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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 328 - Top 100 #3 Talan Bungard · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Frendal Senior talent Banyard and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Top one hundred Countdown on the Walcome Preps podcast
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  Speaker 1: with Tyler and Ryland. It's a matter of pride. Greetings
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  Speaker 1: and welcome into the watcum Preps podcast. This is episode
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  Speaker 1: of three hundred and twenty eight, the eighth of ten
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  Speaker 1: podcasts in the twenty twenty four Top one hundred Football Countdown.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Anderson of Watcum Preps. Tyler, how we doing doing great?
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  Speaker 2: This is crazy now number three, this is where it
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  Speaker 2: gets really, really, really difficult, But I'm feeling pretty confident
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  Speaker 2: about how I placed everybody, and this is gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a fun one to talk about. This is a great, great.
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  Speaker 1: Kid, yeah, and one of my one of those guys
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  Speaker 1: that just plays the game the right way, So this
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  Speaker 1: should be a fun one to talk about here. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we need to give a thank you to Anytime Fitness
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  Speaker 1: in Linden, Linden North and Ferndale, the official sponsor of
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  Speaker 1: the Top one hundred count Down here in twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: although technically weren't twenty twenty five. As I say this
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, Tyler, Anytime Fitness been great sponsors of Walcome Preps,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure there's other potential great sponsors out there.
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  Speaker 1: So if somebody would like to get a hold of you,
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  Speaker 1: how do they do it? What do they gotta do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just look for walking Preps on social media and
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  Speaker 2: send me a personal message, or you can send me
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  Speaker 2: a text three six zero six eight four four three
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  Speaker 2: zero six and just kind of explain who you are
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  Speaker 2: and how you want to get involved or what company
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  Speaker 2: it is. And sometimes people reach out and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: how do I get involved? And I'm like, is there
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  Speaker 2: a company?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I need to ask questions and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: So the more information I get, the better we can
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  Speaker 2: kind of get the ball rolling from there. The daily
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  Speaker 2: recaps for girls basketball is still open. There's gonna there's still,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, six more weeks of basketball to be played,
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  Speaker 2: counting the playoffs. When you get to the playoffs, there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot more eyeballs and everything on it. So and
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  Speaker 2: the fun thing is is once it gets to the
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  Speaker 2: state tournament, I write a story about each game. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not even like I because I'm there
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  Speaker 2: and I have my computer and we get the stats
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  Speaker 2: handed to us. So it's kind of like I can
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  Speaker 2: I can just sit there and just and just grind,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll get and I'm taking pictures and then I'm
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  Speaker 2: hooking up my camera to the computer and I'm loading
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  Speaker 2: pictures and I'm writing stories. So if you are the
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  Speaker 2: daily Recap sponsor, then you will have that You'll be
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  Speaker 2: sponsoring every story that's written at the state tournament as well,
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  Speaker 2: so kind of a little extra bonus there at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year. And I you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty safe to say there will be teams going
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  Speaker 2: to state and playing into Saturday, boys and girls. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a good you know, it's a good
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  Speaker 2: thing to jump on and and and there's all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of things in the spring that are also available, so
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  Speaker 2: you know, just we'll figure something out, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: let's uh, let's work on it together and make it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think I think something like the daily
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  Speaker 1: recaps for the rest of the basketball season for girls
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  Speaker 1: is the perfect way because it'll be cheaper. You're not
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  Speaker 1: paying for a full season, right, so it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: what's a you know, I guess you'd say, what like
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  Speaker 1: pro rated or whatever for the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 1: How can I get in? You know, what's it going
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  Speaker 1: to cost? And then you can feel it out and
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  Speaker 1: see how it goes for you. Yeah, and then if
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  Speaker 1: you still like it, if it's like, yeah, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: this was a really good thing, then you know what,
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  Speaker 1: we find something for the spring, you know, or we
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  Speaker 1: start talking about the fall. Hey, well all right, what
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  Speaker 1: do I got to do for the fall? Tyler? You know,
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  Speaker 1: we just did a weekly sports recap and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's going on there. We still don't have a
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  Speaker 1: sponsor for that one. Or a winter A weekly sports
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  Speaker 1: technically that's exactly what it is. It is a weekly thing.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, but a winter, you know, so there's so
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  Speaker 1: many different things. Just reach out, Tyler will figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what's your budget? You know, what do you
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  Speaker 1: what are you thinking? Do you have something specific in mind? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my kids all went to Meridian, Okay, well then let's
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  Speaker 1: talk Meridian sports, you know, or you know, hey, my
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  Speaker 1: kid was a baseball player. Okay, well then we figure
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  Speaker 1: something out for baseball. You know, whatever it is you
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  Speaker 1: want to do. And if you just want to get
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  Speaker 1: involved in general, well then there's a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: to pick from, because there's gonna be plenty in the spring.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure that don't have a sponsor or, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you never know, let's find something that we could do.
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  Speaker 1: You know, maybe there's something new. You know, last year
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  Speaker 1: we kind of talked about doing some standings in baseball
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  Speaker 1: every week, you know, and hek somebody want to sponsor that. Great.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we already got a what do you call
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  Speaker 1: it a template ready to go. We could throw a
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  Speaker 1: slap a logo on there somewhere and yeah, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, Tyler. For money, a lot of things can happen,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, anyway, reach out to Tyler, who'll get
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  Speaker 1: to taken care of and you can become a part
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  Speaker 1: of watcom preps. Tyler, this is the football Top one
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  Speaker 1: hundred counter. I guess I don't need to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I said your name right there,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know what we're doing here today. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about number three on the list the people. You've already
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  Speaker 1: heard the intro there, but if you would like to
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  Speaker 1: hear any of the other previous installments of the Top
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  Speaker 1: one hundred Countdown, go back and find the episode three
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  Speaker 1: seventeen nineteen, twenty one, twenty three, twenty four, twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: and twenty seven. The number two athlete will be released
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow at two pm, or if you know, maybe on accident,
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  Speaker 1: I do what I did with Bran Hepner I think
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  Speaker 1: it was, or was it Brady Ackerman, and I set
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  Speaker 1: it for a day later and then I gotta I
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  Speaker 1: gotta do it in the middle of class. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got it done. I figured out how to do
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  Speaker 1: this stuff on my phone now, which I didn't actually
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  Speaker 1: even know I could do until I don't know, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of months ago or something. But yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: where we're at now, Tyler. We are down to number three.
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  Speaker 1: And with that, I'll say this number three on the
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  Speaker 1: top one hundred count down, six foot two, two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five pounds running back and defensive end. He
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  Speaker 1: is a senior from the Ferndale Golden Eagles. It's number
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  Speaker 1: thirty one talon bung guard.
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  Speaker 2: And what's great about him is I remember after the
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  Speaker 2: season ended two years ago and trying to figure out
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  Speaker 2: Sophomore of the Year, and there were so many great
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  Speaker 2: players to choose from. I mean, there was like a
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  Speaker 2: dozen of them that were could be in the running,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I had to narrow it down to
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  Speaker 2: four and and one of the ones that was not
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  Speaker 2: in the running was Talon bun Guard. But I could
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  Speaker 2: I had a feeling that by the time he graduated,
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  Speaker 2: he would be, you know, one of the best ones
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  Speaker 2: of this class. And it was because you could see
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  Speaker 2: just the natural football style of the way he played,
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  Speaker 2: just how kind of big and strong he was. That
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  Speaker 2: like just the toughness. I remember his dad playing. His
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  Speaker 2: dad was a year older than me and played at
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  Speaker 2: Bellingham High School and was a you know, a two
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  Speaker 2: way star tight end defensive end, and it was like
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  Speaker 2: a three year starter. And and so I I, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you start seeing the generations and you kind of you
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  Speaker 2: can kind of project a little bit. I remember see
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  Speaker 2: him carry the ball a couple of times as a freshman,
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  Speaker 2: and it just at the end of the game, last
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  Speaker 2: game of the year type thing, regular season game, and
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  Speaker 2: and you know, picked up you know, double digit yards
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  Speaker 2: in those two carries, and I just kind of thought, Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I've heard some things about him. And then sophomore year
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  Speaker 2: he started playing more and more, and then it just
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  Speaker 2: every year just got a little bit better and this year,
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  Speaker 2: it was just monstrous. I mean every single week he
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  Speaker 2: would put up huge numbers. There was no there was
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  Speaker 2: no dip in the production offensively, there was just nothing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there was nothing that you would go, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: he kind of had an off week. I mean it
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  Speaker 2: was great all the time.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I saw him out at the youth football camp and
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  Speaker 2: he looked different. He looked thicker and and if you
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  Speaker 2: could say it, thicker and leaner, if that makes you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you could say that, he just looked different and
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  Speaker 2: a little more. Yeah, And but still it was so
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  Speaker 2: funny because just talking to him, he was just such
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  Speaker 2: a humble kid, quiet kid and doesn't really doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: give you a lot. But it's not because he's doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to. It's just kind of his nature. He wants
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  Speaker 2: he's going to speak on the football field, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to show what he does there, and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness. It was just it was one of those
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  Speaker 2: years where every single week, I mean, he ran for
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  Speaker 2: over two hundred yards in four different games, and he
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  Speaker 2: was a touchdown scoring machine. He ended up with twenty
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  Speaker 2: touchdowns total on the year, seventeen on the ground. Two
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  Speaker 2: through the year, and one on defense and then on
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  Speaker 2: defense he had to learn a new position, had to
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  Speaker 2: go play defensive end. And it was Ferndale's kind of
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  Speaker 2: done this recently over the years with needing to find
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  Speaker 2: a defensive end and finding you know, quickness, move a
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  Speaker 2: linebacker there. You know, did it with Phoenix Finkbonner and
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  Speaker 2: it was successful. Maybe Xander Castleberry was a linebacker at
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  Speaker 2: some point, but moved a defensive end and so it
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  Speaker 2: fit really really well.
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  Speaker 1: And he was.
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  Speaker 2: Just so hard to contain on that edge because just
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  Speaker 2: because of the overall quickness, the get out that he has,
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  Speaker 2: and then plus he's the way he can use his hands,
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  Speaker 2: and he's just a force tackling as well. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know he was he started a linebacker the previous
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  Speaker 2: two years, so he's the tackling part was never a problem.
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  Speaker 2: And they kind of had a good core group of
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  Speaker 2: linebackers this year, so you had the luxury of moving
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  Speaker 2: him to a defensive end. And a lot of coaches
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  Speaker 2: will tell you that they like to put their best
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  Speaker 2: defensive player as a defensive end, and it's just it's
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  Speaker 2: just a really good spot to put somebody to kind
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  Speaker 2: of force teams to do certain things, and you might
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  Speaker 2: not put up huge numbers week to week, but you're
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  Speaker 2: you're doing the little things that the coaches see and
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  Speaker 2: the players see. And and even though that happened, still
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  Speaker 2: pretty pretty good numbers defensively, thirty five and a half tackles,
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  Speaker 2: eleven and a half tackles for loss, five quarterback sacks,
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  Speaker 2: a forced fumble, a pass knockdown of the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: and he picked up a fumble and ran forty two
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  Speaker 2: yards for a touchdown with it. One of the big
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  Speaker 2: things I noticed about this year was I thought he
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  Speaker 2: got a lot faster this past year. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: was kind of a just a power back that didn't
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  Speaker 2: have many moves. He just gave it to him, Like
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  Speaker 2: on just a trap play up the middle, he's gonna,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a big carry for him would be like
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  Speaker 2: thirteen yards and he's dragging a couple guys with him
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  Speaker 2: then he goes down. This year, it was different. He
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  Speaker 2: could shoot through the gap, he could make a guy miss,
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  Speaker 2: He stiff farmed a couple guys just I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like it was like it's like you see those evangelists
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  Speaker 2: where they just heal somebody, like he would heal those guys,
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  Speaker 2: they just they just fall right on the ground. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it was it was so it was so impressive that
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  Speaker 2: like you see it a couple times and you kind
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  Speaker 2: of go okay, but like he just kept doing it.
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  Speaker 2: It was like a weekly thing, and you could hear
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  Speaker 2: the pop from the crowd and it was it was
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  Speaker 2: really really impressive. So that combination of the size and
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  Speaker 2: speed and strength really it all came together this year.
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  Speaker 2: He did catch a couple of passes. They both went
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  Speaker 2: for touchdowns on basically identical plays. I think they were
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  Speaker 2: both in the same game against Cedar Woolley. But carrying
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  Speaker 2: the ball two hundred and forty carries on the season, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: get the guy an ice bath one thousand, six hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty eight yards, averaging nearly seven yards of carry
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  Speaker 2: and then seventeen touchdowns and doing it in ten games.
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  Speaker 2: Just extremely impressive. Even that final game of the year
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  Speaker 2: against Federal Way, it was you know, it was a
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  Speaker 2: blowout loss, the season is over, he still carried the
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  Speaker 2: ball thirty times in that game for one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: forty five yards and the lone touchdown. He's just a
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  Speaker 2: warrior and it's incredibly hard to bring down and and
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  Speaker 2: like I said, just the super likable kid. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: just you know, And I'll go back to baseball because
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  Speaker 2: he hit that home run. And I always tell the
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  Speaker 2: story I was, I was standing like probably ten feet
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  Speaker 2: behind the third base coach, like behind the out of
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  Speaker 2: play fence on the third base side there, and he's
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  Speaker 2: up and he pulled one down the line at left
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  Speaker 2: field field and it was way out of there. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember hearing the left fielder say, that's the farthest
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  Speaker 2: ball I've ever blank and seen if he didn't say
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  Speaker 2: blankne And and like it looked like it was still
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  Speaker 2: going up when it went over the fence, like it
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  Speaker 2: just appeared that way. And just the it's just it's
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  Speaker 2: just so strong, just so so strong, and and knows
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  Speaker 2: how to harness it and explode, you know. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the way he hit a baseball, is the way he
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  Speaker 2: tackled somebody. And that's and the way he would deliver
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  Speaker 2: the punishment while carrying the ball. Just a great, great
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  Speaker 2: football player. And I loved whenever coach Plankevitch would get
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  Speaker 2: interviewed by the radio and stuff like that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the guy interviewing would look and say, well, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's been so great, he's ran for so many yards.
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  Speaker 2: But Planko would quickly remind like how great he is
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  Speaker 2: on defense too, and how how important he was the team.
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  Speaker 2: And their biggest struggle with him is finding time for
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  Speaker 2: him to rest because they needed him on the field
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  Speaker 2: all all the time. And that that tells you a lot.
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  Speaker 2: And even though Ferndale had kind of an odd season
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  Speaker 2: this year, you know, starting off with a couple losses
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  Speaker 2: and a couple of wins and a loss win loss,
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  Speaker 2: they the one constant was always talent bung guard. You
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  Speaker 2: could always depend on him to pick up huge, huge plays.
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  Speaker 2: And not only did you and I pick him all
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  Speaker 2: the time in the fantasy a lot of times he
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  Speaker 2: was the first pick overall, which tells you a lot
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Tyler, I'm watching his film here, and
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  Speaker 1: I watched the defensive end stuff. I've seen him played
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  Speaker 1: linebacker in person, the one thing, and now I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: the offense of the running back stuff here from this season,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, the one thing missing from his game, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: a neck roll, I mean was one well you know
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  Speaker 1: who I think of when I see his his you know,
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  Speaker 1: full back. I guess we'll call it film. The guy
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  Speaker 1: who's highlights have kind of popped up in the last
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  Speaker 1: year or so here and there, Mike Alstock. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like Mike Alstott. The way that he runs, it's
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  Speaker 1: just it's not how do I say this, It almost
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look natural, you know what I mean. But then
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  Speaker 1: you watch him and it's like, boom pinballs off that guy,
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  Speaker 1: boom pinballs off that guy and then just keeps his
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  Speaker 1: legs going. I mean, there's a couple of plays here
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  Speaker 1: that that are pretty funny, where like one they pull
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  Speaker 1: three guys, which is just gorgeous, but they pull three
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  Speaker 1: guys and he outruns two of them. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and you kind of want to go, hey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little more patience, like let's get you know,
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  Speaker 1: let's get behind your blockers. But he took it for
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  Speaker 1: like forty five yards, So like, like what do you
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  Speaker 1: do with that as a coach? You know what I mean, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to see you, We'd love to see it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, run behind your blockers. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: hell of a play, you know what I mean, Like,
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  Speaker 1: like what do you do about it? It's just it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of funny, but you know, I think the thing
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  Speaker 1: that impresses me most to you can tell. Well one
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this, His defensive end film is really really
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  Speaker 1: nice for a guy that didn't play that position, is
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  Speaker 1: really nice. His linebacker film is is even better. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: his abilities at linebacker are just unbelievable. But that shows
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  Speaker 1: you what kind of player he is. Senior year and
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  Speaker 1: he does what he's told is going to be the
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  Speaker 1: best for the team, you know what I mean. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and question their coaching staff,
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  Speaker 1: but whether or not that's actually true, it's it's what
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  Speaker 1: he did, you know what I mean. He said coach
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  Speaker 1: that if that's where you need me, I'm in, let's go,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it's truly impressive to
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  Speaker 1: watch just the the enthusiasm that he plays with. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a quiet enthusiasm, if that makes sense, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean. He's not a big flashy guy. He
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  Speaker 1: makes the play, gets up, claps his hands a couple
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  Speaker 1: of times, and goes back to the to the you know,
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  Speaker 1: to a spot you know, but you can just see
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  Speaker 1: the you can see how hard he wants to and
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  Speaker 1: he's pointing stuff out on defense. You know, like it's
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: it's kind of tell you what. The one thing that
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: scares me the most too, when I watched the defensive
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: end stuff, there was one where I'm like, oh, he
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: did he lined up played some D tackle a couple
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: of times. Oh oh wait, no, all four defensive linemen
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: didn't even get into a stance.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: That's that Nascar guy.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Yes. And then it's like, oh, this is interesting. Next
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: to you know, playing D tackle, he drops into coverage
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: in the flat and then he and he's looking around
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: looking for somebody, looking for somebody, nothing comes to What
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: does he do? He chases down the quarterback, you know,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: and it's just like wow, like man, this is you know,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: it's impressive, It really is. It's impressive film. I mean,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: this is a guy that if he wanted to play
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: college football, there's absolutely absolutely some teams that would take him.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'll tell you what, if I was Central Washington,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I'd be I'd be looking to get him on the
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: roster almost just as like a hey, can you come
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: play up back on the punt team, you know, can
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: you come play some special teams for us early and
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: see if we can get you a spot. Because I
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: look at him and I'm like, man, this is the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: guy that I want. You remember. I think it was
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the year the Seahawks won the Super Bowl. They had
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: that one dude, Well, they had Chris Maragos was one
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: of them, but he was more of a safety. They
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: had a was it Heath Farrewell Heath Farwell? Like this
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: is that's what he reminds me of, Like you can
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: see if he's a smart player. And man, yeah, because
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: you know what it was Heath Farwell, because I remember
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: there was I don't know if it was a Super
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Bowl year, but it was around that time. But he's
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the guy I'm thinking of because you remember they used
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: to bring him in on like the goal line on
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: defense and he would just shoot gaps and blow things up. Yes,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: you know, And that's what I mean. I did look
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: at him. It's like it's kind of funny too, because
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: sometimes he'll make the read right away and but it'll
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: be the wrong read and then he'll throw on the
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: brakes and then just turn on the jets going going
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the right way, you know what I mean, And then
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: he makes the play still and that's just not you know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, here's one right here, he just swatted the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: ball out of the air and it went right to
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: a safety or somebody, you know, and it was just
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: like he kind of had his back turn going the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: wrong way and then it was like, oh there's the
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: ball pop. You know. Slots of that man. I'll tell
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: you what is when I when I watch him, you know,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I think of Tyler. I think of like like small
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: school football. I think of that guy in like, oh Mac,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, like out in the middle
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: of nowhere and you know, probably drives a Ford f
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: one fifty to school, you know what I mean. Back
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: in the nineties, he would have had a gun rack
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: in there, you know what I mean. Like, that's what
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I think of when I watch the way that he
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: plays the game. It's just old school, hard nosed. I mean,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you know me, Tyler, I'm getting hot over here, Like
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I'm getting sweaty over here because these are these are
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: my guys, Like these are guys that that just I
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: love it. The other thing I need to know here, Tyler.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: So there's some clips from Ferndale Stadium. What is this?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Is this the weight room that's like off in the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: far right corner on the field, like where the team
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: comes onto the field, like there's a big old building
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: over there.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to see. Now they've done a lot
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: of refurbishing, so that's another new building.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Yea, as they say that's a brand new building. It
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: looks then.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Close to it and it's gone in there, so I
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: don't know for sure.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like looking through one of the windows, actually it
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: looks like almost like a garage door, but it looks
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: like maybe a weight room or's nothing going on in there.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but that building is freaking huge. I
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: love the turf too, the the back and forth. Yeah, yeah,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: I mean I I don't like it because it's organ like.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: They're the ones I always think of with that, you.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Know, a long time ago.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why we have a POPKINI now too. Nebraska's
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: had it for a long time too, though, But when
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I think of that, the first team that comes to
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: mind kind of his organ because yeah, yeah, I don't
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: know if it's because they did it first. I don't
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: know if it's because we see organs so much on
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: TV around here, you know what I mean. I don't
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: know what I know.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: The first time I ever saw it, I remember, like
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: you know, in the nineties.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, was them so yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway, this is
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's my kind of player. Man. He just
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: is like guys that are hard nosed on both sides
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: of the ball. And you can see, I don't know
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: if he's a vocal leader, I don't know, you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know any of that stuff about him, but
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you can see the leadership. The leadership comes out on
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: his highlights, you know what I mean, Like you can
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: see it. And yeah, I mean this is Yeah. When
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I say I'm getting warm over here, I ain't joking, man,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is my kind of guy right here.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: I love football players like this. These guys are the
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: guys that just they make me love the game of football,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, they make and they make it so we
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: get really pumped doing what we do. I mean, well,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: you're coaching and stuff now, but still you're around it.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: You're you're there, and if you you know, if you
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: get to coach a kid like that, it's fantastic. If
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: you get to cover a kid like that, it's fantastic.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And just getting to know him over the years has
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: been awesome, watching him play baseball and different things, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: you know, him and Camden Raymond together presented me with
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: a Ferndale helmet with a bunch of signatures on it,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: like a little over a year ago. He was a
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: part of that. And you know, whenever I see his
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: dad at a game, a lot more often than not,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: he's got to walk them preps ad on. You know,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: it's just it's just a cool deal. It's That's what
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I love about it is is he's he's a He's
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: one of those legacy guys.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You know, there's so.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Many of these guys that have generations, and I love
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: that they've attached themselves somehow to walk them preps and
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: there will always be that attachment. And you know, I'm
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: hoping that twenty five thirty years down the road, if
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: I'm still doing this, then you know there'll be another
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: buck Guard playing, you know what I mean. It's just
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: like it'll just keep happening. And that's what's so cool
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: about it. And you know, it's a great area and
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: people they you know, they go off to college and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: do things, but they'll come back and and start their
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: families and you just keep to just get to keep
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: doing it again. I mean, I think back to when
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you know, I was doing this stuff in the nineties,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: and that was all I was doing, was just totaling stats.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: And I kind of thought, well, once I graduate, i'll
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: probably stop because I won't know the kids anymore. Yeah,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you know I and I just thought I'll just stop.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: But then it was like, well, I'll do it for
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: a year because I know these kids pretty well. And
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: then it's like, well, okay, I'll do it the next year.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And and then that, you know, then it's like, oh, Meridian,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: just want to stay title. Okay, So I'm gonna keep
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: going because they're pretty good and I'm getting to know
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: these guys. And now all of a sudden, it's like
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: a drug. It's like you can't stop and you get it.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: The best drug of the world, man, it is, and
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: it's just and all of a sudden, it's it's it's
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: little brothers that are playing, little sisters that are playing it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Then it's the nephews, and it's the kids, and it's
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and and then I want to and then I want
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: to go backwards, and I want to go back to
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the seventies and the sixties and I find grandparents and
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: it's just it's so fun and and it's guys like
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Talon Bung guard you know that are memorable, that stick
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: out that you'll always remember, And yeah, it's just you know,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: it's one of those things. And when he lines up
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: in the backfield, like I know it's him. I don't
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: have to see the number, like I could see the
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: way his he stands. I can see those and I
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: could see it in my head like I know who
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: it is. And that's just what's so cool. And to
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: be able to get to know some of these kids
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: personally is a really is a big time treat for me.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And and so yeah, it's just I can't say enough
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: about him. He was a fantastic player and and you
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: know whatever he wants to do in life is going
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: to be fantastic because of his work ethic and his drive.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: And you know he'll be successful in whatever he does.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: If I said to you, Tyler, and this will this
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: will be the the last thing before we get out
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: of here, okay, h If I said to you what
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: because I noticed his stance. I noticed it, like I
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: was like, wow, he's kind of upright here, you know
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: what I mean. But then you watch the way he runs,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and it's like that's kind of the way that he
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: runs a little bit too. But man, it's a it's
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: a real thick, you know, kind of intimidating stance in
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: a way.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: If I said to you, what is his stance? Comp?
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you who I'm thinking. I'm not gonna
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: tell you the name, but I'm thinking of a guy
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: from the nineties is who I'm thinking. Okay, actually I
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: could give you two guys. I'll give you one Seahawks
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: comp and I'll give you one NFL comp. All right,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I've got two of them. Who are you thinking? Oh?
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Man, it is unique.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Because it's upright, but it's hands on the thighs, you
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: know what I mean. And it's yeah, yeah, it's I mean,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: if you're a linebacker, you're looking to cross over the lines, going, oh,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I hope you're right outside. Yeah. Brandon Jacobs, Yeah, that's
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: not a bad one. The Seahawks comp, I'm thinking he
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: looks like Chris Warren.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Oh totally. Oh, absolutely, they are the same.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Now, that's unbelievable. The NFL comp I'm thinking is Eddie George. Oh,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that's a great one. Yeah, it's like upright, kind of
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: runs upright, but it's a powerful upright you know what
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, yeah, one of those guys where it's like,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: all right, boys, we're gonna spend all week working on
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: tackling low like do not challenge this man, you know.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's just it's it's fun to watch, like guy,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Like I said, guys like that, that's yeah, I mean,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: for me, that's why I wake up in the morning,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, I wake up for physicality.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And he's one of those guys. And when I turned
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the film on, the first thing went through my head
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: is like, this is when I get film from an
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: opposing team, now that I'm coaching and not yeah, scouting, right,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: when I get filmed from an opposing team and I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: start texting some of the other coaches going, holy crap,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you see this number thirty two, Like, oh my god,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Like I love the way Sky Roger you know, number
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: forty four, the linebacker. You see the way that guy
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: you know? Yeah, right, you start going, oh man, this
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: is great. I love the way that guy plays the game,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And so it's yeah, it's
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: fun to watch. But all right, any last words before
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: we go, Tyler, I think we've kind of said it all.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I think we think we're good.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Alrighty, we need to give another thank you to Anytime
• 26:29
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• 26:32
  Speaker 1: of the Top one hundred Countdown. He's Tyler Anderson of
• 26:35
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• 26:41
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• 26:44
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• 26:46
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