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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 17 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Bathel Football Coaches Show. I'm
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Speaker 1: your host Ryland Spencer along with me as always is
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Speaker 1: the head coach of the Baffle Cougars, Tom Painter coach.
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Speaker 2: How we doing good morning, Ryland doing well? Thanks?
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Speaker 1: This is a week four podcasts. We'll be talking about
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Speaker 1: last week's game against Skyline, the freshman score from a
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Speaker 1: week ago, and Monday night's at JV game, along with
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Speaker 1: a opponent preview. A reminder, Tuesday October fourteenth, ten percent
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Speaker 1: of all food and bedverord sales over at Beardsley Public
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Speaker 1: House will be donated to the Cougar Football Club. So
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Speaker 1: grab a group of friends head out for a good
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Speaker 1: time at the Beardsley Public House while supporting Baffel football coach.
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Speaker 1: Let's get right into it here with the freshman game
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Speaker 1: from last week. The freshman Coog's improved to three and
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Speaker 1: oh on the season with a forty two to nothing
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Speaker 1: win over camac Tilman Hutton Hudson hand buying for four
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Speaker 1: touchdown passes on the receiving end Colin Moore he had
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Speaker 1: to to a Baker and Cash Anderson both had one.
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Speaker 1: Coach leg also says to a Baker Quinn Bryant, David Ellis,
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Speaker 1: and Liam Sherber were in on a majority of the
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Speaker 1: tackles on defense. The freshman team do take the field
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Speaker 1: later today, so come on out and support some Cougar
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Speaker 1: football there. But yeah, coach, you were out there watching
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Speaker 1: the freshman Coogs again, and I'll tell you what. They
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Speaker 1: really fly around to the ball. Lots of energy from
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Speaker 1: that team, and you know, we've talked about it before.
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Speaker 1: They look like they are just having the time of
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Speaker 1: their lives out there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, I think twenty seven of them or
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Speaker 2: so have played youth football, and what a difference it
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Speaker 2: makes when a player can can get experience at that
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Speaker 2: level before they get to high school. They they know
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Speaker 2: how to block, they know how to tackle, they know
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Speaker 2: how to pursue, they know about team. So you know,
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Speaker 2: that's what this team does well, just kind of the
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Speaker 2: little things and all around, not necessarily one superstar, just
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Speaker 2: to bunch of really good kids who fly around like
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Speaker 2: each other, love the game, and it's evident on both
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Speaker 2: sides of the ball as we witnessed last week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've talked about it before over the years about
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Speaker 1: how important, how what's that like almost underappreciated freshman coaches
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Speaker 1: can be and watching John Legou out there and Roger
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Speaker 1: Cecil and Casey Harden who have been doing it forever.
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Speaker 1: And then you know, this year, you know, they bring
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Speaker 1: in Taylor Hutton also, And I can't remember the young
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Speaker 1: man's name that just joined a few weeks ago the
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Speaker 1: freshman coaching staff. I can't think of his name right now.
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Speaker 2: Oh you mean grab yeah Graver, Oh, okay, exactly.
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Speaker 1: And that's what I was.
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Speaker 2: Former player, Yeah, yeah, former player.
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Speaker 1: And so having a guy that was that was here
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Speaker 1: and played you know, Bathele football, it's really cool to
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Speaker 1: see how much the coaching staff of the freshman team
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Speaker 1: really does love coach freshman football.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, my high school football coach told me
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Speaker 2: when I was a first year assistant. He said, if
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Speaker 2: you ever become a head coach, the two most important
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Speaker 2: people to hire are your freshman coach, your head freshman coach,
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Speaker 2: and your line coach. And you know, it's important that
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Speaker 2: that position has to keep kids, they have to develop players,
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Speaker 2: they have to make it fun so the kids want
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Speaker 2: to come back out, and then you want them to
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Speaker 2: be competitive and do well, you know also, and so
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Speaker 2: that's what we've got down there. We've got a bunch
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Speaker 2: of coaches. They have been asked a number of times
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Speaker 2: to see if they wanted to, you know, coach a
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Speaker 2: position at varsity or whatever. And not that it's a
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Speaker 2: step up. I don't believe in that. I think coaches
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Speaker 2: are coaches, and you know, there are some of the
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Speaker 2: greatest coaches in the world coach youth football. And it's
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Speaker 2: not the level you're at. It it's the way you
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Speaker 2: teach the game and how you deal with people. And
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Speaker 2: we've got great ones in our freshman program.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and and on a Friday night, they have responsibilities
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Speaker 1: sometimes that they'll take on with the varsity team. You
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Speaker 1: almost always see all of them on the sideline at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day. The varsity guys, more often
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Speaker 1: than not, are guys that they coached as freshmen, and
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Speaker 1: they want to watch them. I remember there was a
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Speaker 1: game last year the sophomore team we played up at
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Speaker 1: Shorewood I believe it was, and as we're leaving the
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Speaker 1: stadium and we're driving away, I go, wow, that looks
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Speaker 1: like that looks like John loghost truck. So when I
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Speaker 1: saw him the next day at practice, I said, Hey,
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Speaker 1: where are you up with this sophomore game. He goes, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I want to go watch my guys. I just I
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Speaker 1: love stuff like that. You know, guys that just not
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Speaker 1: only love the game of football, love freshman football, but
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Speaker 1: they want to watch their guys. It's it's really cool again.
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Speaker 1: The freshmen later today take on the Skyline Spartan seven
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Speaker 1: pm kickoff at Baffle High School. Freshmen have yet to
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Speaker 1: leave Baffle High School. They're going to get their first
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Speaker 1: road trip next week when they had to Bellevue. But
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Speaker 1: it's been a lot of fun. I love, you know,
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Speaker 1: go to practice and then stick around watch the freshmen
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Speaker 1: and you know, they're just they're playing great football. It's
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Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch. But yeah, admission is free.
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Speaker 1: Concessions are available seven pm. Kickoff tonight at Baffel High School.
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Speaker 1: The fuck Monday Night JV lost a tough one out
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Speaker 1: on the Plateau against east Lake thirty eight twenty. The
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Speaker 1: games up on YouTube. If anybody would like to watch.
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Speaker 1: You hear anything from that game, coach.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got home and you know, east Lake shows
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Speaker 2: all their games on YouTube television, so my wife had
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Speaker 2: it on and we were eating dinner watching the game,
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Speaker 2: and you know, sixteen six when I when I sat
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Speaker 2: down and started watching, and we had the ball they
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Speaker 2: had fumbled and we had the ball like inside the ten,
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Speaker 2: ready to make it a closer game, and we couldn't
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Speaker 2: punch it in. We we had some offensive troubles of
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Speaker 2: our own, and then Eastlake went on a I think
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Speaker 2: a twenty two to nothing run before we kind of
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Speaker 2: came back at the end to make it a little respectable.
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Speaker 2: But you know, that's a that's a you know, we're
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Speaker 2: combined sophomore and JV, and you know, the first game
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Speaker 2: where we split, we had fourteen JV players and twenty
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Speaker 2: sophomore players. So we're young when it comes to playing
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Speaker 2: a JV team. And you know, the Eastlake's a good program.
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Speaker 2: They've got it rolling right now. We've got a lot
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Speaker 2: of kids in their program. And and so our kids
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Speaker 2: fought hard, I thought for the most part, and you know,
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Speaker 2: we'll keep keep grinding.
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Speaker 1: Jab They will return home this coming Monday, seven pm kickoff.
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Speaker 1: That one is against Bellevue. Let's talk varsity football before
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Speaker 1: we get into the game itself, we need to talk
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Speaker 1: about who pulled the horn this week. As the Koops
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Speaker 1: came out on the field just before kickoff, and Ron
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Speaker 1: and Sally, Joe and Nardoni were there. Ron nineteen sixty
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Speaker 1: one graduate of Bothel High School. And I think you
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Speaker 1: could argue maybe Bothel's biggest supporter. The guy has the
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Speaker 1: pop Kinny scoreboard, He's got the pop Kini field goals
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Speaker 1: or posts in his in his yard there and every
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Speaker 1: year we head out to his property out there in
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Speaker 1: Maltby and and run the auction. But Ron, Sally Joe
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Speaker 1: Nardoni coach, I know they mean a lot to you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I used to think that nobody loved Bothel,
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Speaker 2: all things Bothel more than me. Ron Nardoni might be
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Speaker 2: the winner. You have to go to his house and
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Speaker 2: that's all you have to do is walk on his
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Speaker 2: property and you'll see it. Both of those two are
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Speaker 2: wonderful supporters of all things Bothel. They love the Bothel community,
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Speaker 2: Bothel High School, anything that's involved with it. They kind
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Speaker 2: of like to be left out in terms of their
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Speaker 2: names and things like that. Very humble about it, but
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Speaker 2: wonderful people, great supporters of me and over the years
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Speaker 2: and of course our football program. And so you can
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Speaker 2: never say enough about those two.
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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, when your wife, Christina is
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Speaker 1: usually the one that I guess we've only done two
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Speaker 1: of them, but usually she's the one. She'll bring them
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Speaker 1: up to the booth and then I take a picture
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Speaker 1: of him up there. And I wasn't sure what we were
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Speaker 1: going to get out around this week. I really wasn't.
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Speaker 1: And when he got up there, you could almost see
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Speaker 1: like he was really excited to pull the horn. I
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Speaker 1: mean he was really really excited. And then and Sally
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Speaker 1: Joe was there. I said, hey, both of you guys,
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Speaker 1: get in the picture here, let's take a picture. And
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Speaker 1: then when the Kougs were coming out in the field,
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Speaker 1: I looked back and he was. He was hammering the
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Speaker 1: horn and Christina sitting there making sure it goes long
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Speaker 1: because she likes to make sure they get all the
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Speaker 1: way across the field before we stop blowing the horn.
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Speaker 1: And it was really cool to see the you know,
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Speaker 1: I think people don't really think about the horn that much.
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Speaker 1: They love hearing it, but there is something really cool
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Speaker 1: about getting an opportunity to pull the chain. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it is really cool. But let's talk about the game.
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Speaker 1: It was homecoming, fantastic crowd. I think we had two
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Speaker 1: sections of students there the band was rocking and rolling,
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Speaker 1: but come away with a fourteen to seven loss to Skyline.
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Speaker 1: Now this is two years in a row, where it
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Speaker 1: was seventeen fourteen Bothel gets to win last year in overtime.
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Speaker 1: This year fourteen to seven, Skyline gets to win. If
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Speaker 1: you're familiar with this rivalry at all, there's no way
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Speaker 1: to think that you would be below twenty points.
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Speaker 2: And this is two years in a row.
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Speaker 1: Really good defense played by both teams on Friday night.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's it's uh, you know, you know,
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Speaker 2: before the game, it's so fun to see half their
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Speaker 2: staff or guys I coached against when they were you know,
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Speaker 2: winning all the state championships and and so you got
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Speaker 2: Simony and Cason Williams, and you know, the head coach
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Speaker 2: is a poalure that we all know that name, and
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Speaker 2: they're just wonderful people. You know, I'm very happy that
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Speaker 2: there their players get to you know, get coached by
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Speaker 2: guys who love kids in the game and do it
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Speaker 2: the right way. So always fun to play against staffs
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Speaker 2: that that you know, you respect greatly. Yeah, it was
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Speaker 2: it was a defensive game, and and uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: we we both had opportunities offensively that that you know,
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Speaker 2: we we just fizzled at the end. And but but
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Speaker 2: the defenses did, you know, stand up and play and
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Speaker 2: and it seems like it doesn't matter if it's a
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Speaker 2: thirty five twenty eight game or a fourteen seven or
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Speaker 2: seventeen fourteen in overtime lif year. It's just we always
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Speaker 2: have real tight finishes with those guys and it makes
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Speaker 2: football fun.
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Speaker 1: Another good week on the ground from the offensive line
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Speaker 1: and Sion zoom and you know, obviously the last couple
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Speaker 1: of years, running the ball has been a big thing
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Speaker 1: here at Bothel And you know, I think you just
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Speaker 1: have to really appreciate sometimes the way you mentioned it
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Speaker 1: in some meetings and stuff, the way that Soom finds
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Speaker 1: a way to always be going forward, you know, and
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Speaker 1: always fall forward and gain an extra one two yards
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. There was a big fourth down and
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Speaker 1: one I think it was, or fourth down and two,
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Speaker 1: and he got smacked in the backfield a little bit
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Speaker 1: spun off it kept his legs moving and found a
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Speaker 1: way to just get across that line to gain.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a blocking air up front and we
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Speaker 2: let a guy come free, and you know, it should
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Speaker 2: have been a loss of one or two. And Sion
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Speaker 2: has a knack of on third and short and fourth
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Speaker 2: and short of you know, breaking a tackle or running
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Speaker 2: a guy over or getting the extra yards to get
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Speaker 2: the first down and if if it's not, you know,
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Speaker 2: just easy to get through. So we have great confidence
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Speaker 2: in him and and our line plays is playing good
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Speaker 2: football and so that's that's that was fortunate. We saw
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Speaker 2: that at camp. At team camp, we had a loutis
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Speaker 2: and we ran a play and we pulled without a backblock,
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Speaker 2: and uh, we got hit at the five yard line
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Speaker 2: and he ran the guy down to the one and
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Speaker 2: we almost scored. And I thought, wow, you know, that
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Speaker 2: was something I learned from him right there, that that
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Speaker 2: this kid is is he's got some heart. He's going
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Speaker 2: to keep driving his legs. He's strong. Uh and you
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Speaker 2: know he's done that all year. So we're really happy
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Speaker 2: that that he's on our team.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk Players of the Week. Offensive and defensive Players
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Speaker 1: Boffel favorites. Starting on defense, this week's selection and again
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, it's actually their words. Starting with the defense,
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Speaker 1: this week's selection showed great effort all night with some
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Speaker 1: key tackles behind the line of scrimmage and always hustling
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Speaker 1: to the ball on each and every play. The defensive
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Speaker 1: Player of the Game number fifty, Senior Defensive alignment, Diego Palomara.
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Speaker 2: Diego's had a great season so far. You know, he's
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Speaker 2: he's a tough kid. His desire to do well and
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Speaker 2: to help our team is great. You see it in
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Speaker 2: the way he plays his energy. You know, the last
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks he was getting up field a little
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Speaker 2: bit because he's just trying to get to that queue.
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Speaker 2: And you know, this week we talked about maybe not
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Speaker 2: opening up the lanes as much and we just did
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Speaker 2: a wonderful job of containing quarterbacks in the pocket and
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Speaker 2: the run game in the pocket. And you know, you
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Speaker 2: never have to worry about effort and determination when it
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Speaker 2: comes to Diego. He's a fabulous kid and wonderful football
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Speaker 2: player for US. So congratulations to him.
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Speaker 1: Switching gears this week on the offensive side in a
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Speaker 1: game where field position was critical, Special teams played a
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Speaker 1: big role handling the kickoff duties and the kicking duties
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Speaker 1: and delivering good field position for the Coups. Special team
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Speaker 1: player of the week Colin Dunn, who I want to
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Speaker 1: say was forty three yards average with a long of
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Speaker 1: fifty two this week.
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Speaker 2: Coach, Yeah, he has addled on both a punt team
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Speaker 2: and kickoff team. You know extremely well. He had some
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Speaker 2: fabulous punts that were high and deep and rolled our
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Speaker 2: way and really switched the field. And you know, that's
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Speaker 2: a it's a weapon when you can when your offense
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Speaker 2: goes three and out, but yet you can still put
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Speaker 2: forty yards on the on the exchange that that's incredible.
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Speaker 2: If you can get a three and out, you can
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Speaker 2: flip the field a little bit and and uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: move down that way. So wonderful job by him. Our
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Speaker 2: protection was great, our snaps were great all night, and
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Speaker 2: so good execution. Congratulations to Colin uh.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk opponent preview. This week's opponent preview is brought
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Speaker 1: week's opponent the Bellevue Wolverines, and you know, we get
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Speaker 1: to see an old friend in alum of Baffle High School,
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Speaker 1: the former defensive coordinator. That's Jason rimkis got to be
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Speaker 1: excited to see Coach Remy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've talked to him a couple of times since
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Speaker 2: he's he's been there, and we have great conversations. And
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Speaker 2: you know, I think the world a Jason and and
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Speaker 2: you know he was a player for for US and
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Speaker 2: a captain and assistant coach a couple of times. And
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Speaker 2: he knows football, he loves football and those guys are
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Speaker 2: lucky to have him. It will be good to see him.
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Speaker 2: I don't I think he looks better in royal blue though.
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Speaker 1: So when you start talking Bellevue, the first thing that
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Speaker 1: comes to mind is the wing tea, And we're going
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Speaker 1: to get to see the wing tea again. And now
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Speaker 1: you kind of get a little bit prepared for it
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Speaker 1: in week one because of the game against Kennedy Catholic
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Speaker 1: Are there's some things you can carry over from week
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Speaker 1: one to now week five.
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Speaker 2: As far as wing t goes, absolutely, I think you know.
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Speaker 2: The key to defending the wing tea is disciplined they do.
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Speaker 2: It's such a deceptive offense. Once the quarterback gets the
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Speaker 2: ball and turns this back to the defense, it's two
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Speaker 2: and three guys sometimes go by him, and if you
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Speaker 2: try to figure out with your eyes who has the ball,
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Speaker 2: you're going to get beat. But if you do your
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Speaker 2: one eleventh and do your job and read your keys
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Speaker 2: and then execute the plan, you have a chance. And
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Speaker 2: so I think week one will help us in understanding that,
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Speaker 2: and it'll be like a review now and we'll get
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Speaker 2: to prepare ourselves again, so it'll be a fun challenge.
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Speaker 1: There were games in the last I mean you probably
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Speaker 1: even go back twenty years or so where Bellevue, I
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Speaker 1: mean there was times where they might go weeks without
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Speaker 1: throwing the ball. One thing I noticed on film. Their
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Speaker 1: quarterback this year is not only very athletic, but he
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Speaker 1: throws the ball well in terms of deep and on
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Speaker 1: the run. It's actually pretty impressive. I'm sitting there thinking
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Speaker 1: about it, like going back to Timmy Hale, Jack Megs
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Speaker 1: in terms of guys that could throw for them, and
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Speaker 1: it's really impressive. The way that they're able to move
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Speaker 1: the ball with their offense.
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Speaker 2: Now, well, you know, they'll utilize their talent and you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm recalling a game at pop KINI a number of
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Speaker 2: years ago when Miles Jack and Buddha Baker were in
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Speaker 2: the backfield and they threw three touchdown passes on us.
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Speaker 2: And you know, if you've got those kids who can
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Speaker 2: burn down the field and a queue can throw it
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Speaker 2: down there fifty to fifty five yards, you know you
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Speaker 2: do that as well. And so they utilize their talent, well,
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Speaker 2: a lot of it, and it'll be a bittle. Like
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Speaker 2: I said, it's a fun challenge for us.
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Speaker 1: Well, coach, that's all I got for this week's show.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for your time, and we'll talk to you next week.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Rylan Again.
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Speaker 1: Reminder, the freshmen are home tonight seven PM against Skyline.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ryland Spencer.
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Speaker 1: He's Tom Bander. You've been listening to episode seventeen of
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Speaker 1: the Bathel Football Coaches Show. We'll talk to you next
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