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This is Meridian junior Kelly Gray and you're listening to the Top one Under Countdown
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on the Welcome Press podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Trojans, Greetings,
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and welcome into the Wacome Preps podcast. This is episode of two hundred and
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twenty three, the second of ten podcasts in the Top one hundred Countdown.
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I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always is Tyler Anderson. Wa Come Preps.
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Tyler, how we doing doing great? It's always fun to do these
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countdowns, like I've been saying, and uh, we get to continue it
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here with another nineteen spectacular names. Yes, seniors, galore, more and
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more seniors every single time. Well just kidding, it's everybody, it's all
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mixed in, it's all kinds of crazy. We will actually get to our
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first sophomore of the group. And actually it looks like we're gonna talk about
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what do we got here? Three sophomores time, m Yeah, very good
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three of them. So, yeah, we're gonna finally get into that group.
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And yeah, I think the first one went really well. And uh,
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there's some names here. I mean, it's crazy to think that some
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of these guys are in the sixties and seventies, You know what I mean,
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because there's some really good football players in here. But yeah, just
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shows and it's it's not easy, not easy getting in the top fifty,
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not really not easy getting in the top ten. Yeah, Tyler, are
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we finally gonna Yeah, we are, We're gonna. We're gonna even get
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a couple of Ferndale guys. We didn't get any Ferndale guys in the last
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one, but we got some Ferndale. Let's see, do we have one
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from every team in this one? Were talking to everybody? I see him
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Mount Baker, I see him a ridy, and I see a couple of
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LC's. I see Linden, Ferndale, Nooksack, Valley, Blaine, Bellingham.
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There's a Bellingham. How about a sea home, squalacom I see Squalico.
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Seme no, there's a sea home. Yeah. I think we're hitting
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them all. I think so. I think we are. I think we're
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gonna. That's not that's not what I try to do. But when it
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works out, it's great. Well, I mean, it'd be really hard
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for you to try to do that when the fact that we're using nineteen at
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a time, not exactly a round number here. All right, Uh,
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let's see here, Tyler, we've got some things to talk about here.
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We need to give Kelly Gray, Meridian junior linebacker, thank you for the
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intro, which I mean, I guess it kind of gives it away.
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Kelly Gray's in here at some point. I don't think. I don't think
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I'm I'm you know, blowing anybody's mind by that. The Top one hundred
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countdown is sponsored by any Time at Fitness three specific locations here. It's Ferndale,
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Linden and Linden North. Tyler, you and I, you know,
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we're big fans of Anytime Fitness. They've been big fans of what we do.
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H That being said, you and I not exactly screaming fitness, but
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that doesn't mean that the listeners can't write exactly. Yeah, I think yesteryear
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it was a we were pretty fit, but so many yester years ago.
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I'll I haven't been in school for twenty three years now twenty two hours.
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But you know, I thought, Tyler, it's coming up to the first
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of the year, so everybody's got to start getting there, you know,
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their New Year's resolutions. Absolutely, Anytime Fitness there you go Yeah, that's
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the that's the way to go, right there. Tell them what come preps
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sent you. You won't get anything out of it, but you know,
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I don't know. Maybe they'll call us and be like, hey, somebody
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said they you guys send us in here. Yeah. We'll be like,
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oh sure, yeah, awesome. Let's see here a little bit of a
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reminder we've got well, we already had the one hundred down to eighty two
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of the Top one hundred Countdown that was released on Friday, December fifteenth.
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Go back and listen to that one. That would be what would that be,
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Tyler, That would be episode two twenty one. I believe, yes,
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yes, because when this is released, there was already our second episode
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of the Winter Sports wrap Up. So what I'm saying here you need to
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subscribe to the podcast because we've got other things coming up today. We're talking
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eighty one down to sixty three, sixty two down to forty four is gonna
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be Wednesday, December twenty seventh, at three pm. Forty three down to
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twenty five Wednesday, January third, So we're going into the new year.
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Baby, that's gonna be at noon twenty four down to six Tuesday, January
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ninth. That will also be at noon, and then everybody in the top
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five gets their own. They get their own five days in a row.
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And there's gonna be two winter sports wrap ups in there also, So literally
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it's gonna be what I say, Tyler, eight and ten days for podcasts.
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Yeah, it's gonna be crazy. So if you're subscribed, you're gonna
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get notifications almost every day there for a little while. Yeah, Blake Whitman
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is gonna hear so much of our voices. He's gonna think we're friends.
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Yeah, that we're friends with him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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okay, okay, I like you and I are friends. Oh yes,
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yes, yeah. That being said, Tyler, we've got nineteen names
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to talk about here. We're starting at number eighty one. You're ready to
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go over there? Yeah, let's do it, alrighty, number eighty one
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on the top one hundred countdown, six foot two and seventy five pounds,
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wide receiver and corner. He's a junior from the Bellingham BayHawks. It's number
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eight. Blie Henderson. Yeah. I loved what he did at the wide
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receiver spot early on in the year. He was the deep threat early on
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before Wyatt Stefan joined the team, and it was it was like it was
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it was a good gamble to throw it deep to him because he just was
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so athletic, long arms, could jump, could run everything and go.
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He could go get the ball. And then his role kind of changed a
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little bit. He became more of a possessioned guy where he could, you
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know, it's third and five, He'll go six yards, turn around,
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catch the ball, get a first down. Really really dependable that way.
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Did battle. I think it was like a finger injury or something like that,
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kind of in the middle of the year, came back and played.
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It was a really really good corner. I might have even been a better
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corner than he was a wide receiver, which is saying something because he was
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a darn good wide receiver as well. I thought he had a great,
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great year. And he's a kid that I saw last year a little bit.
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He'd come in on defense every once in a while and play safety,
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but he just wasn't quite ready yet for varsity as a sophomore, and this
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year as a junior, even though he didn't return any varsity catches, he
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was kind of the guy that I was looking to to do some good things
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that I had seen before. A lot of these other receivers I hadn't seen
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before, but I knew about him. He had a great year. Twenty
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one catches on the year for three hundred and forty eight yards and a touchdown,
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thirty one tackles, two and a half tackles for loss, three passes
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broken up, and he also intercepted two passes that he returned for seventeen yards.
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He will be the main target in next year's passing game for Bellingham,
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and I think there's no secret about that. He's, like I said,
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extremely athletic. I think that he kind of lends his body type and the
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way that he can move and stuff like that kind of lends itself to the
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next level. If he keeps working hard, because he has the size already,
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If he puts on another ten to fifteen pounds and he gets an inch
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taller, even even though he doesn't have to, that, he starts to
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turn into somebody that a lot of people are going to be looking at.
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So look for him to have another big year next year as well. Tyler,
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do you think he's named after dre BLI I don't know, but I
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you know, he could be because that is the only Bly I know.
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And I remember him with the Rams and University of North Carolina and won a
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Super Bowl Rams. Yeah. Yeah, he was a Pro bowler with the
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with the Lions for a little bit. Yeah, that's right, Like it
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was a heck of a corner, Like, yes, the heck of a
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corner. I think he's coaching in the NFL somewhere now too. Oh nice.
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I don't know Tyler number eighty Steve Largent six foot one, one and
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eighty pounds running back and linebacker, our first sophomore lynn in Lions. Number
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thirty two, Max Austin, who, by the way, six one one
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eighty That is a very big running back as far as Lyndon's concerned. Yeah,
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you're right. Yeah. When you said Steve Largen, I was like,
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Steve Larger wishes he was six to one. Yeah. But uh yeah,
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Max Austin coming into this season, I knew some stuff about him.
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Not a ton played played sparingly as a freshman. You know, in the
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fourth quarter he'd come in and I think he had a carry, and he
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did some stuff on defense. And this year was not in the starting lineup
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up until you know, a few weeks into the season and all of a
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sudden, they just couldn't get him out of games, especially on offense.
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Uh, there was there was one game I can't remember who it was against,
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but he probably had like twenty three carries for you know, one hundred
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over one hundred yards, like one hundred and fifteen yards, and none of
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his carries were in double digit yardage. So but it was like every single
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carry was between four and eight yards. I mean, it was just pound
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pound pound, and and it was He's he's just got a different type of
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gear than what they It's kind of what they were needing. They were they
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had some running backs, but they none of them were really hitting that hole
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as fast as he could. And he was having some big games he'd have
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and then he'd have a game where he'd have like eight carries for one hundred
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and twenty yards and he'd break up some long ones, you know. So
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he's definitely capable of doing all those things and was in the rotation as an
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outside linebacker, but really had a big year as a running back one hundred
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and two carries for six hundred and one yards, four touchdowns. He had
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to catch for eight yards. Now, a defense fifteen and a half tackles,
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one pass broken up and a half a tackle for loss. Our first
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sophomore on the list. Pretty exciting. I mean, if you if you
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play at Lindon and you play a lot as a sophomore, ye, that
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tells me quite a bit. And you know, it's you could see that
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the future is going to be pretty pretty strong for him, and he will
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be leaned upon heavily the next few years. I would imagine, you know,
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it's it's very possible that next year it'll be you know, him and
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Malachai Canan as the running backs, and Malachaiknen will be a sophomore. Max
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Osink will be a junior. So there's a good youth movement coming up right
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now with some strong Lion players. Number seventy nine on the top one hundred
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countdown, six foot one, one hundred and ninety pounds. He's a kicker
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senior from Knoksack Valley. It's number eight Jorgan Vigory. Yeah, it's it's
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hard to make the list if you just kick, yes, and he does,
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that's all he does. There's been guys that have done it, but
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it's really really tough to do. I mean, yeah, Troy Pets made
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the list, but he's doing a lot of other things. He's returning kicks,
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playing offense, playing defense. Now Tyler, would he have made the
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list just as kicker, Yeah, I think he would have. I mean,
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but other than him, it's yeah, few and far between. I
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mean, yeah, there's been a few that were like kickers and punters.
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Yeah, that helps obviously, and maybe you're kick off a little, but
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if they're pounding him in the end zone. Addison Shrock maybe maybe the top
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one. Hot. Yeah, I think he did make I think he was
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like in the nineties, okay, and he and he just kicked and kicked
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off and he didn't punt, So yeah, that's a good that's a good
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Paris in there. Yeah, Marcos Smukovich, I was thinking he I think
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he made it as well. But it is hard, I mean it's really
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hard. And maybe yeah year, yeah, yeah, exactly, maybe maybe
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one a year. And Vigory was head and shoulders the best kicker in Walkin
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County, you know, doubled up on stats on everybody across the board.
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I mean, just a huge, huge year for him. The kickoffs got
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better as the season war on. I think he only missed two extra points
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and then he had a third one blocked out of seventy one attempts, So
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that's that's pretty darn good. Six field goals made. The long was a
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thirty nine yarder that he hit the semi finals in the cold. He did
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have a tackle on the year on a kickoff just by against Mount Baker.
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There was a return that went, you know, about sixty seventy yards and
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he got him Chase well, he got the angle on him and push him
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out of bound. So I'm giving him the tackle on that one, of
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course you are. But yeah, yeah, yeah that counts, man,
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So but yeah, I mean the improvement from junior to senior year was huge.
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You know, he was a good kicker as a junior, but I
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think he was still kind of learning a lot of stuff, and then this
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year was just like, you know, he's the man out there and super
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dependable. So yeah, a great, great year for him. I mean,
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he won that Special Teams Player, the Pets Real Estate Special Teams Player
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of the Week probably four or five times. Yeah, just a just a
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tremendous year and a really cool kid too that I've gotten to know over the
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last couple of years. And and glad he could he could make the list,
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and uh, that's number seventy nine. I mean, there's that's that's
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tough to make. And people always ask, how do you compare this and
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that. I'm like, I don't know. It's just a gut feeling,
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man, and I got a pretty good gut right now. So it's I
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feel like I can I can really come up with these pretty well. Tyler,
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you want to know how to get it? Get away from a really
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good gut? What's that? Anytime? Some time? Fitness? Yeah,
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now, Tyler. That being said, I just realized this might be the
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greatest podcast we're ever going to do. Oh yeah. Not only are we
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at number seventy eight right now, which obviously, as we know, is
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my my football number. Yeah, but we've got three centers on the docket.
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It's like, I mean, I know you don't plan things, but
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Tyler, my goodness, I mean, this is the greatest of all time.
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That being said, Number seventy eight on the top one hundred countdown,
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five eleven, one eighty five running back, linebacker. He's a junior from
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the Squalcomb Storm. It's number five. Malachi Smith. Yeah, a kid
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that as a sophomore late in the year. I think it was like the
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second to last play of the season, had a really bad arm injury,
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second to the last play of the season. Yeah, and so it was
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you know, that was that that was tough to see. I was there
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at Civic Stadium when it happened, and and I was just hoping that,
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you know, he would you know, be okay for this season and he'd
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be ready to go. I didn't know what kind of player he was,
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but because he had a little bit of run as a sophomore, I thought,
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Okay, he's going to be a main guy next year. And and
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then coming into this season, you know, you had all these running backs
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already returning. You had Marcus Nixon, you had DeAndre Dunmore. I didn't
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really know where he'd fit in. When Marcus Nixon got moved to quarterback and
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done Moore, you know, is a mainstay at linebacker. He's not going
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to take all the carries he split him last year with Nixon. That's boom.
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That's right where he fit in. And boy, he gets the hard
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yards. He is he is He's one of those determined runners. Reminded me
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a lot of Tommy Funk. Actually just like at five eleven, which was
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about the size Tommy funk was that he looked a lot bigger when he'd run
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the ball, kind of like Roger Craig, like just will not go down,
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you know, yeah right, Tom Rathman throw him in there too,
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Yeah, yeah, Almond Green, Hey, Grell buck Alter, Laurence Phillips.
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I mean, I could you get me fired up over your time,
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Carl buck Alter. I haven't thought of him, yeah forever? Holy goh,
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hey, Leon Jackson from from Pasco. That's right? Uh. Malachi
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Smith. One of the things I always think about is I laughed because I
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picked him for fantasy. I believe it was against Lakewood. Yeah, and
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he had a touch law, like a sixty yard touchdown run called back,
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so that was you know, twelve points right there. I lost that on
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him. And then he returned a kickoff for a touchdown, which I didn't
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get points for that because it was a kickoff, not a run. But
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yeah, I just need to have their defense or whatever, right, So
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and then on defense, I mean, he was extremely good too. It
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was rare that he came off the field and I just I really enjoyed watching
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him play. And I know that when they needed, like, you know,
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if things were kind of sputtering on offense and it's third and four,
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like they're just like, just give it to Malachi, you know. And
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from everything I've heard, he's an amazing kid and really smart kids. So
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get looking forward to getting to know him more next year and see him continue
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to progress. This year, he had eighty nine carries for four hundred and
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thirty six yards and four touchdowns. He also caught eleven balls for one hundred
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and four yards, so that's another that's a thing that squalling and running backs
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usually do not catch that many passes, but he was a weapon out of
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the backfield. Fifty tackles on the season, two and a half tackles for
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lost, two sacks, four passes broken up, and then he returned twelve
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kickoffs for two hundred and fifty seven yards and a touchdown. So just a
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amazing, well rounded season for the junior Ati Squalkum number seventy seven in the
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top one hundred countdown, six foot three two and thirty pounds left tackle defensive
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line. He's a senior from the Linden Christian Lynx Summer sixty five. Carter
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Sigmund, Yeah, battled injuries throughout the year. Missed the first game of
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the year against Lakeside, and then he missed a game against Meridian, I
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believe. And uh, yeah, he did win Offensive Lineman of the Week
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one week. He won it the week before the uh Meridian game. I
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remember going to the Meridian game and seeing him and without his jersey on a
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pregame and and I kind of put my hands up and he just is like
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he just kind of shrugged and he's like, yeah, I'll be back next
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to me. He's just you know, I'm like okay. And it was
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battling a you know, a leg injury, but uh, but man,
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it's just long, long and lean and strong, sinewy. You know,
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like if he would reach out on defense and grab you like you weren't gonna
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go anywhere. Him and him and Malachi vander may As, those three four
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down defensive ends, they were just almost like mirror images of each other.
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And you couldn't you couldn't pick either way to go. Of course, their
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four linebackers are unreal, so uh, there was talent spread all over the
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field, but with those two guys penetrating on each side, was it was
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tough. I mean, Carter Sigma two has the left tackle he was really
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dependent on to lead a young, an unexperienced offensive line. He was the
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only returner this year on the offensive line, and uh, probably gained about
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twenty pounds of muscle from last year. So all those things put together had
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a really, really good year. So I'm sorry. I'm sorry. On
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defense, thirty seven tackles, two tackles for loss, and two secs.
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My bet. Yeah, Tyler, you're not just an offensive guy over here.
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Yeah, come on, now, let's see here. Number seventy six
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in the top one hundred count down five to eight, one thirty one.
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Is that the lightest player. It's got to be the lightest player on the
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list, right, it has to be. It has to be one thirty
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one. Yeah, wide receiver and corner. It's uh, he's a senior.
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Oh sorry, from Mount Baker High School. Number eight, number eighty
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three, big play tanny and stateon. Yeah, just major speed to burn.
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Uh. If you're one hundred and thirty one pounds, you better be
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fast. Uh that's you know, that's just that's just the way that it
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is. And uh, he he's just you know, one of he's usually
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one of the fastest kids on the field at all times. Uh. You
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know I tell that story about in the state championship game his junior year when
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Edgar dela Rosa just kind of picked him up and threw him on the ground
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like you know, it was just like it was nothing, and because the
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size difference was unreal. But he'll stand up to anybody. He'll play anybody.
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He'll play tough. Uh. They mount Baker traditionally runs like that double
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play action where they you know, they fake dived and they fake the end
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around and then there's a receiver that's running a deep post and they'll just fling
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at fifty yards and that's the Tanyan stateon play, you know, and he
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you know, when he would catch it, there's no one from behind that
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was going to get him. On the season, seventeen catches for three hundred
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and fifty one yards and three touchdowns, So right there, he's averaging over
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twenty yards a catch, twenty nine tackles on the season, three passes defended,
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and an interception. He had fifteen kickoff returns for three hundred and thirty
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eight yards, so you're over twenty yards of kickoff return and seven punt returns
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for fifty three yards as well. He had some long kickoff returns, but
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he didn't get into the end zone with him, which you know, that's
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just the way it goes sometimes. But that was a pick your poison kicking
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against Mount Baker because you got Brady Bruland on one side, who's returned three
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now for touchdowns in his career and he still has a year to go.
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And you got you know, super fast Tanian Staton on the other side,
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and they would just kind of, you know, kind of, well,
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it might just pooch it up the middle and see what happens, kick it
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to an up man, or if you got a guy that can kick it
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deep, go ahead. He also kicked four extra points this year. He
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was kind of more the main kicker last year, and you know, just
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but kind of gave up that role a little bit, does a lot of
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other things and and you know Mount Baker went. I think they had three
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or four different players attempt extra points this season though, So you know,
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it's just just kind of the way that it went this year in the kicking
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department. And you know, I don't know if they want to bring me
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in as a special consultant but no, it's not gonna happen. I couldn't
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teach anything really, but well, I just don't think you really have the
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time to pull it off. I really do not have the time. But
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I've come out for one practice maybe and just work on some things. But
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but Tanya Staton is, like I said, just just super fast and that
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was That's what. That's the big thing that he could bring to the table.
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Big, big play guy too. Like you said, you know he
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he like third and long. That's the guy you want to go to.
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And you know, to be that like I said, to be that size,
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you really got to be something. And he was and rarely get caught
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from the I don't think he ever got caught from behind. But you know,
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just a really good player. Fourteen pounds. Is the next closest guy.
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I won't say who because he's coming up, well not on this one,
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but he's coming up later on down the line. So I don't want
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to don't want to let him know that he made it. Let's see here,
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number seventy five in the top one hundred coundown five foot six, one
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hundred and sixty pounds running back linebacker. He is a junior from the Meridian
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Trojans number twenty six. The young man who gave us the intro Kelly Gray.
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Yeah. I love watching Kelly Gray play football. Last year was there
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was a few moments when he'd get in there, didn't do a ton what
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you know, got exposed a little bit at linebacker at times, and it
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was just because he just hadn't had the reps and you know, you're going
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against Mount Baker and you got to cover Marcus Georgia out of the flat,
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and it's just it's just not what you're used to him practice. And I
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think that you know, the growth that he had. He's a physical kid.
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You read five six, but he's won sixty. I mean he's putting
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together really well. Yeah, as opposed to Kenyon Stayton, who is two
23:23
inches taller but thirty pounds later. Right, Yeah, a little different builds
23:29
there. And what was great about with Kelly Gray at linebacker, playing next
23:32
to Elmer is they're kind of mirror images of each other. You know,
23:37
they can both kind of get behind the defensive tackle. One of them could
23:40
shoot the gap, one of them can go another way. You can never
23:42
it's hard to account for both of them, and you can't see them,
23:45
they're just so they're so short, and that they played to that advantage a
23:49
lot of the time. And as the season wore on, Kelly Gray just
23:55
started mak him play after play after play and didn't get into the rotation as
24:00
much as a running back. You know, last year they really rotated three
24:03
guys like almost every play. Two of the three were always in the game
24:07
and they could be split out a receiver, they could be in the backfield,
24:10
but you always had a new guy kind of coming in. And I
24:14
thought they would do that with Elmer and Downey with Kelly Gray, but they
24:18
kind of stuck with their offense more it would Jager fifth come into the sideline
24:22
and getting the plays. But that allowed Kelly Gray to play so well on
24:26
defense. On the season, he had twenty five carries for one hundred and
24:30
nineteen yards and two touchdowns. He also had a two yard reception. I
24:33
believe he had a two point conversion as well. But on defense sixty two
24:37
and a half tackles, fourteen and a half tackles for loss, and a
24:42
fumble recovery. He also returned three kickoffs for twenty eight yards, but those
24:47
fourteen and a half tackles for lost near the top of the entire county.
24:52
And that really started to happen in the last three or four games. I
24:55
mean, he started getting like two or three of those a game, and
24:57
it became a regular thing over and over and over again. And he it's
25:03
not like a celebration dance or anything, but anytime he'd make a big play,
25:06
he would kind of do this. He kind of pop up in the
25:07
air from the ground and like bring his knees up, and he was just
25:11
super jacked up, you know, and and it just like a mighty mite
25:15
on the field. And is gonna be a big time player next year again,
25:19
And you know he will get a lot more carries next year with Omer
25:23
graduating him and Downy kind of being the main backs, and I think he'll
25:29
be ready for it. He's a good player. Number seventy four on the
25:32
top one hundred countdown, five foot ten, one hundred and eighty pounds wide
25:36
receiver and corner. He's a junior from Lyndon, Christian's number two. Mick
25:41
Owen. Yeah, Mick Owen boy lockdown corner, All Conference, first team
25:47
defensive back. All you know, about halfway through the year, you kind
25:52
of stopped seeing teams even throw that way. It seemed like he just he
25:56
I don't want to say he got he was lost in the shuffle, but
26:00
he was just never got the ball thrown his way. There were a lot
26:03
of games where he wouldn't put up a stat because they just never saw any
26:07
action. Played very little on offense, mostly like in blowout games, although
26:12
he has the ability to definitely do some things on offense. I mean,
26:17
he caught three passes on the year for seventy six yards and two of them
26:21
went for touchdowns. So that tells you that he's you know, he's dynamic
26:25
with the ball in his hands, but they had so many weapons that they
26:27
didn't need him to go both both ways. He probably will next year and
26:32
be pretty darn good at it. But this year on defense, like I
26:37
said he was, he was lockdown over there. Twenty and a half tackles,
26:41
eleven passes broken up, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery, and
26:45
one interception it was a great diving interception that he had seven kickoff returns for
26:49
eighty one yards, returned two punts for thirty two yards. And he's a
26:55
guy that you know him and coach turp had had a bench press contest earlier.
27:02
I think it was something about like I think that coach Turp out benched
27:07
him like in May or June or something like that. So he had a
27:10
shirt made that said, I can bench more than Mick Owen or something like
27:15
that. And then and then all of a sudden, like in August,
27:18
during you know, he went through the summer workouts and everything, and then
27:22
he out benched coach. So he had a shirt made that said, you
27:26
know, I out benched coach Turpster or whatever. And so they had this
27:29
really cool thing going. And and it's just a super humble kid, really
27:33
really quiet state triple jump champion, just very very athletic. And I think
27:40
that his role will become much more. You know, I don't know what
27:45
the word does I'm looking for, but it'll be he'll have a much bigger
27:48
role next season, even though he had a great junior year, Number seventy
27:53
three on the top one hundred countdown that six foot two ninety he's a beautiful
27:59
center and a beautiful defensive tackle. Our second sophomore on this list from Ferndale.
28:04
It's number sixty five. Coulshon Love Valley Yeah, really hard to follow
28:11
Landon Hatchet and especially as a sophomore. Yeah, and and he was awesome.
28:18
I mean, he was awesome. I was blown away by how good
28:23
he was. That was the biggest question I had going into this season was
28:29
their offensive line. You know, you returned Camden Raymond and you graduate,
28:34
you know some dudes and Cooper Harricks injured, and yeah, you bring Kellen
28:41
the fave back who would have started last year. So that helps, but
28:45
you had a lot of other pieces that I just didn't know how it was
28:48
gonna. I was gonna muld together and boy Coulshon in the valley kind of
28:53
secured that line in the middle and played played unreal. Just I think that
29:02
he's gonna improve even more. He's going to be the main part of the
29:06
line for the next two years. He's going to be the focal point.
29:10
Can move really well for two hundred and ninety pounds. You know, got
29:14
in on you know, started on defense as well and taking on a lot
29:18
of you know, double teams and just just filling the gaps in there in
29:22
the middle. Did have nine and a half tackles and he had two tackles
29:26
for loss, but that four to three front. Those two defensive tackles,
29:32
Him and Camden Raymond are just you know, they're just there to kind of
29:34
eat up blocks and stuff like that and let Gandy and Walker and those kind
29:37
of guys make the plays. And he was really good at it. He
29:42
didn't you know, I don't remember him missing any time. Had an awesome
29:47
sophomore year and the future is extremely bright for him. Number seventy two in
29:52
the top one hundred countdown five seven and ninety pounds running back linebacker, although
30:00
I mean I know him as a linebacker because he's nasty over there. But
30:03
yeah, senior from Niuksack Valley, number forty five, it's Damian Perez.
30:07
Yeah, just a tackling machine, has a nose for the ball. And
30:12
I think that he jumped out to everybody's surprise last year, and I think
30:18
he was accounted for a lot more this year and still had a really good
30:23
year. Forty eight and a half tackles, four passes broken up, one
30:27
and a half tackles for loss, and a fumble recovery. They did get
30:30
him in on offense every once in a while, seven carries for thirty yards,
30:34
but he is a main stay on defense. I don't know how many
30:40
games in a row he started, but he's been in the middle of that
30:42
defense for the last two years where they've made the semi finals both years.
30:45
And he's such a valuable piece to that whole, to the whole team,
30:52
mister unsung hero, super strong, just that really strong base Uh and even
31:00
though he's a little shorter, Uh, it doesn't matter. He's he he
31:04
can move, he's strong. Like I said, he's a tackling machine,
31:07
you know, a catcher on the baseball team. So he's like he just
31:11
has that. He just has that squatty bass, you know, where he
31:14
can explode and make a play. And and uh, that's gonna be a
31:18
hard spot to fill next year, you know, I don't you know,
31:22
I would imagine Colton lens Is gonna come up and be an inside linebacker.
31:25
But but his spot at linebacker, I just I'm I don't know who that
31:30
other one's gonna be at, you know, off the top of my head.
31:33
It's gonna be interesting. But he's he's gonna be missed. He was,
31:37
he was like he was a fixture of that pioneer defense last few years.
31:41
Number seventy one Walter Jones on the top one hundred caud down six foot
31:47
two seventy He's a beautiful center defensive lineman. It's junior from the Linden Lions,
31:52
number seventy six of Blake Holman. Yeah, awesome center again. I
31:56
mean, Linden's just had so many of them, and I as I look
32:02
to next year kind of already and start projecting a little bit. I I
32:07
you know, they they like to put their dudes at left tackle and left
32:10
guard, and I think he will be over there. I just don't know
32:15
which one he'll be quite yet. You know, I'm not quite sure if
32:20
Van Berkham will be ready to be moved to left tackle. If so,
32:22
then Holman will be the left guard. I think Holman's good enough to be
32:25
the left tackle as well, but you really need a good center, so
32:30
it's it's hard to say, uh, you know, kind of how that
32:32
would go. I remember like Marty Karb as a center. I thought the
32:36
same thing would happen to him. He was so good, but they needed
32:38
him at center, so you just you just keep him there. And so
32:42
I get that. So it's it's a lot of you know, if this,
32:45
then this, and and who knows and and coach Bomber will have it
32:49
all figured out on the offensive line. But boy, he is he is
32:52
a road grader, he is strong, athletic, he's the perfect Linden offensive
32:59
lineman, and he's a He's a kid that I think that for I don't
33:05
know, probably the first third of the season I thought, for some reason
33:07
I thought he was a senior because he seems like he's been around for so
33:09
long, and I know he's had older brothers that have played, and I
33:14
don't think that's what was confusing me. But uh, he's just been on
33:17
that offensive line a long long time. And you know, would would last
33:22
year as a sophomore, would phill spots if guys were injured, hurt,
33:25
sick, whatever. Uh And then this year, you know, starting right
33:30
out and manning that center spot, and he might jump around again the next
33:35
year. Played a little bit of defense, not a ton. And you
33:38
know, it's rare that Lindon, a main mainstay on the offensive line,
33:43
plays a good chunk of defense. It happens from time to time, but
33:45
it's rare. He might play a little bit more defense next year. But
33:51
uh, but boy, what a what a great player and another one of
33:54
those unsung kind of guys. He's a really he's he's he's one of the
33:58
better centers around, number seventy on the top one hundred countdown, six foot
34:02
four and eighty five pounds tight end, defensive end. He's a senior from
34:07
the Blaine Border Rights. It's two Snowman number eighty eight to Connor Dollery.
34:15
Yeah, it seems like we've been talking about him for a long time.
34:16
And you know, we talked about him during the senior podcast about how every
34:21
year he's switching positions and you know, doing whatever is best to help the
34:24
team win. And he's kind of one of those guys where he's really unassuming,
34:30
kind of always has a straight face. He's all he means business and
34:36
you know, kind of a man a few words. I mean I would
34:38
ask him a question here or there and he just kind of he just kind
34:40
of quiet about it. It's almost like you would think he's too cool for
34:45
school, but he's not like that at all. He's an awesome kid,
34:50
really good basketball player. You know, he's a in the post, but
34:53
he can shoot threes. Really athletic, you know, tough, hard hitter,
34:59
but off hands too, you know, playing that h back spot this
35:04
year. You know, coach Olsen was talking about how you know when they
35:07
practice plays in August and you know they would do that, there would be
35:10
a play where he'd go out to catch a pass and he'd be like,
35:15
man, because he just wants to he wants to block, you know,
35:19
he wants to run block. He loves he loved the new position of the
35:22
h back and dude doing different things like that. He did catch seven passes
35:27
for forty six yards. I believe as a junior he got like eighteen and
35:30
he had four touchdowns. So he has the ability to you know, to
35:35
go get the ball and be a mismatch problem. But man, what he
35:38
could bring as a run blocker was just huge. And then on the defensive
35:43
side of the ball, twenty six tackles, four and a half tackles for
35:45
lost, two sacks, a forced fumble. He also recovered two fumbles for
35:50
a total of twenty six yards. So, you know, a guy that's
35:53
been around a long time, played a lot of different positions, and it's
35:59
gonna be again, it's gonna be weird next year without a Dollery on the
36:01
Blaine football field. It's been as long as we've been doing this podcast.
36:07
There has been a Dollery playing for Blaine, so don't know if there's another
36:10
one coming up, but I don't think there is. So uh, it's
36:15
it's it's goodbye to Connor Dollery and an awesome career. Number sixty nine on
36:22
the top one her Countdown Nice sixty three, two, sixty five, center,
36:28
yep and defensive tackle. He's a senior from Knukxack Valley. Number fifty
36:32
one. Kean Koppinger. Yeah, boy, strong, strong strong. I'm
36:38
curious, like who the strongest, Like, you know, who's benching the
36:42
most out of all the linemen in Walkin County because he could be up there,
36:46
he could be number one. I don't know the numbers. There was
36:50
one year when I had players, when I had them sign their thing to
36:53
get their head shot. You know, they put their name and what class
36:55
they're in in the school, position, jersey number, heightweight, and then
36:59
one year I put forty times and benchmax just to just to put it there
37:04
because I was just curious, you know. And you'd see a few that
37:07
were in the three hundreds. Not not a lot, but there'd be a
37:09
few here and there, and I would think that he's up there, really
37:15
smart too, wants to you know, always wants to get better all the
37:20
time, and a great leader. I mean it's always almost like the underclassmen
37:23
were kind of afraid of him on his own team. You know, they're
37:25
like, you know, that kid is like, don't don't mess, don't
37:30
screw around around him. He could give you that, he could give you
37:34
that stare, you know what I mean. And he just had so much
37:37
respect for a kid like that. Started at center, played at right tackle,
37:43
you know, as a sophomore, got moved to center as a junior,
37:45
locked that down in the last two years. Uh, and then as
37:47
a defensive tackle, I mean, he was he's been there forever. This
37:51
year he had twenty three tackles, six tackles for loss, four and a
37:54
half sacks, and two passes knocked down at the line of scrimmage. Just
37:59
an other great year for Keyan. Just so big, so strong and man,
38:07
just you know, they they don't make him like that very often,
38:10
and especially at the high school level, and with his size and athletic ability,
38:15
and it's a lot of fun watching play number sixty eight on the top
38:20
one hundred countdown. Six foot one and eighty five pounds. He's a safety
38:23
and a senior from the Sea Home Mariners number twenty three, Alden Jacobs.
38:30
A lot of s is there safety senior and Sea Home Jacob boy? Yeah,
38:35
Jacob's so glad he came back to see Home and it was so cool.
38:39
Didn't I didn't get his head shot this year because he wasn't quite back
38:44
yet to practice when I was out there. I did get a picture of
38:46
him after a game out at Civic Stadium, and it was funny because I
38:51
grabbed him after the game to get his picture and he kind of laughed because
38:53
I think he knew why because he hadn't been a back practicaid. It was
38:57
this big mystery going around in August. Is he playing? Is he playing
39:01
for Seahome? Where's he gonna play there? Loaded its defensive back. He
39:05
was an awesome corner as a sophomore and blah blah blah, and he came
39:08
in bigger, thicker and would was supplanted right at that safety spot and was
39:15
a run stopping machine. Fifty eight and a half tackles from the safety spot,
39:20
four passes broken up, and a fumble recovery. You know, I
39:23
don't know if he played a down on offense or you know, anything on
39:30
special teams. But every single time man it was time for the defense to
39:32
go out there. You could see number twenty three going out there, and
39:36
he was he was manning that spot back there. He was controlling the defense
39:40
and allowed a lot of their other athletes to do more stuff. You know,
39:47
you could bring in a Hudson nef and have him play up, you
39:50
could. I mean, Andre Watson basically hardly played defense. And because you
39:53
had so many guys, you know, with Grady Evans and Colby Chambers and
39:58
you had these athletic guys, but the one kind of mainstay was Alden Jacobs.
40:02
And he has had a great senior year, number sixty seven on the
40:07
top one hundred countdown, six foot, two hundred and thirty five pounds center.
40:12
He's a beautiful center and defensive tackle. He's a senior from the Blaine
40:16
Border rights number fifty five, Victor Gerval. Just major strength and great foot
40:23
speed too. I think I really started to notice it this year where you
40:30
know, he would especially when he was on defense, where he would you
40:34
know, try to penetrate the line. He'd see that a play was broken
40:37
outside and he just sprint to the side, like the side to side speed
40:42
sideline to sideline, I should say, was crazy for a defensive tackle,
40:45
especially his size. I know how strong he is. You know, we
40:50
talked about his wrestling credentials, second in state last year, and man,
40:55
he's just he's been a pillar of that line on both sides for three years.
41:00
I mean he's he's kind of been one of the main guys and and
41:06
played and like like you said, played center this year, but I don't
41:08
think I don't even know if he played it prior. I mean he may
41:12
have played a little bit growing up. I know he was playing tackle last
41:15
year. Uh he's just you know, put me wherever I need to be
41:17
to help the team. And he had a great career, another big year
41:22
thirty eight and a half tackles, four tackles for lost, one and a
41:25
half sacks, and it just a guy that, like I said, what
41:31
really stood out to me was that sideline of sideline speed for a guy his
41:36
size coming out of a down lineman spot and getting double teamed and be able
41:40
to break away and make a play, you know, on the outside of
41:44
the hash and it's just like, man, he came out of nowhere.
41:46
I mean, I'd have to rewind the film so many times to say was
41:51
who was that was? Which lineback was that messenger? Was that Kuresky?
41:54
I'm like, holy cow, that's fifty five. That was Grdl like I
41:58
had to. I probably I didn't have to rewind that plays very much,
42:01
but when I did, it seemed like it was always him. And that
42:05
that tells me a lot. Really good year. Number sixty six on the
42:08
top one hundred coundown five foot nine one and eighty pounds at running back and
42:13
punter. He's a senior from the Bellingham BayHawks. It's number thirty four holding
42:16
baits. Yeah, when I went out to the Bayhawk football banquet and I
42:23
was handing out awards for records that were beinging broken, the first guy called
42:28
up was holding baits and I said his name, and as he's walking up,
42:32
I said, I kind of said it under my breath, but I
42:36
was talking into the microphone and I said, boy, I'm glad you came
42:38
out for football. And then I could hear coach Leonard go me too,
42:44
And it was, you know, first year of varsity. Kid came out
42:50
for a senior year and all I knew about him was that he's Isaac Bates
42:55
brother and he's really fast. I said, okay, that's that's good.
43:00
Isaac Bates is fast. He goes well. Coach Leonard's like, well,
43:02
he's built a little different. He's bigger, he's thicker, he's he's special.
43:07
I said, oh, awesome, okay. And I didn't know who
43:10
was going to be that that lightning to the Tyler frost thunder and Holden Bates
43:16
came in and right away would have these big runs and he'd break it to
43:20
the outside. And I mean he probably had I would say at least five
43:24
runs of fifty yards or more, and that it's at least five, it
43:30
could be seven or eight. And his speed like he would break away and
43:37
he just keep he keeps separating himself, and it's and uh and it looked
43:43
fluid like it. It didn't look turkey jerky when he would run. It
43:45
looked like a natural and it was you know, a guy that is just
43:49
a great athlete playing. But I don't know how much football he's played.
43:52
I think he probably played growing up, but it had been a few years.
43:55
Ninety one carries on the year for eight hundred and twenty nine yards in
43:59
nine touchdowns. Nine point one yards average is the school record for a season.
44:05
Five catches for sixty four yards. He returned eight kickoffs for one hundred
44:08
and nineteen yards, and he punted for the first about four or five weeks
44:14
something like that, had an injury and then came back and punted it.
44:16
At the end of the year. Did end up with eleven punts and he
44:20
averaged forty three yards of punt And I'm going back and you know, finding
44:24
archives and stuff like that and tracking punts stats for punts, and I haven't
44:30
found anybody that's had that good of a season for an average yet it could
44:35
have happened. There's been some really good punters over the year. I know
44:37
Michael Cainan was pretty good, but even though he punted like six or seven
44:42
times a year, because that was a very good offense. Yeah, but
44:47
but from what I've seen, that's the best. There's some guys that have
44:51
been over forty two. No one has touched forty three. So great overall
44:54
season for Holden Bates, and I echo what coach said. I'm just really
45:00
glad he turned out for football this year. Number sixty five on the top
45:04
one hundred countdown five to seven, one seventy five running back and linebacker just
45:08
a junior from the Ferndale Golden Eagles is number five, Jacob Gandy. I
45:14
know you say five to seven, one seventy five and you go linebacker and
45:20
uh yeah, and possibly you know upcoming state champion and wrestling too. Oh.
45:25
This is a this is a kid that is that is he'll take anybody
45:30
on. One of the questions I did these little interviews before the season started,
45:34
and and one of the questions was I asked every player that I did
45:37
an interview with, is which one of your coaches would you not want to
45:42
mess with? And he just kind of he's like, I'll mess with all
45:45
of them, Like he just was. He's that's that attitude that he has,
45:47
like he is not afraid of anything. I even I think he may
45:52
have even put on his sheet that he filled out that he was like five
45:55
to nine, which is there's no way, uh five to seven. Top
46:00
ups dud did say five to seven on the roster, so I'm gonna go
46:02
with that. But boy, is he unbelievably tough and gifted and talented and
46:10
everything I mean in that mold with Elmer and Gray, a small linebacker that
46:15
can shoot the gap, and it's like he did it again, and I
46:19
could just see offensive coordinators being completely frustrated with him, like someone's got to
46:23
take care of number five. Gotta find where he is and do something about
46:28
it, because he's making play after play. On offense, he was a
46:31
backup full back. He would come in every once in a while. Did
46:35
have nineteen carries for seventy three yards and a touchdown. But on defense he
46:38
really racked up the number. Sixty three and a half tackles, three tackles
46:43
for loss, a pass broken up, a forced bumble. He did return
46:45
two kickoffs for twenty seven yards. Again, it seems like Ferndale just is
46:51
going to graduate a bunch of big time kids. But him and Talon bung
46:53
Guard next year, along with Colshall in the valley, those guys are going
46:57
to be the leaders next year. And you know Lincoln Thomas as well.
47:01
There's a few guys that are going to be coming back. But Jacob Gandy
47:05
is going to be a big time player on that defense next year. Man,
47:08
I forgot Talon bung Guard's only a junior. Yeah, my goodness,
47:13
let's see here number sixty four in the top one hundred countdown six foot four,
47:16
number sixty four, two hundred and fifteen pounds tight end, outside linebacker.
47:22
Our last sophomore of this grouping Squalkum Storm number twenty two, Lucky Fogga
47:28
Ottuy is so talented. Yeah, I am so excited for his future because
47:37
he's a he's a kid that screams top ten by the time he's a senior,
47:44
just just over just just crazy, over the top athletic ability. And
47:52
I was so excited to see him in the final game against Mount Baker.
47:55
I was there and it was just a you know, cross so over Week
48:00
ten game and it was on a Thursday night. It was all so excited
48:04
about. I go out there and he was He didn't play, he was
48:07
in street clothes stuff like that, and I was like, oh man,
48:09
I know, I know he got hurt. I believe in the Sea Joy
48:13
game, I was hoping he'd be back. But yeah, but it's been
48:16
fun seeing on the basketball court because he looks like he just he's like a
48:22
gazelle out there just running around like it looks like he could dunk it on
48:24
accident. Like he's just that kind of athletic talent, but man, great
48:31
hands, really great hands. I mean everything is just like, man,
48:37
this is this is the kid everyone needs to think about, everyone needs to
48:39
look at. And from what I've heard from a lot of people, everybody
48:44
just loves him. I've heard from multiple coaching staffs. He was on Seahome
48:46
last year, on Squalkum this year, and everyone just just raves about what
48:51
kind of kid he is. Awesome leader. I mean you see him at
48:54
volleyball games getting everybody into it, and it just is is super cool too.
49:02
Added volleyball game just with shades on, you know what I mean.
49:06
Like he's just he's just he's just cool. Man, Like I want to
49:08
be as cool as he is. Uh. Nine catches for one hundred and
49:12
thirty six yards and two touchdowns, forty one tackles, three tackles for lost,
49:16
two sacks, three passes broken up, and an interception. Can returned
49:21
four kickoffs for thirty seven yards as an upman, and then he came in
49:24
and started punting when the punter got hurt. Eleven punts for two hundred and
49:29
sixty five yards. So, uh, you know a kid that can do
49:32
a little bit of everything and as as the seasons go on. Now,
49:37
I'm really interested to see how they're going to use him because he was put
49:42
in as that as like that true tight end spot and and he did he
49:46
did great. And he's a guy that probably played a lot of line growing
49:52
up, but he's so talented they're going to try to find a way to
49:53
get him the ball. And and just really excited about his future. There
49:59
were sick on the top one hundred countdown five ten one sixty five wide receiver
50:04
and corner senior from the Blaine Border Rights. It's number sixteen. Jesse Deming.
50:10
Yeah, I just the first thing I think of is when I had
50:14
that sit down with coach Olsen before the season and we were going over his
50:17
guys and stuff like that, and he he lit up when he talked about
50:22
Jesse Deming. He just he was like, he's really good. And I
50:25
and I kind of knew he was good, but I didn't, you know,
50:30
I'm I don't have the coaches I obviously, and and and coach Olsen
50:32
saw the things that he sees that I don't see. And then but having
50:37
that knowledge and then watching him and really looking at him, Yeah, he's
50:40
he's an awesome player. Uh. And there's been so many Demings over the
50:45
years, you know, Jim Deming and Ryan Deming and Laythan Deming. And
50:47
there's been always great what's that I said, City of Deming, City of
50:52
Deming. It has been great. But uh, and it so there's always
50:58
those good athletes being pumped out of playing. And you know, he's a
51:02
three sport kid. Basketball player, baseball player. You know this last basketball
51:06
game against Oak Harbor and he's he's a point guard. He had thirteen rebounds
51:12
as a point guard. I mean that's I mean, he's you know,
51:15
and he's five to ten. He's the smallest guy out there, but he
51:17
is tenacious. He is he'll go after and get it. I think he's
51:21
got more offensive rebounds than defensive rebounds, which I love that. That's that
51:24
kind of stuff that you that like, you try to coach up as much
51:28
as you can, but you're like, how come he's not doing it.
51:30
It's like, this is the kid. This is the kind of kid that
51:32
actually will do it and do well on offense. This year, thirty four
51:37
catches for three hundred and seventy nine yards and three touchdowns, and a defense
51:40
thirty one and a half tackles, one tackle for loss, three passes broken
51:45
up, an interception. He returned twenty two kickoffs for three hundred and eighty
51:50
yards. He was really close to breaking the school record for kick return yards
51:53
in season eight punt returns for eighty eight yards, right on the button with
51:58
eleven yards per punt re turn. Just never could get him off the field
52:02
ever, and his role became bigger when Riley Eyed got hurt and then Hunter
52:08
Visetti got hurt, and he just he welcomed it and he had a great,
52:13
great year, you know, I know he was in consideration for All
52:16
conference stuff. Didn't quite get it, but he was that kind of that
52:20
next line, next row, you know, boy, just an awesome senior
52:24
year that that had things put his way and he took advantage of every single
52:29
situation that he that he got and he made the most of it. And
52:31
it was awesome to see. Well that's it for this one, Tyler.
52:36
You got any last words before we go? No, Well, yes,
52:40
it was cool to see some sophomores. Awesome, really great for you to
52:45
for a big batch of centers there, and yeah, it's just kind of
52:50
this is an interesting mix with I don't think we had any quarterbacks in this
52:53
mix. We did have someone from each school, and you know a few
52:59
players that kind of like Jesse Deming, where you know, they got an
53:02
opportunity and they made the most out of it. I think of a guy
53:05
like Kelly Gray or you know, those kinds of players where they get put
53:08
into it and it's like sometimes it's the football season goes so fast and you
53:15
and there's only you know, nine or ten games, so you're you really
53:19
have to make the most of your opportunity. And if you can do something
53:22
great and stay on the field, if you could do that early fantastic,
53:25
you know, if you could show something during scout team, if you could
53:29
do anything, and you just keep getting better and better. And I know
53:31
that a lot of these kids listen to this stuff and they they and that's
53:36
what they talk about is making this list. It's it's crazy, and you
53:40
know, I just say, hey, man, just help your team win
53:44
and you do all those things and everything will fall into place with making the
53:47
lists all league teams and awards and stuff like that. But uh, these
53:52
are this is that group of kids that you know does everything that they can
53:58
do and and you know, maybe even over achieves a little bit, and
54:01
and they get the most out of their opportunities and and you know, those
54:06
are the kind of football players you love to have on your team. Really
54:09
quickly, Tyler, before we go, we needed to give a a happy
54:14
birthday to LaTroy Hawkins from the Twittans. Yeah. I just wanted to throw
54:20
that out there. LaTroy Hawkins. It is his birthday. This is being
54:23
posted on the twenty first of December, So his birthday. David Rawlins and
54:30
there was one more Oh Andy van Slike, Oh loved Andy van Slike,
54:38
yeah, so did I? And he coach didn't didn't he coach a little
54:43
bit with the Mariners? Yeah? He did. I think he was the
54:45
first base coach. Yeah on this day Tyler in two thousand and eight.
54:50
Yeah, you're gonna love this name all right. Actually, you know what
54:52
I want to I'm gonna I'm gonna send this to you because I want to
54:54
I want to get your like reaction. Okay, So I've never heard of
54:58
this guy. I've never heard of this before. But as soon as I
55:02
saw it, I was like, oh my goodness, and you'll see exactly
55:06
why it is. Look this guy's name. I just sent it to you
55:09
right now. Oh, Kichiro Sasaki. It's like Kichi row like Ichiro Sasaki
55:19
Suzuki, but kausea hero Sasaki right like, It's like they combined. The
55:24
guy kichi Ro Sasaki is his name, Chiro Sasaki? Yeah, yeah,
55:30
he was a He was a pitcher for for the or in the Pro baseball
55:35
over in Japan. Yeah, I was like, what the heck? Like,
55:38
how the heck? What a name? Keiki? December twenty first,
55:45
yeah, is happy heavenly birthday to my buddy Kyle who passed away from cancer
55:51
a few years ago. He would have been he would have been forty four.
55:58
And also on December twenty first, in twoenty twelve was when I bought
56:04
my first house in back in Blaine, Nice and yeah, so that was
56:07
a that was and I remember Kyle helping us move, and you know,
56:13
you get a bunch of people to help you move, and you people kind
56:15
of after a trip or two, they kind of start, Oh, I
56:17
gotta go do this, I gotta go do that. And it was a
56:20
Friday night and Kyle and Travis and I were the last ones using a truck
56:25
and I remember we did our last run and it was about one in the
56:30
morning, and we stopped at a Jack in the Box because it was open,
56:35
and and it hit me that it was the next day, and I
56:38
totally forgot it was Kyle's birthday the whole day. And that's the that's the
56:43
kind of person he was, Like, he didn't he wasn't gonna say but
56:45
it's my birthday. Like he just wanted to help people. And then when
56:50
we realized it, like we got like as many like ice creams and treats
56:54
we could get at the Jack in the Box just for him. But man,
57:00
what an amazing guy. So, yeah, December twenty first always kind
57:02
of stands out in my mind. Tyler, there's one more birthday I want
57:06
to mention here. Yeah, see if you can tell me who it is.
57:09
Okay, April twenty first, twenty twelve, this guy through a perfect
57:15
game ninety six pitches against the Mariners. Oh man, a perfect game.
57:23
Yes, Philip Umber, Yes, Philip Humbers. Yeah, I think it's
57:29
pronounced umber with the age of silent. And then actually Taylor T. Garden
57:34
remember him, Yeah, the catcher John Mayberry Junior. Yeah, I think
57:38
the Mariners drafted him, didn't they. I think so? And then he
57:42
didn't show he went to Stanford. I don't blame him. I wouldn't show
57:47
it to the Mariners either. Yeah, it's about all the names. There's
57:52
a lot of other names here, but nobody that's like, there's a lot
57:55
of random names from him, Like why do you have that one on here?
57:59
It's like this guy minor league catcher, Like who cares? Wasn't that
58:02
Philip Umber that that perfect game? Wasn't there Like a controversy with the last
58:07
out with Brendan Ryan. I don't remember who the batter was, but it
58:10
was a check swing. Yeah. Ryan definitely did not go right right,
58:15
did not go Now that being said, look you're getting you're getting a perfect
58:21
game, you might as well. Yeah. Yeah. Also, Kendall Graveman,
58:27
Mariner's legend. Can do you know why I always say things like Mariner's
58:32
legend? You know why that the Seahawks have this thing where they like to
58:37
bring back former players and have them do things, you know, And there's
58:40
a lot of guys that still live in the area that we're really not great
58:45
players for the Mariners, right, yeah, so one of them And and
58:49
I like I I loves Seahawks, but I use that legend loosely about a
58:55
lot of different players, because like Kendall Graveman is not a Mariner's legend,
59:00
right right. But it all got started I don't know, four or five
59:06
years ago, the Mariners or the Seahawks were doing something and and one of
59:10
the this guy was a good high school football coach. He's a really good
59:13
dude, one of my favorite like people of the last ten years that I've
59:17
gotten to know. M hm. But the Seahawks posted one day that Seahawks
59:22
legend Michael Bumpus is going to be at Alderwood Mall or something, and I
59:28
was like, okay, Like I like bump good dude, but Seahawks legend,
59:34
I don't know about that. Like the guy played like six games,
59:37
you know what I mean? Like this is come on and and and they
59:39
do it all the time now where it's like, yeah, a guy that
59:43
played, you know, a couple of weeks with the Seahawks but still lives
59:45
in the area, you know, something like that, and they're like,
59:49
oh, you know Seahawks legend Jake Heaps, And I'm like, look,
59:52
Jake's one of my best friends. Nah. Like even Jake laughs at that,
59:57
you know, yeah, he would I would just say he would think
59:59
that it's crazy. Yeah, yeah, but they do it all the time
1:00:00
and it just drives me nuts, especially from a social media standpoint. You
1:00:05
know, I'm very big in social media doing things, and yeah, anytime
1:00:08
I see stuff like that, I'm just like you idiots like that. Guy's
1:00:12
not a legend in any like, even in his own mind. He's not
1:00:15
a legend. You're gonna sit here, no, you know, let's see,
1:00:19
there is one Hall of Famer here listed. Josh Gibson was a catcher,
1:00:22
yes, in the negro leagues. Yeah, his birthday. He died
1:00:27
in nineteen forty seven, at the age of what that'd be like thirty six.
1:00:30
Wow. Yeah, people always think like people believe that, you know,
1:00:35
if you track those numbers, like him and Babe Ruth are very comparable.
1:00:38
Yeah, actually, Tying, you say that because it says his nickname
1:00:40
is the Black Babe Ruth. Well there you go. Yeah. When he
1:00:45
was inducted in the Hall of Fame in nineteen seventy two, Yeah, my
1:00:49
goodness. Yeah, but it's uh yeah, all right, Tyler, I
1:00:52
think we're done. I think we're done. We are actually we're right at
1:00:55
an hour oddly enough, we seem to be doing that a lot lately.
1:01:00
Yeah, I don't have anything else. You got anything else? No,
1:01:01
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1:01:06
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