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- 0:00This is Sclalcom Senior Elijah Ingram and you're listening to the Top one hundred Countdown
- 0:04on the Welcome Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland Full Storm, Greetings, and
- 0:33welcome into the WACOM Preps podcast. This is episode two twenty one, the
- 0:38first up ten podcasts in the Top one hundred Countdown. I'm Ryland Spencer.
- 0:41Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson of What Come Preps. Tyler,
- 0:46how are we doing? What are you talking about? It? Sound like
- 0:49I was like falling over. Yeah, this is this is where it gets
- 0:53fun. Man. Every year the Top one hundred Countdown, it just is
- 0:56uh, people start talking about it, people start, you know, people
- 1:00ask me about it in August, you know, and it's just it's crazy.
- 1:03So it's become kind of a fun annual thing and it's awesome to get
- 1:07to talk about each of these kids on this podcast. People start telling you
- 1:11about it in August. I'm gonna be on there, dude, you know
- 1:15what I mean. I'm going to be on there this year, Tyler.
- 1:17I know it. Somebody that is going to be on there. And let's
- 1:23see, well when this comes out, he's already been announced Elijah Ingram for
- 1:26the intro. That's a guy that we're giving a little bit of love to
- 1:30and we'll be talking about him here in a few minutes. Tyler. The
- 1:34Top one hundred Countdown is sponsored by any Time Fitness. Visit any of their
- 1:38three locations in Ferndale, Linden, Linden, North. Those are the three
- 1:42specifically that are sponsoring the podcast, so be sure to visit them. Yeah,
- 1:48Anytime Fitness has been one of those ones that popped up what during the
- 1:51football season, But they've been a great sponsor so far. They've been unbelievable.
- 1:55They they're so excited about what walkin Preps does and they want to help
- 1:59in every way. They've reached out to me and they just said, how
- 2:01can I get involved? What can I do? What's left a sponsor?
- 2:06Like? Those are the questions to ask. And I threw a bunch of
- 2:08things at them and they're like, well, okay, we'll take that,
- 2:10we'll take that, we'll take that, and it's just it's like, man,
- 2:14it's not hard, you know. I Mean I thought that was gonna
- 2:16be the hardest part was going out and finding businesses and when they're coming to
- 2:20me and just want to help out. All I'm doing is writing invoices.
- 2:23So it's been great. They're a fabulous partner, and I'm just so glad
- 2:31that they latched onto this because the Top one hundred is pretty much the thing
- 2:36that is kind of the peak moment for Walking Preps as far as eyeballs and
- 2:39stuff like that. So it's a really cool deal. Yeah, between the
- 2:44Top one hundred, countdown the basketball what are they roundups every single day?
- 2:50It seems like they're coming out. There's a lot of things going on at
- 2:53Walk the Preps right now, and a lot of stuff that still needs to
- 2:55be sponsored. So if somebody would like to sponsor something, if they would
- 3:00like to get involved Tyler, what do they need to do? Well,
- 3:02they just get a hold of me through social media, either Facebook, Twitter,
- 3:06or Instagram. Search for Walcome Preps. That's the easiest way. Send
- 3:09me a direct message through there, or you could send me an email at
- 3:13mister mohawk at hotmail dot com. That's mister spelled out underscore mohawk at hotmail
- 3:19dot com. Yeah, and if somebody even knows a knows of somebody that
- 3:23maybe wants to get involved or has an idea of something. Just reach out
- 3:29to Tyler and just say, hey, I know these people sponsor some things.
- 3:31They like to sponsor youth athletics, and then you know, maybe from
- 3:35there, you know, we could even reach out to a few people,
- 3:38but any type of anything that can help. It's always good. As we
- 3:42record this, and this will probably be the last time I say it,
- 3:45because we're gonna start recording pretty early on some of these and we'll talk about
- 3:49that here in a second. But as we record this, the basketball roundups
- 3:53still don't have a sponsor, and there are a ton of basketball roundups and
- 3:58a ton of you know eyes that are getting on the website and on social
- 4:01media. It is unbelievable the numbers that are coming in with those basketball round
- 4:05up. So if somebody wants to get involved, I might start right there.
- 4:09I mean, I really might like those. That's right for the pickin'
- 4:13if you will, so, so, yeah, reach out to Tyler.
- 4:15He'll get you squared away. That being said, Tyler, I mentioned this
- 4:18is the first of ten podcasts, and basically what we're gonna do is we're
- 4:21gonna count down one hundred to eighty two today and then next Thursday, December
- 4:28twenty first at noon, you'll be able to get the podcast for number eighty
- 4:31one down to sixty three Wednesday after that, the December twenty seventh, couple
- 4:36of days after Christmas there uh three pm sixty two down to forty four,
- 4:42and then Wednesday, January third, into the new year, forty three down
- 4:46to twenty five, that will come out at noon. That being said,
- 4:50Tyler and I start recording these fairly early. This is being recorded not nearly
- 4:57as early, but this is being recorded on Monday. It'll come out on
- 5:00Thursday. And then we start going kind of hot and heavy and we start
- 5:03really recording things. And yeah, Tyler and I are gonna hear a lot
- 5:08of each other over the next couple of weeks. Notice I say here because
- 5:13we do this over zoom and we don't see each other at all. We
- 5:15just we haven't seen each other over a year. Yeah, yeah, that's
- 5:18actually in true. So yeah, Civic Stadium. Yeah, I don't know
- 5:23if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It is what it is.
- 5:25I think we do well, Yeah, we do all right, we
- 5:28do all right, we fool a lot of people, let's put it that
- 5:30way. Yeah, exactly, That being said Tyler we got nineteen kids to
- 5:34talk about. What do you say. Let's get right into it. Let's
- 5:38do it alrighty number one hundred on the top one hundred count down, five
- 5:43foot eight one and fifty three pounds wide receiver, defensive back. He is
- 5:47a senior, number twenty one. It's Hayden Rasa. Yeah, it's it's
- 5:57really cool for him to make the list. He's a kid that has been
- 6:00playing varsity football since he was a sophomore. But but you know, just
- 6:04kind of that next guy, uh, kind of background guy doing different things.
- 6:10Could play some tight end if needed, but was a wing back,
- 6:13could split out wide, really tough corner and then last year he played quite
- 6:17a bit. But as a senior he was it was much more relied upon.
- 6:21There were certain games where he led the team in tackles, which as
- 6:25a corner rarely happens. Really good uh at in the run support, really
- 6:30sure tackler, really tough, not the biggest kid, but but plays bigger
- 6:34than he is. There was a game when Lannon Hanstead was out, so
- 6:40he was called upon offensively to do more stuff and he ended up having over
- 6:44one hundred yards receiving in that game against the center, and so, I
- 6:48mean it's just it's a you know, he's just does so many good things
- 6:54when called upon. I think defense was his calling card. He had a
- 6:57pick six at home against toppin Ish, which was the difference of the game.
- 7:01I mean they won thirteen to seven. That was a that was a
- 7:03big, big play in the second half. For the season, seven catches
- 7:08for one hundred and thirteen yards, he had to carry for six yards.
- 7:11Defensively, forty six and a half tackles, seven passes defended, one tackle
- 7:15for loss, and then he had the interception that it returned thirty three yards
- 7:18for a touchdown. Just a really solid player. And you know, when
- 7:24you it's tough because when I create these lists, I always have about one
- 7:28hundred and ten to one hundred and twenty names, and I hate having to
- 7:32cut names off. But and so, but he got to cut it off
- 7:36somewhere and right at number one hundred, Hayden ross I had a great year,
- 7:41number ninety nine in the top one hundred. Count down. Five foot
- 7:44eleven, one hundred and sixty pounds. He's a wide receiver and a safety.
- 7:47He is a junior. It's number eleven from Bellingham Nate Loss. Yeah,
- 7:55he started the season on a tear. I think he had two interceptions
- 8:00in week one even and he just remained steady kind of the rest of the
- 8:05year. Is a really good strong safety, really good tackler, tough kid,
- 8:11wrestler, really good wrestler. Just took first place at a tournament at
- 8:16the eight Town Throwdown in Arlington. Just a junior too. He's gonna be
- 8:20really relied upon next year. They graduate a ton of seniors, but he's
- 8:24gonna be one of those leaders next year. Started out in the slot,
- 8:28was catching a lot of those fly sweeps and stuff like that, but ended
- 8:33up kind of once they got more kids involved, they were able to play
- 8:37kids just one way each way, so he became primarily a defensive player.
- 8:41Did finish the season with twelve catches for thirty eight yards, had to carry
- 8:45for eight yards, and then on defense, thirty two and a half tackles,
- 8:48four passes broken up, one tackle for loss, one sack. How
- 8:52about that from the safety spot, three interceptions for eighteen yards. Just you
- 8:58know, a really really good player that teaming with Owen Hanstead as the two
- 9:05safeties. There are some really good safety combos in the Walking County. That's
- 9:09one of the best ones, right there, both underclassmen. They're going to
- 9:13be heading those heading that team next year. You know, whether they're going
- 9:18to join rejoin the Northwest Conference or not, that's up in the air.
- 9:20But he's just a big, big part of it, and I'm excited to
- 9:24see what he does next year as well. Tyler, you mentioned his his
- 9:26wrestling you know, first week of wrestling or stuff people get, People get
- 9:33heard about that, you know, if they listened to the the Winter Sports
- 9:39Weekly wrap Up. That's true, which came out a couple of days ago.
- 9:41We talked about him, and we did talk about natelast year, right,
- 9:45Yeah, so really quickly too. All of those those podcasts I talk
- 9:48about the Top one hundred, there's going to be a weekly sports wrap up
- 9:52sprinkled in in between each one of them, right, And they can find
- 9:56that one by following what Come perhaps on social media two subscribing to the podcast.
- 10:01Yeah, there it is. Thanks Nate Lost for allowing me to plug
- 10:05that. That being said, Tyler number ninety eight on the Top one hundred
- 10:07countdown, six foot, two hundred and five pounds. He's a defensive lineman,
- 10:11a senior number thirteen from the Linden Lions. It's Jesse Stewart. Yeah,
- 10:16this is a kid that I loved watching because there's a few different reasons.
- 10:22How cool is it to see at number thirteen on the defensive line.
- 10:24That's just something you don't see very much. I was just thinking that same
- 10:26thing, like, oh, yeow, did I read that right? And
- 10:31Lindon always will take a kid that will might get lost in the shuffle a
- 10:37little bit as a backup running back or something, and then get them one
- 10:43hundred percent dialed in on defensive line. And this is a prime example.
- 10:48This is a kid who's, you know, one of those like national Merit
- 10:52scholar kids, super smart, tough as heck. I mean, just as
- 11:00the season went on, he just got better and better. He's also in
- 11:03on kickoffs, he's he's you know, he makes tons of tackles on special
- 11:05teams. Just really enjoyed watching him play where sometimes you see kind of a
- 11:13muddled play, but he's the one that kind of starts it, you know,
- 11:18he's the one that creates the havoc. And then Linden swarms to the
- 11:20football better than any team in Walking County on defense. So you know,
- 11:24if someone could just get that get that play all mucked up first and create
- 11:30and that creates the swarm later. That's a huge play for Linden defense.
- 11:33He he had a great year. He had a knack for making plays.
- 11:37Ended up with thirty one and a half tackles, which is a lot of
- 11:41tackles from that three man front on the Linden's defense, they are not asked
- 11:45to make a ton of tackles, but he's he's very good at that two
- 11:48and a half tackles for loss. He forced a fumble as well. He's
- 11:52a guy that I didn't know much coming into the season, didn't know that
- 11:56much about him at all. I remembered seeing the name last year. You
- 12:00know, had so many talented seniors ahead of him, so he was playing
- 12:03a little bit on special teams. But to earn that starting spot keep it
- 12:07the whole year, you know, tough kid, played through injuries. That
- 12:13that says a lot for just kind of his character and what he meant to
- 12:16the team. And he had a fabulous senior year, number ninety seven in
- 12:20the top one, one hundred countdown, six foot five, two hundred and
- 12:26twenty pounds. He's a defensive end, a senior number forty nine from the
- 12:30Bellingham BayHawks. It's Elias Togajay. Yeah, that's a is he And he's
- 12:35another kid that I didn't know anything about coming into this season. I'm not
- 12:39even sure if he had played football coming into the season. He may have
- 12:43as a youth player. But you know that Bellingham was able to bring out
- 12:48a lot of these athletes this year and it really showed. It's tough too
- 12:52because they are mostly a three man front, and playing a defensive end in
- 12:58a three man front, you're not outside the tackle, so he was inside
- 13:01the tackle, the offensive tackle and making plays. You know. I told
- 13:07the story when we were doing the senior countdown of the opposing coach, you
- 13:11know, coming into the booth and being like, who is that number forty
- 13:13nine? You know, because I don't know if the week before he would
- 13:18even play, so he wasn't on film, They didn't know anything about him,
- 13:20and he was just making plays every single play. Super athletic, just
- 13:26lean, long, great basketball player. You know, he's getting all those
- 13:31offensive rebounds and just running around and never runs out of energy. But on
- 13:35defense, he he just you know, he had that breakout game. I
- 13:39believe it was against South Woldby and ever since then he was a force and
- 13:43he was you know, people saw that film and they had to double team
- 13:46him. There was a play when he tipped up a pass and ended up
- 13:50catching it on an interception, he returned to kickoff. He did all sorts
- 13:54of things. They did try to get him in at tight end in the
- 13:56last game of the year to get him a catch, but you know that
- 14:01never really materialized. Mostly a defensive end. I would say, you know,
- 14:05ninety nine percent of his snaps or defensive end. Thirty eight tackles on
- 14:09the year, seven tackles for loss, six sacks, so near the top
- 14:13of the sacks in the top, you know, five or six in the
- 14:16county. He had a forced fumble, pass deflection, an interception that the
- 14:20returned four yards, the kickoff return for twelve yards. Just a kid that
- 14:26I wish he had more football at him, you know, because you know,
- 14:28you come out your senior year and and and you do great, but
- 14:33then that's it. It's kind of a you know, it's that Bo Jackson
- 14:37thing. We all wish we could have saw more of Bo Jackson. That's
- 14:39how I feel about with high school football. When a guy comes out as
- 14:41a senior and belling him had a lot of them, and it's you know,
- 14:46I just wish I could have saw more. But I'm so glad that
- 14:48I got to see him actually play and do really really well. Just those
- 14:52long arms and it just sometimes became unblockable against you know, inferior talent.
- 15:01It just he was an animal out there. We wish we could have saw
- 15:05more of Brian Bosworth Tyler number ninety six on the top one hundred count down,
- 15:09five foot eleven, one hundred and sixty pounds wide receiver, defensive back.
- 15:13He's a junior number eleven from Seahome. It's Grady Evans, multi faceted.
- 15:20Of these kinds of players, there's a position missing there, right,
- 15:22Yeah. I was about to, yeah, well on that excelsiate, I
- 15:26only have those two cells. But yeah, he was the kicker as well,
- 15:30and you know, probably not listed as a quarterback, but probably the
- 15:35emergency quarterback. I you know, heaven forbid if something happened to Nolan Wright,
- 15:39he might be the one that they put in there anyways, just to
- 15:41have your best eleven on the field. He's the Willie Bloomquist. Yeah,
- 15:46and he's and you know, he's just a good athlete. You know,
- 15:50started on defense, caught some passes, was a great, great kicker,
- 15:56easily one of the top two or three kickers in the county. And you
- 16:00know, Coach Young told me before the season, like he's just he's got
- 16:03that even keel for a kicker. He just that ice water like nothing phases
- 16:07him. You know, he's you know, Coach even said to him,
- 16:11you know, at some point you're gonna you're gonna kick, you know,
- 16:14a field goal that's gonna be the difference of a game. And he's just
- 16:17kind of like, yeah, I know, like he's just he's just very
- 16:19like nothing worries him. And and uh and again, you know, he
- 16:23kicked as a sophomore. He did a lot more stuff this year now as
- 16:26a junior. Had eight catches for one hundred and forty six yards, completed
- 16:32a thirty four yard pass had I think it was in that that was might
- 16:36have been in the mount Verning game the final game of the year. Twenty
- 16:38eight and a half tackles, three passes, broken up, one tackle for
- 16:41loss. He returned four kickoffs for thirty five yards, and then on kicking
- 16:45on the season, he hit twenty extra points and made five field goals.
- 16:51The five field goals I think was tied for second in the county. So
- 16:56it's and it's there are no doubters when he when he kicked, I don't
- 17:00even know if I recall him missing an extra point. Just just very very
- 17:06good kicker. And he's going to be one of the better ones again.
- 17:10Next year he might have he you know, he might have a bigger role,
- 17:14but there's not you know, they only graduate four seniors, so it's
- 17:18going to be very much of the same team. But you know, losing
- 17:22Braddock Duckworth, he might become more of a focal point even on offense,
- 17:26catching the ball. Just a really good athlete plays on the basketball team,
- 17:30has to do a lot of things and does them all very very well.
- 17:33Number ninety five in the top one hundred countdown, six foot two and thirty
- 17:38pounds. He's a left guard and a defensive lineman. Just a junior,
- 17:41number fifty nine from Meridian, Mason A. Pelis. Yeah, huge improvement
- 17:47this year from last year. I really liked him last year, but there
- 17:51were there were some things that I was like, man, if he you
- 17:53know, he missed that, or you know, this this could have been
- 17:57better. And this year he just got bigger, stronger, quicker feet everything,
- 18:03and he played a lot better. And and uh, another kid that
- 18:07I really really like to watch. Uh, really really nice kid too.
- 18:11Getting to know him. You know, I remember meeting him as a freshman
- 18:17when he was playing like JV baseball. He came up to me during a
- 18:19Meridian baseball game and and I got a picture of him and his buddies and
- 18:23and he was just such such a nice kid. And and uh, now
- 18:26getting to know him and talking to him a little bit at football practice and
- 18:30and watching him play out there, and he's that he's a part of that
- 18:34really good underclass line for Meridian. I mean, all those kids are coming
- 18:40back next year. Uh. It's such a valuable thing on the offensive line
- 18:45to have that continuity, and they've been playing together for a long time.
- 18:48And and uh, and defensively, there were times where he would he would
- 18:52take over possessions really really well. Twenty one tackles, five and a half
- 18:56tackles for loss, one and a half sacks. He's a kid that I
- 19:00can see shooting up the list next year, just because if he improves the
- 19:04way he's been improving, and I think Meridian as a team will improve.
- 19:08I think that he's going to have a I think it was a breakout year
- 19:11this year, but it can he be even more next year. And so
- 19:15I'm excited to see his progress and where it takes him. Number ninety four
- 19:18in the top one hundred countdown, six foot one, one hundred and seventy
- 19:22pounds wide receiver, defensive back. He's a senior number eleven from Blaine.
- 19:26It's justin Minoirez. Yeah, amazing speed, but maybe even quicker as just
- 19:33you know, there's a difference between quickness and speed, and I know I
- 19:36know that you know that, but maybe our listeners don't. But straight speed,
- 19:40extremely fast. But I think his quickness is even more apparent on the
- 19:45field, you know, finding ways to get in the ball seem to be
- 19:51you know, a big, big what's the word I'm looking for objective?
- 19:56You know, it's just you know, all these different ways. Is that
- 20:00Blaine was losing skill guys left and right, and you know it was it
- 20:04was tough to you know, find new guys to get the ball to.
- 20:08But he was the guy. He was the guy kind of all year.
- 20:11Was you know that you could always depend on to get the ball to He
- 20:14had a great play against Lennon Christian where he just caught a hitch spun and
- 20:18took off and ran away from everybody else for like a sixty yard touchdown.
- 20:22He has that kind of ability. Put him back to return kickoffs, have
- 20:26him do all sorts of things. He played a lot more defense as a
- 20:30junior, didn't play as much this year. They had so many kids that
- 20:33were this kind of safety type players, so you know, you're able to
- 20:37kind of split it up to offense and defense with a few kids. And
- 20:41Justin Minuirrez as an offensive player, seventeen catches for three hundred and seventy one
- 20:47yards and three touchdowns, So you're already talking over twenty yards of catch right
- 20:52there. So that speaks to the big play talent and the speed and quickness
- 20:55that he has. On defense, six tackles, two passes broken up.
- 20:59He did return twelve kickoffs for two hundred and twenty four yards, and he
- 21:03returned two punts for nine yards. A really really solid season for him.
- 21:10Kind of came out, I don't want to say, out of nowhere last
- 21:12year, but it was fun to see him do different things last year in
- 21:18the kind of a limited role and then get that more of a spotlight as
- 21:21a senior and put up the bigger numbers. He had a really good year,
- 21:25number ninety three on the top one hundred countdown, six foot three,
- 21:29three hundred and five pounds, a large individual right guard, defensive tackle.
- 21:33Just a junior number sixty five for the Bellingham BayHawks. It's Finnegan Jensen.
- 21:40Yeah. I don't want to say unlimited potential because everybody has limitations, but
- 21:45it seems like that's been the case for him since I saw him as a
- 21:48freshman. Even even as a freshman he was probably two hundred and eighty pounds
- 21:52and at least six to two at that time, and I just thought,
- 21:56man, oh man, he just keeps getting bigger and a big key for
- 22:00him, I know you're gonna love this is he He's a star wrestler too,
- 22:03so you get that kind of leverage and stuff like that you're playing in
- 22:07the middle. His run blocking was outstanding this year. I mean, I
- 22:12think even just the yards per carry that Belling GM had last year to this
- 22:18year jumped up like three and a half yards per Carrie. I mean,
- 22:22as a team and that's that's huge because you know, just the average you
- 22:27know, I think they were right around you know, three point three or
- 22:32something last year and to be almost seven yards per carry as a team this
- 22:34year, night and day. And his run blocking is immense. Playing next
- 22:41to Jesse Harward, those two guys together really protected that wall. You know.
- 22:48For Josh Leonard, the left handed quarterback playing on the right side.
- 22:52Defensively, he's just in the rotation. You know, they do play a
- 22:56three man, three down front always kind of in the middle when he's in
- 23:00there. But there's you know, I probably saw five different players play nose
- 23:06tackle this year at least, so they do have much of a rotation.
- 23:08So he's not the steady guy on the defense, but but they you know,
- 23:14kind of run situations put him in there. Really big athletic kid.
- 23:18But on offense, I mean, he's in there constantly at right guard just
- 23:22and he's going to be the anchor of that offensive line next year, there's
- 23:26no doubt about it. I could see him getting kicked out to tackle.
- 23:30Kind of depends on what kind of offense that they run. Still on defense,
- 23:33nine and a half tackles, two and a half tackles, for loss
- 23:36and two sacks this year in a very limited role on defense, so he
- 23:40would make the plays when he would be in there. But man, I
- 23:45really expect him to make a big jump again next year and be one of
- 23:48those top linemen you know, preseason all walk the preps kind of kid,
- 23:53and then and then he just has to prove it on the field and he
- 23:56has the ability to do that. Number ninety two in the top one hundred
- 24:00down six foot five two and fifteen pounds tight end, outside linebacker. He's
- 24:04a senior number eleven from Squalicum. It's Chase Nelson. Yeah, just you
- 24:11know, passes the eye test, really stands out on film on the field,
- 24:18you know, just a giant player at the high school level that's very,
- 24:23very skilled, you know. I remember last year he caught a touchdown
- 24:29pass late in the year. Became much more of a focal point. This
- 24:32year, they really, you know, went to for the first time that
- 24:34I can recall under Nick Lucy having a true tight end and an h back
- 24:40at the same time. Usually they'd go three wide, have an H back
- 24:45and single running back, and they because of injuries and different personnel issues,
- 24:49they would go too wide and have a tight end and an h back,
- 24:53and he was the h back in that really good out in front as a
- 24:59run blocker, really good soft hands, had seven catches for sixty yards and
- 25:03a touchdown. I think he had a couple two point conversions as well.
- 25:06And then their three four defense. You have him as an outside linebacker and
- 25:11those long arms, hard to get outside Squalkam has had some amazing outside linebackers
- 25:15over the years. He's another one in that long run of him as his
- 25:18second year as a starter, but during the year they were having a lot
- 25:22of injuries with the defensive linemen and different issues like that, and they had
- 25:29an abundance of outside linebackers, you know, with Laki Fagato on one side,
- 25:33and he had Nick Loughlin's he had a lot of these types of players
- 25:37that could be actual linebackers. They needed a down lineman and so Chase Nelson
- 25:44would go down and be a down lineman at times. So he was asked
- 25:48to differ different things at different times. But man, once he got his
- 25:52hands on you, you were going to go down. Twenty eight tackles,
- 25:56five sacks, two and a half tackles for loss, forced fumbles, two
- 26:00pass deflections, and a fumble recovery. I think he had those two forced
- 26:04fumbles and one fumble recovery that those could have all been in the same game.
- 26:10Uh, and it was. It was a it was a close game
- 26:12where it was needed. I think that was the Siaquam game. And so
- 26:17he yeah, he just you know, like I said, he passes the
- 26:19eye test. He'd he can be really hard to block at times because he's
- 26:25just so long, and he could use his arms and swim around somebody and
- 26:27then put his arms up like you said, knocked a couple passes down to
- 26:30the line of scrimmage. Just a really good overall football player. Number ninety
- 26:34one in the top one hundred count Tyler, we're moving round along here.
- 26:37Number ninety one in the top one hundred count down five ten one and seventy
- 26:41pounds running back and outside linebacker. Just a junior number thirty two from the
- 26:47Seahome Mariners. It's Solomon McAllister. I saw him last year. I remember
- 26:52him scoring a touchdown against Blaine. And you know, being Tommy Funk's backup
- 27:00on both sides of the ball, you're just not going to get a ton
- 27:03of reps. And so I didn't get to see him a ton, but
- 27:07when I saw him, there were little things that I liked about him.
- 27:11And I coming into this season in my head, I thought, well,
- 27:15he's kind of the next guy up. Is he going to be the main
- 27:18running back this year? That was one of the big question marks with Seaholme
- 27:21was who's going to carry the ball? I mean, Tommy Funk and carsoneff
- 27:26graduate and you know, Nolan Wright could run a little bit, but you
- 27:30got all these weapons on the outside, but you know you need guys with
- 27:33varsity carries returning. He had a few of them, and he really showed
- 27:40a lot of growth, got bigger, got faster, got more agile,
- 27:45and was breaking tackles and I was like, Okay, now he's the player
- 27:48that you know he I was hoping he would be. I didn't. I
- 27:53didn't know. I didn't. I wouldn't necessarily I expected him to be.
- 27:56I was hoping because you just never know with some of these kids. But
- 28:00he really opened my eyes early on in the season. And you know,
- 28:04there was kind of a time in the middle of the year where he missed
- 28:07a little time and he came back at the end, but still was a
- 28:11really really dependable running back with some good speed, Like I said, could
- 28:15break tackles, runs tougher for than his size indicates, played a little bit
- 28:21outside linebacker not a ton. Did have nine tackles and half of a tackle
- 28:26for loss, but on offense eighty five carries for four hundred and forty one
- 28:30yards and a touchdown. Did have a two yard reception as well. But
- 28:33I think that next year he's going to be kind of more of the same.
- 28:37You know, get him, get him the ball about one hundred times
- 28:41on the season and see you see what he can do with it. Yeah,
- 28:45they bring back a lot of weapons on the outside. Quarterback comes back.
- 28:48All that stuff is great, you know, eighty percent of the offensive
- 28:52line comes back. But you got to be able to pound the rock,
- 28:56especially when you got the lead and stuff like that. And he's going to
- 28:59be that guy that's gonna be the dependable guy that you know when you when
- 29:03you want to hold onto that lead, give him the ball and he'll be
- 29:07up for the task. Next year, we are a tenth of the way
- 29:10in Tyler number ninety in the top one hundred countdown, six foot two,
- 29:15two hundred and five pounds left guard and the linebacker. He's a senior number
- 29:18fifty from the Bellingham BayHawks. It's Rourke O'Malley. Yeah, it's gonna be
- 29:23so weird not having an O'Malley playing after this, you know, Finn O'Malley
- 29:30a four year varsity guy. Rourke O'Malley longtime varsity guy. Uh, you
- 29:34know, I just it's gonna be it's gonna be strange. But one of
- 29:41the few seniors for Bellingham that has has gone through all this stuff over the
- 29:45years and the coaching changes and the different you know, every the ups and
- 29:49downs and and and has played through a lot of that. You know,
- 29:52a longtime center got moved to left guard this year, got much bigger,
- 29:56probably put on about oh man probably twenty pounds of muscle just and got a
- 30:02little bit taller even and still has the fabulous hair all hair team, no
- 30:07doubt about it. But didn't play as much on defense this year kind of
- 30:11because it wasn't you know, it wasn't it wasn't needed. They had some
- 30:17new guys come in that could play defense. And again, when you have
- 30:21you know, a starting offensive line, you're starting five offensive linemen, it's
- 30:25really nice to be able to just have them focus on offensive line. You
- 30:27don't want them subbing on the offensive line. You could sub on defense,
- 30:30that's fine, but you kind of want to keep those five intact all season
- 30:34long on the offensive line. And he was a great player all year,
- 30:40really athletic for an offensive lineman, fast, you know, just a different
- 30:47not your typical kind of just big, you know, just I don't want
- 30:52to say you know anything, but you know what I mean, like,
- 30:56not your typical just big high school offensive line. And he's an at athletic
- 31:00offensive lineman, very athletic, where at some schools could be a tight end
- 31:03or something like that. Did have twelve tackles this year and recovered a fumble
- 31:07in the end zone for a touchdown. Really awesome to see him score a
- 31:11touchdown in his senior year. But yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be
- 31:15odd not not seeing an O'Malley out on the field. I hope I still
- 31:19get to run into his dad, Noah, who is a really good pitcher
- 31:25back in the day for Bellingham, which I had done some research about.
- 31:27I was researching some other players and I found out about that, which was
- 31:30kind of kind of cool. And I've got to know him through social media
- 31:33and saw him out in about a few times. And and and he's always
- 31:37helped out with scores of games that I can't attend and stuff like that,
- 31:41so I hope hopefully he can still help. And he raised some awesome kids.
- 31:47Those I know Finn is playing college football right now, and and and
- 31:51Rourke is just an awesome football player. So fun to see him go out
- 31:56on top with the winning percentage this year as a senior. You said Finn's
- 31:59playing in football. Yeah, I for some reason, I can't recall where
- 32:04it is. It's not super close. I know that Grannell College. Yeah,
- 32:10where the heck is Grennell College, Grennell, Iowa. Yeah, n
- 32:16C Double A Division three. Interesting, I've never heard of it before.
- 32:21Yeah, which says a lot because yeah, you know all the college.
- 32:24Yeah, there are a ton of Division three schools though, it's yeah,
- 32:27there are you come across them on Division three. And actually nai A has
- 32:30some funny ones too, like some names where you're like, wait, what,
- 32:36you know what we should do that sometime, Tyler, I'll give you
- 32:37a random a random college, and you've got to tell me what state you
- 32:40think it's in. Yeah, Colgate, Yeah, well, that's uh,
- 32:44isn't that New York? I have no idea. I think Colgate is maybe
- 32:50close to Ithaca if I remember, right, I can't remember. It's pretty
- 32:53wild to end up you know, a lot of people don't understand that when
- 32:57it comes to like D three nai A. Some of these towns that they
- 33:01end up in are just basically a little tiny college and that's about it.
- 33:06Yeah, you know, it's pretty cool to see. Yeah, let's see
- 33:08here, Tyler, where are we at. We're at number eighty nine on
- 33:12the top one hundred countdown five to eleven, one to seventy five, center
- 33:15defensive lineman, just a junior number seventy six from the Meridian Trojans. It's
- 33:19Carson Campbell again with that group of those junior linemen and his second year as
- 33:25a starter, and man, just strong, strong. He's the smallest one
- 33:30out of all those linemen, but boy, he could be one of the
- 33:34strongest. He's he's just so solid at center and on the defensive line.
- 33:42Could be moved all around. On the defensive line. Meridian is about as
- 33:45positionless as it gets on defense. You see guys in different positions all the
- 33:50time depending on their opponent. On the situation. So, you know,
- 33:54it's really hard to narrow down a position on defense for Meridian. That's has
- 34:00kind of been their mo for a while. But Carson Campbell is is.
- 34:05I love watching him play. It didn't play a ton of defense last year,
- 34:08but did start at center, but this year was dependent on both sides
- 34:12of the ball, and I think he's gonna get even better next year.
- 34:15Thirty and a half tackles, five tackles for lost, three sacks and a
- 34:19fumble recovery. Has good quickness, not, like I said, not the
- 34:24biggest kid, but but man, and I don't know how much he benches,
- 34:29but I'm gonna guess it's maybe, you know, one hundred pounds more
- 34:32than he weighs. One of those kinds of kids where it's you know,
- 34:38yeah, he's a little smaller, but he's he can match up strength with
- 34:42anybody up front. So and sometimes that can help, especially on the defensive
- 34:46side of the ball, if you're a little smaller, but still if you're
- 34:49still strong, you can get under guys, you can get leverage, You
- 34:52got quickness of advantage on guys, and he could use all that to his
- 34:55advantage. A really, really good player smart player, except to see what
- 35:00he does next year. Number eighty eight on the top one hundred countdown,
- 35:04six ft two and fifty pounds offensive line defensive tackle. He's a senior number
- 35:08seventy six from the Bellingham BayHawks. It's Tanner Lob. Yeah, here's a
- 35:14player that did some good things last year in moments, but this year really
- 35:21as the season wore on, he just got better and better and was starting
- 35:23to really just take over games later in the year. Man a really big
- 35:30kid, could move really well and just nasty on defense, Like it's almost
- 35:37like he's gonna wrap you up and then throw you down instead of like tackle
- 35:39you, you know what I mean, especially that size if you're grabbing a
- 35:44small running back. But became really hard to get become blocked and had a
- 35:49lot of double teams against him, but could get through it. What you
- 35:53know, could have considered to for me turn into their best defensive lineman on
- 35:59the season. Again, they they rotated quite quite a few guys. Elias
- 36:04was really good as well, obviously, but I think that he just stopping
- 36:07the run was really really impressive. And you know, the funny thing about
- 36:13him was that he's kind of remember Ryan Pelton being the ghost. Uh never
- 36:17was never saw him, never got a picture of him at practice. Same
- 36:22thing with Tanner Lob. I, you know, I was in the middle
- 36:25of doing these and getting everything ready, and I get I put the picture
- 36:30on there and get it ready. Didn't have a picture of him, had
- 36:31no idea that I didn't have a picture of him. Uh, start going
- 36:35through game pictures and and you know, nothing's great. Uh you know that
- 36:39I have him on. Then I see a celebration win of him and and
- 36:45like you could see his face up close and everything after the Blaine win.
- 36:47And so it actually turned out to be a pretty good picture of a guy
- 36:52that I never got a picture of. So it just happens that way.
- 36:55Sometimes I was kind of freaking out, but it was all. It all
- 36:58worked out. Twenty three and a half tackles on the year, five and
- 37:01a half tackles for loss, one and a half sacks, and a forced
- 37:05fumble. Like I said, those that last half of the year is when
- 37:08he put up almost all those numbers. Just a really really, really good
- 37:14player. Played some left tackle as well when needed. There were some times
- 37:19when uh, you know, there were there they're starting left tackle was wasn't
- 37:23able to go and so he could go in there, but mostly a defensive
- 37:28player, and like I said, for that size and that ability, can
- 37:31be really hard to block at times. Number eighty seven in the top one
- 37:36hundred count down, six foot four two and forty pounds. He's a tackle
- 37:39and a defensive lineman. He's a senior, number seventy two from the Seahome
- 37:44Mariners. It's Baxter Arps. Yeah, the lone senior on that line.
- 37:49So right away, a lot was kind of put on him. You know,
- 37:52started last year as a junior and was kind of learning the ropes.
- 37:57Just a just a big kid that you know, you put in there and
- 38:00you kind of learn as you go. So a lot was expected of him
- 38:04as a senior, being the you know, the the returning lineman with some
- 38:09younger kids that got some playing time as well, but he was that one
- 38:13senior and he did really really well. You know, saw him play left
- 38:16tackle and right tackle. You know, it seemed bigger almost than two forty,
- 38:23but it might be just because he's just so tall and stuff like that.
- 38:27But there was some there were a lot of plays on defense too,
- 38:30where and he would again be in rotation on that three man defensive line,
- 38:36very much like Bellingham does and like Squalakum does. A lot of these three
- 38:40three down line teams. They do a heavy rotation and but you can expect
- 38:45that, you know, if the situation calls upon a big, key moment
- 38:51in the game on defense, they're going to put backster Arps in there at
- 38:53defensive line and very very quick off the ball, especially for his size.
- 38:59Fourteen tackles, two and a half sacks, two tackles for loss, and
- 39:02a lot of them were in key moments. Like I said, they put
- 39:06him in there when it was much needed. And I thought he had a
- 39:09really good senior year, one of only four seniors on that Mariner team.
- 39:15But he will be missed next year. It's still a young line, and
- 39:20you know, I know they got some guys coming up that are pretty good.
- 39:22They have a really strong twenty twenty six class of guys, but you're
- 39:29always going to miss that senior leader. And that was him number eighty six
- 39:34on the top one hundred count down five to ten, one sixty five.
- 39:37He's a quarterback junior number three from the Blaine Border Rights. It's Colin Davis.
- 39:43Yeah, the first thing I think of was that game winning drive against
- 39:45Meridian, and it's just an unbelievable two minute drill where he looked great.
- 39:52And that tells me a lot. When you look your best in the moments,
- 39:54when it's you know, the most pressure packed moments, that's you can
- 40:00build off that you can really use that for for for different things. I
- 40:05mean, they could go out in a no huddle just to start the season
- 40:07next year and and and really take some people by surprise, and and he
- 40:12could. And he was just so efficient, calm and accurate, and I
- 40:19was just like man blown away. I think he was a little excited at
- 40:22times, a little bit of overthrowing every once in a while, you know,
- 40:25first year varsity starter. Uh got some moments as a sophomore and threw
- 40:30five touchdowns when he came into games. And I thought he played really well
- 40:35this year. Gets the offense, gets the keys to the offense, as
- 40:37they say, And especially when Riley I'd went down, who was you know,
- 40:42he would come in for a few possessions here and there during the game
- 40:45and play quarterback. When he went down, it was all on Colin Davis
- 40:50after that, and I thought he played really well. He definitely has the
- 40:53big arm, lost two of his major weapons throughout the year, but still
- 40:58found a way to get other guys involved, whether it was Manuarez or Deming
- 41:01or kay Kerwin or Tyler Bauma, there's you know, he still made those
- 41:07guys look special and they're they are good players. But you do you need
- 41:13you need that help, you need to be you know, thrown open at
- 41:15times and different things like that. Colin Davis. Yeah, exactly, one
- 41:20hundred and twenty three completions for one thousand, six hundred and seventeen yards and
- 41:24fifteen touchdowns. Those are all numbers that are you know, not at the
- 41:29top of plain history, but they're knocking on the doorstep kind of that fifth,
- 41:34sixth, seventh place all time for a season, and he's gonna be
- 41:37getting close to some career stuff as he becomes the starter next year as well.
- 41:42He also ran for one hundred and fifty three yards and four touchdowns.
- 41:45Whether it was you saw him take off on that first play from scrimmage against
- 41:50Cedar Park Christian He's got pretty good speed. He did, you know,
- 41:53have four touchdown runs, a lot of them on you know the quarterback sneaks,
- 41:57which he's really good at and he did have four tackles on defense,
- 42:00but I think those could have been on turnovers and different things. I'm not
- 42:05quite sure how much defense he actually played. He played a little bit as
- 42:07a sophomore as a you know, the backup quarterback. So he has the
- 42:10athletic ability to do that. But I think coach Olsen is just gonna say,
- 42:15no, you are our quarterback and that is what you play and just
- 42:19go from there. So it's always nice to have a returning quarterback, So
- 42:23I know coach Olsen will be really excited about that going into next year.
- 42:28Number eighty five on the top one hundred countdown, six foot, one hundred
- 42:30and seventy pounds. He's a safety. He is a junior number three from
- 42:37the Lyndon Christian Links Jayden Hewliet. He's a player that was very athletic and
- 42:45but when the season started there wasn't a starting spot for him. And that
- 42:50happens. I mean, you got Lenny Christians loaded with talent and and you
- 42:55kind of have to wait your turn, and those those top tier kind of
- 42:59teams. It's just the way that it is. Find a way to make
- 43:02things happen on special teams. Different things like that. Early on in the
- 43:07year, Trevan Blair goes down with an injury, and that's another interesting thing.
- 43:12Trevin Blair missed most of the year, and he's he just got offered
- 43:16a for to play at George Fox, which is pretty cool. So I
- 43:22love it when a player doesn't get to play very much but they still get
- 43:24noticed, which is a really cool deal. So congrats to Trevan Blair.
- 43:29But uh and Jade and Houlliott, it kind of gets this the starting nod
- 43:34and his first game is against Royal oh so and what does he He has
- 43:39three interceptions in that game, and I mean, I mean you might have
- 43:44to ask, you know, coach Allred, when's the last time a single
- 43:46player intercepted three balls against you? And because I can't imagine it's happened very
- 43:51often the rest of the season exactly. And so to have that kind of
- 43:57game right away really showed his ability, and I think he became kind of
- 44:04like a It was kind of a fun thing to see how many more he
- 44:07could get. As the season war on, he was able to get a
- 44:08couple more. Did end of the year with five interceptions, did have a
- 44:14fumble recovery in I want to say. It was in the first round playoff
- 44:19game and he just he just held onto that starting safety spot the rest of
- 44:23the year. Trevin was able to come back late late late in the season,
- 44:28played in that quarterfinal game against Nick Sac Valley. But it was really
- 44:31cool to see him come in and make an impact right away because next year
- 44:38he's gonna, you know, he's gonna be leading that defense. He's gonna
- 44:42be one of the leaders on the defense. You graduate, you know guys
- 44:45like Tyson Bima and Dawson Bauma that are in the secondary already and now it's
- 44:50now because of that experience, it's gonna help out a ton going forward.
- 44:54He also had eighteen tackles. Could become a part of the receiving game next
- 44:59year as well. He has the ability to do that. But a really
- 45:01good year as a safety this year. Number eighty four in the top one
- 45:06hundred countdown, five foot eight, one hundred and fifty five pounds. He's
- 45:10a wide receiver and a corner. Just a junior. By the way,
- 45:15this is three juniors in a row. Tyler. I think the thing that's
- 45:17most exciting when I look over this list, there's a lot of juniors on
- 45:21this list there is. It's a big time class. Yeah uh, and
- 45:23quite a few sophomores as well, but we haven't gotten into any of them
- 45:27yet. But yeah, number six for the Knucksack Valley Pioneers Evan Bravo.
- 45:34Yeah, we've seems like we've been talking about him for a while. I
- 45:36remember him having like a rushing touchdown as a freshman, you know, and
- 45:43it's and that you know, it's just a really good athlete that will find
- 45:46his way on the field. And this year was a two way starter for
- 45:52most of the season on a really really good, you know, semi final
- 45:55team. He also returned a kickoff for a touch down, so a kind
- 46:00of a three three way type player. And you know, on offense,
- 46:07there's so many guys that they can get the ball to. And they had
- 46:12a handful of games where the offense would have drives that last one or two
- 46:16plays, and so that's always tough because you know it's like, oh,
- 46:21it's a two play drive and that's it. And then you know they'd have
- 46:23to all of a sudden, it's late in the first half and they're like,
- 46:28oh, we haven't thrown the ball to Evan Bravo yet. I mean
- 46:30it's just and they're up, you know, thirty five nothing, and that's
- 46:32that's always tough because you're not going to put up huge numbers that way,
- 46:37and then in the second half you're not going to play, so it's it's
- 46:43tough to gauge some of those things. Still ended up with thirteen catches for
- 46:45one hundred and forty nine yards and two touchdowns. Defensively, as a as
- 46:51a corner, I thought he played really really well. He has a he
- 46:54had a knack for stepping in front and just and and and intercepting passes just
- 47:01kind of all year was always kind of lurking there and we kept climbing up
- 47:05the leader board for interceptions. It did end up with five on the season,
- 47:10which is a great total. We had thirty three return yards on those
- 47:15also had thirty and a half tackles, twelve passes broken up so near the
- 47:19top in that in the county, and one fumble recovery. Like I said,
- 47:23the four kickoff returns for one hundred and fifty two yards and the touchdown.
- 47:30I think, you know, Nooksack graduates a lot this year, but
- 47:34they returned some big time key players, so I think he'll get a lot
- 47:38more action on the offensive side. You know, him and Corey only,
- 47:44Tristan camp House and Cole Bauman all return as receivers next year, and then
- 47:51Colt Lent will return at running back. But you'll have a new quarterback.
- 47:53You know, Evan Brown will be there. And he's got a pretty good
- 47:58arm as well. I mean, man, I see him in it on
- 48:00the mound even as a freshman, so I know he can sling the ball.
- 48:04And having having Evan Bravo back, he might and I don't know this
- 48:09for sure, but he might take over that Jackson Bennett spot on the right
- 48:14side, the you know where you catch short passes, make stuff happen,
- 48:17run some reverses, you know, kind of the kind of the do everything
- 48:22receiver on the right side. He might be taking that that roll over.
- 48:24It's really you know, I don't I don't have any inside knowledge or anything,
- 48:28but he's a guy that has the ability to do a lot of those
- 48:31kinds of things and still be in every down corner on the defensive side.
- 48:36Number eighty three in the top one hundred countdown, six foot, two hundred
- 48:39and fifteen pounds. He's a center. Yeah, senior number fifty six from
- 48:46the Squalicum Storm. The young man who gave us the intro, it's Elijah
- 48:51Ingram. Yeah, boy, as steady as steady can be last year,
- 48:57And I never really tracked these numbers and and and I don't I never thought
- 49:01think about it until you start seeing it over and over again. But Squalacum
- 49:06had issues snapping the ball last year, and it throws off a lot of
- 49:09their timing, especially that offense with guys in motion and stuff like that.
- 49:13It can really uh and just one play like that can really end a possession,
- 49:17you know, I mean all of a sudden, it's you know,
- 49:21second and sixteen because of a bad step and the second and ten, I
- 49:27mean second and ten. The if you look at like the analytics of it,
- 49:30second and ten is not favorable in any way, shape or form.
- 49:34Right, Yeah, I mean it's it's just it's just it could really halt,
- 49:37you know, your progress. And that was the big thing this year
- 49:42with Squalacumb was I don't recall any bad snaps. He was on it every
- 49:46single time. And there was a center they had years ago that he that
- 49:52he reminds me of and his name is escaping me now. But he was
- 49:54really good too, back in like twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen. Uh.
- 50:00And and he's a kid that I think was used to be like a receiver
- 50:05growing up, you know, wasn't uh wasn't alignment. Uh. His dad,
- 50:09Kurt, was an awesome offensive lineman from from Aradian in the mid nineties
- 50:14when they were kind of having their heyday and getting to the semi finals and
- 50:16stuff like that. And so it's no surprise to me that he becomes an
- 50:22offensive lineman and works hard at it, gets bigger, gets stronger, you
- 50:27know, he's throwing the shot put in track and stuff like that, and
- 50:30then goes out and has an amazing year. Uh. Super underrated. Didn't
- 50:35play defense. Uh so there's not really any numbers to speak about. But
- 50:39uh but man, that's uh. Playing center at Squalakum is definitely not easy,
- 50:45and he made it look easy. And that's you know, that's really
- 50:50fun. Again. Though A senior is one of those kids that I wish
- 50:52he was going to be around for another year to see the progression and and
- 50:58uh and see what a walk could do next year with all that talent returning.
- 51:04You're greedy, I am greedy. You're greedy. You're very greedy.
- 51:08Tyler the last one on the top one hundred countdown for today, number eighty
- 51:14two, that is see six and ten pounds. He's a right guard in
- 51:19a defensive lineman. Just a junior number fifty four from the Meridian Trojans.
- 51:23It's Jackson Hurlbut yeah, really really like his game a lot. I mean,
- 51:30he was man. He might have even been in the running as a
- 51:34freshman for Freshmen of the Year. You know, he got some run,
- 51:37got started some games as a freshman, kind of got kind of got thrown
- 51:39in there. But but boy, he's he's just so talented. Last year
- 51:46he had a great season going on and he was leading the county and tackles
- 51:51for loss, and then he has a has a bad injury, is out
- 51:54for the rest of the year, comes back this year and still from the
- 52:00injury and still had a really good year. Is a staple at right guard.
- 52:05He's got that locked down. He seems like he's been doing that forever.
- 52:08And they can move around on the defensive line, can play in the
- 52:10middle, could be a defensive end. He even plays some linebacker at times.
- 52:15Again, it depends on what the situation calls. Upon, but he
- 52:17has that kind of athletic ability to stand up, you know, read,
- 52:22read the offense and go and make a tackle. So love to have those
- 52:27kind of Meridian players that can do a lot of different things, because you're
- 52:31gonna be asked to do a lot of different things, and he just he's
- 52:35yes, coach and can go out and do it. Twenty seven and a
- 52:37half tackles, six tackles for loss, one sack, two passes broken up,
- 52:43and a forced fumble. I believe he had eight and a half tackles
- 52:45for lost last year and he only played half the year, so he's really
- 52:50racking up those numbers as a knack for stopping the run, shedding blocks,
- 52:53seeing things as they happen, and then going and making a play. So
- 53:00again, another one of those junior Meridian players on the line that as they
- 53:04all grow together, they just they're just gonna get better and better and they're
- 53:07gonna be a big time team next year. Tyler. That's it for the
- 53:10first episode of The Top one hundred countdown. Any final words before we move
- 53:16before we move on, Yeah, I think it's a you know, it's
- 53:20a fun group of players. Some of these players were on the list last
- 53:22year. Most of them are new new guys. And it's interesting you said
- 53:28no sophomores yet. Uh, that's that's It's weird because when I'm making this
- 53:32list, I don't I don't think of those kinds of stuff. I don't
- 53:36try to do anything like that. I don't think we had anybody from Ferndale
- 53:39on the list either. Uh. And so it's just, yeah, I
- 53:43don't even think about that. It's so strange how that works out. And
- 53:46and uh, and it's kind of a it's kind of Yeah, it's kind
- 53:52of a gut feeling too, like as I'm doing it, and then all
- 53:54of a sudden, when we start talking about the kids and really breaking it
- 53:58down, you start realizing other things, and it's it's really interesting and and
- 54:02always always fun to do, you know. I'm I appreciate all the feedback,
- 54:08you know, even if it's negative, because as I've as I've learned,
- 54:14eyeballs are eyeballs, So you know, I'll take it. And I
- 54:19hope everybody enjoys the rest of the countdown. Yeah, Tyler, even the
- 54:22people that that dislike everything that we post, they're still reading, so good
- 54:30for them. Another thing I noticed, Tyler, one, two, three,
- 54:35Four guys wearing number eleven in this one. Really Yeah, dang Nate
- 54:40Loss, Grady Evans, Justinnjarez and Craig Chase Nelson. Craig Nelson Nelson coaches.
- 54:54Yeah. A couple guys wearing number three back to back. Yeah,
- 54:59pretty wild. Alrighty, well, let's wrap it up right there, Tyler.
- 55:02Before we go, though, we want to give a reminder anytime Fitness
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- 55:16the Top one hundred Countdown. He's Tyler Anderson, Watcompreps, watcompreps dot com.
- 55:22I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to episode two hundred and twenty one,
- 55:25the first of ten podcasts in the Top one hundred Countdown here on the
- 55:29watcom Preps podcast. We will talk to you next week.