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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 395 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - State Quarterfinals · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Lyndon Senior Jacks Bar and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the walk Them Preps podcast with Tyler Anderson. Go Lines, Greetings,
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  Speaker 1: and welcome into the Gatorade Game Day preview.
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  Speaker 2: On the Walkham Preps podcast.
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  Speaker 1: This is episode three hundred and ninety five and I
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  Speaker 1: am Tyler Anderson with Walkham Preps and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: preview the four playoff games involving Walkham.
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  Speaker 2: County teams this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give a thank you to Lindon Senior
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  Speaker 1: Jacks Bar for the intro. That's a dude that was
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  Speaker 1: put on, saw a lot of muscle over the offseason
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  Speaker 1: and became alignman and is killing it at right tackle
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  Speaker 1: on the defensive line, as you know, just enjoying a
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  Speaker 1: tremendous senior season and I'm really happy for him. Great kids,
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  Speaker 1: So thank you so much, Jacks for the intro. Also,
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to Seaholmes, Nolan Wright, and Elias Alta on winning
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  Speaker 1: the week eleven PEPSI Play of the Week with their
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  Speaker 1: touchdown connection. They each want a case of Gatorade thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Walton Beverage. And I'm gonna step step away for
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  Speaker 1: a short fifteen seconds so we can hear from our
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell all of you how blessed and thankful
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  Speaker 1: I am for a company like Walton Beverage, who's been
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  Speaker 1: a staple in our community for over ninety years, to
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  Speaker 1: take an interest in walking preps and allow me to
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  Speaker 1: keep doing.
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  Speaker 2: What I love to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's a game changer for me, and I will continue
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  Speaker 1: to work harder every day to make the fantastic people
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  Speaker 1: at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth sports in our community.
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  Speaker 1: They deliver superior quality and commitment, and I plan to
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  Speaker 1: do the very same. All Right, so let's talk some football.
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  Speaker 1: We only have four games to talk about for this weekend,
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  Speaker 1: as we have reached the quarter final round of the
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  Speaker 1: state tournament. All games are on Saturday. I going forward,
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  Speaker 1: games will be on Saturday, only. The first one will
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  Speaker 1: go in chronological order like we always do. Saturday at noon.
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  Speaker 1: Number eleven ranked o Mac Pioneers are eight and three.
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  Speaker 2: They come to town to take on the.
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  Speaker 1: Third ranked Mount Baker Mountaineers who are nine to one.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, that'd be.
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  Speaker 1: That game will be at noon on Saturday at Blaine
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  Speaker 1: High School. And we are now joined on the Gatorade
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  Speaker 1: Game Day preview by Mount Baker football coach Ron Lepper, coach,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing good?
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  Speaker 4: I missed you last week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good thing, I guess. So because of that,
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  Speaker 1: you get two interesting questions to start out. Knowing what
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  Speaker 1: you know now being a head coach, what would you
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  Speaker 1: have done differently when you were a player in high school.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I'll do anything differently. I mean that's
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  Speaker 4: kind of where I mean, I didn't know at the
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  Speaker 4: time I was gonna be a co which obviously, but
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  Speaker 4: the way I kind of looked at things and did things.
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  Speaker 4: As I look back, I was I kind of had that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I could see back now that I already
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  Speaker 4: started working that way. Like I remember, ESPN was new
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  Speaker 4: right when I was when I was in high school there,
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  Speaker 4: and there was wasn't like it was today, but they'd
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  Speaker 4: always have like you know, SEC Game of the Week
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  Speaker 4: or the Southwest Conference Game of the Week, and it
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  Speaker 4: was always taped the lay and I loved it because
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  Speaker 4: you see the different offenses. And then I would try
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  Speaker 4: to scheme my own plays by looking at how they
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  Speaker 4: line things up. That's you know, I pay attention to
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  Speaker 4: the class. When I could get away with something, I
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  Speaker 4: was always drawn up plays and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Oh that's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: If you could sit for hours and break down film
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  Speaker 1: with any player or coach out there, who would it be?
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  Speaker 4: And that's not a fair question at all.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of them, but you could you could get them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, that's a great question. It really is. This
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  Speaker 4: is making me think a little bit. It's hard to
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  Speaker 4: you know, like coach Orsmann and I, you know, we've
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  Speaker 4: done it for a lot of years, so it's hard
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  Speaker 4: to think it. They've made different right, But I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I think somebody would have something to enjoy
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  Speaker 4: your time with doing stuff. Gosh darn it, you know,
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  Speaker 4: actually know what I would do?
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: I would love to spend some hours bringing n film
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  Speaker 4: with my wife and trying to you know, trying to
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  Speaker 4: teach her what we're looking for now we look at things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good answer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that says me picking somebody else out there and
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  Speaker 4: offending somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: Before talking about your quarterfinal opponent, let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: state playing game, which was you know, it was a
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  Speaker 1: little while ago, but I think you remember it. Fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven zero win against Wapaiteau. A lot of great things
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  Speaker 1: happened in the game. You were you were able to
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  Speaker 1: get on them early with some great pressure on defense,
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  Speaker 1: get some big touchdowns on offense. Did it go about
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  Speaker 1: as well as you would hope?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean, you know, we knew that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the matchup was in our favor, and we just want
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  Speaker 4: to make sure we out and play dark to our standard.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we wanted to make sure that we went
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  Speaker 4: out got got going, which we did. Give them credit,
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  Speaker 4: the kids, their kids still competed, you know, even though
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  Speaker 4: we kind of got you know, after we got going
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. I know, they were excited since the
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  Speaker 4: first time they had something and a somewhat of a
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  Speaker 4: postseason play in twenty five years. So but yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: was pleased with how we did some things. We're able
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  Speaker 4: to get a lot of people in the game, you know. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: and then obviously by doing that, it secured us a
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  Speaker 4: chance to get a buy and then and you know,
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  Speaker 4: in the top four to move on to this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Did you recognize any of the names on the other
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  Speaker 1: team from wrestling.
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  Speaker 4: A couple, yeah, then and then most of their staff
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  Speaker 4: and coach with Jason Smith, Oh yeah, that earlier who
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  Speaker 4: you know, was at Top Finish and coached with me
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  Speaker 4: for a couple of years before he went over to
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  Speaker 4: the Top Finish, And so matt connection was kind of good,
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  Speaker 4: and they you know, they understood then, they knew that,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, like I said, they're trying to build
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  Speaker 4: something there. And then you know, so for us, it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't necessarily trying to you know, we're you know, we
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  Speaker 4: want to go and take care of business done, and
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  Speaker 4: we took the first half very seriously. And then I
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  Speaker 4: guess probably the biggest thing too, is that we were
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  Speaker 4: really pleased with the backups who got in that were
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  Speaker 4: able to continue to play well and keep them out
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  Speaker 4: of the end zone. You know, the last play of
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  Speaker 4: the game was an interception by you know, our backups there,
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  Speaker 4: and so from that standpoint, a lot of good things.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, you earned the extra week of rest and a
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  Speaker 1: buy in the first run of the state playoffs. What did
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  Speaker 1: you do or maybe not do to take advantage of that?
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  Speaker 4: But we gave them Tuesday off Veterans Day, just to
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  Speaker 4: make it easy for some of the parents who kids
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  Speaker 4: don't drive. But you know, we traded Monday kind of
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  Speaker 4: like a normal Monday that we do. And then we
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  Speaker 4: got we had we practiced at Civic or sorry as
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  Speaker 4: Squally come on Thursday Wednesday and Thursday Friday. We had
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  Speaker 4: a little Ironman competition, you know that we kind of
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  Speaker 4: did some things with the kids with the weights and
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  Speaker 4: stuff and some different things that way. We did have
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  Speaker 4: a pump passive kick competition one day during the week two,
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  Speaker 4: so that was good, just kind of break some things
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  Speaker 4: up a little bit. You know, it's weird because it's
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  Speaker 4: good for you know, get some healing in and stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, you know, you don't know
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  Speaker 4: who you're playing, so you're trying to looking at two
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  Speaker 4: squads and then you know, you the trick is when
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  Speaker 4: this week get back into our regular schedule, get ready
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  Speaker 4: for game.
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  Speaker 1: Day, right, and let's talk about that a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: You're hosting Omac on Saturday at noon at Blaine High School.
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  Speaker 1: For years, your team had to play against the same
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  Speaker 1: team twice a season, and it was a grind as
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about in the past, and you just faced
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  Speaker 1: Omac a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: How will this game be different?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, it a lot depends on, you know,
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  Speaker 4: how what they want to do. Because obviously we've watched
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  Speaker 4: them a little bit now, and you know, some of
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  Speaker 4: the stuff that they ran against us they hadn't ran
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  Speaker 4: against other teams. So you know, we're prepared for for
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  Speaker 4: what we think we're going to see, but then you
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  Speaker 4: know that could change, so we're going to all have
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  Speaker 4: to adapt on the run, like you know, like normal.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they they played hard, they played you know,
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  Speaker 4: extremely hard and physical against Rochester and kept that game
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  Speaker 4: close and gave them a chance to win what they did,
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  Speaker 4: which they did. You know, they after our game with
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  Speaker 4: them the first time around, they went over and got
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  Speaker 4: after Callville pretty good. So we works back in the
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  Speaker 4: covering and and you know it's gonna be it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: be a brawl. I mean, that's that's kind of their style.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of like us a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we like kind of you know, the physical nature of
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  Speaker 4: the game. They embrace that as we do. And so
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  Speaker 4: it's going to come down to that. It's going to
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  Speaker 4: come down to you know, like like the cliches because
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  Speaker 4: they are the shrew. It's like executing and who can
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  Speaker 4: make the least amount of mistakes, I think, And so
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  Speaker 4: at this time of the year now, it's just about
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  Speaker 4: doing what you have, you know, doing the best you can,
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  Speaker 4: play your standard and give yourself a chance to move on.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the most important thing for us right now.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that Week ten game against Omac, the rare
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  Speaker 1: thing that happened that stood out to me is it's
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  Speaker 1: a team that scores zero points in the game that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't punt. Is that is that something that happened?
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  Speaker 2: Is is that?
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  Speaker 1: I guess I guess what I'm saying is that is
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  Speaker 1: that normal for them? Do theything?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: They go for a lot of fourth down, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they did last week against Rochester, you know they you
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  Speaker 4: know again they went down on fourth down when they
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  Speaker 4: were at our twenty on their own twenty eight yard
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  Speaker 4: line or twenty. You know, that's that's what they do,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And so knowing that, you know, you you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're thinking, okay, we get we got them at third
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  Speaker 4: and eight, or fourth and nine, fourth and nine, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and or third you know, like that and they think, well,
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  Speaker 4: they're picking two plays to get there, and they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: go for that, right, So it puts a little more
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  Speaker 4: pressure on your defense from that standpoint where you know, traditionally,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, teams, okay, third day trying to
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  Speaker 4: get it, they maybe just pick up three yards. Now
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  Speaker 4: it is fourth and five, they're probably gonna punt. They're
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  Speaker 4: not gonna punt and then and they've got enough athletes
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  Speaker 4: to make things happen. So you've got to be on
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  Speaker 4: your toes and then and we talked about that that
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  Speaker 4: you know, we have to be ready to play four,
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  Speaker 4: you know, four downs per possession with those guys. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if they get the first down, it's probably gonna you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna use four downs to the other ten yards.
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  Speaker 4: So we were able to get some you know TfL's
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  Speaker 4: last game, get them behind the six a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: which help. But yeah, that's that's definitely a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I thought that coach Horsman had a great
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  Speaker 1: game plan in that game.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I talked to him a little bit the.
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  Speaker 1: Week after at the district volleyball tournament, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was kind of saying the same thing that you
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  Speaker 1: are about knowing that they're going to probably go for
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  Speaker 1: on fourth down.
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  Speaker 2: It just their play calling on third down.
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  Speaker 1: So it has to adjust his play calling on third down.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's it's just crazy how the back and
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  Speaker 1: forth goes and how teams are knowledgeable about each other
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  Speaker 1: so much. And and you're right, they got that big
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  Speaker 1: full back and they're tough, and but and you you
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  Speaker 1: were down there to watch them play against against Rochester,
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  Speaker 1: was there anything that kind of stood out that maybe
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  Speaker 1: you hadn't seen throughout the year when you watched film.
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  Speaker 4: No. I mean everybody's asking who you thought I was
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  Speaker 4: gonna win. I mean, obviously Rochester had a good year,
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  Speaker 4: so is Omac, and you know, and playing there, so
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  Speaker 4: you probably give Rochester be in the higher seat a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, a little bit of an advantage. But we
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  Speaker 4: knew after playing Omac and the kind of style that
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  Speaker 4: Rochester that you know they're gonna they if they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: be physical and they're gonna get in to those the
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  Speaker 4: champions they did. You know, it came down to two
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  Speaker 4: point conversions. You know, Rochester scored I think there's no
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  Speaker 4: scoring in the first quarter. Rochester scored the second quarter
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  Speaker 4: and and then and then Rochester kicked it and Omak
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  Speaker 4: would turned it for a touchdown. So when it was
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  Speaker 4: six six at halftime, then Rochester took up one up
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  Speaker 4: twelve six, and then you know, O Mack's back finds
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  Speaker 4: a way get in the end zone and then they
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  Speaker 4: get the two point conversion, and you know, that's kind
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  Speaker 4: of the ball game.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 4: A couple of things happened there, but you know, watching them,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you realize that they got some guys, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: and and we kind of knew that already. So for us,
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  Speaker 4: we got to make sure that we're executing you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're assuming we might see some things we haven't seen
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  Speaker 4: before and and so we got to be ready for that.
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  Speaker 4: But our focus again has been mostly on us on
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  Speaker 4: how we want to how we want to attack things.
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  Speaker 4: I want to align, you know, our alignment and what
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  Speaker 4: we want to get accomplished there. And so fortunately we
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  Speaker 4: got a couple of days week to dial that in.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely great stuff, coach, Good luck against Omac on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for joining me on the Gatorade game
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  Speaker 1: day preview.
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  Speaker 4: All right, thanks sat As always appreciated you for the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Awesome Thanks coach, the next game we're talking about will
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  Speaker 1: jump to the two A classification. Now, the number six
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  Speaker 1: Linden Lyons are nine and two on the year. They
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  Speaker 1: will go across the mountains and take on number three
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  Speaker 1: East Valley of the Yakama the Red Devils, who are
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  Speaker 1: eleven and oh. This game will be at three o'clock
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  Speaker 1: at Clayson Field in West Valley in Yakama. This will
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  Speaker 1: not be at East Valley. This will be at West Valley,
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  Speaker 1: so keep that in mind. Clayson Field, West Valley in Yakama.
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  Speaker 1: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
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  Speaker 1: preview by Linden football coach Blake Van Dalen, coach, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for joining me today. How are you doing outstanding?
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  Speaker 6: It's a beautiful day to day and I'm happy to
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  Speaker 6: be talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm glad we get to keep talking. That's
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  Speaker 1: what's fun about these is that every time you win,
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  Speaker 1: that means we're gonna talk again. So that's a great
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  Speaker 1: thing for everybody in Walking County. If you could sit
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  Speaker 1: down for hours and break down film with any player
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  Speaker 1: coach all time, who would it be?
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  Speaker 6: I think right now for me, it's John Gruden. Like
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  Speaker 6: when I see some of the stuff that he talks about,
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  Speaker 6: you know, or Mike McDonald now that he's at the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 6: You know, just some of those guys fascinate me, and
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  Speaker 6: I'd love to see how their brain works.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I kind of see what they see and why
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  Speaker 1: and all those things. It's it's unbelievable because you could
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  Speaker 1: know so much about football and then you realize there's
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  Speaker 1: so much. There's so many other things. It's crazy out there.
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  Speaker 1: And I try not to pretend at all to be
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  Speaker 1: an expert. I watch a ton of film, but I
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  Speaker 1: watch it a different way. Right, I'm just getting stats
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  Speaker 1: and I might see a thing year or there, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't, you know, I could never be an analyst
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  Speaker 1: or anything like that.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, I always say there's guys that see football
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  Speaker 6: in three D like I see it sometimes in two D,
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  Speaker 6: and then the film helps me get a three D visual.
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  Speaker 4: Love it.
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  Speaker 6: But there are people out there that see the game,
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  Speaker 6: maybe even forty I don't know, but yeah, those guys
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  Speaker 6: are awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so cool to listen to them, and it
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  Speaker 1: opens up your mind.
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  Speaker 2: To possibilities and so many other things.
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  Speaker 1: Before talking about your quarter final opponent, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the first round playoff win. It was a game against
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  Speaker 1: West Valley is Spokane. You come out with a twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight to fourteen win. Kind of a slow start, but
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  Speaker 1: you really got things going, especially in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: What did you like the most about your performance on Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, once you got past the emotional part
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  Speaker 6: of Holy Cow, we have Danny and Max back, and
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  Speaker 6: then the team just kind of settled into I guess
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  Speaker 6: who we were, you know. It just it was for
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  Speaker 6: the first time since Ferndale, which was Week one, that
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  Speaker 6: we had all our pistons firing, everybody on the same page.
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  Speaker 6: We didn't have any injuries, and so it just was like,
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  Speaker 6: I remember what this felt like ten weeks ago.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy because it seems like the season has
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: gone by so fast, but you look at it and
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: it's like.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: That was a long time ago. And you're right. It
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: was so cool to see them both out there.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Not only did both Danny and Max get to suit up,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: but they both played extremely well, and they both played
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: extremely well on both sides of the ball.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: What a bussing that must have been for your entire group.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: Well, it's kind of at one point when I was
• 15:45
  Speaker 6: trying to evaluate where I was at in the season.
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: I said to my wife, were not just trying to
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: replace two three year starters. We're trying to replace four
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: three year starters. Both of those guys have started for
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: us three years, both sides of the ball. Both guys,
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: in my opinion, would have been MVP candidates this year
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: had they had the seasons we thought they were going
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: to have. And both will probably get to play college
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: football when all is said and done. And so I'm
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: so proud of our young kids, how hard they worked
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: to provide this opportunity for these two kids that we
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: didn't know if they'd ever get to play again. And
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: then when the doctor's notes started rolling in, it was
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: just a new energy. And I think that's kind of
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: what you saw, especially in the second half of the game.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there was you know, there were some
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: plays where it was it was almost like you kind
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: of I mean, I'm sure you guys didn't, but I'm
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: watching go and by forgot how good Max was running
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: the ball.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: You know, because you know, and things have been going well.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Dawson's been running great, Malachi's running great, Alvaro's gone in
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: there and done some great things, but it was just
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: different with the extra yardage, the yards after contact, the
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: brain make away speed.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Holy cow, it was. It was just so great to see.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sitting there watching it while I'm at State Volleyball
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: on this my little phone, trying to.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: You know, see everything. Oh, it was great.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, a few hours later,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I see walking through Malachi Canaan and Jack's Barr and
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Gordy Bedlington showing up at State Volleyball right before the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: game starts with it. It's such a great community, and
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: you know, and it speak to that a little bit
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: because it's it's amazing just the way that the you know,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: the fan base just connects with your program.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: We uh, if we could have found a way to
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: get three buses all the way over there, we would have.
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: We would have done it. But you're right, a bunch
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: of our kids did make the trip over. And then
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: today we had l Club that's where there's about eighty
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: to ninety kids that meet in the weight room and
• 17:49
  Speaker 6: we just talk about leadership and things like that. Well,
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: we broke that off early and kind of did a
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: miniature parade around campus where all the other sports got
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: to go alongside with bavolleyball being their first state championship
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: and just kind of come around. Coach Elsner came and
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: spoke to the l club just about some of the
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: things that went on during the state tournament that maybe
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: the outside world doesn't get to know and see, and
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: what little tweaks happened that made it special.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: And so then they took the gold ball.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Kind of walked around campus with it and celebrated the kiddos.
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: And I just think, you know, they're at every one
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: of our games, and we want to be at every
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: one of their games. And you know, I get it,
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: Lennon gets known for its championships, but if you go
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: and look in the gym, it's there's thirty six of them,
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: and it's almost every sport. And so when one of
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: the sports that hasn't gotten one gets one, it's it's
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: really really, really special.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: And I looked it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: Up today, that's only our sixth undefeated season in school history.
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: So that was that was really cool for the volleyball team,
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: and so our kids were pumped, and I just think
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: it feeds each other. You know, our kids are watching
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: that and they want to have that same experience that
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: those girls.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Just got to have Absolutely it was such a great
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: atmosphere over there, and so I'm so blessed to be
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: able to be right there and and and cover it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: And it was so great. And I had a great
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: talk with coach Elsoner afterwards, and it was it's these
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: moments that you'll remember forever. And of course all those
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: fans that made that trek over at Yakamargan and make
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: another one on Saturday afternoon you take on East Valley
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: of Yakima. Coach, this is another opponent that I know
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: nothing about. Help help us out a little bit.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: Uh, you know, it's a special group for them. Their coach,
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: the head coach, his sons, the quarterback, and he's coached
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: him since peewee. So this is their group. It was
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: the first group to beat prother in twenty five years.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: This year, it was the first group to go this
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: deep in the playoffs in over thirty years. And so
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: they're they're having a very special season, a very dynamic team.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: I think there's four kids that are committed to play
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: college football on each side of the ball, and they
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: both they all play both sides of the ball. So
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: we're going up against what I call a Northwest Conference
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: level opponent, meaning you you saw what happened in the playoffs.
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: When the Northwest Conference plays other conferences, usually there's a
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: step down. Well, you saw what this team did to Burlington,
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: and so we've got our work cut out for us there.
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: They're they're they're going concern and we'll work our tail
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: off to to be competitive.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: X's and o's wise, what kind of look do they
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: give you when they're on offense.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: When they're on offense, they are fifty to fifty.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: That's not good.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: That means they run it half the time, they pass
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: it half the time. They probably only run two or
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: three run plays similar to us, and they have you know,
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: quite a few pass plays, but all of it is
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: predicated on the quarterback.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: He kind of makes them go.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: He's got you know, almost three thousand yards passing but
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: only you know, twenty yards rushing. That tells you he
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: keeps plays alive, and he doesn't get sacked very much.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: And he and he's got a you know, Montana State
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: commit on one side, and another kiddo that's that's probably gonna
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: go to either Eastern or somewhere on that level on
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: the other side. And so they're a fifty to fifty
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: run pass. Defensively there, they look just like Archbishop. They're
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: a four to three cover two base, which tells you
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: that they want to line up a certain way and
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: play a certain way, and that'll be on us to
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: force them out of that and and give them some
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: things to worry about and work on throughout the game
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: that forces us to or allows us to have success
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: and forces them in some tough situations.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it's gonna be a tremendous matchup.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's uh, it's gonna be it's.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Gonna be a great one.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: And the quarterfinals, of course, when you get to this point, quarterfinals,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and there is no easy game after this. This is
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: this is very and not to say that last week
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: was easy at all either, but it's, uh, you know
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: how it goes.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: It's it just gets.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Tougher and tougher and you're beyond the road and and
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: and when you meet up against groups like that, and
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: you've had a few that have come through where this
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: group dreams of a championship from when they were young.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: And it's it that's hard to take away.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: From a special group of kids, And it sounds like
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: this is a special group of kids. You're going up again,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: so it should be a great, great battle. Good luck
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: against East Valley on Saturday. Thank you so much for
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: joining me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Sounds good.
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: Hopefully we get talk next week and we're having practice
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: on Thanksgiving, so.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always the best thing. Thanks coach.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: All right, calculator.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Next step will be the four o'clock game at Blaine
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: High School where we'll see the number five ranked Montesano
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Bulldogs who are ten and one. They're gonna come up
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: and take on the number four ranked Lending Christian Links
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: who are nine and one on the season. And we
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview by
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian football coach Greg Turpstra. Coach, thank you for
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: joining me today.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: How are you doing doing great?
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: It's a great morning.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is knowing what you know now being a
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: head coach. What would you have done differently when you
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: were a high school player?
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Watched more film?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: Now let me ask myself though, was it available?
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: I guess maybe it wasn't.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: So.
• 23:29
  Speaker 8: I mean, you know you had a VHS tape that
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: some poor JV coach had to drive two hours one
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: way to go meet the other JV coach and have
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: a cup of coffee, and they switch their VHS tapes
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: to bring them back, and then you got an eager
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: staff waiting to watch it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: But I doubt the kids.
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: Had a whole lot of access to it.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I mean I played not too long after you, And
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I do remember sometimes on like you know, Saturdays or
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Sundays or Mondays, the whole team would get into a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: classroom and there was a little, you know, nineteen inch
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: screen and everyone's sitting in a desk and we're trying
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: to watch it. So do you remember having that like
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: watching film as a team.
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but guy, very little right, like you just said,
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: it was on a small TV screen and the old
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: tube TV. Yeah, looked like a bunch of ants having
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: a race or something like that. Now, you know, I
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: get answer again. In other ways, lift more weights, yeah,
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: you know, just was not part of our program really,
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: you know, for the PE program, I'd say, and you
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: know before school, after school, the weight room was a
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: shed down by the field, you know. Yeah, so yeah, yeah,
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: more weights.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is interesting.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: This was the question I asked the coaches last week.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And it's and those are the two things, right, Those
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: are the big things that have changed a lot. And
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: and lifting weights is such in a huge party. You
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: look at the teams that are left. These are teams
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: that put a lot of time into the weight room
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and film with huddle. Now the access is completely different.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: You're not begging a coach to borrow a VHS tape
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: knowing that you're not going to get it, and and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's just it's crazy. And the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: question this week is if you could sit for hours
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and break down film with any coach out there, who
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: would it be?
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: Like any coach anywhere? Sure, you know, it probably would
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: be a quarterback. I would I'd go Tom Brady. You know,
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: I guess he doesn't count as a coach, but if
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: it was anybody anywhere, it'd be that guy. He just,
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: you know, coach on the field is probably an understatement.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: It's his ability to read and check. Yeah, you know,
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: I just really value that. Maybe that's putting a lot
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: on a high school kid. But if I can do
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: it as a coach, ud be the surrogate for them,
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: I think that would be that'd be pretty cool to.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Do, especially with your offense.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Right, you're looking at what the defense is presenting a
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: lot of the times, and then you're saying, let's do
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: this so like the pre snap reads would be amazing,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: you know from Tom Brady and be able to see that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Before talking about your quarterfinal opponent, let's talk about the
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: state play in game. I know it was a while ago,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: forty nine zero win over Natchi's Valley. A lot of
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: great things happened in that game. You're able to turn
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: them over five times in the first half, you capitalized
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: on short fields, You're able to break get get a
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: lot of the backups in, including some freshmen that hadn't
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: suited up yet this year. Did it go about as
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: well as you'd hoped?
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really did.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: The kids came out, you know, on fire right away,
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: ripping at that ball, doing everything. They did, not disrespect
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: their opponent, and in a way that they just played
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: super hard from the beginning. Yeah, and yeah, we were
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: able to get an entire freshman offense on the field
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: together at once.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Cool. That's pretty awesome.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those kids have.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: Been doing a great job for us. A lot of
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: those freshman boy, you know, they're they're good, good looking
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: group who really just love to play. They're not intimidated.
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: They just quietly do their business and ask where they
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: can help.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Can't say enough about that crew.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's awesome.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: And I start recognizing a lot of the last names
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: and I thought, oh boy, he's got another group coming up.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: It's a it was fun to see.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: You know, I don't watch the C team JB stuff,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: so when I see these new names added to the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: roster and I kind of see guys out there, it
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: gets me excited for, you know, things to come.
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that freshman group is really good. They got a
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: lot of moxie and they're they're good in a lot
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: of places, and in that one place where we've always
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: been short lineman, they've got a couple so yeah, pretty
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: good looking quarterback too, and skill positions and yeah, they're
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: all over the place now. Now uh Zalaster's fighting fighting
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: me for getting them to uh come to basketball tryouts
• 28:17
  Speaker 8: this week. So we've got to work with each other here.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: It's it's always a thing at Lennon Christian right where
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: it's kind of that, you know, they both kind of
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: overlap when you go deep into playoffs and let's talk
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: about that a little bit. You earned the extra week
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: of rest and a buye in the first round of
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the state tournament. What did you do or maybe not
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: do to take advantage of that.
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: Well, Yeah, getting a couple of kids who were starters
• 28:44
  Speaker 8: back on the field's a pretty good thing. We we
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: we didn't go with a whole lot of contact. We
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: did a lot of situational stuff, you know, hunting from
• 28:58
  Speaker 8: your own end zone, you know, on sides, faking this
• 29:03
  Speaker 8: and faking that, and defending those hail Mary's, defending haleel
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Mary's free kicks, taking a safety, not taking us. I mean,
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: we did all sorts of stuff that kind of we've
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: never really talked about a whole lot. Maybe we know
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: as coaches, but the kids haven't experienced. And then just
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: we I don't want to disrespect Montesano's opponent, but Ton
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: I know, but they had played each other earlier and
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: it was a forty nine to zero out in there,
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: so we kind of had a pretty good idea that
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: Montesseno was gonna maybe get the best of them, so
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: we did focus a little.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: Bit more towards them. Yeah.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you'll be hosting them Saturday at four o'clock
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: at Blaine High School. The only game I saw of
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the Bulldogs obviously when they faced an Oak Sac Valley
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: about a month ago. And they're traditionally one of the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: best teams in the state every year. I mean, you're
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: in and you're out. You can always count them being
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. It's just kind of the way it is,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: along with the handful of other teams. What is it
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: about them that just makes them so great?
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: They're really polished.
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: Football IQ is really high. Their coach is like one
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: of the wingingest coaches in the state right or or
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: the and they know what they're doing offensively, defensively, and
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: they change it up. We watched several of their games
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: against vastly different styles of opponents, and they were able
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: to adjust really well to each one of those. When
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: we put those tapes in, we're like, how they're going
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: to defend us? And you know, we have a couple
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: of teams that kind of run our same at least
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: pre snap sets, and I think we've got a pretty
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: good picture.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: But you know, you never know.
• 31:01
  Speaker 8: Their skills are really good, they're very fast. You know,
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: they had a tough time at Nook Sack. I think
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: the kind of the real grass and kind of creddit
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: night really mess with them. But credit to Knooks Sacks
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: that took it, took it to them. So yeah, I
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: don't know, they're they're a problem on both sides of
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: the ball, and uh, we gotta play a really good
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: game to get them.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what you get, right when you're in
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the final eight of the state.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: It's uh, it's.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Gonna be really really good competition from here on out.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And and uh, you know, I'm glad that you're getting
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: some starters back and things that are kind of falling
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: in place for you. And it's gonna be it's gonna
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: be a great day out at playing high school with
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: the with the doubleheader, a little little break in between,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you got the nightcap.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Awesome stuff.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Coach, good luck against Money on Saturday. Thank you so
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: much for joining me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: Hey, thanks Tyler.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And the final game of the weekend is the number
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: nine Sea Home Mariners. We have a seven and four record.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: It will go south on I five down to Goddard
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  Speaker 1: Stadium and Everett for a seven o'clock kickoff against the
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  Speaker 1: top ranked Archbishop Murphy Wildcats who are ten and oher
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  Speaker 1: and we are now joined on the gate Raide game
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  Speaker 1: day preview by Seem football coach Brian Young.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm doing great, Tyler, Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: You bet, if you could sit for hours and break
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  Speaker 1: down film with any player or coach out that that's
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  Speaker 1: out there, who would you want it to be?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh, any player or coach.
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  Speaker 7: Huh yeah, probably Bill Walsh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I think he was really cerebral about the game.
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  Speaker 7: I think he reinvented kind of what people do and
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  Speaker 7: he would be.
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  Speaker 5: Fascinating to me to just sit down with him do film. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that West Coast offense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, basically extending the running game right using.
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  Speaker 2: The whole width of the field.
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  Speaker 1: And yep, And that's a that's a great answer. And
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  Speaker 1: I there are some there're some really good footage of
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  Speaker 1: him out there, you know, talking about plays with the
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  Speaker 1: old projector and stuff and talking to his team and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's really really cool. Before talking about your
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  Speaker 1: quarterfinal opponent, let's talk about this first round playoff game
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  Speaker 1: at a fellow you come out with the twenty four
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  Speaker 1: to twenty one win. What did you like the most
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  Speaker 1: about your performance on Saturday.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I gotta tell you first, Tyler, it was a
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  Speaker 7: it was an ugly football game, right. The field conditions
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  Speaker 7: were just they were atrocious, man, you know, and so
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  Speaker 7: you're playing on a surface that was really bad.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, The game was really it was chippy. You know.
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  Speaker 7: You got two teams that have seen each other the
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  Speaker 7: last couple of years.
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  Speaker 5: You know, obviously we set them back in last year.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, we get there and we can hear
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  Speaker 5: them saying, hey, it's going to be a different outcome.
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  Speaker 7: There were some flags being thrown out there, some personal
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  Speaker 7: foul some things like that.
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  Speaker 5: But what I really liked, you know, as far as our.
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  Speaker 7: Team, Tyler, we never really felt threatened in the game.
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  Speaker 5: We made some mistakes, had a couple turnovers in the
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  Speaker 5: red zone that really helped them out. But I really
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  Speaker 5: liked the fact that.
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  Speaker 7: We you know, we decided that we were going to
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  Speaker 7: come out and stay sixty six, which is just balanced, right,
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  Speaker 7: and we were going to run football and throw the football,
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  Speaker 7: and we did exactly what we wanted to do. Love
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  Speaker 7: the fact that Sawyer Woods, you know, ran for one
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  Speaker 7: hundred and forty some odd yards and really, you know,
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  Speaker 7: our bell cow baby, we gave it to him at
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  Speaker 7: the end of the game and we needed it most.
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  Speaker 5: I think he broke off like a forty yard.
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  Speaker 7: Run to seal the damn game. And you know, I said, hey,
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  Speaker 7: and Nolan had a couple of touchdown passes. He hurt
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  Speaker 7: him with his legs. Our defense made the stops and
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  Speaker 7: they needed to. So you know, we get out of
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  Speaker 7: there with another their win, and we were expecting to
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  Speaker 7: be able to do that, so you know, on to
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  Speaker 7: next week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it was kind of a weird game
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  Speaker 1: to watch. It was not super crisp, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that has to do with the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: playing surface and stuff like that. It's so weird because
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  Speaker 1: other teams in the area Mount Baker, Nuk Sack Linden
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  Speaker 1: like they're practicing on turf fields to get ready for
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  Speaker 1: their playoff game.
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  Speaker 2: Was it the opposite for you?
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  Speaker 1: Did you have to go find a grass field to
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  Speaker 1: practice on or was it like we'll just practice home
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  Speaker 1: and we'll deal with it when we get there.
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  Speaker 5: Like Tyler, we practiced one day at London.
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  Speaker 7: We actually swapped with them, right which was great.
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  Speaker 5: But the next day we went to fair Haven Middle School.
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  Speaker 7: And yeah, and that was that was quite the experience
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  Speaker 7: one Most of the players from Sea Home.
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  Speaker 5: Like played there or at least played on the field.
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  Speaker 5: But boy, you talk about bad field conditions.
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  Speaker 7: So we got that and at the end of practice
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  Speaker 7: we just had like kind of a belly flop slide
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  Speaker 7: contest in the mud, you know, which was kind of
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  Speaker 7: fun for the guys, but I think that really helped
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  Speaker 7: us because they're you know, there's potholes and water pits
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  Speaker 7: and all that. So when we got to Othello and
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  Speaker 7: there literally before the game, we found a hole it
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  Speaker 7: was about.
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  Speaker 5: Six inches, you know, six inches deep.
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  Speaker 7: They came out with a sam you know, filled the
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  Speaker 7: hole and drove over it with the little cart and
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  Speaker 7: I was like, man, you got to be kidding me, right,
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  Speaker 7: you know, sand trap in the middle of the field,
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  Speaker 7: basically just but what we told our players was you
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  Speaker 7: can either concentrate on that or concentrate on winning the game.
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  Speaker 7: And that's that's really what we did. We we looked
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  Speaker 7: at their record, we looked at the teams they've been playing,
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  Speaker 7: and we knew Tyler, they really hadn't played an opponent
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  Speaker 7: that was going to hit him back right, and the
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  Speaker 7: one time.
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  Speaker 5: They did that opponent blew them out.
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  Speaker 7: So you know, they they came in and you know
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  Speaker 7: they hit us in the mount first, our legs are
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  Speaker 7: dead getting off of a five hour ride and a
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  Speaker 7: bus and you.
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  Speaker 5: Know they go up ate nothing and.
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  Speaker 7: You know, we come back and score and just send
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  Speaker 7: a message to him like we're not any of those
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  Speaker 7: other teams. You know, we're we're going to fight back.
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  Speaker 7: And once we got the lead, Tyler I was like, well,
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  Speaker 7: you know what we're we won't let.
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  Speaker 5: Them, you know, get back on the scoreboard. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that's not how it worked.
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  Speaker 1: I loved how Bain Mitchell hit that field goal too,
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  Speaker 1: Plus with the five yard penalty, you got it back
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  Speaker 1: it up five more yards. Kicking on the natural grass
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  Speaker 1: is not the easiest.
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  Speaker 2: Thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he hasn't done it a ton. He did
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  Speaker 1: attempt a field goal at LC, so there, you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's some little bit of bo But did you have
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  Speaker 1: once as a five yard penalty hit and ended up
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  Speaker 1: being a thirty two yarder? Was there any second guessing
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  Speaker 1: or was it like, you know, what's kind of close
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  Speaker 1: to the end of the half.
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  Speaker 2: Let's just see if he can get it.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Tyler.
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  Speaker 7: I told Bain early in the year when he first
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  Speaker 7: came out to kick, I said, I don't know when
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  Speaker 7: it's gonna be, but I literally told him, we are
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  Speaker 7: going to win a game off of your field goal.
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  Speaker 5: Told him that right, And we remembered.
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  Speaker 7: What happened at LC, so we made sure we had
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  Speaker 7: a kicking block with us this time, so we had
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  Speaker 7: a block to kick off of. So when we did
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  Speaker 7: our walk through at Ellensburg High School before the game,
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  Speaker 7: we made sure that Jed Geiger, our holder, you know,
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  Speaker 7: could get it on the block efficiently and effectively and
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  Speaker 7: Bane could.
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  Speaker 5: Kick off of that. So, you know, that was our
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  Speaker 5: pregame prep.
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  Speaker 7: But I never thought twice, I mean honestly, especially on
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  Speaker 7: a good surface, maybe probably go forty forty five yards,
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  Speaker 7: you know, with a good kick. So I wasn't even
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  Speaker 7: thinking twice about that. I was like, kick the field goal.
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  Speaker 7: No one of course wanted to go for it, you know,
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  Speaker 7: and I was like, hey man, let's just you know,
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  Speaker 7: let's kick the field goal. But no, the five yard
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  Speaker 7: penalty didn't determine at all, nothing but faith in Bain
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  Speaker 7: and you know he came through.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You're heading down south now to take on the top
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  Speaker 1: rank Archbishop Murphy Wildcats on Saturday nights, seven o'clock Frank
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  Speaker 1: Goddard Memorial Stadium. It wasn't that long ago that you
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  Speaker 1: face them, but you had a lot of players out
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  Speaker 1: for that game.
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  Speaker 2: You look to be pretty healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what can be done to slow down a team
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  Speaker 1: like the Wildcats?
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  Speaker 7: I don't think it's about slowing them down because basically.
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  Speaker 5: You know, up front, they're really.
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  Speaker 7: They're really tough, they're physical, they're big, they're fast. But
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  Speaker 7: I think for us, we're gonna try to make it
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  Speaker 7: attract meet. You know, I look at what they do
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  Speaker 7: and I go, hey, we got some skill guys. We
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  Speaker 7: got the best damn quarterback you're gonna find around. So
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  Speaker 7: we're gonna spread these guys out.
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  Speaker 5: And make them play the whole damn forty three yard
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  Speaker 5: with of the field on us, and let's make it
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  Speaker 5: a track meet.
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  Speaker 7: You know, Let's see if we can throw the ball,
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  Speaker 7: put them in some mines, put some new things in
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  Speaker 7: that no one has seen us do before. Work on
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  Speaker 7: those things all week, and get out there and put
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  Speaker 7: some doubt in their mind. And once we can do that.
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  Speaker 7: Let's just see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I mean, they're sixteen year old kids do right,
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I mean it's so much of it
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  Speaker 1: is mental.
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  Speaker 9: And if you can get them thinking one thing and
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  Speaker 9: you know, something this and they think they've seen this
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  Speaker 9: but they haven't seen it, and then they have to
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  Speaker 9: think and move at the same time and you already
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  Speaker 9: got a few steps on them, then yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 9: you know it can happen. And you know it's a
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  Speaker 9: I'm sure this will be a little bit friendlier playing surface.
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  Speaker 4: Now and yeah, yeah, yeah, and it'll be totally different.
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  Speaker 1: But it's the late one on Saturday, so well we
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  Speaker 1: will know all the Walkame County you know, results before that,
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  Speaker 1: so then all eyes will be glued and all have
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  Speaker 1: Coach Wood down there covering the game for walk and preps.
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  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be a great one. So awesome stuff, Coach.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck against Archbishop on Saturday. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Tyler, have a great day, you too.
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  Speaker 1: And that wraps it up. I hope you've enjoyed the
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  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game Day Football Preview for Week twelve, and I
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  Speaker 1: just want to thank all the coaches once again that
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  Speaker 1: made time out of their busy day to join me here.
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