Latest / Whatcom Preps Podcast / Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 304 - Week 11 Preview
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Lennon Sophomore and Malachi Canan and you listen
- 0:02Speaker 1: to the Welcome PEPs podcast for Tyler and Ryland.
- 0:05Speaker 2: Go Lions, Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps podcast.
- 0:18Speaker 2: This is episode at three hundred and four. A week
- 0:21Speaker 2: eleven football preview. Tyler Week eleven football preview just sounds wrong.
- 0:26Speaker 1: I know, But you know, next week we can say
- 0:28Speaker 1: the quarter final round. You can't have the first first
- 0:30Speaker 1: round football pre.
- 0:32Speaker 2: Round of sixteen state tournament preview everything.
- 0:35Speaker 1: Yeah, that's see Week eleven sounds better than that.
- 0:38Speaker 2: I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always as Tyler
- 0:40Speaker 2: Understond of WALKA Preps. Tyler, how we doing.
- 0:45Speaker 1: I'm a little jarred from my little, uh little accident yesterday,
- 0:48Speaker 1: but I'm doing okay.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Like head button to steering wheel or something I saw?
- 0:53Speaker 2: Did you post it online for people to see?
- 0:55Speaker 1: At least I know I have not yet what I said?
- 0:58Speaker 2: What was going on there? It's like first I didn't
- 1:00Speaker 2: even know they had go karts, Like you know what
- 1:02Speaker 2: I mean? Like, where were you? What was going on there?
- 1:05Speaker 1: It's called Mock One Racing. It's in Bellingham. It's an
- 1:07Speaker 1: awesome place. Went there with some friends yesterday and had
- 1:12Speaker 1: a little fender bender. My helmet flew off, my head.
- 1:16Speaker 2: You were trying to cut somebody off, and you know
- 1:19Speaker 2: I was, yeah, I was trying to lap somebody. Yeah,
- 1:24Speaker 2: trying to somebody, yes, yeah, yeah, and.
- 1:29Speaker 1: Yeah I took the brunt end of it. I couldn't leave.
- 1:31Speaker 1: My helmet flew off, my glasses came off.
- 1:34Speaker 2: That was the best part. It looked like you lost
- 1:35Speaker 2: your head.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Yeah, and uh and I yeah, my neck and my
- 1:40Speaker 1: head kind of hurt for a while. And my video
- 1:45Speaker 1: because I know, I know the owner. Oh, he messaged
- 1:48Speaker 1: me today and he's like, hey, I hope you had
- 1:50Speaker 1: a good time, blah blah blah. And I said, actually,
- 1:52Speaker 1: if you check the security footage, you might have a
- 1:54Speaker 1: good laugh because I had a little bit of a crash.
- 1:57Speaker 1: And I said, if you find it, send it to me.
- 1:58Speaker 1: And then he did send it to me. So yeah,
- 2:01Speaker 1: it was pretty good. Yeah, it was a pretty good one.
- 2:04Speaker 1: Like it's seriously, I mean, I didn't even know what
- 2:06Speaker 1: I was looking at.
- 2:07Speaker 2: At first. I was like, why is he sending me this?
- 2:08Speaker 2: And then I was like, oh, it's him. Yeah. Anyway,
- 2:12Speaker 2: we need to give a thank you to Malachi Canaan Linden, sophomore.
- 2:15Speaker 2: What kicker, linebacker, running back, I mean a little bit
- 2:19Speaker 2: of I mean he does a lot. I mean he's
- 2:21Speaker 2: heck of a football player, heck of an athlete. Yeah,
- 2:23Speaker 2: I mean definitely a lot of fun to watch. We
- 2:26Speaker 2: need to give a thank you also to Kurt Mayberry Farm.
- 2:28Speaker 2: They are a family farm committed to developing innovative agronomic
- 2:33Speaker 2: and business practices to grow, process, and market high quality berries.
- 2:36Speaker 2: Kurt Mayberry Farmer is the Northwest berry supplier of choice.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Find them online Kurt with A C, M A B
- 2:42Speaker 2: E R R Y farm dot com. Tyler, we're down
- 2:47Speaker 2: to four teams here, but football, we still got a
- 2:51Speaker 2: lot to talk about. We still got the senior podcasts
- 2:54Speaker 2: to say goodbye to the seniors. We still got the
- 2:57Speaker 2: top one hundred. Eventually we'll do the awards show. Uh,
- 3:02Speaker 2: there's still stuff to sponsor. Not you know here in football,
- 3:06Speaker 2: there's still stuff to sponsor. But also there's winter sports
- 3:10Speaker 2: and the heck, if somebody wanted to talk spring sports,
- 3:12Speaker 2: you can do that too. How do they get a
- 3:13Speaker 2: hold of.
- 3:14Speaker 1: You, Yeah, the best way is through social media. Just
- 3:17Speaker 1: look for walkompreps dot com and or walk them preps.
- 3:20Speaker 1: I think it's walkompreps dot com on Facebook. I got
- 3:22Speaker 1: to get that change at some point. But yeah, I
- 3:25Speaker 1: just send them, just send a message and we can
- 3:27Speaker 1: we can go from there. The big transition happening here
- 3:30Speaker 1: pretty soon. And you know a lot of people's you know,
- 3:33Speaker 1: different their their fiscal year is different. Sometimes it's the
- 3:35Speaker 1: calendar years, sometimes it's not. And so there's lots of
- 3:38Speaker 1: opportunities here and I'm really excited about going forward because
- 3:42Speaker 1: I mean, every single year it's turned into like almost
- 3:44Speaker 1: every single month, there's been more and more people reaching
- 3:47Speaker 1: out and wanting to do something and figure out how
- 3:51Speaker 1: they can be a part of it. And they see
- 3:53Speaker 1: the growth, they see the numbers, and if it's a
- 3:56Speaker 1: win win for both sides, we could make something happen.
- 3:59Speaker 1: And that's what makes it so fun.
- 4:01Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean just on Instagram, I see every now
- 4:04Speaker 2: and then you send me the thing like look how
- 4:06Speaker 2: many you know, views or whatever the heck it's called
- 4:09Speaker 2: impressions or something, and it's like eight billion or something
- 4:12Speaker 2: you got going on. I don't know what the numbers are.
- 4:14Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's steadily over a million in the
- 4:16Speaker 1: last thirty days, like it's usually between one point two
- 4:19Speaker 1: and one point five million views, Yeah, in the last
- 4:24Speaker 1: thirty days because it always changes, you know, And so
- 4:27Speaker 1: it's stand pretty good. And I think now I'm getting
- 4:30Speaker 1: the hang of kind of when to post, how to post,
- 4:33Speaker 1: doing a lot more videos either.
- 4:36Speaker 2: You're you're posting stuff on your story.
- 4:39Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm learning and thank you for that because
- 4:42Speaker 1: you kind of were helpful in that. But a lot
- 4:44Speaker 1: of times, especially with the graphics like those get sponsored
- 4:48Speaker 1: and those get a lot of views. A lot of
- 4:49Speaker 1: times when it's like the stat leader type graphics, they
- 4:52Speaker 1: if they add it to their story and tell or
- 4:55Speaker 1: if they add it to their story and tag me, yeah,
- 4:58Speaker 1: then I add it to mine, yep. And so it
- 5:00Speaker 1: just kind of keeps, you know, reverberating, and every bit
- 5:03Speaker 1: gets viewed a ton of times, and hey that's how
- 5:07Speaker 1: that's how your logo can get noticed. So really really
- 5:10Speaker 1: stands out.
- 5:11Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean seems like you know about weekly now
- 5:15Speaker 2: kind of getting new people calling in and or you know,
- 5:18Speaker 2: reaching out and uh, all kinds of good stuff. One
- 5:21Speaker 2: of them that just reached out recently, Tyler NW officials
- 5:24Speaker 2: dot com. Uh, do you live in Walkcomes, Gadget Island
- 5:27Speaker 2: or San Juan County and want to become an official.
- 5:29Speaker 2: Officiating is a great way to give back to your
- 5:32Speaker 2: community and ensure our youth have an opportunity to compete
- 5:35Speaker 2: in athletics. Tyler, you and I have talked about it
- 5:38Speaker 2: on the last couple of podcasts. Now is uh you
- 5:41Speaker 2: know officials that we got to have them? You know
- 5:44Speaker 2: there it's a necessary. You can't have sports without officials.
- 5:48Speaker 2: I mean, whether it's a you know, a referee or
- 5:52Speaker 2: alignsman in soccer or you know anything, there's all kinds
- 5:56Speaker 2: of you know, different officials that are needed. In NWF
- 6:00Speaker 2: officials dot com. They they got a hold of you.
- 6:02Speaker 2: It's a basketball I believe is mostly what it is,
- 6:05Speaker 2: or specifically what it is. But and you talk about
- 6:09Speaker 2: a sport that needs a lot of officials. I mean
- 6:11Speaker 2: you're talking about a ton of boys and girls basketball
- 6:14Speaker 2: games going on in a pretty short period of time,
- 6:17Speaker 2: and you got three at each game, so you know
- 6:21Speaker 2: they need uh, they need officials there. And not just varsity,
- 6:24Speaker 2: but there's JV there's freshmen, there's uh C team, there's
- 6:29Speaker 2: you know, tons of basketball.
- 6:30Speaker 1: Games, junior high games, there's I mean there's tons of
- 6:33Speaker 1: stuff exactly. It's like you don't think about it because
- 6:35Speaker 1: we only talk really about varsity sports, and all of
- 6:37Speaker 1: a sudden, like I'll go to a game. This happened
- 6:39Speaker 1: last year. We all go to a basketball game, and
- 6:42Speaker 1: then I'll see some officials walk in and like you know,
- 6:45Speaker 1: street clothes, and I'm like, oh, you're here just to
- 6:48Speaker 1: catch the game. They're like, no, I just I just
- 6:49Speaker 1: officiated the Sea team game like over in the other
- 6:52Speaker 1: gym or something like that. It's like, oh my goodness,
- 6:53Speaker 1: Like you don't think about that.
- 6:55Speaker 2: You know.
- 6:55Speaker 1: It's like they're working every single night. I mean, they
- 6:58Speaker 1: need people, and so what a great way to learn
- 7:02Speaker 1: about the game, stay in shape, all those things and
- 7:04Speaker 1: giving back to the community and you get paid for it.
- 7:06Speaker 1: I mean you know, throw those things together, and you know,
- 7:12Speaker 1: and then the people that do it, it seems like they
- 7:14Speaker 1: do it for a long time too. I Mean you
- 7:16Speaker 1: get people, Oh yeah, that guy's been officiating for thirty
- 7:18Speaker 1: five years.
- 7:19Speaker 2: You know. It's like my uncle did thirty seven years
- 7:22Speaker 2: in Central Washington with high school football.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. I mean yeah, you see the
- 7:27Speaker 1: same people all the time, and and you know, and
- 7:31Speaker 1: then the more you do it, then the better. The
- 7:32Speaker 1: better you are at it, and it's a more enjoyable experience,
- 7:35Speaker 1: was for both teams because you earn the respect of
- 7:37Speaker 1: the players, the coaches, the fans, the everything. So it's just,
- 7:41Speaker 1: you know, it all kind of comes together. So it's
- 7:43Speaker 1: a good thing to do if you're interested.
- 7:46Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever told this story, but uh,
- 7:49Speaker 2: the last game my uncle officiated, or excuse me, the
- 7:55Speaker 2: last game he was supposed to officiate, because on his
- 7:57Speaker 2: way out he decided he didn't want to do the playoff.
- 8:00Speaker 2: He wanted to just end it on the you know,
- 8:02Speaker 2: at the end of the regular season. Then, and these
- 8:04Speaker 2: guys are all fans too. That's what people do, understand.
- 8:06Speaker 2: They're all fans of football, you know. They they they
- 8:09Speaker 2: listen to our podcast. They I used to have referees
- 8:12Speaker 2: come up to me all the time and they'd introduce
- 8:14Speaker 2: himselves and say, I've been listening to your podcast for years,
- 8:16Speaker 2: going wow, okay, that's awesome, you.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Know, but yeah, that happens to me too.
- 8:19Speaker 2: It's crazy. But he so, my uncle, he sends me
- 8:22Speaker 2: a text and he says, he says, hey, I'm headed
- 8:25Speaker 2: out the door to go to my last game, and
- 8:28Speaker 2: I said, oh, you know, hey, good good luck, you know,
- 8:30Speaker 2: give him hell throw a flag, you know, throw a
- 8:33Speaker 2: flag on the defense for me, defensive holding. And he says,
- 8:37Speaker 2: he goes, I'll do I'll do just that, And then
- 8:39Speaker 2: he sends me a text about forty five minutes later,
- 8:41Speaker 2: he goes, You're never going to believe this. I'm on
- 8:42Speaker 2: my way to a game. I get a text. Game
- 8:44Speaker 2: got canceled. He goes, I'm done. Wow. Yeah, it's just
- 8:52Speaker 2: I mean unbelievable, like just you know, how does that happen?
- 8:56Speaker 1: You know, but right, like how many times has it
- 8:58Speaker 1: happened over his career? And then it happens on the
- 8:59Speaker 1: last game.
- 9:00Speaker 2: Yeah, the last game that he's ever going to officiate,
- 9:02Speaker 2: and then boomed canceled on the way. Yeah, it's just brutal.
- 9:06Speaker 2: But uh yeah. Anyway, NW officials dot Com check them
- 9:10Speaker 2: out and if you want to know more about how
- 9:12Speaker 2: to potentially get your business or maybe you know somebody,
- 9:17Speaker 2: have them, reach out to Tyler search watkom preps on
- 9:19Speaker 2: all social medias. Tyler, we got four games to talk about.
- 9:23Speaker 2: We got Randy Small's weather forecast. We've got pick'em's, and
- 9:26Speaker 2: we've got the Fantasy, which, by the way, five and
- 9:29Speaker 2: five right now, I mean we're both yeah bull Titan,
- 9:33Speaker 2: and in theory, this could be the last weekend we're
- 9:36Speaker 2: playing the Fantasy, Tyler, and we don't even know.
- 9:39Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
- 9:40Speaker 2: I mean we're playing for the love of the game,
- 9:42Speaker 2: is all it is at this point. Absolutely. Let's talk
- 9:45Speaker 2: about the games, Tyler. The first one all four games
- 9:48Speaker 2: on Saturday, by the way, uh and unfortunately there's no
- 9:52Speaker 2: like double triple header where you can order a pizza
- 9:55Speaker 2: under the under the defence there at Civic. But the
- 9:59Speaker 2: first one to talk about he at one o'clock Blaine
- 10:01Speaker 2: High School. Cascade Christian. They are seven and three coming
- 10:04Speaker 2: to town to take on Linden Christian. They are six
- 10:07Speaker 2: and four, Tyler.
- 10:08Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of this tradition now that Linden Christian
- 10:11Speaker 1: has been hosting these games at Blaine High School. This
- 10:13Speaker 1: will be their third playoff game in two years that
- 10:14Speaker 1: they're playing there, and they've played they've played each other,
- 10:20Speaker 1: I believe in the first round. Boy, I want to
- 10:23Speaker 1: say twenty yeah.
- 10:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:27Speaker 1: And Cascade Christian, you know, no no stranger to walkin
- 10:32Speaker 1: County teams. They had that really great quarterback, that four
- 10:35Speaker 1: year starting quarterback, Yes, big kid, strong arm.
- 10:41Speaker 2: Eastern and then ended up leaving Eastern and he went somewhere.
- 10:45Speaker 2: I don't remember where he went, but.
- 10:47Speaker 1: He was a senior quarterback that year, that twenty eighteen year,
- 10:51Speaker 1: and boy, I remember just thinking his receivers must be
- 10:55Speaker 1: so tired, because it seems like they were just running gos,
- 10:57Speaker 1: like on every play they're gonna run all the way
- 10:59Speaker 1: out and run away back.
- 11:00Speaker 2: And remember he was playing defense too, Yeah, yeah, he
- 11:04Speaker 2: was playing I think corner. Maybe I can't remember exactly,
- 11:06Speaker 2: but I remember he was playing defense because remember they
- 11:09Speaker 2: were really low on numbers that year. Yeah, I remember that,
- 11:12Speaker 2: like they had a ton of injuries and their sideline
- 11:15Speaker 2: was just really small. I remember watching them going, Wow,
- 11:18Speaker 2: this just doesn't look like Casca Christian.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think I saw him the year before.
- 11:23Speaker 1: I think they might have been playing either Knukzacher Meridian,
- 11:26Speaker 1: like kind of you know, a non conference game early
- 11:28Speaker 1: in the season. It just seems like I just saw
- 11:30Speaker 1: a lot of them over the years, and uh, you know,
- 11:33Speaker 1: it feels like they've played a ton of different teams,
- 11:35Speaker 1: but especially Lennon Christian and and Elsie this year. You
- 11:38Speaker 1: know the records, you know, they have four losses, but
- 11:41Speaker 1: they're you know, they're the home team here. They're battle tested.
- 11:47Speaker 1: Uh They've gone through probably more injuries than any other team.
- 11:52Speaker 1: I think Seelm's pushing them a little bit, but my goodness,
- 11:56Speaker 1: they just you know, the next guy up. I Mean,
- 11:59Speaker 1: the thing about LC is that it seems like they
- 12:01Speaker 1: never have a shortage of athletes, and they just have
- 12:05Speaker 1: a lot of different guys that can that can do
- 12:09Speaker 1: all the athletic things basically, and you guy guy goes
- 12:13Speaker 1: goes down, you bring another one in. That guy goes down,
- 12:15Speaker 1: you're bringing that other guy's little brother and he comes in.
- 12:17Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's just constant, and so there's
- 12:22Speaker 1: just so so good and they I feel, really, really
- 12:25Speaker 1: do feel like they've gotten better as the years progressed
- 12:29Speaker 1: in all the different things. I mean, you know, running
- 12:30Speaker 1: the ball earlier on was tough, and they started kind
- 12:33Speaker 1: of doing that when the league schedule hit, and there'd
- 12:35Speaker 1: be times when it was going pretty well. There'd be
- 12:38Speaker 1: times when it wasn't. I know, they didn't run the
- 12:39Speaker 1: ball very well against Meridian, you know, but they ran
- 12:44Speaker 1: it really get against Blaine and there was you know,
- 12:46Speaker 1: it was just kind of hitting there and then you know,
- 12:49Speaker 1: kind of hit and miss. And they ran the ball
- 12:51Speaker 1: so well last week, and they got a lot of
- 12:54Speaker 1: different guys that they can go to with that. You know,
- 12:57Speaker 1: hall of Owen is probably now getting back to a
- 13:00Speaker 1: percent he had. He had a really bad he had
- 13:04Speaker 1: just a bad sickness in the off season in the summer.
- 13:07Speaker 1: He lost a ton of weight and there was a
- 13:10Speaker 1: fear that he wouldn't even be able to play his
- 13:12Speaker 1: senior year because he was just so he was just
- 13:14Speaker 1: trying to get back and trying to get back. And
- 13:16Speaker 1: last year he was just kind of that bruising back
- 13:19Speaker 1: and this year he just looked so much smaller, and
- 13:22Speaker 1: and Trayson Johnson was that bruising back. And Trayson's been
- 13:25Speaker 1: so valuable on defense at that nose tackle spot that
- 13:30Speaker 1: you know, they don't want to use him too much.
- 13:32Speaker 1: On offense. You bring in Chris Coyman, who's you know,
- 13:35Speaker 1: pretty big and strong himself, and you can still you know,
- 13:38Speaker 1: mick Owen gets hurt. He was carrying the ball a
- 13:40Speaker 1: little bit, so he's always still wanted a few different guys,
- 13:42Speaker 1: but now all this one looks so good last week.
- 13:45Speaker 1: It's like he's back up to one hundred percent now,
- 13:47Speaker 1: which is awesome to see. And he can supply that
- 13:50Speaker 1: thunder that Trayson Johnson was doing earlier in the year.
- 13:54Speaker 1: So he's probably gonna get a little bit more carries
- 13:56Speaker 1: than he's been been getting and that will offset you know,
- 14:01Speaker 1: the defense as far as thinking, Okay, they're not going
- 14:04Speaker 1: to pass past pass, you've got to be ready for
- 14:07Speaker 1: that that bowling ball at the middle. So and when
- 14:10Speaker 1: they're when they're throwing, I mean, Eli Maryberry just makes
- 14:13Speaker 1: great decisions, super sharp. The connection he has with Boyce
- 14:18Speaker 1: Robertson is amazing. I think Boyce is really close to
- 14:21Speaker 1: breaking a thousand yards receiving on the year, which no
- 14:24Speaker 1: Linnen Christian receiver has ever done in a season, which
- 14:26Speaker 1: is saying a lot because they've passed the ball a lot.
- 14:29Speaker 2: Over the years.
- 14:30Speaker 1: So so really just an incredible year for them, and
- 14:36Speaker 1: you know, we'll have to see if they can keep
- 14:37Speaker 1: keep doing it. Don't know much about Cascade Christian this year,
- 14:42Speaker 1: but you know, coming up I five and going all
- 14:45Speaker 1: the way up to Blaine and playing and LC feels
- 14:48Speaker 1: comfortable there and this should be a good one.
- 14:52Speaker 2: You mentioned Parker Johnson Tyler his dad one of the
- 14:56Speaker 2: best high school football officials I've I've ever seen. Oh wow, yeah,
- 15:01Speaker 2: really really good and I'm talking four A all the
- 15:04Speaker 2: way down to eight man. Yeah, he was always very knowledgeable.
- 15:09Speaker 2: I could send that guy a text and get an
- 15:10Speaker 2: answer within minutes about about a ruling of some sort.
- 15:14Speaker 2: And also a high level golf caddy, which is wild. Yeah.
- 15:21Speaker 2: First time I saw a picture I'm doing that, I
- 15:23Speaker 2: was like, wait, what, Like, is there anything you don't do? Like,
- 15:25Speaker 2: what's going on here?
- 15:27Speaker 1: That?
- 15:28Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, let's see here. That is one pm Tyler,
- 15:32Speaker 2: Blaine High School, Cascade Christian, Linden Christian should be a
- 15:36Speaker 2: good one. You just you just never know this time
- 15:38Speaker 2: of the year over the Mountains Tyler two pm at
- 15:42Speaker 2: Othello High School, Sea Home seven and three, Othello, nine
- 15:46Speaker 2: and one. You know, not I don't know a ton
- 15:50Speaker 2: about Othello this year, but just one of those programs.
- 15:54Speaker 2: It just they always seem to be in the state tournament.
- 15:57Speaker 2: They always seem to be, you know, eight and two,
- 15:59Speaker 2: nine in one. Always real tough, physical, big kids on
- 16:03Speaker 2: that team typically and this game being played on grass
- 16:08Speaker 2: or no, is this or is it on turf? Somebody
- 16:11Speaker 2: told me that it's grass.
- 16:14Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's that. I'll tell high school, but
- 16:15Speaker 1: I don't know if they have grass or.
- 16:17Speaker 2: It's always been grass as far as I've seen. Yeah,
- 16:20Speaker 2: which is interesting because this time of the year usually
- 16:23Speaker 2: they don't let you play on grass. I mean it
- 16:26Speaker 2: has to be approved, which I do know that some
- 16:29Speaker 2: of them do get approved. But still, yeah, I thought
- 16:33Speaker 2: they were going away from that. That being said, though, Tyler, Yeah,
- 16:37Speaker 2: you want to know what else it means this time
- 16:38Speaker 2: of the year when when you got grass, it means
- 16:42Speaker 2: you got a really hard surface, which you know what
- 16:45Speaker 2: that means typically means it plays fast. Yeah, right, I
- 16:49Speaker 2: don't think that's necessarily a bad thing for Sea Home.
- 16:51Speaker 2: Let me tell you.
- 16:53Speaker 1: Yeah, they can move the ball up and down the
- 16:55Speaker 1: field very very fast. You know, we talked about those
- 16:58Speaker 1: passing numbers last week. He can break in all these
- 17:00Speaker 1: records and stuff like that. But they still ran the
- 17:03Speaker 1: ball pretty well. I think Solomon McAlister had over seventy
- 17:05Speaker 1: yards in that game. He scored the first touchdown of
- 17:07Speaker 1: the game. He's running really really hard right now. You know,
- 17:11Speaker 1: you could throw in a Colby Chambers or a nicky Smith,
- 17:13Speaker 1: and Nolan Wright is always a threat to carry the
- 17:15Speaker 1: ball himself, I believe. Actually he's leading the team in rushing,
- 17:19Speaker 1: Nolan is and he's averaging over seven yards of carry,
- 17:22Speaker 1: So a little bit here and there with designed plays,
- 17:26Speaker 1: but when he scrambles and makes something happen, he's always
- 17:29Speaker 1: a threat to run as well. So you gotta it's
- 17:32Speaker 1: tough because you gotta you know he's he can look
- 17:35Speaker 1: like he's gonna run and they could just wing it
- 17:36Speaker 1: fifty yards down the field too, So you really have
- 17:38Speaker 1: to be leary of all that. This is a game
- 17:42Speaker 1: that there's an outside chance that I'll be at. I'll
- 17:46Speaker 1: be East of the Mountains covering state volleyball. But it
- 17:51Speaker 1: would have to have meant meant that it was a
- 17:52Speaker 1: bad day for Walking County if I'm going over to
- 17:55Speaker 1: watch this game, because that means that they would have
- 17:58Speaker 1: both had to have been eliminated or or something, because
- 18:00Speaker 1: I got to, you know, take time out to go
- 18:02Speaker 1: over there. But so I'm kind of hoping that's not
- 18:06Speaker 1: the case, but if it is, then that would be
- 18:08Speaker 1: something interesting to do, is go to a stadium I've
- 18:11Speaker 1: never been to be four, go to a city I've
- 18:13Speaker 1: never been to before. Uh, and you know, check out
- 18:16Speaker 1: the Mariners there see home. You know, you look at
- 18:19Speaker 1: the seven and three record, but then you look at
- 18:21Speaker 1: the three losses against Lyndon and a coordus Snarchbishop Murphy.
- 18:25Speaker 1: I mean, those are huge top tier teams in the
- 18:28Speaker 1: two ways, so they're they are battle tested as well,
- 18:32Speaker 1: and they're really really clicking right now. And in the
- 18:36Speaker 1: whole injury issues with everything. You know, I don't know
- 18:39Speaker 1: if Fisher Hall will be able to play. I don't
- 18:41Speaker 1: know if THEO Quiggle will be able to play. Those
- 18:43Speaker 1: are big time players on you know, Quiggle on offense
- 18:48Speaker 1: and on Hall and defense. Although Quiggle played a little
- 18:50Speaker 1: free safety a couple of weeks ago when they were
- 18:53Speaker 1: down a lot of kids, you know, when they kind
- 18:55Speaker 1: of sat some kids up. But Grady Evans, my goodness,
- 18:57Speaker 1: what a game he had last week with two touchdown
- 19:00Speaker 1: exceptions and two interceptions and then he kicked all those
- 19:03Speaker 1: extra points too. I mean, Grady Evans has really really
- 19:06Speaker 1: come on strong. Leads the team in interceptions, which when
- 19:09Speaker 1: you look at that secondary and you look at Andre
- 19:11Speaker 1: Watson and Colby Chambers and Hutson nef and these are
- 19:14Speaker 1: big time players and which one is leading in interceptions?
- 19:16Speaker 1: It's Grady Evans and that's awesome to see. So that's
- 19:20Speaker 1: just that's such a great secondary. You know, the lineback
- 19:24Speaker 1: and core I you know, the line everything. Everything is
- 19:27Speaker 1: kind of gelling at the right time. I need to
- 19:31Speaker 1: I need to go back and look. This just struck
- 19:33Speaker 1: me right now. The last time see Home won a
- 19:36Speaker 1: state playoff game, I can't recall, you know, I know they,
- 19:41Speaker 1: I know they, Yeah, I know they played Lakewood a
- 19:44Speaker 1: few you know, a few years back. They played Mountain
- 19:46Speaker 1: View in the first round game, I think in twenty eighteen,
- 19:53Speaker 1: and so they you know, they've had these first round
- 19:58Speaker 1: games here and there, and the gaming against Lakewood might
- 20:02Speaker 1: have been a playing game if I remember, but that
- 20:04Speaker 1: was the Daniel Zigler days. But I just can't recall
- 20:08Speaker 1: them the last time they won a playoff game. It
- 20:11Speaker 1: might be a while. So this could be some history
- 20:13Speaker 1: here and really really exciting because they're kind of you know,
- 20:18Speaker 1: they're they're looking really sharp right now and that's such
- 20:21Speaker 1: a great thing for them, and they build that confidence
- 20:25Speaker 1: and go on the road and face a team with
- 20:27Speaker 1: only one loss.
- 20:29Speaker 2: Yeah, and again This is kind of that time of
- 20:32Speaker 2: the year, Tyler where we can kind of say this
- 20:34Speaker 2: a little a lot is where hey see Home, you know, Lyndon,
- 20:40Speaker 2: Archbishop Murphy and a Chordus. We know how great those
- 20:43Speaker 2: four teams have been this year, but we don't know
- 20:45Speaker 2: how they match up around the around the state. Yep.
- 20:48Speaker 2: So it's gonna be interesting. I mean that that nine
- 20:50Speaker 2: and one could be a great nine and one, it
- 20:53Speaker 2: could be a deceiving nine and one. Who knows, you know,
- 20:55Speaker 2: you just don't know. I mean I've seen that so
- 20:58Speaker 2: many times over the years, where you know, people go, oh,
- 21:00Speaker 2: these guys are nine and one, how do you not
- 21:02Speaker 2: have them ranked higher? Ryland? And I'm going, I just
- 21:05Speaker 2: don't believe in it. I just don't believe it. And
- 21:07Speaker 2: then all of a sudden the seven and three team
- 21:09Speaker 2: beats them. You know. So I'm not saying it's gonna happen,
- 21:14Speaker 2: but I'm saying it's a playoff time. Who knows.
- 21:18Speaker 1: Here you go. I got some news, I got some
- 21:20Speaker 1: breaking not breaking news, but I just looked this up.
- 21:22Speaker 1: Okay Sea home and their storied history of football. I've
- 21:27Speaker 1: won two playoff games.
- 21:30Speaker 2: When was the last one? Nineteen ninety five, Holy crap,
- 21:35Speaker 2: nineteen ninety five.
- 21:37Speaker 1: Yeah, and they were it was the first year of
- 21:39Speaker 1: four A wow.
- 21:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you know back then, you know, the
- 21:45Speaker 2: Mariners were actually pretty good at baseball.
- 21:49Speaker 1: Yeah, the Seattle Mariners. Yeah, yeah, Seattle Mariners are pretty
- 21:53Speaker 1: good too, That's what I'm saying.
- 21:54Speaker 2: I mean, okay, okay, okay.
- 21:56Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so they won they won one in
- 21:59Speaker 1: ninety five and they won one in ninety three. Now
- 22:01Speaker 1: here's here's something kind of cool. Both of those years,
- 22:04Speaker 1: both of those years, they had a senior on their
- 22:07Speaker 1: team with the last name Lockhart. How about that. In
- 22:11Speaker 1: ninety three it was Pete Lockhart, who you know is
- 22:14Speaker 1: an official, and in ninety five was his younger brother,
- 22:16Speaker 1: Paul Lockhart, who led the team in interceptions, was All
- 22:20Speaker 1: state defensive back and everything that's.
- 22:22Speaker 2: Working back to officials right now, Tyler, it is.
- 22:24Speaker 1: It is with Parker Johnson's dad and now the Lockhart Yeah.
- 22:27Speaker 2: Two games. What do we got for? Fight for Linden
- 22:29Speaker 2: and anything.
- 22:32Speaker 1: We'll figure it out. That's time, I guess.
- 22:34Speaker 2: I can't believe.
- 22:35Speaker 1: I can't believe it's been twenty nine years.
- 22:37Speaker 2: That's wild. Yeah, I mean, like you, I mean Don't
- 22:42Speaker 2: get me wrong, I'm not going to see her neck
- 22:43Speaker 2: like they've been perennial state contenders or something. But you
- 22:46Speaker 2: would think that they would have been able to pull
- 22:49Speaker 2: off a win at some point. I mean, that's hard
- 22:51Speaker 2: to believe, it really is.
- 22:53Speaker 1: They had some really good teams in the early two thousands.
- 22:55Speaker 1: I mean really good teams where they had players go
- 22:57Speaker 1: to you dub and they but I you know, they
- 23:01Speaker 1: would they were playing in a really tough you know,
- 23:03Speaker 1: they're playing against uh, Grady Sizemore and those guys, you know,
- 23:07Speaker 1: because they were a big, big school.
- 23:09Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 23:09Speaker 1: And then I remember in two thousand and three, they
- 23:12Speaker 1: were loaded Matt Eichelberger as a three hundred and twenty
- 23:15Speaker 1: five found defensive tackle. He went to Wazoo started on
- 23:19Speaker 1: the defensive line, and they had Tyler Simpson at running
- 23:22Speaker 1: back and and people like he's gonna go to Nebraska
- 23:24Speaker 1: like he like he had all these operas and stuff
- 23:27Speaker 1: like that, and he was a great, great back. And
- 23:30Speaker 1: then like in Week one, Meridian just you know, tore
- 23:34Speaker 1: them apart and they they kind of just like it
- 23:36Speaker 1: was a tough one after that, and uh, and I
- 23:39Speaker 1: think that I think those teams those early two thousands team,
- 23:42Speaker 1: those were coached by Jamie Plankovic. They were really, really
- 23:45Speaker 1: good teams, and Meridian went on to win state title
- 23:48Speaker 1: that year. But it was kind of a shocker, like
- 23:51Speaker 1: in week one at Civic that, Wow, the Trojans like
- 23:54Speaker 1: handle those guys that are all going to go to college,
- 23:56Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and it just and then there's been
- 23:58Speaker 1: some downtimes and some sharp moments up but it's hard
- 24:02Speaker 1: to believe it's spend that long. And so I know
- 24:04Speaker 1: people are listening saying, wasn't last week's game a playoff game? No,
- 24:07Speaker 1: I'm talking about actual state playoffs. That was technically a
- 24:10Speaker 1: play in game to get to the the round of
- 24:12Speaker 1: sixteen is really when the state playoffs start. You could
- 24:14Speaker 1: call that a postseason game if you want, but.
- 24:18Speaker 2: It's not a state Yeah, it's not really counted the same.
- 24:22Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's a it's a it's truly a play
- 24:25Speaker 2: in game, is what.
- 24:26Speaker 1: Yeah, it really is.
- 24:27Speaker 2: Yeah, it absolutely is. Yeah. I mean I remember one
- 24:30Speaker 2: time there was a I did a preview of a
- 24:34Speaker 2: team and and and I said something, you know, oh,
- 24:37Speaker 2: they haven't won a playoff game since you know, blah
- 24:40Speaker 2: blah whatever, and he when he this, dad emailed me
- 24:43Speaker 2: and he just lost his mind and he's like, what
- 24:46Speaker 2: do you mean we've won back to back years And
- 24:48Speaker 2: I said, nah, you haven't. You have won a week ten.
- 24:51Speaker 2: Like I hate, I hate to say it to you,
- 24:53Speaker 2: but go check the w i AA records. They don't
- 24:56Speaker 2: pop up. Maybe you're not going to pop up there,
- 24:59Speaker 2: and you you know, it's it is what it is.
- 25:01Speaker 2: I mean, it's the state tournament. I mean, granted, I
- 25:04Speaker 2: wish they would just make the state tournament the thirty two. Like,
- 25:07Speaker 2: I don't know why they still stick with the districts.
- 25:09Speaker 2: I'm sure there are some stupid money reason why they
- 25:11Speaker 2: do it, but yeah, I don't know. Anyway, See home
- 25:16Speaker 2: seven and three Othello nine and one two pm at
- 25:20Speaker 2: Othello High School. If you're headed out that way, Tyler,
- 25:23Speaker 2: I'll give you a couple of recommendations food wise. Yeah,
- 25:28Speaker 2: Chico's Pizza in Moses Lake. I'm not kidding you when
- 25:33Speaker 2: I say this, Tyler. You have you worked in a
- 25:35Speaker 2: kitchen before?
- 25:37Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah?
- 25:38Speaker 2: Okay, so you know what a hotel pan is, right?
- 25:40Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 25:41Speaker 2: Okay? You know like the deep ones, like the ones
- 25:44Speaker 2: that are about four inches deep, you know.
- 25:46Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
- 25:48Speaker 2: I walked so it Chicos, and I don't know if
- 25:50Speaker 2: you could still do this there. I walked by. When
- 25:54Speaker 2: you walk in, you can like see them making the
- 25:56Speaker 2: pizzas as you're walking, you know, to your table or whatever.
- 25:59Speaker 2: And I stopped and I take a quick peek because
- 26:01Speaker 2: I'm just like, oh, it's kind of interesting because I
- 26:03Speaker 2: always knew they put a lot of toppings. I mean
- 26:05Speaker 2: a lot of toppings on their pizzas. This guy's got
- 26:09Speaker 2: a hotel pan full of pepperonis and he's just dumping
- 26:12Speaker 2: them on a pizza. He wasn't just taking a handful
- 26:16Speaker 2: and tossing it out there.
- 26:17Speaker 1: Like you know, he's like spilling it.
- 26:19Speaker 2: Yeah, this guy was like making a pizza with gravity.
- 26:22Speaker 2: I mean he was like, I'm just gonna tip and
- 26:25Speaker 2: away she goes, you know, whatever kind of avalanche of
- 26:28Speaker 2: pepperoni we get out of this baby. And I was like,
- 26:32Speaker 2: and the lady goes, oh yeah, and that's kind of
- 26:34Speaker 2: funny to see. Hut. I go, what pizza is that?
- 26:36Speaker 2: I want it? And I need large, and she's specific, yeah, yeah.
- 26:41Speaker 2: She just started cracking up, and it was I got
- 26:43Speaker 2: the meat lovers there and had bacon and I don't
- 26:46Speaker 2: know if it was called meat Lovers, but it was
- 26:47Speaker 2: like all the meats, you know what I mean. I
- 26:50Speaker 2: took home a couple of pieces and or to a hotel.
- 26:53Speaker 2: I was staying in the hotel on my way out
- 26:54Speaker 2: to Eastern Washington University, and the next morning I woke up,
- 27:00Speaker 2: took a couple bites and I was like, wow, this
- 27:01Speaker 2: is I'm not a huge cold pizza guy, but it
- 27:05Speaker 2: was just as good cold as it was hot, you know,
- 27:07Speaker 2: like the day before it was wild.
- 27:09Speaker 1: But that's a true tell of a good pizza though.
- 27:12Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, if it's still good, yeah yeah.
- 27:16Speaker 2: The other place Pothole's General Store. If you want yourself
- 27:21Speaker 2: a good burger, Wiley All read, the head coach at
- 27:23Speaker 2: Royal owns it. Pothole's General Store. Go get yourself a
- 27:27Speaker 2: bacon cheeseburger. I swear they like kill the pig earlier
- 27:30Speaker 2: in the day, you know what I mean. They slaughtered
- 27:32Speaker 2: the pig, and then you got bacon like an hour later.
- 27:35Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how it works, but that
- 27:37Speaker 2: bacon is so stinking good man. They got good burgers
- 27:39Speaker 2: out there, let me tell you. And if you walk
- 27:41Speaker 2: in and you mentioned that you know, Wyley all read
- 27:44Speaker 2: it won't help you, but you know you might want
- 27:45Speaker 2: it to give it a shot or something. Oh and
- 27:47Speaker 2: they have good ice cream there too, Like fresh ice
- 27:49Speaker 2: cream is unbelievable. And I'm getting hungry thinking about it, Tyler.
- 27:52Speaker 2: It's ten thirty eight. I can't be hungry at this
- 27:54Speaker 2: time of the night. Get over here having to wake
- 27:57Speaker 2: up and go to the bathroom at three am, five
- 28:00Speaker 2: seven and three Linden nine and one two pm Ferndale
- 28:03Speaker 2: High School. It's kind of funny how these all these
- 28:06Speaker 2: games are happening and nobody's actually playing at their homeschool, Tyler,
- 28:09Speaker 2: other than Old Fellow, right.
- 28:11Speaker 1: But the crazy thing is they're all playing, you know,
- 28:13Speaker 1: other than Sea Home, at the same place they played
- 28:16Speaker 1: that last week. It's like that, it's like a familiarity
- 28:18Speaker 1: that they're kind of in right now. And before I
- 28:22Speaker 1: just want to say one more food thing while you're
- 28:23Speaker 1: still kind of hungry. Yeah, And you know, before I
- 28:27Speaker 1: went to this place in Canada called Sunrise Pizza on
- 28:30Speaker 1: Commercial Have that was the best pizza I've ever had.
- 28:34Speaker 1: But before that, the best place was actually in Kirkland.
- 28:39Speaker 2: Hold on, can you I mean it would please tell me.
- 28:42Speaker 2: You're not going to say Zeke's no pizza in Kirkland, Well,
- 28:48Speaker 2: there was, Pietro's. No. The only other one I can
- 28:52Speaker 2: think of is what is the place that's right over here?
- 28:56Speaker 2: It's still there. I can't remember the name of the
- 28:59Speaker 2: place that's really close to my house.
- 29:01Speaker 1: It would have been in the late nineties when I
- 29:02Speaker 1: went there, and it's called Pizza Bank.
- 29:05Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that you know why that place isn't nearly
- 29:07Speaker 2: as good as it used to be. It's really really
- 29:09Speaker 2: greasy now and it's really expensive. But that's right up
- 29:13Speaker 2: next to the King's Gate Ice Arena where the Seattle
- 29:16Speaker 2: Thunderbirds practice for many years. As a matter of fact,
- 29:19Speaker 2: I used to live about two blocks away from that place. Wow. Yeah.
- 29:22Speaker 1: I was in a band with a guy that lived
- 29:23Speaker 1: in Bothel and and we would go up there every
- 29:26Speaker 1: once in a while or go down there, I should say,
- 29:28Speaker 1: and practice and that. And I remember eating there. I
- 29:31Speaker 1: was like, holy cow, this is the best piazza I've
- 29:33Speaker 1: ever had. Now, at that time, I was like twenty.
- 29:36Speaker 2: So I hadn't really Yeah, no, it used to be
- 29:39Speaker 2: a lot, but it used to be a lot better
- 29:41Speaker 2: than it is now. They moved locations just slightly like
- 29:45Speaker 2: a couple places down and I don't know if they
- 29:47Speaker 2: got new ownership or what, but in the last I
- 29:49Speaker 2: would say, fifteen years, it's gotten incredibly expensive and it's
- 29:53Speaker 2: just not nearly as.
- 29:54Speaker 1: Well the original place like used to be a bank, right,
- 29:57Speaker 1: that was the whole Yeah, why they called it's a bank. Yeah,
- 30:00Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's right, but I'm also not you know,
- 30:04Speaker 1: I can't confirm it because I haven't really eaten there
- 30:07Speaker 1: a ton like it's it's always been kind of expensive.
- 30:12Speaker 2: Like, let me just take a look at the pizza
- 30:13Speaker 2: right now. I just want to see. I want to
- 30:15Speaker 2: see what it looks like. Pizza bank right there, says
- 30:17Speaker 2: a full service. Let's see. Oh the cheesecake looks good.
- 30:23Speaker 2: Let me tell you. Oh yeah, yeah, the pizza still
- 30:27Speaker 2: looks the same from the last time I was there. Yeah,
- 30:30Speaker 2: I don't know. Last couple of times I was there
- 30:32Speaker 2: was just man, it was really really greasy. I couldn't
- 30:34Speaker 2: believe it.
- 30:35Speaker 1: I can hear witmen in the background go talk about.
- 30:37Speaker 2: Up the game. No, women's going, uh what's going on here? Uh? Yeah?
- 30:48Speaker 2: Are we onto the game? Did I mention the game? Five? Yeah?
- 30:51Speaker 1: Fife and Linen and this is one where it feels
- 30:53Speaker 1: like there's been some history recently in playoff games as well.
- 30:57Speaker 1: And yeah, and Fife always seems to be big and
- 31:02Speaker 1: strong and run the ball. And that's just in my
- 31:05Speaker 1: head now, I don't know anything else, Like I don't
- 31:08Speaker 1: know if they've changed their methods, but that's kind of
- 31:12Speaker 1: the same thing. I feel like if someone was down
- 31:14Speaker 1: there and they were gonna play Mount Baker, they would
- 31:16Speaker 1: say like, yeah, there aren't they big and physical and
- 31:18Speaker 1: run the ball. Like that's just you know, kind of
- 31:21Speaker 1: like they hearsay right Lynnon right now as boy, they
- 31:25Speaker 1: are really clicking on all their cylinders, and I just
- 31:31Speaker 1: I really find it hard for them to be taken
- 31:34Speaker 1: down at this point, if at all. I mean, they're
- 31:37Speaker 1: just they're looking so sharp right now and that that
- 31:41Speaker 1: young defense is paying dividends now. I mean, they don't
- 31:45Speaker 1: know any better. They came into it and they needed
- 31:48Speaker 1: to be coached and they needed to be taught. They
- 31:51Speaker 1: know everything now it's going so well. You know, they
- 31:55Speaker 1: have stars at each level now. I mean Parker Williams
- 31:58Speaker 1: up front is just a b you know, Malachi Canan
- 32:02Speaker 1: and right there in the middle of the field is fantastic.
- 32:04Speaker 1: Isaiah Audman on the edge is great. Brodie Price as
- 32:07Speaker 1: a safety has really turned it on. Yeah, it's just
- 32:11Speaker 1: been it's been so fun to watch. I mean, they
- 32:14Speaker 1: just swarm to the ball. The offense is.
- 32:18Speaker 2: I have.
- 32:19Speaker 1: You know, I've seen Lindon in person only twice this year,
- 32:23Speaker 1: and but it's just so machine like I mean, and
- 32:27Speaker 1: it's been recent. I saw them last week, and I
- 32:29Speaker 1: saw them a couple of weeks ago when they hosted Lakewood,
- 32:32Speaker 1: and and I love just watching Brent Hepner just stamp
- 32:36Speaker 1: back there and just pick up our defenses and throwing
- 32:40Speaker 1: a ball to an area where it's at first it's
- 32:43Speaker 1: like what and it's like, oh my goodness, it's perfect,
- 32:45Speaker 1: Like everything's working so well right now. Yeah, it's it's
- 32:53Speaker 1: it's it could be another one of those games where
- 32:55Speaker 1: you're gonna see some freshmen coming at the end, or
- 32:58Speaker 1: at least I'm hoping so. But again, this seems like
- 33:00Speaker 1: a second round matchup as far as you know, this
- 33:04Speaker 1: round of thirty two now in the two A and
- 33:06Speaker 1: one A and stuff like that is it's it's making
- 33:08Speaker 1: better matchups early on, you know what I mean, Like
- 33:11Speaker 1: you're truly getting the best sixteen in and where it
- 33:15Speaker 1: seems like maybe, uh, you know, this would have been
- 33:19Speaker 1: a second round matchup. Now it's a first round matchup,
- 33:21Speaker 1: so you know, maybe Linden will have to you know,
- 33:24Speaker 1: buckle of chimp straps a little bit longer in this
- 33:26Speaker 1: one and and just kind of see what Fife has
- 33:29Speaker 1: to offer. But you know, I love the matchup right
- 33:31Speaker 1: now for Lindon being the four seed playing out at
- 33:36Speaker 1: Ferndale High School, which a place they've really you know,
- 33:41Speaker 1: held onto now and played well there. I mean they
- 33:44Speaker 1: you know, they were out there for the for the
- 33:47Speaker 1: jamboree right before this, you know, the season started, and
- 33:50Speaker 1: then they're and they're playing this next week in that
- 33:52Speaker 1: stadium with that great comeback against Ferndale and they had
- 33:54Speaker 1: the big blowout win last week, and so you know,
- 33:57Speaker 1: they're feeling they're feeling pretty good, and they have every
- 33:59Speaker 1: reason to be and good.
- 34:00Speaker 2: They might have played as many games there as ferndiald did.
- 34:04Speaker 2: I mean exactly. It's getting pretty close. It is. Yeah,
- 34:08Speaker 2: Fight seven and three Linden at nine and one two
- 34:12Speaker 2: pm at Ferndale High School. Zilla eight and two coming
- 34:16Speaker 2: over to take on Knooksack Valley. There also eight and two.
- 34:19Speaker 2: That's a four pm game at Civic Stadium. Tyler Zilla
- 34:21Speaker 2: a team. I mean, I say we I didn't see
- 34:24Speaker 2: him last week. You did, and so did Mount Baker. Yeah,
- 34:28Speaker 2: the Leopards, I can't imagine. They've spent a lot of
- 34:32Speaker 2: time in Wakam County, but they are on their way. Yeah.
- 34:35Speaker 1: I mean they're you know, even over here. You know
- 34:38Speaker 1: in Walkom County. The first thing you think of when
- 34:40Speaker 1: you're Zillo is you think basketball. Yeah, and so it's
- 34:44Speaker 1: that's just the way of it. But boy, I saw
- 34:46Speaker 1: every play of that game last week. I saw it
- 34:48Speaker 1: twice and parts of it three times, and they were
- 34:55Speaker 1: really good. Quarterback was nothing flashy, but gets the job done.
- 35:02Speaker 1: You know, he's not Brent Hepner back there, but he's
- 35:05Speaker 1: he's pretty good. He knews when to get rid of
- 35:07Speaker 1: the ball, which was, you know, a good thing to
- 35:10Speaker 1: have for a high school quarterback. He doesn't he doesn't
- 35:11Speaker 1: hold on to it and try to wait for the
- 35:13Speaker 1: last second, like you could tell he's played the position
- 35:15Speaker 1: for a while. They got a kid, number fifty who's
- 35:19Speaker 1: a stud. I mean he's he's like a guard outside linebacker,
- 35:23Speaker 1: stand up defensive end, cut type kid. He's really really good,
- 35:28Speaker 1: and I think it's gonna be a lot of you know,
- 35:31Speaker 1: does nooksack Valley. How do you attack a get a
- 35:35Speaker 1: kid on the edge. Do you just go away from
- 35:38Speaker 1: him all the time or sometimes they like to just
- 35:41Speaker 1: go right at their best player, you know, and and
- 35:45Speaker 1: you know you double team him or do whatever instead
- 35:47Speaker 1: of letting him kind of try to come around and
- 35:49Speaker 1: get get you. That's going to be really interesting. He's
- 35:53Speaker 1: a heck of a player, and Zilla is pretty big
- 35:57Speaker 1: up front. They got a huge nose tackle that's going
- 35:59Speaker 1: to be tough to defend or tough to go against.
- 36:02Speaker 1: I should say, uh. Cohen Hofford, the new center for
- 36:05Speaker 1: Kooksycke Valley, is a big kid himself. That's gonna be
- 36:07Speaker 1: a great, great matchup between those two guys, you know,
- 36:11Speaker 1: Will Well the Pioneers try to establish the run or
- 36:16Speaker 1: are they gonna just do a lot of passing on
- 36:19Speaker 1: the outside. I mean, they completed twenty five passes last week.
- 36:22Speaker 1: That's that's the most they've completed in a while. I
- 36:25Speaker 1: don't I don't even know if Joey Brown ever completed
- 36:28Speaker 1: twenty five passes in the game and his little brother
- 36:30Speaker 1: did it last week. So they have those weapons on
- 36:34Speaker 1: the outside, and it really it really depends on how
- 36:37Speaker 1: the defense lines up, right, I mean, the k Nookside
- 36:40Speaker 1: Valley likes to line up and they call out the numbers,
- 36:42Speaker 1: they look to the side and then you know, if
- 36:46Speaker 1: someone sees something that's advantageous, then they'll call something and
- 36:49Speaker 1: then they'll you know, call that and then they'll do it.
- 36:52Speaker 1: So that's what's nice about having that kind of offense
- 36:55Speaker 1: is you can see something from up top and the booth.
- 36:58Speaker 1: You know, coach Jackerman's see something, he'll say something, and
- 37:02Speaker 1: then they'll do something. So that's gonna be really interesting.
- 37:06Speaker 1: Zilla Zilla is I I want to say that it's
- 37:12Speaker 1: this is kind of weird to say, but I think
- 37:13Speaker 1: they're run first. But they threw the ball a lot
- 37:16Speaker 1: last week because the runs just weren't doing it. Now,
- 37:19Speaker 1: they did spring some long ones and there was you
- 37:22Speaker 1: know some they had a quarter. They had a touchdown
- 37:26Speaker 1: pass to their running back as well. But you know,
- 37:30Speaker 1: I think that this will be a really really good
- 37:32Speaker 1: matchup actually, and I and you know, Knooksack Valley will
- 37:35Speaker 1: have to be ready, but they're just so good, you know,
- 37:39Speaker 1: the Pioneers are really really good. They really feel like
- 37:41Speaker 1: they're on a mission. There's not a lot you have
- 37:44Speaker 1: to kind of change with what they're doing. They're they're
- 37:48Speaker 1: kind of set up to defend a lot of different
- 37:49Speaker 1: kinds of offenses just with their size and their length,
- 37:52Speaker 1: especially in the middle of the field. And you know
- 37:56Speaker 1: though they they can get pressure with three guys. You know,
- 38:00Speaker 1: you can play man with those corners. Like they have
- 38:02Speaker 1: the guys to do this kind of job right now.
- 38:05Speaker 1: And so it's gonna be a great, great game. I
- 38:08Speaker 1: feel like, uh, you know, playing it at Civic is
- 38:11Speaker 1: gonna be a huge help for them, you know, Zilla
- 38:14Speaker 1: having to come across the mountains and stuff like that.
- 38:16Speaker 1: So it's gonna be it's gonna be an awesome one.
- 38:17Speaker 1: I'm excited for it.
- 38:19Speaker 2: Just looking over Zilla's roster here, they got some interesting names.
- 38:22Speaker 2: Tyler MHM, Decker, Vandergraft d e K K E R
- 38:27Speaker 2: vand g R A A F. That's a great name. Yes,
- 38:32Speaker 2: four names, yeah, four names. Number eighty eight Tyler sixty
- 38:36Speaker 2: five pound uh senior tight end. The linebacker Alex Rodriguez
- 38:42Speaker 2: didn't know he had eligibility. No Lincoln Hazard, what a
- 38:46Speaker 2: great last name hazard. Yeah, you know number twenty four,
- 38:49Speaker 2: Maverick Myers. This is I mean, that's a great name,
- 38:53Speaker 2: Maverick Myers. Like my first my first car was a
- 38:56Speaker 2: Ford Maverick Myers. Uh. And he's he's only a freshman.
- 39:00Speaker 2: They've got some freshmen on their their roster here, Sunny Strong.
- 39:05Speaker 2: I mean, I appreciate some sunny strong, you know what
- 39:09Speaker 2: I mean, Like better than cloudy week, you know what
- 39:12Speaker 2: I mean? Anyway, Tyler eight and two, Zilla, eight and two,
- 39:18Speaker 2: Nuksack Valley, four PM, Civic Stadium. Let's see here. Well,
- 39:23Speaker 2: I guess if you want to know what the weather
- 39:26Speaker 2: is going to be like, they got to go to
- 39:28Speaker 2: Randy Small. Now that being said, Tyler, the only game
- 39:31Speaker 2: that doesn't have a roof is seahom Othello, it's the
- 39:35Speaker 2: only one. I mean, yeah, yeah, I could name on
- 39:39Speaker 2: one hand the amount of roofs on the eastern side
- 39:42Speaker 2: of the state. As a matter of fact, when ACTI
- 39:47Speaker 2: kind of has one, it's like covers, like I don't know,
- 39:50Speaker 2: maybe forty percent of their home stands. The only other
- 39:54Speaker 2: ones I can think of Odessa. Odessa has one. It's
- 40:01Speaker 2: like an old, old wooden stadium. And Lynn Ritzville, Sprague
- 40:06Speaker 2: they or I guess it's Ritzville maybe. I mean it's
- 40:09Speaker 2: all three schools that's where they play, you know, like
- 40:11Speaker 2: it's one school, but it's in Ritzville. Other than that, man,
- 40:15Speaker 2: I can't think of any of them to do because
- 40:17Speaker 2: all the all of the big stadiums, none of them
- 40:19Speaker 2: have have a roof because it just doesn't you know,
- 40:22Speaker 2: there's not enough rain and stuff over there.
- 40:25Speaker 1: It just seems it just seems odd to me.
- 40:27Speaker 2: But I guess you're right, yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm
- 40:29Speaker 2: just I'm racking my brain right now. None of the
- 40:32Speaker 2: act school roy doesn't have a roof, No, no, no,
- 40:36Speaker 2: And even if they did, the people would probably just
- 40:38Speaker 2: stay out from underneath it. They're tough like that over there.
- 40:42Speaker 2: None of the tri city schools do. None of the
- 40:44Speaker 2: Spokean schools do, although I haven't seen Pullman or No,
- 40:49Speaker 2: Pullman doesn't. Wow, Yeah, none of them do that I
- 40:52Speaker 2: can think. And it's and really Odessa and Ritzville those
- 40:56Speaker 2: are two, like really really old. I think it's Odessa
- 40:59Speaker 2: that I'm thinking of, really really old wooden you know,
- 41:03Speaker 2: the stands only go from the forty to the forty
- 41:06Speaker 2: you know, type of thing, and really cool places, fun
- 41:10Speaker 2: places to watch a game. Other than that, yeah, I
- 41:13Speaker 2: can't think of any of them that do interesting. Maybe
- 41:16Speaker 2: I'm off here, but yeah, anyway, Randy Small, he's got
- 41:20Speaker 2: a weather forecast. You can find him online Facebook dot com, backslash,
- 41:23Speaker 2: Watcom County Weather, or his website Watcom countywx dot com.
- 41:29Speaker 2: You'd also find him on Twitter at Randy Small. Yeah,
- 41:33Speaker 2: he's got a weather forecast and we are happy to
- 41:36Speaker 2: have him presented every week. So Randy, go ahead, take
- 41:38Speaker 2: it away.
- 41:40Speaker 3: It's playoff football time. This is Randy Small, Wakam County Weather,
- 41:44Speaker 3: and we're looking forward to a slate of four games
- 41:47Speaker 3: this weekend, all on Saturday. The game that actually might
- 41:50Speaker 3: have the best weather is the game that is at
- 41:52Speaker 3: O Fellow Seahome at Othello. Looks to be maybe even
- 41:55Speaker 3: a little bit of sunshine. It will be cool to
- 41:57Speaker 3: crisp probably low four pies there for kickoff, but I
- 42:02Speaker 3: think their rain holds off till the evening. The games
- 42:06Speaker 3: in Wakham County, the one o'clock Linden Christian Game, the
- 42:09Speaker 3: two o'clock Linden game, and the four o'clock Knooks That
- 42:11Speaker 3: game all have the potential of rain just depends on
- 42:14Speaker 3: the timing of the system on Saturday, but we do
- 42:16Speaker 3: have a precip coming in. If it holds off, it
- 42:20Speaker 3: may hold off for the first game or part of it,
- 42:23Speaker 3: but I'm expecting perhaps all three of them to see
- 42:26Speaker 3: precipitation attempts will be cool, probably in the mid forties,
- 42:30Speaker 3: and then wind also could be a slight factor as
- 42:34Speaker 3: well from the south, especially since those games are all
- 42:37Speaker 3: kind of closer to the water, Blaine, Ferndale, and Bellingham,
- 42:40Speaker 3: So we'll just have to play it by ear but
- 42:43Speaker 3: keep in mind I think rain could be for sure
- 42:45Speaker 3: by the late game is going to be rain, so
- 42:49Speaker 3: we'll just look forward to no matter what comes, hopefully
- 42:52Speaker 3: some big wins for all of our teams. Also, just
- 42:55Speaker 3: wanted to again shout out to Tyler for all he
- 42:58Speaker 3: does for walking preps. There's a little donate button right
- 43:01Speaker 3: above where we do this the podcast every week where
- 43:05Speaker 3: he does it and I throw in my weather report,
- 43:07Speaker 3: but just get that donate. Give him five bucks, give
- 43:10Speaker 3: him ten bucks. He's doing this as a dream and
- 43:13Speaker 3: I think we should all support him if we can,
- 43:15Speaker 3: so feel free to do that again. Thanks to Tyler
- 43:18Speaker 3: and Ryland for let me do this for another season.
- 43:20Speaker 3: We'll see you next week, hopefully four more games to
- 43:22Speaker 3: do next week.
- 43:24Speaker 2: Again. Thank you to Randy Small for the weather forecast.
- 43:27Speaker 2: Find him online, Facebook, dot com, slash Watcom County Weather
- 43:31Speaker 2: and Wacom County WX dot com Twitter. Randy Small always
- 43:35Speaker 2: tweeting not only his own pictures, but other people's pictures
- 43:39Speaker 2: and weather events going on around the world. It seems like,
- 43:44Speaker 2: I mean, I've seen I've seen him like repost some
- 43:47Speaker 2: stuff where I'm like, Randy, why are you reposting something
- 43:50Speaker 2: from like, you know, Latvia, Like, who cares, Randy? They
- 43:54Speaker 2: got nothing to do with Wakham County. Randy.
- 43:57Speaker 1: He just loves the weather.
- 43:58Speaker 2: Yeah, he does. The guy. Whether you like it or okay, Yeah, yeah,
- 44:01Speaker 2: let's not go there. Okay, Oh my goodness, whether you
- 44:05Speaker 2: like it or not? Yeah, anyway, uh, picklems Tyler, We've
- 44:09Speaker 2: got a guest picker, Alan fee Kpug, host of the
- 44:13Speaker 2: Zone on Kpug The Zone. Yeah, Alan Fied Tyler, tell
- 44:19Speaker 2: me about him.
- 44:20Speaker 1: Yeah, so, Alan, you know, kind of had the unenviable
- 44:23Speaker 1: task of following Mark Skulton after his death. Mark Skulton
- 44:27Speaker 1: was a part of the Zone for almost thirty years
- 44:30Speaker 1: and him and Doug Lang for the first twenty five
- 44:33Speaker 1: or so. And that's the show. That's the local show.
- 44:36Speaker 1: I mean, it's a that's where I won, oh my goodness,
- 44:39Speaker 1: probably close to one hundred tickets, you know, as far
- 44:44Speaker 1: as Sonics and Mariners over the years, and winning free pizzas,
- 44:48Speaker 1: and you know, they'd have a big old dumb Game
- 44:50Speaker 1: of the Day and they do all these things. And
- 44:52Speaker 1: then there was a big void when we lost Mark
- 44:55Speaker 1: Skulton and Alan Feet took over and al what's what's
- 44:58Speaker 1: great about Alan is that you know, he went see
- 45:00Speaker 1: home high School's he's from here. You graduated with coach
- 45:03Speaker 1: Plankovic and he's friends with those guys. And he did
- 45:06Speaker 1: a lot of FM stuff, you know in the late
- 45:09Speaker 1: eighties and I remember, I mean I remember, you know,
- 45:12Speaker 1: Rick and Allen in the Morning and that was that
- 45:15Speaker 1: was you know, a big, big deal. And then and
- 45:18Speaker 1: then he's but he's been to a lot of different
- 45:19Speaker 1: media markets. He was in Cleveland for fifteen years and
- 45:22Speaker 1: he's been in all over the place and met a
- 45:24Speaker 1: lot of people and done all these things. And now
- 45:26Speaker 1: he's back home and and uh doing the zone he does.
- 45:29Speaker 1: It's a three hour show every single day from three
- 45:32Speaker 1: to six and they you know, they do the Friday
- 45:34Speaker 1: Night Lights where they go out to a school and
- 45:36Speaker 1: they're there for four hours and it's a big production,
- 45:39Speaker 1: like kind of the you know, like a game day
- 45:42Speaker 1: feel to it. There's a whole background, there's you sit
- 45:44Speaker 1: there and you pick your winter. I mean it's you know,
- 45:47Speaker 1: I've been I've been to three or four of them,
- 45:49Speaker 1: and you know he's always gracious and plugging, you know,
- 45:53Speaker 1: the podcast and walking preps and go there. That's the
- 45:56Speaker 1: that's where you find out your stuff. You know, he's
- 45:59Speaker 1: almost downgrading him up. He's like, don't listen to me.
- 46:01Speaker 1: Listen to him. He makes me smarter. And so he's
- 46:03Speaker 1: just a great guy and really been fun getting to
- 46:06Speaker 1: know him personally and and uh and just have fun
- 46:09Speaker 1: with him. And so I asked him a while back
- 46:12Speaker 1: if you want to be a guest picker, and he
- 46:14Speaker 1: said absolutely, and he's honored to do it. So so
- 46:17Speaker 1: he's doing it. And he's always rooting for his Seahome Mariners,
- 46:20Speaker 1: being a Seahome alum, so glad that they're still in it.
- 46:22Speaker 2: While he gets to pick Tyler. Do you think that
- 46:24Speaker 2: if he was in a was in a go kart.
- 46:27Speaker 2: You think you'd go face first into a wall? Well,
- 46:32Speaker 2: does he have glasses to knock off? See, I don't
- 46:36Speaker 2: how about a hell yeah? Yeah, I mean I know
- 46:40Speaker 2: what you're getting at. But that was that was me,
- 46:43Speaker 2: That was not him in the video. Uh yeah, Tyler,
- 46:47Speaker 2: you are sixty and twenty one. Mikayla fifty eight and
- 46:49Speaker 2: twenty three. Jeff is also fifty eight and twenty three.
- 46:52Speaker 2: I'm fifty nine and twenty two. By the way, Michayla
- 46:54Speaker 2: making a comeback, she is absolutely I mean she was big. Yeah,
- 46:59Speaker 2: she picked she picked her away over Ferndale.
- 47:01Speaker 1: That was huge. She's the only one to get the
- 47:02Speaker 1: got that one. And she's slowly like one game at
- 47:05Speaker 1: a time kind of coming back. She was down or
- 47:08Speaker 1: three or four games there for a while.
- 47:09Speaker 2: Yeah, she was. She was hovering around the Mendoza line
- 47:12Speaker 2: with Beard and Uh, Jeff is fifty eight and twenty three.
- 47:16Speaker 2: I'm fifty nine to twenty two. The guests are leading
- 47:19Speaker 2: sixty three and eighteen, Joe sixty two and nineteen. Now, Tyler,
- 47:24Speaker 2: let's see if everybody can stick with me here on
- 47:27Speaker 2: who's all getting picks this week. It's tough to figure
- 47:32Speaker 2: this all out because we're all picking Walkham County teams.
- 47:35Speaker 2: That's it. Yeah, so now that's going to change.
- 47:38Speaker 1: It's an easy graphic to make, I'll tell you that.
- 47:40Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I mean yeah, it's probably about as easy
- 47:43Speaker 2: it's ever gonna again for you.
- 47:45Speaker 1: Right, I mean, because all the Walking County teams are
- 47:47Speaker 1: already in there.
- 47:48Speaker 2: Yeah, you's got to turn it on. Bam, bam, bam.
- 47:50Speaker 2: You just gotta go right right down the list, you know, Tyler,
- 47:54Speaker 2: some things I do for you, I actually work out
- 47:56Speaker 2: pretty well. That one. That one works out really well, Yes,
- 48:00Speaker 2: it did.
- 48:01Speaker 1: So.
- 48:02Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we could pretty much just lock it
- 48:04Speaker 2: in right now. The guests they are going to be
- 48:05Speaker 2: in the lead next week too, Yep, exactly. We just
- 48:09Speaker 2: we just got to hope that they are sixty seven
- 48:11Speaker 2: and eighteen. You know, let's just give us some more
- 48:14Speaker 2: teams to talk about next week, Tyler. The only thing
- 48:17Speaker 2: we got left here is the fantasy. And Tyler, you
- 48:19Speaker 2: got me last week. It was like one ninety something
- 48:22Speaker 2: to like one forty something or one twenty.
- 48:23Speaker 1: Something, yeah, something around there.
- 48:25Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got you got me good? After I
- 48:27Speaker 2: kind of took it to you for a few weeks
- 48:29Speaker 2: in a row there. Now it's five and five on
- 48:32Speaker 2: the year. This is kind of tough because we don't
- 48:36Speaker 2: know when it's gonna end. I mean, if it gets
- 48:39Speaker 2: down to just maybe one team next week, then then
- 48:42Speaker 2: I mean it's pretty much over. I mean this could
- 48:44Speaker 2: be the last one. I mean it really could.
- 48:46Speaker 1: Yeah, and then and which would mean that this one
- 48:48Speaker 1: decides it.
- 48:49Speaker 2: Really yeah, I mean, any of one of these games
- 48:51Speaker 2: could be the could be the end. Now, Tyler, what
- 48:55Speaker 2: happens if we ended a tie, if we like, if
- 48:57Speaker 2: we ever figured something out there, like.
- 48:59Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we talked about that once and then we
- 49:02Speaker 1: were gonna go back and count all the points or
- 49:03Speaker 1: something like that. I feel like every year at this
- 49:06Speaker 1: time this comes up and we're always like, yeah, I
- 49:09Speaker 1: don't know, I think that what happened?
- 49:11Speaker 2: You know, sure, because I feel like I'm usually way
- 49:13Speaker 2: ahead by this point. Oh okay, I mean I'm pretty
- 49:18Speaker 2: sure by the time we hit the state tournament it's
- 49:20Speaker 2: it's you know, lights out. I mean, I think we
- 49:23Speaker 2: got to come up with a with the how about
- 49:26Speaker 2: this whoever? Just because it's the typically like one of
- 49:30Speaker 2: the lower numbers here, m hmm. If if a season,
- 49:35Speaker 2: if the season ends tied. Whoever had the most defensive
- 49:39Speaker 2: points in the final week wins.
- 49:44Speaker 1: From your defensive team that you chose, your defensive team,
- 49:48Speaker 1: just just the defensive team, not the team ends.
- 49:50Speaker 2: So like this week, if if you pick Blaine and
- 49:52Speaker 2: I pick Nooksack Valley, it's probably gonna be me because
- 49:56Speaker 2: Blaine ain't playing. Okay, it's the defensive team. Only the
- 50:02Speaker 2: defensive team.
- 50:03Speaker 1: Interesting, Okay, I like it.
- 50:04Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like to me, that's the way
- 50:07Speaker 2: of saying, like points at points allowed, you know what
- 50:09Speaker 2: I mean. Like, I've never understood why teams are why
- 50:13Speaker 2: leagues would use point differential. It's never made sense to
- 50:16Speaker 2: me because all it means is, hey, last chance of
- 50:18Speaker 2: the year, let's just run up a score exactly.
- 50:20Speaker 1: Then there's teams running up and I hate that.
- 50:22Speaker 2: Yeah, so why not why not just do points allowed?
- 50:25Speaker 2: You know what I mean? So, to me, defensive on
- 50:27Speaker 2: here is points allowed.
- 50:29Speaker 1: Yep.
- 50:30Speaker 2: I think that's what we go with. So if if
- 50:33Speaker 2: say we get to say, say I win this week
- 50:35Speaker 2: and you win next week, but I win, you know,
- 50:38Speaker 2: I have more defensive points. I have seven defensive points
- 50:41Speaker 2: and you have six next week, then win, got it? Yeah,
- 50:45Speaker 2: so I think that's the way we do it. Defensive
- 50:47Speaker 2: points is the is the tie breaker. Now for some reason,
- 50:50Speaker 2: we both have the same amount of defensive points. Then
- 50:52Speaker 2: I say it just goes right down the list. Front seven, back, seven, kicker.
- 50:56Speaker 2: We just you know, work our way down until it
- 50:58Speaker 2: until a tie is broken. Or maybe we'd go offensive
- 51:02Speaker 2: line because that's the only other one that's a that's
- 51:03Speaker 2: a team number. Yea, yeah, let's go offensive line. We'll
- 51:06Speaker 2: go defense and then offensive line because that's a that's
- 51:08Speaker 2: a team number, not a not an athlete. So all right,
- 51:12Speaker 2: I get first pick. I am gonna go with the
- 51:15Speaker 2: big man. I think I just saw it somewhere Tyler.
- 51:19Speaker 2: What Northwest Conference Offensive Player of the Year.
- 51:22Speaker 1: I think, yeah, the Northwest Yeah, the two way Northwest
- 51:25Speaker 1: Conference Offensive Player.
- 51:26Speaker 2: Of the year. Yeah. I'll tak Bran Hepner at quarterback.
- 51:28Speaker 1: All right, yeah, I mean, my goodness, he's clicking right now.
- 51:32Speaker 1: And when he gets to playoff time, he runs a
- 51:35Speaker 1: little bit more too, especially when you get inside that
- 51:37Speaker 1: goal line and he can power some in so you
- 51:39Speaker 1: kind of get a little double dipping there with the
- 51:41Speaker 1: throwing and the running. What Yeah, that's what I said.
- 51:46Speaker 1: I am gonna pick two and I'm gonna go you know,
- 51:52Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the running back. I don't think
- 51:54Speaker 1: it has been picked this year, but I have a
- 51:58Speaker 1: really good feeling just because he's really come on recently.
- 52:00Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Max assinc Of Linden, and I'm sticking
- 52:04Speaker 1: with Linden. I'm going to pick their offensive line too,
- 52:07Speaker 1: so we're We're a lot of Linden Lions here with
- 52:10Speaker 1: our first three picks, so I have a feeling that
- 52:13Speaker 1: will probably vary it up, but right now we're going
- 52:15Speaker 1: pretty heavy on Linden.
- 52:16Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not like, I'm not mathematic, you know, I'm
- 52:20Speaker 2: not real good at stuff like that. But I believe
- 52:22Speaker 2: right now we're on pace to pick nothing but Linden.
- 52:25Speaker 2: I think you're right.
- 52:28Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen, but we're on pace.
- 52:30Speaker 2: No, it's definitely not gonna happen because I'm gonna take
- 52:31Speaker 2: front seven and I'm going to go with a guy
- 52:34Speaker 2: that's going to be relied on big time this week.
- 52:36Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Kolbe Martin out of Nooksack Valley
- 52:39Speaker 2: in my front seven, and I'm going to go Carl
- 52:42Speaker 2: Bach in the back seven. I picked him once before
- 52:44Speaker 2: and I can remember, right, I think he had a
- 52:45Speaker 2: really good week for me. We don't know. Fisher Hall
- 52:49Speaker 2: hasn't played in a couple of weeks, I believe, right. Yeah,
- 52:53Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Carl Bach.
- 52:54Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's really come on now now he's in
- 52:56Speaker 1: the top five. Both these guys because of last week's games,
- 53:01Speaker 1: shot up the charts and they're both in the top
- 53:03Speaker 1: five leaders for tackles in the season. So those are
- 53:06Speaker 1: the two new guys that broke into there, and so
- 53:09Speaker 1: those are good guys to pick. I'm gonna go defensive team,
- 53:16Speaker 1: and I'm gonna look, I'm looking at the links here.
- 53:19Speaker 1: I really like the way they just fly to the ball.
- 53:21Speaker 1: They seem to pick off a lot of passes just
- 53:25Speaker 1: they have all those athletes back there. And and every
- 53:30Speaker 1: time I think of Cascade Christian, I think of teams
- 53:32Speaker 1: that just want to throw the ball a lot. So
- 53:34Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be a lot of options for that.
- 53:36Speaker 1: And who knows, if there's a lane, someone could pick
- 53:38Speaker 1: one off and return it all the way for a touchdown.
- 53:41Speaker 1: That's kind of how you get your big points on
- 53:43Speaker 1: the defense. The way I do. It is basically, you
- 53:45Speaker 1: get six for a touchdown, you get two for a safety,
- 53:49Speaker 1: and then if you get a sack that's one. And
- 53:52Speaker 1: any kind of turnovers too, whether it's a fumber recovery
- 53:55Speaker 1: or an interception, there's not Oh if you get a shutout,
- 53:58Speaker 1: that's ten. So there's not a really ton of ways
- 54:02Speaker 1: to get points if you think about it. I mean,
- 54:04Speaker 1: you could play a great game and you can turn
- 54:05Speaker 1: them over once and get one sack, and you can
- 54:08Speaker 1: win forty nine to three and your defense only gets
- 54:10Speaker 1: you three points. So it is kind of tricky. But
- 54:14Speaker 1: but I like the opportunistic play of the links on
- 54:18Speaker 1: defense and Kent Bauma is just awesome defensive coordinator. So
- 54:22Speaker 1: I like that, and I'm gonna go kicker. I'm gonna
- 54:25Speaker 1: go with Grady Evans, And I know that I always
- 54:28Speaker 1: pick guys on turf, and I'm pretty sure this game
- 54:31Speaker 1: is gonna be on grass, so that's kind of an odd,
- 54:34Speaker 1: odd pick for me. But I love what Seem's offense
- 54:37Speaker 1: is doing right now, and they have no fear in
- 54:40Speaker 1: kicking field goals. They don't they don't shy away from that.
- 54:43Speaker 1: Grady Evans has kicked ten field goals in his career.
- 54:45Speaker 1: That's a record for seal My school. So I'm gonna
- 54:47Speaker 1: go with Evans.
- 54:48Speaker 2: A kicker, not a bad choice. Uh okay. So the
- 54:54Speaker 2: only position that hasn't been picked now, I believe is receiver,
- 54:57Speaker 2: right I think, So I'm gonna go. I mean, there's
- 55:01Speaker 2: really only one option at the moment, the guy that's
- 55:02Speaker 2: hotter than Jalapeno's armpit. I'm gonna go. Uh Andre Watson.
- 55:08Speaker 2: Yeah that's not bad. I mean, yeah, you're you're like
- 55:11Speaker 2: son of a well you could. I don't think you
- 55:13Speaker 2: could pick him anyway around.
- 55:13Speaker 1: I couldn't. Yeah, I had I picked him last week,
- 55:15Speaker 1: so he wasn't an option for me.
- 55:16Speaker 2: Had like eight hundred points for you last week. Yeah,
- 55:19Speaker 2: And I'm gonna go. I'm gonna pick a defense here,
- 55:24Speaker 2: and you took Lyndon Christians. So I've got Sea Home,
- 55:28Speaker 2: Linden and Nuksack Valley. I think I'm gonna go. Uh well,
- 55:32Speaker 2: I'm gonna go Linden. We're gonna go. We're gonna go
- 55:34Speaker 2: with the Lions against Fife and they're they're run heavy offense.
- 55:39Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean running against Lyndon's tough, and so that's
- 55:44Speaker 1: that's a great pick. And they will rip the ball out,
- 55:47Speaker 1: they'll do all sorts of things. They've swarmed the ball
- 55:50Speaker 1: and Andre Watson, I mean the game you had last week,
- 55:52Speaker 1: is that the best game a receivers had in Walkham
- 55:55Speaker 1: County history? Yeah, and it's not even close. And like
- 55:59Speaker 1: I was in somebody and I've said it a few
- 56:02Speaker 1: times to a few different people when they were asking
- 56:04Speaker 1: about his performance and stuff like that, and I kind
- 56:07Speaker 1: of go, well, he did this, he did that, And
- 56:08Speaker 1: then my last sentence is he is Jerry Rice. Like,
- 56:12Speaker 1: there's no debating who the best receiver in Walking County
- 56:15Speaker 1: history is. I think at this point, I think that
- 56:17Speaker 1: you could look at like a land in hatchet and say,
- 56:19Speaker 1: there's never been a better center in Walking County history. Like,
- 56:22Speaker 1: I don't think there's a debate there either. But he's
- 56:24Speaker 1: starting to really push himself off as like the best receiver.
- 56:29Speaker 1: Then you can't debate it right now. So that's also
- 56:33Speaker 1: going to be a fantastic pick, just kind of the
- 56:35Speaker 1: way it goes. I also need to pick a receiver
- 56:40Speaker 1: and a quarterback, and I haven't picked any defensive guys.
- 56:43Speaker 1: Always seem to pick defensive guys late for some reason.
- 56:46Speaker 1: I just I don't know what it is, always relying
- 56:49Speaker 1: heavy on some offensive guys, I guess. So I'm going
- 56:52Speaker 1: to go, well, I'm going to go Nolan Wright kind
- 56:56Speaker 1: of you know, through for fourner and sixty seven yards,
- 56:59Speaker 1: the second most in walkin county history, the most ever
- 57:02Speaker 1: in a win.
- 57:05Speaker 2: So oh whoa somebody threw for more in a lost
- 57:09Speaker 2: and fourteen yards Ty Tobenheim of Lyndon.
- 57:13Speaker 1: They lost a squalk him at home in the season finale.
- 57:16Speaker 1: Holy crap, that was that A lot of yards to lose.
- 57:20Speaker 1: That was the state record for a little while. I
- 57:22Speaker 1: think they lost thirty eight twenty eight.
- 57:24Speaker 2: You know, I don't know if he still has the
- 57:28Speaker 2: state record, but I know Brett Rippon originally like he
- 57:32Speaker 2: broke his own record one time and that was also
- 57:36Speaker 2: in a los and.
- 57:38Speaker 1: It was down your throat, you know.
- 57:40Speaker 2: No, they weren't down though. That's the thing. The final
- 57:42Speaker 2: story of the game was really high. And that was
- 57:45Speaker 2: the one where Austin Raiko kicked like a sixty seven
- 57:49Speaker 2: yard or to win it.
- 57:50Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
- 57:52Speaker 2: Yeah. And and I remember texting Cameron van Winkle, who
- 57:55Speaker 2: kicked at you, dub Yeah, And I think he might
- 57:57Speaker 2: have even been in high school at the time. I said, Hey,
- 57:59Speaker 2: did you see that kid kick a sixty seven yard
- 58:01Speaker 2: er to win it? He goes, he goes, yeah, I'm
- 58:04Speaker 2: definitely not gonna downgrade him in saying this. He had
- 58:08Speaker 2: the wind at his back, he goes, and you can
- 58:09Speaker 2: see it. You can see it. He goes, I don't
- 58:12Speaker 2: care how much wind do you have at your back?
- 58:14Speaker 2: Sixty seven yards is ridiculous. He's like, He's like, you
- 58:17Speaker 2: could be in a hurricane and that's insane.
- 58:20Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a guy that knows.
- 58:21Speaker 2: That guy could kick. Yeah, I believe he's still the
- 58:24Speaker 2: state record holder for made field goals. He also, in
- 58:30Speaker 2: his entire so he kicked as a freshman, his entire
- 58:34Speaker 2: high school career, only had one kickoff that was not
- 58:37Speaker 2: a touchback, right.
- 58:39Speaker 1: I remember you telling me about that.
- 58:40Speaker 2: Yeah, because his parents twenty dollars every time he'd kick
- 58:43Speaker 2: when out of out the back of the end zone,
- 58:45Speaker 2: and so he just kept doing it every single time.
- 58:46Speaker 2: Bam bam, awesome. Yeah, it's just wild. And the one
- 58:49Speaker 2: kick that he had, if I remember correctly, it was
- 58:52Speaker 2: caught at like the two by Buddha Baker and he
- 58:55Speaker 2: returned it like sixty yards. Crazy.
- 58:58Speaker 1: Yeah, thank goodness. And I need a receiver and I'm
- 59:08Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm gonna go with the Linden tight end.
- 59:11Speaker 1: Isaiah Audman just named for the third consecutive year as
- 59:15Speaker 1: the All Conference First team tight end. Wow, which is
- 59:18Speaker 1: saying a lot being named over Jack Severs.
- 59:21Speaker 2: Yeah. And also that's saying a lot at a position
- 59:24Speaker 2: like tight end, where you've got to be able to
- 59:27Speaker 2: be physical, you know, and not a lot of guys
- 59:29Speaker 2: are that physical.
- 59:31Speaker 1: As a sophomore, right, yeah, And he won it because
- 59:34Speaker 1: of physicality. A sophomore year, he caught two passes.
- 59:37Speaker 2: And sophomore year, yeah, I remember that. I remember you
- 59:39Speaker 2: telling me and and I remember going, I don't he
- 59:41Speaker 2: didn't catch that many passes, did he? You were like no,
- 59:43Speaker 2: But when it comes to blocking, you know, he's pretty
- 59:45Speaker 2: dang good. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
- 59:48Speaker 1: And then last year he was first team and he
- 59:50Speaker 1: got twelve passes, but he averaged like twenty yards a catch,
- 59:53Speaker 1: And this year he's just gone off. I mean, he's
- 59:57Speaker 1: caught over fifty passes, he's scored like twelve touchdowns, some
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: crazy numbers. You know, he's near a thousand yards, right,
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: now you start talking about greatest tight ends in school history,
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: and there's been a few guys that have been All
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: State first team Chad Barr, Eric Peterson, you know, Ryan Sido.
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: You know, those are some big time guys. And he
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: is marking that spot right now as kind of that guy.
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: And he was. You know, it's all states different now
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: because there's no ap All State team anymore, but there's
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: different people that make their All State team. And Isaiah
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: Audman was part of that last year, so looking to
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: do that again. So I'm gonna go with him. I
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: think he's gonna I think he's gonna try to hopefully
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: offset your Brent Heppner a little bit. But you know,
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: I just I think big time players, you know, perform
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: in big games, and he's a big time player.
- 1:00:49Speaker 2: Okay, So I need kicker, I need running back, and
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: I need the offensive line. So I'm gonna go. Let's
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: see here, You've got Linn's offensive line, so I'm gonna
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: go Lynn. I'm gonna go Linden Christian's offensive line against
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: against Cascade Christian, and I'm gonna go. I mean, I
- 1:01:14Speaker 2: guess it only makes sense if we're projecting all these
- 1:01:17Speaker 2: points for Linden to take Malakai Canaan. I mean that
- 1:01:20Speaker 2: seems like an easy, you know, seven to ten points
- 1:01:23Speaker 2: with the way you and I have been talking about it.
- 1:01:25Speaker 2: So I'll take Yeah, I'll take Malakai Cannon kicker. Yeah.
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: I mean that's that's huge. I mean he's won two
- 1:01:32Speaker 1: of the last three Pets Real Estate Special Teams Players
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: of the Week.
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: Hey, the rate he's going, he's going to take away
- 1:01:38Speaker 2: the name. Yeah, that's Canaan Special Team Player of the Week. Yeah, exactly.
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: I mean there's been those, There's been a handful of
- 1:01:45Speaker 1: those guys. You know, early it was Jalen Apol every
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: year every week would win the Special Teams Player of
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: the Week, you know, and then and then as Troy
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: Pets was winning it every week, and it was I mean,
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: so there are guys that just kind of lock into
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: that as that spot. He's he's done it a few
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: times now, just a sophomore, and he's kicked a lot
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: of field I think he's kicked six of them this
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: year already. Remember, and then in Christian's offensive line, I
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: mean that offense is really starting to go. That running
- 1:02:10Speaker 1: game is starting to pick up. I love Kyler Stark
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: as a left stuard. He started as a freshman last
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: year right tackle. He was the only returning starter this year.
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: He got bigger strand that I've already put him a
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: left guard and he run.
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: He's a bigger reason I'm going to go with yeah,
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what I like. I have what
- 1:02:29Speaker 2: I've seen out of Eli maybe this last week. Everybody's
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: always going to be the top guy. Right earlier, everybody's
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: going to go Yeah. You know, brand Maybury quietly having
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: a really really scared here.
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: He's already owned over two thousand years, saying, I mean
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: he's a first year starter.
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: It was hot. That's also underclassic day, really really impressed.
- 1:02:54Speaker 2: It says a lot about yeah, the end, the end. Yeah,
- 1:02:57Speaker 2: that's right. So what you got left, Tyler? You got
- 1:02:59Speaker 2: there position? Yeah, I got the Yeah.
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: I just seemed to always leaping for the number. I'm
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: going to go. You know that gave me a se
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: Joe So yeah, runs the ball, so runs kind of
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: the way he's abouts. I think he's going to get
- 1:03:18Speaker 1: in the middle of the light. He's he is, no,
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: does not through contact with bumble. He might have a
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: you know, need someone to pick up these these in
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: the front. He's the guy that can do it. I'm
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: telling you he's the guy because back set and those
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: for the end zone and the safety.
- 1:03:37Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: And I think he's the guy that can be ready
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: for he takes calculated twenty carries.
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And I think we get your valley. You
- 1:03:45Speaker 2: look at this and you go, you know, one way
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: we can he can just gave in and just intercede.
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: You know, he can get in take the game out
- 1:03:51Speaker 2: as well as hands and just in the ball. You know,
- 1:03:55Speaker 2: just run the ball, keep that clock moving, trying to
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: get out of there with a twenty one. You know,
- 1:04:00Speaker 2: and could you.
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: Imagine would you imagine practice this week? And he got
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: Colton's on scout team. You know, I'm serious, Like that's
- 1:04:08Speaker 1: an outside linebacker for Zilla number fifty, who's an awesome guy.
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: You put Colton Lents on the scout team and he's
- 1:04:14Speaker 1: just gonna make that team. He's gonna make your offense
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: so much better. They're gonna find out what works, and
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: I love.
- 1:04:20Speaker 2: You to find out, Like, was he on scout team
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: this week? Did he wear a red jersey to you know,
- 1:04:27Speaker 2: signify who he is? Did he put a big five
- 1:04:30Speaker 2: zero on him or did they tell him to take
- 1:04:32Speaker 2: the week off and go hunting? You know what I mean? Like, well,
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: well went on up there.
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: I'd like to know. I would imagine he's doing everything
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: he can to make his team better. And could you
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: imagine him on Scout team though, I mean I couldn't.
- 1:04:45Speaker 2: You know why because I've been on Scout team before.
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Oh my goodness, I remember being Scout team
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: running back as a Freddie Arber running back. That was
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: the hardest I got hit in my life. The middle
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: and Kenny Thomas and Mason Moa sandwiching me. Oh my goodness.
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: I was like twenty nine coaching seventh and eighth grade
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: football the Auburn Junior Panthers. We only had twenty five
- 1:05:04Speaker 2: total kids, So yeah, I got out there, played some
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: running back, ran for three to fifty six touchdowns. Our
- 1:05:10Speaker 2: defense was never the same after that.
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: No, I look like Heifer Legs from the King and Queens.
- 1:05:18Speaker 2: You remember that episode, Yeah, the King and Queens. Yeah,
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: he's out there running around with the little kids. Anyway, Tyler,
- 1:05:25Speaker 2: You've got no one right Max Oustink Isaiah Audman. Linden's
- 1:05:28Speaker 2: offense Linden's offensive line, Linden Christian's defense. Funny, we all
- 1:05:34Speaker 2: took the two Linden schools. You've got Malachi Canan in
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: the front seven, Jade and Hooliet in the back seven,
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: Grady Evans at kicker. I've got Brent Hepner at quarterback,
- 1:05:43Speaker 2: Koby Martin at running back, Andre Watson at receiver, Lyndon
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: Christian's offensive line, the Linden's defense, Kobe Martin, Carl Bloch.
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: And then I've also got Malachi Canaan. So yeah, we
- 1:05:53Speaker 2: will update you that on that this week's recap pot cast, Tyler.
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: I guess we're that's it. We're done. Somehow we took
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: four games, went over an hour. I don't know how
- 1:06:06Speaker 2: we did that.
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: Well.
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: We talked a little pizza. Yeah, we talked pizza. We
- 1:06:10Speaker 2: talked some basketball officials. We talked h Parker Johnson's dad.
- 1:06:14Speaker 2: We talked to my uncle, your uncle. Yeah, talked a
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: lot about all kinds of different stuff, Hotel pans with
- 1:06:21Speaker 2: with pepperoni. What else? Uh, playoffs, we talked about playoffs. YEA,
- 1:06:28Speaker 2: well we did that, all right. I guess we're done.
- 1:06:34Speaker 2: We're good. We're good. All right, let's give one more
- 1:06:37Speaker 2: shout out again NW officials dot com. Be sure to
- 1:06:40Speaker 2: uh you know, if you if you're thinking about officiating
- 1:06:43Speaker 2: at all, just at least give him a give him
- 1:06:45Speaker 2: a look. See go go check out NW officials dot com.
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: We also give a thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm
- 1:06:49Speaker 2: Kurt with A C M A B E R ry
- 1:06:52Speaker 2: farm dot com. He's Tyler Anderson. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: been listening to episode at three hundred and four Week
- 1:06:59Speaker 2: eleven football preview here on the Welcome Preps podcast. We'll
- 1:07:02Speaker 2: talk to you in a couple of days.
- 1:07:09Speaker 3: M m m hmm.