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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 35 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Bothell Football Coaches Show.
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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Ryland Spencer, along with me, as always,
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Speaker 2: is the head coach of the Bothell Cougars, Tom Bainter. Coach,
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Speaker 2: how are we doing?
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Speaker 3: Doing great.
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Speaker 1: How about you, Ryland?
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Speaker 2: I am doing awesome. It's King Co. Championship Week. You
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Speaker 2: can't be too mad about it when your team is
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Speaker 2: in the game. The Coach's Show is brought to you
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Speaker 2: north of Pop Keeney and open seven days a week,
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Speaker 2: Passion Tequila is the perfect pre- or post-game spot for
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Speaker 2: any event at Pop Keeney. Coach, let's start like we
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Speaker 2: always do and talk about the freshman and JV games.
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Speaker 2: Last week, the freshman got a forfeit from North Creek,
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Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean they didn't get in some Wednesday
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Speaker 2: night lights action. As a matter of fact, the two...
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Speaker 2: How do I say this? The freshman team was split
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Speaker 2: in half into two teams. It was a blue-white scrimmage.
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Speaker 2: I believe the final score was.
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Speaker 3: Eight to six.
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Speaker 2: Eight to six, blue over white. So the home team
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Speaker 2: got a win on Wednesday night. Yeah, I mean, tried
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Speaker 2: to schedule some other teams. Things just don't work out
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Speaker 2: when you just, I mean, frankly, you don't have a
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Speaker 2: lot of time to try to pull it off. But
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Speaker 2: things did not work out. So the freshmen split in half,
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Speaker 2: played each other. But it sounds like there was a
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Speaker 2: lot of fun going on up there on Wednesday night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we found out about 11 o'clock that,
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Speaker 3: you know, North Creek wasn't going to have enough players
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Speaker 3: or didn't have a quarterback or whatever it was. We
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Speaker 3: tried to look out. We went to Eastlake. We looked
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Speaker 3: at Cedar Crest. Our athletic director was trying to find
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Speaker 3: a game. We almost had one, but that late notice
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Speaker 3: getting buses and getting out made it difficult. We just
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Speaker 3: decided to... This is Coach Legault and his staff. We
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Speaker 3: just said, hey, let's make the most of it. Let's
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Speaker 3: have a blue-white scrimmage. Everybody will get to play. We'll
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Speaker 3: have we'll have chains out there. We'll have a scoreboard. Um, and,
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Speaker 3: and they divided the teams up. And like you said,
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Speaker 3: it was eight to six and, uh, uh, he ended
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Speaker 3: up playing like three quarters. We, we wanted to go
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Speaker 3: till about eight 30 and, and started right at seven.
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Speaker 3: So we got about an hour and a half of, uh,
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Speaker 3: scrimmage in and, um, saw a lot of great things. Uh,
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Speaker 3: lots of kids played a lot and, and, uh, we,
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Speaker 3: we were able to do some things we hadn't done
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Speaker 3: in a while. And, and, uh, we saw some improvement
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Speaker 3: by players and, uh, It was fun. The parents were
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Speaker 3: into it. They were berating our one official who was
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Speaker 3: a freshman coach who didn't call a pass interference that
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Speaker 3: they thought. And it was all in good nature and fun,
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Speaker 3: and we had a blast. And, you know, we ordered
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Speaker 3: pizzas after the game, and we sat and had pizza
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Speaker 3: and celebrated the fact that, you know, we got a
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Speaker 3: great night in. And, again, just proud of Coach Legault
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Speaker 3: and our staff of making a great thing out of it.
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Speaker 3: So it was positive, I will tell you that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost like a halftime adjustment they had to
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Speaker 2: make there. On the fly, and they pulled off what
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Speaker 2: sounds like an awesome little Wednesday night up there on
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Speaker 2: the practice field. Monday night, the JV Cougs continued their
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Speaker 2: winning ways with a 50-24 win over Lake Washington. I've
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Speaker 2: got some names and some touchdowns and stuff here from
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Speaker 2: Coach Fish. Looks like Evan Terry had himself a nice night.
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Speaker 2: Three touchdowns offensively, and then had a kickoff return touchdown.
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Speaker 2: Lots of two-point conversions from I see Tillman Hutton. I
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Speaker 2: see Henry Hoft. Henry also had a fumble return for
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Speaker 2: a touchdown. David Ellis getting in the action. Quinn Bryan
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Speaker 2: gets a two-point conversion after a Jace Matthews touchdown. Tyler
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Speaker 2: Wells with the touchdown. Lots of names here. I see
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Speaker 2: Riley Mahacek's name again. His name's been popping up a
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Speaker 2: lot recently in different things. Looks like, yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 2: a 50-24 win is obviously, you know, it's a lot
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Speaker 2: of points, so a lot of guys got to touch
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Speaker 2: the ball, and it looks like that's what happened on
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Speaker 2: Monday night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it was a really close game at half.
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Speaker 3: Lake Washington scores to make it 22-16 with a minute
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Speaker 3: 27 to go at halftime and we do a really
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Speaker 3: tremendous job of some speedy offense and we get the
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Speaker 3: ball down the field and score and then we get
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Speaker 3: a two for right, we get the second half kickoff
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Speaker 3: and we come down and score on that and all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden with two point conversions we go up
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Speaker 3: by three scores and so it was a dominant performance
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Speaker 3: and Thought we did a good job of handling the
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Speaker 3: triple option. Fun to see our kids. A lot of
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Speaker 3: people are getting involved and lots of improvement. That's what
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Speaker 3: every coach is hoping for. That is now six straight
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Speaker 3: wins for the JV Life over there. They are having
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Speaker 3: a good time.
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Speaker 2: Let's talk about last Friday night, Lake Washington. 21-14 win
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Speaker 2: over the Kangaroos. I think we've got to start by
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Speaker 2: giving props to L-Dub. Their game plan, their execution. You
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Speaker 2: talked about it last week in the pregame, or in
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Speaker 2: the I guess we could call it pregame, I don't
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Speaker 2: know what we want to call it, in the preview
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Speaker 2: of LW on last week's podcast about their effort. It
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Speaker 2: looked as though all of those things kind of came
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Speaker 2: together for a real close game.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, first of all, you look at their
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Speaker 3: I was telling our staff and our players, that's the
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Speaker 3: best 2-5 team we were going into in the state.
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Speaker 3: There's an argument that they they could have easily won
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Speaker 3: two or three of those games. And some of them
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Speaker 3: went down the wire and most of them, they had
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Speaker 3: a lead going into the fourth quarter and just couldn't
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Speaker 3: hold onto it. They've had a quarterback who's turned the
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Speaker 3: ball over a lot and they replaced him in our game.
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Speaker 3: They were, they were a minus seven, you know, turnover
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Speaker 3: ratio team or, or excuse me, minus 10. We were
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Speaker 3: a plus seven. So we had 17, you know, turnover points,
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Speaker 3: you know, against them. And, and we turned the ball
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Speaker 3: over on our first drive and they, they didn't turn
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Speaker 3: it over all night. They, their, their next quarterback who
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Speaker 3: came in, he was fabulous, uh, took care of the offense. Uh,
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Speaker 3: the ball didn't hit the ground once. Um, they controlled
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Speaker 3: it on us a lot. They, you know, we had
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Speaker 3: 45 offensive plays is all in the game. Um, we
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Speaker 3: didn't punt, um, but we couldn't execute on third and
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Speaker 3: fourth downs. Um, and you know, we had to drop
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Speaker 3: ball in the end zone. We had, uh, we just
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Speaker 3: shot ourselves in the foot, you know, and, and too
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Speaker 3: many times and, and they controlled it. And, you know,
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Speaker 3: it came down to with about four and a half
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Speaker 3: minutes to go, we, we blocked that field goal and,
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Speaker 3: you know, it gets right into, you know, our hands
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Speaker 3: and we take it all the way. And so, um,
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Speaker 3: you know, it was, it was a, uh, it was
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Speaker 3: a really good high school football game. And, and, uh,
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Speaker 3: I'm not going to tell, say that, you know, we,
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Speaker 3: we should have, could have, would have, I'm going to
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Speaker 3: tell you that they, they played well and, and, uh, Um,
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Speaker 3: you know, they didn't turn the ball over and had
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Speaker 3: they not turned the ball over like this all year,
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Speaker 3: they might be five and two going into that game. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Just to give you an idea of Lake Washington schedule,
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Speaker 2: they started the season two and one, and then they
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Speaker 2: lost by two, lost by four, lost by three. I mean,
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Speaker 2: those are one score games that, you know, those are
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Speaker 2: always could go either way. Um, and I believe I
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Speaker 2: could be wrong. I believe they had a lead in
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Speaker 2: all three of those games. Um, lead in the second
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Speaker 2: half of all three of those games. So, yeah, props
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Speaker 2: to those guys. I mean, just a tremendous all-around football game.
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Speaker 2: When you talk about getting your money's worth out of
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Speaker 2: a football game, the people that were there on Friday
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Speaker 2: night definitely got their money's worth. Offensively, some struggles at times.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned third and fourth down converting. You know, also
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Speaker 2: some nice things. The run game continues to kind of
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Speaker 2: be the leader of the blue train, if you will.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. You know, our running game is really good.
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Speaker 3: Miles was spectacular. We had some great holes. You know,
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Speaker 3: when we were out in the middle of the field,
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Speaker 3: when we got to the goal line, things got tight
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Speaker 3: a little bit, and we didn't execute as well. But, yeah,
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Speaker 3: proud of him, proud of us, and we'll keep getting better.
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Speaker 2: Defensively, it's got to be tough to go against that
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Speaker 2: offense defensively. it's not something that athletes see very often,
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Speaker 2: especially in this day and age, but also to do
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Speaker 2: it on a one week, you've only got essentially two
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Speaker 2: real in-pad practices before having to go play an offense
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Speaker 2: like that, but Coach, you grew up in an offense
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Speaker 2: like that, so I think maybe you know it a
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Speaker 2: little bit better than most.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a wonderful offense that causes the
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Speaker 3: defense to be disciplined. And most of the schemes that
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Speaker 3: we run defensively are defending, you know, 11 personnel or
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Speaker 3: 10 personnel, you know, three or four receivers, one back,
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Speaker 3: no tight ends, a lot of them in our league.
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Speaker 3: And so you get to a team that, you know,
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Speaker 3: you have to switch your defense up a little bit
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Speaker 3: and you have to, you know, assign people to players.
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Speaker 3: Somebody's got to get the dive. Somebody's got to get
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Speaker 3: the cue. Somebody's got to get the pitch. And If
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Speaker 3: one of those three things are out of line or
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Speaker 3: there's a little lack of discipline, then it's exploited. That's
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Speaker 3: the great thing about the option. It was fun to
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Speaker 3: see how well they did that at times. They went
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Speaker 3: on long drives. They had a 16-play drive, a 13-play drive.
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Speaker 3: Those are what you have to do to beat somebody
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Speaker 3: that's above you. We handled it well all the way through.
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Speaker 3: We made some adjustments in the second half. And we
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Speaker 3: made the plays when we had to. And so really
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Speaker 3: proud of our guys for the way we finished. And again,
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Speaker 3: hats off to Elda. That was a well-coached, well-played game.
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Speaker 3: They have some players on that team that will be
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Speaker 3: all-league kids. And kudos to them.
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Speaker 2: One of the things I loved was watching you and
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Speaker 2: Coach Stevens kind of going through game plan stuff. And
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Speaker 2: Coach Stevens would say, well, this is what we're going
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Speaker 2: to do. And you'd go, well, this is how they're
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Speaker 2: going to exploit it. Oh, well, OK, but we've got
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Speaker 2: this for that. Yeah, but then they've got this. And
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Speaker 2: it's just one of those things that with an offense
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Speaker 2: like that, it can be easily tweaked for them to
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Speaker 2: make changes and still get the things done that they
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Speaker 2: want to do. So definitely a fun offense for somebody
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Speaker 2: like myself. I've I love option football. I grew up
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Speaker 2: a Nebraska fan, so talk about option football, and.
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Speaker 1: I smile.
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Speaker 2: Let's just say that. But, yeah, again, 21-14 win over
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Speaker 2: Lake Washington, which sets up, well, sets up the Kinko
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Speaker 2: Championship game. But before we do that, we need to
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Speaker 2: get to the players of the week. And the players
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Speaker 2: and Dave Mercer of Team Breda Real Estate, who have
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Speaker 2: awesome partners for this as each athlete will receive a
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Speaker 2: gift card from either Alexis Cafe or Passion Tequila, two
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Speaker 2: of Bothell's favorite restaurants. Let's talk first about the offense,
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Speaker 2: and we kind of already mentioned Miles Welch. 17 carries,
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Speaker 2: 169 yards, and a touchdown. It seems like Miles is
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Speaker 2: one of those guys that week in and week out
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Speaker 2: is becoming one of the most consistent backs, not only
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Speaker 2: in Kinko, but maybe even around the state.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got fabulous quickness and balance and strength.
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Speaker 1: He's patient.
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Speaker 3: He follows blockers really well. He always makes a guy
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Speaker 3: miss or two, and that's pretty special. And he's done
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Speaker 3: this all year, and he'll continue, no doubt. So real
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Speaker 3: proud of him and happy for his accomplishments.
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Speaker 2: On the defensive side, I don't know that we've ever
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Speaker 2: done this before, but Colton Bryan's going to win it
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Speaker 2: again second week in a row. This week, seven tackles,
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Speaker 2: one tackle for a loss, and the game-winning 83-yard scoop
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Speaker 2: and score on a blocked field goal attempt, blocked by
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Speaker 2: Kentrell Thomas, and one thing I thought was really cool,
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Speaker 2: and this is kind of getting away from Colton, but
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Speaker 2: to see the guys celebrating as Colton is sprinting to
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Speaker 2: the end zone, looking a little gassed towards the end maybe,
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Speaker 2: but 83 yards is 83 yards, but Seeing Griffin Taylor
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Speaker 2: smacking Kentrell Thomas as they're running down. Defensively, though, Colton
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Speaker 2: Bryan just again continues to do some tremendous things.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a tremendous play by Kentrell coming off
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Speaker 3: the edge, giving it his all. Leaving his feet and
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Speaker 3: just diving. The ball bounces fortuitously right to the chest
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Speaker 3: of Colton and he takes it to the house. I
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Speaker 3: was telling people in film yesterday that He could have
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Speaker 3: gone faster. He wasn't tired, Coach. He was just trying
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Speaker 3: to make this last as long as it could. It
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Speaker 3: was a fabulous play. Colton's been doing some great things
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Speaker 3: on both sides of the ball. He's a tremendous player.
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Speaker 3: You can always count on him. I'm happy for him.
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Speaker 3: His hard work is paying off.
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Speaker 2: Colton Bryan on defense, Myles Welch on offense. Thanks again
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Speaker 2: to Steve Breda and Dave Mercer. of Team Breda Real
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Speaker 2: Estate for their continued support of Bothell Athletics. Let's move on,
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Speaker 2: talk about Mount Sai. It is King Co. Championship Week.
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Speaker 2: Bothell at Mount Sai, 7 p.m. in Snoqualmie. Bothell leads
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Speaker 2: the all-time series 19-12, 3-3. You've got to go all
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Speaker 2: the way back to the 40s, 50s, and 60s to
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Speaker 2: find those three ties. But the two teams have been
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Speaker 2: playing as far back as the 1940s. I mean, it's
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Speaker 2: kind of one of those things that, You probably don't
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Speaker 2: think that Mount Sai out that way was really much
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Speaker 2: going on in the 40s, but there was. Bothell on
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Speaker 2: a two-game winning streak. Head coach Don Bartell in his
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Speaker 2: first year as head coach at Mount Sai. He's been
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Speaker 2: there a couple of years now on the staff. But
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Speaker 2: a very successful eight-year run at Eastlake before that. And
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Speaker 2: one thing you know when you play a Bartell coach
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Speaker 2: team is they're going to be well-prepared and they're going
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Speaker 2: to play with a lot of effort.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's had success wherever he's been. When I first
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Speaker 3: got in the league, he was at Eastlake as a
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Speaker 3: DC and And he, he, when he's been coaching it
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Speaker 3: at three or four different schools that have all been
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Speaker 3: successful while he's there, uh, he, he does a great
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Speaker 3: job of building culture, uh, of, of aligning his staff
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Speaker 3: to his players. Um, he's, uh, he's, he's good and
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Speaker 3: he knows defense really well. And, you know, they're playing well. Um,
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Speaker 3: you know, they're, um, their kids are big, they're fast, they're,
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Speaker 3: they're physical. That's kind of how his teams always look. Um,
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Speaker 3: They have a really good quarterback who throws well, runs well.
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Speaker 3: They have a good size on the O & D lines.
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Speaker 3: Their linebacker crew is unbelievable. They've got three or four
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Speaker 3: kids who have offers already and they're doing great things
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Speaker 3: and it'll be a great and fun challenge for us.
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Speaker 3: You start out lifting in January and you talk about
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Speaker 3: what you want to be and where you want to
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Speaker 3: go and we solidify our goals at camp and the
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Speaker 3: goal is to win a King Coat Championship and You
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Speaker 3: can't win it unless you're in it and we're in
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Speaker 3: it and so we're extremely happy and proud to where
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Speaker 3: we are but we have our hands full and we
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Speaker 3: hope they do too as we prepare. So it should
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Speaker 3: be a fun night. It's what high school football is
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Speaker 3: all about and there's no doubt that this is where
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Speaker 3: everybody wants to be and we're fortunate to be there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah and it's going to be a tremendous atmosphere up there.
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Speaker 2: I was up there on Friday night and You know,
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Speaker 2: their band takes up two sections. Their student section takes
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Speaker 2: up a full section. And, you know, they do a
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Speaker 2: tremendous job. And it's a really cool environment. It's just
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Speaker 2: like Popkini. There's no track around the field, Coach. You've
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Speaker 2: played quite a few games up there. And it really
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Speaker 2: is one of the better atmospheres in the entire state.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it really is. And you're right on the action
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Speaker 3: as a fan. You got the smell of burgers cooking
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Speaker 3: in the end zone. You got people milling around. And
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Speaker 3: you got young people and old timers and And it's
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Speaker 3: just a great mix and great feel for high school football.
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Speaker 3: And we'll look forward to it.
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Speaker 2: Again, kickoff is set for Friday, 7 p.m. at Mount
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Speaker 2: Si High School. If you're headed out, I suggest heading
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Speaker 2: over to our link tree where you can find it
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Speaker 2: on all of our social medias. But you can find
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Speaker 2: a link to buy tickets. Save yourself a lot of
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Speaker 2: time at the gate. Like I said, I was up
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Speaker 2: there on Friday and I saw the line was really,
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Speaker 2: really long to get in. So you can skip a
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Speaker 2: lot of that if you have bought tickets in advance.
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Speaker 2: So I would do that if I was you. Coach,
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Speaker 2: that's all I got for this week. Thanks for your
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Speaker 2: time and good luck on Friday and we'll talk to
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Speaker 2: you next week.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Rylan.
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Speaker 2: The freshmen hit the road later tonight when they head
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Speaker 2: to Lake Washington for a 6.30 p.m. kickoff against the Kangaroos.
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Speaker 2: I'm Rylan Spencer. He's Tom Bainter. You've been listening to
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Speaker 2: episode 35 of the Bothell Football Coaches Show. We'll talk
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Speaker 2: to you next week, and as always, go Cougs!