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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 265 - 2024 Blaine Borderites Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Blaine senior Thomas Cox and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: Blaine football preview on Welcome Preps Podcast with Tyler and
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Speaker 1: Ryland Always Compete.
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Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the Watch Them Preps podcast. This
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Speaker 2: episode of two hundred and sixty five the second of
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Speaker 2: ten football team previews. I'm Roland Spencer. Along with me
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Speaker 2: as always is Tyler Anderson of watcum Preps. Tyler, how
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Speaker 2: are we doing?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing great man, Living the dream, living the dream,
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Speaker 3: living the dream, dream, living the dream. No, this is awesome,
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Speaker 3: favorite time of the year and uh just happy to
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Speaker 3: be talking football again.
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Speaker 2: Heck of us. Start to the podcast. We're on top
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Speaker 2: of our game. Here for the Blaine board rights. Proud
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Speaker 2: to have you boys. Intro today provided by Thomas Cox.
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Speaker 2: We will talk about him in a little bit. A
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Speaker 2: good player for these border rights. We need to give
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Speaker 2: as I said, we were talking about the Blaine border rights.
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Speaker 2: Earlier today, we posted a podcast a previewing the Bellingham BayHawks. Tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: you can find both Linden's schools. We'll be on the
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Speaker 2: lookout for those two. Eventually we'll get around to everybody else.
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Speaker 2: So we'll have Squalcum and Meridian after that, then followed
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Speaker 2: by Mount Ferndale, Mount Baker, and then we will finish
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Speaker 2: with Seahome and Nooksack Valley. Tyler, Yeah, major way up
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Speaker 2: the road. A little bit further than it used to be,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, major way up the road to visit Blaine
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Speaker 2: practice there on the first day, the first camp you visited.
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Speaker 2: Give me some general thoughts here. What'd you see out there?
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Speaker 3: Well, it was it was great to just be back
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Speaker 3: at football practice. That was the big, big thing and
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Speaker 3: the biggest thing that I noticed out there, especially when
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Speaker 3: the new helmets.
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Speaker 4: Yes, the new helmets look fantastic.
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Speaker 2: You know what I love about it, Tyler, Huh. I
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Speaker 2: love how it's not the same thing on either side.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that is, that's true. It's pretty cool.
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Speaker 5: Yes, that was awesome.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so now they just got to make sure that
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Speaker 3: everybody's left side says the same thing and everybody's right side, says, Oh,
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Speaker 3: so there's a story there. What do you got for No,
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Speaker 3: I don't there's no story. I'm just saying, when you
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Speaker 3: have two different things, you got to make sure all
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Speaker 3: the lefts you know, I gotta put the decals.
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Speaker 4: On the right way, you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Yes, But the big thing that I noticed, I think
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Speaker 3: the big takeaway there was you know, they were doing
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Speaker 3: sprints at the end, and you know, if there was
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Speaker 3: you know, some younger kids that were struggling, you know,
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Speaker 3: this upperclass when we're helping them out, you know, if
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Speaker 3: anyone was complaining or not being able to get all
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Speaker 3: the way through or something like that, the senior leaderships
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Speaker 3: were like, this is a new culture, this is a
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Speaker 3: different Blane and they were really vocal about it. You know,
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Speaker 3: they were saying, always compete. Uh, it's kind of the
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Speaker 3: new mantra out there. I think coach Olsen is bringing
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Speaker 3: a lot of stuff that he's learned at these other
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Speaker 3: successful programs he's been to and he's really you know,
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Speaker 3: putting it into the Blaine culture. And that's just a huge,
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Speaker 3: huge deal for these kids. Because this group of seniors,
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Speaker 3: now they've been through you know, a little some ups
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Speaker 3: and downs, you know, a little bit more downs than ups,
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Speaker 3: and they are out to prove something this year. It
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Speaker 3: wasn't a ton of kids. I think I counted forty
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Speaker 3: two kids grades nine through twelve. But it was early, right,
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Speaker 3: there's probably you know, kids that aren't coming out just
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Speaker 3: yet or you know, they're working stuff like that.
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Speaker 4: But I tell you what, I saw a lot of size.
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Speaker 3: It might be one of the biggest offensive lines in
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Speaker 3: the entire county as far as tackle to tackle averaging
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Speaker 3: you know, close to about two fifty five to sixty
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Speaker 3: and so. And there's a lot of veteran leadership, like
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Speaker 3: I said, so it was a lot of good things
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Speaker 3: to like out there. The weather was pretty decent, and
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Speaker 3: and it was good to see coach Olsen. Hadn't seen
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Speaker 3: him a little while, so it was it was a
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Speaker 3: fun day.
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Speaker 2: Now, Tyler, when you talk about you saw a lot
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Speaker 2: of size, that wasn't just a shot at coach Olsen,
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Speaker 2: was it?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 2: Now, No people are gonna ask, they're gonna go, did
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Speaker 2: you guys start with Bellingham and Blaine because those are
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Speaker 2: the two biggest coaches in the county and Ryland likes big,
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Speaker 2: you know, he prefers, the bigger guys, you know, like
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Speaker 2: the no no, no people were going alphabetical here. All right,
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Speaker 2: everybody cal him down, Tyler. I do have to say
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Speaker 2: I did see the Blaine helmets like up front at
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Speaker 2: the Lakewood seven on seven.
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Speaker 5: I did like him.
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Speaker 2: They didn't have the stickers yet, and the coach Olsen
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Speaker 2: sent me the picture and I was like, yep, not
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Speaker 2: gonna lie. Those might just be my favorite helmets in
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Speaker 2: Wakam County.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 5: There there's good ones. There's some good ones. But I'm
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Speaker 5: gonna tell you right now, those are pretty hot, man.
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Speaker 5: Those are pretty hot. Tyler.
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Speaker 2: While you were out there, you gotta sit down with
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Speaker 2: coach Olsen for a little interview. We talked about it
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Speaker 2: in the first podcast that we did with Bellingham. This
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Speaker 2: year we are adding a small coaches interview with the
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Speaker 2: head coach of the program. This time, you sat down
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Speaker 2: with Coach Olson for five minutes, roughly five minutes out
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Speaker 2: there at Bellingham High School, and we'll let you guys
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Speaker 2: take it away.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 3: This is Tyler Anderson with walkin Preps, sitting here with
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Speaker 3: Blaine head football coach Andy Olsen and coach after going
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Speaker 3: through a full season as head coach last year.
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Speaker 5: What's the biggest.
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Speaker 3: Difference this year now after doing a full calendar year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, so your first year that you're anywhere, you're trying
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Speaker 6: to teach your culture and you're starting really from the
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Speaker 6: ground up. So we talked about, you know, that first year,
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Speaker 6: we're basically digging out a foundation to build a house.
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Speaker 6: Now our kids show up and they know what they're
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Speaker 6: expected to do. They've started to own the culture that
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Speaker 6: you want, and now we're laying that foundation so we
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Speaker 6: can build upon it. So that part's the biggest change.
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Speaker 6: We really believe that everything kind of starts in the
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Speaker 6: weight room, and we believe that everybody wants to be successful,
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Speaker 6: but those that are usually found a way to deserve
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Speaker 6: it at some point. So we've been in the weight
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Speaker 6: room this summer. It's been good, and kids have been
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Speaker 6: buying in and they're taking pride in what we're doing.
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Speaker 6: And it's really great now too, in year two, I
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Speaker 6: don't have to correct everything because they start to correct
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Speaker 6: themselves and that's really fun to watch. It become it's
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Speaker 6: their culture. It's not my culture, it's their culture. So
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Speaker 6: when they start taking ownership over that that's when we know, okay,
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Speaker 6: it's started to work, which is pretty fun.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the trickle down starts to happen, and then everything
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Speaker 3: starts to come into place. The big rule change that
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Speaker 3: everyone's talking about Week ten is going to be a
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Speaker 3: little different this year. Tell me how that can benefit
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Speaker 3: the Border Rays.
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Speaker 6: It definitely benefits us. I mean, it's just like the
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Speaker 6: college football expand I mean up in Walkham County and
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Speaker 6: Scatted County, the Northwest Conference. I think it's like the
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Speaker 6: sec of one A and two A football. So the
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Speaker 6: more teams that can go compete in the A round
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Speaker 6: of thirty two, the better for our league and for
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Speaker 6: our kids up here that we know that we can
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Speaker 6: go compete. A few years ago, we watched a really
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Speaker 6: good Lakewood team that started year preseason Rink two be
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Speaker 6: eliminated in the two level by mid September, and that's
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Speaker 6: brutal because they were a good ball club. So it's
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Speaker 6: one of those things where it's great that we have
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Speaker 6: competitive football games and kids that are able to compete
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Speaker 6: and think that, hey, I'm working towards something a postseason.
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Speaker 6: And the more kids that have that opportunity, the better
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Speaker 6: it is across the state.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you're getting the best sixteen right, That's that's
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Speaker 3: what we want.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely. More competitive football is always a good thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice for any high school team to return
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Speaker 3: at starting quarterback.
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Speaker 4: You do with Colin Davis, What do you like so far?
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Speaker 6: Collins about fifteen pounds heavier than he was last year,
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Speaker 6: and that's that's a good way. And we talked about
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Speaker 6: those weight room kids. He's been the charge there, so
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Speaker 6: he's developed himself as an athlete. It's always nice too.
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Speaker 6: Colin had a really tough task going into his junior
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Speaker 6: year where he was used to one system and then
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Speaker 6: we bring in something new. But we saw him improved
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Speaker 6: throughout the year and become more settled and confident in
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Speaker 6: what he's supposed to do. So now that he's out
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Speaker 6: there this year to start, he's not worried about the cadence,
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Speaker 6: he's not worried about this hand signals, he's not freaking
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Speaker 6: out about checking the sideline. It's like he's comfortable and
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Speaker 6: now we can start to throw a little bit more
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Speaker 6: at him, which is fun for us too as coaches
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Speaker 6: because we always have a giant box of things we
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Speaker 6: want to do, but as whether we can get to
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Speaker 6: him or not.
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Speaker 5: So that's the best.
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Speaker 6: Part about returning our quarterback, the leadership and the ability
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Speaker 6: then to just be like on the same page with
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Speaker 6: the offensive coordinator Hunter Anderson. They both work together really
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Speaker 6: well and do a good job communicating. So it's been
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Speaker 6: really fun to watch Colin mature and improve and I'm
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Speaker 6: really excited for his senior year.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he had those moments last year and he
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Speaker 3: can take off and run a little bit. He's got
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Speaker 3: a lot of things about him that's definitely easy to like.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of that, let's just talk offense. What are kind
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Speaker 3: of your main strengths of your offense? What are people
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Speaker 3: going to see from this year's Border rights team.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think across the board, we've gotten bigger and
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Speaker 6: that's a good thing. So we're a stronger football team.
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Speaker 6: We return eight starters from last year's team. On offense,
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Speaker 6: I'm up front four guys on the offensive line, which
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Speaker 6: is great. It makes my life easier to as the
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Speaker 6: offensive line coach. I'm an offensive line coach who happens
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Speaker 6: to be a head coach. So like that's really fun
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Speaker 6: for us and now we can do some more like
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Speaker 6: dynamic things. But we're always going to blame change our
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Speaker 6: scheme to fit our kids. We're not going to expect
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Speaker 6: our kids to fit our scheme. So every year will
9:34
Speaker 6: be a little bit different based on those parts that
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Speaker 6: we're given. And so like today at practice, we saw
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Speaker 6: some stuff that maybe was different than what we saw
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Speaker 6: last year, and that's to fit our personnel, so it'll
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Speaker 6: be really fun. We threw the kitchen sink at them.
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Speaker 6: It's day one out here, so we're doing a lot
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Speaker 6: of Levan on zero and walking through things and talking
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Speaker 6: through things with that offense, and they're they're pretty cerebral
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Speaker 6: and excited and they enjoy thinking and warding the game
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Speaker 6: as it goes.
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Speaker 3: So it's been on defensively, you returned some guys that
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Speaker 3: did some things last year. What do you like so
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Speaker 3: far about your defense team?
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Speaker 6: Speed on defense has been fun. Again, that's eight starters
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Speaker 6: returning on defense too. So we've really emphasized tackling and
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Speaker 6: blocking in our June camp and we haven't had a
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Speaker 6: defensive day yet, and obviously no one really does until
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Speaker 6: Saturday when we can be in paths and we can
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Speaker 6: strap it up again. But what we saw this summer
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Speaker 6: was we were a lot faster than we were last year,
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Speaker 6: and we would fly to the ball. So those are
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Speaker 6: really fun things. And we've kind of changed what we
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Speaker 6: expect positionally and shuffled the deck, so to speak, on
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Speaker 6: kids playing in certain positions. So I think people will
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Speaker 6: come out and see a competitive word right steam, fly
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Speaker 6: around and not be afraid to hit some people. And
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Speaker 6: again that confidence stems back to we lifted weights.
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Speaker 2: All righty, thanks again to coach Olsen for his time. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: everybody's very busy at this time, so an opportunity to
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Speaker 2: sit down with a head coach is always, I guess,
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Speaker 2: at a premium if you can get it. So, Tyler,
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Speaker 2: let's take a look a little bit last year. As
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Speaker 2: far as Blaine goes and coach Olson, that last year
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Speaker 2: was his first year they finished three and seven. Before that,
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Speaker 2: he was over at Burlington Edison where did have some
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Speaker 2: definite success with the Tigers down there. But yeah, three
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Speaker 2: and seven last year. They do lose some big time
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Speaker 2: names and we'll talk about those as we go. There
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Speaker 2: are some really nice pieces coming back though, Tyler. And
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Speaker 2: there's some names here that we look at and go, hey,
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Speaker 2: if this guy takes the step, we think he's gonna
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Speaker 2: take this team could maybe surprise some people. But last
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Speaker 2: year a couple of losses early on that I think,
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe people expected to thought they could get
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Speaker 2: a win that week one Seahome, I think was going
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Speaker 2: to be a tough one. Then they go out and
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Speaker 2: just absolutely hammer vash On Island, which I think most
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Speaker 2: people did. I was at the Cedar Park Christian game
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Speaker 2: down here at Wanita. That was a game I think
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Speaker 2: Blaine thought they should have won, and they probably should
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Speaker 2: have won, and it was one of those things where
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Speaker 2: it was like you could see them building in the
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Speaker 2: right direction, just couldn't put it together fully that day.
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Speaker 2: But then just two weeks later, Tyler, when they have
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Speaker 2: that same opportunity to drive down and win a game late,
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Speaker 2: what do they do. They come back and they beat
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Speaker 2: the Meridian Trojans twenty nine to twenty eight. So at
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Speaker 2: the end of the day three and seven, they did
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Speaker 2: not go they didn't go winless in league, though they
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Speaker 2: didn't get that one league win. And now you're looking
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Speaker 2: at it, going, hey, let's build on that three and seven,
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Speaker 2: Let's move some things in the right direction. And for me,
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Speaker 2: if you're asking just my opinion, coming back with a
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Speaker 2: couple of you know, good running backs and a quarterback
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Speaker 2: that probably threw for I don't want to say more
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Speaker 2: yards than anybody coming back, because that's definitely not the truth.
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Speaker 2: But quite a few yards compared to what most teams
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Speaker 2: have coming back is maybe the way I would say it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean he got a you know, he
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Speaker 3: started every game last year, took every meaningful snap. You
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Speaker 3: saw up close and personal. That he can run a
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Speaker 3: little bit. That first play from scrimmagey like a forty
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Speaker 3: yard run. So Colin Davis, who you're talking about the
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Speaker 3: senior quarterback now, guy has a lot of things to like.
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Speaker 3: I mean I saw him at practice. He looked really sharp.
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Speaker 3: He's gotten bigger too, just bigger and stronger, more physical.
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Speaker 3: Saw him out during track season, talk to him a
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Speaker 3: little bit.
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Speaker 4: He's I think he's.
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Speaker 3: Ready for this. This is this is a pretty cool
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Speaker 3: deal for him. And he's throwing twenty touchdown passes in
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Speaker 3: his career. I threw five as a backup as a
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Speaker 3: sophomore fifteen last year. So you know, he's definitely put
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Speaker 3: up some numbers and can get the job done.
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Speaker 4: And you mentioned a couple of good backs.
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Speaker 3: I mean Jade and Piez returns had over six hundred
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Speaker 3: yards rushing last year, Colby Ship had at three hundred
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Speaker 3: and eleven. They were kind of, you know, they would
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Speaker 3: never play together. There was just kind of some back
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Speaker 3: and forth. You take this drive, I'll take this drive.
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Speaker 3: And I think there was a game when Colby was hurt,
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Speaker 3: so Jaden had most of the carries. But I think
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Speaker 3: Jade and Piez has no I don't want to say
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Speaker 3: separated himself to be the featured back this year, but
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Speaker 3: I think they're both gonna be on the field at
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Speaker 3: the same time. And you might see Colby Ship out
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Speaker 3: there as a receiver or coming in motion or being
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Speaker 3: the slot and do different things, find ways to get
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Speaker 3: him the ball. Of course, every coach wants your best
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Speaker 3: eleven on the field, and to do that, you're gonna
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Speaker 3: want both those guys out there. They both have great
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Speaker 3: traits that you want and so you know, they both
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Speaker 3: return with a lot of varsity experience. And it's crazy
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Speaker 3: that neither of those kids were on my top one
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Speaker 3: hundred list last year.
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Speaker 4: They were both so close.
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Speaker 3: But I think they're both, you know, easily gonna make
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Speaker 3: it this year. I think they're gonna make a huge
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Speaker 3: impact on their team and and they're gonna be relied
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Speaker 3: upon to do some big things in the you know,
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Speaker 3: in the offense and getting the ball moved down the
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Speaker 3: field and then you know, backup wise, I think there's
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Speaker 3: a couple of younger kids that are you're going to
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Speaker 3: be wanting to look for in the future. Axel Shelton
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Speaker 3: is a sophomore. He's grown a ton since his freshman year.
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Speaker 3: Which that's the best thing about sophomores, right, as you
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Speaker 3: know from coaching, is when they freshmen become sophomores, it
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Speaker 3: just seems like that's when their biggest growth spurt happens
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Speaker 3: and you go, okay, I think he can handle some
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Speaker 3: varsity football. I think Axel Shelton is that next guy
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Speaker 3: in line at the running back spot. There's a freshman quarterback,
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Speaker 3: Connor Brown, that will be a great quarterback for the
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Speaker 3: future for them. I don't think he's going to go
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Speaker 3: into it in day one as QB two. You know,
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Speaker 3: if something happens to Colin Davis, I don't really think
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Speaker 3: you want to throw a freshman out there, but I
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Speaker 3: think they they like his progression and where you know,
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Speaker 3: the team can go moving forward in the years to
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Speaker 3: come and have and be confident with him under center.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And you know, anytime you bring back a quarterback that
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Speaker 2: has the amount of experience that he has, Yeah, you
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Speaker 2: just feel good about your offense, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Like that's the good starting point. Then when you combine
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Speaker 2: it with what they have on the offensive line, you
15:52
Speaker 2: start to feel really good. That being said, Tyler, if
15:55
Speaker 2: there was a i'll just say a weakness maybe a
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Speaker 2: question mark of the offense, it's got to be in
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Speaker 2: the receiving corps, the receivers tight ends, if you will.
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Speaker 2: They returned some nice pieces, but when you look at
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Speaker 2: what they actually have coming back, we're talking about two
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Speaker 2: running backs statistically wise, coming back, we're talking about two
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Speaker 2: running backs and one receiver seventeen yards out of Kai
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Speaker 2: Kerwitz or excuse me, seventeen yards, seventeen receptions, one hundred
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Speaker 2: and fourteen yards, no returning touchdown receptions. You mentioned last
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Speaker 2: year Colin Davis threw for fifteen of them. So those
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Speaker 2: fifteen are all gone. So we got some questions, Tyler,
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Speaker 2: So my question for you, who are we looking at here?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very very true. You know, Kai Kerwin was
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Speaker 3: he was. He was small as a sophomore last year
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Speaker 3: and was very dynamic, catches everything out of that slot position.
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Speaker 3: I think he will be, you know, more of a
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Speaker 3: focal point. But there are some other guys coming up.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 3: We mentioned Thomas Cox, who gave us the intro. He
16:55
Speaker 3: was prominently a defensive player last year. I think he's
16:58
Speaker 3: going to be featured on the outside as a wide receiver.
17:02
Speaker 3: He his body has been completely transformed. He looks physically
17:06
Speaker 3: just great, like he's ready to go. He was out
17:09
Speaker 3: there throwing the discus during track, never did track before.
17:12
Speaker 3: I worked out like crazy to get his body into
17:15
Speaker 3: this position now to where he's you know, ready to
17:17
Speaker 3: be a dude on both sides of the ball. I
17:19
Speaker 3: think he's going to be pretty hard to stop. There's
17:22
Speaker 3: a there's a sophomore, Peyton Bauma, who grew about five
17:26
Speaker 3: inches from last year and his sprouted. He's about six
17:29
Speaker 3: one six two now, and I think he is going
17:32
Speaker 3: to become a pretty good receiver as well. I mentioned
17:34
Speaker 3: Colby's ship moving from running back to receiver. You could
17:38
Speaker 3: see that where he's gonna get a lot more receptions.
17:40
Speaker 3: And there's another kid, Logan Villa Real. That is kind
17:44
Speaker 3: of you know, showing what he can do as well.
17:47
Speaker 3: So you got a lot of different guys in the
17:49
Speaker 3: in the wide receiver spot that can that can do
17:52
Speaker 3: some things, just not a lot of varsity experience on
17:55
Speaker 3: that side of the ball. I mean we saw, you know,
17:57
Speaker 3: when Riley Eyed and Hunter Visetti went down, and then
18:00
Speaker 3: the guys that would come in, you know, were seniors
18:02
Speaker 3: as well, whether it's Jesse Deming or you know, Justin Minarez.
18:07
Speaker 3: I mean, all those guys were seniors. Connor Dollery at
18:09
Speaker 3: tight end was a senior. So you know a lot
18:12
Speaker 3: of people came out to me to go I really
18:14
Speaker 3: like Blaine. They return a lot. Well, you know, they
18:18
Speaker 3: graduated a lot too, so and this is a spot
18:21
Speaker 3: at the tight end spot. There will be a true
18:23
Speaker 3: tight end most of the time. And I think that's
18:26
Speaker 3: gonna be Blake Kureski, who was a great middle linebacker.
18:29
Speaker 3: He was my highest rated player on their team last
18:31
Speaker 3: year as far as the top one hundred goes. And
18:33
Speaker 3: that was without playing offense. You know, as a sophomore
18:36
Speaker 3: he was he played full back a little bit, but
18:39
Speaker 3: last year it was just all middle linebacker. This year,
18:43
Speaker 3: he's just you know, six feet tall, two hundred and
18:46
Speaker 3: twenty five pounds now, and he's just a force on
18:49
Speaker 3: the football field, and him playing tight end will really
18:52
Speaker 3: help on the run blocking side of things. Plus he's
18:54
Speaker 3: pretty athletic and go out and can grab a few passes.
18:58
Speaker 3: A a couple other guys in that tight end spot
19:00
Speaker 3: you might see. You might see Zu out there, who's
19:03
Speaker 3: you know, a specimen at about six four ten pounds,
19:07
Speaker 3: really athletic. And there's a there's a younger kid that
19:10
Speaker 3: looks really impressive too, named Stellar Shut, and and he's
19:14
Speaker 3: a guy, he's kind of the future, another sophomore that
19:17
Speaker 3: I think will get a little bit of looks this year,
19:20
Speaker 3: you know, and then eventually as the years go on,
19:24
Speaker 3: he'll be kind of one of their main guys. So
19:25
Speaker 3: remember that name, Stellar Shut. What a great name, Stellar.
19:30
Speaker 2: Shut, like the helmet, Yeah, I mean, that's awesome. And
19:36
Speaker 2: then you've got Zu, who's part of like the all
19:38
Speaker 2: name team. He's also got the fastest name in the county.
19:41
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of great names here with the
19:44
Speaker 2: Blaine Border Rights and you know what, it all starts
19:47
Speaker 2: with Blaine Border Rights, which is a great name in itself.
19:51
Speaker 2: So that's the skill. Guy's on the offense. Tyler, now
19:55
Speaker 2: on the offensive line, and we're gonna so normally what
19:58
Speaker 2: we do is we just go right, we talk about
20:01
Speaker 2: both sides. I want to talk about the offensive line specifically,
20:05
Speaker 2: they because you've got a couple of guys here listed
20:07
Speaker 2: as basically only playing on the offensive line.
20:09
Speaker 5: Tyler.
20:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's my question. So obviously, losing a guy like
20:14
Speaker 2: Victor Gerval, Alejandro Mojor Hernandez, like, you're losing some guys.
20:18
Speaker 2: But man, I'll tell you what, you gotta feel really
20:21
Speaker 2: really good about this offensive line because, like you said,
20:23
Speaker 2: there's some serious beef up there, but there's also maybe
20:27
Speaker 2: a little more experience than people might realize.
20:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely, there's a lot of experience. I mean, Malachai
20:33
Speaker 3: Morillo going into his junior year now at six '
20:35
Speaker 3: four three ten pounds, he's he's a specimen. I think
20:41
Speaker 3: his one thing is he just I think he just
20:43
Speaker 3: needs to be meaner.
20:44
Speaker 4: You know, he is a homeschool kids.
20:47
Speaker 5: He's just got to get pissed off, is what he's
20:48
Speaker 5: got to do, is what you're saying.
20:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think once that happens because it'll happen.
20:53
Speaker 3: He could be really dominant and I at the point
20:57
Speaker 3: of attack.
20:57
Speaker 4: And stuff like that and just be a mauler.
20:59
Speaker 3: I think he's got a really really bright future in
21:02
Speaker 3: front of him. Otto Shelton, who I thought was their
21:04
Speaker 3: best offensive lineman last year, he returns. Uh, he's he
21:09
Speaker 3: is nasty, he's at he's athletic as a wrestler, really
21:13
Speaker 3: really good player, and he's about you know, he's a
21:16
Speaker 3: he might be like two sixty right now, six three
21:19
Speaker 3: h Jaden Winslow, who is you know, one of my
21:22
Speaker 3: one of my favorites. He started all year at right
21:24
Speaker 3: tackle last year he returns. He's about six four, two seventy.
21:28
Speaker 3: He went in too state with the shot foot. Probably
21:32
Speaker 3: no athlete out there is you know, there's a few
21:35
Speaker 3: of them, but there you know, will come up to me,
21:38
Speaker 3: shake my hand. How you doing, mister Anderson? You know,
21:40
Speaker 3: how how are things going? Are you are you? Are
21:42
Speaker 3: you feeling well? Like he's really just a super polite kid,
21:46
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, I want him to switch it
21:49
Speaker 3: on when he crosses the line too, because he's If
21:51
Speaker 3: he got some more nasty in him, he'd be it'd
21:53
Speaker 3: be crazy. But the way those those three played a
21:58
Speaker 3: lot last year and Molloy Messenger, who was kind of
22:00
Speaker 3: that sixth offensive lineman, but he ended up playing quite
22:04
Speaker 3: a bit because of injuries or you know, guys missing
22:08
Speaker 3: games for different reasons, so he ended up playing a lot.
22:11
Speaker 3: And he's gotten a lot bigger. I mean, he was
22:12
Speaker 3: probably at two ten last year. He's about two thirty.
22:15
Speaker 4: Five now and athletic.
22:17
Speaker 3: A former tight end that played at Meridian years ago,
22:21
Speaker 3: and he has just gotten bigger and stronger, and you know,
22:24
Speaker 3: always played quite a bit of defense, but ended up
22:27
Speaker 3: getting into the rotation and starting some games on the
22:29
Speaker 3: offensive line last year.
22:30
Speaker 4: It's only going to help him as.
22:32
Speaker 3: Far as experience goes.
22:34
Speaker 4: And then they have a brand new center.
22:36
Speaker 3: H Zoe Neataba, and this kid is is really strong
22:43
Speaker 3: basketball player, you know, center on the basketball team. He's
22:47
Speaker 3: about six three, two forty and he's learning center at
22:52
Speaker 3: football and he's been doing really, really well. And he
22:54
Speaker 3: takes over for where Victor Gerval was last year. So
22:58
Speaker 3: he's kind of the new guy in the group. But
23:01
Speaker 3: you know, coach Olsen was he played center. You know,
23:03
Speaker 3: he gets the position. He's gonna get him coached up
23:06
Speaker 3: really well. This is gonna be one of the strong points,
23:08
Speaker 3: if not the strong point for Blaine's team this year
23:10
Speaker 3: will be the offensive line. And I tell you, you show
23:13
Speaker 3: me any great team, and I'll show you even greater
23:16
Speaker 3: offensive line. It doesn't matter what level you're at. That
23:20
Speaker 3: will always be how well you're to show, you know, go,
23:23
Speaker 3: how how well your team goes is how well the
23:25
Speaker 3: offensive line goes. So you know, I expect an improvement
23:29
Speaker 3: with the team overall, and you know they have skill guys,
23:32
Speaker 3: but you got to get the job done up front,
23:34
Speaker 3: and these guys will.
23:36
Speaker 2: Let's hop over to the defensive side of the ball, Tyler,
23:38
Speaker 2: and since we're hopping from O line to D line,
23:41
Speaker 2: it's not going to be very high. But defensive line
23:45
Speaker 2: Victor Gerval also a big loss. Connor Dollery defensive end
23:51
Speaker 2: a loss. But overall, again, some really nice pieces coming
23:57
Speaker 2: back and maybe a little bit of an at times.
24:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really excited, especially with Zu coming off the edge.
24:04
Speaker 3: I mean he's just been he's been dominating that position
24:07
Speaker 3: for a couple of years now with a lot of
24:09
Speaker 3: tackles for loss, and uh, he's always been putting up
24:12
Speaker 3: big numbers. He's so much bigger and stronger now than
24:15
Speaker 3: he's been. And I just think he's going to be
24:18
Speaker 3: a handful that you're gonna have to, you know, put
24:20
Speaker 3: a couple guys on him and and you know he's
24:24
Speaker 3: he's just really really dynamic. Molloy Messenger of former linebackers.
24:28
Speaker 3: I think could be moved more into the interior of
24:30
Speaker 3: this defensive line now. Playing next to Auto Shelton, who
24:33
Speaker 3: started on the defensive line last year, so gives you
24:36
Speaker 3: some good athleticism up front, guys that can move as well,
24:40
Speaker 3: but they are big and strong.
24:41
Speaker 4: And then on the other side of the defensive end.
24:44
Speaker 3: Former you know, all like kind of like an All
24:47
Speaker 3: League candidate middle linebacker Blake Kureski could move to defensive
24:51
Speaker 3: end now. So again we talked about this with Bellingham.
24:54
Speaker 3: You get your studs on the edges there and it
24:57
Speaker 3: forces the offense to have to make a choice, you know.
25:00
Speaker 3: So having Blake Kureski on the other side of the
25:03
Speaker 3: defensive end at about two twenty five now zu about
25:07
Speaker 3: six four, two fifteen, I mean, this is this is
25:10
Speaker 3: he's you know, this is they're really starting to put
25:13
Speaker 3: together something really good. And don't be surprised if it's
25:17
Speaker 3: like if they're standing up defensive ends, you know what
25:20
Speaker 3: I mean, kind of like almost like a Linden kind
25:23
Speaker 3: of defense. Of course, coach Olson started, you know, he
25:25
Speaker 3: played at Linden. He started his coaching career at Lyndon.
25:28
Speaker 3: I'm sure he picked up some good things from from
25:30
Speaker 3: Ed Baumber and those guys. So I think that you
25:34
Speaker 3: could see some of those types of things. But it's
25:38
Speaker 3: gonna be it's gonna be a very very strong defensive
25:41
Speaker 3: line as well.
25:43
Speaker 2: The Seahawks were doing a little bit of that this
25:46
Speaker 2: preseason with those d ms. At one point they had
25:49
Speaker 2: a guy I don't even know who it was because
25:50
Speaker 2: he had got a lot a lot of hair, you know,
25:53
Speaker 2: so you couldn't really see his name or right all
25:55
Speaker 2: of his number, but he was standing up. That dude
25:58
Speaker 2: must have been two hundred and sixty five. Yeah, I'm
26:01
Speaker 2: going that's a large dude to be standing up coming
26:03
Speaker 2: off the edge, Tyler. One thing I'll mention here is
26:07
Speaker 2: of these guys that you named so far on the
26:09
Speaker 2: defensive line, here, four out of the five are your
26:12
Speaker 2: top returning tacklers from last year. You mentioned Zu. He's
26:18
Speaker 2: third with thirty four and a half but also eleven
26:21
Speaker 2: tackles for a loss that you said three sacks, and
26:24
Speaker 2: then Kureski fifty seven tackles, which last year you said
26:30
Speaker 2: he was a linebacker. Right, Yeah, it's very possible that
26:34
Speaker 2: number might come down, but tackles for a loss eight
26:37
Speaker 2: four and a half sacks, I mean that new position,
26:40
Speaker 2: maybe those numbers go up while tackles overall come down.
26:43
Speaker 2: But you know, then when we start talking about linebackers,
26:47
Speaker 2: Tyler Kolby shipped back. You know, he was the other
26:50
Speaker 2: one of the top five here with thirty one and
26:52
Speaker 2: a half tackles, and then Jayden Piaz who's down the
26:56
Speaker 2: list a little bit so linebacker. Maybe that that spot
27:00
Speaker 2: on the defense where they got to answer some questions.
27:02
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what, as a coaching staff, if
27:05
Speaker 2: you want to maybe help those linebackers out a little bit,
27:07
Speaker 2: what do you do? Beef up that defensive line, get
27:10
Speaker 2: after it that way? This could be a pretty exciting
27:13
Speaker 2: front seven. Tyler, let's talk about the linebackers a little bit.
27:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm really excited, especially about the team speed here.
27:18
Speaker 3: You know, Jayden Piez, who is extremely fast, moves into
27:22
Speaker 3: that inside linebacker spot. Colby ship a converted safety will
27:26
Speaker 3: be moved into that inside linebacker spot. And they're both
27:29
Speaker 3: really good tacklers, a lot of speed, and that's that's
27:33
Speaker 3: gonna be a huge deal. I think if that might
27:35
Speaker 3: have been Blaine's achilles heel on defense last year was
27:38
Speaker 3: they were pretty good at the point of attack and
27:40
Speaker 3: stuff like that, and they could tackle well, but sometimes
27:42
Speaker 3: opposing team speed just got the best of them. And
27:45
Speaker 3: I think if you have more team speed on the field,
27:47
Speaker 3: especially a linebacker, you know, going sideline to sideline. I
27:50
Speaker 3: mean I always close my eyes and think of like
27:52
Speaker 3: Derek Brooks. I mean, having a linebacker that's that fast
27:55
Speaker 3: can really you know, shut down things. I'm not saying
27:58
Speaker 3: these guys are Derek Brooks. I'm just saying when you
28:00
Speaker 3: add more speed to it. Blake Kresky was a great linebacker,
28:03
Speaker 3: but he might not have had the speed that Paiaz
28:06
Speaker 3: and Ship have, So putting them at linebacker could be
28:09
Speaker 3: a really really good deal. You know, you might see
28:12
Speaker 3: Stellar shut in there playing some linebacker as well. Uh,
28:16
Speaker 3: there's there's some good options there, I think. But I
28:19
Speaker 3: think overall with these guys is it's gonna make like
28:23
Speaker 3: I said, the overall team speed even better. And and
28:27
Speaker 3: I really I really like kind of the way they're
28:30
Speaker 3: changing their lineup to fit, you know, their scheme the best.
28:35
Speaker 2: Now, when we talk about the secondary, Tyler, we in
28:39
Speaker 2: the Bellingham preview we talked about all of the interceptions
28:43
Speaker 2: that they return little a little bit different here from Blaine.
28:47
Speaker 2: Only three returning interceptions from the defense as a whole,
28:50
Speaker 2: but two of those coming from Thomas Cox. Who is
28:53
Speaker 2: in the secondary. Who who do we need to know
28:55
Speaker 2: about in the back end?
28:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he'll be the leader back there. Back
28:59
Speaker 3: at corner. You saw one of those interceptions that was
29:01
Speaker 3: in the Cedar Park Christian game last year. Uh, kind
29:04
Speaker 3: of late in the game to help them out down
29:05
Speaker 3: the sideline. And I think he's gonna be one of
29:09
Speaker 3: the better corners in the league. And so they're just
29:13
Speaker 3: gonna keep him there. I could see Kay Kerwin playing
29:15
Speaker 3: the other corner, very very fast, instinctive, Peyton Bauma really
29:20
Speaker 3: good rangey sophomore, could get it, could get in the
29:23
Speaker 3: mix there as well. And then at the safety position, Uh,
29:29
Speaker 3: Colin Davis is just bigger and stronger now. And yeah
29:33
Speaker 3: he's playing quarterback, but you know, at the one A level,
29:35
Speaker 3: a lot of quarterbacks played play defense and they usually
29:38
Speaker 3: play safety. So Colin Davis back there quarterbacking the defense
29:42
Speaker 3: along with probably Logan Villarreal.
29:44
Speaker 4: Uh, those guys.
29:46
Speaker 3: You know, Logan has shown some good things in camp
29:49
Speaker 3: and stuff like that, and and I think he's been
29:51
Speaker 3: moving up the depth chart and he's he's gonna good
29:53
Speaker 3: get a good chance to make some to make some
29:57
Speaker 3: waves there. And I think, you know, if Colin Davis
29:59
Speaker 3: has to take a break because he's the quarterback, or
30:02
Speaker 3: if he needs to talk to the offensive coach different
30:04
Speaker 3: things like that, you know they will have no problem
30:07
Speaker 3: moving Colby Shipped back out there to safety and then
30:09
Speaker 3: maybe bringing in like an actual Shelton to play linebacker
30:13
Speaker 3: or or a stellar shut to play linebacker. So Colby
30:16
Speaker 3: Ship can be a guy that could be used in
30:17
Speaker 3: a lot of spaces, just like on offense, playing some
30:20
Speaker 3: running back, playing some receiver, slot receiver, going in motion,
30:23
Speaker 3: and then defensively, he could he could be moved around
30:26
Speaker 3: a little bit. He's been on that Farsi squad a
30:28
Speaker 3: long time. He's seen it all, and so he's a
30:32
Speaker 3: guy that could you know, be valuable and a lot
30:35
Speaker 3: of different things. Or you might go against a spread
30:37
Speaker 3: team where you might see him go out and cover
30:40
Speaker 3: a slot receiver, you know, playing from the linebacker spot.
30:43
Speaker 4: Who knows.
30:43
Speaker 3: So it's nice to have that speed and the athleticism
30:47
Speaker 3: and be able to do a lot of different things.
30:50
Speaker 2: That is a preview of the position groups for Blaine Tyler.
30:54
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the breakout player.
30:56
Speaker 5: Now.
30:56
Speaker 2: This is young man that you were literally just talking
30:59
Speaker 2: about and the guy that gave us the the intro today.
31:02
Speaker 2: So Thomas Cox, Senior wide receiver and corner.
31:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that I just just seeing the transformation
31:10
Speaker 3: of his body, get getting to know the kid. He's
31:13
Speaker 3: a great kid.
31:14
Speaker 4: He's funny.
31:15
Speaker 3: He almost hit me with the discus out of track
31:17
Speaker 3: and field event. Everyone was joking that I'll never write
31:20
Speaker 3: about him if he would have if he would have
31:21
Speaker 3: hit me, which isn't. He was still learn in the event,
31:26
Speaker 3: you know. But he's a guy that's going and he's
31:28
Speaker 3: trying to do things.
31:29
Speaker 4: To get better.
31:30
Speaker 3: Like he's actively, uh you know, working out a ton
31:33
Speaker 3: and and and trying all these new things track and
31:36
Speaker 3: field and stuff to get better at football. And I
31:38
Speaker 3: think it's gonna it's gonna happen for him this year.
31:41
Speaker 3: I think he's gonna break out. I could see him
31:42
Speaker 3: leading the team in receptions after not playing any offense before.
31:47
Speaker 3: I could see him, you know, leading the team in
31:49
Speaker 3: interceptions if he returns, like you said, he had two
31:51
Speaker 3: of them last year. He can come up and he's
31:54
Speaker 3: a thumper, tackler, he's a strong kid. I just think
31:58
Speaker 3: that he's gonna have that kind of year where he
32:01
Speaker 3: did start on defense last year, but I think not
32:04
Speaker 3: many coaches really even knew who he was. They're gonna
32:06
Speaker 3: know who he is this year, for sure. You'll you'll
32:09
Speaker 3: definitely keep an eye out on number six. I think
32:11
Speaker 3: he's a I think he's destined for a breakout year,
32:14
Speaker 3: and I really really believe it's gonna happen.
32:17
Speaker 2: All right, Tyler, Let's take a look at the twenty
32:20
Speaker 2: twenty four schedule for the Border Rights. It starts off
32:24
Speaker 2: with a Saturday home game against the You know what
32:29
Speaker 2: are they?
32:29
Speaker 5: Now? I know they're I think they're like the red Hawks.
32:32
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say the red Hawks was the
32:34
Speaker 3: first thing that popped in my mind.
32:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, they were the Indians. Then it got changed
32:38
Speaker 2: and most teams have changed from Indians. They end up
32:41
Speaker 2: going to something like red Hawks. I'm pretty sure they're
32:43
Speaker 2: the red Hawks. I can't remember, though, because you know
32:46
Speaker 2: what you want to know why I can't remember, Tyler,
32:47
Speaker 2: I haven't seen them since they changed the name. That
32:51
Speaker 2: is a three pm game at Blaine High School. Then
32:54
Speaker 2: they will host those Cedar Park Christian Eagles that that
32:57
Speaker 2: got them last year nine to seven. They will host
33:00
Speaker 2: them the following week seven pm game. Then they hit
33:04
Speaker 2: the road and one of them is a little bit
33:07
Speaker 2: of a jog. They're playing at Schalan, Tyler, Is that
33:09
Speaker 2: game going to be at Schlan? I know there's been
33:11
Speaker 2: a couple of times where games have been played over
33:13
Speaker 2: on that side of the state, but they're played at
33:14
Speaker 2: like Pashastan or something else.
33:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe I saw this was at Shelan. I
33:19
Speaker 3: think Modian played there last year or two years. I
33:22
Speaker 3: think it might have been last year.
33:23
Speaker 2: Okay, I know that in the past they've played that
33:25
Speaker 2: game at like Cascade or whatever you I mean. Yeah,
33:29
Speaker 2: Then they hit the road again to go to Granted Falls.
33:32
Speaker 2: Then they get into the league play with a game
33:34
Speaker 2: against Lynden Christian and then they had to a game
33:37
Speaker 2: at home against Linden Christian. Then they had out to
33:39
Speaker 2: Nooksack Valley before coming home for a non conference game
33:43
Speaker 2: against Friday Harbor. Then they finish out the league schedule
33:45
Speaker 2: at Mount Baker and home versus Meridian. So, Tyler, when
33:50
Speaker 2: you look over this schedule, obviously maybe we throw the
33:54
Speaker 2: four games, you know, league games out because I know
33:56
Speaker 2: how much you love those. But anything stand out to
33:59
Speaker 2: you here?
34:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like.
34:02
Speaker 3: I love them playing on a Saturday to open up.
34:04
Speaker 3: That means I can be there check them out right away.
34:07
Speaker 3: They've been playing Cedar Park Christian every year for years now,
34:10
Speaker 3: so I love the rivalry that started here. It was
34:13
Speaker 3: a great game last year, so we'll see if there's
34:15
Speaker 3: unfinished business there. The game at Grant Falls orange and
34:19
Speaker 3: black versus orange and black. I know that's one of
34:21
Speaker 3: your favorite color schemes for high school football, and so
34:24
Speaker 3: that'll be kind of cool. I think there was one
34:26
Speaker 3: year where they played each other and it was on Halloween.
34:28
Speaker 3: So that's about as orange and black as it gets.
34:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it literally, it's like the Orange and
34:33
Speaker 2: Black Bowl on the Orange and black.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was awesome, And and you're right about you
34:39
Speaker 3: know the other games. You know that that last game
34:41
Speaker 3: that gets Meridian of course Meridian is gonna want some
34:44
Speaker 3: payback there. It's at blaying again just like it was
34:48
Speaker 3: last year. And with the round of thirty two again,
34:51
Speaker 3: that's a game right there that could determine if you're
34:54
Speaker 3: in that round of thirty two or not. So it's
34:56
Speaker 3: it's it's gonna be it's gonna be another fun I'm
35:00
Speaker 3: I'm hoping there will be some improvement. I think there
35:02
Speaker 3: will be. I think coach coach Olson's got them steered
35:05
Speaker 3: in the right direction. And uh, it's just that league.
35:09
Speaker 3: That league, man is so tough, and it's it's crazy
35:14
Speaker 3: and it's funny because we look at this like, I
35:16
Speaker 3: don't know anything about Shellanne. I've seen in the last
35:18
Speaker 3: couple of years against Meridian, but I couldn't tell you
35:21
Speaker 3: who they got coming back.
35:22
Speaker 2: And yeah, you don't know if they returned everybody or
35:24
Speaker 2: if they returned nobody, right, So it's.
35:27
Speaker 3: You know they've been they've been tough. You know they
35:30
Speaker 3: you know they they play hard. I know that, and
35:32
Speaker 3: so you know that's usually a coaching thing and and
35:35
Speaker 3: so if they but I don't know if they've retained
35:36
Speaker 3: their coaches and you know, Friday Harbor, I love it's
35:39
Speaker 3: a six pm game so they can get back in time.
35:41
Speaker 3: You know, those those kinds of deals are always interesting.
35:44
Speaker 3: But uh but yeah, the border rights, they you know,
35:47
Speaker 3: they have a lot of size and and if they
35:52
Speaker 3: know how to use it and they do the right thing.
35:53
Speaker 3: And having a returning quarterback, and you talked about how
35:55
Speaker 3: special that is even last year was it not even
35:58
Speaker 3: was it a new quarterback year, but it was a
36:00
Speaker 3: whole new system they had.
36:01
Speaker 5: To learn, yes, you know.
36:03
Speaker 3: And so now when you have a returning quarterback and
36:05
Speaker 3: the same system in place, you don't have to worry
36:07
Speaker 3: about him looking and you know, figuring out what that
36:10
Speaker 3: play means or it's it's you.
36:12
Speaker 4: Could you could open up the playbook a little bit.
36:14
Speaker 3: So I think you're gonna see a lot more confidence
36:16
Speaker 3: on offense from the border rights and and uh yeah,
36:19
Speaker 3: it should be should be a pretty good year.
36:21
Speaker 2: I mean that first week last year, not only are
36:23
Speaker 2: they learning, you know, getting used to a new system,
36:26
Speaker 2: but that's their first opportunity to go through a pregame
36:30
Speaker 2: warm up, to go through how the locker room work,
36:34
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, oh, yeah, there's a
36:36
Speaker 2: lot going on there, and it takes you a couple
36:37
Speaker 2: of weeks to maybe iron out some of those kinks.
36:39
Speaker 2: And I mean, I'll tell you what. You look at
36:42
Speaker 2: this this schedule here, and you go, if they can
36:46
Speaker 2: get wins in those first two weeks, you start feeling
36:49
Speaker 2: really good about going on the road to Shelane yep,
36:52
Speaker 2: you know, and then if maybe they can pull one
36:54
Speaker 2: off against Shelane, who knows, maybe they come back and
36:58
Speaker 2: you know, win one against Granted Falls. I know, Grant
37:00
Speaker 2: Falls was good last year, but they lose their senior
37:02
Speaker 2: quarterback that they had. And my general what I feeling
37:06
Speaker 2: I get from people in the area is Granted Falls
37:09
Speaker 2: won't be as good as they were, but they'll still
37:11
Speaker 2: be a solid program like they are. Well, who knows,
37:14
Speaker 2: maybe maybe Blaine is sitting in a real good spot.
37:17
Speaker 2: Next another four and oh going into Lynn and Christian right,
37:20
Speaker 2: you know, now that's a real tough task those first
37:23
Speaker 2: two games in league. But even if you drop those two, well, shoot,
37:28
Speaker 2: next week you go maybe get back on track against
37:31
Speaker 2: Friday Harbor and then before you know, you finish it
37:34
Speaker 2: out with an opportunity to make some noise, you know.
37:37
Speaker 2: And I just I feel really good about the direction
37:41
Speaker 2: of the program. And obviously I feel really good about
37:44
Speaker 2: the offensive line. I mean, how could you not?
37:46
Speaker 5: Right?
37:47
Speaker 2: But I mean there's a lot to like about the
37:49
Speaker 2: potential of this Blaine Border Right football team. I don't
37:52
Speaker 2: think that's a question at all. So let's see here, Tyler,
37:56
Speaker 2: we got anything else? What do you got for me?
37:58
Speaker 2: Anything else before we head out?
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Speaker 4: I don't think so.
38:01
Speaker 3: I think we're good.
38:02
Speaker 5: That's it.
38:03
Speaker 2: Nothing else time, nothing, nothing else, nothing else? Can we
38:06
Speaker 2: can we make any jokes about coach Olsen before we
38:07
Speaker 2: get out? And he got anything for me?
38:09
Speaker 4: Like?
38:09
Speaker 5: Did he do anything stupid at practice? No?
38:12
Speaker 4: It was it was pretty good.
38:13
Speaker 3: He's very self deprecating, so he you know, he's uh,
38:16
Speaker 3: he's making fun of himself more than I can't do
38:18
Speaker 3: it for him. You know, he's he's way ahead of
38:21
Speaker 3: me with those I do love the new helmets looks
38:23
Speaker 3: like the Cleveland Browns.
38:24
Speaker 4: They've really sharp.
38:25
Speaker 5: But the boys.
38:29
Speaker 3: And you know, I just I'm excited.
38:32
Speaker 4: You know, it's it's it'll be, it'll be cool.
38:35
Speaker 2: And you know what I like about the helmet too,
38:36
Speaker 2: is that stripe down the middle and how it doesn't
38:39
Speaker 2: go all the way, you know, and then the two
38:41
Speaker 2: point Yeah, then the two stripes on the side of that.
38:44
Speaker 2: Don't even go as far as yet the big one
38:46
Speaker 2: down the middle, you know what I mean, Like, I
38:48
Speaker 2: don't know, I like it. I think it's a really
38:50
Speaker 2: really hot helmet man like that orange just it really
38:54
Speaker 2: really does pop.
38:58
Speaker 5: He's he here. Here you go, Here you go.
39:03
Speaker 2: Here's a text exchange for me and Coach Olson.
39:05
Speaker 5: Just give it to you.
39:06
Speaker 2: Hope you hope you hope you are having a blast.
39:09
Speaker 2: Just got home from youth soccer. Let me know if
39:11
Speaker 2: you need any good burger advice. And I said, youth soccer,
39:14
Speaker 2: when did you start playing that?
39:18
Speaker 4: Exactly? That's how we are with Coach Olson. It said,
39:21
Speaker 4: we wouldn't want it any other way.
39:22
Speaker 2: And that's the way to end the podcast about Blaine
39:25
Speaker 2: and coach Olsen. Uh yeah, let's wrap it up right there,
39:28
Speaker 2: Tyler Again, thank you to Kurt Maybury Farm, kurtmabray farm
39:31
Speaker 2: dot com, Kurt with A C M A B E
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Speaker 2: R R y farm dot com.
39:35
Speaker 5: That is the website.
39:37
Speaker 2: Again, keep an eye out for more podcasts as we
39:39
Speaker 2: move forward. We've got basically two podcasts a day for
39:43
Speaker 2: six days, and this one you're listening to right now,
39:46
Speaker 2: just wrapped up the first day, So go back and
39:48
Speaker 2: listen to Bellingham. You just listened to Blaine. Now you've
39:51
Speaker 2: got a couple of Linden, some Meridian squal Cum, Ferndale,
39:54
Speaker 2: Baker See Home, Nooksack Valley, and then you're gonna get
39:57
Speaker 2: the first t Week one previo of the year, and
40:01
Speaker 2: then after that you get a volleyball preview.
40:03
Speaker 5: Tyler.
40:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's there's a lot coming your way here. Those
40:07
Speaker 3: episode numbers are gonna be going fast, so be ready.
40:10
Speaker 3: Before we know, we're gonna go on episode three hundred.
40:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you and I are gonna absolutely hate each
40:14
Speaker 2: other at some point, Tyler, this is episode two sixty five.
40:18
Speaker 2: That's what the people who have been listening to. He's
40:19
Speaker 2: Tyler Anderson. I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to the
40:22
Speaker 2: Walcome Preps podcast. We will talk to you tomorrow