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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 354 - 2025 Bellingham Bayhawks Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Bellingham Senior or last Buffalo. You listened to Bellingham football
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  Speaker 1: preview on the Welcome Preps Podcast with Tyler Anderson. Go
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  Speaker 1: BayHawks readings and welcome into the walcom Preps podcast. This
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  Speaker 1: is episode three hundred and fifty four. It's the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five Belling m Bayhawk football preview. I am Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Anderson of Walkham Preps and I'm so ready to be
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  Speaker 1: talking football once again as we go on with the
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  Speaker 1: BayHawks now, and if you've missed the first two previews
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  Speaker 1: you can check them out. Already did the Blaine Border
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  Speaker 1: Rights and Meridian Trojans, and now it's time to jump
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  Speaker 1: into the two way Northwest Conference for a little bit
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  Speaker 1: and talk Bellingham BayHawks. Want to give a special thank
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  Speaker 1: you to senior Elias Good Buffalo for the intro. That's
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  Speaker 1: a kid football baseball player just gets bigger and stronger
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  Speaker 1: every time I see him, and very underrated on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line last year, and I think that he's poisoning
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good year both sides of the ball. Talking
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  Speaker 1: about a kid that played quarterback then was moved to
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  Speaker 1: tight end now is an offensive lineman. A progression you
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  Speaker 1: don't see a ton of so pretty cool for him
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  Speaker 1: and it's going to give a really big boost to
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  Speaker 1: that offensive line, I think. And where we get going
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  Speaker 1: much further, I want to give a shout out to
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  Speaker 1: one thing I also want to bring up is this
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  Speaker 1: is a really cool opportunity to have a a really
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  Speaker 1: great sponsor for this episode, the Bellingham Youth Football program,
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  Speaker 1: which is has done some great things and over the
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  Speaker 1: you know, over the past you know, six seven years,
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  Speaker 1: and and what's really cool is that a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these kids that have done some great things are now
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  Speaker 1: in these high school programs. So Bellingham Youth Football is
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  Speaker 1: sponsoring this specific preview, which is great because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of these kids go on to play at Bellingham High School.
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham Youth Football is the home league of the Bellingham
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  Speaker 1: Knights that was started in twenty eighteen. It's a tackle.
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  Speaker 1: There's tackle football teams in four divisions from second grade
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  Speaker 1: through eighth grade and they play in the highly competitive
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  Speaker 1: North Cascade Youth Football League and you can check that
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  Speaker 1: out at North Cascade Youth Football League dot com. Most
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  Speaker 1: of the players past and present at Bellingham Seum and
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  Speaker 1: Squalkum have all come through this competitive League's home games
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  Speaker 1: are played on Saturdays at Civic Stadium in Bellingham, and
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  Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen their ten U team, the Bellingham Knights
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  Speaker 1: team had Nolan Wright, col Terrell, Ben Leonard, Josh Kroll,
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  Speaker 1: Alex Miller, Theo Quiggle, Hudson, Neff Finn sites Greg Wire
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  Speaker 1: among others that were represented the Northwest at the national
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  Speaker 1: tournament in Canton, Ohio, SOT. Pretty cool deal and recently
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  Speaker 1: the Bellingham Knights took two championships in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: beating Arlington in the twelve U division and Stanwood in
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  Speaker 1: the ten U division. So really cool for them to
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  Speaker 1: latch on with WALKOM preps and support, knowing that it's
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  Speaker 1: just going to keep feeding, right. I mean, these kids
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  Speaker 1: that are out there now playing for the Knights are
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  Speaker 1: going to be playing varsity football at Civic Stadium under
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  Speaker 1: the lights, and I'll be talking about them in a
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  Speaker 1: few years. So it's a really cool deal to bring
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  Speaker 1: them in and have them apart with this sponsor. So
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  Speaker 1: they're sponsoring the Bellingham Football Preview and so let's get
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  Speaker 1: let's get right into it. Head coach is Adam Lennard.
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  Speaker 1: He's in his fourth season with the BayHawks. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a career record of eleven wins nineteen losses. Play their
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  Speaker 1: home games at Civic Stadium. Last year, it didn't go
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  Speaker 1: quite as planned two and eight last year, after a
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  Speaker 1: pretty successful year the year before. Of course, this was
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  Speaker 1: their first year back in the Northwest Conference, which is
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about two way football in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Washington, it doesn't get any better than the Northwest Conference.
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  Speaker 1: Four teams from last year's season were in the final
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  Speaker 1: eight in the state tournament, So no other conference can
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  Speaker 1: say that to a very very just incredibly deep up
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  Speaker 1: and down. So Bellingham's got their work cut out for him.
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  Speaker 1: But I tell you what, every every school I go to,
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  Speaker 1: there's like a word that pops to mind when I
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  Speaker 1: go out to practice, and the one for Bellingham is optimism.
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  Speaker 1: And there's just there's so much room for growth, and
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  Speaker 1: there's and there's been this influx of younger talent that
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  Speaker 1: has been coming through, and I'm really excited to see
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  Speaker 1: how things go. Last year it was kind of there
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  Speaker 1: was just the pieces didn't fit for the first third
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  Speaker 1: of the season, and when they made a change, especially
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  Speaker 1: on offense, things started clicking. Well. Of course, your offense
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  Speaker 1: days on the field longer, your defense will play better.
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  Speaker 1: Wins started to come about. Games were much more competitive,
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  Speaker 1: and I think going forward it's only going to help
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  Speaker 1: out more knowing what to do from week one, where
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  Speaker 1: there was still some confusion last year at week one
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  Speaker 1: on personnel and where they were going to play kids.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm really excited going forward to see what they do,
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  Speaker 1: especially out of the gate. You know, I saw that
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  Speaker 1: game against Lakewood last year, and if they played Lakewood
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  Speaker 1: in Week nine instead of Week two, they win that game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, That's how it was just a different you know,
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  Speaker 1: the timing a lot of this was different. They almost
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  Speaker 1: got Burlington. That was a really really close game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's some wins to be had there. Of course, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have to say goodbye to some key players. Gave
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  Speaker 1: Van Hofwagen Tyler Frost, Bli Henderson, Finnegan Jensen, Nate loss Kaiser,
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  Speaker 1: Barker and Owen Campbell are kind of the main guys
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  Speaker 1: there that will not be with the Bellingham BayHawks this year,
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  Speaker 1: but they do return some big time players. And let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the featured four for a moment. The first one,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is Joe Harward now who's now a senior,
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  Speaker 1: six foot four, two hundred pounds, mismatched nightmare, super athletic.
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  Speaker 1: He's like a racehorse, you know, you just you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's only one speed with him, and watching him out
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  Speaker 1: of practice, he really stands out, you know, running in
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  Speaker 1: the four fives right now, at that size, he can
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  Speaker 1: go up and get the ball. Just a tremendous athlete,
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  Speaker 1: three sport kid. So you're throw in all those things
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  Speaker 1: together and it's it's really exciting, and I really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really pumped to see what he does both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. And he's a guy that just wants
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  Speaker 1: to compete all the time, and you know, you can't
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  Speaker 1: ask for more than that, and so that's what's really
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  Speaker 1: really exciting for for the BayHawks. I would imagine a
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  Speaker 1: lot of teams are gonna double double coverage him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: double cover him, and so yeah, other kids are gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to step up, and I'm sure that will happen.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got you got athletes all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: The next one that featured four would be Joshua Croll,
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  Speaker 1: the senior center. What a fun kid. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: he's so fun to talk to and you know, as
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  Speaker 1: coach Leonard will say, that kid was born to play center,
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  Speaker 1: very very good. Was an All Conference second team selection
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  Speaker 1: last year for the BayHawks. He's as to be his
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  Speaker 1: third year as a starter. He's probably gonna play some
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  Speaker 1: defense as well, which will be a welcome addition on
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  Speaker 1: the other side of the ball. But man, that offense,
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  Speaker 1: you know the again a lot like Meridian I talked
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  Speaker 1: about yesterday. They have a lot of different They could
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of formations. You know, you could be
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  Speaker 1: in the shotgun, you could be right under center and
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  Speaker 1: as a center, you know, you're there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different things you have to know. But doing it for
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  Speaker 1: three years now, that's just a huge advantage for Bellingham
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  Speaker 1: to have. Another big advantage, Owen Hanstead, the you know
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  Speaker 1: the ball, the Bayhawk Ballhawk, the Swiss Army knife. So
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  Speaker 1: a funny story. I go around to all the schools
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  Speaker 1: and take head shots and and I have each kid
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  Speaker 1: fill out this document basically or this form and to
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  Speaker 1: hold in front of their stomach when I take the picture,
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  Speaker 1: so I know who it is they're you know their
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  Speaker 1: jersey number, height, weight, what school they go to, what
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  Speaker 1: class they're in, and then their positions. On his positions,
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  Speaker 1: he wrote down like eight positions. And it's so true
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  Speaker 1: that kid could line up anywhere offense, defense, special teams.
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  Speaker 1: Out of everybody returning in Walkham County, returns the most interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: he returns the most passes defended, he returns the most
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  Speaker 1: kickoff return yardage. He does it all emergency quarterback. Might
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  Speaker 1: be used more as a running back this year. He
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  Speaker 1: could do a little bit of everything. And he's just
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  Speaker 1: such an exciting player. And it, I mean it's from
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  Speaker 1: day one. You're talking his freshman year. Week one on
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  Speaker 1: the road. He has a pick six as a freshman
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  Speaker 1: and it hasn't slowed down since. That kid has played
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  Speaker 1: a lot of varsity football. Now entering his senior year.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to believe that he's going to be a senior.
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  Speaker 1: He just seems like, you know, I mean, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: He's played so much football and it's been he's been
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  Speaker 1: so fun to watch. And the fourth one in the
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  Speaker 1: featured four is Ben Leonard, the junior quarterback No. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: probably about five nine hundred and forty pounds maybe, but boy,
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  Speaker 1: when he got in there, it really made a difference.
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  Speaker 1: The quick reads, you know, very accurate, smart player, knows
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  Speaker 1: when to get get rid of it, and just it
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  Speaker 1: just everything clicked on that offense once he was in there.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I talked about it during the Blame
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  Speaker 1: podcast where coach Olsen was talking to me about how
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  Speaker 1: trying to get athletes to come out and play football,
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  Speaker 1: and he goes, you can do that. Football is one
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  Speaker 1: of those sports that if you're a great athlete, it
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  Speaker 1: can transcend it sorry, it could transition into being a
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  Speaker 1: great football player. He goes, other than quarterback, you can,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can. You can be great at whatever
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  Speaker 1: position if you're a good athlete and if you have
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  Speaker 1: that kind of skill set, and quarterback is such is
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  Speaker 1: such a you know, you have to use your brain
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  Speaker 1: so much, and you have to have so much experience
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  Speaker 1: at buying center, and you have to be able to
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  Speaker 1: read things a certain way. You got to know where
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  Speaker 1: everyone's going to be. And when Ben Leonard came in
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  Speaker 1: last year or third of the way through the season,
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  Speaker 1: it was different. You know, he's still threw for over
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  Speaker 1: a thousand yards played, didn't didn't get to play the
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  Speaker 1: whole season. But now he comes in as the starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: just a junior. Excited for his progression as well. And
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  Speaker 1: then who will be Bellingham's breakout player? I'm going with
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  Speaker 1: Calvin van Hofwagen now, but vyan Hofwagen name is known
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  Speaker 1: with Gabe. Gabe was a three year starter both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the ball, played a lot of positions as well.
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  Speaker 1: Calvin is is really good. Just a junior. He'll be
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  Speaker 1: a tight end, he'll be a linebacker, very very athletic.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, you know, Gabe was the heart and soul,
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  Speaker 1: you know, put everything into every you know, every play
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  Speaker 1: that he had, left it all out on the field.
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  Speaker 1: And Calvin might be a more athletic version of his brother.
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  Speaker 1: And you can't touch Gabe's heart. But boy, Calvin is
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  Speaker 1: going to be really, really good, and so I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: for his progression as well, being a tight end just
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  Speaker 1: like his older brother, being a linebacker just like his
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  Speaker 1: older brother. I think that's going to be a perfect
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  Speaker 1: fit for this Bellingham offense and defense. So those are
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  Speaker 1: my that's my featured four and my breakout player. Let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about last season really quickly. I know I touched
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  Speaker 1: on it earlier. They started the year with a heartbreaking
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  Speaker 1: loss to chief Self on the road, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a crazy game because I remem the It was a
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  Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon and I think I had it on YouTube
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  Speaker 1: while I was at Blaine watching the Blaine Renton game
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  Speaker 1: and I was just kind of listening to it and
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham scored. Man, goodness was it. Like it was really early.
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  Speaker 1: It might have been the first or second play from
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage and that was their only score of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And I think chief Self scored late in the fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter to send it to overtime. Both teams had tries, it,
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  Speaker 1: kicks and overtime. It went into a few overtimes. Chief
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  Speaker 1: Selth wins ten to seven. That right, there is a
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  Speaker 1: game that's different, if you know, if they had things
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  Speaker 1: kind of figured out offensively, they lost to Lake with
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  Speaker 1: forty six to fourteen. And that one was the injury.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there were so many players injured in that
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  Speaker 1: game that it was you know, it's just one of
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  Speaker 1: those nights where it's just it's not rolling right, and
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  Speaker 1: they had a lot of injuries, especially in the secondary,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going against the Lake with team that's going
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  Speaker 1: five wide, so it was just a it was just
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  Speaker 1: a matchup problem. Next week against the state champion, an
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  Speaker 1: accord of Seahawks did not go well, and of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hey, they're in a chorus. They won forty
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  Speaker 1: nine nothing, and then they had to turn around to
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  Speaker 1: play Archs Bisuet of Murphy the next week and lost
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  Speaker 1: fifty four to thirteen. But it was in that game
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  Speaker 1: at halftime when the switch was made Ben Leonard quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Joe Harvard to wide receiver. They hooked up a few
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  Speaker 1: times and things started to click, and then you start
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  Speaker 1: to see things a little differently after this. Now they
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  Speaker 1: beat Granted Falls seventeen fourteen. They play a really close
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  Speaker 1: game with Burlington Edison lose twenty eight to twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: They played against Sea Home in the pouring down rain.
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham led seven to nothing in that because of an
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  Speaker 1: early pick six by Joe Harward. The Seaholme wins that
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  Speaker 1: one twenty seven to seven, Bellingha turns around and throttles
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  Speaker 1: Marysville Pilchuk thirty three to six. They lose to squalic
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  Speaker 1: them thirty nine to twenty, and then lost a double
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  Speaker 1: overtime game on the road to Blame thirty three to
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven. So you look at these games, they're in
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  Speaker 1: all these games after the switch was made. So really,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, optimism is the key word here. And
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  Speaker 1: if you look at their schedule for this year, just
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  Speaker 1: the one change that I can see. Instead of in
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  Speaker 1: week one, instead of playing Chief Self on the road,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be playing Linnwood on the road. That'll
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  Speaker 1: be at Edmunds Woodway High School on Week one on
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  Speaker 1: that Friday at five pm. So my guess is probably
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  Speaker 1: a doubleheader there. They like to do those at that place,
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  Speaker 1: five pm, eight pm game, So the early game Bellingham
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  Speaker 1: at Linwood in Week one. The rest of the schedule
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  Speaker 1: remains the same with just the home away flip flop.
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  Speaker 1: So they're home against Lakewood, home against Anna Chordis at
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  Speaker 1: Our Bishop at Granite Falls, home against Brilliantonness and at
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  Speaker 1: Sea home at Maryzel Pilchuck and then finish off the
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  Speaker 1: season on Halloween night home against Squalkum, which could be
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  Speaker 1: a really fun game, very spooky, very goulish if you will,
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  Speaker 1: on Halloween night, which is always a thrill. So so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so that's how their schedule looks at the moment. We
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  Speaker 1: could go through some of these positions here. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I always start out at quarterback and again Ben Leonard returns.
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  Speaker 1: He completed one hundred and nine out of one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty three passes last year for one one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty seven yards, twelve touchdowns to just seven interceptions.
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  Speaker 1: And I can't stress it enough. That was basically in
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  Speaker 1: what six and a half games something like that, So
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  Speaker 1: you extrapulate that, plus he was just a sophomore learning
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  Speaker 1: on the job. This year, I think he has, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the ability to really up those numbers. He has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of weapons back that he threw to last year.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think they've got like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: sixty at least sixty year boy, well it's way more
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  Speaker 1: than that. It's like close to eighty or more recept
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  Speaker 1: varsity receptions from last year. So you got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys coming back that have had that have you know,
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  Speaker 1: caught passes which is a huge deal too. You can
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  Speaker 1: bring a quarterback back, but do you are you bringing
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  Speaker 1: the weapons back? And they definitely are so Ben Leonard
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  Speaker 1: I think is looking to have a pretty darn good year.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a backup quarterback could be maybe an Owen Hanstead.
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  Speaker 1: You know he has taken snaps before he played. He
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  Speaker 1: played a half the game at An A Cortus last year.
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  Speaker 1: He played a little bit even as a freshman. He
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  Speaker 1: even he boy his his sophomore year. They was that
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  Speaker 1: the year it might have been this freshman software where
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  Speaker 1: they went through like five or six quarterbacks. He's always
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  Speaker 1: been a guy that knows enough of the playbook that
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  Speaker 1: could get in there and play if needed. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: surprised if Joe Harvard is by center doing some wildcat stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They would do that from time to time sometimes and
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  Speaker 1: if it if it worked, they could they could push
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  Speaker 1: the the momentum a little bit, kind of pushed the tempo.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I should say, you know, huddle up, do
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  Speaker 1: it again? You catching him off guard. He's a great athlete,
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  Speaker 1: hard to hard to you know, figure him out, so uh,
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  Speaker 1: you never know, you could see that you could see
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  Speaker 1: him lining up taking some direct snaps and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he threw for two hundred ninety six yards and a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown last year too, so he could throw the ball
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  Speaker 1: if needed. But boy, he's he is a playmaker, so uh,
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  Speaker 1: you never know. But Ben Leonard, he is QB one
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  Speaker 1: and they'll go forward with that. At the running back spot.
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  Speaker 1: I think Tyree Jackson, I think it's his turn. You know,
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  Speaker 1: as a sophomore, he got kind of put into the
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  Speaker 1: game because of injuries against Blaine and did a did
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  Speaker 1: a good job. Last year, he ran for one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty one yards, so he got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: you know, some varsty time there and but he was
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: playing behind you know, Tyler Frost and those guys. So
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be his time. And he's a little bigger now,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: a little stronger, a little faster, and he's a senior.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: I think that Tyree Jackson is you know, he was
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: kind of in my thought for a breakout player of
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the year for for Bellingham. He's got a really good
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: shot at it. You could see Owen Hanstead back there
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: as a running back. You know, I can't recall if
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: he's actually lined up as a tailback in that offense
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: before He's been outside. You know, he's been running in motion,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: he's been behind center. I don't think he's actually lined
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: up at running back, but it wouldn't surprise me at
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: all if it works out really well. So those are
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: probably the two main guys wide receiver. They're they're looking
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: pretty darn good. You know, excuse me. Joe Harwood returns
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: And again, this is six and a half games as
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a wide receiver, and he had forty catches for six
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty six yards and nine touchdowns. Basically every
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: fourth reception was in the end. He was a playmaker.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: He averaged over sixteen yards a catch, and like I said,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: six foot four on the outside, strong, fast, wants to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: go up and get the ball. He believes that ball
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: is his. Every time super athletic, it's gonna be you know.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: He kind of reminded. I think I said this even
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: last year. Once he started playing receiver, it looked like
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson out there. If you guys remember Megatron with
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions back in the day, who didn't have
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a long NFL career, but he made the Hall of Fame,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: and it was because of his playmaking ability and his
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: overall size and just strength and speed and everything combined.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: That's what Joe Harward looks like out there, and it's
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: really really fun to watch. So he had a great,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: great connection with Ben Leonard in that second half of
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the season. So I expect some big, big things there.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Don't be surprised if he's moved more inside, not quite
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: like a tight end, but like a kind of almost
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: like a wing or a a slot rece receiver that could,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you know, try to find the mismatch. You put a
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: linebacker on him, and you're you know, you're screwed. He's
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: just too fast and so and he's so big and strong.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: He could be a great blocker in the run game.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: So they probably will move him around a little bit.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Milo right was, you know, started all year on the outside.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: He had eighteen catches for one hundred and sixty six yards.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I tell you what. They had something going there for
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a while where it looked like if the if the dB,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: you know, if the corner was off Milo by like
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: ten yards, that was an easy six yard completion. He
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: just knew to like go like four or five yards,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: sit down, and the ball was coming, he'd catch it,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: lean forward and get an easy six six yards. Seems
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: like that happened a lot. And Milo right, very smart kid,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: you know, point guard on the basketball team, athletic. You know,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: he's got great hands. So that's always just a nice
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: thing to have where boy, if you have a good
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: someone you can rely upon to get that first down
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: on third and four or something like that, awesome to
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: have that on the outside. You know, you could see
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Owen Hanstead, who's caught a lot of passes in his career.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: He caught nineteen last year. He could be a threat
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: on the outside. Nick Amanson is a kid that I'm
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: really intrigued by. Didn't have a varsity catch last year,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: but you know, you look at him and practice as
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: a good sized kid, I could see him putting in,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of time on the outside and
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: getting balls thrown his way. You know, they're probably gonna
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: be doubling Harvard a lot, so these other guys are
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: gonna get their opportunities. And Ben Leonard's the perfect quarterback
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: for that because he can see things really quickly adjust
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and then go to the correct spot. And so these
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: receivers you better have your head on a silver and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: be ready because that ball might be coming out quick
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and you just got to be ready for it. Another
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: kid would be Matthew Steele, primarily a defensive back last year,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: started as a corner, but he could get in the
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: mix there as a wide receiver. So there's lots of
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: options there at a wide receiver. Aid Aiden Poehler last
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: year caught a touchdown pass, so he comes back. He'll
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: be a senior. So there's lots of guys that bring
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: back varsity receptions, which is a lot of fun at
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that tight end spot. Calvin van Hofwagen, who I talked
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: about earlier, he had four catches last year. He's gonna
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: take over that spot that his brother Gabe had. And
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: when they went double tight last year, Elias good Buffalo
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: was the other tight end. He did have one catch.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: He'll be moving to the offensive line this year, so
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: that opens up a spot if they want to go
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: double tight, you might see Joe Harvard, you know, go
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: in there, put his put his hand on the ground
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and see what happens there. Or heck they got they
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: got Barrett Johnson out that this year, who is a
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: basketball player six foot six at least. So I I
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: loved seeing that great, great kid and he could be
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a guy that you know, you get into the red zone,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: you say, hey, just throw it up, especially if he
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: got doubling on Harvard, do you put you know, you
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: put Barret Johnson on the other side. He's pretty new
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to playing football, but you know, you can't teach six
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: foot six or six foot seven or whatever he is.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So so they have options. So there's some great things
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to like there about Bellingham's offense there and then on
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the offensive line, you know, there are some pieces that
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: are coming back. The main one obviously Joshua Croll. We
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: talked about him third years now starting at center, which
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: is a huge deal for that offense. You got to have,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you know, that that guy that you can rely upon.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: They've had some really good linemen over the last couple
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: of years that are now moved on and it's time
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: for new guys to to kind of, you know, show
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: their way. Elias good Buffalo now about six three, two
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy pounds. I could see him being a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: main force as an offensive tackle. Athletic kid, you know,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: former skill player, like I said, former tight end, former quarterback,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you know, good good hand eye coordination, good baseball player,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: lots of RBIs. I know that doesn't mean that he's
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: gonna be a good offensive lineman, but I just like
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: the well roundedness of his game and his his abilities,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: So you know, you can see him becoming a pretty
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: good offensive tackle. Uh. There's another kid, Aaron Shausse that
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: is a younger kid that I believe. He's a sophomore,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and he I think could be doing some pretty cool
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: things too. He's kind of that next guy of the
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: youngsters coming up for Bellingham. He's a guy they're going
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: to rely upon for quite a while, so I can
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: see him as an offensive tackle. The guards, you know,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Julian Flentes, Jock Kislove, Ratson, There's a couple of guys
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: there that you know are going to be able to
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: get their time. They have good size. I mean we're
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: talking you know, we're talking two fifty five a guy
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: on average probably with these guys from from tackle to tackle,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: so you you know, it's pretty good. I mean Bellingham.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: You know, people kind of dismiss Bellingham sometimes if you
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: don't be careful, they're gonna come up and get you in.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: So I you know, I'm excited about the offense. It's
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: it's it's the way they want it. From week one,
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: which that's the part that I get really excited about,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: is they know what they have going forward and they're
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: gonna take care of business that way. You look on
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the defensive side, and of course you lose the two
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: big thumpers in the middle of the field with Tyler
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Frost and Gave van Hofwagen. So so what do you
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: do right? You know you're gonna have strengths elsewhere. Elias
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Good Buffalo returns on the defensive line. I said earlier
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: that Josh Kroll might be playing some some defense, which
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: will help. I think Julian Montoya will be, you know,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a good player that also comes back. He had a
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: tackle for loss last year. Eli Good Buffalo at five
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: tackles for loss. He was just a force. You know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: those guys will kind of be manning that defensive line
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: linebacker spot obviously big shoes to fill. But you got
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Calvin van Hofwagen who had twenty four tackles last year
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: six and a half tackles for loss, also broke up
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: four passes at a fumber, recovery and interception. He's bigger, stronger,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: he'll probably head up that linebacker spot. You could see
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Joe Harward being kind of like that strong safety outside linebacker,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: you know, hybrid, kind of like Bli Henderson was last year.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Just an athlete that all of a sudden he could
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: be coming off the corner and bringing that four or
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: five speed downhill and could really lay a thump on somebody.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Sunny Powell is another kid that is just you could
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: put him anywhere. I mean, offensive line, running back, defensive line, linebacker.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Hecky because of out of with all the injuries last
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: year against Lakewood, he had to go out and play
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: corner for a little bit. This is a kid that
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: can do a lot of things. He's just a football player.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Twenty three tackles, five and a half tackles for loss
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: last year. I could see him fitting in the mix
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: in that linebacker spot, kind of taking over that Tyler
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Frost role. And and maybe he'll just secure that down
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to where he won't be moved around every other drive.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: You know, he could he could, you know, hold on
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to that spot. Uh. Sebastian Bowers is another kid that's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: uh that's played some linebackers, so he got some You
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: got some some guys there. Tyree Jackson could be playing
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: some linebacker. He had he had five tackles last year,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: so there is some varsity experience at that spot. Despite
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: having those two main guys that they've had for years,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: uh in those in those roles. UH. In the secondary,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: They've returned starter Matthew Steele on as one corner last year.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: He had six passes broken up, he had an interception,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: he had two tackles for loss, eighteen and a half tackles.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: I've heard some great things about him. You know, I
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: always love asking every coach how camp went, how you know, basically,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: how this, you know June and July and how how
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: did that go? Because you see a lot then and
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: every coach always kind of has a guy that they're
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: eyes open up and they're like, boy, he looked great.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: He really impressed. And Rebellingham. You know, it was Matthew Steele,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: which is just great to hear because that's a kid
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: that you know, has probably grown quite a bit and
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you know, now showing what he can do his second
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: year as a starter. So I'm really excited for him
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: on one side as a corner. The other side, it
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: could be Nick Onminson, could be Zach Gersl. You know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: two really good sized kids. I mean those are big
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: corners over six feet tall, so it could be a
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you know, really physical part of the team. Joe Harvard
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: played corner last year at six foot four, but again,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: moving him to more of a strong safety outside linebacker
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: type opens the door for some of these other kids
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: as a safety. I mean, Owen Hanstead, he's got ten
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: interceptions in his career. He's just looking to add to that.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I wish that I knew what the actual school record
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: was for interceptions in a career. You know, beelling him
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: has a unbelievably rich history going back over one hundred
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: years with high school football, and they've had some dudes
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: in the past, but collecting that data is really tough,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: especially on the defensive side of the ball. So basically
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: what I have on my record book on walkompreps dot
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: com is just from game film that I've watched and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I've just you know, I just watch as much as
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I can and then I'm able to count from there,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you know, just tally from there. So I wish I
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: knew what the actual record was, But man, as far
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: as I know the Walkham County record, I think it's
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: like seventeen in a career. Ryan Vandiste out of London
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: had seventeen interceptions in his career that I think that's
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the Walkham County record. So he's seven away. Heck, he
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: had seven interceptions as a sophomore. That kid just isn't
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: He just knows how to be in the right place
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: at the right time. Plays with a little bit of
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder. You know, smallest guy in
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the field has something to prove. I love that. I mean,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I you know, like I, like I said before, I
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: was the smallest guy on my team when I played.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And so when you have that and you have the
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: athletic ability to go along with it, that's scary. You know.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Aiden Poehler is another kid that is that could play safety.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: So you got you got some guys back there really
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: excited about what Owen does. His first senior year last year,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: he had fifty nine and a half tackles, had a
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: couple of interceptions, four passes broken up. Like I said,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: he had the pick six as a freshman. He had
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: seven more interceptions as a sophomore, including I think a
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: six game streak where there were six games in a
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: row where he had an interception, which that could be
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a welcome kind of record for all I know, and
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: then he had a seven total plus two last year,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: so he's at ten right now and just looking to
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: add to that. And it's great when you have that
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: center fielder back there that can just see everything and
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: diagnose things quickly and then and then just jump it
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: and go for it. You know, he has the goonies
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to go for it, and that's awesome too. So in
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the kicking game, you know, it's tough because they had
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a young kicker Cameron Boch last year and I don't
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: know if he's turning out for football or not really
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: impressive left footed kicker. If he does, that's fantastic. I
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: just don't know. But if he's not, heck, you know,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you go to the Swiss army knife. You ask Owen
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Hanstead to do it because he's done it in the past.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: He could kick, he could punt. Joe Harvard did some
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: punting too. Owen averaged over thirty six yards of punt,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Joe averaged over thirty four yards of punts. You got
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: your bringing back guys that have done a lot of
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: these things. And then in the return game again, I'm
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: gonna go right back to Owen Hanstead three hundred and
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: eight kickoff return yardage last year. I mean that's that's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a lot. Joe Harvard had one hundred and fourteen, Tyree Jackson,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Calvin Vanna Halfak and these guys got in the kick
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: off return game. Harvard and Hanston also returned punts last year.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: So you're bringing back a lot of guys with varsity experience.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: You know, you're bringing back guys that you know, like
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I was talking about, especially with Handstead in his case,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: you know a guy that's been playing for four years
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: at the varsity level. It's, uh, it's gonna be fun.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Like I said, optimism, I think is the key word
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: for them because I think they look around the league
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and they see games that they are that are gettable
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: for them, and they see opponents that are really really
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: good that's only going to make them better. And it's
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: like they say, iron sharpens iron, right. So I think
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it's great that they're back in the Northwest Conference. I
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: hope they stick around. I think they will. I think
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: the future is bright for them, especially when you look
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: at the Bellingham youth football program and you see guys
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: that are coming up and you know, I don't know
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: if a kid's going to go to see home or
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: squallalk them or Bellingham, but you just kind of see
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: how it all shapes up and and where they go,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and it's exciting and right now, you know, I kind
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of look at it kind of like the well, I've
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: almost said the Oakland Raiders, but the Las Vegas Raiders.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: You know, as a just an NFL fan, the NFL's
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: better when the Raiders are good, you know what I mean,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Like it's just one of those things where they're like
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: a staple, but they just haven't been good for a
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: long time. And that's kind of like walking County football
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: is better when Bellingham is good, and boy when they're cooking,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: And like that Bellingham Sea home game back in the day.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I've got old game film from the early nineties, late
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: eighties when they played and the Civic Stadium has completely
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: packed both sides. It is so loud. All you hear
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: is the fans on the game film. And I hope
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: it can get back to that. I know, adding Squalorcum
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: kind of thinned it out a little bit, but when
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: all three teams are really rolling, that's a great, great thing.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: And the way that Bellingham youth football program has developed,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: it's been feeding into all three programs and so you know,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the future is bright. It's a really fun time to
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: be in the Walkam County area for high school football
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and and I'm just glad that they have that optimism
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: and you can feel it at practice, you can. You know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: it's a great turnout of kids, the positive attitudes, the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: assistant coaches, everything, it's it's a lot of fun. So
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: really excited to kind of see what what Bellingham does
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: this year. You know, I think, like I said earlier,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: there are winnable games there. I think, you know, the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: game at Linwood. Linwood is you know, never not the
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: best team in the world. If you can take care
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: of business there, host Lakewood at home, and and uh
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: you know, Lakewood could be down a little bit, and
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you kind of want I don't want to say it's
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: a revenge game, but boy, there was a lot of
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: kids missing in that game, and so you're going to
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: show them something that they haven't seen. You're gonna show
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: a lot new kids there. Yeah, and the courtis and
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Archbishop are going to be extremely tough. But then you
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: know there's there's some winnable games after that as well. So, uh,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: you know, Bellingham, I think they're definitely gonna improve on
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: their two wins from last year. And and I you know,
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  Speaker 1: their biggest fan is right here with miss Walker preps
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  Speaker 1: my my sweet dear Laura. So she's always rooting on
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  Speaker 1: those Bellingham BayHawks. And hopefully we're really hoping that she'll
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: be okay enough to get out of the house and
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  Speaker 1: go to a game this year. So I'm really hopeful
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: for that and excited. She wants to see the BayHawks
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  Speaker 1: in person. And you know, some good things can happen
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  Speaker 1: if that happens, and so I just hope she'll be
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  Speaker 1: feeling right for that. It would just it would make
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  Speaker 1: my day too. So so good luck to the BayHawks
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  Speaker 1: this year. Thank you so much to Bellingham Youth Football
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  Speaker 1: for sponsoring this preview, and they're also going to be
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: sponsoring every story that's written about Bellham football throughout the season,
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  Speaker 1: so all the ride ups after the games, Bellingham Youth
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  Speaker 1: Football is all over it. So thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's gonna be a tremendous partnership going going forward.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really really excited about that. And and what they're
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: doing for me is they're they're helping secure my lifelong
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: dream of being able to do this for a living.
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  Speaker 1: So uh, it's a it's a such a win win,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: and I couldn't be more thankful, So thank you so much.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Also thank you to Kirk Mayberry Farm Kurtmayberry Farm dot com.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Check it out and yeah, that's the Bellingham football preview.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Really really excited to see them go. And uh, you know,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: stay tuned for later on today when the Squalicum Storm
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  Speaker 1: preview comes out. So that's just a few short hours
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  Speaker 1: from now, and until then, I'll catch you later