you were able to sit down talk
• 1:07:44
  to him and kind of get it figured out as to like, how can
• 1:07:45
  we all make it work or you know, how how can we make it
• 1:07:49
  work? What kind of package can I give you? So that's the thing.
• 1:07:51
  If you if there's something we talk about here, maybe it's the nuggets,
• 1:07:56
  man, maybe you want to sponsor Tyler's nuggets. That sounds maybe you
• 1:08:00
  want to sponsor Tyler I guess maybe you want to sponsor to pick them.
• 1:08:03
  Maybe you want to sponsor I don't know, the fantasy in general, whatever
• 1:08:08
  it is. If you have something, reach out to Tyler the kind of
• 1:08:13
  I mean my opinion, the easy obviously everybody in the county. Now,
• 1:08:15
  how's your phone number? But the easiest way is probably through watcome Preps on
• 1:08:21
  Facebook. Just go there and send a message to the Facebook page and Tyler
• 1:08:27
  will get you taken care of Tyler. That being said, you still have
• 1:08:31
  a pick. Actually technically you still have four more, but you got one
• 1:08:34
  more before I need to pick two. So yeah, you need front seven,
• 1:08:39
  running back, defense, and offensive line. Yeah. So I'm looking
• 1:08:43
  at front seven now kind of everything is there's no pressure now because you know
• 1:08:46
  the eight positions have been picked. So so I just want to go top
• 1:08:50
  of the board. And when I look at my top guys returning this year,
• 1:08:54
  it's John Stremler, So I'm one want to get him. I have
• 1:08:57
  an opening at front seventh, so I'm snaking him up right away. I
• 1:09:00
  know he can score some big, big points, whether it's at linebacker or
• 1:09:02
  coming off the edge's defensive end. So I'm going John Stremmler with my front
• 1:09:06
  seven pick. Very nice, mostly because I took Nooksack Valley's defense, so
• 1:09:13
  that kind of cancels me out there. I see what you're doing. Yeah,
• 1:09:18
  So I still need back seven, quarterback, kicker, and tight end.
• 1:09:23
  I think Tyler, I like your thought process here and I like my
• 1:09:26
  thought process from earlier, and I am gonna go with I am gonna go
• 1:09:33
  with Damien Perez in the back seven for Nooksack Valley, tons of tackles,
• 1:09:39
  tons of I mean, the guys all over the place, although it seems
• 1:09:42
  like most of that defense is all over the place. Yeah, I like
• 1:09:45
  Damian Perez here and then I'm gonna go Let's see, I went way down
• 1:09:50
  south to get a Colton Lens down there playing his game in Vancouver. I'm
• 1:09:56
  gonna go really far east and I'm gonna take Jeremiah Wright out when Lynnon Christian
• 1:10:00
  travels to Lakeside, I'll take Jeremiah right at quarterback. Yeah. I feel
• 1:10:04
  good about that one. Yeah, he's he put up huge numbers last year
• 1:10:10
  and he can he can put also one of those guys as a dual threat
• 1:10:12
  guy too, so that can get big, big points. It's funny because
• 1:10:17
  I'm looking at these inner Walking County games and those are always tough to pick,
• 1:10:24
  especially and uh but honestly, we want to this here. And you
• 1:10:29
  know, so far, Dylan Moa has had one varsity carry and it was
• 1:10:34
  for a touchdown. It was a three yarder. But playing tight end last
• 1:10:40
  year, he's gonna I think he's, you know, getting moved to the
• 1:10:42
  running back spot. I think he's gonna have a huge year. And let's
• 1:10:45
  just start it out right away. So I'm gonna go Dylan Moah is my
• 1:10:47
  running back for Mount Baker against Seaholme. I just think that I think that
• 1:10:53
  they're gonna want to keep the ball out of Seaholmes dynamic offense, and they're
• 1:10:57
  gonna have to pound the rock by doing that, and that's what coach knows
• 1:11:00
  how to do. So I think you're gonna maybe see him get the ball
• 1:11:03
  fifteen twenty times, and I think you can do some great things with it.
• 1:11:05
  So I'm gonna go Dilimo is my running back. And now I'm gonna
• 1:11:11
  go defense team defense, And there's a few ways I can go here.
• 1:11:17
  I was, you know, looking at maybe Nooksack Valley's defense, but you
• 1:11:23
  already snagged him. So I'm gonna go Squalacam's defense. I love what coach
• 1:11:29
  shal Font springs and they just they I mean earn and you're out. I
• 1:11:34
  mean you've seen him up close. I've seen him up close. Qualcam's defense
• 1:11:38
  is always pretty nasty. So I think that's I think it's a decent pick
• 1:11:41
  there. Well, the fact of the matter is, when you look at
• 1:11:44
  Week one, we kind of don't know what we're getting out of some of
• 1:11:46
  these opponents. But if you kind of want to with's what I'm looking for
• 1:11:50
  here, rolls you want to Yeah, you know, the BC teams traditionally
• 1:11:58
  have not done superbly well against the team so in Walcom County. So that's
• 1:12:05
  not a bad batt one. There. I need kicker and then receiver,
• 1:12:12
  tight end combo. There, let's see here you went with Blaine Kicker.
• 1:12:19
  So I'm gonna go. I just feel like Nooksack Valley is gonna put up
• 1:12:24
  some points. And so every time Colton Lens scores a touchdown, he's gonna
• 1:12:29
  score five, six, seven of them this week probably Yes, well,
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  no, in my luck, he won't even play. He'll he'll miss the
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  bus. Don't you do it? Lents. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
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  I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna pick our guy up. Boom
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  boom vigory out there at a Nooksack Valley. I just I see points,
• 1:12:49
  man, I just do. And if they can't get it in the guy's
• 1:12:51
  good he can he can hammer them home. So I still need a tight
• 1:12:56
  end and a wide receiver. And this is where it starts. To get
• 1:12:58
  interesting because you kind of gotta look around, right, Okay, who's got
• 1:13:01
  a quarterback that can throw? Who's gonna want to throw? What game is
• 1:13:06
  going to be close? Maybe they're gonna be down so they have to throw.
• 1:13:11
  You know, is there a defense maybe that that you know doesn't match
• 1:13:16
  up super well against receivers and kind of the thing that I'm looking at here
• 1:13:21
  is I'm looking at sea Home. I see a see Home. I'm looking
• 1:13:26
  at see Home. And now I got to just make a decision. Do
• 1:13:28
  I want Duckworth or do I want Watson? As I think about things here,
• 1:13:32
  Tyler, you know, I'm pretty good at thinking. It depends on
• 1:13:38
  who you talk to. H Actually, we've talked to the w i AA.
• 1:13:41
  It's thinking that's actually good. It's the saying that's It's the talking that's
• 1:13:44
  that they don't like so much, because you know what, I called them
• 1:13:48
  out over and over and over again about Husky Stadium and now where are they?
• 1:13:51
  Yeah, that's what I thought. I'm gonna go Braddick Duckworth because I
• 1:13:58
  think Mount Baker is going to do anything and everything they can to not let
• 1:14:01
  our guy jus get the ball. So I'm gonna go Braddick Duckworth because I
• 1:14:05
  you know, it's always hard in high school football to cover more than one,
• 1:14:10
  you know, to to to put extra emphasis on more than one guy.
• 1:14:14
  Yeah, especially when they're multiple receivers, you know. Yes, well,
• 1:14:17
  and let's face at, Brack Duckworth is about nine feet tall, so
• 1:14:23
  that helps a lot too. Yeah. Absolutely, I think you got yourself
• 1:14:26
  a good pick there. And all I have left is offensive line, and
• 1:14:30
  again you kind of took mine. I really was gonna want to take Meridians
• 1:14:34
  offensive line, but you kind of shut that down. But what I look,
• 1:14:41
  there's a few of them I could go with, you know, I
• 1:14:43
  mean Nook Sacks, I could go with Else's, I could go with Linden's.
• 1:14:49
  But when I look at the competition, I think Bellingham's offensive line has
• 1:14:55
  got a good shot here. I like the returners with Rourke O'Malley and Finnegan
• 1:14:59
  Jensen bringing Jesse Harword to that mix, and they're gonna plow some room for
• 1:15:03
  for some points. They put a big points last year against them, so
• 1:15:06
  I'm expecting the same and I'll be out there so I could I'll be able
• 1:15:11
  to pump the Hoggies up a little bit on the sideline. Maybe a little
• 1:15:14
  a little biased. No, I'm just kidding. But yeah, So I'm
• 1:15:17
  gonna go with the BayHawks offensive line, and that completes our teams. I
• 1:15:21
  can see it down there. Tyler on the sideline trying to tell Leonard what
• 1:15:25
  the call? Come on, get that offensive line going, guy? Yeah,
• 1:15:30
  yeah, all right, I'll be looking up to him. He's,
• 1:15:31
  you know, speaking of nine feet tall. Yeah, goodness, h Tyler.
• 1:15:35
  Do you do you put the fantasy our our picks? Do you put
• 1:15:40
  them on the preview? Uh? No, because I want them to listen
• 1:15:45
  to find out who we pick. Ah Touchet. That's a good point.
• 1:15:47
  Well then yeah, let's give it to you again here really quickly. Tyler
• 1:15:51
  at quarterback is taking Marcus Nixon. I took Josh and Elmer in the front
• 1:15:57
  seven on defense, and then I also took Colton Lentz at running back.
• 1:16:00
  Tyler, you took Tyson Bima at receiver, and then you took Tyler Frost
• 1:16:04
  in the back seven. I took Meridians offensive line and Nooksack Valley's defense.
• 1:16:10
  You took Matthew Hayes at kicker and John Stremmler in the front seven. I
• 1:16:13
  took Damien Perez in the back seven and jere Meyer right at quarterback. U
• 1:16:17
  Dylan Moa goes to Tyler for running back. By the way, Tyler,
• 1:16:21
  I hope he has as many yards and carries and touchdowns this week as he
• 1:16:28
  did in his career. Squally comes defense. Tyler, you got Squalcoms defense.
• 1:16:31
  I got a guy a boom Boom out there kicking h probably oh Troy
• 1:16:36
  Pets or excuse me, Jacob Petts and Pets real estate right for both kickers.
• 1:16:41
  We got we kind of gotta want to do that. Now we're gonna
• 1:16:44
  we're gonna have to write this down. He's gonna he's knocking through some extra
• 1:16:48
  points and some lots of points coming from our guy Boom Boom Braddock Duckworth tight
• 1:16:54
  end wide receiver. And then Tyler, you snagged Bellingham's offensive line right there
• 1:16:59
  at the end. And now we got one thing left. Tyler, it's
• 1:17:00
  a code word this week, not really a code word. You gotta pull
• 1:17:03
  your phone out, yeah, you know, find me. I might be
• 1:17:08
  in the sidelines. I might be up in the booth. I might be
• 1:17:11
  walking into the stadium at halftime. I might be walking out of the stadium
• 1:17:14
  in the second quarter and if you show me your phone. I posted these
• 1:17:20
  about a week ago and they've got great reactions so far. I'm hearing from
• 1:17:26
  people from every school about the wallpaper for your phone that shows that your schedule,
• 1:17:30
  the Walcom preps schedule, the one that I created. If you show
• 1:17:34
  me that on your phone, you will get a sticker. So so yeah,
• 1:17:39
  that's all you gotta do. You just gotta comes. You just gotta
• 1:17:42
  say, hey, look at my phone. Show it to me. If
• 1:17:43
  it's if it's the wallpaper your background for your phone, it's the wall And
• 1:17:46
  if it's the Walkom Preps wallpaper with with your team's schedule on it, Boom,
• 1:17:50
  you get a sticker. It's easy as that Walcom prep or Facebook dot
• 1:17:55
  com, Walcome preps. Right, Yes, that's the easiest place to find
• 1:17:59
  him. Where did you put the like a link on the link tree anything
• 1:18:02
  like that that could make it easy on people? Yeah, well there's uh,
• 1:18:08
  there's the we talked about that on the Instagram. We haven't done it
• 1:18:12
  on the link tree yet. I could do that, but you'll be able
• 1:18:15
  to find them on the Instagram and the stories or on Facebook. I mean,
• 1:18:20
  I shared it. That's the cool thing is I think like seven of
• 1:18:23
  the schools now have their own Like, you know, Blaine football has its
• 1:18:29
  own Facebook page, Nook Sac football has its own Facebook page. I think
• 1:18:31
  like seven of the ten schools now have their own Facebook page. So after
• 1:18:35
  I shared all ten of them on Facebook, I grabbed individual ones and shared
• 1:18:40
  them to their team pages as well. And that's where they're really blowing up.
• 1:18:43
  So so they're all over the place. Uh, you just go to
• 1:18:46
  walking Preps on on Facebook and you can find yours, you know, And
• 1:18:53
  I'm sure that they're out there a lot now and they've been being they've been
• 1:18:56
  getting shared quite a bit. So if you haven't seen it by now,
• 1:19:00
  I'm shocked. And I don't know if you could be a true fan.
• 1:19:03
  But that's okay, you're not going to break my heart. Wait, hold
• 1:19:05
  on, don't worry. Nobody's listening anyway. Exactly. Thank you, Harry
• 1:19:12
  Doyle. Uh, Tyler, that's it. We got anything else? No,
• 1:19:16
  I think we've covered it all week one. Baby, here we go,
• 1:19:18
  Tyler. Normally, I feel like this podcast goes like forty five minutes.
• 1:19:23
  I'll have to go back and look. I feel like this one doesn't
• 1:19:26
  usually go all that long. We're at an hour and twenty minutes. So
• 1:19:29
  the only person listening right now is our guy, Blake Whitman. Maybe Andy
• 1:19:32
  Olson, especially now that he's in County he wants to hear everything. Yeah,
• 1:19:38
  all right, well let's wrap it up right there. We give thanks
• 1:19:41
  really quickly again to Randy Small for the weather forecast Wacom County WX dot com
• 1:19:45
  and on Facebook dot com slash Wacom County Weather. H Yeah, Tyler,
• 1:19:51
  you said you're going to three games this week, while two halves and a
• 1:19:57
  third game. So again, if you see him out there, show your
• 1:20:00
  phone, show the screen the background schedule from what coome Preps on Facebook.
• 1:20:08
  You can find it right there. Maybe what you need to do, Tylers,
• 1:20:11
  like share it again or something, you know what I mean? Yea,
• 1:20:15
  but yeah, you can find it right there. Get yourself a free
• 1:20:16
  what coome Preps sticker for Tyler Anderson. I'm Rylan Spencer. You've been listening
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  to episode one eighty nine of the Welcome Preps podcast. We will talk to
• 1:20:26
  you next week