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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 286 - Week 5 Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Frindal Senior Jacob Gandy and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: Walking Press podcast with Tyler and Ryland. It's a matter
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Speaker 1: of pride. Greetings and welcome to the Walk and Preps podcast.
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Speaker 1: This is episode two hundred and eighty six, a Week
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Speaker 1: five football preview. I'm Tyler Anderson going han solo once
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Speaker 1: again as Ryland is still under the weather. We did
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Speaker 1: communicate a little bit and I was able to get
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Speaker 1: his fantasy picks as we did our fantasy draft online,
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Speaker 1: but boy, he's still recovering, so I'm going to try
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Speaker 1: and do this myself once again. We got to start
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Speaker 1: off by giving it thank you to Jacob Gandhy for
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Speaker 1: the intro. The Ferndale senior linebackers just having an unbelievable
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Speaker 1: start to his season. What a year he's having defensively
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Speaker 1: and filling in also as the punter and this year
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Speaker 1: and doing all sorts of differ things. So thank you
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Speaker 1: very much Jacob Gandhy for the intro. Also, we want
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Speaker 1: And if you want to get involved in sponsoring, there's
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Speaker 1: lots of different ways to do that. I know we're
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Speaker 1: about getting really close about halfway through the fall season,
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Speaker 1: but there are still a few things. Just added another
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Speaker 1: volleyball sponsor the other day, so there's lots of different ways.
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Speaker 1: Just get a hold of me through social media, search
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Speaker 1: for Walkom Preps, send a message and we can kind
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Speaker 1: of go from there. So a lot of things open
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Speaker 1: for winter coming up, and something is kind of some
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Speaker 1: of the things are kind of spoken for. I usually
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Speaker 1: go to the repeat sponsors from the year before and
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Speaker 1: go from there. But there's always stuff available and that's
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Speaker 1: how we're able to do this. It's not free, even
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Speaker 1: recording a podcast, so yeah, I just want to keep
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Speaker 1: getting that info out to all of you and we
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Speaker 1: can just keep on doing this. So a smaller slate
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Speaker 1: of games this weekend we've been used to these ten
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Speaker 1: game weekends down down to seven as a lot of
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Speaker 1: these as the one A Northwest Conference teams are now
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Speaker 1: playing each other as the conference play begins, and in
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Speaker 1: the two way, none of the two A teams have
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Speaker 1: played each other in the conference, even though they started
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Speaker 1: conference play in week one. So we're gonna start getting
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Speaker 1: that as well, and it's all gonna start to mix
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Speaker 1: in a little bit. We do have a Thursday game,
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Speaker 1: so we're gonna start off with that. One. South would
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Speaker 1: be one and two coming up to Laurel to face
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Speaker 1: the Meridian Trojans, who are three and one. That kicks
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Speaker 1: off at seven pm. And there's a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a history here. South would be used to play in
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Speaker 1: the North Cascades confer Friends late nineties, early two thousands.
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Speaker 1: I remember covering this matchup in the year two thousand,
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Speaker 1: Meridian hosting South would be. The score was eighty one
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Speaker 1: to zero. Boy, I remember showing up at the Herald
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Speaker 1: after that game and I told them to score and
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Speaker 1: they said, just you know, there's not much of a story,
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Speaker 1: just say who scored all the touchdowns? I said, you
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Speaker 1: got it. So so these two teams go back a
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Speaker 1: little ways. The Falcons struggling a little bit at one
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Speaker 1: and two. Meridian looking really good so far at three
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Speaker 1: and one, and it's kind of the Meridian team that
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Speaker 1: we've all been waiting for the last couple of years.
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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of returning players on the varsity
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Speaker 1: level for multiple years, some four year starters on offense
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Speaker 1: and on defense. Yeah, a lot of things to really like.
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Speaker 1: Their only lost all year was by one point, and
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Speaker 1: that was to a four A team. So again, this
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Speaker 1: is a non conference game for Meridian, so at this
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Speaker 1: point of the season, after this, there will be the
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Speaker 1: only you know, after this weekend, I should say, they're
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Speaker 1: the only team left in Walkin County that has not
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Speaker 1: even played a conference game yet, So they're getting all
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Speaker 1: their non conference stuff out of the way early and
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Speaker 1: then it's just straight on into the gauntlet after that. So,
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Speaker 1: you know, I think the Trojans are pretty heavily favored
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Speaker 1: in this one, and you know, for for for good reason.
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Speaker 1: They're just playing so well right now. They're putting a
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Speaker 1: lot of points on the board, they're scoring team, they're
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Speaker 1: scoring a lot of touchdowns, especially even on defense. I mean,
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Speaker 1: every single part of their game is really working. I
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Speaker 1: tell you what, when when Meridian has when I look
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Speaker 1: at a box score over the years even and looking
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Speaker 1: at a Meridian box score and they've got like eight
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Speaker 1: or nine different receivers catching passes, that always means this
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Speaker 1: is this is a really good Trojan team. And so
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Speaker 1: I you know, that's kind of what's happening this year
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Speaker 1: as well. Seems like in the years past recently they've
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Speaker 1: had good receivers, but there wasn't a lot of depth.
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Speaker 1: And this year there is a lot of depth. That's
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Speaker 1: really happening. H All these linemen coming back with much experience,
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Speaker 1: and yeah, it's just it's a it's a really fun
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Speaker 1: team to watch. They'll be back at home again. This
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Speaker 1: is Thursday night. Do not miss out. You know, even
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Speaker 1: if you know you're around the county and you want
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Speaker 1: to go see a live football game and your team's
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Speaker 1: not playing until Friday, come on out. It's a great place.
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Speaker 1: Holy cow, they're They're barbecue that they got going on
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Speaker 1: is fantastic. The burgers are amazing. It's my favorite place
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Speaker 1: in Walking County at a football game to get a burger.
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Speaker 1: Trust me, take my word for it. And uh, it's
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Speaker 1: a great, great place So anyways, Merity in High School
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Speaker 1: Thursday night, seven pm, they are three and one hosting
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Speaker 1: the one and two South WIDB Falcons. We go to
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Speaker 1: Friday and we're gonna kick things off right away at
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Speaker 1: roly to Coster Field with See Home at Linden, both
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Speaker 1: teams three and one. And you know, over the years
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Speaker 1: these have this has been pretty close, even though Linden
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Speaker 1: has got the best of them, but there's been some
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Speaker 1: really good games here. And uh, you know, definitely a
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Speaker 1: an in county rivalry. I don't know why I'd say rivalry,
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Speaker 1: but it's kind of started to become one a little
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Speaker 1: bit now that they're playing each other quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: And and and and See Home is kind of that
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Speaker 1: team that we were expecting them to be eventually, because
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Speaker 1: they're putting up points and they got a lot of
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Speaker 1: playmakers and and they change some things around on their defense,
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Speaker 1: which I really like. You know, the last few years
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Speaker 1: they've had kind of a three four defense, and now
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Speaker 1: it's now it's a little bit more of like a
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Speaker 1: four two five and and uh really like the defensive
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Speaker 1: ends that they have going right now with Cooper McAtee
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Speaker 1: and Cohen Matthey and you know, it's just it's a
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Speaker 1: lot of things to like. Things are trending in the
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Speaker 1: right way. And Linden's Linden. I mean, they're gonna They're
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Speaker 1: always gonna be great, especially at home. That atmosphere is amazing.
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Speaker 1: The cheerleaders, the band, the crowd, Holy cow, it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be so much fun. You know, see home coming in there.
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Speaker 1: They're not gonna be you know, they're not gonna be
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Speaker 1: They're gonna have confidence. We'll just put it that way.
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Speaker 1: They're they're not gonna walk in there and say, oh,
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Speaker 1: big bad Linden.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: They believe in themselves and they have every right to
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Speaker 1: believe in themselves. They're pretty fast teams, so we'll see
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Speaker 1: how well the grasses mode out there. But this will
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Speaker 1: be good. This will be a really really good game
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Speaker 1: and another good test for both teams. Both teams have
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Speaker 1: been tested already. But you know with losses. Both of
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Speaker 1: them have lost to Anna chordis. Uh. They've also had
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Speaker 1: close games, with Linden coming back to beat Ferndale and
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know the the coming back to beat
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Speaker 1: Marysville Pilchuck. Even see you beat Marysville Pilchuck by a touchdown.
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Speaker 1: They and they hung with Burlington Edison and won that
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Speaker 1: game on the road last week. So this is a
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Speaker 1: really good, a really good test for both teams. Like
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, both teams kind of in that
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Speaker 1: tops you know, top half of the Northwest Conference two
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Speaker 1: way where a win here can I don't want to
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Speaker 1: say secure a round of thirty two, but it really
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Speaker 1: helps them to have them get into that round of
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Speaker 1: thirty two round you know, week ten matchup. And if
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Speaker 1: you lose here, you got to have a lot you know,
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Speaker 1: you got to get some work to do then. So
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Speaker 1: you know, each of them having a loss that was
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Speaker 1: a conference loss, like I said, to top ranked and
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Speaker 1: a Chordus. But yeah, this will be this will be
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Speaker 1: a fantastic game, a great atmosphere, like I said, really
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Speaker 1: to coster Field. So much fun to go to a
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Speaker 1: game there. Check it out seven pm Friday night out
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Speaker 1: at London, out at Civic Stadium. It'll be granted falls
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Speaker 1: coming in at three and one against Bellingham, who's winless
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Speaker 1: on the year. Oh to four non conference game for
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Speaker 1: for Bellingham. They've you know, they you know, the last
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Speaker 1: few years they've all been non conference games. But in
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Speaker 1: this case they've they've had a few conference games, it
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Speaker 1: has not gone well yet. Now they're going to back
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Speaker 1: out and play non conference game here. They had a
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Speaker 1: really close game with Granite Falls last year on the
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Speaker 1: road where they were up. I want to say it
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Speaker 1: was Week three, and you know, the Tigers came back,
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Speaker 1: you know, in the second half and got them. So
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Speaker 1: there's a little bit of revenge here. I was out
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Speaker 1: at the belly in game last week, excuse me, and
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Speaker 1: there was a big change at the halftime with with
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Speaker 1: some positions and stuff like that. They went to Ben Leonard,
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Speaker 1: the sophomore to play quarterback, put Joe Harward out at receiver,
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Speaker 1: and there was some big time dynamic plays from right
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Speaker 1: from that point on. Not a big sample size with
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Speaker 1: the whole second half being a running clock, so I
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Speaker 1: think they had three possessions maybe something like that. But
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Speaker 1: there were some good things that happened. There were some mistakes,
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Speaker 1: some points, some parts that you could learn on. But
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Speaker 1: I think going into this game now with probably the
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Speaker 1: switch at quarterback, I don't have that confirmed, but I
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Speaker 1: would imagine just by the way the second half ended
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Speaker 1: that they're gonna go with Ben Leonard at quarterback and
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Speaker 1: you know, you test that out with a full game
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Speaker 1: and a non conference game and we'll have to see. Now,
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Speaker 1: granted Falls, this is gonna be tough for Bellingham because
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Speaker 1: they've had a lot of players out, especially in the secondary,
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Speaker 1: and granted Falls likes to throw it down the field,
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Speaker 1: they like to spread it horizontally. They use so much
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Speaker 1: of the field and they go four widespread pretty much
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Speaker 1: all the time, and so that could be a tough
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Speaker 1: matchup for Bellingham as far as you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: they have some big dudes up front. They have the
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Speaker 1: two stud linebackers with Tyler Frost and Gave Van Hofway,
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Speaker 1: and Sonny Powell has been playing really well linebackers spot
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Speaker 1: as well, So you have a lot of that those
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Speaker 1: a lot of that talent in the middle of the field,
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Speaker 1: and you have you know, there's been a lot of
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Speaker 1: guys that have been out. Blick Henderson's been out, Nate
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Speaker 1: Loss has been out, so you're gonna have to find
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Speaker 1: different things. Cooper Whipple's been out, Isaiah Davis been out,
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Speaker 1: So you need some other guys to step up. You know,
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Speaker 1: I can see Zach Gersol or I've Steele or of
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Speaker 1: course Owen Hanstead will be a playmaker back there, but
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Speaker 1: he can't do it all himself. Maybe Joe Harward will
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Speaker 1: get bumped out to corner or something like that. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna need some guys out there to cover these four
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Speaker 1: receivers for the Tigers if they want to come out
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Speaker 1: on top in this one. This will be you know,
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Speaker 1: their best shot probably since Week one to get a win.
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Speaker 1: So and in week one they went into overtime and
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Speaker 1: suffered that a really tough loss. But Bellingham at home
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Speaker 1: at Civic Stadium Friday night, seven pm against granted falls,
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Speaker 1: Grand Falls, Like I said, three and one, so it's
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Speaker 1: no easy task, but it can be done. So I
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Speaker 1: go check that one out. Stan Wood Spartan's one and
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Speaker 1: three on the season, coming up to Ferndale, who is
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Speaker 1: two and two on the year. That'll also be Friday
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Speaker 1: night at seven pm. Ferndale'll drop their first two heartbreaking fashion.
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Speaker 1: They had the lead in boat in the second half
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Speaker 1: both of those and lost. And then since then, you know,
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Speaker 1: they handled Marysville Gatchel pretty well, and then it was
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Speaker 1: a really close game against Mount Vernon, who really you know,
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Speaker 1: just kind of came to play in that one and
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Speaker 1: and gave it all they had. But but Ferndale came
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Speaker 1: out on top of that one. They only led for
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Speaker 1: about ten seconds in that entire game, but they did
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Speaker 1: get the win in overtime, so I mean, I guess
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Speaker 1: they led for more than ten seconds if you want
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Speaker 1: to count you know, the Bulldogs second or of their
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Speaker 1: overtime possession there. So might be a little bit of hyperbole,
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Speaker 1: but the Golden Eagles two in a row now and
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Speaker 1: against stan Wood where things are not doing going so
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Speaker 1: well as of you know, just just recently, and so
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Speaker 1: a team that's kind of trending down versus a team
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Speaker 1: that's trending up, and it's at Ferndale. I think the
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Speaker 1: Golden Eagles should take this one. But I mean we
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Speaker 1: all all of us in the pick them said, you know, Ferndale,
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Speaker 1: that's a that's a lock last week against Mount Vernon
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Speaker 1: and they went into overtime. So you just never know.
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Speaker 1: With you know, like I always say, with sixteen and
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Speaker 1: seventeen year old kids, you can't really depend on you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean I should say you can depend on it,
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Speaker 1: but you can't guarantee anything. So you just never know. Ferndale,
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Speaker 1: you know, the offense has been doing really well, telling
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Speaker 1: bung Guard is just you know, out of this world
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Speaker 1: so far, leading the county and rushing and he's got
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Speaker 1: a he's got a big you know, he's got one
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Speaker 1: hundred yard advantage over Jaydon Piez who's second, and jad
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Speaker 1: and Piez who's you know, playing amazing as well. So
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Speaker 1: that just tells you how well bun Guard is doing it.
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Speaker 1: And on the defensive side of the ball at his
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Speaker 1: new position at defensive end, Jacob Gandy, who gave us
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Speaker 1: the intro, has been playing great. Secondary has had a
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Speaker 1: few mishaps, but they're very athletic out there, and that's
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Speaker 1: just gonna take some time. Going against Stanwood, we'll have
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Speaker 1: to see how that goes, but you know, they'll get
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Speaker 1: things shore up and they'll be just fine. Golden Eagles
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Speaker 1: at home on Friday against Stanwood two and two Ferndale
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Speaker 1: against one and three Stanwood seven pm out of Ferndale.
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Speaker 1: And now we're gonna jump to Squalicum, Ana Chordis and Squalicum,
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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, it's a tall task for them,
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Speaker 1: obviously going against the defending state champs, but Squalicam has
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Speaker 1: looked really, really good this year. They have not had
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Speaker 1: any problems putting points on the board. They put up
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Speaker 1: twenty one against Archbishop in a game where I don't
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Speaker 1: think the Wildcats even took their starters out at all
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Speaker 1: because it was pretty close for most of the game.
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Speaker 1: And to still put up twenty one points in that
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Speaker 1: one is very very impressive. Put up first two touchdowns
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Speaker 1: in their first two possessions in the first quarter against
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Speaker 1: a very good team. So they can do some good
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Speaker 1: stuff offensively, I don't know if they'll be able to
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Speaker 1: stop the Seahawks defensively. And that's the that's the big
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Speaker 1: thing is Anti Chordus has a lot of speed. Squalicum
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Speaker 1: does two, but it's just a different kind of speed.
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Speaker 1: When you watch Anacortus, I mean you watch it on
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Speaker 1: film and and it looks like college game. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they are just so fast. They fly to the ball.
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Speaker 1: They have their playmakers that can stop on a diamond
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Speaker 1: then go. And when you see real legit four four
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Speaker 1: speed it, you can you can tell it stands out.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's like going back and watching Taylor Rap
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Speaker 1: or Jake Locker or some of these guys. It's it's
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Speaker 1: going against other high school kids. There's a big, big
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Speaker 1: difference and with Brock and Brady Beaner. Happy birthday to
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Speaker 1: those guys from last Friday. They had a pretty good
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Speaker 1: birthday present beating Lyndon And this is gonna be another,
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Speaker 1: you know, good test for them, a good game for them.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know if Squalum has enough, they'll give
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Speaker 1: them a decent game. But you just got to try
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Speaker 1: to hang with them, and you have to take advantage
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Speaker 1: of any mistakes. Squalicum, maybe more than any team, is
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Speaker 1: really good at the little things as far as returning
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Speaker 1: kickoffs or punts for touchdowns. They have They've had a few,
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Speaker 1: uh pick sixes this year, like things like that, and
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Speaker 1: those are the kinds of things they might have to
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Speaker 1: have a few of those things if they want to
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Speaker 1: come out on top on the road against Anna Chordis again.
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Speaker 1: That's Friday, seven o'clock. Anacordis at four and oh they've
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Speaker 1: won how many in a row? Now, sixteen in a row,
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Speaker 1: seventeen in a row, something like that. Facing the Squalkum Storm,
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Speaker 1: who are three and one, should be a good one.
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Speaker 1: Let's jump to the Northwest Conference one A and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna start with Knoksec Valley at three and one, traveling
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Speaker 1: out to Bob Tisdale Field in downtown Deming, Washington, the
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Speaker 1: Mounta Baker Mountaineers undefeated at four and oh and this
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Speaker 1: is gonna be a slobber knocker man. This is going
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Speaker 1: to be two teams with a lot of hard hitting
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Speaker 1: and a ton of respect on both sides. We're talking
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Speaker 1: the players, the coaches, and this will be a football
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Speaker 1: game that's going to be done right. Boy, They've had
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Speaker 1: some good matchups in the past. Last year's was a
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Speaker 1: little bit was a little lopsided, but you go back
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Speaker 1: before that, you're talking about the state semi finals, and
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Speaker 1: you talk about a late season game earlier that season,
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Speaker 1: and you know, fourth down stops and different things, I mean,
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Speaker 1: just key plays at key moments for both of these teams. Again,
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Speaker 1: these team teams have been planning playing each other for
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Speaker 1: almost one hundred years. It's pretty amazing. I know they've
17:15
Speaker 1: played each other over a hundred times. I know that
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Speaker 1: for sure because it was like it was like game
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Speaker 1: number one hundred a few years ago. So pretty amazing
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Speaker 1: that how far back these two teams go. And you know,
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Speaker 1: going into this year, and if you asked a lot
17:31
Speaker 1: of people about the one A nor then in Northwest Conference,
17:34
Speaker 1: a lot of people would say, well, you got Nuksack
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Speaker 1: and you kind of got everybody else after that, and boy,
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Speaker 1: the one person that kept saying I think it's pretty
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Speaker 1: even across the board was Nuksack Valley coach Craig Bartle.
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Speaker 1: And now he's looking like, you know, no stra Bartle here,
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Speaker 1: because he's absolutely right. I was talking to a few
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Speaker 1: people this week about the one A Northwest Conference and
18:00
Speaker 1: it's like, you could, you know, you could write down
18:03
Speaker 1: all five teams on a piece of paper, fold them up,
18:05
Speaker 1: put them into a hat, and then just draw them
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Speaker 1: out of the hat one through five, and you said,
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Speaker 1: if that's going to be the order at the end
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Speaker 1: of the year, I'd be like, Okay, I could see
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Speaker 1: that this is just one of those years where I
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Speaker 1: could see every team beating every other team, and then
18:18
Speaker 1: that might throw a whole kerfuffle into the week thirty
18:21
Speaker 1: two and who knows what, so there might be some
18:23
Speaker 1: mini playoff games going on, who knows. So these are
18:27
Speaker 1: so important to get these wins, and you know, uh,
18:32
Speaker 1: it's gonna be fifty to fifty asking people around the
18:35
Speaker 1: county who you think you or who do you think
18:37
Speaker 1: is gonna come out on top in this one. I
18:39
Speaker 1: don't think homefield advantage really matters. It's very much just
18:43
Speaker 1: they just know each other so well. If Baker, you know,
18:48
Speaker 1: takes care of the football and they can they can
18:50
Speaker 1: pound it, they usually do pretty well. I think Nuksac
18:53
Speaker 1: Valley has got a slight edge athletically, but Baker's got
18:58
Speaker 1: better athletes than you think. It's not just a bunch
19:02
Speaker 1: of tough guys. They've got some dudes out on the perimeter.
19:05
Speaker 1: They got some speed, a little more than probably team
19:08
Speaker 1: speed and then they've had in recent years, and so
19:12
Speaker 1: that's going to really help them out, especially going against
19:15
Speaker 1: Knooksack Valley's spread offense. So, boy, this is going to
19:18
Speaker 1: be such a great game. Mikayla will be out at
19:21
Speaker 1: that one. She's excited. It's her first game ever at
19:24
Speaker 1: Bob Tisdale Field, so I'm excited for I hope she
19:27
Speaker 1: has a great time. This game will also be on
19:31
Speaker 1: the radio, so if you're out of town, you'll be
19:33
Speaker 1: able to catch that. I don't know for sure what
19:36
Speaker 1: station it's going to be on, so I don't want
19:37
Speaker 1: to give the wrong one, so but it will be
19:40
Speaker 1: on the radio. You'll be able to catch it, and
19:43
Speaker 1: even if you don't have the station, you can find
19:45
Speaker 1: them online at whatever station it's going to be on.
19:48
Speaker 1: You can listen live that way. So great, great game.
19:50
Speaker 1: I'm excited for this one. Really hard to make a
19:55
Speaker 1: pick in this one, and we'll talk about that later
19:57
Speaker 1: in the Pick them. So we're gonna go to the
19:58
Speaker 1: last game of the week in Christian two and two,
20:02
Speaker 1: going to Blame four and oh and this is gonna
20:05
Speaker 1: be another great one, albeit at this one. They're gonna
20:09
Speaker 1: do you know, the KPUG is gonna have their Friday
20:11
Speaker 1: night lights set up there from three to seven, doing
20:14
Speaker 1: a four hour pregame show very much like college Game
20:19
Speaker 1: Day does it. They're gonna have people come up, you know,
20:22
Speaker 1: maybe athletic directors and cheerleaders and band members and other
20:26
Speaker 1: people that are you know, affiliated with the community on
20:30
Speaker 1: both sides and do interviews. The coaches will probably have
20:32
Speaker 1: live interviews. They do it upright. I was there a
20:35
Speaker 1: few weeks ago when they did it. I'm gonna be
20:37
Speaker 1: out there again on Friday for that taking it all in.
20:41
Speaker 1: Hopefully the weather will be somewhat decent. Hopefully they'll give
20:43
Speaker 1: me a chair this time. To sit in because it's
20:46
Speaker 1: gonna be a long night of standing around at you know,
20:48
Speaker 1: different games and stuff like that as well. So and
20:51
Speaker 1: I'm not as young as I used to be so
20:55
Speaker 1: so that'll be a lot of fun. But boy, this
20:57
Speaker 1: another This is very similar to the other matchup in
21:00
Speaker 1: the one as it's a total pick them. You just
21:03
Speaker 1: don't know. Lindy Christian's had Blaine's number for a while now.
21:08
Speaker 1: I think the last time Blaine won was in twenty thirteen.
21:12
Speaker 1: That was back in the Cole Muter days when he
21:14
Speaker 1: was the tailback theres for the border rights. And you know,
21:19
Speaker 1: it's very contrasting styles right now. Blaine's gonna want to
21:23
Speaker 1: possess the ball longer, shut it down, your throat, run
21:26
Speaker 1: the ball, our football, bullyball, run it up the middle,
21:29
Speaker 1: see if you can stop it type stuff. Lindy Christian
21:32
Speaker 1: is going to spread it out, throw it deep a
21:35
Speaker 1: little bit, get it out to your playmakers right away,
21:38
Speaker 1: try to out scheme you stuff like that. They did
21:41
Speaker 1: commit to the run a little bit more last week
21:44
Speaker 1: and it went pretty well. You know, I don't know
21:48
Speaker 1: how great the Eagles were stopping the run, but you know,
21:52
Speaker 1: Linden Christian who last week was without Halos Owen, was
21:56
Speaker 1: without Dawson Heintz. These are big time players that they
21:59
Speaker 1: were without and they still put up forty nine points.
22:02
Speaker 1: So the Links are starting to roll a little bit.
22:05
Speaker 1: Hat a really tough non conference schedule going into conference play.
22:10
Speaker 1: They are battle tested, for sure, Blaine. It's really unique
22:14
Speaker 1: how it ended up. They are four and oh and
22:18
Speaker 1: I think they're a little more battle tested than people think.
22:20
Speaker 1: But I think every single week their opponent got better,
22:24
Speaker 1: and that's just you know, I'm sure that when they're
22:27
Speaker 1: getting the scheduled together, they're not trying to do that.
22:29
Speaker 1: It's kind of how it ended up. But I tell
22:32
Speaker 1: you what, it's a really great thing for Blaine, a
22:35
Speaker 1: team who's really trying to improve on the culture and
22:38
Speaker 1: the believing that they can win, because for high school kids,
22:41
Speaker 1: getting them to believe that they can win is such
22:44
Speaker 1: a huge part of it, and once the winning starts happening,
22:48
Speaker 1: then everything else kind of trickles down from there. So
22:50
Speaker 1: I believe that that part, you know, that's sometimes the
22:53
Speaker 1: hard part is just believing. I mean, I know it
22:55
Speaker 1: sounds crazy, but you have to know that you can
22:58
Speaker 1: do it, and then once it starts happening, then they
23:00
Speaker 1: all have the confidence starts going and that trickles down.
23:03
Speaker 1: They're four and oh for the first time since nineteen
23:06
Speaker 1: seventy nine, and I don't even want to look at
23:09
Speaker 1: the last time they were five and oh. I I
23:10
Speaker 1: you know, I I'm tired of looking up this stuff
23:13
Speaker 1: and giving information everybody because because I'm not getting any
23:16
Speaker 1: credit for it, be honest. But that's you know, except
23:20
Speaker 1: for Coach Olsen. Coach Olsen always gives me credit. He's
23:22
Speaker 1: he's a you know, he's he's got my back. But
23:26
Speaker 1: I tell you what, it's it's just two contrasting styles.
23:29
Speaker 1: So the big thing in this one will be how
23:31
Speaker 1: does lynnon Christian's front seven, you know, defend the run
23:37
Speaker 1: and how does Blaine's secondary defend the pass. That's that's
23:43
Speaker 1: the big thing right there. And you know it's pretty even.
23:48
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some good parts about Elsie's front seven.
23:50
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Trey Bosman will be huge in this one.
23:54
Speaker 1: And if they can find a way to you know,
23:56
Speaker 1: kind of get him, you know, run away from me.
24:00
Speaker 1: He's in the middle of the field. It's really hard
24:01
Speaker 1: to run away from him. But you know, you double
24:03
Speaker 1: team him, or you do something, then you might have
24:06
Speaker 1: some success in that. Jaden Piez, who's a lot faster
24:10
Speaker 1: than you think he is because he's pretty strong. He
24:13
Speaker 1: if he breaks one, that's you know, that could be huge.
24:16
Speaker 1: You know, you just kind of pound pound pound breaks one.
24:19
Speaker 1: Now against some of these other opponents, he was breaking
24:21
Speaker 1: a lot. It's not gonna happen as easily this time
24:24
Speaker 1: on the other side of the balton, and Christian's gonna
24:26
Speaker 1: want to throw it around. So it's gonna come down
24:28
Speaker 1: to Thomas Cox, Ky Kerwin, Colin Davis, Colby, Ship, Logan Villarial.
24:34
Speaker 1: All these guys are going to have to how are
24:36
Speaker 1: they going to do defending the past? Now, what's been
24:39
Speaker 1: really good about this Blaine defense is that they've been
24:45
Speaker 1: great at defending the quick passes over the middle and
24:49
Speaker 1: so and Elsie is great at this. So that kind
24:52
Speaker 1: of gives that slide edge to Blaine in that case.
24:55
Speaker 1: Now it might come down to kicking, you know, who knows.
25:00
Speaker 1: I mean, both kickers have had a little bit of
25:03
Speaker 1: issues to start the season. But you know, sometimes it's
25:06
Speaker 1: not on the kicker. Sometimes it could be the snap,
25:07
Speaker 1: the hold, whatever the weather. Who knows, but it's gonna
25:11
Speaker 1: be another great game. The radio will be there for
25:13
Speaker 1: that one. It's gonna be a lot of fun. I'll
25:17
Speaker 1: be there probably, I mean, if the game's great, which
25:20
Speaker 1: I expect it to be, I'll probably end up being
25:22
Speaker 1: there for the full thing. I might end up leaving
25:25
Speaker 1: at halftime and going out to Ferndale and get some
25:28
Speaker 1: pictures of that one in the second half. So we'll
25:30
Speaker 1: just have to wait and see. But it's gonna be
25:33
Speaker 1: a good one. I'm excited about it. This is the
25:35
Speaker 1: part where I just I can't believe we're already here,
25:38
Speaker 1: the one A Northwest Conference are starting to play each other,
25:40
Speaker 1: and it's just so tough top to bottom to pick
25:45
Speaker 1: every week and to see it happen. And the weird
25:47
Speaker 1: thing is, at the end of the year, I'm probably
25:49
Speaker 1: gonna look back on it and say, yeah, I could
25:51
Speaker 1: see how that all came out. But right now, I
25:54
Speaker 1: just I can't see it. I just cannot see it.
25:57
Speaker 1: I you know, I just don't know. It's it's uh
26:01
Speaker 1: And that's why we're blessed to be able to see
26:04
Speaker 1: this these great football games week in and week out,
26:06
Speaker 1: and it's it's gonna be awesome. So if you're a
26:09
Speaker 1: fan right now, or a parent, or a supporter or whatever,
26:12
Speaker 1: this is a great time in Walking County to watch
26:15
Speaker 1: high school football, so enjoy it. It's going to be great.
26:19
Speaker 1: And so yeah, it's gonna be awesome. So from there,
26:23
Speaker 1: we got to go to Randy Small, our guy, our
26:25
Speaker 1: weather man, and uh, he's just you know, the greatest
26:29
Speaker 1: guy in the world, does this for us every week.
26:32
Speaker 1: So so let's, uh, let's hear what Randy has to
26:35
Speaker 1: say about this. This is this the weather for this weekend,
26:38
Speaker 1: and and he's always got his finger on the pulse.
26:41
Speaker 1: So Randy Small take it away.
26:44
Speaker 2: Well, hello football fans, this is Randy Small, Walking County Weather.
26:47
Speaker 2: And before I tell you the forecast, I just wanted
26:49
Speaker 2: to say a big thank you to Ryland and Tyler
26:52
Speaker 2: for both having me do this forecast. I think this
26:55
Speaker 2: is a third year we've done it, so just a
26:57
Speaker 2: big shout out. If you have an opportunity to support
27:00
Speaker 2: Tyler and walkin Preps, please do that. He's doing a
27:03
Speaker 2: great service for this area. So I just wanted to
27:06
Speaker 2: do a shout out for all that he's doing. Quick
27:09
Speaker 2: checking the forecast for the Thursday night games, mainly. The
27:12
Speaker 2: Meridian game looks like it'll be dry and probably tempts
27:16
Speaker 2: in the upper fifties at kickoff, maybe low sixties, but
27:20
Speaker 2: I think dry on Thursday night. Friday night, Friday's got
27:24
Speaker 2: rain most of the day, and then the question is
27:27
Speaker 2: when does the rain kind of come to an end
27:28
Speaker 2: and change the showers. It's possible we still have showers
27:32
Speaker 2: and a little bit of rain hanging around, but it's
27:34
Speaker 2: also possible it might dry off by about the time
27:37
Speaker 2: the game begins. So it's kind of on the edge
27:41
Speaker 2: at the games being seven o'clock, I believe, all the
27:44
Speaker 2: rest of the games. So I'm going to go with
27:46
Speaker 2: chance of showers still for Friday night, still on the
27:49
Speaker 2: cool side, but maybe drying as the game goes on,
27:52
Speaker 2: and maybe dry for the whole time. And we'll just
27:55
Speaker 2: have to see when those rain when the rain comes
27:57
Speaker 2: to an end. Okay, everyone, have a great weekend on
28:00
Speaker 2: your favorite football team.
28:01
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Randy. Uh boy, just the nicest
28:05
Speaker 1: guy in the world thanking us and stuff like that. No, Randy,
28:09
Speaker 1: thank you because and you're welcome, by the way. It's uh,
28:12
Speaker 1: it's it's just it's been so great just to get
28:15
Speaker 1: to know you and you know fellow Golden Lion Award winner. Boy,
28:20
Speaker 1: just there are there are people in this county that
28:23
Speaker 1: are just that go above and beyond and they're they
28:29
Speaker 1: you could maybe you know about them or you hear
28:31
Speaker 1: about them, and then when you meet them, they eat,
28:33
Speaker 1: but they still exceed expectations. And Randy Small is one
28:36
Speaker 1: of those guys. So you could check out all of
28:38
Speaker 1: Randy Small's stuff. Uh Walkham County w X weather from
28:42
Speaker 1: the Pacific Northwest. Go to Wokamcounty w X dot com
28:46
Speaker 1: is the website, got all sorts of things there. You
28:49
Speaker 1: can check it out on Facebook at facebook dot com
28:51
Speaker 1: slash Walkome County Weather, the pictures, the you know, the
28:56
Speaker 1: weather information and he's up at all weird times of
28:59
Speaker 1: the hours finding just the right spots and breaking things down.
29:03
Speaker 1: And boy, it would just seem like an automatic to
29:06
Speaker 1: go find him and ask him about the weather every
29:09
Speaker 1: single week and he is never disappointed. So thank you
29:12
Speaker 1: very much Randy Small for that. Hopefully you'll be seeing
29:15
Speaker 1: you soon down the road. I don't go to a
29:17
Speaker 1: ton of Linden games. I try to spread it all out,
29:19
Speaker 1: so but I'll definitely be seeing you down the road,
29:23
Speaker 1: So let's go to the pick'ems. It's been a pretty
29:26
Speaker 1: good year for everybody. I mean there's been years past
29:30
Speaker 1: where we're hovering around five hundred after a few weeks
29:33
Speaker 1: because you just don't know, but this has been one
29:35
Speaker 1: of those years where we've all done pretty well. Joe consensus,
29:39
Speaker 1: of course, the consensus pick. Out of all five picks combined,
29:43
Speaker 1: he's leading at thirty three and six. That's just kind
29:47
Speaker 1: of the way it goes, and that's usually the way
29:50
Speaker 1: it goes. That's hard to beat the consensus pick. You
29:52
Speaker 1: have to really get some upsets in there. Our coach,
29:55
Speaker 1: Jeff wood Ryland and the guests are all thirty two
30:00
Speaker 1: and seven, so just one game behind old Joe there,
30:04
Speaker 1: so doing very well. The guest pickers have been fantastic
30:08
Speaker 1: and so that's you know, they've been holding up that
30:10
Speaker 1: end of the bargain. Every single week. It's a different
30:12
Speaker 1: guest picker. And I'm at thirty one and eight, so
30:16
Speaker 1: I'm a game behind them, two games behind Joe, and
30:19
Speaker 1: Mikayla's twenty nine and ten, i mean, you know, last
30:23
Speaker 1: place and has won twenty nine out of thirty nine picks,
30:26
Speaker 1: so that's pretty impressive, That's what I mean about. You know,
30:29
Speaker 1: together all of us, we've done pretty well with the
30:32
Speaker 1: pick them, probably better than we've ever done over the
30:34
Speaker 1: first four weeks collectively with a winning percentage. So our
30:42
Speaker 1: guest picker this week is my very own Miss Walking Preps,
30:47
Speaker 1: Miss Laura Sliman. She's been a guest picker. This's her
30:51
Speaker 1: third year in a row being the guest picker. Of course,
30:53
Speaker 1: her goal every week is just to beat Ryland. And
30:57
Speaker 1: and they're you know, they get so funny because they've
31:01
Speaker 1: developed a small uh battle against each other, a little
31:05
Speaker 1: rivalry there, and and and I think there's only one
31:09
Speaker 1: game where they're picking different so that'll be kind of
31:13
Speaker 1: just the way that goes. Everybody, all of us are
31:16
Speaker 1: picking Meridian, we're all picking Ferndale, and we're all picking
31:19
Speaker 1: Anna Chordus to beat Squalicum. So but that's where it
31:23
Speaker 1: ends as far as you know, how we're all gonna pick.
31:28
Speaker 1: Only Jeff coach Wood is picking Seahome over London, and
31:33
Speaker 1: he's picking Linden Christian over Blaine. So he's got both
31:37
Speaker 1: of those games. He's the only one with with eight
31:39
Speaker 1: with either of those picks, and he's got them both.
31:41
Speaker 1: So if those things happen, he's gonna jump out on
31:44
Speaker 1: the lead all by himself. And of course he's not
31:47
Speaker 1: gonna be in Walkham County this weekend. He's gonna go
31:49
Speaker 1: over to the to the old Homeland there in Montana
31:53
Speaker 1: and and and watch the Grizzlies. The Grizzlies take on
31:56
Speaker 1: We were State. Of course, we were State starting left
31:59
Speaker 1: tackle former Seahome Mariner Gavin or Tega, who coach would coach,
32:03
Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool deal there. Only Mikayla and myself
32:08
Speaker 1: are picking Knoksack Valley over Mount Baker. That's a that
32:12
Speaker 1: was a tough those that was just a tough pick.
32:16
Speaker 1: And I just I just have to go back to
32:18
Speaker 1: how I felt before the season started, and uh and
32:21
Speaker 1: I you know, and I think that by doing that,
32:24
Speaker 1: I think it'll make it even a better game, because,
32:26
Speaker 1: uh boy, those Mountaineers, they seem to play really well
32:29
Speaker 1: when I pick against them, so this should be a
32:31
Speaker 1: really good game. And only myself and my girlfriend, miss
32:36
Speaker 1: Walkin Preps are picking Bellingham over Granted Falls, So so
32:41
Speaker 1: there's a lot of us going different ways. So you
32:44
Speaker 1: might start see some separation here in the pickens where
32:47
Speaker 1: we've all been pretty close, so we've got some different
32:49
Speaker 1: picks here. Of course, if you're following this on the website,
32:53
Speaker 1: then you can see all the graphics right there of
32:55
Speaker 1: who we're picking and stuff like that. I tell you what,
32:58
Speaker 1: when we put those graphics out on Instagram, Uh, ten
33:01
Speaker 1: minutes later, it's got hundreds of likes. People love when
33:04
Speaker 1: this thing comes out. Still not sponsored yet. You could
33:06
Speaker 1: put your logo on the pick them and you every
33:10
Speaker 1: single week if you want to get you know, a
33:13
Speaker 1: few thousand views. This is how to do it. So
33:16
Speaker 1: so yeah, so that's your those are your pick ems.
33:20
Speaker 1: It's you know, it's that first week of all these
33:22
Speaker 1: teams playing each other, so made it a little bit
33:25
Speaker 1: more tough to do the picks this week. So so
33:30
Speaker 1: now we're gonna go to our fantasy picks. And in
33:32
Speaker 1: fantasy Ryland and I are both tied two and two
33:36
Speaker 1: with each other. So this is gonna be that, you know,
33:38
Speaker 1: that pivotal week where someone can break out ahead. It's
33:43
Speaker 1: like when you used to watch the old NBA playoffs,
33:46
Speaker 1: or I say the old because I haven't watched the
33:47
Speaker 1: NBA playoffs in years, but I'm sure they still do it.
33:51
Speaker 1: Where it's like, you know, both games, you know, it's
33:53
Speaker 1: two to two and this is game five. So that's
33:55
Speaker 1: kind of where we're at right now, and we we
34:00
Speaker 1: we had we had to do it a little different
34:01
Speaker 1: this week. We actually held our draft through through Facebook Messenger.
34:09
Speaker 1: Had to type back and forth because Ryland can't even
34:13
Speaker 1: talk right now, so we had to do our picks
34:16
Speaker 1: that way. So I'm gonna give him all to you
34:18
Speaker 1: with the first pick. Overall, I had the first pick
34:21
Speaker 1: since Ryland got me last week by about forty points.
34:24
Speaker 1: I picked the Meridian Trojan offensive line. I just think
34:28
Speaker 1: that this is a you know, a Thursday when you
34:32
Speaker 1: play one of those wonky Thursday games and stuff like that.
34:34
Speaker 1: It helps a lot just to play at home. I mean,
34:36
Speaker 1: you're going on the road and then playing, you know,
34:39
Speaker 1: in the f school the next day. It's just can
34:41
Speaker 1: kind of add up a little bit. And I think
34:44
Speaker 1: Meridian's got a good advantage here. So I'm gonna I've
34:46
Speaker 1: taken the Meridian offensive lines and then Ryland gets two picks.
34:49
Speaker 1: So Ryland took Talon Bunguard, the running back from Ferndale.
34:54
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's been a week where he
34:55
Speaker 1: hasn't been picked, and it's just he delivers each and
34:59
Speaker 1: every single weak and uh, I don't know how he
35:03
Speaker 1: does it. He's like a machine back there. He's like
35:05
Speaker 1: robo back, so hard to bring down. Showed some speed
35:09
Speaker 1: last week too, and that that long touchdown run, So
35:12
Speaker 1: that's nice to have that in his back pocket. So
35:15
Speaker 1: Ryland's going with the big full back from Ferndale, talent
35:18
Speaker 1: bung guard, and then he went with Sam Morngo, the
35:21
Speaker 1: wide receiver from Lyndon. The sophomore has really really turned
35:24
Speaker 1: into one of the top receivers in the county. And
35:28
Speaker 1: this this could be one of those games where it's
35:30
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of passing back and forth
35:32
Speaker 1: between Seehom and Linden. And so he sees Sam Morango
35:36
Speaker 1: doing some big things there and I don't blame him.
35:39
Speaker 1: So then I picked a defense. I picked Ferndale's defense,
35:42
Speaker 1: and I know that they've had a little bit of
35:44
Speaker 1: issues in the secondary, but boy, that front seven can
35:48
Speaker 1: really get after it makes a lot of plays in
35:50
Speaker 1: the backfield. I think I think there's gonna be some
35:53
Speaker 1: sort of like sack from behind the ball pops loose
35:56
Speaker 1: and then it'll get picked up and ran in for
35:58
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Like I could see bung guard coming from
36:01
Speaker 1: the blind side, Boom sack, ball pops down, chance Hatchett
36:04
Speaker 1: picks it up, runs it in for a touchdown. I
36:06
Speaker 1: could just you know, that'd be awesome to see. So
36:09
Speaker 1: Ferndale's defense, I got you. And then I picked quarterback
36:12
Speaker 1: Brent Hepner out at Lyndon. I think when he's at home,
36:16
Speaker 1: he's just he can really flinging around the park and
36:19
Speaker 1: I'm kind of trying to balance out this sam Arango
36:22
Speaker 1: pick too, so so, and the great thing about Bran
36:26
Speaker 1: Hepner too is that he's not afraid to run the
36:28
Speaker 1: ball a little bit. You know, he's he's put up
36:32
Speaker 1: a lot of rushing touchdowns in his career. I want
36:34
Speaker 1: to say it's over twenty, so he can definitely do that.
36:37
Speaker 1: You know, just lean forward a little bit and you
36:39
Speaker 1: got a couple of yards right there. Brent Hepner, He's
36:43
Speaker 1: might pick a quarterback. Ryland then picked from the front seven,
36:49
Speaker 1: so this could be a defensive lineman or a linebacker.
36:52
Speaker 1: He picked Jacob Gandy from Ferndale, the guy who gave
36:55
Speaker 1: us the intro. At boy, he's leading the county and
36:58
Speaker 1: tackles for loss. He just has a way to shoot
37:00
Speaker 1: through the gap and make up, make makeup play and
37:04
Speaker 1: in really big moments as well. And I think that
37:07
Speaker 1: he's a guy who every week has just gotten a
37:11
Speaker 1: little bit better too. He's very consistent, but he's still
37:14
Speaker 1: improving every single week. And and yeah, once the rest
37:18
Speaker 1: of the defense kind of catches up to him, uh friend,
37:21
Speaker 1: it will be really really hard to score on. And
37:24
Speaker 1: then he also had another pick, So then he picked
37:26
Speaker 1: back seven, which could be a linebacker or defensive back.
37:29
Speaker 1: So again you could, like we always say, you could
37:31
Speaker 1: just pick two linebackers if you want, and that's kind
37:34
Speaker 1: of what he did here. He went with Colton Lentz
37:36
Speaker 1: from Nuksack Valley and that's that's wise because even though
37:41
Speaker 1: he picked Baker to win the game, what he's looking
37:44
Speaker 1: at there probably is Baker likes to run the ball
37:46
Speaker 1: a lot. They like to run between the tackles a lot,
37:49
Speaker 1: and that's where Colton Lentz is going to be a lot.
37:51
Speaker 1: So so there's just a lot of opportunities there for tackles.
37:55
Speaker 1: Last week in the wing against the wing, tuh, you know,
37:59
Speaker 1: Colton Wrap racked up eleven and a half tackles against
38:02
Speaker 1: Tom Water. Yeah, Tumwater ran him out of the building,
38:05
Speaker 1: but he had so many opportunities to make tackles and
38:07
Speaker 1: that's what he did. And so I'm looking at that
38:10
Speaker 1: probably and he's seen that, and that could happen. A
38:12
Speaker 1: four year starter on the defensive side of the ball.
38:15
Speaker 1: Goldan Lentz always a great pick, so you can't go
38:17
Speaker 1: wrong there. I picked Jad and Piez at running back again.
38:22
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be Blaine's running game against Elsie's
38:26
Speaker 1: passing game and Jade and Piez every single week just
38:31
Speaker 1: looks phenomenal. And you know, the combine type numbers are
38:37
Speaker 1: really good. I mean, he's putting up a lot of
38:40
Speaker 1: weight in the bench press and he's got a great
38:42
Speaker 1: forty time and all that stuff. But you can have
38:44
Speaker 1: all those things, but until you do it on the field,
38:47
Speaker 1: that really opens my eyes. And boy, he opened them
38:50
Speaker 1: up right off the bat in Week one and they've
38:52
Speaker 1: been open ever since. So he is, you know, a
38:57
Speaker 1: touchdown scoring machine. He has already scored ninety points on
39:01
Speaker 1: the season. He has scored ninety. There's teams that there's
39:04
Speaker 1: teams that haven't scored ninety points so far this year,
39:07
Speaker 1: so that means he's what I mean, he's averaging twenty
39:13
Speaker 1: you know, twenty two and a half points a game
39:16
Speaker 1: or something like that. Just him, just him. That's not
39:19
Speaker 1: kicking extra points, that's nothing. That's just him. He's averaging
39:22
Speaker 1: over twenty points a game in these games. So I
39:25
Speaker 1: think it's a great pick fantasy wise. He always gets
39:28
Speaker 1: in the end zone. And then I'm gonna go with
39:30
Speaker 1: Landon Downey at kicker for Meridan. I think Meridian will
39:33
Speaker 1: have a lot of chances here. Downey is no slouch
39:36
Speaker 1: at all. He could definitely even kick some field goals.
39:39
Speaker 1: Meridian is the all time king of quote unquote going
39:43
Speaker 1: for it. So I don't know if field goals will
39:46
Speaker 1: be a thing, but but you know, if you rack
39:49
Speaker 1: up enough touchdowns, he can kick those extra points and
39:53
Speaker 1: you know, pick up a little extra points there. Ryland then
39:56
Speaker 1: had two picks. He went with Nolan Wright see Home
39:59
Speaker 1: Quarterback Back where, boy, that guy the last two weeks
40:03
Speaker 1: has just put up crazy numbers. He had him two
40:06
Speaker 1: weeks ago when he when he scored like fifty fifty
40:10
Speaker 1: one points or whatever. And so he's going right back
40:14
Speaker 1: out to him. And one of our rules is you
40:16
Speaker 1: can't pick the same player two weeks in a row,
40:18
Speaker 1: especially at the same position. So he picked him two
40:22
Speaker 1: weeks ago, couldn't pick him last week, and he's right
40:24
Speaker 1: back on him this week again. So Nolan Wright against
40:28
Speaker 1: Lyndon that you might have to be forced to throw
40:31
Speaker 1: a little bit, So that's probably a really good pick.
40:33
Speaker 1: Plus he's been running the ball lately, you know, over
40:36
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty yards the last two weeks in
40:39
Speaker 1: a row running the ball, So a real duel threat there.
40:43
Speaker 1: Then he went with Blaine's offensive line again. He did
40:46
Speaker 1: pick Blaine in this game against Lyndon Christian and that's
40:50
Speaker 1: kind of countering my Jayde and Payez pick, I suppose.
40:53
Speaker 1: But he really likes the big border right offensive line
40:56
Speaker 1: here against the smaller athletic Links and we'll just have
41:00
Speaker 1: to wait and see how that goes. Then I had
41:02
Speaker 1: two picks, and I picked a couple of guys that
41:04
Speaker 1: haven't been picked yet this year, but I have really
41:06
Speaker 1: good feelings about them. They both had huge weeks last week.
41:09
Speaker 1: I went with Joe Harvard at Bellingham as a wide receiver.
41:12
Speaker 1: He's been playing quarterback all year. He had such a
41:16
Speaker 1: breakout performance as a wide receiver last week with four
41:19
Speaker 1: catches for one hundred and sixty seven yards and a touchdown.
41:24
Speaker 1: I tell you, he looked like Megatron out there. It
41:27
Speaker 1: was crazy. So I think that they're going to try
41:30
Speaker 1: to utilize him some more, and now with maybe a
41:34
Speaker 1: full week of practice of him playing receiver, they're going
41:36
Speaker 1: to find other ways to get him the ball. So
41:39
Speaker 1: I think he's boys to have a monster week against
41:42
Speaker 1: Grant Falls. So I'm going Joe Harvard, the junior from
41:44
Speaker 1: Bellingham at wide receiver. And then I'm also going Nohen
41:47
Speaker 1: Nicole Mills, the sophomore defensive end from Mount Baker in
41:52
Speaker 1: my front seven big week last week. He could play
41:55
Speaker 1: some linebacker, but he's been starting at defensive end and
41:58
Speaker 1: doing extremely well. Uh just just plays tough and is
42:04
Speaker 1: hard to block at times, and he makes plays and
42:06
Speaker 1: he's a sure tackler and he's gonna hit you. So
42:08
Speaker 1: I like all those things combined. So that's my pick
42:12
Speaker 1: at the front seven, Noah Nicole Mills from Mount Baker. Uh, Meridian,
42:17
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Ryland then picked Meridian's defense again, probably looking at,
42:23
Speaker 1: you know, the short turnaround for south woodby going on
42:26
Speaker 1: the road, that kind of stuff. And Meridians defense. You know,
42:29
Speaker 1: they scored a touchdown last week. I had them last
42:32
Speaker 1: week in fantasy, and they do some really good opportunistic things.
42:35
Speaker 1: Got some good coaches on that side of the ball,
42:37
Speaker 1: very good coaches, and they see things very well and
42:41
Speaker 1: they can really relay it to their players. And at
42:43
Speaker 1: all three levels. Marian's defense is very very strong, with
42:47
Speaker 1: a ton of varsity experience, and when you're playing at
42:49
Speaker 1: home and you're favored, usually that defense can do some great,
42:53
Speaker 1: great things. And so that's why he picked the Trojans defense.
42:56
Speaker 1: And then with his last pick, he needed a kicker.
42:59
Speaker 1: He went with Lincoln to Thomas from Ferndale. Didn't start
43:02
Speaker 1: the year at kicker, but after the injury to Kayden Eldridge,
43:05
Speaker 1: he came in and he has not missed. He's been
43:08
Speaker 1: automatic and he's been and he's been great too. I mean,
43:11
Speaker 1: these extra points are still way going, are definitely on
43:15
Speaker 1: the way up going through the uprights. It seems like
43:17
Speaker 1: every time he kicks an extra point it's good from forty,
43:20
Speaker 1: which is a great, great thing to have. Lincoln Thomas,
43:24
Speaker 1: who has just come on and been a great kicker.
43:27
Speaker 1: So That's who Ryland picked with his final pick was
43:30
Speaker 1: the kicker, Lincoln Thomas, the senior from Ferndale. All I
43:33
Speaker 1: needed left for my last pick was a back seven player.
43:36
Speaker 1: So I'm going with Kolby Ship from Blaine. He's a
43:39
Speaker 1: guy that can do He can play some linebacker, he
43:41
Speaker 1: can play some safety, and because of injuries you know elsewhere,
43:46
Speaker 1: he could do a lot of different things. But I
43:49
Speaker 1: just love his tennasty on the defense. I mean, he
43:52
Speaker 1: gets he gets after it. He's the smallest guy on
43:55
Speaker 1: the field, but he does not play like it at all.
43:58
Speaker 1: And Lynnon Christian is gonna want They're gonna find soft
44:01
Speaker 1: spots in the zone and do different things. And boy,
44:04
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of times when an LC
44:06
Speaker 1: player is gonna catch the ball and all of a sudden,
44:08
Speaker 1: twenty four is gonna pop them. And so I see
44:11
Speaker 1: Colby Ship being in on a lot of plays on
44:13
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball for the border rights.
44:15
Speaker 1: So I'm going with Colby Ships. So if you look
44:18
Speaker 1: at our team overall, I got Brent Heppner at cornerback.
44:22
Speaker 1: Ryland has Nolan Wright, I have Jaden Piez at running back.
44:26
Speaker 1: Ryland has Talon Bunnguard. I have Joe Harvard at receiver.
44:30
Speaker 1: Ryland has Sam Arango. I have the Meridian Trojans with
44:35
Speaker 1: my for the offensive line. He has the Blaine Border Rights.
44:38
Speaker 1: I have the Ferndale Golden Eagles as my team defense.
44:41
Speaker 1: He's got the Meridian Trojans for front seven. I have
44:45
Speaker 1: Noah Nicole Mills from Mount Baker. He has Jacob Gandy
44:48
Speaker 1: from Ferndale. In the back seven, I have Colby Ship
44:52
Speaker 1: from Blaine. He has Colton Lentz from Nuksack Valley. And
44:55
Speaker 1: at kicker, I have Landon Downey from Meridian, and Ryland
44:59
Speaker 1: went with Lincoln Thomas from Ferndale. So yeah, that's about it.
45:04
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a great week five. I'm super excited
45:08
Speaker 1: for this, and uh, it's gonna be It's it's just
45:12
Speaker 1: gonna be a heck of a week. I mean, this
45:15
Speaker 1: is this is really where the separation is gonna start happening.
45:19
Speaker 1: And for a lot of these one A teams they're
45:22
Speaker 1: playing each other. Uh, this is where they're gonna break
45:25
Speaker 1: out some new plays that they haven't seen on film yet.
45:28
Speaker 1: They're gonna use the stuff that worked in these non
45:30
Speaker 1: conference games and stick with that stuff. It's it's just
45:35
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be great football. And the coaches up
45:37
Speaker 1: here are so good and the battle plans they're gonna
45:40
Speaker 1: have against each other, and the and the changes they're
45:42
Speaker 1: gonna make halftime and adjustments and everything, and that's what's
45:46
Speaker 1: so fun to see up here when they when they
45:49
Speaker 1: play each other, because it's every single play and it's
45:53
Speaker 1: you can't make a mistake, and boy, they're just gonna
45:56
Speaker 1: be battle tested going into Week ten. It's gonna be
45:59
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. So anyways, just want to again
46:02
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46:10
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46:14
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for what you do. Again. Thank
46:17
Speaker 1: you to Laura Sliman for being our guest picker. She's
46:21
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46:23
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46:26
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46:30
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46:34
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46:42
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46:43
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46:45
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46:47
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