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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 327 - Top 100 #4 Brady Ackerman · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Nick sack Valley Seeing. You're Brady Ackerman and
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Speaker 1: you're listening to the Top one hundred Countdown on the
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Speaker 1: walk em Preps podcast with Tyler and Ryland Rally the Valley.
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Speaker 2: Reetings, and welcome into the Watcome Preps podcast. This is
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Speaker 2: episode three hundred and twenty seven, the seventh of ten
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Speaker 2: podcasts in the twenty twenty four Top one hundred football Countdown.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler
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Speaker 2: Anderson of Watcome Preps. Tyler, how are we doing?
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Speaker 1: Doing good? Doing good? Oh man, We're yeah, We're getting
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Speaker 1: right down to it now. This will be this will
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Speaker 1: be a great one talking about an amazing young man
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Speaker 1: that I'm sure we'll have a lot to say.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Tyler. We this is the third podcast
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Speaker 2: that'll go out within twenty four hours and people are
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Speaker 2: probably sick of hearing us. That's all right, yeah, I
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Speaker 2: mean unfortunately for them, we still got four more days
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Speaker 2: So maybe i'll maybe I'll get on that at some point, Tyler.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the best way is just to get
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Speaker 1: that's really the easiest way. And a lot of people
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Speaker 1: There's a certain sport or a certain team or whatever,
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Speaker 1: there's nothing you know. People sometimes they're like, well, give
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Speaker 1: me your sheet of prices, and I'm just like, well,
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Speaker 1: it's something we can talk about, because I want to
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Speaker 1: be able to be open to anything. And that's you know,
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Speaker 1: that's the thing.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's I think that's what's great about is
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Speaker 1: and I think it can. I think it can continue
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Speaker 1: it'll always be a good thing.
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Speaker 2: As he said, reach out to them on social media
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Speaker 2: to search walk them. Perhaps Tyler will get you taken
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Speaker 2: care of. That being said, this is the football Top
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Speaker 2: one hundred Countdown. Today we will be talking about number
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Speaker 2: four and only number four. The next Top one hundred
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Speaker 2: podcast will be released tomorrow at two pm, just like
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Speaker 2: this one. That one will be talking about obviously number three,
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Speaker 2: and then number two after that, and then number one
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Speaker 2: after that two o'clock. Set your timer the next well
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Speaker 2: today and the next three after that. So if you'd
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Speaker 2: like to hear any of the previous installments of the
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Speaker 2: Top one hundred count Down, go back find episodes three, seventeen, nineteen,
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Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty three, twenty four, and twenty six, and
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Speaker 2: then eventually you'll be able to find twenty seven thirty.
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Speaker 2: And then maybe Tyler and I get a day off
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Speaker 2: or two. Maybe not really, that's.
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Speaker 1: What June is for sure, So I've been told yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe for you, but I go right into spring football.
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Speaker 2: That being said, Tyler, we're here to talk about number
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Speaker 2: four on the Top one hundred Countdown. He is six
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Speaker 2: foot four two hundred and sixty five pounds. He's a
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Speaker 2: left tackle and a defensive end. He's a senior from
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Speaker 2: the Nuksack Valley Pioneers. It's number sixty four. Brady Ackerman.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the best to ever do it, you know,
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Speaker 1: and another one of those guys that super kind, gentle
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Speaker 1: giant off the field and then on. He's just a
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Speaker 1: monster and love seeing that. Obviously, numbers were down a
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Speaker 1: little bit defensively, and a lot of that could be
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Speaker 1: to the to the scheme was a little bit different.
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Speaker 1: Going from a four man front to a three man front.
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Speaker 1: You're taking on perhaps a lot more double teams. You
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Speaker 1: might you might not be lining up as white on
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Speaker 1: the outside, you might not have a lot of free
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Speaker 1: range as far as that goes. Still put up twenty
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Speaker 1: two and a half tackles, seven tackles for loss, had
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Speaker 1: a quarterback sack, knock down two passes at the line
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Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and recovered a couple fumbles. So still pretty
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Speaker 1: impressive coming from that spot. But offensively is where it
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Speaker 1: was at. I mean they relied on to relied on
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Speaker 1: him to do so much. You don't see a ton
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Speaker 1: of you know, left tackles pulling. I mean, you see
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Speaker 1: it more more of these days, but uh, you know
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Speaker 1: it always was the guards back in the day. And
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Speaker 1: but when you have a guy that's athletic as he is,
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Speaker 1: he pulled a lot. And when he pulled a lot,
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Speaker 1: you know, he had Colt Lentz running behind him, and
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Speaker 1: that's just a recipe for disaster for the opposing defense.
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Speaker 1: Just everything is technically sound. You know, he knows how
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Speaker 1: to he knows how to, you know, use leverage, he
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Speaker 1: knows how to use his feet, you know, very very
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Speaker 1: athletic as a basketball player, knows how to.
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Speaker 2: Use his hands.
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Speaker 1: It's extremely strong, can run, block, pass block. He just
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Speaker 1: kind of has the perfect He has the whole package,
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Speaker 1: you know, hard, really hard worker. You know, kept getting
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Speaker 1: bigger every single year. And I mean as a freshman
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Speaker 1: he was like six three, maybe two hundred pounds, and
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Speaker 1: after a few weeks, I think he was starting to
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Speaker 1: left tackle and didn't play as much defense. But then
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Speaker 1: as a sophomore starting both ways and never looked back,
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Speaker 1: just kept putting up big numbers. All Conference first team
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Speaker 1: three years in a row, just kind of everything you want.
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Speaker 1: Was an All State first team selection this year as
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Speaker 1: an offensive lineman. No surprise there, and it was the
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Speaker 1: first lineman named on it, which could be alphabetic order,
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Speaker 1: or it could be he was the first lineman named.
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Speaker 1: I'm always curious about kind of those types of things,
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Speaker 1: and and he, you know, there's I'm not surprised about
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Speaker 1: that either. He's a guy that uh Man, you talk
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Speaker 1: about players that will be really tough to replace, and
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Speaker 1: he shoots to the top of the list, I think
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Speaker 1: because you know, you can have, yeah, replacing a running
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Speaker 1: back and even you know is tough, but especially when
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Speaker 1: you're a running a running team, but if you don't
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Speaker 1: have a hole to run through, it doesn't matter how
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Speaker 1: good of a running back you are. And he created
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Speaker 1: a lot of holes. And he's just and he's just
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Speaker 1: he's just an awesome guy. I mean, you know, he's uh.
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Speaker 1: I feel like I've known him for so long now,
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Speaker 1: and I you know, I remember when he was a
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Speaker 1: ball boy, when he was you know, like in.
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Speaker 2: Fourth or fifth grade, still way taller than me.
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Speaker 1: At that point. Uh had bore the glasses, you know,
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Speaker 1: at like the wrap around glasses and like the white
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Speaker 1: blonde hair, and and saw the Ackerman on the back
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Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my goodness, Like how old
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Speaker 1: is he? Like he's you know, he's way taller than
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Speaker 1: I am, and he's probably in fourth grade, you know,
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Speaker 1: and I just you just kind of saw it coming
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Speaker 1: and and just really what I love about it is
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Speaker 1: just really athletic for his size. It's just a combination
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Speaker 1: you don't see too much in high.
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Speaker 2: School football, you know. I think the thing that's funny
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Speaker 2: about him too, like when I when I watch his
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Speaker 2: film and stuff, and I'm watching some of it right
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Speaker 2: now just to kind of see if I missed anything here, right,
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Speaker 2: And it's the thing that cracks me up is most
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Speaker 2: of his most of his blocks in the run game
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Speaker 2: are like he doesn't even doesn't like fall on the
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Speaker 2: guy or whatever, because he just hits him and sends
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Speaker 2: him flying. You know what.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a great push.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's kind of funny, Like it's it's
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Speaker 2: it's almost like comical, you know what I mean, Like
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Speaker 2: it's funny to watch because you're just like, good lord,
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Speaker 2: like you know, he could maybe he could have fallen
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Speaker 2: on the guy and really punished him or something, but
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Speaker 2: he didn't need to because the guy just went flying
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Speaker 2: five feet in the air, you know, when I look
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Speaker 2: at it, I see a guy that you know, you think, Tyler,
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Speaker 2: what would you say he weighed in his first varsity.
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Speaker 1: Game, maybe two hundred, probably like one nine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so when you're when you're talking about projections, you know,
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Speaker 2: and I remember, I don't know if I said it
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Speaker 2: or whatever, but I remember talking early to like Brandon
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Speaker 2: Huffan and some of these guys and just going, this
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Speaker 2: is that kid that is going to just slowly put
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Speaker 2: on weight. Yep. But when he graduates, he's going to
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Speaker 2: be that two sixty to seventy range, but he's probably
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Speaker 2: still going to have weight to lose and then build
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Speaker 2: it back up with muscle once he gets to college.
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Speaker 2: You know that. And that's what I've seen, you know,
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Speaker 2: I've seen it over the years where you know a
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Speaker 2: Kaid Beresford or actually the one that probably did it
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Speaker 2: the most for me, where I was just like blown away.
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Speaker 2: Andre Dillard. He played at Woodenville, played at Wazoo, and
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Speaker 2: then he's been in the NFL now with I think
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Speaker 2: two or three teams. I want to say he's on
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Speaker 2: the Packers right now. But he was like two oh
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Speaker 2: five as a sophomore, and when he graduated he was
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Speaker 2: only two forty, and I just I remember people telling me,
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Speaker 2: I don't think he's big enough, and I'm going, have
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Speaker 2: you looked at this guy, like, yeah, look at his frame.
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Speaker 2: He's got easily forty pounds you could put on him
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Speaker 2: and nothing's gonna change, you know. And I'd be interested
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Speaker 2: to know what Dillard is right now. But that's what
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Speaker 2: I see with him, is I see a guy where
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Speaker 2: you're just like, you know, we've talked about it in
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Speaker 2: a few different things, Tyler, where I don't remember who
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Speaker 2: it was you mentioned, but you said, you know, he's
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Speaker 2: that clay that you can mold, you know. And I
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Speaker 2: look at him and it's like, man, there's there's so
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Speaker 2: much to gain still here, you know. So it's crazy.
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Speaker 2: Dillard right now is listen at three fifteen sixty five,
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Speaker 2: three fifteen, which is just crazy to think that when
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Speaker 2: he left he was two forty and people were questioning
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Speaker 2: whether or not he was gonna be able to put
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Speaker 2: on weight, you know what I mean. And it's like,
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Speaker 2: once you get into college, it's not a problem putting
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Speaker 2: on weight. It's a matter of do you put on
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Speaker 2: the right way, you know, things like that, And I
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Speaker 2: just I see a guy that his upside is huge.
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Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if he's I don't think
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Speaker 2: he's a guy that would do this because it just
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Speaker 2: doesn't maybe it doesn't really seem like something he would do.
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Speaker 2: But you talk about the transfer portal now and how
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Speaker 2: these guys play a couple of years, put on some
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Speaker 2: really good film and then you know, there was one
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Speaker 2: rush Rhymer. He was a player from Camus and he
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Speaker 2: was an All American at Montana State and then boom,
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, he's at Cal. I just think
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Speaker 2: he has that potential. You know, he's got that potential
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Speaker 2: that he's gonna go off to college, he's gonna put
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Speaker 2: together some really good film, he's gonna build his body,
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Speaker 2: and I mean, I just I think the sky's the limit,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. There's so much to like here.
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Speaker 2: And you know, I'm a huge fan, Tyler. You know this.
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Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of multi sport athletes, and not
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Speaker 2: just guys that are multi sport athletes, but guys that
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Speaker 2: are really good in multi sports. Yeah, you know, and
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Speaker 2: you've told me before about his low post game, and
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Speaker 2: to me, that says great feet, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Which I mean, you watch his football film and you
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Speaker 2: see great feet. I mean it's pretty obvious. But you know,
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Speaker 2: it's just there's so much to like here, and it's
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Speaker 2: not just the run game. I personally think he's probably
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Speaker 2: a guard at the next level if they wanted to
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Speaker 2: go crazy, he could be a center too, Like I
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Speaker 2: think he could be a great center. Six foot four
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Speaker 2: is a little tall for a center at Eastern Actually
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Speaker 2: six foot four might even be tall for centers at
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Speaker 2: most FCS schools. But yeah, I mean I just see
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Speaker 2: a guy where it's like, man, you watch this film.
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Speaker 2: The way that he skip poles is it's gorgeous. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it just is. And then there's even one play where
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Speaker 2: he doesn't skip pole and he just turns and just
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Speaker 2: cranks a guy. I mean absolutely, I think it might
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Speaker 2: even be like a blitzer something and just absolutely destroys
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Speaker 2: the guy. But there's just so many of those plays
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Speaker 2: where it's like, you know, you watch him, you go, man,
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Speaker 2: he still has so much to grow, but the tools
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Speaker 2: are already there, and the tools are already pretty refined.
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Speaker 2: And as he continues to grow and as he I mean, Tyler,
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Speaker 2: you know how it is you get off to college
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Speaker 2: and what are you doing. You're going to class and
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Speaker 2: you're working on football, you know what I mean, Like
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Speaker 2: you just think about how much his game can grow
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Speaker 2: once he gets over you know, on the other side
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Speaker 2: of the mountains and starts playing football basically for a living.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean it's it's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 2: of fun, it really is. I'm excited for it because
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Speaker 2: I just I can see how good he could be,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you start when you're talking about like putting on
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Speaker 1: the weight. You know, you can look at his dad
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Speaker 1: and his uncle, you know, both went to Eastern His
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Speaker 1: uncle was two twenty five, went there as a tight end,
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Speaker 1: you know, ended up ended up going up to about
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Speaker 1: two and then gets drafted the NFL and plays for
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Speaker 1: ten years.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: His dad went there at two seventy five. He played
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Speaker 1: at three point fifteen there. Yeah, you know, and so
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Speaker 1: it's a CFL legend. It's yeah, CFL legend. I mean
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Speaker 1: seriously though, I mean, you you watched the old there's
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Speaker 1: some old Eastern game films from when TJ played, and
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Speaker 1: they they're gushing about him at the next.
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Speaker 2: Level at the NFL.
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Speaker 1: If it was if it hadn't been a lot of
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Speaker 1: these knee injuries that he had that probably would have happened.
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Speaker 1: But they both had that body in that frame that
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Speaker 1: you could put on the good weight, and they both
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Speaker 1: did it, and they.
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Speaker 2: Both excelled, especially at the college level.
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Speaker 1: You know, both were you know, all Americans at the
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Speaker 1: college level, so it is you could see that with
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Speaker 1: him as well. And those guys were great basketball players
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Speaker 1: as well. I mean, TJ was a three year starter
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Speaker 1: as a basketball player at center. Tom was a four
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Speaker 1: year starter. Tom scored almost two thousand career points.
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Speaker 2: Holy now, yeah, he was.
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Speaker 1: I mean, so these guys again great and Tom was
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Speaker 1: Tom was a baseball player too, left handed catcher, which
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Speaker 1: you don't see very often. So yeah, I mean it's
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Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive to see, you know, the lineage and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. And then he's kind of a combination
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Speaker 1: of the two of them. And and then even i
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Speaker 1: mean even on his mom's side, his grandpa on his
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Speaker 1: mom's side did some good things. Was a wide receiver
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Speaker 1: at University of Arizona that had like school records down there,
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Speaker 1: so that you get that athleticism on both sides, and
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Speaker 1: it's just you know, it's it's very, very impressive, and
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Speaker 1: like you said, I mean, it's the sky's the limit,
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Speaker 1: and I am really excited to see kind of what
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Speaker 1: he does. And it's interesting what you talk about with
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Speaker 1: the transfer portal, because I think you're right. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he is he has been raised by that by you know, Genie.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's from his whole life. I mean, he
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Speaker 1: knows everything about Eastern Washington. So I'm not surprised at
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Speaker 1: all that he's going there and be really weird to
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Speaker 1: see him go somewhere else. But that's kind of the
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Speaker 1: way of the game right now.
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Speaker 2: If yeah, if the bigger school is calling, I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you have to at least look into it, right,
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Speaker 2: like right, you have to at least entertain the idea.
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Speaker 2: And it's you know, there's a there's a young man
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to say his name, but he had
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Speaker 2: an opportunity to transfer to a a school in state
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Speaker 2: that is at the highest level. And I was asked,
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Speaker 2: you know, hey, can you just you know, see if
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Speaker 2: he has any interest, and I said sure, and he goes, Nah,
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Speaker 2: I don't want to do it. I want to stay here.
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Speaker 2: I think I can develop and get my shot at
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Speaker 2: the NFL here anyway, blah blah blah. And I would say, hey, man,
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Speaker 2: that's you know what I'm I'm I'm impressed, you know,
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Speaker 2: like not many guys would would would do it that way.
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Speaker 2: I just saw recently not only was he an All American,
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Speaker 2: but he just got an invite to the NFL Combine
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Speaker 2: and he's going to play in the whatever it's called
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Speaker 2: the Reese's what is it. The Yeah, he didn't need
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Speaker 2: to move, you know what I mean. And if you're
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Speaker 2: good enough, you don't need to do that. You know.
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Speaker 2: It's totally different nowadays. They you know, it used to
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Speaker 2: be an NFL scout had to kind of confined ye
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Speaker 2: at times? Well, well, okay, so John Kittner's perfect example,
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Speaker 2: right was, Yeah, the you know, the quarterback at Central
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Speaker 2: I think they were nai A when he was there, And.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they used to come here to Bellingham play against Western. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and well for like five hundred yards.
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Speaker 2: And was it trying to remember here? Was it Dennis
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Speaker 2: Rickson who found him and brought him to the Seahawks.
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Speaker 1: I think you're right about Ericson?
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Speaker 2: Was it Ericson? Yeah? Like whoever it was they were
17:45
Speaker 2: at Central to scout somebody else and they were like, Wow,
17:48
Speaker 2: this quarterback can absolutely sling it. That's not the case nowadays. Yeah,
17:53
Speaker 2: you know, sure there's still Scouts, but if if you
17:56
Speaker 2: want film on Central, it's easy to get, you know,
17:59
Speaker 2: if you want film on any of these schools to
18:02
Speaker 2: even in the NAIs, if you want film, it's easy
18:04
Speaker 2: to get as a as an NFL guy. Now again,
18:07
Speaker 2: just make a phone call and they can email it
18:09
Speaker 2: to you, you know what I mean. Whereas it used
18:11
Speaker 2: to be like, hey, we get a VHS tape with
18:13
Speaker 2: this guy, you know, like it's it's totally different now.
18:16
Speaker 2: And and so that's the thing is, you don't need
18:19
Speaker 2: to move up to get NFL looks. You really don't.
18:22
Speaker 2: But it's kind of the way of the world now
18:24
Speaker 2: where it does happen. And I could absolutely see him
18:26
Speaker 2: getting those opportunities down the line and saying no, because yeah,
18:32
Speaker 2: like you said, he's he's Cheeney, he's you know, he's
18:35
Speaker 2: Eastern Washington. The red isn't just the turf or the
18:39
Speaker 2: color of the blood is actually what runs through the guy,
18:41
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, it's you know, and look,
18:44
Speaker 2: Eastern Washington's a known school. You know, they had a
18:48
Speaker 2: lot of guys drafted out of there. The field is
18:52
Speaker 2: named after a guy that played in the NFL, and
18:54
Speaker 2: you know, so it's not like not like Eastern is
18:58
Speaker 2: gonna be over. Plus the Big Sky is ridiculous good,
19:01
Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if he does well there, he'll get noticed.
19:03
Speaker 2: And that's what that's what's cool.
19:04
Speaker 1: And I think that, you know, I just think, I
19:07
Speaker 1: think you're right about all that stuff. And and man.
19:11
Speaker 3: He's he's just good. He's really good, and it is
19:14
Speaker 3: and he's but you know, yeah, which is wild too. Yeah,
19:20
Speaker 3: and he's a different player. He's a he's a skill guy,
19:23
Speaker 3: and you know, he's he's more the receiver type. He
19:26
Speaker 3: got the other side of the jeans there.
19:28
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know what though, Tyler, I was also told
19:30
Speaker 2: Chance Hatchett was going to play quarterback, So don't tell
19:32
Speaker 2: me that we can't turn this guy into alignment too. Yeah, yeah,
19:36
Speaker 2: that's true.
19:37
Speaker 1: I mean they did. They did have some inline tight
19:39
Speaker 1: end for the first time in a while, so you know,
19:42
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised.
19:43
Speaker 2: But you know what I saw out of Brady Ackerman too,
19:45
Speaker 2: that really blew me away. I didn't even know this
19:47
Speaker 2: was a thing for him. Yeah, I watched one play
19:49
Speaker 2: Tyler where he went in motion, yes, and then absolutely
19:53
Speaker 2: destroyed somebody. But he went in motion set up as
19:57
Speaker 2: like a I don't even know if it was h
20:00
Speaker 2: kind of yeah it was. It was like he like
20:02
Speaker 2: like he thought he was Dallas Clark there for a
20:04
Speaker 2: second and then took off run and down field and
20:05
Speaker 2: became you know, Anthony Munhos. It was like, what the
20:09
Speaker 2: just crazy to see a guy that size, you know,
20:11
Speaker 2: in motion and it's just like, oh, something fun going
20:14
Speaker 2: on here. And then all of a sudden you look
20:16
Speaker 2: and he's three yards downfield just blasting somebody into the
20:18
Speaker 2: end zone. Like you know, but yeah, I'm excited. I
20:22
Speaker 2: think he's got a great future. You know, he's the
20:24
Speaker 2: type of kid that is a college recruiter. You look
20:27
Speaker 2: at you go, you know, one legacy at the school, absolutely,
20:31
Speaker 2: but six four two sixty yep, that works all day.
20:36
Speaker 2: The athleticism works even further. You know, you start recruiting
20:40
Speaker 2: the family a little bit. The family's great, you know
20:43
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, yeah, there's not really any flaws
20:48
Speaker 2: from a recruitment side, you know what I mean, Like.
20:50
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about anything. I know, it's
20:53
Speaker 1: That's the thing is like, it's just an e it's easy,
20:56
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a no brainer. It's it's you could
21:00
Speaker 1: say so many things, and and yeah, I just I'm
21:04
Speaker 1: excited because it's it's one of those things where I
21:07
Speaker 1: wish I could watch more college football, but Saturdays during
21:10
Speaker 1: the fall are kind of my craziest days ever. And
21:14
Speaker 1: but man, I really just I really want to And
21:17
Speaker 1: you've told me about this too. It's like it's it'd
21:20
Speaker 1: be great to try to pay more attention and do
21:23
Speaker 1: give a little like inserts of you know, how this
21:26
Speaker 1: guy did or that guy did, or you know, yeah,
21:28
Speaker 1: like the county yeah, and you know, and that's something
21:32
Speaker 1: that I really should start trying to do more of.
21:35
Speaker 1: But man, it's just it's so crazy during that time
21:39
Speaker 1: for me, you know, to try to add on another
21:41
Speaker 1: another thing.
21:41
Speaker 2: And and you know what, Tyler, that's actually something that
21:43
Speaker 2: we I mean, I'll say like we we will probably
21:47
Speaker 2: try to do that next year because I think I
21:49
Speaker 2: can help you out with a little bit of it.
21:50
Speaker 2: And how easy it is to actually keep track of
21:53
Speaker 2: that stuff, right, And that's something that look, that's not
21:57
Speaker 2: something you need to put out on on Sunday, you
21:59
Speaker 2: know what I mean, that's something we could put that
22:00
Speaker 2: out on Tuesday, you know what I mean? And you know,
22:04
Speaker 2: and compiling that information isn't And and you got to
22:07
Speaker 2: remember I was looking for guys all over the state,
22:11
Speaker 2: you know, and it's not. Yeah, if you're organized with
22:14
Speaker 2: it and know exactly how to find that information, it's
22:18
Speaker 2: actually pretty easy. I mean, you could probably do it
22:20
Speaker 2: in fifteen minutes, you know what I mean.
22:21
Speaker 1: Ye, Tomorow's transferring to Hawaii.
22:24
Speaker 2: He is, he is. But Mike uh So, the director
22:29
Speaker 2: of player of personnel out there is my guy from
22:31
Speaker 2: he was Bellevue High School is where he went to
22:34
Speaker 2: high school, but he didn't play football. He was a
22:36
Speaker 2: water polo guy. And uh he actually was my intern
22:39
Speaker 2: at r WQB when I first got there.
22:42
Speaker 3: Nice.
22:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a great dude. And then and what's his
22:45
Speaker 2: name was there for a little while too. They went
22:47
Speaker 2: there together almost it was winter Hawk Layton, who's now
22:50
Speaker 2: at CAL oddly enough, but who oddly enough the director
22:54
Speaker 2: of player personnel at CAL. I've known him for a
22:57
Speaker 2: long time too because he went to high school at Redmond.
22:59
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, And then I think I could be
23:01
Speaker 2: wrong but I think the director of player Personnel at
23:05
Speaker 2: UCLA I believe is a guy from Woodenville. Don't ask me.
23:10
Speaker 2: I mean Kinko just turns out DPPs man. I don't
23:14
Speaker 2: know how that works. But all right, Tyler, any last
23:17
Speaker 2: words on Brady Ackerman before we get out of here.
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Speaker 1: Just thank you Brady for everything you know. It was
23:24
Speaker 1: awesome to watch. And keep working hard, Bud, because there's
23:30
Speaker 1: a lot of positive a lot of positive and good
23:33
Speaker 1: things headed your way.
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Speaker 3: You just keep doing what you're doing.
23:37
Speaker 2: I will agree with that. We need to give a
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