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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 179 - Sehome Mariners Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Seahome senior Braddick Duckworth and you're listening to the Sea Home football preview
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on the Walcome Preps Podcast with Tyler and Rylan Go Mariners. Greetings, and
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welcome into the WACOM Preps podcast. You're listening to the twenty twenty three Seahome
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A Mariners preview. I'm Rylan Spencer along with me as always is Tyler Anderson
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of all Wacome Preps. Tyler, how are we doing? Doing great?
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You know I love this time of year. I swear it was the previews
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that really got me excited about high school football as a as a kid,
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and so to be able to do these, it's a lot of fun,
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and to do them better than anybody's ever done them, be far I try.
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Hey, this is the first of ten team previews as we get ready
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for the upcoming season. Later today, the twenty sixth, we'll be talking
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about the Bellingham BayHawks, with the two Linden schools set for tomorrow at the
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twenty seventh. We've got them all. They're all coming up with It's go
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time, Tyler. We are right as we get in here to see home.
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We would like to thank Braddock Duckworth for the intro. Duckworth a young
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man that we've been talking about for what, Tyler, fifteen twenty years at
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least. Now it seems like, yeah, well, I mean in week
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one is sophomore year, he had a huge game over one hundred yards receiving,
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and it kind of seems like right away he was on the spotlight and
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we've just been talking about him ever since. So really really cool for him
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to do the do the intro for us, and and excited to see him
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for a senior year. Yeah, his freshman season Squalicomb wasn't even a school
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yet. Did you know that? Hi? Yeah, it's right, It
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was so long ago. And actually in three weeks he's actually going to be
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retiring from work. Yeah, good for him. Gold watching everything. Yeah,
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I love it. This is uh. I think I think people are
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going to be surprised by Braddock Duckworth this year. I think he's gonna he's
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gonna really knock some heads. Let's say that. How about that? Yeah,
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he's a stut. Yeah, so we've got all kinds of team previous
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coming up here. Tyler. You were out there see Home was see Home
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was the first stop on your on your quest this year. Huh. It
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was. I went out there Friday morning, that last practice before they get
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allowed to put on pads and and it's always interesting and it's morning practices are
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kind of nice. It's just kind of fresh air. It was still fresh
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air at that time before the smoke kind of rolled in and and it was
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a lot of excitement out there. I love their I love their practice facility.
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It's beautiful. They played their home games there during the COVID year,
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and you know, it was just a lot of you know, positivity,
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a lot of excitement there, you know, fast paced moving position groups,
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uh, you know, coaches clapping and just it was cool. It was
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great, and it's always fun to get out there. And it's always interesting
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what's gonna happen at my first stop because I'm like, man, I'm kind
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of getting back into the swing of things. Did I bring my sharpies?
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Did I bring this? Did I bring this camera? Did I bring you
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know? And I'm always kind of a little you know, frazzled going into
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him. But yeah, they made it great for me, and it was
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it would set the tone for the next few stops. Obviously, first year
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head coach of Brian Young coming over from Squalicum. If you would like to
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hear our zoom interview that we did, you can find that on the podcast
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here, or you can actually watch the Zoom interviewed. But then you gotta
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look at me and Tyler and I guess you know, no offense to b
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why but you gotta look at him too. You can find that Tyler.
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Is it easy? What's the easiest way to find the zoom interview if they
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want to watch or even I mean, I guess if they want to listen,
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they can find it right here on whatever platform it is they use if
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they want to watch it, though, Is it easiest to just maybe find
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it right there on the front page of wacom preps or is there a Facebook
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page or excuse me, a YouTube page that they can go find? Yeah,
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you could go you could go either way. The YouTube is walcom preps
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is the YouTube channel. You can find it there. You could just search
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you know, walcom Preps Brian Young and you'll find it. Or you could
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go to walcom prepps dot com click on the wlcom Preps podcasts and you can
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click on that and it shows every single podcast ever It'll say you scroll down
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to that episode, it'll say Brian Special Interview with Brian Young. You click
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on that, so yeah, either way is uh, either way it will
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work for you if you want to watch it. If they go through the
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website to the podcast, will they find like an embedded YouTube on there?
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Yes? Oh, then just go that way. I don't know why we
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would send them anywhere else. Just go do that. Go do that if
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you want to hear Brian Young talk and me and Tyler make fools of ourselves,
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just go find it that way. The Mariners Civic Stadium is their home
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stadium right there in Uh, what is the name of that? What is
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the name of the street that Civic Stadium is on? I always see it
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when I drive buying it always go it just feels right that I'm on the
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street right now. I can't think it would, oh, well, like
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right off a lakeway kind of, but it's it's I can never remember the
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name of that street that you turned down to get into it, but another
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time. But every time I see it, I'm like, oh, yeah,
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that's the name of the street, Like I knew it as soon as
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I saw it. Yea, And of course you can't remember it now.
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Last season seven and three, coming off a season in twenty twenty one in
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which they went three and six, so improvement. Last year. They were
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a young team, but Tyler Man, they got some big time key losses
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with Tommy Funk, Max Mallow, hab Bellobi Bella, who by the way,
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University of Washington is where he's playing at this next year or guess next
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three or four years, although with the transfer portal he could be at fifteen
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different schools in the next four years. But then also Malachi Swanson, Carson
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Neff, Lucas Ortega, Jackson do I mean some some big time premium names
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here. But we had talked about it all last season, We had talked
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about it for maybe even the last two years, about how not only were
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they young, but they're very talented in the lower classes and or excuse me,
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in the underclasses were class citizens on this football team. They got here,
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No, but they were young, and they were exciting, and they
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were athletic, and this is where they've all kind of got that experience now
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and they're starting to mature. So let's start off with the offense, and
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we're gonna start at quarterback where Nolan right last year we were talking about him
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doing windmill dunks and everything, and we kind of got a little heat for
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it. Tyler, is he going through the legs doing three sixties and stuff?
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Now, what's the deal with Nolan? Right? Oh? Man,
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I wouldn't be surprised, but yeah, that kid is just he he's special,
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right, I mean his abilities, he's built well, he's a smart
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kid, he's a leader, and he can really throw the football. I
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mean it just comes off differently. And he's looking better now than he was
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last year. He looked great last year. Kind of a dual threat guy,
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still just a sophomore, which is hard to believe. Really excited for
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his future. You know, Jacob Kaepernick puts some school passing records pretty out
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far out to reach to get with his three years as a starter. But
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but if no one right just keeps progressing, he could he could look at
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those career numbers and even maybe some season numbers and get them because he's he
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just does all the things well and they're the things that we talked about last
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year. Two that really surprised me was like, it's like noticing that a
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play broke down on a running play and he's dropping back and he notices,
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you know, lineman or downfield, so he knows he can't throw it,
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so he starts to run with it, knowing that that would get to be
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a flag if he didn't. You know, his touchdown run with no time
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left going in halftime, knowing that he had to score because if he doesn't,
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the clock is out. Like little things like that, the knowledge of
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the game. Uh really it doesn't surprise me, but it really stands out,
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I should say, and really excited to see what he does this year.
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Last year he threw for twelve hundred and five yards, thirteen touchdowns,
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just four interceptions. Now obviously they were very much watch a run heavy squad,
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but just four interceptions as a freshman. I don't care if you're only
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throwing the ball, you know, five times a game. I mean if
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because if you are throwing five times a game, it means that you're really
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not confident in your quarterback. But four interceptions over a what they have a
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ten game season, Yeah, seven and three, So I mean that's that's
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really really good. Now, Tyler. The interesting thing is No. One
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right is also the leading rusher coming back for the Mariners. Now, he
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only had one hundred and ninety one yards, but overall. The next three
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guys on the list here Andre Watson thirty yards, Fisher Hall twenty four yards,
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Solomon McAlister seventeen yards, and then somehow the kicker Grady Evans had one
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attempt for zero yards. So hopefully they're not relying on his average this coming
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season. But Tyler, they I mean, Tommy Funk was a man in
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the backfield and Carson Neft did some things as well, But Tyler, they
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have basically, I mean, what are we looking at it? But not
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even three hundred yards rushing coming back? Yeah, I mean, and we've
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seen that before and there's always guys coming and that can do a lot.
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And you're right, Tommy Funk and carsonef just they just got the bulk of
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the carries. That's really what it boiled down to. There is some talent
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behind there that will be featured now. I think Solomon McAlister is a very
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athletic kid that you know, he scored a touchdown against Blaine late in that
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game last year. He can make some things happen. He's not he's not
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the biggest back, but he's pretty quick. Uh. Xavier Parent transferred from
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Ridion. He's a five eight hundred and eighty five pounds sophomore. And you
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know, his uncle, Ash parn was the first two thousand yard rusher in
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Wacom County history. That was back in the mid nineties. And and and
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Fisher Hallow's back, like you mentioned, And so they have some guys that
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can carry the ball. I really think, you know with that, you
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know, with the skill set that they have, you know, throwing might
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be the first option, but you gotta keep defenses honest, because if you
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just keep throwing it. You know, the Northwest Conference is loaded with great
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coaching and so they know how to defend against that. So you have to
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be able to run the ball too. And I think McCalister and parent are
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going to be kind of those first two guys that are going to get the
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shot to run. And like you said as well, Nolan Wright is a
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threat to carry the ball. You know, he's got great speed, he's
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got a great spin move, quickness, agility, all that stuff. So
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he'll definitely be a threat back there and run the ball. Now, Tyler,
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the interesting thing is we got more guys returning that had rushing attempts than
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we do guys that had receptions. But there's a lot more yards. We're
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talking over a thousand yards returning. So last year Nolan right through for twelve
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oh five and we've got what almost eleven hundred returning or maybe what would that
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be, little over a thousand between Andre Watson and Braddick Duckworth. I mean,
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when you talk about returning receivers, these are two of the best in
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the county. Yeah, and it's gonna be a little different because last year,
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like you said, they were very run heavy and they lined they lined
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up like that. I mean you saw Andre Watson sometimes at wing back,
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you know, running wing wing t type stuff, so and they had Braddock
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Duckworth split out. It's gonna be a little different now. I think it's
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gonna be more receivers. In the formation. You could see Braddock Duckworth at
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a tight end most of the time, even a traditional tight end. You
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could see like a bunch formation trips bunch with Braddock Duckworth kind of standing up
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front there and then you know, you could the little guys can hide behind
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him and then run or you know, whatever kind of route and just kind
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of confuse the defense. But I definitely expect Watson and Duckworth to put up
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big numbers again. Watson's just he's just a difference maker. He can go
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up and get the ball with better than anybody. He's got tremendous hands.
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You know, he added to his speed during the track season, so he's
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doing all the things right to get noticed and be a major playmaker. Braddock
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Duckworth is a mismatch problem. He has been since he was a sophomore,
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so he can continue that. He's tough too. He loves to you know,
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he loves he loves the contact. So I think putting him in him
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as a tight end at six six, two hundred pounds now I think is
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you know, can really help even in the run game. And they have
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some guys that are gonna be coming up. Theo Quiggles, a sixty three,
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one hundred and seventy pounds sophomore that has has impressed Kolby Chambers, who
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would be loved on defense last year. I think getting him the ball on
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offense and some kind of unique situations is can only be a be a plus.
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There's Jacob Henderson's a five nine, one hundred and forty five pounds junior,
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and Hudson Neff Carson's little brother is a sophomore about five eight hundred and
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fifty pounds. He's a smaller kid, but I mean he's he's fearless.
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You know, he'll catch anything, go across the middle, you know,
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do those kinds of things. And so you have to have those guys.
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I mean, if you put you know, if you if they're gonna on
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a double team, these these big name guys, then you have to rely
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on those other guys in one on one situations. And and Nolan Wright has
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been thrown at these guys for a while, so he knows what they can
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do. And you know, I'm talking like little League, Junior high stuff
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like that. So I think that I think that it's not just gonna be
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a you know, a one or two man show in the receiving game.
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He's gonna have weapons and it's gonna be a lot of fun to see.
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Yeah, it's gonna be pretty interesting. I mean Braddick Duckworth, he's one
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of those guys you know, you typically don't see it out of a you
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know, a receiving threat that is like a first off the bus guy.
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Yeah, right, but you can't want that, like like that's the type
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of guy you almost want him first off the bus because it's like, all
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right, that's a pretty big dude right there, Like alright, alright,
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uh Tyler, speaking of some big dudes, let's talk about in the trenches.
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A couple of names, I know, but as a whole, you
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know, they've replaced some pretty big names over the last few years. Who
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were the guys were looking at inside. Let's start with the offensive line.
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How about that? Yeah, the offensive line. You know, the two
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big returners. Baxter Arps at tackle. He's a senior six four, two
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hundred and forty pounds. You know, he got some good playing time last
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year and did did really well. He's getting better, he's getting just more
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refined. Uh. Col Terrell, who was just a stud started as a
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freshman last year at guard, was in the running for Freshman of the Year.
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And I think that his his you know, improvement over a year.
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He's gonna turn out to be the guy on the offensive line as a guard,
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just a sophomore. I think he's, you know, that's gonna be
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a main guy if they want to get that running game going. I think
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he's gonna be a big, big part of it. And then after that
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they're they're gonna they might look pretty young. There's a Trey Trey Boyd has
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come out and he hasn't played in a little while. He's as he could
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play offensive tackle. He's pretty tall kid. Uh. Finn greg Wire is
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a five eleven, two hundred and five pounds sophomore that they might rely on
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quite a bit as a guard. You know Colin Huntley, we remember Hayden
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Huntley's Colin Huntley little brother. He's can play center. There's another six four,
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two hundred and thirty five pounds sophomore named Miles Gifford Hunter State Hunter Stanton
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Sorry is about the same size six three another sophomore. Uh, these are
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all guys that could fill in. But if they're young, I mean there's
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gonna be a lot of sophomores and and which you know, you kind of
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take your lumps now, but it's just really build for the future. The
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good thing is they have like seven or eight guys that they're looking at,
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which is a huge deal. You know, by the time the season comes
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up, I think they'll have their five that they're decided on. And and
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but you know, leaning on BackStar ups and Cole Terrell will be a big,
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big deal. Especially early on in the season, big big deal,
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like big yeah, like multiple bigs like yeah, Tyler. When we start
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talking about the defensive line, all right, I mean there's some guys.
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I'm just looking over the stats here of guys that are returning. I don't
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see a lot of tackles for loss. I don't see a lot of sacks
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as a matter of fact, matter of sacked. Yeah. Uh. Andre
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Watson even comes in with point five sacks returning. Who are some of the
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guys up front. Who are the big bodies that are gonna be stuff in
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that run doing the uh the old sack dance with the you know, the
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belly roll that Brandon Mebaney used to do. Who are the guys were talking
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about on that side? Oh? Man, if someone did that, that'd
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be awesome. Yeah, I would be a fan. Hey, they would
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instantly go top five, in the top one hundred. I'm just saying,
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yeah, uh yeah, it's a lot of the same guys, you know,
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but I think they really want to have a rotation of six to nine
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guys in that three man front, and and by be able to do that,
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you know, you want to keep your five offensive line as fresh as
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possible. But you know, if it comes down to a you know,
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a must like a fourth and one situation, you could see those BackStar Arps
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and cold Terrell's of the world get in there. Another guy that I didn't
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mention on the offensive line but could see some some stuff on the defensive line
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is another sophomore holding Bernard. Who's who's uh, who's built like yours?
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Truly about five five, one hundred and eighty pounds. But but you know,
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sometimes getting those those smaller guys, those slanting guys that just cause havoc
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inside uh, can free up a lot of things for the linebackers in the
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secondary to clean up. So but yeah, I could see Finn greg Wire
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again, Colin Huntley, Uh, those those types of guys, you know,
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just keep rotating, staying fresh and get the ball back for the dynamic
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offense. Yeah, you know Tyler, guys like who'd you say the young
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man? Was it a little shorter? Yeah, Holden Bernard. See guys
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like that or what makes high school football is so great because that size that's
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not college football, that's not the NFL. Like you don't go to the
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NFL and see an offensive or a defensive lineman and their stuff on the run
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at five foot eight, you know what I mean, Like that just doesn't
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happen. High school football is just the absolute best. My other thing,
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what is it with Wacombe County and the name finn There's a lot of dudes
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named finn in Walcomb County. I don't know why. I think it's a
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great name. Yeah, it's been, it's been. It's been floating around
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the last few years, hasn't it. I mean yes, yeah, I
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mean wasn't there two of them at Bellingham at one point? Yeah? It
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just keeps, it just keeps resurfacing, and and it's got for what like
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Finnegan, there's Finnigan, there's Phineas. Yeah, I love him. That's
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a great name. Like yeah, like that's the name you have to stop
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and think about when somebody like, what finn That's kind of a cool name.
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Oh yeah, let's talk about now. Tyler Seaholmes always had some real
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good linebackers, real good linebacker play. Who are the names this year?
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I mean Tommy Funk right, he was that he was. I mean Tommy
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Funk was like a Brian urlock Er ray Lewis Higher. I mean, he
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was just mean nasty. Loved everything about the kid. Who are the guys
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this year in that linebacking corps? Yeah, you're absolutely right about Funk.
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I mean coming off the edge was was was pretty nasty. You could mark
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him down for three tackles for loss of every game. It seemed like this
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is gonna be this is gonna be the toughest one to replace, I think,
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And you're right. They just have always had so many guys on the
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inside coming off the edge. I could see, you know, Xavier parent
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Fisher Hall, those types of guys on the inside. I could see Braddick
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Duckworth, who replaced Tommy Funks during when when he was a sophomore h and
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played the rest of your outside linebacker. He played safety last year, but
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I could see him coming back to play some outside linebacker and and just kind
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of be like a like a hybrid kind of line up wherever you want,
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like a Troy Paulamalu type thing. And being six six and as and athletic
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as he is, you know, sometimes go off with quarterback. Sometimes just
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just spy the quarterback maybe, or just be in the middle of his own
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or you just don't know where he's where he's going to be I think that
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would be a really beneficial thing for the Sea Home defense. I think Cooper
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mccatee is another kid that he got a little bit of playing time last year.
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He could be an inside linebacker or outside linebacker. I really really like
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his game. He did some good things on special teams last year. He's
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a five eleven hundred and seventy five pound junior. I think that a lot
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more could be put on his play and he will get the job done.
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So there are there are some guys, but you know, every single year,
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that's one of the most exciting things that go out there in Week one
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and then I'm completely blown away with something I'm not expecting. And so that
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could happen at the Sea Home linebacker spots. You just never know. You
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know, it's it's gonna be a fun season. Yeah, I mean Breddick
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Duckworth, like he's like Harold Carmichael on offense and uh Ted Hendricks on defense.
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Yeah, Ted Hendricks exactly, Ted Hendrick or or if he plays you
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know DB's Brandon Browner, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
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just unbelievable. Like, man, he's just so athletic. He can do
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so many different things, Harold Carmichael and Ted Hendricks Like, if you're under
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sixty, you're like, who's that? Yeah? Yeah, how do these
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young bucks know who those who those guys are? What about it? What
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about in the secondary Tyler? I heard a little bit of a rumor that
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there might be a name returning here. Huh yeah, this is this is
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they. I mean, this is their strength. To me, if you
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were if I said, like any any position category for Sea Home, I
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would say the secon Darry is just loaded. And you're right. I mean,
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I you know, a little tweetie bird kind of got in the air
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here. Well, you know, I've been hearing it from about five or
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six different people, and as far as I know, it's true. Alden
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Jacobs, who was was an amazing sophomore a few years ago. Uh ballhawk
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had three interceptions could return him. He was getting better as the season war
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on. Uh. He didn't play at Sea Home last year. He moved
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to California played volleyball. I heard he's back, and you know, by
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judging by the you know, pictures on Instagram, he is really put together.
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And I don't know where they want to put him, but it doesn't
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matter. I mean, if you put him as like a strong safety,
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you put him a corner, he will he will make plays. Uh.
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Colby Chambers last year, you know he's led Walking County and passes defended.
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He's a great, great player too, underrated guy. Uh. You could
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stick him at the corner and keep him there and he's great. Grady Evans
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who kicked last year, I think he's gonna get a lot of run at
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corner. I think he's I think he's really dynamic there. And Andre Watson
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obviously he had seven picks last year to lead Walker County, return two of
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him for touchdowns. I could see him then moving him to like a free
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safety and just kind of just just playing the ball like he like he's returning
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a punt almost or just going and getting it and just watching the quarterback's eyes.
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You know, because if you bring Jacob's back and you already have Chambers
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and Grady Evans guys like that, you're loaded at corner. You could put
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Watson at safety and he could go over the top and just you know,
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and he'll he'll make a play too in the in the run game. But
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but man, if you want to throw against him, that would be tough,
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and then you got guys like Carter Duckworth. Yeah, that's right.
22:45
Another Duckworth coming a six four, six four eighty five pounds sophomore who started
22:52
the final game of the year at safety, so he can he can play
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some strong safety. Theo Quiggle who we talked about, the six three sophomore.
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So they guy some size back there, some athleticism you see Hudson Neff
23:03
maybe. So it's a it's a it's a it's a really dynamic sophomore class.
23:07
It's a young team overall, but man, this secondary is just loaded
23:11
with all conference type of talent up and down all over the place. When
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we talk about well you you kind of mentioned Grady Evans when we talk about
23:19
special teams, Tyler, I mean, let me put it to you this
23:22
way. We know who's returning some kicks and some punts for them, because
23:26
Andre Watson's as good as anybody. What about the kicking game, Grady Evans
23:32
is back. He had a good one punting. I know Andre Watson did
23:34
some of that last year, right, well, well he returned punts,
23:37
but Nolan right punched excuse me not to write, is who I was thinking
23:40
about as the punter. Now, yeah, when they did that, was
23:42
it a true punt formation or was it like the quarterback takes a couple steps
23:45
back and then just hammers it. It was kind of fifty fifty okay.
23:49
You know he would do both. And he because he was already lined up
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at quarterback. I mean, you can't really do that little job when it's
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like fourth and thirteen. You know you're not gonna surprise anybody. But but
24:00
he could. He could roll out and kind of do like the rugby kick.
24:03
He punts left footed because you know why why not. He's he's talented
24:07
enough to say, oh County, I mean yeah, nobody right, Uh,
24:12
So he could do some of that. Grady Evans could get You could
24:15
see him punting too, like a as a traditional punter. So you kind
24:21
of have both ways that you could go. He didn't punt last year,
24:23
but he could. And uh but Evans as a kicker, I think I
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think he was. He was one of the better ones in Walking County.
24:30
Yeah, there were some great, great ones, uh but that have graduated,
24:34
but he kind of steps into that role as one of the better ones
24:37
down Walking County had a couple of field goals thirty extra points. I mean,
24:41
he you know, he can get the job done. I think that
24:44
with that explosive offense too, he'll be on the ready. You know,
24:48
he was a backup quarterback last year too, so uh so, and now
24:52
he's gonna play more wide receiver on offense, you know, get some run
24:56
in that way. But I think he's gonna play more defense than then people
25:00
expect. But as a kicker, he's one of the he's one of the
25:04
better ones and just kind of rounds out that team. That that and he's
25:08
young too, He's just a junior. So it is a it is a
25:11
very young squad, but an exciting one. Yeah. Well, and oddly
25:15
enough, even though they're young, they have experience. I mean, yeah,
25:18
you typically don't say that when you're Normally when you're saying young team,
25:22
young team, young team, it's like, hey, you're setting them up
25:26
for a three and seven season because they are so young. But that means
25:30
that in the next couple of years they're probably gonna be really good. No,
25:33
these guys have experienced. These guys are a lot of these guys.
25:37
I mean pretty much every name you threw out there Tyler played last year.
25:41
Other than like all the you know what I mean, like they all did,
25:45
and so that's it's it's gonna be really I think it's gonna be fun
25:48
to watch. I really do. I think this team is going to be
25:51
exciting. When you look over the schedule from last year, Tyler, they
25:53
started out three and one essentially, but they had a couple of hiccups here
25:59
or there, and all of a sudden, they win four games at the
26:02
end of the season over Archbishop Murphy, Squalicum Lakewood and then in a Week
26:06
ten crossover against Cascade of Everett, and you know, they started building some
26:11
momentum and you build that confidence and then you know, new new coaching staff
26:15
comes in. You're talking about them being exciting and running around, clap and
26:18
high five. I mean, it sounds like it's a you know, kind
26:22
of the world's largest outdoor cocktail party or whatever they call that game, you
26:26
know what I mean. It sounds like they're having fun out there. And
26:27
I'll tell you what. You start leading into the season and you know,
26:30
just looking over the schedule, it's it's a straight flip from last year,
26:33
starting off with Mount Baker, you know, coming later this week, and
26:38
I'll tell you what there's you look at it here. Sedro Wooley, we
26:41
know they should be very good. They returned some really nice pieces. Linden's
26:45
gonna be Linden anacortis Is. I mean Linden and Anacortis and Sedro Wooley.
26:51
It's very possible all three teams could be in the top five to start the
26:53
season. In two way. I mean, it's a it's an absolute gauntlet.
26:57
And then you know Squalicum we always you know that they're always they're not
27:02
a pushover ever, Squally cumb and Lakewood who knows new head coach, you
27:07
know, always a good program down there. Archbishop Murphy, new head coach.
27:11
They went winless last year, but a new head coach, Burlington Edison
27:15
a new head coach, but they returned a quarterback and a couple of skill
27:18
guys and some nice pieces on the line. I mean, this is really
27:22
setting up for an interesting twenty twenty three season. When you look over the
27:26
schedule, Tyler, what are your thoughts, what are some games you're looking
27:30
at going this is one Tyler Anderson's at this game right here. Well,
27:34
the first one that jumps out is that Week one game at Mount Baker I'd
27:37
love when they cross over and play the one A schools. And last year's
27:41
game was really really tight. One this time it's just it's such I don't
27:47
know, I don't know how to put it. It's so night not night
27:49
and day. But they're yin and yang of the two teams, right,
27:52
you got to you got kind of a brand new squad with all new coaches,
27:56
and you know you're gonna put the ball in the air and all this
27:59
stuff against against the you know, the rugged mountain men, and you know,
28:03
these coaches have been out there for thirty years and and you know what
28:07
I mean, like it's it's just come and they want to run the ball.
28:11
It's it's totally like just different ways of playing football against each other.
28:18
And that's just gonna be. And it's always weird in week one two kind
28:21
of how things are gonna look. And you know, and when you look
28:25
when I look at the games, you know they Linden and an Acordis.
28:30
Last year they only lost to those two teams by combined eight points. Wow,
28:33
you know, and and then you know, so it's like they were
28:37
right there all year last year and I think that you know, that first
28:42
league game at Siedro is gonna be a great one. I you know,
28:47
I don't follow the sketch teams as much, but I mean, I know
28:49
who Carston Reynolds is, you know, and so it's kind of like,
28:55
and you know, they didn't get to get on the field last year,
28:56
so I think this is that one's gonna be one where that's gonna be a
29:00
really really good one to watch. And man, it's just it's such an
29:06
exciting time because you just don't know and you can't wait till you get on
29:10
the field and play. And I know everybody listening to this is still in
29:11
the same way. So but yeah, there's some there's some great games that
29:15
I'm excited to see and and and I love when they play a Thursday game.
29:21
They're playing Thursday against Blaine, so it's like Thursday, man, only
29:23
only game in town. I'm there, you know what I mean. So
29:26
yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be a lot of fun. And I'm
29:30
just excited. Man, I'm excited to get the season going. The Thursday
29:33
games are kind of fun because it's like it is exactly what you said,
29:37
the only game in town, you know what I mean? And I know,
29:40
you especially love it because you know you're walking around pregame or whatever you
29:44
know, or you know, post game or whatever, and all of a
29:45
sudden you run into guys from other schools because pretty much everybody shows up on
29:48
Thursday night. I mean, yeah, guys from you know, I think
29:52
you've said it before. There was guys from Lynden, and you know,
29:55
guys from Ferndale, guys from different schools at some of these random Thursday games
29:57
or you know whatever it is. But Tyler, before we get out of
30:02
here, one of the things you like to put on your preview, here's
30:04
the thing, who will be Seaholmes breakout player. One of the things that's
30:08
crazy to me is as we go through the top one hundred or the kind
30:12
of like the end of the season recap on stuff, it seems as though
30:17
you do a really good job of figuring out who the breakout player is going
30:19
to be. Now that being said, a breakout player a lot of times,
30:23
and I think in this case people know the name, but they just
30:27
kind of know the name. They don't read maybe not a tough Coulterrell is
30:32
who you're looking at. Here is Seahomes breakout players sophomore guard defensive lineman Tyler.
30:37
This is a guy that I wouldn't say he's a household name by any
30:41
stretch of the imagination, but you feel like maybe this year he could become
30:44
that guy. Yeah. I think he's gonna have a huge progression. He's
30:47
gotten bigger, he's gotten stronger, you know, two hundred and thirty five
30:51
pounds now. I think he played it maybe two ten last year. And
30:56
he he just looks great and really quick feet, good athlete. I am
31:02
so excited to see what he does. He could be like, you know,
31:06
an All Conference first team kind of guy, which a lot of sophomores
31:10
don't do, and he has the ability to do that. I'm really really
31:14
excited, and I'm really excited to see what he does on defense. He
31:15
didn't get down on defense last year, was just purely played guard, and
31:22
I think that he could be that anchor on the defensive line too. I
31:26
know they're going to be rotating a lot of guys, but I think he's
31:27
going to be that main guy. And you know, he's gonna have some
31:30
key stops during the season, and the future is so bright for him,
31:36
and I think that this is the year that he really breaks out and and
31:40
surprises a lot of people, especially around the conference. I think people within
31:44
the seal On program are expecting big things, so it won't be a surprise
31:47
for them. But he's he's a stud and really excited to see where his
31:52
future leads, especially if he keeps getting taller and bigger. And it's uh,
31:56
it's a guy that people are gonna be looking out for for sure.
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Alrighty, Tyler, any last words before we head out? No, I
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don't think so. Just excited. They're very excited. A reminder later today
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