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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 368 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 3 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Mount Baker senior Bryce Cooper, and you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to Walkom Preps Podcast with Tyler Anderson.
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  Speaker 2: Go Baker.
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  Speaker 3: Greetings, and welcome to the Gatorade Game Day preview on
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  Speaker 3: the Walkham Preps Podcast. This is episode three hundred and
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  Speaker 3: sixty eight and I am Tyler Anderson with Walkom Preps
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  Speaker 3: and we're gonna preview all ten games this weekend involving
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  Speaker 3: Walcom County teams. I want to give it thank you
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  Speaker 3: to Mount Baker senior Bryce Cooper for the intro that
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  Speaker 3: young man had a wail of a game in Week two,
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  Speaker 3: running for one hundred and forty eight yards, a long touchdown,
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  Speaker 3: playing some good defense, he's returning punts, he's doing it all.
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  Speaker 3: So thank you very much to Bryce for that. And
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  Speaker 3: also congratulations to Nuxack Valley senior Matthew Blake who won
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  Speaker 3: the Week two PEPSI Play of the Week with his
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  Speaker 3: dazzling fifty six yard run against Life Christian Academy and
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  Speaker 3: because of that he won a case of Gatorade thanks
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  Speaker 3: to Walton Beverage. I'm gonna step away for a short
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell all of you how blessed and thankful
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  Speaker 3: a staple in our community for over ninety years to
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  Speaker 3: and our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment, and
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  Speaker 3: I plan to do the same. Okay, let's talk some football.
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  Speaker 3: We have ten games to talk about for this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: One of them is kicking off tonight, being Thursday night,
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  Speaker 3: and eight of them on Friday night, and then on
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  Speaker 3: one on Saturday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get right to it.
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  Speaker 3: I got all these coaches lined up and ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: We'll start with tonight six o'clock game. The Bellingham BayHawks
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  Speaker 3: are hosting the Anaccurtas Seahawks at Civic Stadium tonight at
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  Speaker 3: six o'clock. Bellingham is two to and o and Anna
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  Speaker 3: Chordis is two and o. Based on the ranking systems
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  Speaker 3: on max Preps, which of course is not affiliated with
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  Speaker 3: Walking Preps, the two time defending state champs Anaccordus is
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  Speaker 3: the strong favorite here and we are now joined on
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  Speaker 3: the Gatorade Game day preview by Bellingham football coach Adam Lenard. Coach,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing.
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing great, Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: You bet.
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  Speaker 6: So?
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  Speaker 3: Uh going into week three already, But let's talk about
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  Speaker 3: last week really quickly. Yeah, you won your first game
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  Speaker 3: of the year against Lynnwood, but it was you know,
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  Speaker 3: there was some sloppy points at in it and it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't exactly, you know, the cleanest game in the world.
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  Speaker 3: But your conference went over Lakewood last week looked more
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  Speaker 3: like the Bayhawk team you were probably expecting.
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  Speaker 2: Is that fair to say?
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  Speaker 5: That's absolutely fair.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I know you've said this before, and I
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  Speaker 7: hear from so many different coaches and you know, football people,
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  Speaker 7: your biggest jumps from week one to two, and I
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  Speaker 7: think that this past week's game really represent what we
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  Speaker 7: want to be and what we are. I think the
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  Speaker 7: clunkiness of Week one was over. We cleaned so many
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  Speaker 7: things up. We had a lot on our mind in
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  Speaker 7: terms of this was the revenge game for how they
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  Speaker 7: played against.
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  Speaker 5: Us last year, and we really.
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  Speaker 7: Came out firing on all cylinders. And honestly, I can't
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  Speaker 7: say enough about our defense.
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  Speaker 8: A shutout, it's.
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  Speaker 7: A conference opponent. I believe that hasn't happened since twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome, and you know you're probably right. I could
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  Speaker 3: research it, but that's pretty great.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of great things happened in that game.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like the pick six by Matthew Steele
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  Speaker 3: moments after you went ahead six to zero, that really
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  Speaker 3: seemed to get your team going.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about Matthew's development since last season.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Matthew's developed as I've I coached Matthew a long
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  Speaker 7: time ago and viewed football, and he was always a
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  Speaker 7: little bit on the smaller side. But he's really put
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  Speaker 7: a lot of work in the weight room and he's
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  Speaker 7: changed his body. He's become more physical. He's a junior now,
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  Speaker 7: his his coverage abilities are outstanding.
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  Speaker 5: He's just a really all around great football player.
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  Speaker 7: And he's actually we knew he was going to start
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  Speaker 7: on defense, but he's also starting on offense as well
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  Speaker 7: because just of his his athleticism and abilities and he's
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  Speaker 7: just a great football player. And I will tell you
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  Speaker 7: right now, I thought coach Gavin Quagins was going to
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  Speaker 7: have a stroke on the sideline when that pick six
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  Speaker 7: and he was so excited. You haven't put so much
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  Speaker 7: work into a preparation and he, you know, Matthew read
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  Speaker 7: it perfect pick six. You know, we double up the score,
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  Speaker 7: go for two, and from then on, I feel like
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  Speaker 7: we just had our foot on the gas and it
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  Speaker 7: was just as a great team effort.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I love seeing that, especially the interception happened
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  Speaker 3: on your guys' side of the field, right on right
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  Speaker 3: in front of your sideline. So that's kind of that
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  Speaker 3: added feeling of everybody jumping up and down, and boy,
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  Speaker 3: that could gets crazy because you know at the high
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  Speaker 3: school level that emotion and stuff can mean so much
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  Speaker 3: on the on the good and the bad, right, So
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  Speaker 3: that kind of momentum swing can really change things. And
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  Speaker 3: it seems like, I mean it just did. Did Wonders
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  Speaker 3: One Another big thing about Week two is that he
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  Speaker 3: had Sonny Powell back and he was all over the
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  Speaker 3: place out there. Tell our listeners about Sonny Powell.
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  Speaker 7: Sunny Powell is, he was born to play football. He's
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  Speaker 7: a hard hitter, he's a thumper out there. He's a
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  Speaker 7: smart football player. He's aggressive, he loves playing defense. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: on offense, we blocked the thirty four eyes so perfect
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  Speaker 7: and he just walked into the end zone. But then
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  Speaker 7: he wants to hit. I'm surprised he didn't want to
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  Speaker 7: find more contact on that touchdown run. But he is
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  Speaker 7: just a difference make ground defense. He didn't have him
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  Speaker 7: week one, one of the biggest hits he had. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I have nothing but respect for Nolan right and one
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  Speaker 7: of the best players in the state.
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  Speaker 5: Sunny prop game one of his toughest hits last year,
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  Speaker 5: and we played him and I know he's excited about you.
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  Speaker 7: Know, staying staying at a big part of our defense, and
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  Speaker 7: you know, give him some opportunities to run the ball.
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  Speaker 9: Weekend.
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  Speaker 7: I said, he's versatile. I need to put him on
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  Speaker 7: at the line. We'll do what we can't with Sunny Powell.
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  Speaker 7: But he's an amazing football.
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  Speaker 5: Player, just a tremendous kid and such a hard worker.
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  Speaker 5: We're really excited about what, you know, having him back
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  Speaker 5: in the conference player.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he really stood out.
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  Speaker 3: It was a difference right with him in the lineup
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  Speaker 3: this time. And loved seeing him carry the ball there
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  Speaker 3: for that ten yard touchdown. And you know, in the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of the game, I could have swore, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you shave Tyler Frost's head and put a helmet on
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  Speaker 3: him and put fifty five on him because he ran
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  Speaker 3: around just like that.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 3: It was so great to see. So you're hosting and
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  Speaker 3: a chordus on Thursday. Now, before we get into how
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  Speaker 3: great your opponent is and all that stuff, tell me
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  Speaker 3: how a Thursday game changes your week up a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it puts pressure on the coaches for the weekend
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  Speaker 7: for sure. You know, you have one less day to prepare.
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  Speaker 7: Most of my Sunday, I know you don't get a
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  Speaker 7: chance to watch the many NFL games or any any
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  Speaker 7: games at all because if you're busy schedule. But now
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  Speaker 7: you kind of cut into that a little bit. I
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  Speaker 7: you know, I cut into some of my family time.
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  Speaker 7: I try to do that on Sundays. My youngest has
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  Speaker 7: games on Saturday. So it's just for the whole coaching staff.
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  Speaker 7: It comes into just more you know, one day less
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  Speaker 7: planning and so there's a lot of more work and
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  Speaker 7: kind of have to just short You don't really have
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  Speaker 7: that day where you kind of ease into the week.
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  Speaker 7: You got to go right into it on Monday because
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  Speaker 7: Monday and Tuesday are heavy, heavy practices, kind of more
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  Speaker 7: of a walk free mentality.
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  Speaker 5: And Wednesday, boom, there you go.
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  Speaker 7: Are You're playing a Thursday games, so you know, and
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  Speaker 7: of course obviously you know the same boat we are there.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they played a Friday night game, so they
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  Speaker 5: have one you know, least day as well.
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  Speaker 7: But it just kind of just shortens things up and
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to have to double up when you can
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  Speaker 7: to get all the work in you do and all
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  Speaker 7: the preparation because that's that's what it's about for football,
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  Speaker 7: is just getting all that preparation in before you know,
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  Speaker 7: the week game.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and the Seahawks don't look like they've slowed down
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  Speaker 3: from the past two seasons in which they've won a
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  Speaker 3: two way state champ chip. But you've seen the film,
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  Speaker 3: you've you know, you've you've known these guys tell us
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  Speaker 3: about this year's in a courtse team.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, first of all, what an amazing job Justin.
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  Speaker 7: Ports has done with the an Course program, building it
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  Speaker 7: from the ground up.
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  Speaker 5: He needs to be very involved back in the day.
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  Speaker 5: And with this youth program.
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  Speaker 7: Two state titles, I mean, going from a team that
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  Speaker 7: was playing a JV schedules and independent to two state
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  Speaker 7: titles and a matter in less than eight years. It's
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  Speaker 7: just unbelievably impressive. They have tremendous athletes, right is just
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  Speaker 7: a one of the best quarterbacks in the state. They
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  Speaker 7: have unbelievable athletes on the outside. You know, losing Bronck
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  Speaker 7: and Brady last year as well as other star receiver,
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  Speaker 7: you know.
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  Speaker 5: They don't seem to have taken a step back.
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  Speaker 7: Really, they seem to have just reloaded and and they're
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  Speaker 7: playing at the highest level that I've seen, I believe.
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  Speaker 7: You know, they're the number one team in two A
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  Speaker 7: in the state. And I know Seehome came in and
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  Speaker 7: gave him the heck of the game. But you know,
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  Speaker 7: it shows a lot about Courses at to come out
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  Speaker 7: of Aland with a two score win and are maybe
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  Speaker 7: in three scores. That just was They're they're a tough opponent.
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  Speaker 7: We're doing earth we can to prepare for them. We
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  Speaker 7: want to come out there and get the most copetitive.
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  Speaker 5: Team of that all season.
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  Speaker 3: That's our goal, you know, And that's that's what's great
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  Speaker 3: about is that you have a guy like a Joe
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  Speaker 3: Harward that would that could be.
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  Speaker 2: A featured guy on a team like Anna Chordus. So
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  Speaker 2: how how.
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  Speaker 3: Can you, you know, use him like that? I mean
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  Speaker 3: he's I mean, he's going to have to have a
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  Speaker 3: pretty big game for you guys to come out on top.
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  Speaker 3: So how are you are you just looking to find
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  Speaker 3: ways to get in the ball. I saw some little
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  Speaker 3: differences on defense. He was kind of in almost like
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  Speaker 3: a middle linebacker spot, some different things. So is it
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  Speaker 3: just about kind of moving him around and putting him
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  Speaker 3: in the best situations for you guys to win.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, We've been trying to do that all year.
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  Speaker 7: We're trying to move Joe in different spots on offense
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  Speaker 7: and defense so teams can just kind out and go, Okay,
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  Speaker 7: he lines up here, we're going to cover him here.
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  Speaker 5: This is where he's at. We brought him up in
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  Speaker 5: the box. We have him as a rover. We'll play
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  Speaker 5: him at corner. We'll put him all the the field.
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  Speaker 5: Jose a tremendous athlete.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if there's a better athlete in the
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  Speaker 7: conference than Joe Harvard.
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  Speaker 5: But all our guys are gonna have to come up.
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  Speaker 7: We have some really great supporting cast for jokes and
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  Speaker 7: really seasoned players.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like Owen Hanson has.
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  Speaker 7: Been playing varsity football for seven years now, and you
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  Speaker 7: know he's just does everything out there. I mean, the
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  Speaker 7: consistency would have been then. Leonard at quarterback has been great, just.
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  Speaker 5: The pieces of there.
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  Speaker 7: And I can't say enough about Calvin van Hofway again
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  Speaker 7: where he's going to play on both sides of the ball.
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  Speaker 5: But I want to give credit to the old line
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  Speaker 5: last week.
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  Speaker 7: They did a heck of a job and keep them
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  Speaker 7: bent up in the pocket making great throws, and it
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  Speaker 7: was I think we're going to all have to be
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  Speaker 7: play our best game to have a chance in this one.
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  Speaker 7: But I know the guys, you're up up for the
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  Speaker 7: task and we're ready to roll absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And you know another guy that kind of jumped off well,
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  Speaker 3: he jumps off film because he stands out so much,
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  Speaker 3: but he had a pretty good game last week was
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  Speaker 3: your senior defensive end. Barrett Johnson, new to the game
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  Speaker 3: of football, not new to walk the Preps. Is a
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  Speaker 3: six foot six center on the basketball team. But uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there was there were times there were for
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  Speaker 3: most of the game you had a three man front
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  Speaker 3: with your ends way out wide, just bringing pressure on
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  Speaker 3: the end, and he did. He did a pretty good job.
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  Speaker 3: How is his you know, I mean, he's probably still
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  Speaker 3: learning the game. How is all that going for him?
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  Speaker 3: He's he's one of our favorites over here at Walkain Preps.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he's one of my favorites too.
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  Speaker 7: I got a couple of good pictures of him for
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  Speaker 7: our Instagram page because I just want him to know
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  Speaker 7: how much we appreciate his hard work and his dedication
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  Speaker 7: to football. So glad he turned out. I know he's
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  Speaker 7: glad too. He has nothing but smiles after the game.
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  Speaker 7: And told me, because coach, I think football is more
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  Speaker 7: fun than basketball.
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  Speaker 5: I said, the sure heck is.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm one who played college basketball. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 7: right now, football is a lot more fun. And it is.
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  Speaker 7: He's you know, six six six seven, and he's rangy,
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  Speaker 7: he's aggressive, and he gets outside and he's just two
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  Speaker 7: games into his career and he's just you know, he's
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  Speaker 7: you know, he's going to be tested. But I feel like,
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  Speaker 7: you know him on one side, and then our freshman
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  Speaker 7: got some good time again Ravin Foston on the other side.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, with Lakewood, you can't you know, you
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  Speaker 5: got it. They spread you out, but are middle held
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  Speaker 5: and we brought.
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  Speaker 7: Enough pressure to keep their quarterback very, very uncomfortable for
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  Speaker 7: most of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so true. It's gonna be a good one.
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  Speaker 3: I'd love when there's a Thursday night game for football
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  Speaker 3: because it kind of stands alone. It'll be at Civic Stadium,
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  Speaker 3: so that's gonna be that's gonna be awesome as well.
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  Speaker 2: Best of luck against those really.
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  Speaker 3: Good Seahawks on Thursday, coach, and thank you for joining
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  Speaker 3: me on the Gatorade game day preview.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you for having me, Tyler. I appreciate it,
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  Speaker 5: you bet.
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  Speaker 3: And there you have it from Coach Leonard. Now let's
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  Speaker 3: move on to Friday night's games. We'll start with the
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  Speaker 3: six o'clock games. The first is the Linden Christian Links
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  Speaker 3: traveling to Okannagan to take on the Bulldogs. Linden Christian
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  Speaker 3: is two and zero and Okannagan is one and one,
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  Speaker 3: and when you look at the Max Preps rankings, else
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  Speaker 3: is favorite here. But they have each of these team,
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  Speaker 3: each of these teams as the number one ranked team
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  Speaker 3: in this state for their classification. Linda Christian of course
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  Speaker 3: one a Okanagan two b Okanaghan got Lindy Christian last
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  Speaker 3: year and so this will be a pretty interesting game.
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  Speaker 3: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
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  Speaker 3: preview by Lyndon Christian football coach Greg Turpstra.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 6: My pleasure? Love it awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Before we talk about your Week three opponent, let's revisit
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  Speaker 3: week two a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: It went about as well as you could have hoped.
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  Speaker 3: I think this group playing in front of the home
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  Speaker 3: fans for the first time and little could be done
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  Speaker 3: to stop your team. What did you like the most
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  Speaker 3: about your team's performance against North Casseppe.
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  Speaker 10: You know, I think it's probably the same thing I
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  Speaker 10: liked about the first week, and that is they just
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  Speaker 10: seemed very prepared, very ready, kind of emotionally sort of
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  Speaker 10: their crescendo, sort of pee right at kick, ready to go,
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  Speaker 10: not too early and not too late, so I think
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  Speaker 10: it's the preparation that you know that goes to our staff.
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  Speaker 10: Kent leading the defense, I got a lot of help
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  Speaker 10: on offense with Crider Libel and Jake Jacob Kaepernick, Marcus Fakoma,
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  Speaker 10: just all guys.
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  Speaker 6: That are really contributing. And the kids really feel it too.
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  Speaker 10: They've got to say in what we're doing and take
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  Speaker 10: ownership of it. They just really felt like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 10: I think they were just kind of hitting on all
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  Speaker 10: so owners right when it started.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I you know, I've talked to other coaches
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  Speaker 3: and teams about this and how it always seems like
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  Speaker 3: what separates the great teams from the good teams is
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  Speaker 3: the great teams seem like they're in mid season form early.
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  Speaker 2: In the season. And that's kind of what's happening with
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  Speaker 2: your team right now.
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  Speaker 3: And I know you're all state Wide receiver Boyce Robertson
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  Speaker 3: wasn't one hundred percent in mid August, but he's played
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: in the first two games. He's caught a touchdown pass
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: in each of the first two games. How's he feeling?
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Is he is he close? Is he full strength? Is
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: he close to full strength? He looks pretty good out there.
• 15:16
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I think he wants to go go h We're
• 15:19
  Speaker 10: trying to be careful with him. You know, just when
• 15:22
  Speaker 10: we need him the most is when we want him
• 15:24
  Speaker 10: at one hundred percent. You know, it's AWA's It's always
• 15:29
  Speaker 10: tough with injuries. You know, you're kind of in the
• 15:31
  Speaker 10: back of your head, and I think we just want
• 15:34
  Speaker 10: him to be as comfortable as he can out there.
• 15:35
  Speaker 10: He's been making great moves. We haven't noticed a drop
• 15:39
  Speaker 10: off at all.
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: We just have.
• 15:41
  Speaker 10: Invested a little bit more into the run game, which
• 15:44
  Speaker 10: will pay off.
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: We know absolutely all right, you're heading over to the
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: mountains or over the mountains, I should say, on Friday
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: for a six pm kickoff at Okanagan. You brought up
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: last week that North Kitsat may have had a revenge
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: on their mind against your team.
• 16:00
  Speaker 8: Is it.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like it's this way for you guys.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: A little bit revenge in the back of your team's
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: mind going into this one.
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: You know, I don't.
• 16:09
  Speaker 10: We don't schedule with that in mind. We you know,
• 16:13
  Speaker 10: we want the best teams we could possibly get because
• 16:15
  Speaker 10: we know our one A league is so tough, so
• 16:20
  Speaker 10: we hope we get the best game that we can
• 16:23
  Speaker 10: possibly get out of Okanagan. We know that they've re
• 16:27
  Speaker 10: they've graduated some really good players.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: That Carter Kuchenbach, who.
• 16:32
  Speaker 10: Went on to Boise State, was such a stud and
• 16:35
  Speaker 10: such a fun name to say.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: He's tied in there.
• 16:41
  Speaker 8: He was a study.
• 16:41
  Speaker 10: They just have big dudes who are tough and and
• 16:45
  Speaker 10: we just want to see that. We saw them actually
• 16:49
  Speaker 10: at camp. We went to the Richland Bombers camp and
• 16:54
  Speaker 10: they played us, you know, toe to toe, and it
• 16:57
  Speaker 10: was a good little scrap between us. So we look
• 17:00
  Speaker 10: forward it forward to this being a really good challenge.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, like you brought up that kid, you know,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: six four, two thirty or whatever, he was the quarterback
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: that's now playing tight end at Boise State. But obviously
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: they probably don't have another kid like that coming in.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: But as far as the eleven on the field and
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: size and style, does.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: It kind of look like last year's team that you
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: went against.
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean what they do is like last year's team.
• 17:29
  Speaker 10: They like to throw it a little bit more from
• 17:32
  Speaker 10: what I'm seeing, but they're really good at their misdirection.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: They just well they's sleight of hand.
• 17:38
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: They have this double wing rather than like a mout
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: Baker be a wing tea with a single wing. Normally
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: they got that double and a lot of crisscross action.
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: Coach Bauma is going to be all over these guys
• 17:53
  Speaker 10: about playing assignment defense this week because if you don't
• 17:58
  Speaker 10: go into an Okanagan game with a p you're in
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: for a long, long night because your head's spinning.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you're right about, you know, with misdirection
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff. The linebackers really have
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: to you know, do their job and fill their gaps
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: and you know, gap responsibility.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: And all that kind of stuff.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: And Eli Stamps is really stood out to me this
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: year as far as he sees things quickly, he reacts quickly.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: He's like if he gets his hands on you, he
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: brings you down.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: I thought the biggest, you know, the question was going
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: to be replacing Trey Bossman on both sides of the ball,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: but especially on that defensive side. And Eli Stamps is
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: really kind of put his stamp on that spot.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: You know, pardon the pun, but he's really good.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, what do.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: You what have you liked about you know him as
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: a linebackers, But he's been great as a guard as well,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: but as a linebacker he's really stood out.
• 18:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: I think when he's playing guard, he's like, let's hurry
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: up and score so I can play defense.
• 18:59
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: Both he and TJ anchoring that middle are just studs.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: Stamps.
• 19:06
  Speaker 10: You know, he's a guy that you've never heard in
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: film time a coach say, hey, Stamps, she did this wrong.
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: He just he's really solid mentally physically, He's worked really
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: hard in the weight room. I believe he's our strongest kid.
• 19:23
  Speaker 10: If to just go with a couple of base lifts.
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: He's just really put the time in. He loves baseball,
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: so he's a well rounded kid, very confident in there. Yeah,
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: just doesn't really make mistakes. He means a lot. He
• 19:41
  Speaker 10: is a solid force on that defensive side that I
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: think kids all find, you know, his leadership to be
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: pretty replaceable.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and you know it almost.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: I mean, and you would know this better than I.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: But I love talking about the history and stuff and
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: going back to the teams.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: That you played on.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I mean, Mark Zilstra was kind of like that guy
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: in the middle. Does he is there some similarities there
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: at all?
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah? I mean these kids lift more, right.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. The bodies are different.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah they are.
• 20:20
  Speaker 10: You know, Mark was a gamer, but you know, just
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: the strength wise of an ELI Stamps. I just you know,
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: no one on our team would compare to that. I
• 20:31
  Speaker 10: think Simon Timmerman's and I both benched two hundred and
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: twenty five pounds and we were the leaders of the
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: team back then. I mean that's that's called a warm
• 20:39
  Speaker 10: up rep for an ELI Stamps. So it's just, yeah,
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: their bodies are a little different and really put together.
• 20:48
  Speaker 10: But I will say something for you know, the olden days,
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: they had that farm strength, so you know, that change
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: of direction, that core strength was really valuable in football,
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: and that's something that you know, it's it's a little
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: bit of a challenge to recapture because we can spend
• 21:06
  Speaker 10: time in the weight room, but functional strength needs to
• 21:09
  Speaker 10: be something we also had focus on.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: That's a great point.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: And uh, you know, just to bring up the history
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: one more time, because I you know, I do love
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: talking about it. But as far as you know, I
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: could watch a game film from when from when you
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: play and it's the same field, the same stadium, it's
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: natural grass, everything's the same. But what's the biggest difference
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: between when you played and the game today, just as
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: the game of football.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: As a whole.
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: Hmmm.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: As far as high school.
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: Football, well, the offenses are a lot more complicated. Yeah,
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: but within that complication, you try to make it simple, right,
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: you try to make it look complicated, but you try
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: to make the the running of the offense very simple.
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: It's just there's there's multiple looks. It's not just always
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: smash mouth. You're also reading defenses more and calling plays later.
• 22:12
  Speaker 10: As far as the atmosphere goes, unfortunately, I would say
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: one of the differences the disparity I guess between one
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: field and another when it comes to some followings and
• 22:27
  Speaker 10: you feel badly for some teams are Fortunately our school
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: has kept that that fever pitch, and I think most
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: all the schools in the county have. And that's something
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: that's pretty awesome and something that you know, thankfully hasn't changed.
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: You know, communication, I think has changed a little bit more.
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: You don't see a head coach without a headset. You know,
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: just just let me be and let me call all
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: the stuff that I want to call, and you I
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: just stand there and look like assistance. I think it's
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: a very collaborative thing. Uh, film is a big deal.
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: And then the different angles sharing the film. Thank goodness,
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: you don't have to drive two and a half hours
• 23:17
  Speaker 10: to drop off a cassette tape with some other fella
• 23:22
  Speaker 10: from Vancouver, Washington.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: So that's a that's a great thing. But you know
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: then that also separates you. Are you a coach that's.
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: Going to use that film?
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: You know? How functional are you in adapting?
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: So yeah, I think there's been a lot of adapting,
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: I will say that in general, both offensively and defensively.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's it's a it's a game that
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: we all love and it was we loved it then,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: we love it now.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And you just change with the times. Awesome.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Let me add one more thing I think, and this
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: is a personal thing.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: I think football is needed for young boys now more
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: than ever. And I know that's from a football coach,
• 24:07
  Speaker 10: so it's just self serving. I'm sure it comes across house.
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: But you know, you got a lot of kids with
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: strong thumbs because they're scrolling and clicking and doing that,
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: and they're just.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Not outside as much, you know, banging around.
• 24:23
  Speaker 10: Climbing trees and throwing dirt clods and stuff, and you know,
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: to get them out.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: There doing this. You know, you just love a guy
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: like Kyler.
• 24:34
  Speaker 10: Sturk who does chores in the morning at five am
• 24:37
  Speaker 10: and then comes and plays football.
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: That's that's old school. That's what we used to do.
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: And I think kids need football, boys need football now
• 24:45
  Speaker 10: more than ever.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great point. There was no internet back
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: when we played, you know, it was it was.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: There was not a lot of distractions, and when there
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: are so many other things out there. You're right, You're
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: absolutely right. It's a it's a good thing to be
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: outside and work hard. And yep, you are going to
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: go online, go to walk the preps for crying out louds.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: So that's right.
• 25:09
  Speaker 13: Awesome.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Well, thanks for talking to me and reminiscing about the
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: old times, coach.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I always love it.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Best to luck against the Bulldogs on Friday, and thank
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: you for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 25:19
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 25:19
  Speaker 10: I'm sure you're gonna make the trip, aren't you.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: God I doubt it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: Maybe you take the walk come Preps Chopper over Land
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: it right on the field.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, I would love it. It'd be great.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: Thanks coach, Hey, thank you much.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: The other six pm game on Friday night is the
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Blaine Border Rights hosting the Shelane Goats. Blaine is zero
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: to two and Shelane is two and oh on the
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: young season, and based on the Max Preps rankings, Shelanne
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: is slightly favored in this one. And we are now
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: joined on the Gatorade Game day preview by Blaine football.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Coach Andy Olsen. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: How are you doing.
• 25:57
  Speaker 14: I'm doing good. Thanks for having me, Tyler.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: You bet before talking about your Week three opponent, let's
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: revisit week two really quickly. You were back on the
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: road on Saturday, a little further away this time.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: It was a twenty seven to.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Thirteen loss, a little closer game. Did you see some
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: improvements in your team?
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 26:13
  Speaker 14: Absolutely. I mean one of our biggest goals was, you know,
• 26:16
  Speaker 14: tackling better between week one week two, and I thought
• 26:19
  Speaker 14: we did a much better job there. We still have
• 26:22
  Speaker 14: a lot to work on it, as we expected and understand.
• 26:24
  Speaker 14: We had some blowing assignments and different things like that,
• 26:27
  Speaker 14: and then just some some of those tough lessons you
• 26:29
  Speaker 14: kind of have to learn when you're getting baptized by
• 26:31
  Speaker 14: fire like we are this year, but the kids played
• 26:34
  Speaker 14: four or full quarters. I never doubted the effort or
• 26:37
  Speaker 14: the energy or the enthusiasm, which is great.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's the stuff that you know, you
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: want to have happen and if you get if you
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: get that, you're happy, right right, You know, there was
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: there was just those unfortunate things to happen. You know,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: you had an interception that was great, but then a
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: fumble on the same play that gave them a first
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: down that led to a score that you know, the
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: fumble on the kick return that led them to a
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: score on the very next play. So it's so crazy
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: how it's just the little things can turn into such
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: a big thing right away.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I mean is it?
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, how do you go over that
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: in film? And how do you how do you explain that? Like,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: you know, it's how important those kinds of things are.
• 27:24
  Speaker 14: Well, we spent a lot of time looking at the
• 27:27
  Speaker 14: big picture. Right if you clean up five or six
• 27:30
  Speaker 14: plays in a football game, you know, maybe we walk
• 27:33
  Speaker 14: away with a win there. Yeah, and those five or
• 27:35
  Speaker 14: six plays where just they're not lack of effort plays,
• 27:40
  Speaker 14: it's just a mental slip or I've never been in
• 27:43
  Speaker 14: the situation before you know, we get an interception and
• 27:46
  Speaker 14: by a sophomore who makes a great play on the ball,
• 27:49
  Speaker 14: understands the payment and has never been tackled by a
• 27:52
  Speaker 14: seventeen year old, you know, in a live action game
• 27:54
  Speaker 14: and fumbles and it wasn't for lack of effort. So
• 27:58
  Speaker 14: that's the big thing there. You know, you clean up
• 28:01
  Speaker 14: five or six big mistics that we make, and the
• 28:05
  Speaker 14: whole thing shifts. And to show the kids that and
• 28:08
  Speaker 14: realize just how close you are. Even though the scoreboard
• 28:11
  Speaker 14: says we got you know, double plus one right twenty
• 28:13
  Speaker 14: seven to thirteen, it really was much closer than that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 14: And so they can see that, and we really show
• 28:19
  Speaker 14: a lot of growth and try and keep it positive
• 28:21
  Speaker 14: in practice and in our film room, but also understand that,
• 28:25
  Speaker 14: you know, we have long ways to go and what
• 28:28
  Speaker 14: can we focus on improving this week? So each week
• 28:30
  Speaker 14: we try to pick a big warning target and really
• 28:32
  Speaker 14: strive to get better at that thing.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Peyton Bama man offensively defensively now in the kicking game.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Tell me about tell me about his importance to your
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: team so far.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: At this season.
• 28:45
  Speaker 14: Peyton Bama is a natural leader for us. He's a
• 28:48
  Speaker 14: junior wide receiver. He plays basketball, plays golf, does all
• 28:51
  Speaker 14: the things. Really great kid, really great kid. Probably one
• 28:55
  Speaker 14: of our most liked kids on our program. It just
• 28:58
  Speaker 14: seems to connect well with everybody from freshman to senior.
• 29:02
  Speaker 14: And he's just he'll never complain. He just wants to
• 29:06
  Speaker 14: go out there and play and work hard and is
• 29:09
  Speaker 14: willing to take on new roles. You know, when we're
• 29:12
  Speaker 14: seeing the fullous backfield, we knew we had to walk
• 29:14
  Speaker 14: him down probably to d End and he was thrilled.
• 29:18
  Speaker 14: You don't get a lot of wide receivers are like, yeah,
• 29:20
  Speaker 14: put me down at d En, let me mix it
• 29:22
  Speaker 14: up with the big fellas. But Payton was good with it,
• 29:24
  Speaker 14: and you know what, he did a really great job
• 29:25
  Speaker 14: for us. And as you know, our freshman kicker got
• 29:28
  Speaker 14: dinged up, so we were having kicker trials and the
• 29:31
  Speaker 14: first one line was, of course, Peyton Bauma. He is
• 29:34
  Speaker 14: ready to kick, and he's just so athletic and so
• 29:37
  Speaker 14: long and strong, and we kind of actually have talked
• 29:40
  Speaker 14: about kicking pats like a golf swing, right, like, hey,
• 29:43
  Speaker 14: we don't need the driver here, break out the sand
• 29:46
  Speaker 14: wedge and just swing free and let let your club
• 29:49
  Speaker 14: flow and he's so strong, like Pats, those are in
• 29:52
  Speaker 14: his wheelhouse. So he did a great job.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome, And you're so right about the kicking philosophy.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Is just like a golf you want a.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Repetitive swing, right, and that's exactly what it's like for
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: a pat. All Right, you're hosting Shelane on Friday night.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: So but before we talk about your opponent. I believe
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: this is a great thing for a team as young
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: as yours because a lot of these first time varsity
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: players will finally get to play in a stadium with
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: familiar surroundings. Don't you feel like that will kind of
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: help take the edge off some of your youngsters.
• 30:21
  Speaker 14: Absolutely. I think as long as we and we'll drill
• 30:24
  Speaker 14: this this week is focus on us on the field, right.
• 30:27
  Speaker 14: I think when you get a bunch of sophomores out
• 30:29
  Speaker 14: there and their friends are in the stands and the
• 30:30
  Speaker 14: lights are on and all of a sudden, Mom and
• 30:32
  Speaker 14: grandma and everybody else have made it to the game,
• 30:34
  Speaker 14: that we can maybe get distracted by having an actual
• 30:37
  Speaker 14: you know, attendance watching us and you know, own the
• 30:40
  Speaker 14: band and all that. So we'll learn how to block
• 30:42
  Speaker 14: that out. But playing on your home turf and seeing
• 30:45
  Speaker 14: similar surroundings and backdrops for receivers and stuff like that, that
• 30:48
  Speaker 14: is definitely an advantage, and we're looking forward to being
• 30:50
  Speaker 14: at home again.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I mean I was talking about that with like NOOKSEC
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: and you know, they have a pretty young team too
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: as far as first year guys, but they've played two
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: home games and I think that's really helped them with
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: the being under the lights for the first time, and
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: this is something that's really I think going to help
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: your guys. Tell me about Shelanne. You guys got them
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: twenty seven zero on the road last year, but what
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: do you know about this year's team.
• 31:13
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I knew last year that they were a junior
• 31:16
  Speaker 14: heavy team, so obviously this year they're going to be
• 31:19
  Speaker 14: senior heavy.
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: They were a.
• 31:20
  Speaker 14: Physical opponent last year. They moved the ball pretty well
• 31:22
  Speaker 14: against us. That opening drive they had took about seven
• 31:24
  Speaker 14: or eight minutes off the clock, and we had a
• 31:27
  Speaker 14: hard time get off the field, and then we were
• 31:29
  Speaker 14: kind of a bendbo don't break philosophy and we're able
• 31:31
  Speaker 14: to hold them. That twenty seven to zero I felt
• 31:34
  Speaker 14: like was much closer than what the score indicated. They're
• 31:36
  Speaker 14: going to be big and physical. They have a nice
• 31:39
  Speaker 14: looking quarterback that loves to run and do some pretty
• 31:42
  Speaker 14: impressive things and can throw it down the field. And
• 31:44
  Speaker 14: they're well coached and we really respect that program. They
• 31:48
  Speaker 14: do it the right way, and we're looking forward to
• 31:50
  Speaker 14: a great challenge.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Shelane always seems to kind of have like that
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: almost like a Mount Baker feel to them, right, really rugged,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: hit you hard, They're not going to quit. And so
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: I think it's a really good test for you guys.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: You know, as you get closer to the Northwest Conference,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be awesome. The six o'clock game. I'm gonna
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: be out there. I'm really excited. I think the radio
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: is gonna be there too. So that's just a really
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: cool deal for your guys and I can't wait.
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: Man.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Best of luck on Friday, coach, and thank you for
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 32:23
  Speaker 14: Thanks Tyler Gobortes.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Well, there you have it from Coach Olsen Blaine hosting
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Slane tonight at six o'clock on Friday. I'll be out
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: there for that one, will you.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: You hear that?
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: That's the sound of pepsi zero sugar, the better tasting,
• 32:40
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• 32:45
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• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Now we move on to the seven o'clock games on
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: Friday night, and that means Nuksack Valley.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Going on the road to take on the Kings Nights.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Nugzack Valley is two and zero and the King and Kings,
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: I should say, is one and one and Max Prep
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: shows Nuksack Valley with a slight advantage. And we are
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Knuzack
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Valley football coach Craig Bartell, coach, Thank you for joining
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: me today.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: How are you doing good?
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: Thanks, thank you for having me again.
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: I like the weekly chats.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is always looking forward to these.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: They're fun and I'm glad that you know pretty much
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: all the coaches have settled into a good time slot,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: which makes things easy for me. And being very schedule
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: oriented as I am, I think being a coach you kind.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Of have to be, so I like that.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Before we talk about your Week three opponent, let's revisit
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: with week two. It was hard fought and it kind
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: of a tale of two halves life. Christian didn't really
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: bring a lot of players, and it looked like one
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: of the things that could have happened the second half
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: was your conditioning may have played a factor late in
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: the game.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: Do you agree with that?
• 33:53
  Speaker 15: I do, And that's something we talked about at the
• 33:57
  Speaker 15: very beginning of the year. One of our emphasis is
• 34:00
  Speaker 15: was to come into this season.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: In better shape.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: And our kids have done a great job working hard.
• 34:07
  Speaker 15: We don't do sprints, we don't line up and do
• 34:09
  Speaker 15: wind sprints at all, and so we really it's a
• 34:12
  Speaker 15: coming on the coaches and the kids to to do
• 34:15
  Speaker 15: drills and do different team activities, team drills where they
• 34:21
  Speaker 15: have to work as hard as they can in lieu
• 34:25
  Speaker 15: of doing just lining.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Up and doing sprints.
• 34:27
  Speaker 15: And so yeah, that that that was I think certainly
• 34:31
  Speaker 15: an advantage for us.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: And I think it just they're they're really.
• 34:36
  Speaker 15: Fast, and we've we've seen really fast teams throughout the
• 34:40
  Speaker 15: years and even in the spring, but until you get
• 34:43
  Speaker 15: into that game situation and get a chance to adjust
• 34:46
  Speaker 15: to that speed. You know, it took us a little
• 34:48
  Speaker 15: bit to adjust to that, but I think did a
• 34:51
  Speaker 15: great job.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, it's you know, it's even in week one
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: and week two now you could tell there were just
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: from me from Afar watching the games, person watching the
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: games on film, it's both of them have there's it
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: seems like there's been great adjustments at halftime and it
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: seems like a different game was played. Your defense hasn't
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: allowed a touchdown on the second half.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Yet this year.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: So uh, you know, kudos to Jesse Dykstra and those guys.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: They've been really been doing a great job.
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: They have it.
• 35:19
  Speaker 16: We we're very fortunate to have the coaches that we
• 35:23
  Speaker 16: have in the staff that we have, and that you
• 35:25
  Speaker 16: know that they're they're phenomenal at communication with each other
• 35:30
  Speaker 16: and passing ideas by each other and just in making
• 35:34
  Speaker 16: little adjustments and seeing things and so uh, I'm blessed,
• 35:38
  Speaker 16: our kids are blessed with with the assistant coaches that
• 35:41
  Speaker 16: we have.
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: It makes my job a lot easier.
• 35:45
  Speaker 15: And we're just very fortunate the way that that we communicate.
• 35:49
  Speaker 15: And I'm sure there's teams around there, but you know,
• 35:54
  Speaker 15: we're we have a really good staff.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a tight knit group.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: It's it's you know, like I always say, it's like
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: a family atmosphe you're there that a lot of those
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: coaches have been there for a long time, and so
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: they're just used to each other. They they kind of
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: speak the same languages and it works out really well.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Let's talk a little bit about Matthew Blake. Yeah, here's
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: a kid, great kid that look to be kind of
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: in the mix as a sophomore. I believe he got
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: hurt earlier in that year. Then he didn't play football
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: his junior year. Now he's out for.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: His senior year, and man is he he's.
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Ever making an impact on both sides of the ball.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: How great has it been that he's coming out and
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: playing football and playing as well as he is.
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's been.
• 36:33
  Speaker 15: It's been a pleasant surprise. I say a pleasant surprise,
• 36:38
  Speaker 15: but we're not surprised. He's he's a really good athlete.
• 36:43
  Speaker 15: He understands the game really well. But I think what's
• 36:48
  Speaker 15: more important is he doesn't care if he's in the limelight.
• 36:53
  Speaker 15: It's as long as as we could put a good
• 36:57
  Speaker 15: game plan together and the team is success. Well, you know,
• 37:02
  Speaker 15: his true character comes out when it comes to that,
• 37:04
  Speaker 15: and he doesn't care if he touches the ball or
• 37:06
  Speaker 15: if somebody else does.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: And so he's a true teammate.
• 37:10
  Speaker 15: And but yeah, he's got athletic skills that complement that,
• 37:14
  Speaker 15: and you know he's doing a great job right now.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, I mean, that's a great way to put it,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: because you know, he had that electrifying fifty six.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Yard run in the in the third quarter of that game.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: But then right after that, Trey Hughtink comes in and
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: scores a touchdown, and I bet he probably had no
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: problem with someone else coming in in scoring the touchdown.
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: And that's such a fun thing to have, you know,
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: to be able to coach a kid like that that
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about, you know, complaining about
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: touches or whatever. So I just think that's fantastic. And
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: we've seen him on the baseball field over the years,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: you know, as a pitcher, a catcher, outfielder, all.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Sorts of different things, and so it's just cool to see.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: I'm just glad to see him coming back out and
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: playing football and contributing right away on both sides. You're
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: finally gonna go on the road, how about that this
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: Friday night, heading down to the Seattle area to take
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: on King's High School. And you know it's rare to
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: have a rivalry against a non conference opponent. But I
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: kind of feel like you guys have played each other
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: a lot in the last few years. Do you do
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: you consider it a rivalry.
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: I think yes, I do.
• 38:25
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's we've played each other enough.
• 38:28
  Speaker 17: Oh gosh, I think you know, we're going back probably
• 38:31
  Speaker 17: you know, twelve fifteen years that that that we've played
• 38:34
  Speaker 17: each other, and so yeah, there's there's a familiar familiarity.
• 38:39
  Speaker 15: Sorry, I could get that work out amongst you know,
• 38:43
  Speaker 15: the game plan ons and all that, and yeah, there
• 38:47
  Speaker 15: there's definitely a non league rival there that you know,
• 38:51
  Speaker 15: we both we both.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: Want to win.
• 38:53
  Speaker 15: There there's a mutual respect there for each programs. Shapiro
• 38:57
  Speaker 15: does a great job down there, and he's got good
• 39:01
  Speaker 15: values in ethics and so and I think they feel
• 39:05
  Speaker 15: the same way about us and just talking with him,
• 39:07
  Speaker 15: and it's a hard fought game and in the end, yeah, I.
• 39:11
  Speaker 17: Think, uh, you know, we may be circled on their schedule.
• 39:17
  Speaker 15: And they may be circled on our schedule. But yeah,
• 39:20
  Speaker 15: it's it's a pretty good rivalry.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a it's a really cool thing.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's just been a kind of a rich history,
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: which is odd because you're not in the same conference,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: and and it's just fun and and what's and and
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: you've told me this off the air is is that
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: it's been hard sometimes to schedule opponents. When you have
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: to schedule five non league games, Uh, it can be
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: tough to do. But I could imagine that you could
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: call up Kings and they be like absolutely because you
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: guys have done it over the years. And so that's
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: that's kind of a nice thing to have. And tell
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: me about this year's team because traditionally the Knights are
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: pretty good.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: What do you know about their team this year that, Yeah,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: they're they're still really good.
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: They're they're they're big.
• 40:02
  Speaker 15: I don't know where they keep getting these kids, but
• 40:04
  Speaker 15: they're they're huge on on the line, and they're very skilled,
• 40:09
  Speaker 15: uh in all their skill positions. And yeah, they're they're
• 40:14
  Speaker 15: they're like they always are. They're they're big, fast and physical,
• 40:18
  Speaker 15: and they're very well coached. They do a lot of
• 40:19
  Speaker 15: the little things correctly in the in their discipline and
• 40:24
  Speaker 15: playing discipline.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Teams are are I mean you have to be.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: You have to.
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: Match that or exceed it.
• 40:30
  Speaker 15: And you know, they're able to throw the ball around,
• 40:33
  Speaker 15: they're able to run the ball around and defensively, they're
• 40:36
  Speaker 15: very aggressive, and so you know we have to match
• 40:39
  Speaker 15: that intensity.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, are they are?
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: You are they kind of running like a spread offense
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: like they kind of usually do or shotgun or how
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: does that look as far as their base offense.
• 40:50
  Speaker 15: Yeah, they it's it's the same that they've they've been doing. Uh,
• 40:54
  Speaker 15: they'll spread you out, but they'll also run the ball.
• 40:58
  Speaker 15: I'm not sure They're quarterback got hurt the last game.
• 41:01
  Speaker 15: You can see it on film. I'm not sure if
• 41:03
  Speaker 15: he's back, And if he's not, then then I think
• 41:07
  Speaker 15: that changes kind of what they do. The quarterback that
• 41:11
  Speaker 15: came in the second half of their last game, I
• 41:14
  Speaker 15: don't think he throws it. He throws the ball really well,
• 41:16
  Speaker 15: but I don't think he throws it as good as
• 41:18
  Speaker 15: their other quarterback. But he can run, and so I
• 41:23
  Speaker 15: think it changes their game plan a little bit. But
• 41:27
  Speaker 15: he's still real. The guy that went in is still
• 41:29
  Speaker 15: a really good athlete and and he can he can
• 41:32
  Speaker 15: do different things that we'll have to prepare for.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, how about that Kings has a great athlete. Yeah. Yeah,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm not surprised their coach. It's it's gonna
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: be a lot of fun Friday night.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Best of luck down in Seattle, and thank you for
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: joining me on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: Appreciate it. Thanks again.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: That should be a great game, and another great game
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: will be the Meridian Trojans hosting the Camiac Nights. Meridian
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: comes into the game with a record of two and
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: oh and Camiyak is zero and two and even though
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Camiak is a four a school Max prep shows an
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: advantage for Meridian. Here and we are now joined on
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Meridian football coach Patrick Games. Coach,
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining me today.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: How are you doing doing well?
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: Tyler?
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Thank you, it's always a pleasure.
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: Awesome.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Before talking about your week three game, let's talk about.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Your two and oh start really quickly. Two games on
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: the road. You have a lot of first time varsity
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: starters and they've come out to a great start, and
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: it's tricky because you know it's their first time and
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: you're on they're in environments maybe they've never played in before.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: What have you liked so far about your team?
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I think at least with this past week, we got
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: to learn some pretty hard lessons and still be able
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: to to be able to eke out a victory that
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: we were able to reinforce the fact that you have
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: to play a full forty eight minutes of high school
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: football in order to be able to compete well yourselves
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: as an opportunity to win. And we played a really,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: really good first twelve minutes and then as the heat
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: got to us and injuries mounted and we were holding
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: things together with bailing twine and band aids and duct
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: tape to try to finish that one, you know, down
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: to where our third stream center just to be able
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: to execute snaps on offense ended up becoming you know,
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: kind of a challenge and being able to finish under
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: some pretty adverse operational circumstances. Therefore, us with the win
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: felt pretty good, but it was because we came out
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: and played well at the beginning of the game and
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: then we're just kind of in hang on mode, and
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: our first two games, you know, we're pretty different in that,
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: you know, you're playing different teams in different spots. The
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: heat of this past week was certainly not something we
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: had to deal with the week before, and when you can,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: when you can respond positively in different circumstances against different opponents.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Those things always bode well, right, Like it speaks to
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: the adaptability and resiliency and confidence of your team and
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: your kids, and those things were really encouraging despite the
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: number of you know, first year guys in first year
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: in first time spots that we have.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's crazy. I mean you look at that
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: that game against a really good Omac team. I mean
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: that fullback had to have been two fifty maybe. I mean,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: that was a big guy that was hard to bring down.
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: And I kind of got the feeling that if there
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: was a fifth quarter, they might have they might have
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: got you in that one, right, because, like you said,
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: you got out to it was a twenty two to
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: zero start and really fast start. And you know, the
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: messages I was getting from parents during the game kind
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: of keeping me updated, was we're trying to hold it together.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: We're trying to hold it together. And that's and you
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: did it.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: But you're right, it was because of that fast start
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: and and kudos to you guys for that. Tell me
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: about your senior linebacker Xavier Parent he had he was
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: a tackling machine out there, especially on this in this
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: past game. Of course, they had, they kind of had
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: the ball control offense for much of a senior, Deepens
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: was on the field a lot. But at this point
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: in the season he has more tackles than anyone in
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: the county. What is it that makes him such a
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: great linebacker?
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: Just a lot of hustle, right like, And that's one
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: of the things that you can hang your hat on
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: as a football player, no matter who you play for
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: or where you play.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: And I know it's a coach's cliche.
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: But you you know, you try to reinforce with your team.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: You want to play hard, you want to play fast.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: If you're going to make mistakes, you want to make them,
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: you know, go in full speed. And that shows up
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: right where you know it might not look right from
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: the snap, but Xavier right now is finding his way
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: into a lot of plays right with with hustle that
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: you know, once the ball is located, like, he's going
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: to get better as fast as anybody we got.
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: And he's doing a really good job.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: And that's the way he's always played for us on defense,
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: just with a lot of heart and hustle. And you're
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: seeing it, yeah.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And it's crazy because I was kind of
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: describing on a podcast kind of his tackling style at times.
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: It's almost like when you're kids and you and you
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: jump on someone's back to do like a piggyback ride, right,
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: and he just he just goes. He just attacks guys
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: with all four limbs, right. Yeah, And it's a lot
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: of fun to watch, and finally people are gonna be
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: able to see watch him do this in Walkham County.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: You got a home game Friday night, You're hosting Cameak
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: at seven pm, four pm. School that just got you
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: last year thirty five, thirty four. What do you know
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: about this year's team?
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: Well, like you said, you know, they're they're a four
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: A school. So you know, it starts with like the
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: number of guys who are going to get off their
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: bus and show up on the sideline. It's going to
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: look a lot different than what you're going to see
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: on our sideline. The size of the dudes, you know,
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: is probably gonna look a lot different. But their team
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: looks different from you know, the group that they had
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: last year. Obviously they had some you know, supremely talented
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: athletes that are playing at some some pretty big time
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: programs right now. On Saturdays, so we know in spots,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't look quite the same, but schematically
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: they're they're similar. So some of the some of the
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: elements that we brought into into last year's game are
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: are still going to be sound for us. And obviously
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: our team looks different from what we did last year also,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: but whenever you end up playing a school much larger
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: than you are, you know that there can be a
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: talent disparity. There's certainly going to be a difference in depth,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and it's just a challenge that we have to to
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: rise to.
• 47:36
  Speaker 8: And I thought our team.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Did a really good job rising to that challenge last
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: year when we went when we went down in and
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: played them in their place that you alluded to that
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: you know, ended up being a really really close, hard
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: fought ball game, and we're hoping that we can give
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: that same kind of effort with the same kind of
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: focus and attitude.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: This time around.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: I know our kids are excited about playing a game
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: at home, you know, with a team that's coming out
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: of a week a league like they are. I wonder
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: about things like have some of these kids ever played
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: a Friday night game on a grass field before, you know,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: like it's going to be just some really interesting dynamics
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: coming into play that you don't know if they're going
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: to be factors, but it's it's always kind of fun,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: right playing new teams and new places. So we're trying
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: to embrace that challenge and play a really good football game.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: He kind of took the next question out of my mouth.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I was going to say, when do you think the
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: last time these kids played on grass was?
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, we pee wee football? Who knows, Yeah,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: on Saturday mornings, who knows.
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: Right, It's crazy to think about that, but that's kind
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: of where we're at right now and the landscape of things.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: And and you know, one thing that's really impressed me
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: too is Trey Alexander. You know, he's got six touchdown
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: passes on the year to five different receivers. You know,
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: he's really there's a lot of different guys to get
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: the ball to and he's not really locking in on
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: one guy.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: What have you liked about his quarterback play?
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Well, you spoke to the fact that number one, when
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: you have a lot of guys that have worked hard
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: enough number one mentally to be in a position where
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: they can play.
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: And then when the.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Physical skills are there to match the knowledge of where
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: they need to be and where they need to go.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: That feels really good from an offensive standpoint to be
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: able to play so many different guys and the trickle
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: down effect of that that we're seeing payoff right now
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: on Friday nights where Trey is able to target a
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: lot of different guys is it brings the level of
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: your practices up to where you know, guys can be
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: a little bit more realistically and practically hungry to get
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: on the field. They're competing with one another. They know
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: that they have to be on the top of their game,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: like every time coming to practice to make sure that
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: they take advantage of the chances they've got so that
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: their teammates and their quarterback can trust them on Friday nights.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: So what you're seeing is the product of a lot
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: of good hard work from our receiving corps so that
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: when we get into Friday night's, Trey is going to
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: have the ability and trust to be able to spread
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: the ball around to a number of different guys.
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. It's it's worked so far. Coach pumped that.
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: You guys are two and oh and and you got
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: to keep it rolling Friday night. Best of luck against
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: Camiak on Friday, Coach, and for all your meriting fans.
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: You guys already know this, but it's the They're the
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: best burgers at the stands.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you. You walk in, you smell that meat grilling.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, the barbecue is fantastic there. So, coach,
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: best of luck. Thank you so much for joining me
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 50:33
  Speaker 8: Oh you're welcome, Tyler. Always a pleasure.
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: Well, there you have it from Coach Ames. It's always
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: good to talk with him about football or any other subject.
• 50:41
  Speaker 14: Really.
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: I always feel like I learn a lot when talking
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: to him. And I may have known I've known Coach
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: Left for thirty one years that's a long time, but
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: I've actually known Coach Ames for about forty years, so
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: him and I go way back, and it's always just
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: fun just catching up with them. And yeah, that's gonna
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: be that's gonna be good. One can can Meridian go three?
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: And oh, that's going to be very very interesting. Of course,
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna buzz out to that probably close to kickoff.
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be out at Blaine first. They started an
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: hour earlier, so I'll come out and check out Meridian
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: for a little bit as well. Next up are the
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: full Ferndale Golden Eagles playing host to the Marysville Getchel Chargers.
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: Ferndale is one and up one and one and Mary'sville
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Getchel is zero to two based on Max Preps rankings,
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Ferndale has a pretty strong edge here. And we are
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Ferndale
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: football coach Jamie Plankovic. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: How are you doing.
• 51:36
  Speaker 18: I'm doing good, Thanks Tyler.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: How are you doing all right? Doing all right?
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: The weeks are flying by, I tell you what, I'm
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: sure they are for you too. Before we talk about
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: the next week, this week three opponent, let's talk about
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: your game at Oak Harbor really quickly. It appeared that
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: to me anyways, that it was pretty apparent you wanted
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: your team to jump out to a fast start, and
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: after scoring four touchdowns in the first quarter, that that happened.
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: What did you like the most about your win over Okarver?
• 52:05
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I thought we came out ready to play. That
• 52:08
  Speaker 18: can be a tough place to play. The environment is
• 52:13
  Speaker 18: a little bit different especially coming off of being in
• 52:15
  Speaker 18: a pretty you know, high emotion environment like Linden and
• 52:21
  Speaker 18: you go down there, it's it's just different. So how
• 52:25
  Speaker 18: our kids came out, got a couple turnovers that helped,
• 52:29
  Speaker 18: but then we capitalized on those when we finished drives,
• 52:32
  Speaker 18: which is something we obviously struggled with in week one.
• 52:36
  Speaker 18: So to take advantage of those situations and finished drives,
• 52:43
  Speaker 18: we felt like we had a good start to that game.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, when I watched the film, the first thing that
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: jumped out at me was that it looked like Ferndale football.
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: I mean that's really what it was.
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: I mean there were multiple runs, offensive line getting off
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: the ball, getting a push, the defensive lining to the
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: ball all and finding the most opportune times to throw
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: the ball down the field. How did you like the
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: play calling mix on offense? I thought it. I thought
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: it worked out pretty well. Can it kind of kept
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: Okarbar off balance a little bit?
• 53:12
  Speaker 18: Yeah, And that's something you know that we're hoping that
• 53:16
  Speaker 18: we just keep getting better at. We feel like, if
• 53:20
  Speaker 18: if a team is really going to commit to stopping
• 53:23
  Speaker 18: the run, which many of them do, that we've got
• 53:26
  Speaker 18: to take advantage of all those guys in the box
• 53:28
  Speaker 18: and create some some big plays in the passing game.
• 53:31
  Speaker 18: And we were able to do that with some matchups. Obviously,
• 53:36
  Speaker 18: Chance had some big catches in that game. Uh, he's
• 53:40
  Speaker 18: a he's a matchup problem with his size, and we
• 53:43
  Speaker 18: had him. They had matched up a smaller corner on him.
• 53:47
  Speaker 18: So we were able to take advantage of that several times,
• 53:51
  Speaker 18: scored right before half on a on a great throw
• 53:54
  Speaker 18: and catch. So, yeah, when we can do what we
• 53:59
  Speaker 18: want to do in the run game and then hit
• 54:01
  Speaker 18: some big plays in the passing game, that makes us
• 54:05
  Speaker 18: tough to defend and it makes scoring points easier when
• 54:07
  Speaker 18: he can get some big plays.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, you're right.
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, chances athletic ability to be able to go
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: up and high point the ball, and that was that
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: was a lot of fun to see. And we'll be
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: talking about him for then, you know, for a few years.
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: But let's talk about your senior center, Coulsham the Valley,
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: A three year starter with a lot with a lot
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: of talent around him, but kind of inexperienced kids around him.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: How has he developed into a leader for your team?
• 54:38
  Speaker 8: Yeah, he kind of has to.
• 54:40
  Speaker 18: He's a quiet kid, but he is one of our
• 54:43
  Speaker 18: captains got voted by his teammates as a captain. It's
• 54:48
  Speaker 18: I think sometimes you know, it's not his favorite thing
• 54:51
  Speaker 18: to be super vocal, but he's got to make our
• 54:54
  Speaker 18: line calls to to get before the play starts, to
• 54:59
  Speaker 18: kind of all the other guys how we're gonna block things,
• 55:03
  Speaker 18: what front they're in, and he's you know, obviously having
• 55:06
  Speaker 18: a three year starter there at center is huge. He
• 55:09
  Speaker 18: does a good joke because we will pull him as well,
• 55:13
  Speaker 18: which is you know a lot of high schoolers that
• 55:16
  Speaker 18: that'd be a struggle to snap the ball and pull.
• 55:20
  Speaker 18: So yeah, he's he's the captain definitely up front and
• 55:24
  Speaker 18: does have a lot of young guys around him, so
• 55:27
  Speaker 18: we lean on him for his leadership.
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: All right, you're finally going to be playing a home
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: game on Friday night.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: It's got to be nice to finally play at home.
• 55:35
  Speaker 18: Huh yeah, real nice. Yeah, we'll we'll take it. We're excited.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: You're taking on Marysville Getchell.
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: And if I remember correctly, you got him pretty good
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: last year two years ago, it was kind of a
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: wonky game that didn't they didn't go your way. If
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: I'm remembering all this, correctly. But what do you know
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: about this year's team.
• 55:56
  Speaker 18: They're they're so far looked pretty similar to what they've
• 56:00
  Speaker 18: done the last few years. They're gonna run some triple option,
• 56:03
  Speaker 18: which is difficult to prepare for. You don't see it
• 56:07
  Speaker 18: a lot. They've shown to be patient in it. Two
• 56:11
  Speaker 18: years ago, it was definitely a problem for us. We
• 56:15
  Speaker 18: struggle to take away their full back, which kind of
• 56:19
  Speaker 18: allows them to do everything else off that off that scheme,
• 56:23
  Speaker 18: and then they'll jump into some spread stuff as well
• 56:27
  Speaker 18: and challenge you there. So they're kind of a difficult
• 56:31
  Speaker 18: team to prepare for. We've got to be super disciplined
• 56:33
  Speaker 18: on defense and take away all those options in their
• 56:36
  Speaker 18: triple option game and not give up big plays in that,
• 56:40
  Speaker 18: and we would like to force them into their spread stuff.
• 56:44
  Speaker 18: And then defensively, they're they're very multiple. They're gonna line
• 56:49
  Speaker 18: up all over the place, play a couple different fronts,
• 56:52
  Speaker 18: but move their defensive line. And you know, like we
• 56:56
  Speaker 18: just got done talking about, we're kind of young upfront,
• 56:58
  Speaker 18: so we got to make sure that we understand what
• 57:02
  Speaker 18: we're supposed to be doing to a bunch of different.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: Looks well that you know, and that speaks to how
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: important it is to have culs there at center right.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's going to be huge for them.
• 57:14
  Speaker 14: You know.
• 57:14
  Speaker 3: It's it's interesting you're talking about triple option and then
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: a spread. If that can happen from one play to another.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Do you do you feel like you have to change
• 57:24
  Speaker 3: personnel on the field for that big of a change
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: or do you have eleven guys that you can depend
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: on for either kind of offense.
• 57:32
  Speaker 18: Yeah, we'll do it both ways. If we feel like
• 57:37
  Speaker 18: they're getting in a rhythm with their with their triple
• 57:41
  Speaker 18: option stuff, we will, Yeah, add some you know, more
• 57:45
  Speaker 18: run personnel to the defense. But the problem that they
• 57:50
  Speaker 18: pose this year is they don't sub to get into
• 57:54
  Speaker 18: those two different looks. In the past, we've been able
• 57:56
  Speaker 18: to know what look they're going to be in by
• 57:58
  Speaker 18: the personnel.
• 57:59
  Speaker 8: On the field.
• 58:00
  Speaker 18: So it makes it tough this year because they keep
• 58:03
  Speaker 18: the same personnel and can be an either either spread
• 58:07
  Speaker 18: or their triple option.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: Look, wow, that's sounds like Meridian. You know, there's there's
• 58:13
  Speaker 3: not a lot of teams that can pull that off.
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: But uh and uh, you guys kind of do that
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: a little bit too at times. But but yeah, that's
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: that sounds like a challenge, but something you're ready to
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: meet head on. So best of luck against the Chargers
• 58:26
  Speaker 3: on Friday, coach, and thank you so much for joining
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: me today on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: Anytime, Thank you, Tyler.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: The Golden Eagles have a good chance to go to
• 58:34
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• 58:55
  Speaker 3: Next up is another conference game. The Linden Lions are
• 58:58
  Speaker 3: going on the road to take on Mayor is Bill
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: Pilchucklyndon is two and oh and Mary's Will Pilchuck. Well,
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: they're own too. I think we all know who has
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: the advantage in this one. And we are now joined
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: on the Gatorade Game Day Preview by Lyndon football coach
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: Blake Van Dalen. Coach, thank you so much for joining
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: me today. How are you doing good?
• 59:18
  Speaker 13: Yeah, happy to chat with you today.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Great. Yeah.
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: Before talking about your Week three opponent, let's talk about
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: that crazy game at Franklin Pere.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: So many.
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: Just so many weird things in that game. A huge
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: start for you guys, a crazy finish.
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: As a play caller, it must have felt really weird.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: Only you know, called twenty six plays and then they
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: ran seventy three plays.
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: How do you sum up that game?
• 59:49
  Speaker 19: Well, we talked about so many things that we planned
• 59:53
  Speaker 19: on doing that we just weren't able to do because
• 59:56
  Speaker 19: of that, And and we wanted the ball first so
• 59:58
  Speaker 19: that we could, you know, try and wear them down
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 19: honestly a little bit before they got their juggernaut going.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 19: So the quick score was great, nobody will turn away
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 19: seven points. But in one way it kind of backfired
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 19: on us because then they ended up with the ball literally,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 19: you know, ten seconds later, and we were we were
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 19: in a fight, and so then you know, you kind
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 19: of get away from your script because now you're just
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 19: coaching to the time and score and the situation. And
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 19: so yeah, I think afterward we were surprised how many
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 19: things we didn't get a chance to try offensively.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 13: To give ourselves the best chance to win.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 19: So I was just proud of the kids in that
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 19: way for finding a way to win, and how big
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 19: special teams came up. You know, they had a touchdown
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 19: and those three extra points ended up being the game winner.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and even though it wasn't a conference opponent, explained
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: to our listeners why getting that win was so important.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 13: Oh my gosh.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 19: I mean, first of all, the feel that felt like
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 19: a November game that was a playoff. I mean, every
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 19: mistake we made we paid for. Every mistake they made,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 19: they paid for. But yeah, last year when the Committee
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 19: came out with the seating, it was a coin flip.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 19: Is Lenin going to be the three or the four?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 19: And because they were undefeated, they got the three and
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 19: we got the four, which put us with Archbishop who
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 19: was five. So there we are playing someone from our conference. So,
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 19: like I said, rather than complain, we made a phone call.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 19: Their program was so excited because they don't get tested
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 19: like they would like to during the season.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 13: So it was a win win and we both kind
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 13: of got what we asked for out of it.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 19: We're both beat up, but also learned a lot about
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 19: our team and for us, hopefully when the Committee meets
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 19: and they're doing playoff seating they'll have a Northwest Conference
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 19: versus an SBSL matchup that they can say, well.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 13: This is what happened when Lennon went on the road
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 13: and played this team.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and I you know, I love that and
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: I'm glad you were able to, you know, get the
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: game in and and even happier obviously with the outcome
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: the fourth down touchdown pass.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: Your third string sophomore quarterback Austin Postma is in the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: game for that play.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: What did you call then?
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: What did you see on the defensive lineman and did
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: you change the play at the line of scrimmage?
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: So we go to.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 19: Third down and two, and I saw something, but I thought,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 19: you know, let's just play the safe play and let's
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 19: just get the first down. Well, it was kind of
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 19: an awkward snap situation and Gordy stumbled and he tried
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 19: to get the first down but kind of tripped and
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 19: fell and then his helmet came off.
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 13: So now it's fourth and one.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 19: And he's not allowed to play and Lucas Loudy's out,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 19: so we called time out. The idea was to get
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 19: Gordy back in the game, and the referee said, no,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 19: you can't buy him back in. He's out for one play,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 19: no matter how big of the play it is. So
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 19: the fun part was was Austin Posma. You know, this week.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 19: He was the backup quarterback all week because Lucas was out,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 19: so he'd gotten a ton of reps.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 13: And so I sent him out.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 19: The team's already out there, and I just said to him, Hey,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 19: here's the play call, but but check with me. And
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 19: so he goes out there. He calls the play that
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 19: we had called that we were going to run, and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 19: just there's that tingling inside where you're like, you know,
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 19: but the other play is there, and so you know,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 19: we just pick your poison and the defense gave us
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 19: a look and I was just so proud of him.
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 19: He stood tall, he fired it, he put it right
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 19: on the face mask.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 13: So now I told Austin, I go, you got to retire, Bud.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 13: You're one for one with a.
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  Speaker 19: Touchdown on fourth down to win a game against a
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 19: ranked opponent.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 13: I said, I hate to tell you this, it's almost
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 13: all downhill from here. And so he laughed. But I
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 13: was really pumped for him. You know, it's fun.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 19: His dad was at the game, and think about that,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 19: he drove three enough hours to watch his son stand
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 19: on the sideline, knowing, you know, his situation. But he
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 19: got to be there to watch his son throw that
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 19: throw and have that moment and so he'll have that the.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 13: Rest of his life.
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  Speaker 2: Oh it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was great and it speaks to the you know,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: and you you know, what you talked about before the
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: season even started, and as the season has been going on,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: is your depth and how you've always said, like, it
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: doesn't really matter which eleven are out there, I feel
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: pretty good doing whatever we do. And this is the
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: ultimate test of that, you know, with the third string
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: sophomore quarterback out there on fourth down and you felt
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: confident and it worked. And that's what's great is that
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: it'll it'll give the kids confidence and it just it
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: just pays back tenfold. And I it was a you know,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: knowing the outcome and then watching the game film is
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: always unique for me. And then seeing that play. I
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: see number twenty out there at quarterback, and I'm thinking
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: what happened because I don't I didn't know Gordy's helmet
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: came off. I didn't, you know, So I was curious
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: what had happened and know if he got banged up
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: on that fumble.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Or a trip or whatever. And I just thought, man,
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: my goodness, what a call.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: Kind of brought me back to your fourth down pass
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: play against Stillicum years ago. Yeah, it was just kind
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 3: of like I was like, man, coaches, coaches going for
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: it here, look at this.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 13: You know some fun.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 19: You reference that with the with the NFL draft when
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 19: uh mechag Buka from Fieldcombe got drafted. Uh Brock and
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 19: Baylor sent me the video clip of Brock of all
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 19: people putting a move on him to score a touchdown right.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 13: And win that game. And then you know the other
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 13: night he went off on Monday Night football.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 19: So it's just kind of fun for our kids to
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 19: see those guys on the national stage and knowing we
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 19: have those memories, like you said, in our back pocket
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 19: as well. So so no, I would say this too though,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 19: I'm still proud of our coaches because if you came
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 19: to a practice this year specifically, you would see so
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 19: many players rotating in. I cannot tell you how easy
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 19: it is to coach when you have the confidence that
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 19: you have eight linemen or you have you know, eight
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 19: defensive back, four linebackers like that.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 13: Our coaches have done.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 19: A great job of making sure not just our starters
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 19: are prepared, but the backup and so it's it's as
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 19: seamless as a rotation as we've had here. And you
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 19: know football, football is a game of attrition, and I
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 19: just hopefully think we're building ourselves the right way for that.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's probably you know, and this is digging deep.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: You have to kind of know the linen program. But
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: there's probably more black and.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: Gold jerseys than usual at practice. I would imagine that
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: is true.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 19: And then luckily because of our twenty three seniors, there's
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 19: as many green shirts.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 13: That we need to run against those guys too.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 19: You can't have your cake, you need it too unless
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 19: you have you know, one hundred kids out playing football.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 13: So yeah, really blessed and proud of our kids and coaches.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you're going back on the road on Friday night,
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: traveling to Marysville Pilchuck. And we've seen the Tomahawks the
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: first few weeks the season. To get some strong Walking
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: County teams and this is not the same team that
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: you played against LA last year. What would you like
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: to accomplish in this game?
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 19: I think you know, the thing that we're talking about
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 19: is timing. If you watched Lyndon, the our biggest mistakes
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 19: so far this year has been timing, whether it's timing
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 19: between the receivers and the quarterback, or the quarterback and
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 19: the line, or the line and the running backs, and
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 19: even some things on defense. So just trying to get
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 19: our timing down because we have an Accords and Sea
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 19: homecoming consecutive games following Marysville, So this is really one
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 19: more week to get our timing down before we're playing
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 19: two top five teams in the state. And so this
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 19: is a really great opportunity to get better.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I'm not going to try to jump to conclusions,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: but do you tell some of your scout guys during
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: the week that this could be a chance to get
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: on the field under the lights.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 13: You know, last year I might have said that, I'm
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 13: not sure.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 19: I don't remember year to year, but I know fourteen
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 19: at halftime against Marysville.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 13: And so football is unique in that.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 19: If you don't get lined up right and you're not
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 19: ready to play full speed, things can go sideways pretty quickly. So, uh,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 19: I would love nothing that would make me happier than
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 19: to get specifically some of these seniors in that that
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 19: have not got to play very much and don't get
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 19: to play in JV games that's probably the group that
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 19: we're talking about, uh, you know, and thank them a
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 19: little bit for their commitment to our program and so
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 19: but it's also you know, respect your opponent and and then.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 13: We don't run the score up on people. It's kind
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 13: of what we've been known for. And Coach Cramey, uh,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 13: you know, used to do that, and so we've.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 19: Followed that that example, and we try to win with
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 19: integrity both ways and so so keeping that in mind,
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 19: but yet playing the.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: Game the right way, absolutely, And that's and that's what's cool.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: And I tell you what, nobody, what's the best word?
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 3: Nobody honors their Scout team like you guys do. And
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: I've been to practices and I've been to banquets and
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: I've been all over the place, and and how you
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: guys really honor the Scout team and maybe you don't.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: Maybe no other school as as many Scout players as
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: you guys do because of the depth and the and
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. But that's what's really cool is that
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: you know, you give out Scout.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 2: Team Player the Year awards.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: You know, sometimes it's multiple players in a season, and
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: so I really love how you give back.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, I was a Scout player. I mean, I kicked,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: but I was.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: I was a Friday Harbor running back on Thursday, you
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: know what I mean.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: So it was right.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's kind of like I get that feeling,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: and I hope those guys understand how important they are
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 3: to the team. And I feel like you guys push,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 3: well not push, but you guys really honor how important
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 3: it is. And so that's a really really cool deal.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: And uh yeah, so.
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  Speaker 13: I appreciate that. When I was a sophomore, I got
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 13: to be Brandon Jumper.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: He play.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 19: He played for Eatonville, and coach Roydy Cosker gave our
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 19: varsity defense permission. He put four of us sophomores in
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 19: a Brandon Jumper Brandon Jumper blue jersey. We wore it
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 19: all day at school and they could hit us whenever
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 19: they wanted, all day, all week. And Brandon Jumper had
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 19: eighteen yards rushing that game and probably for me as
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 19: a player, one of the proudest moments. And I didn't
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 19: even play in that game, but I knew I took
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 19: a beating all week so that we could stop the
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 19: greatest running back in Lennon or in Washington history up
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 19: to that point.
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  Speaker 3: I was just going to say, for those of you
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: who don't know, Brandon Jumper was, Yeah, the state's leading
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: rusher at that point, went to University of Oregon, was
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: about six three, two and twenty five pounds, and I
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: believe that year the week before he ran for three
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: hundred yards against Meridian in the quarterfinals.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's pretty Yes. I love hearing those kind
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: of stories.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: And Brandon Jumper was the original go running back in
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: the state of Washington.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: That's so cool.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 3: Coach, best of luck against the Tomahawks on Friday, and
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining me on the Gatorade
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: Game day preview.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 13: All right, have a great week.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: That one looks pretty good for Walking County coming out
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: on top another game that looks pretty good for Walking County.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 3: We'll be Seahome going on the road to take on
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: the Lakewood Cougars. Seahome is one and one on the
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: season and Lakewood is zero and two. Max Prep shows
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: a pretty strong advantage for the Mariners here and we
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview by
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: Sea Home Football coach Brian Young. Coach b Why, thank
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: you for joining me today.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 8: Oh, I'm doing good.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 5: Just got off the practice field.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: Gotta love that, yea.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: Before talking about your Week three opponent, let's talk about
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: kind of the young season so far. Sure, a blowout
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: win over Mary'sville Pilchuck and then an amazing effort against
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 3: the two time state champions. And Anna chordis, what have
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: you liked so far about your team?
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: Always like our effort.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 9: You guys are really focused in on maximizing the opportunity
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 9: we have working together. They are really receptive to coaching,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 9: you know, areas that we want to improve on, that's
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 9: the first thing they want to attack. And so I'm
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 9: really happy with how our team comes together and says, hey,
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 9: this is a we thing.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 12: You know, it's all all of us have to be
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 12: all in to get the job done.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know it's it's it's it was a
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: pretty incredible effort. You know, on on Friday at Anna Chordis,
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 3: so many of us were listening on the radio or
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: watching online or they're live and you know, I'm sure
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: you've heard from a lot of people about you know,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: I think you answered the question is see them ready
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: for that next step up? And it's obviously it's obvious
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 3: that you guys are. Do you feel like you guys
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 3: are ready for that?
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 9: Well, it may have come as a surprise to a
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 9: lot of other people, but this is what we've been
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 9: preparing to do with this group of guys.
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 20: The senior leadership we have is very talented. They've been
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 20: through a lot, you know, from the time they were
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 20: freshmen into where they are now, so they definitely have
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 20: faced adversity. So as their coaching staff and collectively within
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 20: our team, we weren't surprised. What our next challenge is
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 20: going to be is to make sure we understand it's
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 20: forty eight minute game and we got to keep that
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 20: level up the whole forty eight minutes. Most of the
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 20: tyler's on me, though, as as the coach, I've got
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 20: to do a better job.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 8: Me and my staff, we just got to do a little.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 9: Bit better job preparing our guys to be able to
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 9: compete that way for.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 8: Forty eight minutes.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 9: And we started that process this week, you know, changing
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 9: a few things in practice, refocusing on like having a
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 9: little bit faster tempo with things.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 12: So when our next opportunity comes, we'll be ready.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and we're all going to be excited for it
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: in Walkham County.
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: I can tell you that.
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: Tell me about your senior wide receiver, Theo Quibble after
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: two weeks. You know, he leads walking County and receiving
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: and we've seen glimpses of his talent over the past
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: two years, but he's really shined so far this season.
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 3: What have you seen in his development?
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 21: Well, there's a couple of things about THEO.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 9: One, it's not really about like being the top guy
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 9: or having the stats or whatever it is. He's just
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 9: out there playing right and his talent is starting to
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 9: really show versus opponents. It was great to get a
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 9: text message from one of the Anacordus coaches like, man,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 9: that guy number six is a dude, And I sent
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 9: him back a message and I'll said, yeah, that's our guy,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 9: and he's just been waiting for his time.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: To be the one.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 9: So Theo's learning now, you know how to use that
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 9: six four sixty five frame. You know, he's outstanding volleyball players,
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 9: so he knows how to high point the ball.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 5: Of course, our.
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 12: Quarterback can thread the eye of a needle with a
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 12: quarter you know, with the football.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and I've got some things structured in that people
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 9: haven't seen yet that are really going to put him
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 9: an advantageous position.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 21: So I think he's just the sending he's only going
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 21: to get better.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's such a great point you put about
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: having a great quarterback as well. I mean, I remember
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: last I don't know what it was, it was last winter,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 3: maybe even fall, and I went out to a pizza
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: place for lunch and Nolan and THEO went in together
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: to have pizza together. So you know, they're you know,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 3: they have a great relationship off the field, and that's
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: just a really good thing to see because it can
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: help on the field, you know, absolutely. So you're on
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 3: the road this week against Lakewood, a young team that's
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: trying to rebuild. Tell me about the Cougars. What did
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: they like to do?
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 14: Well?
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 9: They're pretty aggressive, like when I was watching them on film,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 9: you know, they're pretty aggressive.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 21: And they can kind of play with a throw caution
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 21: to the win because like you said, they are in
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 21: a kind of a rebuilding stage. They've got a lot
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 21: of young players, so really when they step on the.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 8: Field, everything is a learning experience for him.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 12: Now, the challenge for is when we go against an
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 12: opponent that we should be very well prepared for and
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 12: we should have the talent to be in a great position.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 5: We have to use that talent.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 9: We have to play right away and establish Hey, you
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 9: know what, this is how this game is going to
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 9: go all night, and we're using this.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 8: As we've made some mistakes.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 9: In week two, we are going to focus on cleaning
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 9: up those mistakes and really getting ourselves prepared, you know,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 9: to go into this stretch run and Lakewood.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 21: It starts with Lakewood and then we're going to go
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 21: from there.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's kind of like last year because you know,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: the first the first two games were a little iffy
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: last year, but that Lakewood game was kind of the
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: game where Okay, this was the offense that we were
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 3: waiting for.
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: And not saying.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: That the offense hasn't been there for you this year,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: but you know what I mean, it's it's I think
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 3: starting out, like like you said, starting out air free,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 3: stay ahead of the chains, that kind of stuff. Just
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 3: be played within yourself and you'll do just fine.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 2: Coach.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: You know, it's so much fun watch your guys, and
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: I'm super excited for the rest of the season, but
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 3: I know, one step at a time, So best of
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: luck at Lake on Friday. Coach, thank you so much
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 3: for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 9: Awesome Tyler, have a good night, Bud, you too.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: See home will likely turn things around from last week's
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: lost to the defending state champs, and good luck to
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: the Mariners there. And the final game on Friday night
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: has the Squalicum Storm playing host to Archbishop Murphy's Squalkum
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: was one and one on the year, Archbishop Murphy's two
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: to zero, and you can bet that the Wildcats have
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: the edge here. We don't have an interview with coach Lucy,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: but I can tell you that Archbishop Murphy is the
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: real deal. They have all the makings to bring home
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: a state championship and it will be a huge test
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 3: for the Storm, who looked awesome last week at home.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: Now the Wildcats, you know some of you, most of
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: you probably saw them last year in person at some point,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: whether it be against your favorite team or maybe was
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 3: you know, in the playoffs when they played against Linden.
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  Speaker 3: And just imagine that team but a little bigger, a
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  Speaker 3: little stronger, and now they can throw the ball as
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  Speaker 3: well as they brought in a transfer quarterback, so it's
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  Speaker 3: looking you know, like I said.
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  Speaker 2: They kind of have all the makings, so we'll kind
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  Speaker 2: of see.
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  Speaker 3: Let's will be Walking County's first test against the Wildcats,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll just see how it goes. Only one game
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  Speaker 3: left to talk about, but first, let's take fifteen seconds
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  Speaker 3: All right, it's the Loan Saturday game and we have
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  Speaker 3: a fun one here as the Mount Baker Mountaineers are
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  Speaker 3: hosting the Bellevue Wolverines. Mount Bakers two to zero on
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  Speaker 3: the season. Bellevue is one and one, but Max Preps
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  Speaker 3: shows the Wolverines have a definitive edge here and that's
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  Speaker 3: no surprise. And we are now joined on the Gatorade
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  Speaker 3: Game Day preview by Mount Baker football coach Ron Lepper. Coach,
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  Speaker 3: thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 8: It was a pleasure to be able to hang out
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  Speaker 8: with you.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, I love it too. I love it too.
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  Speaker 3: And and we're gonna be talking some football here, but
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  Speaker 3: before we talk about your Week three opponent. Let's talk
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  Speaker 3: about your game at Hawkinson. It was an unusual offense
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  Speaker 3: that they ran very run heavy. They really put together
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  Speaker 3: just that one touchdown drive, but for the most part
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  Speaker 3: you defended it pretty well. Tell me what you liked
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  Speaker 3: about your team's defense in that one.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I thought we did a really good
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  Speaker 8: job overall.
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  Speaker 11: I thought the second half especially, it was a lot
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  Speaker 11: of fun to be down on the field watching the
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  Speaker 11: defense fly around. Like you said, you only got the
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  Speaker 11: one long drive, took up most of the second quarter,
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  Speaker 11: and you know, give them credit, they stuck with what
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  Speaker 11: they do. And then we made some adjustments at halftime
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  Speaker 11: and came out and probably something we could have done
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  Speaker 11: a little bit sooner, but it was un necessarily wasn't
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  Speaker 11: a critical at the time, so we had cancer await
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  Speaker 11: a hotel time talk about it, came out, and like
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  Speaker 11: I said, it was just really a lot of fun
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  Speaker 11: to watch the guys flying around on defense making a
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  Speaker 11: lot of plays. D line, you know, played played lights
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  Speaker 11: out and then linebackers did a nice job. Remember dvs
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  Speaker 11: didn't have much to do, but when they got the opportunity,
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  Speaker 11: you only got a couple.
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  Speaker 6: Of balls away.
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  Speaker 8: I got another interception. So yeah, overall a good day
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  Speaker 8: for the defense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's and that's a big thing with the
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  Speaker 3: secondary is you don't want to fall asleep because it's
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  Speaker 3: easy to fall asleep and all of a sudden there's
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  Speaker 3: a pass play and and you got to be ready
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 2: And they did a great job when they when that
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  Speaker 2: that time came.
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  Speaker 3: Your offensive line looked great in that game, so great
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  Speaker 3: in fact, that I had heard that they were getting
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  Speaker 3: warned by the officials about playing football too well, is
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  Speaker 3: from kind of what I heard. H Kiden Rita Sell
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  Speaker 3: is your new left tackle this year, and.
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  Speaker 2: He has looked awesome. Tell me about him a little bit.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Kiden's a kid that came out as a freshman.
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  Speaker 11: Then he he had a sustained injury the basketball court
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  Speaker 11: when they able to play a sophomore.
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  Speaker 8: Year, came back last year.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe a little you know, still not unsure about the
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  Speaker 11: about you know, the recovery. And then you know, he
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  Speaker 11: spent the time in the weight room, as you can tell.
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  Speaker 11: And then he's not too good start for us. But
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  Speaker 11: you know, like you said, this is the oppositive line.
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  Speaker 11: You know, we lost, we lost Noah week one there,
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  Speaker 11: so he wasn't available this week. But you know, luckily
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  Speaker 11: we had Jeremiah Sheridan came in and played really well.
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  Speaker 11: So we've got a couple of guys, you know, Peyton
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  Speaker 11: Zamzoff starting to come around. So we've got some guys
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  Speaker 11: starting to play well. And uh, you know, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 11: interesting when they say, like if you know, if you
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  Speaker 11: put a guy block guy on the ground, we're gonna
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  Speaker 11: throw you out, and it's like, that's kind of what
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 11: an opposite lineman dreams about doing the pancake block. I
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  Speaker 11: kind of mentioned that and then I don't think they're
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  Speaker 11: like my commentary, so I kept my mouth.
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  Speaker 8: Shechter. We are on the road.
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  Speaker 11: But you know, luckily, you know, we got ejected and
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  Speaker 11: we got out of there with the WU last weekend.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the two.
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  Speaker 3: Things that I recognize too, And of course I just
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  Speaker 3: watched the film. I wasn't there, so you see things
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  Speaker 3: kind of in a you know, I know the result
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  Speaker 3: already when I'm watching the film, and so the two
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  Speaker 3: things that well, I guess that I should say the
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  Speaker 3: one thing that stood out It really reminded me of
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  Speaker 3: your playoff game against Teninoh not like you know, the
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  Speaker 3: quality of opponent, but as far as the kind of
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  Speaker 3: the offense you went against, and then the spotting of
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  Speaker 3: the football.
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  Speaker 2: Did you notice that at.
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  Speaker 3: All, Like it seemed like after every play they just
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  Speaker 3: gained another yard on the spot.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, we noticed that. And so again, you know, we
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  Speaker 11: talked about it. And you know, you've known me for
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  Speaker 11: a lot of years. I don't really say much about
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  Speaker 11: officiating and I don't want to get fine, and so yeah,
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  Speaker 11: especialting because your kids are doing what we asked them
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  Speaker 11: to do. And and you know, just and I get
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  Speaker 11: you on the road and then you know, we always
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 11: talk about you know, when we're on the road, we
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 11: already down a touchdown at least, if not more, and
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  Speaker 11: we got to you gotta play better, you gotta play clean.
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  Speaker 11: And so despite all that, our kids just can continue
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  Speaker 11: to battle. So that point, but I'm really really you know,
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  Speaker 11: that's what we focused on, and we're really excited about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And yeah, like it felt like because that
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  Speaker 3: seems like it happened that at the Tanino game too,
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  Speaker 3: and and but yeah, you rise above it, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine you make that you might say something
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  Speaker 3: once to the side judge and then that's it.
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  Speaker 2: You just play.
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  Speaker 3: Football and you go from there. One of my favorite
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  Speaker 3: players of yours is Junior Andrew Monteeth. You're five foot
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  Speaker 3: three linebacker, tough as nails, wrestler. Uh that play he
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 3: had with the big hit, forced fumble, he recovers it?
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  Speaker 2: What about it? What is it about him that makes
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  Speaker 2: him such a great player?
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  Speaker 8: Oh, you know, he's just uh, you know, he's just
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  Speaker 8: a tough kid.
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  Speaker 11: Like he's one of those kids that kind of thrives
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  Speaker 11: on contact, rise on you know, some physical activity, and
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  Speaker 11: you know, didn't play for us his freshman year and
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  Speaker 11: and then came out last year. We're really excited about that.
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  Speaker 11: Then again there this year, and you know, and he's
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  Speaker 11: part of that Tati hit. It's great as his little
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  Speaker 11: death of lie back where we can rotate guys and
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  Speaker 11: give him a couple of plays for a breather, you know,
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  Speaker 11: and we can do that in the opposite backfield. He
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 11: can help out there too. But yeah, you know, he's
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  Speaker 11: just you know, he sees it. We tell him just
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  Speaker 11: go and and you know you're gonna face guys are
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 11: gonna be bigger and stronger. But you know, if you
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 11: beat him before they get there. If you see it
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  Speaker 11: and read it and go make the play for a
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 11: get there, then that's a that's a tough task to have.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 11: But yeah, I Andrew had a pretty good game for
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  Speaker 11: us last week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he definitely did low man wins a lot of times, and.
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  Speaker 2: And he walks around at low pad level. So that's
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  Speaker 2: it was just awesome to see.
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  Speaker 3: And speaking of sometimes bigger and stronger opponents. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's been the talk of Walking County the last five
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  Speaker 3: or six weeks. Bellevue is coming to town. We've talked
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  Speaker 3: off the air about it. But you know, I'm sure
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 3: you're tired of talking about it. But can you tell
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: our listeners how that game came about?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, we you know, we were supposed to play Centennial
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  Speaker 11: out of coote quotelam BC, and you know their administration
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 11: with not allowed to try across the border. We're gonna
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 11: do a little doubleheader game. And so all of a
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  Speaker 11: sudden we lost the game, and apparently Bellevue lost their
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  Speaker 11: Week three game.
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  Speaker 8: And so.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, a couple you know a little over a month
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  Speaker 11: ago so and you know, early August called them up
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  Speaker 11: and uh as they're still looking for a game. They
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  Speaker 11: said they were, and so asked if they wanted to
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  Speaker 11: play and come up to Deming because I said, you know,
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  Speaker 11: we've had two long road trips, so if you don't mind,
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  Speaker 11: and they were at home I think their first two games.
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  Speaker 11: So they agreed, and then we're going to be playing
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  Speaker 11: this Saturday at two o'clock on about Disdale Field and
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  Speaker 11: downtown Deming.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and if you blink you will miss downtown Deming.
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  Speaker 3: But uh, it's it's going to be fantastic. What do
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  Speaker 3: you expect in this game against the Wolverines, Well, I.
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  Speaker 11: Mean, obviously, you know, the the mystique of Bellevue is
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  Speaker 11: going to be there. I mean, they're you know, they
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  Speaker 11: lost last week to you know, Lake Stevens, who I
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  Speaker 11: think is number one in the four a's twenty one
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  Speaker 11: to fourteen good ball game. And they've they've got athletes.
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  Speaker 11: You know, they got speed. You know, that's probably the
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  Speaker 11: biggest adjustment we're gonna have to make. You know, once
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  Speaker 11: the game starts, gause you it's hard to practice against
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 11: speed if you don't have it to practice against. But
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  Speaker 11: that's apt to us before we've played teams on the
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  Speaker 11: road at other places, at home, whatever, and especially in
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 11: the playoffs, they had a lot of speed and it
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 11: took a little while to figure that out. You know,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 11: they run the wing tea like we do. We do
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 11: some things the same, we do some things differently. But
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 11: you know, they're gonna get after it. There's things they
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 11: want to do. They want to run the ball first
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 11: like us. They can't throw it. And they've got a quarterbacks,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 11: pretty dynamic player with his legs and arm, and then
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  Speaker 11: they got a pretty big receiver, you know, but so
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  Speaker 11: do we, and.
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  Speaker 8: So yeah, I just you know, I just we're excited
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  Speaker 8: about the opportunity.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I don't think we're gonna face, you know,
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 11: anybody better than them all year long. And so it's
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 11: a good chance for us to go out and play
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 11: somebody in a non league situation, but kind of find
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 11: out where we're at and and hopefully point out some
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 11: things we've got to work on and show us some
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  Speaker 11: things we did well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, i'd bring up the forecast here and Saturday
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  Speaker 3: it says PM showers if it rains a little earlier,
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  Speaker 3: do you I mean, it's hard to say.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, you're playing on a grass field. It's possible that
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  Speaker 2: those kids have never.
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  Speaker 3: Played on grass, or maybe they did on Saturday mornings
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 3: in pee wee football.
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  Speaker 2: Is that is that something that could.
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  Speaker 3: Neutralize their speed or do you look at it like
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 3: that at all? Or is just hey, we're playing on
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  Speaker 3: the same field.
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  Speaker 2: We're just gonna play football.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we're just gonna play football.
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  Speaker 11: I mean obviously, you know, you might be able a
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  Speaker 11: little faster on church, but our grass is not eight
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 11: inches tall, so I mean you can still get down there,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 11: you know. So yeah, I mean for us, it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 11: you know, we're excited what kids are really they are.
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  Speaker 8: We're excited about this opportunity.
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  Speaker 11: You know, quality program like this has been around, I mean,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 11: top ranked team in the three a's and throughout the state.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 11: They in the top five, you know, and they can
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 11: be able to come to our place and host that game.
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  Speaker 8: So you know, we just want to be we only
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 8: go out there and see what were out there.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 11: So if it rains, I don't think it changes too
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 11: much because I mean, both teams want to run the
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 11: ball first anyway. So you know you said about blinking,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 11: you know, and coming to Deman, you gotta be careful
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 11: because if both teams are doing that, this game might
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 11: only last about an hour and five minutes.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: That's absolutely true.
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  Speaker 3: Two teams that know how to run the ball, know
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 3: how to keep the ball, know how to play penalty free,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: so it could go really really fast. Absolutely, and then
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: if it gets done a time you go watch the
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: Apple Cups. So yeah, I'm excited, coach. I am so
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  Speaker 3: pumped for this. And I know a lot of other
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: you know, coaches around the county are excited to wrap
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: up their you know, game film session of watching it
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: with the other coaches then heading out and watching this.
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 3: So it's a really cool deal only game in town.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: I love that it was able to be you know
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 3: I I love that it was able to happen. So
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 3: best of luck against Bellevue on Saturday, coach. I'll be
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 3: out there, and thank you so much for joining me
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: on Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 8: Coach Tyler anytime.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I had a few requilts, so are guest coaching
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 11: list might be long.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 8: We might have more full coaches in the explicit on
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 8: the sideline, but no, it'll be fun. She'ld be fun.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 11: And like I said, you know, we're gonna go battle
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 11: and well and well, whatever happens, we'll take that we'll
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 11: move forward, but we're excited about this opportunity.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 8: So appreciate your coverage, appreciate you being there. I look
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 8: forward to seeing you on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Coach Yep, it's gonna be a great atmosphere in
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 3: downtown Deming on Saturday afternoon. I can't wait for that one.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna try to buzz out there. I know Mikayla
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: will be out there. There's gonna be a lot of
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: people are gonna be out there. It's gonna be pretty cool,
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 3: very very fun, very you know, we've been talking about
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: that for as Coach lep said, since early August, and yeah,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: it's exciting, so.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: Very very cool. That wraps it up.
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 3: I hope you've enjoyed the Gatorade Game Day Football preview
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: for Week three, and I just want to thank all
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: the coaches that made time out of their busy day
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 3: to join me here and I can't wait to do
• 1:29:54
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• 1:29:56
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• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: so three hundred and sixty eight of the Walking Preps podcast.
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• 1:30:09
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