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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 33 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome to the Bothell Football Coaches Show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host Rylan Spencer along with me as always is
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Bothell Cougars Tom Painter.
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  Speaker 2: Coach how are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: Doing well good morning Rylan.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning it's homecoming week here at Bothell High School
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  Speaker 1: and uh You've got a Hawaiian-themed shirt. Coach Fish has
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  Speaker 1: got one. I've got one sitting on my desk over there.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a fun week here at Bothell. It's also
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  Speaker 1: senior night on Friday night. So lots of things going on.
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  Speaker 1: But let's start with the coach's show, which is brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Passion Tequila Family Mexican Restaurant, just a
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  Speaker 1: few blocks north of Pop Keeney Stadium. And open seven
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  Speaker 1: days a week, Passion Tequila is the perfect pre- or
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  Speaker 1: post-game spot for any event at Pop Keeney. Coach, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk about the freshman and JV games. Last week, the
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  Speaker 1: freshman finished off a sweep of Juanita with a 41-27
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  Speaker 1: win at home. We were both out there watching. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was a great kind of back-and-forth game. Lots
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  Speaker 1: of big plays, but I think the thing that was
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  Speaker 1: most fun about it is it's a Wednesday night at
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  Speaker 1: a stadium that only has a small amount of seats
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  Speaker 1: on one side of the field, and the place was
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  Speaker 1: absolutely electric.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I've coached football for many years, and
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  Speaker 3: I saw something I'd never seen. You get up in
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  Speaker 3: the number of years I've coached, and you wonder if
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  Speaker 3: you'll ever do that again. The Bothell Cougar freshman team
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  Speaker 3: had four plays the entire half. We ran four runs.
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  Speaker 3: The first run was, I don't know, you probably have
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  Speaker 3: the stats, 63 yards and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Then they went on a long drive and ate some clock,
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  Speaker 3: and then we got the ball back, and we went
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  Speaker 3: 52 yards on our first play. And then they moved
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  Speaker 3: the ball down the field and took some time off
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  Speaker 3: the clock. And we're in the second quarter now. And
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  Speaker 3: we hand the ball off to our running back. And
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  Speaker 3: he gets face masked after about 10 yards. And so
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  Speaker 3: on the next play, we hand it to him. And
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  Speaker 3: he cuts left, fumbles it, picks up his own fumble,
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  Speaker 3: and races, I don't know, 47 yards or so down
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  Speaker 3: the sideline. And that's it. It's halftime after they get
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  Speaker 3: the ball. And we've run four plays. And I think
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  Speaker 3: we're up 20 to 7. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it. It was kind of funny.
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  Speaker 1: I remember Eric on the sideline, he said something like,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the only way to stop us right now
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  Speaker 1: is to face mask. I mean, it's one of those things, too,
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  Speaker 1: where it was cool because how do you make those runs?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you've got to have holes.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing I thought was kind of funny, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was maybe the first offensive play of the game,
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  Speaker 1: John Clayton gets the ball, runs up through the middle,
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  Speaker 1: runs into his own guy, pushes him out of the way,
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  Speaker 1: and then takes off and houses it from there. I mean, but,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the thing that was cool, too, is every
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  Speaker 1: time there was a big play like that, the sideline
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  Speaker 1: was going absolutely nuts. I love, too, how our varsity
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  Speaker 1: and JV guys will be out there, and they'll be
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  Speaker 1: out there watching, hooting and hollering, running up and down
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  Speaker 1: the sideline, just having so much fun, but yeah, 41-27 win.
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  Speaker 1: It's really cool to see the freshmen, it seems like,
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  Speaker 1: every single week are just getting.
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  Speaker 2: Better and better and better and better, and, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, that's really something that you look for, and almost
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  Speaker 1: something um we come to expect out of coach lago
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  Speaker 1: and his staff coach.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah absolutely they're doing a great job uh you know
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  Speaker 3: the downside to the story i just told is you
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  Speaker 3: know our offensive units got four plays and a half
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  Speaker 3: of football and and you you know you're you're you're
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  Speaker 3: you want you want reps you want them to get
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  Speaker 3: uh drives in you want to do continuity things and
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  Speaker 3: get everybody in and uh Sometimes that's difficult when those
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  Speaker 3: things happen. But, man, you're right. They play with enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 3: There's joy in their hearts when you can see it.
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  Speaker 3: You can just see they like playing football and playing
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  Speaker 3: with each other. And so, as always, that staff's doing
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  Speaker 3: a wonderful job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm going to say, let's see, that would be, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's three straight wins for those guys looking for their
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  Speaker 1: fourth win here. Uh, speaking of four wins in a
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  Speaker 1: row though, let's talk about the JV life. Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: JV Cougs get a 22-20 win, uh, at home over Arlington. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I was at volleyball watching the, uh, watching the girls
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  Speaker 1: get a win over Juanita. You were up there though, coach. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: what'd you see out of that one?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a great football game. You know, well, uh,
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  Speaker 3: two well-matched teams, Arlington comes down and, and, uh, you know, they,
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  Speaker 3: they've got some good athletes and they're coached well, and
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  Speaker 3: it's a, it's a battle and, you know, we're going
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  Speaker 3: back and forth and, uh, The game comes down to
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  Speaker 3: we make more extra points than they do. We've got
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  Speaker 3: a 22-20 lead. They're moving the ball. They've spent all
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  Speaker 3: their timeouts. They run a play and we have great coverage.
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  Speaker 3: The ball's run inside the 10-yard line going in and
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  Speaker 3: we tackle their quarterback with seven seconds left and no timeouts.
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  Speaker 3: They were unable to line it up real quickly and
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  Speaker 3: get off a last play. We escaped there with a
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  Speaker 3: with a great win. And, you know, again, you know, you,
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  Speaker 3: you saw the excitement. Well, you weren't there, but if
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  Speaker 3: you were there, you, you saw our kids run onto
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  Speaker 3: the field, uh, you know, and, and, and celebrate with the,
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  Speaker 3: with the whole defensive unit right there on the 10
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  Speaker 3: yard line. And so fun, fun games. Uh, it's what
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  Speaker 3: sports are all about kids competing and, and learning about life, uh,
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  Speaker 3: through a game. And it's, it's sure fun to witness
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  Speaker 3: last night.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move on and talk about Arlington last Friday night, 44,
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  Speaker 1: three win, um, You know, Coach, before we even get
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  Speaker 1: into the game, I want to talk about just the
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere of Arlington. I think it is one of the
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  Speaker 1: more underrated places to play a football game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: their band is awesome. Their student section was great. It's
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  Speaker 1: a really big home side, and they did a great
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  Speaker 1: job packing it in there.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the things that really stood out to.
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  Speaker 1: Me and, you know, Eddie Soho taking pictures for us,
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  Speaker 1: I saw him last night.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
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  Speaker 1: The sunset that we saw up there on Friday night
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  Speaker 1: and just watching our guys warm up. Half of them
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  Speaker 1: almost couldn't even focus because they were looking at the
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  Speaker 1: sunset too, you know what I mean? You've got to
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  Speaker 1: give a lot of credit to Arlington and the things
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  Speaker 1: that they do up there because I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: just a truly, even though Arlington's become a big place
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  Speaker 1: in terms of town and the amount of people up there,
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  Speaker 1: it's still got that small town, like middle America feel
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny. I'm ashamed to say I
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  Speaker 3: didn't even notice the sunset. But I did notice that
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  Speaker 3: when the gates opened, I don't know how many hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of fans sprinted through the corridor of the stands and
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  Speaker 3: went down into their seats and saved their spots. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, that happens sometimes at Pop Canyon. And so
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  Speaker 3: that's really cool. The stands were full on their side.
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  Speaker 3: Their band is unbelievable. They did a wonderful job before
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  Speaker 3: the game and at halftime. It was homecoming, so, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's longer halftime, and we're kind of peeking out to
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  Speaker 3: see if it's time for us to go out yet,
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  Speaker 3: if we've got a space on the field. And, man,
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  Speaker 3: their band and what they were doing was exciting. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's a good show. It's a great atmosphere
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  Speaker 3: for high school football.
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  Speaker 2: And, yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: It's got that small-town feel. where everybody kind of comes
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  Speaker 3: out because that's the big show in town. So we've
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  Speaker 3: been up there two of the last three years, and
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  Speaker 3: both experiences have been wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, their halftime show was awesome. I asked one of
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  Speaker 1: the band members right before halftime, I asked one of
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  Speaker 1: the band members, I said, hey, what's on the playlist tonight?
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  Speaker 1: And he goes, you're just going to have to wait
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  Speaker 1: and see. And I was like, oh, I'm watching this
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  Speaker 1: halftime show now. This guy's got confidence.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: And they were out there. At one point, most of
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  Speaker 1: the band dropped their instruments and they started doing the
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  Speaker 1: Soldier Boy. I'd never seen anything like it. It was unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: It was really, really cool to see. But let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about the game. 44-3 win.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you go up there, obviously, we go into
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  Speaker 1: any game confident that we can win a football game.
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  Speaker 1: The first half, have you ever seen five takeaways in
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  Speaker 1: a half? I mean, I think that's where we got
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  Speaker 1: to start.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I've coached a long time, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, but, uh, it was,
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  Speaker 3: it was pretty spectacular. And, you know, on the first play,
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  Speaker 3: there's an interception and, and, uh, um, you know, we do, we,
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  Speaker 3: we got one taken away on a, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: pretty close call, but, uh, um, on a, on a
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  Speaker 3: late hit, but man, a great rush that causes our
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  Speaker 3: cue to throw it early and, and we're all over it. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: our defense was, was outstanding. Our offense was outstanding. Um,
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  Speaker 3: You know, we score on the third play. And on
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  Speaker 3: their first play, we get a pick. And we go
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  Speaker 3: down on a 10-play drive and kick a field goal. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we played well. I'm sitting here looking at
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  Speaker 3: our goal boards. And, you know, we got 9 out
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  Speaker 3: of 10 on offense and 9 out of 10 on defense.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a rarity. That's just, you know, difficult to do.
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  Speaker 3: So five different people scored touchdowns. And one kid scored two. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we kicked a field goal in there as well.
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  Speaker 3: And so the defense... you know, pitched a great game.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, we, uh, it was, it was fun.
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  Speaker 3: It was one of those nights where, you know, everything
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  Speaker 3: just is clicking right. And, and the, what you saw
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  Speaker 3: during the week during the preparation and practice and, um,
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  Speaker 3: you know, was displayed on Friday night and, and that's
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  Speaker 3: the key and really proud of our guys.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those things, you know, as you, as
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  Speaker 1: the season goes along, you kind of want to develop
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  Speaker 1: into becoming a really good practice team, if you will, and,
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  Speaker 1: and doing the right things throughout the week. And, You know, Coach,
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  Speaker 1: I guess my question here is when you say something like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, becoming better at practicing or becoming a good
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  Speaker 1: practice team. what kind of things are you looking for?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of things stand out to you that make
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  Speaker 1: that possible?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, you got to have effort. Effort's the
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  Speaker 3: key to everything in football and really life. You know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody loves a person with effort. And so, You know,
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  Speaker 3: it starts there, doing your own individual job. But then
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  Speaker 3: it's focus. You know, it's what period are we on? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we're in, you know, defensive seven on seven. So our
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  Speaker 3: job is to, you know, collaborate with one another, the
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  Speaker 3: schemes that we're going to use to cover their formations
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  Speaker 3: and their sets and their plays and their RPOs and
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  Speaker 3: just watching the defensive staff coordinate, you know, the plan
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  Speaker 3: to take care of those things and watching them, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Pretty good on Tuesday, really good on Thursday. And then
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  Speaker 3: you go into the game and you see it executed
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  Speaker 3: on Friday. And that's kind of what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 3: Our kids are living in the day, not the future.
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  Speaker 3: They don't care about the opponent. It's us. All of
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  Speaker 3: the things that every coach in America wants to see
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  Speaker 3: their kids do, we're starting to see that. So super fun.
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  Speaker 3: And you're seeing the results on Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of those things that just makes it...
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  Speaker 1: you know, obviously we love being a part of everything
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  Speaker 1: as far as football goes, watching film, you know, in
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  Speaker 1: the weight room, all that stuff, but it almost becomes
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  Speaker 1: a lot more fun to go to practice when practices
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  Speaker 1: are that much more fun. And, you know, it takes
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  Speaker 1: buy-in from everybody. And, um, I think you've said it before,
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  Speaker 1: we're still working to get that full buy-in. I don't
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  Speaker 1: even know if we're there yet, but as you start
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  Speaker 1: to get more and more buy-in, it becomes more and
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  Speaker 1: more fun and the results become a 44, three win. Um, Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's a non-league game right in the middle of conference season,
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  Speaker 1: so got conference play left to go here, so that's
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  Speaker 1: almost more important, but always good to get any win,
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  Speaker 1: but a 44-3 win in front of the crowd.
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  Speaker 2: It was really cool.
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  Speaker 1: One thing I got to give a shout-out, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't remember who it was. Did you notice the camo
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  Speaker 1: flag with the Bothell B on.
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  Speaker 2: It up in the stands? Did you notice that? I
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  Speaker 2: did not.
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  Speaker 1: I rarely look up there. I went over and I said,
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  Speaker 1: where did you get that? Oh, we sewed it today.
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  Speaker 1: Our students are out there sewing flags so that they
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  Speaker 1: can have a camo flag on the night that they
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  Speaker 1: all wear camo. And you start talking about buy-in. We
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  Speaker 1: get buy-in from the student section. I mean, that's really
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  Speaker 1: cool to me. That doesn't happen in a lot of places.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't.
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  Speaker 3: Our student body's awesome. There's no question about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're doing a tremendous job. So let's talk Players
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  Speaker 1: of the Week here. The Players of the Week are
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by Steve Breda and Dave Mercer of
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  Speaker 1: Team Breda Real Estate. who have been proud sponsors of
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  Speaker 1: Bothell Athletics since 2004. Visit teambreda.com or give Steve a
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  Speaker 1: call at 206-295-9909. Team Breda, your Bothell real estate experts
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  Speaker 1: since 1977. Steve and Dave also have awesome partners for this.
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  Speaker 1: Each week, the athletes that are named players of the
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  Speaker 1: week will receive a gift card from either Alexis Cafe
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  Speaker 1: or Passion Tequila, two of Bothell's favorite restaurants. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the offensive side of the ball, and this week,
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  Speaker 1: Carlin Gochner gets it. Four catches, 75 yards, and a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Carlin is one of those players that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just a tremendous athlete, but somebody that if you watch
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  Speaker 1: just the plays where he catches the ball, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: If you watch some of the other things that he's
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  Speaker 1: been doing, running off DBs and opening up space for
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  Speaker 1: other guys or blocking downfield, some of the things he's
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  Speaker 1: done that maybe don't get highlighted nearly as much, it's
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  Speaker 1: been exciting watching his growth throughout this season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he's the one who battled some knee injuries.
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  Speaker 3: And it's painful. You know, his job is to sprint,
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  Speaker 3: break down quickly, change direction. And all those are pounding
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  Speaker 3: on your knees. And, you know, with his type of injury,
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  Speaker 3: it was difficult to do those things early. And I
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  Speaker 3: know there was a lot of frustration. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he was sitting out of certain parts of practice because
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  Speaker 3: his knees were hurting. And, you know, I think they've
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  Speaker 3: gotten a little better. And I think he's gotten a
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  Speaker 3: little tougher. And he's just bearing through it. And he's
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  Speaker 3: just going for it. He's played a great game. He's
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  Speaker 3: had a great couple of two and a half, three
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  Speaker 3: weeks now. I'll tell you, all of our receivers are
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  Speaker 3: getting off the ball well. They're blocking downfield well. Football's
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  Speaker 3: a tough thing. There's one football. We've got receivers, tight ends,
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  Speaker 3: and running backs who all are capable and want their touches.
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  Speaker 3: It's difficult to a Please everybody. But we're getting more
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  Speaker 3: and more guys who are just pleased with the we.
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  Speaker 3: And when we get there, we're going to be really tough.
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  Speaker 3: Was it Don James who said, it's amazing what you
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  Speaker 3: can accomplish when nobody cares who gets the credit? Well,
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  Speaker 3: we're getting closer to that. And when we get there,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to be tough. But certainly Carlin's had a
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  Speaker 3: great week. He made some nice catches. He ran a
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  Speaker 3: couple of really great routes to get open. And so
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  Speaker 3: congratulations to him and really all of our receivers for
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  Speaker 3: the job they're doing this year.
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  Speaker 1: On the defensive side of the ball, Parks Eugster. It
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  Speaker 1: seems like every week we talk about somebody on the
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  Speaker 1: defensive side that maybe didn't even start the season as
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  Speaker 1: a starter that has stepped up and done some things.
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  Speaker 1: Parks Eugster, just in the first half alone, two interceptions
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  Speaker 1: and a fumble recovery. And he also chipped in with
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  Speaker 1: two tackles along the way. But Parks is a player
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  Speaker 1: that just is doing a lot of really good things
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  Speaker 1: from his safety spot.
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  Speaker 2: At the moment.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, he had an opportunity to get in
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  Speaker 3: and play with an injury to another athlete, and he's
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  Speaker 3: made the most of it. Parks is a, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's heady, he's got this swagger that's perfect, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not cocky, but it's confident, and you watch it
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  Speaker 3: on the baseball field, you see it out there on
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  Speaker 3: the football field, he's in the right spot, his instincts
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  Speaker 3: are incredible, he's got great speed, he flies around to
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  Speaker 3: the football, and he finds it and he goes up
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  Speaker 3: high and he catches it and he's doing a wonderful
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  Speaker 3: job for us. Congratulations to him. But, you know, he'd
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  Speaker 3: probably be the first to tell you that the pass
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  Speaker 3: rush and the other coverages and everything are allowing his
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: opportunities to occur. And so, you know, one of the things,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: it's so fun, we always say that you want to
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: be lucky in life. Luck is, there's two types of luck.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: There's dumb luck and that's just, you know, you don't
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: want that luck. You just got to be hopeful there.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: But then there's the luck where, We say when effort
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: meets opportunity, you get lucky. There was a run up
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: the middle. He's way back at safety, puts his foot
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: in the ground, sprints up there, and right at the end,
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: the ball pops out. Because of his efforts right in
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: front of him, he lands on it. He would tell
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: you he did the least of all of the people
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: in that play, but his effort put him in a
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: position to be lucky. Really proud of him and our
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: defense and all. The kids who keep standing up and saying, okay,
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: we've got to person down, it's my turn to come in.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: And they're all doing wonderful things. Really proud of them.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: It's fun to be a part of this.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: He almost looks like an outfielder out there at times.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Almost like he plays left field in baseball.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: He does.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Yep, absolutely.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Again, thank you to Team Breda Real Estate for their
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: continued support of Bothell Athletics and the Players of the Week.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Let's move on and talk about North Creek. North Creek
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: 5-1 on the season, 2-0 in King Cone North play. uh,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: really the most important part of their record is the
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: two and O part, uh, Bothell six and one all
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: time against North Creek. But, you know, it's been a
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: couple of years since we last played the Jags.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it has. And, you know, um, you know, we'll, uh,
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: we've watched film on them and we'll, we'll, uh, we'll
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: try to figure out what they're doing offensively and defensively,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: but it's really going to come down to, to us again.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: You know, uh, our focus has to be on, on
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: the mistakes we made last week, um, in, in making
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: sure that our, our weaknesses become stronger, um, And there
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: are things to do on both sides of the ball.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: We watched film last night with our team, or yesterday,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: I should say, after school. And as well as we're playing,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: there's still some areas that need to be improved. And
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: that's a good thing. That means we can keep getting better.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: So we'll focus on what we can do and understand
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: their schemes and try to fit them up the best
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: we can. But yeah, it's homecoming. It's been a fun
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: week so far. We're all dressed in our tropical shirts
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: because it's Tropical Tuesday. We've got some players who who
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: asked the coaching staff if we could all wear them
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: because they're doing their own theme week on practice. And so,
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: you know, you've got to love it when kids are
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: having fun and tying in what we do at school
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: onto the field. And it's just fun right now, and
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: we're going to keep, you know, taking it day by day,
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: and we'll try to get better today.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned homecoming, and it's also senior night this week.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess first off, have you ever seen
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: both of those come in the same week?
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: You know, it's different now with the, with the, with
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: the week nine crossover, you got, you got four home games.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: You can't have a certain things early and you can't
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: have a, you know, it just, it's the way it is.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: And so I love it. I think the more adversity
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: that you have to overcome to get to something, the
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: better you'll be in the long run. And so, uh, uh, yep,
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: it's a, it's a fun challenge, but shoot, it's not
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: really a challenge. We'll get down there. We'll, we'll celebrate
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: our seniors before the game. And then we'll, uh, enjoy
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: the longer halftime and we'll go from there.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I love senior night especially. Getting to celebrate our seniors,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: the band, the cheerleaders, the student trainers and just recognizing
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: everybody for all of the hard work that they've done
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: whether it's just one year, whether it's just one game,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: whether it's four years or with some of our guys
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: going back all the way to junior football and it's
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: really cool but it can also be a bit of
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: a distraction you know if you allow it to happen
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: you mentioned the adversity side of things coach so what
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: is the message this week in terms of maybe getting
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: prepared I mean I heard you say something the other
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: day you said hey let's get our homecoming plans out
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: of the way as quickly as possible please so what's Really, though,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: that's just a small part of the message overall.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you've got two things going on this weekend
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: for kids, right? You've got a game and you've got
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: a dance, and there's more to the dance than just
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: showing up. There's dinner and there's flowers maybe, I don't know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: pictures and all of the things that they do now.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: And so what you're trying to help the kid out
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: with is get those things, get your plans done Monday
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: or Tuesday, buy the corsage, get the dinner plans set,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: wear pictures, all that stuff, so that you're not spending
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: Thursday and game day worrying about if you're ready for tomorrow, right?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: So that's the key. And just take care of the
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: things you have to take care of. And we've always
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: done a pretty good job of that. So we'll see
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: how it goes, and I'm confident our kids will be prepared.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Lots of homecoming activities going on, especially for alumni. Check
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: the Bothell I know it's up on Instagram, but you
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: can also check Bothell.HS on Instagram. There's lots of things
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: going on. I know there's an alumni meetup beforehand. If
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: you want to walk down in the parade, I know
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: that they have that going on as well. So check
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the Instagram. I know that we were tagged in it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I think we even made a collaborator, so you can
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: probably find it on ours. But yeah, lots of cool
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: stuff going on this week.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Come on out.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: 7 p.m. is the kickoff, but lots of stuff is
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: going on.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: I believe.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: starting as early as like 5 o'clock up at the school,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: but there's even Cougs in the courtyard this week for
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the students. So lots of stuff going on. Should be
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: an exciting atmosphere down there on Friday night at Popkini. Coach,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: that's all I've got. Thanks for your time. Enjoy homecoming,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: senior night, everything this week, and we'll talk to you
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: next week.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Rylan.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: A quick reminder to the freshmen, they're on the road
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: later tonight, 7 p.m. kickoff at Arlington. Yeah, I mean,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: if you're up the way, maybe stop in.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Other than that, I'm Rylan Spencer. He's Tom Banter.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: You've been listening to episode 33 of the Bothell Football
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Coaches Show. We will talk to you next week. And
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: as always, go Cougs.