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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 207 - Week 10 Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Nikzak Valley Senior scaler Wintern and you're listening to the Walk and Preps
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  podcast with Tyler and Ryan. This is Douke CALLIAPIYAPPI Rally the Valley. Greetings
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  and welcome to the watcom Preps podcast. This is episode at two zero seven,
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  a preview of week ten. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always
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  Tyler Anderson of What coome Preps. Tyler, how are we doing? Doing
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  pretty good? Rylan? I tell you if we worked at dunder Mifflin,
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  we would be finalists for the Busiest Beaver Award. I think that you and
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  I have been thirty darned you know. It's uh, it's been crazy,
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  man, and we're both feeling it, but we're both loving it. So
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  things are going pretty well. Yeah. I was thinking about it tonight on
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  my way home, knowing that you know, we were recording tonight, and
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  I'm sitting there and I'm just like kind of slouched down almost in the driver's
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  seat, you know what I mean? Yeah, And uh, and I
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  go, man, this is the point of the season where if I was
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  still doing media stuff like or not not the point of the season. This
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  is the feeling and who knows at what point of the season this would be.
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  This could be week five, this could be week you know, thirteen,
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  where I'm just kind of like sitting there driving. At one point,
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  I just go, dude, I am freaking tired, Like I am done
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  with this football season, you know what I mean, not done done,
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  you know what I mean? But like, yeah, uh start like you
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  like miss your you miss your street like you just don't You're just out of
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  it. Oh I do that all the time anyway. Oh yeah, no,
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  Like, yeah, I'm just sitting there thinking to myself, like,
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  man, like you know, you go to like when I was doing media,
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  I would go to a ton of games and eventually you just kind of
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  go, all right, I could do without this for a little bit.
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  Like it's almost one of those things where I wish they'd take like three weeks
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  off right in the middle of the season. Just just give me a couple
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  give me a couple of days off here, you know. But yeah,
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  I mean at the same time, I I think I said it on here
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  before maybe where you know, I love what I'm doing now more than what
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  I was doing before. I'm way more tired now than I was before,
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  but I'm having so much more fun, you know what I mean, it's
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  exact same way. Yeah, it's it's a it's a completely different it's a
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  completely different way of enjoying football. It's kind of where I'm at. And
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  you know, being around the kids is you know, as much as I
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  am now makes you makes me feel a little younger, you know what I
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  mean, like you kind of goof around with them a little bit more than
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  you would. And you know, one of the cool things is we're playing
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  Emerald Ridge this week in a playoff game, right, And I know the
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  Emerald Ridge team incredibly well. So they have been playing seven on seven most
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  of those kids. But they've all been on the same team for a long
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  time. And I mean when I say a long time, I'm talking like
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  fourth grade. So I've seen these kids and stuff. And their quarterback,
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  Jake Scockel, is committed to Eastern Washington And is there more than I know
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  Connor Walker's committed? Is there another one from Walker? Kay Cayden Stite.
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  That's right? Yeah, So Jake scockll their quarterback and his dad is his
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  head coach, Adam, And I've known them for forever. You know what
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  I mean, I've known them for so long, and I mean, if
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  you really think about it, I've known him for over half of Jake's life,
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  you know what I mean, Like, which is wild to think about,
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  but you know, the matchups come out on Sunday and I'm getting ready
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  for the Seahawks game, and all of a sudden, I get a text
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  from Jake Scockele and it just says, you know, good luck, and
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  you know it's it's I've responded back, and actually it came with a gift
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  too. I don't remember what the gift was. I think it was somebody
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  like giving a thumbs up or something, you know, And I responded back,
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  I said, haha, I had to see this this Friday, buddy,
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  good luck. You know, we'll we'll catch up before the game real
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  quick, you know, something like that, and you know, but it's
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  it's one of those things where you know, you have so many relationships with
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  people and you have a lot of fun doing things, and you know,
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  you meet so many good people through football. You just do and totally you
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  know, so it's it's always fun and you come across you know, random
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  things, and you know, I was watching film I don't know, a
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  month ago and just watching random film, just kind of doing what I what
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  I do at times, you know, and watching some random film of a
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  game and that I don't think we play either team. And something came up
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  and I saw a play made by a kid. And you know, when
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  I was in media, I used to talk to this kid quite a bit,
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  and so I sent him a text. I just said, hey,
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  man, I saw that play you had against you know, this school,
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  and I said, that was unbelievable, Like that's one of the best plays
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  I've seen all year. And his response back was like, thanks, it's
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  good to hear from you. I hope all as well. You know what
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  I mean. It's like, so you just you love stuff like that,
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  you know, And and the the fact of the matter is is I want
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  to kick Jake Scockle's butt on Friday Night, and I hope we beat him.
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  But at the end of the day, you know, that kid is
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  awesome. It's family's awesome. They're great people. So you know, it's
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  fun. It's it's so much fun doing this. And you know, Tyler,
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  I've how many times in the last year if I sent you a message,
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  I said, Hey, who is this person? You know, because
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  you somebody friends me and they're from Wakam County and you go, oh,
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  that's this guy's dad or this guy's mom or you know whatever. And I'm
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  like, oh, okay, yeah, cool, you know, and I'm
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  like, I don't know who these people are, you know, like I've
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  never met him before in life, but they hear you and I talking and
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  before you know what, they want to add me or you, you know,
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  or both of us. You know. So it's a lot of fun.
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  Football is a small world, and yeah, we have a lot of
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  fun doing what we do. And we've got a lot of things to talk
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  about here tonight, Tyler. We've got some games to preview. We've got
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  Randy Small's weather forecast, we've got the pick'em's, we've got our fantasy we
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  got to do the draft. But before we go too far, let's give
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  a thank you to Skyler Wittern and our guy do Calapiyapi. I know people
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  heard it. What a freaking clown that guy is. He made a little
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  cameo there, does he? He? I feel like he makes a cameo
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  on every stink and Knooksack Valley, everything that we do well. When when
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  I asked for him to do an intro. Oh, that's right. He
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  had all those other guys do at that time. He had like eight or
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  ten of them together, and so funny. So like the thing, the
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  thing that's funny is we've asked him one time and has probably done like nine
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  intros, you know what I mean, Like he's done more intros than anybody
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  he has to have like it just and it's not him. He's just jumping
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  in. He finds a way, finds his way in, just like he
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  does in the backfield, right exactly. Yeah. We also need to give
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  thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm and Kurt maayberry Farm dot com is the website there.
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  Fourth generation family owned and operated berry farm committed to growing the highest quality
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  of berries, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Visit kurtayberry Farm dot com.
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  That's Kurt with A C M A B E R R y farm dot
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  com. Tyler, we've got one game on Thursday. We've got one,
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  two, three, four, five games on Friday and one on Saturday.
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  Am I right? You are? Current? Math is tough, but I
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  can pull it off. When I count with two hands, you prevailed.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know what as long as you have enough
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  fingers and toes, you can count anything. I was just gonna say,
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  when it's one of those big, big weeks, you have to like take
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  your shoes off. But I think you're okay on this one, Tyler.
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  Do you remember the thing where like if you wanted to times by nine,
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  you would like, oh yeah, count down the fingers and you just look
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  at the left, look to the right. Yeah. Why don't they just
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  teach that in school? You know what I mean? Like make it?
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  Really? I don't know. Hey, let's talk about Thursday's game, Tyler.
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  Squalicum three and six headed to Mount Baker three and six. Battle of
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  the three and six is six pm, bobbed. Why is this a six
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  pm game? I think just because it's a Thursday night. Yeah, you
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  know, so that's school the next day. That's just that's my guess,
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  And actually I guess I should mention Tyler, there are what do we say,
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  seven total games? Yeah, and uh, there's only three within the
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  county. I mean the other four games are being played outside of the county.
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  So there's three games being played with inside the county, all on separate
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  nights. So you need to go to every game being played in the county
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  this week. Oh dude, you know it. Man, When I saw
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  this, when I saw the schedule, I was like, well, it
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  makes my job easy to know which ones I'm gonna be at. And they're
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  they're all gonna be full games. Yeah, you don't have to leave early.
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  No, So it's just it's great, it's great. I'm excited about
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  this week. In a football I know that a lot of these games don't
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  mean a whole lot as far as you know, playoff implications and stuff like
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  that and crossovers. And I talked to some of the local you know,
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  newspaper guys, and you know, they're like, well, I'm not going
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  out to this, And I'm like, hey, man, there's seniors,
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  there's final games. I'm going to be there. This is it's important.
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  So I'm excited. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Actually, Tyler,
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  just looking it over, am I wrong? Here? Five of the
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  seven are not playoff games, right right? Just Nook Sack, Grand Falls
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  and Timberline Ferndale. That's it. Yeah, that's it. But you know,
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  dude, we're also the guys that do full podcast dedicated to the seniors
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  of teams exactly, you know what I mean. So there's plenty plenty to
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  talk about. But yeah, three and six Squalicum headed out to Mount Baker
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  six pm. Bob Tisdale Field, I guess I should mentioned Mount Baker three
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  and six. I'm pretty sure already did. But uh, yeah, Tyler,
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  two teams within the county. I know you are jones and to get
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  out there for this one. This, yeah, I am. When I
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  heard that this was a matchup, you know, I was talking to coach
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  Leap about it and I, you know, when everything went down they weren't
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  going to make the playoffs, I said, hey, you got some week
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  ten? You know, do you got anything in the in the books?
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  You know you're talking and he goes, I think it's going to be Squalicum,
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  And I just lit up and I said and I was like that's awesome.
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  And he's like I was like, that helps me a ton, and
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  he's like really, And and then I think, really, he doesn't listen
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  to the podcast. I mean, come on, I'm sure he does.
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  I just it's just it's just funny because he might. He's great, he's
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  always joking with me and stuff. But the weird the thing that stands out
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  about this one is these are two teams that are always above five, yeah,
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  and neither of them are this year, so they're kind of like they're
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  kind of feeling the same things, you know what I mean. They both
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  have gone through the same types of deals this year where you know, these
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  are teams that are extremely well coached, they're just happened down years this year,
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  and so they're they're very much in the same boat, which is that's
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  what kind of makes it cool that they're playing each other. You know,
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  this used to be a conference matchup. You know, there was a there
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  was a there was a window from twenty twenty six to twenty eleven where they
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  played each other every year. But but yeah, so this is the first
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  time since since then, first time that coach Lucy has coached against Mount Baker.
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  Wow, it's you know, they've played each other and they played each
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  other like scrimmage, like scrimmages a civic and stuff like that. But but
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  I you know, another one where two teams that love to run the ball.
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  Obviously, both teams have had some really unfortunate injuries as of late.
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  So you know, last last game of the year, I don't know,
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  you know, out of all these guys that have been injured, you know,
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  I don't think any of them are seniors. So it's you know,
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  sometimes if it's the last game, you want to try to get them out
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  there. You know, is it worth it. So I don't really know
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  what to expect as far as who's going to play, but I can tell
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  you that they're going to be extremely well coached. I'm going to tell you
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  that it's a beautiful field out of Bob Bob toisdil Field. Ever since they
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  got the new grass, it's just it's night and day. I mean,
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  it's hard to believe that it's real grass. It's so pristine. And you
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  know, like I said again, Thursday, only game in town all that
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  stuff, I'm excited about being there. It's always fun to go back out
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  there. Yeah, it's it's it's just it's just odd at this time of
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  year to see that neither of these teams are going to be in the playoffs.
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  And that's that's just kind of the weird thing about it. But in
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  some ways this has kind of been a strange year for stuff like that.
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  So but I'm really excited about this game. Yeah, you know, this
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  is actually kind of interesting when you look at these two teams, because I
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  think there is a lot of similarities in what has gone on the last couple
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  of years, you know. So what I mean by that and and it's
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  it's actually interesting because it's almost like flip flop and and and what I mean
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  though, is, you know, two years ago Squalcum lost an absolute load
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  to graduation. Yep. Last year they lost some very very good players,
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  you know, guys that were juniors on that team that went deep. And
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  then it's almost the exact opposite, like two years ago, Baker lost some
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  guys, sure, but last year they lost a load of guys. You
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  know. So it's there. They've both gone through two really good years of
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  graduation, you know what I mean, both lost two thousand yard rushers.
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  Yeah, I mean these are big, big time guys. You know.
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  It's yeah, pretty crazy. And that's and so that's you know, both
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  teams are kind of in the same spot right now, you know, and
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  obviously their records show that, you know, they're in the same spot three
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  and six, three and six, but you know, very similar in terms
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  of you know, place and where they're at kind of as a program,
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  and you know, you don't want to say like, oh, they're starting
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  over, because you know, teams like this kind of never do. Hey,
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  you're gonna have a down year here and there. You know. We
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  talked about it on podcast. I think it was the one on Sunday or
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  Monday Monday morning that we recorded that went out Monday morning. We talked about
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  how, you know, Mount Baker missing the playoffs for the first time,
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  and most people would have thought it was Linden, but it wasn't Linden because
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  Linden missed the playoffs a few years back, you know what I mean.
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  So kind of one of those things where you look at these two teams and
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  you just go, you know what, they're gonna find a way. They're
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  gonna be just fine in the future, and they will find a way to
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  get right back in it and you know, be very competitive again. I
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  mean, and I mean, let's face it, these two teams, outside
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  of a couple of games here or there, it's not like they it's not
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  like they've been bad football teams, you know what I mean, Like they've
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  played tough against most opponents. You know, they just you know, maybe
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  they don't have as much talent as they've had recently, you know, but
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  there's still there's still quality football team and both of these teams are starting freshman
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  on defense. That's pretty wild. Yeah, you know what I mean,
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  Like it just it just doesn't happen very often, and it's it's it's just
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  you know, the way it's been this year for both of them. But
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  you want to know something, Tyler, at the same time, this could
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  be a hell of a football game. Oh yeah, absolutely true. I'm
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  excited about it. Yeah. Now that being sad, you mentioned how both
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  teams like to run the ball, Tyler, and I said, why is
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  this game starting at six o'clock? You know why? Because it might be
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  done before seven. I mean, I mean, you know what's crazy is
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  is as soon as this one's over, I'm probably gonna head out to watch
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  volleyball, which will be starting at seven for a state playing game between k
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  nook Sack and lynnon Christian. You know what, Tyler, why didn't we
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  talk about a little volleyball beforehand? We should have talked some volleyball because they're
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  they're just starting playoff stuff right like. We talked about it a little bit,
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  was it last preview? Yeah? I think it was. We should
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  have maybe taken a little update here, maybe we can if you maybe what
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  we'll do we'll throw it in at the end, how about that? Okay?
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  But yeah, I see I see you on this on the on the
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  sheet right now, right right at the top, right now, type it
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  in there, like, let's let's get a volleyball update. Let's just let's
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  try to do that the rest of the way here, all right, all
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  right, yeah, so we so we don't forget here on our Wednesday Walcome
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  Preps podcast sheet that is actually being used on Tuesday night, just so we
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  don't just so we don't forget and well we'll do it here, we'll do
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  it after how about we do it between the pick em this week? Let's
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  do it between the pickam's and the UH and the fantasy. How about that?
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  That sounds good? Actually, you know what? Yeah, yeah,
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  let's do it between the pick them and the fantasy, because we always seem
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  to finish with the fantasy. So I'll write it in there volleyball right now,
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  real big, and I'm gonna capitalize it, and we're gonna make it
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  bold, make it size eighteen fond, so we don't forget it for this
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  week. Well, we'll give a little volleyball up, Tyler, at least
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  a little. Hey, what have we seen since we last talked? Yeah?
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  Sure, and then we can delete it so we don't do it twice
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  next week. Yeah. Anyway, Squala cum Mount Baker. Tyler's got some
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  nuggets. Man, I heard you got a nugget about this one, huh
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  Tyler? Yeah, I kind of touched on it a little bit. But
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  the last time these two teams played each other was in twenty eleven two way
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  and yeah, this was when they were playing each other every year, and
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  so it's been a little while. In the last two games that these two
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  teams played each other, Mount Baker running back Levi Wig went off completely.
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  Yeah. Yeah, well coach left out to trouble remember his name when he
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  was trying to rattle off off a thousand years. That might be part of
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  why I remember it. Yeah. So he was the All state running back.
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  Ran for two hundred and eighty four yards and three touchdowns when they played
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  each other his junior year, which is twenty ten. Then he ran for
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  one hundred and eighty yards and five touchdowns when they played each other his senior
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  year. It almost makes me want to look up which players have the most
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  career yards against certain teams? You know what I mean? Yeah, that'd
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  be cool. You know what you could do, Like you could just do
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  it and like put together, like a, here's a top three of who
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  has the most yards ever in games against Blaine, you know what I mean,
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  Like you could easily do something like that and have it ready to go.
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  Like that'd be Yeah, that'd be a fun thing to look at,
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  you know what I mean, Yeah, exactly. It's kind of an interesting
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  stat when you look. I mean, I would say, I mean,
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  Mariogbado might hold all of them, but still uh you know, because like
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  I mean, I think he ran for oh my goodness, oh, I
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  mean he would average you know, two fifty against everybody. That was the
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  thing. So I'll never forget that. The two that the two that I
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  remember doing that the most were him and a guy named He was at Shelton
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  High School. His name was Ralph Kinney. He ended up at the University
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  of Washington as a as a preferred walk on, and I remember his senior
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  year they only played ten games, and he averaged like two or twenty five
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  a game. I mean it was insane, Like, yeah, you just
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  don't do that. That just yeah you might, you know, you might
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  get two thousand in the season, but it's usually gonna take you twelve or
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  thirteen games. So you know you're not gonna end up with two hundred a
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  game. You know the average, and the average two hundred game is nuts.
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  Yeah, he was over I mean I think he was over twenty eight
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  twenty seven hundred his senior year and he only played ten ten games. Wow.
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  And then he was over twenty six hundred his junior year and he only
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  played ten games. So yeah, it's crazy. But yeah, So anyways,
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  you just kind of made me think of that stat which players have the
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  most yards against certain teams and so and uh yeah, just something interesting that
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  I kind of thought about. And against squal Come it might be the forgettable
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  Levi Wig. Yeah, well he was not unforgetted, or he's not forgettable
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  anymore. Yeah, especially if you're a Squalcum fan from the from what the
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  late twenty tens or whatever or early twenty ten I guess, yeah, right,
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  and he uh he's the pickleball partner of my buddy Travis low Grandy.
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  Oh really, and so that's not fair. A couple of all state football
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  players playing doubles pickleball. Yeah, just just just whopping up. Although Travis
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  playing pickleball my offset LEVI a little bit. Huh. I tell you what,
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  man, he's a large dude. But he is a large dude,
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  but he is all yeah, oh yeah, he ran a four to nine.
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  He was you know who runs a four nine, Jake Bobo? Yeah
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  exactly, he does. Hey yeah, hey, what's Travis Gotfernice? Can
• 19:29
  he run some fly sweet stuff and score? That's that's the problem that that
• 19:32
  play was running right towards you. Wasn't when he cut it up field?
• 19:34
  Uh well yes, I mean it was in my end zone. It was
• 19:37
  just a little to my left where where he was thought was was was to
• 19:41
  my left. Yeah, yeah, I mean it was so it was such
• 19:44
  a he was like on the hash mark basically. Yeah, he was like
• 19:45
  going completely and then he just boom, put his foot in the ground and
• 19:48
  right up field. That was like, wow, you know what, that's
• 19:51
  a smart football player right there, because he wasn't going to score going outside.
• 19:55
  No, he threw on the brakes and then just basically went straight forward.
• 19:57
  For a couple of years. It was pretty cool already anyway, Yeah,
• 20:00
  Squalcum Mount Baker three and six, three and six. But I think
• 20:03
  there's gonna be a heck of a football game six pm, Bob Tisdale Field
• 20:07
  on Thursday night, High School right there? Alrighty, Well, let's move
• 20:14
  on to a Friday. Sultan is coming to town Tyler, the lone game
• 20:18
  in county on Friday night. Sultan six and three. The Turks are coming
• 20:22
  to town to take on the Bellingham BayHawks five and four. That is a
• 20:25
  seven pm game at Civic Stadium in Tyler. You will be there, So,
• 20:30
  yeah, Sultan a team that I feel like we've talked about maybe you
• 20:33
  know a couple of times, but one of those teams that probably has at
• 20:37
  least a bit of a decent little history with Walcome County. Yeah. Yeah,
• 20:41
  they were. They were part of the conference back in the late nineties
• 20:45
  early two thousands. They were part of that North Cascades Conference. When it
• 20:49
  kind of everything when they kind of create it, you know, if you
• 20:52
  really want to look at it's kind of when they created the two AA level.
• 20:56
  Yes, and when that happened, all the schools that were one A
• 21:00
  here they all jumped or that were A jumped to two A and they were
• 21:04
  joined in a conference with and A Concrete and Friday Harbor were knocked out and
• 21:08
  they were joined by Granite Falls, Lakewood, Sultan and South Widby and yeah,
• 21:18
  and the North Cascades conference. And it stuck around for you know,
• 21:22
  probably seven eight years. So we played you know, Sultan, We saw
• 21:26
  Sultan a lot up in Walkam County, and uh, there were you know,
• 21:30
  there was one year I think they you know, I remember they beat
• 21:34
  Baker one year. It was like it was a really strange like I think
• 21:37
  it was. I want to say it was like in two thousand and it
• 21:41
  was a huge upset. And you know, they had some good players here
• 21:44
  and there. But it's been a little while. They've played Bellingham a little
• 21:48
  bit recently, and and I want to say, like Meridian might have played
• 21:51
  him in one of these little crossovers a few years ago. But I feel
• 21:55
  like we've talked them in the last year. Yeah. Yeah, it's a
• 21:59
  an And they have a good record this year, you know, coming in
• 22:03
  with a six and three record. I mean, so you know they're winning
• 22:06
  games. But man on the road, Bellingham, they play so well at
• 22:11
  home, especially lately on that fast turf with those athletes. It's, you
• 22:17
  know, a big thing I want to hear is I want to hear what
• 22:19
  Randy Small has to say about the weather because that could play a factor a
• 22:23
  little bit into what Bellingham likes to do as far as just airing it out
• 22:27
  and stuff like that. But man, I'm excited about this one because Bellingham
• 22:33
  knows how to put a lot of points on the board. It's fun taking
• 22:37
  stats for them, to be honest, it's just it's exciting. It's not
• 22:41
  it's not you know, two yards and a cloud of dust at all.
• 22:45
  It's it's very wide open, a lot of fun plays, you know.
• 22:51
  And and even when they run the ball, you know, holding baits kicking
• 22:55
  it to the outside is so fast. And when Tyler Frost does that two
• 22:57
  plays and a cloud type of play, it's usually or two yards in a
• 23:02
  cloud does it's usually two yards and a cloud of defenders just try and bouncing
• 23:04
  off of them. And it's so it is still fun and it's very much
• 23:10
  a lightning and thunder backfield. And and the defense has been playing great.
• 23:14
  A lot of guys have been coming back now from injury or you know,
• 23:18
  grades or whatever. It's fun to see them all kind of be able to
• 23:22
  to to be at full strength with everybody. You know, at the beginning
• 23:26
  of the year, they didn't have certain guys and lately they haven't had certain
• 23:29
  guys and right now everything's kind of coming together. And for them to come
• 23:33
  out on top of this one will be tough against Sultan, but man to
• 23:37
  have a six win team Bellingham, you know, that'd be that'd be pretty
• 23:44
  good for them. It's something that will hopefully, you know, around the
• 23:48
  community say Okay, I think we're ready now for the Northwest Conference, and
• 23:52
  yeah, we'll have to see. And it's a there's a lot of really
• 23:56
  good seniors on this team playing their last game, and you know that when
• 24:00
  that happens, they put it. They leave it all out on the field.
• 24:03
  Was this game on the schedule from from the beginning. It was not
• 24:08
  just because there was that possibility that they went nine to zero that they could
• 24:14
  have possibly been in the mix for some sort of playing thing. I think
• 24:18
  it was the first and we in years past Bellingham has done this where they
• 24:23
  just they just put in a week ten game, yes, because they end,
• 24:27
  but they didn't do it this year just because they knew they had something
• 24:30
  kind of good, but I was I was gonna say, out of all
• 24:33
  the Week ten games, I think this was the first one scheduled because once
• 24:37
  they lost a couple in the beginning of the season, they just scheduled this
• 24:41
  one, so gotcha. So it was scheduled early, earlier than the other
• 24:45
  games, but it was not scheduled before the season started. So then it
• 24:48
  makes me wonder if Sultan is kind of in the same boat where maybe they're
• 24:52
  not necessarily part of the conference or something, you know, like yeah,
• 24:55
  maybe, yeah, you know, And it makes me wonder too, like
• 24:59
  I wonder if this is senior night there for Bellingham because they haven't been home
• 25:02
  in like three weeks, right, like, yeah, they were, Yeah,
• 25:04
  it's been a little while. I think Coopville maybe, or they played
• 25:08
  le'connor right about that time, and then they went on the road for or
• 25:14
  No, did they go to No, they went on the road to Blaine.
• 25:18
  Yeah, they were on the road Friday, Harbor and then Meridians.
• 25:21
  Yeah, so I think Coop Bill was the last home game. Yeah.
• 25:23
  Yeah, So I mean unless Senior Night was at the beginning of October,
• 25:27
  which which would be very much out of the norm. But that's uh,
• 25:33
  Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, this is one of those games where
• 25:36
  you kind of don't know much about Sultan. You look at their six and
• 25:37
  three record, you go, well, we're gonna find out what kind of
• 25:40
  six and three they really are, you know what I mean? Because we
• 25:42
  know that we know that Bellingham the way that their offense, once their offense
• 25:47
  started to click this year, things were good, you know what I mean.
• 25:49
  And and you know, sure last week maybe they didn't put up as
• 25:52
  many points as they have you know recently, or you know, would have
• 25:56
  liked, but they still did good things offensive, you know. So you
• 26:00
  see some things and you go, you know, this is this is a
• 26:03
  Bellingham team that we can at least get a good read on other teams now,
• 26:07
  you know, as far as you know how good they are. So
• 26:08
  I mean, this is just to put it in perspective. And I know
• 26:11
  they're playing a independent schedule and blah blah blah and all that stuff, and
• 26:15
  I don't really care about any of that stuff. What's really cool is that
• 26:18
  these guys are performing. Bellingham has never had in school history a receiver catch
• 26:25
  double digit touchdowns. Wow, they have two of them to stay and they've
• 26:27
  got two of them. Now, yeah, right, they've never had a
• 26:30
  quarterback pass for over two thousand yards in a season. They have that.
• 26:34
  Now they've I mean there's all these little things that they've never had. Holding
• 26:38
  baits is the single season record holders for average yards per carry for a team
• 26:44
  in Bellingham history. Now now now that could that could move around. Yeah,
• 26:48
  but I'm just saying, like that could carry fifteen times for negative two
• 26:52
  hundred yards this week, Tyler, then it's on me. Yeah, you're
• 26:56
  gonna be in trouble, right, But I'm just saying, like, it's
• 26:59
  they're the positivity and the numbers that they're coming up with is it's just a
• 27:03
  it's it's a really cool thing. And and I even got a message from
• 27:06
  from coach Leonard. You know, boy, I guess it was this morning.
• 27:11
  It was a long time ago. Uh, it was pretty early in
• 27:14
  the morning, but he had refreshed and saw that the record book was updated
• 27:18
  and he's like, hey, he goes, you're up early doing the record
• 27:21
  book banks a lot. This is really cool to see, blah blah blah,
• 27:23
  you know, And I told him, I was like, Coach,
• 27:25
  I've been since three in the morning. It's it's been one of those days.
• 27:30
  But it's just it is cool because in years past, I haven't had
• 27:36
  to update the record book a whole lot, and and uh, they're just
• 27:38
  putting up some great numbers and they're making it fun there. They have athletes
• 27:42
  on the campus. Yeah, and they're and they're showing how fun it could
• 27:45
  be. The notoriety you can get all that good stuff. Kids are coming
• 27:49
  out and playing, I mean, holding Baits Wyatt, Stephan, Josh Tole.
• 27:53
  I didn't know who these kids were last year. This year they're seniors
• 27:57
  and they're playing and they're starring and it's just been great. So you know,
• 28:03
  I mean it. You know, you and I were like, ah,
• 28:03
  we wish they were sophomores, you know. I mean, I'm sure
• 28:07
  coach Leonard thinks that too. But it's cool that they're at least getting out
• 28:11
  there and laying the foundation. And now you're seeing some of these sophomores,
• 28:15
  the Jordan Stones and the Kaiser Barkers and the Owen Hansteads and you know all
• 28:18
  these other Josh Owen. Yes, that we might have the most interception of
• 28:23
  the history of the county if he keeps up the pay season exactly. That's
• 28:27
  the thing is like, so there are there is a young crop coming that
• 28:30
  is playing and it's just gonna help. And you get those two linebackers back
• 28:36
  next year with Frost and van off Wagon. You know, it's it's it's
• 28:41
  gonna be fun. So I love the way things are going right now.
• 28:44
  To finish the season with the win would be huge. Uh, finish the
• 28:47
  season with a winning record, I mean that's just awesome. And uh yeah,
• 28:52
  it'll be a fun one out at Civic Stadium. I will probably be
• 28:55
  up in the booth where it'll be nice and warm and I can take stats
• 28:57
  very easily. But yeah, I'm excited for it. Sultan Turks Tyler is
• 29:04
  Turk Wendell the best Turk. You know. He did wear number ninety nine.
• 29:12
  I appreciate that. I love that because that is my number. So
• 29:18
  yeah, probably the best Turk I know. Can you name the four teams
• 29:22
  he played for in Major League Baseball? Tyler? How about? Oh my
• 29:25
  goodness, are you ready? Yeah? Mets? Wait, wait, hold
• 29:30
  on, are you going in order? Or are you just named? No?
• 29:32
  No, I'm just there's the first one that popped in my mind.
• 29:33
  But yeah, Mets, honest, I'll be completely honest, the Mets and
• 29:38
  the second that excuse me, the Mets are the second team he played for.
• 29:42
  The third team is the only other one I would have gotten. I
• 29:45
  wouldn't have got the first or the fourth. Mets is the one that pops
• 29:48
  right in my mind. Yeah, there's two that I'm like, they were
• 29:52
  good when he was on the Mets. Yes, there's two that are iffy.
• 29:56
  And those two that are iffy are Phillies and Cubs. So Phil is
• 30:00
  the other one I would have probably gotten because I do remember him with the
• 30:03
  Phillies. Cubs is where he started from ninety three to ninety seven, and
• 30:07
  then he finished in two thousand and four with the Colorado Rockies. Okay,
• 30:12
  is it easy to pull it up to really quickly see how many games he
• 30:15
  pitched with the Rockies, because I feel like it could not have been very
• 30:18
  many. I mean it was at the end of his career and yeah,
• 30:22
  yeah, only twelve games. So that's when, Yeah, that's when novel
• 30:26
  baseball, immaculate grid where he would have got great points for that one if
• 30:30
  he had Turk Wendell. That's always one of my fun questions to people,
• 30:33
  is name the last team Dale Murphy played on major League team. Oh you
• 30:37
  know, so, first off, I don't know who it is, but
• 30:41
  the like playing that game where like, yeah, name two teams that he
• 30:45
  played for in the final year of his career, you know, or who
• 30:49
  was the last team that ever had Jerry Rice on a roster? Yeah,
• 30:53
  you know, and people are like, oh, well, I mean I
• 30:56
  know he's with the Raiders, he was with the Seahawks, he was with
• 31:00
  Roncos. Yeah, and people forget the reason he wouldn't the reason he like
• 31:03
  I remember it, like like it was yesterday. One of the report that
• 31:07
  came out was the reason he wouldn't continue to like he retired or whatever because
• 31:12
  the Broncos told him they wanted him to play some special teams and he was
• 31:15
  like absolutely not. Yeah, yeah, have you ever seen that. There
• 31:18
  was a podcast recently with Jerry Rice. I think it was recently where they
• 31:22
  like said his stats in like one game to him and he goes, wait,
• 31:26
  I had how many yards? He was like, I did what?
• 31:30
  Like he was blown away at his own numbers. It was pretty funny.
• 31:33
  Like, you know, the best thing I haven't seen much out of Jerry
• 31:36
  Rice, right, Like you haven't seen him do interviews stuff like that.
• 31:38
  So to see him like that, it was actually really cool. The best
• 31:41
  thing I ever heard come out of his mouth, and this was the coolest
• 31:45
  thing is when he said Steve Largent was my hero. That's awesome. Isn't
• 31:51
  that just so cool? That's the he's that's the reason he wore number eighty,
• 31:53
  especially because Steve Largent was a lot of our heroes. Yes exactly.
• 31:57
  And there was like the roundtable receiver thing that had Steve Largent, Jerry Rice,
• 32:05
  Steve Smith and somebody was like an NFL network thing, Yeah, and
• 32:09
  they just talked about the position. Yeah. Steve Smith is one of those
• 32:15
  guys that on the field I hated him because I just couldn't stand the guy.
• 32:17
  But as an analyst and as a just kind of a goofy guy that
• 32:21
  makes videos and stuff for the NFL Network or whoever he's with, I think
• 32:23
  he's really good. Yeah. Michael Vick's another one. I think Michael Vick
• 32:27
  is an analyst is unbelievably good. Yes, absolutely, he's He's so good
• 32:30
  at what he does. And oddly enough, I think Ronk is actually pretty
• 32:34
  good too, because he brings kind of a goofy, you know, fun
• 32:37
  flare to everything. But yeah, anyway, Sultan Bellingham, seven pm,
• 32:42
  Civic Stadium, we like to take a little U turn. By the way,
• 32:45
  the Colorado Rockies was the last team that Dale Murphy played on. Oh
• 32:50
  wow, I didn't realize he played that long. I get you know what
• 32:52
  that I say that long, but that they started what ninety two three?
• 32:57
  Well, yeah, they became a team in ninety two. Their first year
• 32:59
  was ninety three or whatever. It was, like, yeah, yeah,
• 33:00
  that's I mean, I guess that's not entirely surprising. I sometimes when I
• 33:05
  think of like teams like the Rockies, I kind of loop them in with
• 33:07
  the Rays a little bit more, which was what like ninety seven. Yeah,
• 33:10
  you got to loop the Rockies in with your other team, yeah,
• 33:14
  Marlins, Yeah exactly. Yeah, and then the Rays and the Diamondbacks came
• 33:16
  in the same time in ninety eight. Yeah, but even the Marlins,
• 33:20
  Like sometimes I think about it and I think about the reason I became a
• 33:22
  Marlins fan was because I played on a team that was called the Marlins in
• 33:28
  Little League baseball. Yeah. Well, shoot, I haven't played Little league
• 33:30
  baseball in what almost thirty years now. Yeah, you know, I just
• 33:36
  don't think of it that way, you know what I mean, Like it's
• 33:37
  just it's totally yeah. Yeah, you've been following the Marlins forever, Yeah,
• 33:42
  I have. I mean I basically became a Marlins fan like the second
• 33:45
  year of their existence. Yeah, I've and I've been a fan ever since.
• 33:47
  And yeah, and Chuck Carr. You got like, yeah, you
• 33:52
  monument of Chuck Carr over there, Chuck Carr. That dude would run through
• 33:55
  a wall today probably And I don't even know if he's still alive, you
• 33:59
  know what I mean, but he would probably run through a wall right now
• 34:00
  if he's amazing centerfielder. Awesome man. And who throughout the first pitch in
• 34:06
  Marlin's history Charlie Huff. Yeah it was a knuckleball. Oh yeah, like
• 34:10
  they claim the only team in history to ever have a knuckleball be the first
• 34:15
  pitch thrown. You know, yes, Tyler. Anyway, let's go,
• 34:21
  uh Meridian four and five, Cedar Park, Christian five and four, seven
• 34:23
  pm at beautiful Harold berg Field at Waita High School here in beautiful Kirkland,
• 34:30
  Washington, my old stopping grounds, Tyler. Hopefully these two teams play way
• 34:35
  better than I ever did. But yeah, four and five, five and
• 34:37
  four records don't matter. Neither of these teams are playing after this week anyway.
• 34:42
  So I got a feeling this could be a real nice ball game here.
• 34:45
  Exactly. I think the exact same thing. And you know, when
• 34:47
  you're looking for these Week ten matchups, it's you almost want to say it's
• 34:52
  kind of a scramble because there's a there's a handful of teams that are in
• 34:55
  that same boat, and they're you know, they're all kind of, you
• 35:00
  know, just looking at each other, like what about you and Cedar Park
• 35:05
  Christian had this last year with Blaine in Week ten, and I remember coach
• 35:09
  Olsome, you know, they played they scheduled him earlier this year and you
• 35:13
  saw that game, and it was it was kind of you know, they
• 35:16
  scheduled they had a little different schedule than they did last year. They they
• 35:21
  took Kings out, they moved Cedar Park Christian too week three or whatever it
• 35:23
  was. And and but what it did was it kind of made them so
• 35:29
  they're probably not going to play each other in Week ten if it came up
• 35:31
  again. So you know, it kind of threw this into that and that
• 35:36
  into this, and it just kind of so it's it's it is fun to
• 35:38
  see these common opponents play playing each other. And you know, uh,
• 35:44
  Cedar Park Christian. You know, I feel like I've seen him a lot
• 35:47
  in the past, especially against Blaine. Mario Gbado had that crazy game against
• 35:52
  him, fifty seven carries before eighty. But uh, you know, I've
• 35:59
  never been down there. I've never been down to wanting to high school.
• 36:01
  You're missing out. I know I'm missing out. There's there's like the spray
• 36:07
  painted seventy eight right in the middle of the field. I think should be
• 36:10
  to honor you. Yeah, and they should have a giant one like hanging
• 36:13
  next to the scoreboards, so nobody ever wears it again, even on Cedar
• 36:16
  Park Christian, if it's your home game, you shouldn't be able to wear
• 36:19
  it. That's funny. But you know, Meridian, I tell you what,
• 36:23
  since Patrick Games has been there, they have not had a losing record,
• 36:27
  and so I you know, and I know they're not in COVID year
• 36:30
  right like yeah, they went one and one. Yeah, And I think
• 36:34
  that I think that that I'm not saying that's weighing on their minor, I
• 36:37
  think, but it's a you know, it's a it's a it's a certain
• 36:40
  part of pride, right like sure, yeah, and you know you want
• 36:44
  to You've just you had this huge momentum win last week. You want to
• 36:47
  finish strong. I remember last week I went out or last year, I
• 36:52
  should say, I went out to practice probably like middle of the week,
• 36:54
  right before week ten, same exact kind of time of the year as it
• 36:59
  is now. I got a call that they had a gift for me,
• 37:01
  and they had they had a hoodie made for me and everything, and I
• 37:05
  went out there and got it and and I remember that was when I was
• 37:07
  talking to Wyatt Doling and he was like, yeah, it's just so weird,
• 37:10
  like tomorrow is our last game and they were gonna play on a Thursday
• 37:15
  against South Widby at South Widby and they were just like we don't know anything
• 37:19
  about him and they're supposed to be really good. And he's like, it's
• 37:22
  just so weird. How it just a snap of a finger in your seat
• 37:24
  and your career is done. And uh, you know, so I hope
• 37:30
  that these seniors there's not a lot of them on Meridian, but you know,
• 37:35
  make the most of it. Go down there, try to do your
• 37:37
  best and and you know, come up with, you know, a win
• 37:40
  and it's it's and if they do that, both teams will end up be
• 37:45
  five and five and just truck on over to next year. It's a it's
• 37:47
  gonna be an interesting one. Five and five is almost like going to a
• 37:52
  soccer match and having an end like zero zero, you know what I mean,
• 37:54
  Like you walk out of there and you're like, well, we didn't
• 37:58
  have a winning season, but we also did have a losing season, so
• 38:00
  yeah, that's good. Let's see here, Tyler's got some nuggets. Man,
• 38:05
  I think I know where you're going with this one. Tyler, what
• 38:07
  do you got for me on the nugget? Yeah, we've talked about this
• 38:09
  a little bit in the past. So Meridian head coach Patrick Games and the
• 38:13
  Cedar Park Christian head coach Kurt Roy were teammates in high school in nineteen ninety
• 38:16
  two. They were both starters on the same team for the Meridian Trojans that
• 38:21
  went to the to the state semifinals now stay semi finals and that's huge,
• 38:27
  right, And they lost in the semi finals twenty four to twenty one in
• 38:30
  overtime to eat Eatonville, who then went on to win the state title.
• 38:36
  So, I mean, when I think back, that was the first year.
• 38:39
  Ninety two was the first year that I was on the sidelines of games
• 38:44
  taking you know, doing stats, you know the next day paper. Yeah.
• 38:47
  Yeah, And so this was that first great team that I remember and
• 38:53
  there to me, it'll always be one of the best teams in Walking County
• 38:55
  history to not make the state title game. They now listen to this.
• 39:01
  They had seven players on the team that scored at least four touchdowns. Seven
• 39:07
  players. Wow. Yeah, and that was thirty one years ago. You
• 39:12
  know, that was thirty one years ago before offenses were exactly dynamic. You
• 39:16
  know, they just they just had a ton of weapons. And I want
• 39:20
  to say they had at least five players that had seven or more touchdowns.
• 39:24
  So and when you think about it, you know, you got your quarterback,
• 39:28
  your five offensive lineman, and you got five guys out there that can
• 39:30
  score touchdowns. So they really spread it out. Uh, Kurt Roy was
• 39:35
  starting tight end, he started at corner. He punted, well, no,
• 39:38
  he was a backup hunter, but he was back up quarterback. He
• 39:42
  split out, he's a slot receiver. You know. Patrick James was running
• 39:45
  back, linebacker. These guys played on the field a lot together, so
• 39:49
  it'll be kind of cool for them to be coaching against each other. And
• 39:52
  hopefully I'm not gonna be down there, but hopefully someone can get a picture
• 39:54
  of them together. And it's kind of a kind of a neat deal.
• 39:58
  You don't see that too often where a couple of high school teammates coach against
• 40:01
  each other later on, So it'll be kind of cool. Yeah, that's
• 40:05
  always. That's always something that's cool, especially in the game where you know,
• 40:09
  really it's just bragging rights, I guess on the line, you know
• 40:12
  what I mean, Like it's not you know, not some end of the
• 40:15
  season, you know, not like somebody's ending somebody's season technically there you go,
• 40:20
  yeah, you know what I mean. So, yeah, that's pretty
• 40:22
  cool. Meridian four and five is here, Part Christian five and four Harold
• 40:24
  berget Field, one of the high school here in Kirkland, Here in Kirkland,
• 40:28
  like everybody else is there, Tyler, Let's see here. Is this
• 40:32
  the team that's gonna maybe got like the most travel this week because of a
• 40:37
  faery? Like yeah, I think because Sultan is coming here. Baker Timberline,
• 40:43
  Ferndale. I mean, let's see here, I mean, I guess
• 40:46
  going to Kirkland is further, but having to wait for a fairy is definitely
• 40:51
  interesting. Blaine two and seven East Jefferson Rivals is the name of the team,
• 40:55
  and we'll talk about that here in a second. But oh, got
• 40:59
  the nuggets. Many, Yeah, Ryland's got some tuggets. But yeah,
• 41:05
  so Blaine two and seven East Jefferson Own eight seven pm at Port Townshend Memorial
• 41:09
  Stadium. Now, Tyler, the thing about East Jefferson, you know,
• 41:15
  this is one of those interesting things where this is actually a co op.
• 41:17
  So it's two schools forming one football team. And that's why they're called the
• 41:22
  Rivals because they were actually kind of rival football teams. It was the Chimmickum
• 41:27
  Cowboys and the Port Towns and RedHawks is what they were originally. I think
• 41:31
  they were the Port Towns and Redskins and then they became the Red Hawks.
• 41:35
  But one's blue, one's red. So when they play games on the road,
• 41:39
  they both bring their school jerseys, so the teams are actually wearing white
• 41:45
  jerseys with either red letters and numbers or blue letters and numbers, and you
• 41:50
  get East Jefferson Rivals. It's really really cool. Then the home games I'm
• 41:54
  pretty sure they wear black with red numbers. I don't think I could be
• 41:58
  wrong. I don't think they get their their specific colors for that. I
• 42:02
  guess maybe they do, because then they could just buy the jerseys themselves.
• 42:07
  But I also think that the jerseys for home games say rivals on the back,
• 42:10
  which is kind of wild because not too many teams have their Remember that
• 42:15
  used to be kind of a thing where you'd see a lot of teams that
• 42:16
  had their their team name on the back or something. You know, Yeah,
• 42:21
  and you definitely don't see that hardly at all anymore, you know.
• 42:24
  I remember you remember the one year Air Force had like their squads or whatever
• 42:28
  on the back. Yes, you know, like there was something cool there.
• 42:30
  I remember one year, I think it was Rutgers had family on the
• 42:34
  on their for their name. That one drove me nuts because it was f
• 42:37
  dot a dot, you know, like a dot after each one except for
• 42:40
  the y. They didn't put a dot on the end. I remember thinking
• 42:44
  of myself, like the why is just what? Then like well it's like
• 42:46
  stands for like something fa men, And then to go why at the end,
• 42:51
  Yeah why it's a question. Yeah it was a question, but yeah,
• 42:57
  anyway, Blaine East Jefferson. Uh, I have we ever even talked
• 43:00
  about East Jefferson on We have not? We have not. I think the
• 43:04
  only time I've ever talked to East Jefferson on a podcast was me and Matthew
• 43:07
  Evans when they made because they made the Week ten playoffs a couple of years
• 43:10
  ago. East Jefferson did they. I'm pretty sure they play in the league
• 43:15
  in the Nisqually because I don't you know what there might be a one A
• 43:21
  league out there now with like Klahowia, I don't know, but yeah,
• 43:23
  East Jefferson, Tyler, I can't imagine. I would imagine maybe Chimmicum and
• 43:29
  maybe Port Townsend have some history. Yeah against definitely Wakham County, but not
• 43:32
  East Jefferson, right, Yeah, Chimmickcum. I remember Chimmickum playing against the
• 43:38
  local one A teams. Uh in ninety seven they played against all of them.
• 43:43
  You saw Jimmy him against Baker and Meridian nooksac complained. But yeah,
• 43:49
  not a not a ton of histories and even in Port Townsend either, but
• 43:52
  I remember like Baker playing Port Townsend in the playoffs one year. But yeah,
• 43:55
  when I you know, I haven't seen the name Eastre Jefferson that many
• 44:00
  times of you know, they haven't been to you know, Combined for that
• 44:04
  long. So it just it doesn't ring anything to me. It almost makes
• 44:07
  me feel like like this database that I have of statistics and everything, and
• 44:14
  I do matchups and I do the whole thing and I load the statistics,
• 44:15
  I don't even know if I have East Jefferson in the database. So I
• 44:20
  might have to have it say like Port Townsend or Chimmickum for as as the
• 44:23
  opponent, and then I can just edit it later. I just need like
• 44:27
  a holder holding piece. But but yeah, so it's just one of those
• 44:30
  one of those crazy things you know, you and I were talking off air
• 44:34
  about in baseball. I see it at the district tournament for one day.
• 44:37
  All the time. I see over Lake Bear Creek and they're a really really
• 44:42
  good baseball team, and you're like, well, yeah, they're there.
• 44:45
  There are two schools that are you know, a mile apart as the crow
• 44:47
  Flies. It's they're really close to each other. So it makes sense.
• 44:52
  And so you know it's interesting you think of like, man, that'd be
• 44:55
  crazy if you know nooks that can baker Combine school. I mean, you
• 44:59
  know, I'm I'm saying they're going to I'm just saying, like it's just
• 45:01
  it's just the concept of it would be just crazy. But I can imagine
• 45:07
  how good some of those teams would be. Yeah, no kidding. But
• 45:10
  and what I've gone back in the archives to like the thirties and forties,
• 45:15
  and Bellingham used to be one of the top teams in the state. Every
• 45:17
  single year. They played in like this almost like this West co type things
• 45:22
  where they Wanatchi was in their league, you know, Seattle Prep was in
• 45:27
  their league. Really yeah, and and it was a big, big school,
• 45:31
  you know, and they would just whoop everybody. And then their JV
• 45:35
  teams would play against the local varsity teams. They play against Ferndale, and
• 45:38
  they'd play against Baker and Nuksak and stuff like that. And and you know,
• 45:45
  but Belling and then in the sixties, Seahome came along, so then
• 45:47
  you split it into two, you know, and then in the nineties Squalkon
• 45:51
  came alrong, you split it into three. So you know, and you
• 45:54
  think, back, Okay, well what if you combine Seahome and Squalakham and
• 45:58
  Bellingham right now, Well, there'd be a good team to be reckoned with,
• 46:00
  they'd have to be four a of course. But yeah, it's just
• 46:04
  one of those It's just one of those crazy things. You know, Blaine
• 46:07
  two and seven right now. Uh, you know, you know, if
• 46:09
  you can pick up a win here, that's a good way to end the
• 46:13
  season. And and uh, you know, Blaine just had the one win
• 46:15
  last year, so they've already doubled that. And I think things are kind
• 46:20
  of on the right track. You see some some good pieces coming back.
• 46:23
  I've been watching the eighth grade team a lot. You's get some good size
• 46:28
  there so and and coach Olsen, you and I, You and I both
• 46:31
  have a lot of good positive things to say about him. He's a young
• 46:34
  guy's in his mid thirties. Hopefully he's a sticking around. So it's just
• 46:37
  a you know, we'll see it's a fun it'd be a fun time to
• 46:42
  be a border right now for the future. And you know, you just
• 46:45
  got to keep going plugging one game at a time, and and this one.
• 46:50
  You know, a seven o'clock gamer you have to take a faery.
• 46:52
  That scares me every anytime I see a seven o'clock gamer. You have to
• 46:54
  take a faery. You know, I just worry about getting back into and
• 47:00
  all that stuff. But we'll see. Well, Tyler, you want to,
• 47:04
  you want to? Ryland's got some nuggets, man, Yeah, so
• 47:07
  I've got one for you here. My good friend, a guy that I
• 47:09
  h guy that I absolutely love. He's hilarious and I think he's a really
• 47:15
  really good football coach Tony Maggio from He was at Coopville High School for I
• 47:20
  don't know, four or five years, and this was do you remember the
• 47:22
  time I think kop Will came up and maybe played Meridian in like a week
• 47:25
  ten game or something. Yeah, was it Meridian. It was like a
• 47:29
  crossover or something. Yeah, I want to say it was maybe like a
• 47:34
  Tuesday night game. I can't remember, but I remember Coopville played somebody from
• 47:37
  Wakam County and coach Maggio was the head coach at that time. But they
• 47:42
  played a game because that was the Do you remember that league? It had
• 47:45
  like four teams. It was like Chimmacum Port towns in Coopville and South Widby
• 47:47
  or something, right, So they used to have to go across the ferry
• 47:52
  once a year because they were gonna have to play either Chimacum or Port towns
• 47:54
  in every single year. Yeah, and one year they decided, you know
• 48:00
  what, we'll save the district money and instead of taking a bus onto the
• 48:05
  ferry, we're just kind of everybody walk on and so they all walked onto
• 48:08
  the ferry. Well then they just walked right down the street, he said.
• 48:14
  They walked right down like main street, right down Port Townsend. Because
• 48:16
  the fields only I don't know, three blocks away, four blocks away,
• 48:20
  it's not it's not very far like if you look at it on Google Maps,
• 48:22
  like you'd see it's definitely within walking distance. Yeah, well, a
• 48:27
  little bit, a little bit of a problem happened here, started pouring down
• 48:30
  rain. So then they ended up and when I say muddy, I mean
• 48:36
  they ended up muddier than you can imagine, Tyler. There was there was
• 48:39
  a play they had a They had a young man, an offensive lineman name
• 48:43
  named Nick Strubel. He was a big dude, and he ended up going
• 48:45
  to Central Washington. I think he was a three or four year starter there
• 48:49
  and now he's doing he's doing great things, you know, post college football
• 48:53
  too, which is really cool. But Nick was when I say a big
• 48:57
  dude, we're talking one a football and This guy was you know, six
• 49:00
  four and two ninety, you know what I mean, like big dude,
• 49:05
  but he could move. Yeah. Well, earlier in the season I had
• 49:08
  seen a play from Mercer Island High School where they threw the quick little hitch
• 49:13
  route to a receiver and he pitched it back to Alignment, who had taken
• 49:17
  off running. And you know, so it was a hooking ladder to Alignment.
• 49:22
  Yeah. Right, Well I mentioned how cool it was, and coach
• 49:27
  Magio heard it and he says, you know what, one of these days,
• 49:30
  I'm going to do it with Strubel, he said, I'm going to
• 49:31
  do it with Troops. Well he did it. Well, Stroops goes down,
• 49:35
  he got taken down. Somebody you know, took out his knees.
• 49:37
  He goes down, and when he got up you could even tell what team
• 49:40
  he was on. I mean, he was covered in so much mud it
• 49:45
  was. But so now the game goes a little bit long and they're going
• 49:47
  to miss the last ferry. Yeah they don't. There's no way they can
• 49:52
  get back to the ferry in time. So you know what they did.
• 49:53
  They threw all of their stuff into the back of somebody's truck and they had
• 49:57
  all these kids just running down. They had a runner right down Main Street
• 50:00
  going to the ferry with all of their gear in the back of like somebody's
• 50:04
  truck or maybe a couple of trucks, you know what I mean, all
• 50:06
  this muddy gear just in the back of trucks. And they took off running
• 50:09
  down the street to get on the ferry to go home. Man, what
• 50:12
  a sight to see. You imagine that sitting there some little some little ice
• 50:16
  cream shop or something, and all of a sudden, these all these dudes
• 50:20
  on a Friday night, like somebody's out. Yeah, honey, you want
• 50:23
  to go down and get something. You know, you have a bike d
• 50:25
  downtown. Yeah, there's a little ice cream place across the street. And
• 50:28
  then they're just sitting there having a banana split. And also boom, here
• 50:30
  goes all these dudes go running by. You're just going, wait, what
• 50:34
  in the heck is going on right now? Or could you imagine being on
• 50:37
  the ferry headed over the other way right like when they're you know, going
• 50:39
  to the game, and you're just going, who are all these guys and
• 50:43
  why are they all in football pats? Like what is going on right now?
• 50:46
  But that you know what that is Tiler. That's like classic small town
• 50:51
  you know, back roads football, you know which I and I love stuff
• 50:55
  like that. That's that's some of the cool stuff that you hear over the
• 50:58
  years and you just go, I will never forget that like that. That
• 51:00
  is a good one. But yeah, Blaine two and seven. By the
• 51:05
  way, I think there is actually a really good ice cream place there in
• 51:07
  Port Townshend. I can't remember the name of it, but maybe I should
• 51:09
  look it up and let the people know. Anyway, Yeah, Blaine two
• 51:14
  and seven East, Jefferson, Oh and eight seven pm, Port Townsend.
• 51:17
  Are you sure that's the right name Port Townshend Memorial Stadium. I thought it
• 51:22
  was like Jefferson County Memorial Field or something. Yeah, well, I don't
• 51:27
  know, that's what I saw, so, you know, and you know
• 51:30
  what, I haven't been over there in a long time, so what the
• 51:31
  heck do I know? Anyway, Nooksack Valley six and two headed down to
• 51:36
  Granite Falls seven and two seven pm. That is at Granite Falls High School,
• 51:40
  And I know there's some definite history with Granite Falls. I've been to
• 51:44
  a couple of games against Granted Falls with teams from Wakam County. But Tyler,
• 51:47
  did I see something on some film. Did Granted Falls get new turf
• 51:51
  and they have like a bright orange thing right at midfield? It seems well,
• 51:55
  I don't know if they got new turf. I know when I played
• 51:58
  down there it was grass, yes, but when I was there, I
• 52:01
  don't know year down there. You were there for a couple of Tuesday games.
• 52:05
  I remember I saw Meridian and I saw Baker. I don't know if
• 52:07
  I saw more than that. But but the reason I bring it up,
• 52:10
  but I don't remember some big giant orange thing right at the middle of the
• 52:14
  field when when I went to those games. So it looks like they got
• 52:15
  new turf. But either way, it's a beautiful stadium. It's a great
• 52:19
  place to watch a football game. And yeah, nuksack Valley. I mean
• 52:22
  you look for them to do what we all think they can do. They
• 52:28
  got to start this weekend, I mean they have to. Yeah, yeah,
• 52:31
  this is uh, it's a big one. You know, you don't
• 52:34
  want to take anyone for for granted. You see what they did there,
• 52:37
  because granted not bad. Yeah, and it's boy, you know, I
• 52:44
  you know, I've been kind of singing the praises all year about Nooksack Valley.
• 52:49
  Now they're in a spot where they have to win, and uh,
• 52:53
  they but and these games where they look like they should win, they just
• 52:58
  dominate. And that's just the way they've been. And yeah, you're gonna
• 53:02
  go on the road and do and stuff like that, but they're just they're
• 53:07
  rolling. Man. It's it's they're just so complete. And you know,
• 53:15
  I don't I don't really know, you know, what's gonna trip them up
• 53:19
  at this point. And this is gonna be a tough one. And you
• 53:22
  know, we talked about, oh, there's only one six you know for
• 53:25
  sure birth out of the Northwest Conference and okay, the twos are gonna glue
• 53:30
  with each other and play and and this is what we ended up with now,
• 53:34
  you know. And Kings from what we've seen, I've seen them twice.
• 53:37
  They are legit and they're the number one seed from down there. And
• 53:40
  granted, I've seen Granted once and they looked different than the normal Tiger team.
• 53:46
  Now, granted looked I saw them a couple of years ago and they
• 53:52
  looked as good as I've ever seen them. Yeah, and they had one
• 53:57
  kid that was so fast, and you know, sometimes that's all it takes.
• 54:00
  And I remember they hosted Bellingham. They got them pretty good. This
• 54:06
  was a bellam team. They had the law firm and Alex Breeding and all
• 54:08
  those guys and and and I thought, Okay, this team is a team
• 54:14
  that can do some good things. And then they've got and played Lennon Christian
• 54:16
  in the first round of the state playoffs, and then it was a running
• 54:19
  clock. So sometimes you just kind of you just you just never know.
• 54:23
  But when I saw them against Meridian in Week one, and I know,
• 54:27
  I know, week one is a long time ago, and Week one is
• 54:30
  one of those with the weirdest weeks of the year where you just kind of
• 54:32
  whatever. But they had a good quarterback. They were able to they were
• 54:37
  able to you know, spread it out and and complete passes and do stuff
• 54:40
  and just stuff that I have not seen from the Tigers of the past.
• 54:45
  And I've seen them a lot, like I said, they were in that
• 54:49
  they were in that conference. It seemed like a lot of teams, even
• 54:51
  Nooksak, would play them a lot in the non conference games and early on
• 54:54
  in the season in the past, and you know, and uh so I
• 54:59
  feel like I I feel like I've seen them a lot. I don't,
• 55:01
  you know, but you know this is a good one. Granted Balls is
• 55:06
  they're winning games, but Nukzack Valley is just they're just so good at every
• 55:12
  single position and this is what they've been aiming for for a long time.
• 55:16
  And the road starts right now for them. Just looking over the Granite Falls
• 55:21
  roster here, Tyler. Two teams do have two common opponents. They've both
• 55:27
  played Meridian. They both played Kings, right, yeah, they both lost
• 55:30
  the Kings. Granted Falls lost to Meridian twenty two to thirteen to start the
• 55:34
  season, and then Nuksack Valley obviously handled Meridian fairly well. But yeah,
• 55:39
  I mean, so you know, Kings they beat Granted Falls just a couple
• 55:45
  of weeks ago fifty two to twenty eight, and we all know they beat
• 55:50
  Noksack twenty eight, twenty six and week three. So yeah, I mean,
• 55:54
  you know, this is one of those games that you know, look,
• 55:58
  they're playing. Grand Falls is playing the best football that they have played
• 56:00
  in quite some time. I mean it has been quite some time. Their
• 56:06
  senior quarterback, Cayden laplont Is, you know, he was at he was
• 56:09
  at Lake Stevens, Yeah, and he was very good at Lake Stevens,
• 56:14
  but he ended up getting basically wally pipped, and you know, he got
• 56:19
  hurt in a game and they put a freshman quarterback in there, and he
• 56:22
  never gave it up, you know, and you know, granted, I
• 56:25
  mean they won a state championship last year, so I think the freshman's done.
• 56:31
  You know, the kid, the thing's done pretty well for himself,
• 56:35
  you know, so it worked out pretty well. But Caden Laplant from what
• 56:37
  I see here, he's got twenty four touchdown passes on the season. Yeah,
• 56:40
  you know, I mean just kind of looking over some of the numbers
• 56:43
  that they have from their team. You know, they have a senior receiver,
• 56:46
  Jonathan Roberts, has six hundred and forty three yards and eleven touchdowns.
• 56:52
  I mean, I would be willing to bet for most years they didn't have
• 56:58
  eleven total touchdowns as a team, you know, receiving receiving, Yeah,
• 57:01
  you know, maybe you know, as a team, I'm sure they had
• 57:04
  eleven, but you know, overall, they just they didn't have that,
• 57:07
  you know, And so you know, it's always good to see. I
• 57:10
  always liked seeing stuff like that, and you know, you like seeing these
• 57:15
  programs that you know, sometimes they get on the rise and they do some
• 57:19
  good things and you know, find ways to to you know, to grow
• 57:22
  and get better. And I also think Grant Falls is one of those places
• 57:27
  where more and more people are moving out that way, you know, and
• 57:30
  so that's a place that the place that might might be a little bit on
• 57:35
  the rise. We'll see, you know. It always helps when you have
• 57:37
  a you have a really good quarterback, especially somebody that's got some experience at
• 57:42
  the for a level, you know what I mean, So that that's never
• 57:45
  a bad thing. But yeah, let's see here, Tyler. Tyler's got
• 57:50
  some nuggets. Man, You got a nugget about this one? What do
• 57:52
  you got? Well, there's yeah. Nuk Sac Valley is twelve and oh
• 57:55
  all time against Granted Falls. Their first meeting was in a really similar situation
• 58:01
  as it was. It was a crossover to determine a state bound team.
• 58:06
  This was back in nineteen eighty nine, the first ever meeting. It was
• 58:09
  just it was it was in his exact same situation where Elsie was the league
• 58:14
  champion that year after beating Nuksack Valley in the final week seven to two in
• 58:17
  a really muddy, windy cold Yes, yeah, Now, in the nineteen
• 58:24
  eighty nine game between Nuksack Valley and Grant Falls in order to reach the state
• 58:30
  tournament, Knuksack Valley defeated Grant Falls thirty three to thirteen, and the Pioneers
• 58:34
  had three players reached one hundred plus yards rushing in that game. Dale Johnson
• 58:39
  had two hundred and fourteen. Dave Longoria, who went on to become the
• 58:43
  Pioneers all time leading rusher still is to this day, he had one hundred
• 58:46
  and thirty three. He was a sophomore that year, and Troy Slayton had
• 58:52
  one hundred and one. And yes that is Caid Slayton's dad. So yeah,
• 58:55
  so they and he was a sophomore that year too, So they they
• 59:00
  did some damage and got into the state playoffs that year, and it was
• 59:04
  I want to say it was the first year of the eighties that they did
• 59:07
  that. I know they were really good in nineteen eighty, but I think
• 59:09
  they just missed out because Lyndon won the state title that year, despite what
• 59:14
  the Hoodies said a couple of years ago. But and I but I think
• 59:19
  it. You know, the seventies, Nuksack was very, very good and
• 59:21
  they kind of kind of went back down in the eighties, but then eighty
• 59:23
  nine they were back up there. And then a little bonus nugget in the
• 59:29
  twenty seventeen matchup between Nuksack Villy and Grant Falls, Knooksack had Are you ready
• 59:35
  for this? Yeah? Seven hundred and sixty eight yards of offense. Wait,
• 59:39
  what year was this? Twenty seventeen? Okay, makes a little bit
• 59:43
  more sense. For whatever reason, I guess I missed the year, and
• 59:46
  so it was like, hold on one second here, guy, what is
• 59:50
  it a Lee corzone? Not so fast, my friend, like, not
• 59:52
  so fast? Yeah, wow, that's a lot of arts. Yeah,
• 59:57
  as Casey Bauman's senior year, you know, they had a pretty during good
• 1:00:01
  offense. Granted actually scored like thirty points in that game. But uh,
• 1:00:07
  you know, Grant uh Knoksack was in the fifties. There's a lot of
• 1:00:09
  offense, a lot of high scoring. Seven hundred and sixty eight yards of
• 1:00:12
  offense. That's that's a school record, pioneer school record. They got pretty
• 1:00:16
  close to it a couple of weeks ago, well about a month and a
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  half ago, but u but man, and that's see when you when when
• 1:00:23
  you win a game like fifty six to thirty four. That that's when there's
• 1:00:28
  no running clock, so you actually get to play a lot more offense and
• 1:00:31
  score a lot more you know, get a lot more yards. So that
• 1:00:34
  kind of plays into it. But man, I saw that number and it
• 1:00:37
  just jumped out to me, and I want to look at all the schools
• 1:00:39
  and see what the most ever yards in the game ever was for Walking County
• 1:00:43
  history, because that might be it seven hundred and sixty eight. That's a
• 1:00:45
  lot of yards. Yeah, that is an absolute load of yards. I
• 1:00:50
  mean that is yeah, like that's a lot of yards. Man. Yeah.
• 1:00:57
  Yeah. So, uh Nooksack Valley six and two Grand Falls seven and
• 1:01:00
  two, seven pm at Granted Falls High School. That is a playoff game.
• 1:01:04
  That is a you know, winner moves on, loser goes home.
• 1:01:08
  So good luck to Knooksack Valleys. They head down what they go? I
• 1:01:14
  five probably get off of Marysville head over to Highway nine. That's the way
• 1:01:19
  I would go if I was them at least. So yeah, that we'll
• 1:01:22
  have more on that game on Sunday a Sea Home six and three. They're
• 1:01:24
  headed down to Mount Vernon to take on the Bulldogs two and seven seven pm.
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  Mount Vernon High School. On your way, stop at the Big Scoop.
• 1:01:31
  Get yourself a nice birthday cake shake. You will thank me later.
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  Tyler Seahome, Mount Vernon, What do you got here? Yeah? You
• 1:01:39
  know. The first thing that posps in my mind is is is the film
• 1:01:43
  is gonna be tough to watch. It's just that, I mean, unfortunately,
• 1:01:45
  I hate to be a negative Nancy here, but that's that's the first
• 1:01:50
  thing that popps into my mind. Not as tough as it's been in the
• 1:01:52
  past for Seahome because they have legal jerseys now, which is nice, so
• 1:01:58
  I can actually see the numbers everything. But hold on, But are you
• 1:02:01
  gonna say why it is it's tough? Well, it's yeah, there's it's
• 1:02:06
  shot so low, yes, so low to the press box is really low,
• 1:02:10
  or where where they shoot from is really really low. So it's it's
• 1:02:15
  hard to watch, man, it is hard. There's a yeah, if
• 1:02:17
  there's a play to the opposite side of the field and I'm trying to keep
• 1:02:21
  track of tackles, if there's a play of the opposite side of the field,
• 1:02:24
  then you know, it's it's pretty tough sometimes to know who you know,
• 1:02:30
  I have to really know who the corner is on the other side,
• 1:02:34
  or I have to really know like little things like that. So I got
• 1:02:37
  to kind of study. I got like, oh, this is getting close
• 1:02:39
  to the end of the first quarter. Well when they go the second quarter,
• 1:02:42
  their flip sides and I'll see the corner is on this side. You
• 1:02:44
  know, it's like those kinds of things. Uh, it's you know,
• 1:02:46
  it'll be interesting. Melt Vernon not the best record, but you know they
• 1:02:52
  got some dudes. They got a big dude that we talked about off the
• 1:02:55
  air a little bit and bring them up for a second. Yeah, I
• 1:03:00
  can bring up his u. He is a large individual and I mean large
• 1:03:06
  individual. Let's see here I went too far. Lucas Johnson a senior.
• 1:03:13
  He is six foot seven and ninety pounds Tyler, Yeah, and three point
• 1:03:20
  seven gpa. And you want to know who their head coach is, no
• 1:03:27
  relation Jake Whitman. Well that's like, this is hilarious because it's like it's
• 1:03:39
  like the alter ego of Blake Whipman, Jake Whitman. It just sounds funny
• 1:03:45
  like that. That's what went in my head, was like and he with
• 1:03:47
  an h he's he's Whitman with an h. But but it's it's it's so
• 1:03:52
  funny because remember you remember every now and then, like they would people would
• 1:03:55
  make fun of like if somebody gets kicked out of a game or gets suspended,
• 1:04:00
  and then all of a sudden, there's you know, like they showed
• 1:04:03
  like the Bobby Valentine with the fake mustache, yes you know, or or
• 1:04:06
  Larry Bernandez members that's what I was thinking of. Larry Bernandez who I was
• 1:04:12
  friends with on Facebook. Wa wait hold on? And and and Blake Whitman
• 1:04:16
  he's with Does he work in insurance exactly? Blake Jake from State Yeah,
• 1:04:21
  Blake and State Farm. Yeah, Jacson State Farm. Like that's so many
• 1:04:27
  Yeah, no offense to Jake Whitman, but yeah yeah. And he does
• 1:04:33
  follow me on Twitter, so obviously he is a smart man. This is
• 1:04:39
  going completely off the rail, Tyler. But yeah, see home Mount Vernon
• 1:04:43
  six and three, two and seven. I mean, you never know.
• 1:04:45
  And and this is you know, Tyler, you talked about it a little
• 1:04:48
  bit ago where everybody's kind of like looking around the room trying to fgure out
• 1:04:50
  who can play who and this and that six and three and two and seven.
• 1:04:54
  People go, well that doesn't make much sense. You're talking about a
• 1:04:57
  two eight team against a three A team, you know what I mean.
• 1:04:59
  So, so like it's maybe maybe those records are should be a little bit
• 1:05:03
  closer, you would think, but you know, see home, see it
• 1:05:08
  was a very good football team. And I think though playing against a team
• 1:05:11
  that's you know, probably bigger than them, yep, you know that's probably
• 1:05:15
  a good thing for them. You know, gonna gonna learn a little bit
• 1:05:17
  about yourself in week ten. So and let's face it, not traveling too
• 1:05:21
  far, Yeah, exactly, it's it works out. You know, they've
• 1:05:25
  played each other a little bit in the past. You get a lot of
• 1:05:28
  green on green in this game. And yeah, and it's you know,
• 1:05:30
  it's I like this matchup. I like that they're not you know, going
• 1:05:35
  that far and and uh you know they played they hosted against the Cascade last
• 1:05:42
  year. Yeah, that's right, you know, so it's kind of a
• 1:05:45
  similar type deal like that. You know, Cascade had to come up a
• 1:05:47
  little further. But uh yeah, this is one of those ones where you
• 1:05:53
  know, I could see them trying some stuff. They got some really good
• 1:05:57
  athletes and and another team and the only has four seniors on it. You
• 1:06:00
  know, it's see Home only has four seniors. Yeah I didn't know that.
• 1:06:08
  Yeah, I guess I did not realize that one. I mean,
• 1:06:11
  I mean we know them all. You know, a couple of guys that
• 1:06:15
  are Aldon Jacobs is awesome, Braddock Duckworth awesome, Baxter Arps is awesome,
• 1:06:18
  and then that that kicker Kyle Diifel that came in and kicked and uh so
• 1:06:24
  they're all, you know, big time parts of the team. But yeah,
• 1:06:27
  the future looks really good on some really really nice pieces. Yeah,
• 1:06:31
  so I think that as you know, you know, you want to highlight
• 1:06:36
  your seniors and and go go out on top. And this is a like
• 1:06:40
  you said, it's a good test. It's a good you go on the
• 1:06:42
  road, you know, unfamiliar environment, you're not going too far. I
• 1:06:47
  really like this matchup and and I'm really excited that coach would will go down
• 1:06:53
  there and keep stats so I don't have to watch the film. No,
• 1:06:56
  I'm just kidding, no, because I will watch the film because I will
• 1:06:59
  look for certain things and all do the defensive stats and stuff like that.
• 1:07:01
  But uh no, I love this matchup. Like I said, it's a
• 1:07:08
  really good test, and like you said too, it's a really good test
• 1:07:10
  for Sea Home and and we'll see if they can come out on top against
• 1:07:14
  this one against the Bulldogs. You know, Tyler, I think if I
• 1:07:16
  was playing in a game like this where you know, you're playing your last
• 1:07:20
  high school football game, you know what I mean? Yeah, I almost
• 1:07:24
  think I'd rather play it on the road, you know what I mean.
• 1:07:27
  Like now, I wouldn't want to play it on the road and be like
• 1:07:30
  Sea Home to Meridian, you know what I mean, or like Bellingham to
• 1:07:32
  Meridian, or I would rather play on the road with like a decent little
• 1:07:36
  road trip, because then you get you just gotta hang out with your boys
• 1:07:41
  more, you know what I mean, And like you go down there and
• 1:07:43
  you kick some bulldog button. Then you get on the bus ride and you
• 1:07:45
  come back home and you celebrate the whole way and you have a good time,
• 1:07:47
  and you know, hey, seven and three, that's a heck of
• 1:07:49
  a season, you know, and oh yeah, hooting and holler in you're
• 1:07:53
  having a good time. The windows are all fogged up, everybody's sweaty and
• 1:07:57
  stinky, and you know what I mean, Like, yeah, the bus
• 1:08:00
  rides back are just they're always so much fun when you win, you know
• 1:08:03
  what I mean, They just are just because you never know what's gonna happen
• 1:08:06
  next. You know, you look over and a guy's standing on his head
• 1:08:09
  on a seat or something. You know what I mean, Like you're going,
• 1:08:11
  why are their feet in the air? What's going on here? You
• 1:08:14
  know what I mean. It's just it's always so much more fun anyway.
• 1:08:16
  Six and three see homes seven or two and seven Mount Vernon. That is
• 1:08:20
  seven pm at Mount Vernon High School on Friday night. That wraps up Friday.
• 1:08:26
  There is one game on Saturday and it is a playoff game in the
• 1:08:29
  three A classification. Timberline the Blazers five and four. They come to town
• 1:08:33
  to take on Ferndale seven and a two, five pm Golden Eagle Stadium.
• 1:08:39
  We have a name for that now at Ferndale High School. Timberline. I
• 1:08:43
  mean, no, I can't imagine they have a lot of history in Wacom
• 1:08:47
  County. Do they have any I not that I know of right off hand
• 1:08:51
  against Ferndale? No, for sure. No. You know, maybe they've
• 1:08:57
  played somebody else, but they have not played Ferndale. This will be again.
• 1:09:01
  This is one of those ones where this is the second week in a
• 1:09:03
  row for Ferndale where I don't know a whole lot about the opponent. You
• 1:09:09
  know, it was really funny because I was listening to Kpug the pregame last
• 1:09:15
  week. I was sitting in the parking lot at Meridian High School and gonna
• 1:09:18
  watch Meridian Bellingham, and I'm listening to Jim Bring and coach Dan Kamink doing
• 1:09:24
  the pregame for the game they were at. They were at Anachordus Linden,
• 1:09:28
  obviously, and they were kind of going over all the other games that night,
• 1:09:31
  and they were talking about Ferndale Edmunds Woodway, and Jim says to coach,
• 1:09:35
  so, what do you know about Edmunds Woodway? And he goes,
• 1:09:38
  well, you know, when I don't know that much, I usually read
• 1:09:42
  what Tyler Anderson writes on walcomepreps dot com. And he said, I don't
• 1:09:46
  know that much about them, so collectively we don't know that much about it.
• 1:09:50
  It was just funny because I heard him say it on the air,
• 1:09:53
  and I just started laughing, and and and I feel bad for coach because
• 1:09:59
  I did didn't want to let him down obviously in that moment, but I'm
• 1:10:01
  hoping. I think I think he's calling this game as well, so I
• 1:10:06
  don't have a lot to give him again. Uh but Ferndale right now is
• 1:10:12
  just on a roll. And they it's been at home. This will be
• 1:10:15
  their fourth game in a row at home and and it's and it's they will
• 1:10:19
  be the fourth game in the row since that weird loss on the road to
• 1:10:24
  get You. And it seems like ever since that game that was just kind
• 1:10:28
  of it's just you know, they just funky, like it was funky,
• 1:10:31
  Yeah, those ones where you just want to throw away the tape and say,
• 1:10:33
  you do know what, screw that game. Let's yes, absolutely,
• 1:10:36
  And ever since then, they've really played well. In all three phases,
• 1:10:41
  they've dominated, they've looked great, and they've all been at home. And
• 1:10:45
  I have not seen a game at this stadium yet and I'm so excited too.
• 1:10:49
  I've been there once during practice and I'm so excited to you know,
• 1:10:55
  be there for this. The scoreboard is amazing, Like every time there's even
• 1:10:59
  like a sack, like they show like a graphic of the player on the
• 1:11:02
  scoreboard and everything. I mean, it's a legit scoreboard and that's we don't
• 1:11:05
  see that in Walker County. This is a completely new thing, and I'm
• 1:11:10
  so excited to witness this and this is this has got a lot of meaning
• 1:11:14
  behind it. I have not been to one of these week ten games of
• 1:11:18
  Ferndale's. You've been to some of them. I haven't. I this will
• 1:11:21
  be fun, I I are, well, no, let me take that
• 1:11:26
  back. I think Seattle Prep last last year when they hosted them at Civic.
• 1:11:30
  I was at that and it's just, you know, it's it's this
• 1:11:35
  is it now? You know what I mean. It's like, Okay,
• 1:11:38
  here we go, and it's it's just it's a strange Ferndale team. And
• 1:11:44
  I say that because I think I was really surprised how good they were this
• 1:11:49
  year. And I shouldn't have been, but I was. And I think
• 1:11:51
  it's because they lost so much talent. And on top of that, you
• 1:11:57
  know, Zach Nielsen decided to play tennis and and they I just thought,
• 1:12:00
  man, I don't know what to expect out of this team. I mean,
• 1:12:03
  I know they have great coaching, but there's gonna be a lot of
• 1:12:11
  guys that are gonna need to step up. And then, you know,
• 1:12:14
  I kind of thought they'd be in the middle of the pack there and that
• 1:12:15
  Westco three A North and you know they take second place. They're on this
• 1:12:19
  great run right now. They're playing fantastic and I love it. I absolutely
• 1:12:27
  love it. I think that it's that's what's so great about high school football
• 1:12:30
  is is it's not as predictable as you think. And then they're kids.
• 1:12:36
  We keep saying that these are these are you know, fifteen, sixteen,
• 1:12:40
  seventeen year old kids, and you just don't know what's going to happen.
• 1:12:44
  And I love that they're playing great if they just you know, if they
• 1:12:46
  keep it rolling, hey, it's back into that round of sixteen after this,
• 1:12:51
  and you never know. You know. Three A is a great,
• 1:12:56
  great classification with some tremendous top end teams and and you'll just see what happens
• 1:13:01
  after that. Tyler's got some nuggets, man. Oh okay, I got
• 1:13:09
  some stuff for you here, Tyler about Timberline. Oh nice, So I
• 1:13:14
  got three things, Okay. One, Ron Holmes you remember him, uh
• 1:13:20
  played with the Bucks and the Broncos. He played at University of Washington.
• 1:13:24
  Yeah, Timberline guy. Okay, Timberline guy. Yeah he is timber Lang.
• 1:13:33
  Jonathan Stewart, Yeah, I knew that one. Yeah, the all
• 1:13:38
  time leading rusher probably still and well and actually, I mean there's a couple
• 1:13:43
  other guys. Tom Dutro is the goalkeeper coach for the Sounders. Yn Ed
• 1:13:47
  Murray from a mayor of Seattle. Can't imagine there's too many people that like
• 1:13:51
  that guy. But Tyler, do you know Jesse Jones? Yeah, yeah,
• 1:14:00
  yeah, yeah, Jesse Jones King five News. That guy, you
• 1:14:03
  know, his brother is the head coach. Really, his brother is the
• 1:14:09
  head coach down there at Timberline. Great guy, really good football coach.
• 1:14:14
  Probably doesn't get the credit he deserves for for what he is able to accomplish
• 1:14:19
  down there. But yeah, you know, that's uh, that's all I
• 1:14:24
  got for Timberline. I've seen them play quite a few times, and I'm
• 1:14:27
  pretty sure I'm bad luck because I don't think i've ever seen them win a
• 1:14:30
  game. What are the what's their colors? Like? It's like an ugly
• 1:14:35
  yellow, gold and then green. Okay, yeah, for some reason I
• 1:14:42
  had green and black in my head, but I don't know why. They
• 1:14:44
  might they might have had some black jerseys at some point or something. But
• 1:14:47
  the other thing is, I'm kind of just like scanning really quickly. And
• 1:14:51
  you know, this is definitely far from official, but if you go to
• 1:14:55
  max preps and you and you hit game history by opponent, you can scan
• 1:15:02
  through and see all of the games that are in the max preps preps database.
• 1:15:06
  Right Like take for instance, they are sixteen and four in the last
• 1:15:12
  or since max Preps has been around there, sixteen and four against North Thurston.
• 1:15:15
  And I'm just scanning down and I don't see anybody from Walkham County in
• 1:15:18
  here, right. Not two A. Now, granted they've pretty you know,
• 1:15:23
  I don't know if they ever put it had a stint at four A.
• 1:15:26
  I always remember them as a three A school. But yeah, I
• 1:15:30
  don't see anybody from Walkham County on here at all. I see Marysville Pilchuck.
• 1:15:35
  I see. There was one other one that I saw that was somebody
• 1:15:41
  somebody that we've talked about a few times, and I don't remember who it
• 1:15:45
  was on the top of my head. But but yeah, so, you
• 1:15:47
  know, not a team that really has come up this way a lot,
• 1:15:51
  but this is a this is a team in Timberline that you know, they're
• 1:15:57
  in the playoffs every year. You know, it's a team that is always
• 1:16:00
  in the mix, you know, whether or not they have a chance to
• 1:16:05
  win a state championship. You know, that's a different conversation. But you
• 1:16:10
  know, this is a great opportunity for Ferndale. We've we've seen it how
• 1:16:13
  many times in the last couple of years where they're on the road at this
• 1:16:15
  time of the year. Yeah, you know what I mean. So they're
• 1:16:18
  they're getting a home game out of it, and that's a really good thing,
• 1:16:21
  you know, it just is, you know, So we'll see what
• 1:16:25
  they do there. That's Timberline five and four Ferndale seven and two. It's
• 1:16:28
  a playoff game five pm at Golden Eagle Stadium, Ferndale High School. Let's
• 1:16:32
  see what have we got next time? Oh, we got to go to
• 1:16:33
  Randy Small. Here, we got our guy, Randy Small, Wacom County
• 1:16:39
  Weather. Wacom County WX dot com is the website, but the Facebook page
• 1:16:44
  Facebook dot com backslash Watcombe County Weather. Randy Small, give us the forecat.
• 1:16:48
  We got three days worth of games and we'll see is he gonna give
• 1:16:53
  us all three days? What do you got? Randy? Good afternoon high
• 1:16:56
  school football fans. This is Randy Small of Walkham County and with the final
• 1:17:00
  week of the regular season slash beginning of the postseason, I guess is how
• 1:17:05
  we would call it kind of a mix here, some teams finishing off their
• 1:17:10
  season, some continuing to move on, some have play in games, et
• 1:17:14
  cetera. But as far as I can tell, we have a Thursday night,
• 1:17:16
  Friday night, and then the Saturday five o'clock game at Ferndale. I
• 1:17:21
  think that's our slate of game. So I have a three day pack to
• 1:17:25
  look at, and basically here's what I'm gonna say. There are rain chances
• 1:17:29
  for Thursday night, Friday night and Saturday late afternoon. And also I want
• 1:17:35
  to say that I can't say one hundred percent rain. I can't say these
• 1:17:39
  are going to be washouts either, so I would have put a chance of
• 1:17:42
  rain. I think the Saturday game might have the best chance overall, but
• 1:17:46
  we are into a pattern of more rain than dry coming up starting Wednesday overnight
• 1:17:51
  into Thursday. But Friday night might be a dry one. If I were
• 1:17:56
  to pick the driest one, I'd say Friday night. I've picked the wettest
• 1:17:58
  one Saturday night and Thursday, and how about that. But all of them
• 1:18:01
  have a chance to rain. I don't think wind is a big issue.
• 1:18:04
  Thursday night, We're going to have some wind earlier in the day. I
• 1:18:08
  think it settles down by Thursday night. Friday night again, maybe a little
• 1:18:13
  chance. Saturday, maybe a little bit of win, but nothing I'm not
• 1:18:15
  seeing too crazy. Overall, temperatures will be in the fifties or upper forties,
• 1:18:20
  low fifties for all the games. A little bit warmer, probably Saturday,
• 1:18:24
  since it's a five o'clock game. Thanks for a great year for letting
• 1:18:29
  me do this, and I guess I'll be back for the playoff run.
• 1:18:31
  But to appreciate Tyler and Ryland let me do this. Have a great rest
• 1:18:35
  of your weekend or end week, and we will have to have Randy on
• 1:18:40
  to tell everybody what the weather forecast is going to be like going from your
• 1:18:43
  car to the gym once a basketball season starts. So Wacome countywx dot com
• 1:18:47
  is the website Wacome County Weather on Facebook. You can find it there.
• 1:18:51
  Randy Small never sleeps, He's always on the go. Pickums, picklems here,
• 1:18:57
  Tyler this week you know what you go ahead? Who is our guy
• 1:19:01
  this week? Tyler? Yeah, Well, it's one of those weird things
• 1:19:05
  where like Monday or Tuesday will roll around and I'm like, oh man,
• 1:19:10
  I got to come up with a picker, and it just kind of hit
• 1:19:15
  me. Jim Bring from KPUG, He's been doing a lot of and he's
• 1:19:18
  it's funny because they have like three commentators or you know, three announcers.
• 1:19:24
  I should say, Randy Farmer always does play by play, Coach k ma
• 1:19:27
  Ink always does color, and Jim Bring is kind of your do everything guy.
• 1:19:31
  He will he will do a game solo, he will do color with
• 1:19:36
  Jim with Randy Farmer, or he'll do play by play with coach KMK.
• 1:19:43
  So he's kind of that guy that could do lots of different things. It's
• 1:19:45
  really knowledgeable about football. Used to call games. There used to be an
• 1:19:48
  old Blaine radio station ka ar I. I think it was like five fifty
• 1:19:54
  am, yeah, and they would it was Blaine based and they called every
• 1:20:00
  single Blaine athletic thing and it was great and and he was a part of
• 1:20:03
  that team. I actually have some old game film from someone with a camcorder
• 1:20:08
  up in the booth recording when you could hear Jim Bring is like in the
• 1:20:11
  picture down there, you know, calling the game on their carried It was
• 1:20:15
  like a kook sac blaying game, which is kind of cool. I want
• 1:20:16
  to show him that sometime. But he's been, you know, he's been
• 1:20:19
  a big supporter of Walk of Preps. He's been kind of bringing me into
• 1:20:24
  the fold as far as with the radio stuff and you know, bringing me
• 1:20:27
  on to do a pregame interview before the Sea hill Man Coordus game. And
• 1:20:32
  uh, there might be a you know, some sort of partnership at some
• 1:20:36
  point down the road with Walking Preps and the whoa whoa, whoa whoa.
• 1:20:40
  Slow down there, Tyler. You can't be throwing stuff out there like that.
• 1:20:44
  The people are going to need to know details, and then we don't
• 1:20:45
  want to give him anything here. Well you know, I'm just saying so.
• 1:20:48
  Uh, but he's a he loves you know, and he played down
• 1:20:53
  in New Mexico and high school really really close to Texas, and so he's
• 1:20:59
  he saw like the time, you know, high school stuff, and now
• 1:21:01
  that he's up here, you know, he always tells me, he goes,
• 1:21:03
  man, I don't know anybody in the country that does what you do,
• 1:21:06
  except for I've seen, like there's one guy down in Texas that does
• 1:21:10
  it, you know, Dave Campbell or I think, yeah, that's what
• 1:21:14
  he said, Dave Campbell Texas football. He's that dude is nuts. I
• 1:21:16
  don't know how he does it. And yeah, and so it's, uh,
• 1:21:20
  you know, he's he's just a big supporter of walking preps and I
• 1:21:23
  really appreciate that. And and so I thought of him, you know,
• 1:21:26
  as a guest picker. So I texted him this morning and it was awesome
• 1:21:30
  because he's so old school. This is great. I gave him the games
• 1:21:33
  he wrote him. He wrote down all the scores on a piece of paper,
• 1:21:36
  took a picture of it, sent it back, and I love that.
• 1:21:40
  That's that's pretty that's pretty old. Yeah. So yeah, and he's
• 1:21:45
  seen a lot of football, you know that that this year, I think
• 1:21:48
  he's seen almost all the teams, you know, maybe maybe all of them.
• 1:21:53
  I know that he has a daughter that goes to Blaine. I don't
• 1:21:56
  know if he's called a Blaine game yet, but he's you know, he's
• 1:21:59
  kind of in the mix of seeing what going on there. So yeah,
• 1:22:01
  so it's, uh, it was fun to get him to jump on board
• 1:22:03
  with this guest picker thing. Yeah. Every week when I when when I
• 1:22:06
  go to make the graphic, I get the email from you, Tyler,
• 1:22:10
  and it says, you know, week ten, pick them or whatever,
• 1:22:13
  and I go look at it and it says Jim Bring, and I'm like,
• 1:22:15
  who the heck is Jim Bring? Like, you know, normally I
• 1:22:19
  at least maybe know the name, you know what I mean, or or
• 1:22:23
  maybe I've heard you say the name before, or Jim Jim car Barrier.
• 1:22:27
  You know, You're like, yeah, I know, I've heard the name.
• 1:22:29
  Yeah, I've heard the name. Not totally familiar with him. But
• 1:22:30
  then you start talking about him. I'm like, okay, yeah, that's
• 1:22:33
  okay, Yeah yeah. And then you know, every now and then there's
• 1:22:35
  a former player where I'm like, oh, man, I remember that guy.
• 1:22:38
  He was really good, Jim Bring. What who the heck is Jim
• 1:22:42
  Bring? So then I'm like, wait a minute, Tyler attached some pictures
• 1:22:45
  here. I bring it up. This guy's wearing an old Wayne Gretzky Campbell
• 1:22:48
  Conference All Star jersey. Yeah. I don't even know the guy, and
• 1:22:51
  I like him. I mean, my goodness, he's a hockey guy.
• 1:22:55
  You gotta love hockey guy. I mean, how do you become a hockey
• 1:22:59
  guy when you're in New Mexico or West Texas. Yeah, well, you
• 1:23:02
  know, I mean, that just doesn't exactly scream it. Now, Tyler,
• 1:23:05
  how the heck did he end up in Walkham County of all places?
• 1:23:09
  I don't know. I have no idea. I know that he was here
• 1:23:12
  and then I think he was gone and he came back. But uh,
• 1:23:15
  you know what, Tyler, what's that? What did we learn next week?
• 1:23:20
  Yeah? You just got you gotta ask him. You gotta find out.
• 1:23:23
  I mean, are they doing a game this week? He that they
• 1:23:27
  are doing the Ferndale game, but it's but they're only doing one game this
• 1:23:30
  weekend, and so he's got the weekend off. Yeah, so it's going
• 1:23:32
  to be Randy Fermer and Dan Dan Kaming. So so he will have the
• 1:23:36
  weekend off, but he might don't know, he might come out and watch
• 1:23:39
  it. You gotta find out. You gotta find out what the deal is,
• 1:23:42
  because how does a guy from down there end up up here? Like
• 1:23:45
  that's just so you know, I can understand if he was in Seattle,
• 1:23:48
  right, like maybe it's a tech company. Maybe, you know what I
• 1:23:50
  mean, There's so many different things. How the heck the end up in
• 1:23:53
  Walkham County. Yeah, I don't know. I mean maybe he just likes
• 1:23:58
  to be as close to Tim Horton's as he can get without having to leave,
• 1:24:01
  without having to leave the country, although he could just move to like
• 1:24:05
  Michigan or something. Oh my goodness, Tyler, we it is way too
• 1:24:10
  late. It's almost one am. That being said, Tyler, I have
• 1:24:13
  here size eighteen font in Bold volleyball. So give it to me. What
• 1:24:16
  do we got for volleyball? Oh? You know what, Tyler, I
• 1:24:19
  forgot. We got to talk about who we're picking. Everybody's picking Sea Home,
• 1:24:24
  Blaine, Meridian, Bellingham, Kooksack Valley and Ferndale. The only people
• 1:24:27
  picking somebody else. Me and Jim we're picking Squall. Come over Mount Baker.
• 1:24:31
  Yeah, of course Tyler picking Mount Baker. No shock there. Yeah.
• 1:24:36
  As a matter of fact, if you picked anybody else, lept would
• 1:24:39
  probably wring your neck. But yeah, that being said, Tyler, we've
• 1:24:45
  we're getting down to it here as far as the pick m goes. I
• 1:24:47
  mean, we're almost at a point where you got to make a move.
• 1:24:50
  And I know, like especially you, like you got to make a move
• 1:24:55
  if you're not going to finish. Last pickers or way ahead of me.
• 1:25:00
  What's going on. I know the guest pickers usually don't do good because typically
• 1:25:04
  Jeff Bearden, by the way, you know what I need to do,
• 1:25:08
  Tyler. I was going to text this to you the other day and I
• 1:25:12
  didn't do it, and we're going to bring it up right now because I
• 1:25:15
  can bring it up really quickly and go to the college pick them twenty twenty
• 1:25:19
  three, Tyler. Okay, you know the name of the group, right,
• 1:25:24
  Yes, I do the Betty Spooner Spooner School of Dance. All right,
• 1:25:30
  So first off, I'm in tenth place. There's twenty seven people.
• 1:25:32
  Okay, okay, twenty five of them are really still picking. Actually,
• 1:25:39
  I take that back, twenty Actually this is going to get even worse than
• 1:25:44
  I thought. For the guy. Twenty three of them are still picking like
• 1:25:47
  they're like they're on it every week. They're actually do their work. Yees.
• 1:25:50
  Yeah, there's four people that have like they over the last four weeks.
• 1:25:57
  They haven't picked a single game person here. I ain't hard to find.
• 1:26:00
  Apparently he's hard to find the pickums because he's he hasn't picked in three
• 1:26:04
  weeks now. But that being said, twenty third place is I ain't hard
• 1:26:09
  to find. This person hasn't picked in three weeks. You know who's in
• 1:26:12
  twenty fourth place? Beard Brawlers. The guy's behind people that aren't even picking
• 1:26:19
  anymore. You know what I love about Jeff Bearden? Okay, what do
• 1:26:24
  you got? Every week? He is he sends in his picks still still
• 1:26:29
  still I love it. I love it. And he asked me that he
• 1:26:31
  sent a text this morning. Hey, when you get he goes, what's
• 1:26:34
  the schedule this week? Because it's because you know, it's hard to find.
• 1:26:39
  It's you know, these are all kind of brand new matchups and stuff
• 1:26:41
  like that. And at the time this morning, Ferndale didn't even have a
• 1:26:44
  game yet or an opponent yet. And as a matter of fact, they
• 1:26:48
  got an opponent like just a few hours before we even went on the air,
• 1:26:53
  and yeah, it's kind of why we started late as part of it.
• 1:26:55
  Yeah, And so I texted him the matchups. He's like thanks,
• 1:27:00
  and like sometimes he'll send me the scores like Friday night at like six fifty.
• 1:27:03
  Yeah, you know he's like, oh, I almost forgot you know,
• 1:27:06
  I just he loves it. You know, I love it. It's
• 1:27:09
  a you know, it's a when I when I saw that that Blaine was
• 1:27:13
  playing at East Jefferson, I thought East Jefferson. I was like East jeff
• 1:27:18
  and his wife and his son. Geez, they all moved to Michigan in
• 1:27:23
  the East. You know they are now Jeff and the son. Yea.
• 1:27:28
  By the way, last week, I just got to give a shout out
• 1:27:30
  last week in our in our Pickham group here, I finished with thirty four
• 1:27:33
  points. Who got to give Beard and credit? He got me? Last
• 1:27:36
  week? He was he was just barely ahead, But I'm way ahead overall.
• 1:27:41
  I'm at three hundred and nineteen points. He's at two twenty five.
• 1:27:45
  But the person that led the group last week, give you a guess as
• 1:27:48
  to who he is, Tyler W. C. Weatherman's picks. Yeah,
• 1:27:53
  Randy small baby, Yeah, doing pretty good. And I was trying to
• 1:27:57
  figure out my team name. I always taught beating Ames is the goal because
• 1:28:00
  Christopher Ames is the one that always puts it together. And I don't know
• 1:28:03
  what team he is this year because usually he's got a name that's like I
• 1:28:08
  can usually figure it out. It's, you know, something that's pretty easy.
• 1:28:11
  But I have no idea which one he is this year. I just
• 1:28:14
  hope I'm beating them, because that's the goal. But Tyler, let's uh,
• 1:28:19
  let's get a volleyball update. What's going on with the volleyball where they
• 1:28:23
  at? You said there were some games going on tonight. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:28:26
  So their district tournaments happening right now for one A and two A.
• 1:28:30
  Three A starts a little bit later, so I think Ferndale will start kicking
• 1:28:32
  off in that on Thursday. In the one A, A couple teams now
• 1:28:38
  have been eliminated for the season. Mount Baker was eliminated, Blaine was eliminated
• 1:28:42
  tonight. Uh, and Meridan and Nuksack Valley played each other in the conference
• 1:28:46
  championship and Meridan won that one three sets to one. Nooksack beat them in
• 1:28:54
  the regular season. UH, and it was a it was a mild upset
• 1:28:59
  when that happened to was at Nooksack. The crowd was crazy, so it
• 1:29:01
  was I think it was kind of more of an upset that they beat them
• 1:29:03
  three sets to zero. But now this district championship, the whole district tournament
• 1:29:09
  was played at Meridian High School, so it just kind of happened to be.
• 1:29:11
  They were the one seed. They were hosting. They won the first
• 1:29:15
  two sets, knookset came back and won the third, but Meridian won the
• 1:29:17
  fourth to take the conference championship and by doing that or the district championship by
• 1:29:21
  doing that straight strip right to Yakama to play at the state championship at the
• 1:29:28
  tournament. So Meridian is already in state. They only have one senior on
• 1:29:33
  their team too, so this is a this is I mean, she's great,
• 1:29:36
  six foot one, Emery Clays. You know, her mom played was
• 1:29:41
  one of the best players of Meridian history. She went and played at Western
• 1:29:45
  and she's very, very good. But they have a lot of really good
• 1:29:48
  pieces. Grace Wells is a great setter. Eden Bernardi just a freshman,
• 1:29:53
  probably one of the best servers in the entire county. Her sister, Rylan
• 1:29:57
  Bernardi is really good. So you got the two Bernardi's got the Bernardi party.
• 1:30:00
  They're both really good defensively, Gracie Papp as a middle blocker. They
• 1:30:03
  they have a lot of really really good pieces. But Nuksack Valley, even
• 1:30:09
  though they lost that, they're still alive. So they're gonna play Lynnon Christian
• 1:30:13
  on Thursday for that second spot at the state playoffs. And Lynna Christians had
• 1:30:17
  got a lot they've had They've suffered a lot of injuries this year. One
• 1:30:20
  of their best players, Ali Wright, who is the younger sister of Jeremiah
• 1:30:24
  Wright. I mean she's about six one six two, is just a sophomore
• 1:30:28
  and she got she got hurt early on and and there's been a lot of
• 1:30:30
  there's been other pieces that have not worked with injuries and stuff like that.
• 1:30:34
  So Nuksack will be favored in that one. They've have some really good players
• 1:30:39
  Laney Kimball and Tanna Hookama and and uh Juliana Jamaica and they there they got
• 1:30:45
  a lot of talent too. So and Peyton Bartell, coach's daughter Letter she's
• 1:30:51
  really good. Yeah, and with the left handed serve, you know,
• 1:30:55
  it's just she can serve that knuckleball and and uh so that's going to be
• 1:30:59
  a really exciting matchup on Thursday night. And then the two way level Squalkum
• 1:31:04
  was defeated today, so they are out now for the season. Bellingham came
• 1:31:10
  into the tournament. They needed to play a play in to get into the
• 1:31:13
  tournament. They won that and then they lost in the first round, but
• 1:31:15
  then they won tonight against Lakewood in five sets. That was a huge matchup
• 1:31:20
  to stay alive. Their best player, Chase Flick Williams. She's crazy talented
• 1:31:26
  athlete. I mean state long jump champion. You know, she's got at
• 1:31:30
  least I am not kidding, perhaps a thirty inch vertical. She's just an
• 1:31:36
  amazing athlete. Well, she got injured a little while back, so she's
• 1:31:40
  been having to play liberro. She's in the back, so she she can't
• 1:31:43
  really jump like she used to, but she's playing amazing defense, setting up
• 1:31:46
  her team. Then just willing that team to victory. And they're just staying
• 1:31:50
  alive by beating Lakewood. Lakewood's now out Lyndon, of course, has been
• 1:31:56
  rolling all year. They lost one set to Archbishop tonight, but they did
• 1:32:00
  win three sets to one. They didn't lose a set in their whole conference
• 1:32:04
  season. Wow. So they I mean, they are as about as dominant
• 1:32:09
  as it gets. So they are in the district championship game, which will
• 1:32:14
  be tomorrow night, people that are listening to this, it's going to be
• 1:32:16
  Wednesday night, and they will be facing Burlington Edison, who is a really
• 1:32:20
  good team as well, who beat Sea Home, Linden Seahome and Burlington Edison
• 1:32:26
  are all i would say top five ranked in the state and they're all happened
• 1:32:29
  to be in the same conference, so Sea home now as you know,
• 1:32:31
  they when to go in the consolation, they have to play Ana Chortus to
• 1:32:34
  try to stay alive, and Bellingham is still hanging in there and Bellingham I
• 1:32:40
  think has to play Archbishop now so uh so, yeah, it'll be exciting
• 1:32:44
  London and Burlington for the district championship and a spot, a guaranteed spot to
• 1:32:49
  the state and then the loser will you know, have to keep fighting to
• 1:32:53
  get back in there. So that's what's going on in volleyball right now.
• 1:32:55
  It's been a really really fun season. I am going to do a top
• 1:32:59
  fifty list once season's over. I'm excited about that. And Ferndal volleyball is
• 1:33:02
  still alive as well, but their district tournament has not started yet, so
• 1:33:06
  a lot of fun stuff going on in volleyball. Is volleyball one of those
• 1:33:10
  sports in Waukin County where everybody plays each other regardless of the classification. Yes,
• 1:33:15
  yes, okay, and then so when then when then they go to
• 1:33:17
  district then that's kind of when the Northwest Conference kind of comes in right,
• 1:33:21
  like yeah, yeah, I mean they were playing Archbishop and stuff, but
• 1:33:26
  they haven't played Archbishop all year, right that, Yeah, they hadn't played
• 1:33:29
  Archbishop all year, like Cedar Crest was involved. Yeah, so it's just
• 1:33:34
  it was a little Yeah, it's a little different now, friend, Ferno
• 1:33:36
  is gonna I mean I think, you know, like Oak Harbor will be
• 1:33:40
  involved in that. Mount Mount Vernon, I don't, you know, Mount
• 1:33:43
  Vernon was not great this year, so I don't know if they'll qualify,
• 1:33:45
  but yeah, I would assume it becomes basically the same as the football conference,
• 1:33:47
  which it's a it's a little bit different because you play more matches,
• 1:33:51
  right, so you're not you're not just playing only on Friday nights. You're
• 1:33:56
  playing potentially two times a week. And if you had to play them both
• 1:33:59
  on the road, that's two road trips. You get it, you know,
• 1:34:00
  So it's it's a little different. So it's it's I understand why they
• 1:34:03
  do it. It's just one of those things where it makes for a weird
• 1:34:06
  way of getting to a state tournament, you know what I mean. You
• 1:34:10
  you got your berths from your conference or whatever type thing, but you don't
• 1:34:13
  really play your conference throughout the year and then all of a sudden you play
• 1:34:15
  them in the playoffs. So yeah, kind of it's I mean, you
• 1:34:18
  know what I'm saying. It's it's weird, but it's it's what you do
• 1:34:21
  because it makes honestly, it makes the most sense for high school athletics.
• 1:34:25
  So where again it's student athlete, not athlete student, right, so athletic
• 1:34:30
  student right. Yeah. So so yeah, that's volleyball, and we'll keep
• 1:34:33
  you updated more on some of that as the as it goes. I mean,
• 1:34:36
  maybe we'll just do it every week right here. It is kind of
• 1:34:39
  what I guess what we're gonna do. So we'll do it every week right
• 1:34:42
  here on the preview podcast. We'll kind of let you know where volleyball's at,
• 1:34:45
  and who knows, maybe at some point we'll just do one random volleyball
• 1:34:48
  only type podcast. Maybe maybe what we do, Tyler, is once you
• 1:34:53
  got your top fifty, maybe we do one where all we do is just
• 1:34:55
  kind of go down. Maybe we don't go through the whole list, but
• 1:34:59
  we'll do maybe the top ten or something, you know what I mean,
• 1:35:00
  that'd be fun. I'm sure there'd be some volleyball pers that would love to
• 1:35:04
  do an intro and everything. That'd be cool. You know, we'd have
• 1:35:08
  to do we could we could have a bidding war for who wants to do
• 1:35:11
  the intro they pay us. Yeah right, I want to like stand on
• 1:35:16
  the court and have some of the best servers like serve one to me.
• 1:35:20
  I just want to see if I can make sure I can hit it in
• 1:35:24
  the air. And I'm not gonna lie. I would like to see you
• 1:35:26
  do that because the odds of you taking one right in the grill are probably
• 1:35:29
  pretty good. Yeah, Oh, that'd be fun. Yeah, I'll stand
• 1:35:32
  there and Laney Laney Kimball could just serve one right at me, and I
• 1:35:38
  don't know how well I would do. I don't It's unbelievable what they can
• 1:35:41
  do. It's you know what I'm fun to want, Tyler, And this
• 1:35:44
  is you mentioned that Eric Trent did something you know before, where he kind
• 1:35:47
  of did like a pros versus Joe's. I think what we need to do
• 1:35:49
  is at some point I'll come up there and you and I can battle and
• 1:35:54
  stuff and so like we'll have you know, give give us the best server
• 1:35:57
  in the county, right and like have her or just rocket, a couple
• 1:36:00
  of them at us and see, you know, five each and who gets
• 1:36:05
  the most either who gets the most that land in the court, whether it's
• 1:36:11
  on the other side or on our side. You know, at least if
• 1:36:13
  it's on our side, it's playable, right, But who can who can
• 1:36:15
  get the most that could actually be playable as a return to where it's not
• 1:36:20
  an ace, you know what I mean or whatever? Yeah, so,
• 1:36:23
  yeah, I think that'd be fun, you know what I mean. And
• 1:36:25
  then you know, maybe we get a you know, we find ah whoever
• 1:36:29
  the couple of the best golfers are, and you and I go out and
• 1:36:31
  we go to one of the uh you know, like the you know they
• 1:36:33
  have like the putting green or whatever, like the practice putting green. Yeah,
• 1:36:38
  and we get the best golfer in the county and we stand out there
• 1:36:40
  and take five chip shots each and see who can get closest to the pin,
• 1:36:44
  you know what I mean, Like you know, some just crazy stuff
• 1:36:45
  like that. You know what I'd really love. Who's the best pitcher in
• 1:36:49
  the county for boys and girls, like baseball, softball? Yeah, Lane
• 1:36:55
  Simonson for boys, he's gotta he's going to udub and I'm going yard off
• 1:36:59
  Bloe or do you say Blaine or Lane Lane? Oh, I'm going yard.
• 1:37:04
  I'm going yard right now. And then girls h Emerson Baker who pitches
• 1:37:10
  for Blaine. She is she's a great pitcher too, you know what.
• 1:37:14
  Emerson, Sure, she's a nice girl. I'm going yard. I'm going
• 1:37:18
  yard on both of them, Tyler, I'm probably not going the yard on
• 1:37:20
  either of them, but I'm I'm talking a big game because I want to
• 1:37:24
  feel confident going in. Yeah, Tyler, let's uh and and you know
• 1:37:30
  what we could do. We could do like in a remember like around the
• 1:37:32
  world in basketball, yes, or or maybe a game of pick you know,
• 1:37:38
  or a game of preps, you know what I mean. And we'll
• 1:37:42
  play against Jeremiah Wright. Yeah, I'll show him what's up. Yeah,
• 1:37:46
  right right, I can, I can, I can shoot some. He
• 1:37:49
  better be ready because the bank's gonna be open, baby, hed better be
• 1:37:53
  ready to go off the off the glass because I'm going off all day,
• 1:37:56
  all day off the class. What other sports we can't really do? Wrestling
• 1:37:59
  because I don't want to show anybody up. Soccer, Yeah, Tyler,
• 1:38:05
  we could get in net and do like h what do you call it like
• 1:38:10
  a shootout. Yeah, we're both goalies in a shootout. Who's gonna win?
• 1:38:14
  I we both give up like fifty goals before getting The only way we're
• 1:38:17
  going to stop one from going in is if it hits the post or goes
• 1:38:19
  wide. Yeah, it'd be all on the other person. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:38:23
  although you never know, we might we might get lucky. And you
• 1:38:27
  know what the problem is with that, though, we'd have to go the
• 1:38:29
  other way around. We would have to do the kicking. Yeah. I
• 1:38:31
  think you're right, Yeah, because I'm sitting there thinking to myself, there
• 1:38:33
  ain't no way I'm diving on the ground for something like this. Well maybe
• 1:38:38
  you care are, but you're not getting up. Yeah too, Chet,
• 1:38:41
  that's a that's a good point. Yeah, break my shoulder off or something.
• 1:38:45
  Right, But I can kick a ball. I can do that.
• 1:38:47
  Yeah. Yeah, you might be better than me at that one. But
• 1:38:53
  I'm going yard off of a couple of baseball and football pitchers. Uh,
• 1:38:57
  Tyler, let's uh, let's do our draft here, Fantasy draft. I'm
• 1:39:00
  up six to three on the season, and I'm on a five game winning
• 1:39:04
  streak. I'm basically the Linden Christian of this game, right, now like
• 1:39:09
  I'm kicking butt left and right. Tyler. That being said, you get
• 1:39:13
  first pick, so first pick. Just a reminder, we can't pick anybody
• 1:39:17
  we picked last week. If you pick somebody on offense and you didn't pick
• 1:39:20
  him on defense, you can pick him on defense this week. So take,
• 1:39:25
  for instance, last week, I picked both Jeremiah right on offense and
• 1:39:28
  defense. I can't take him at all. Actually I can't take him all
• 1:39:30
  because he's not playing, but I wouldn't be able to pick him a couple
• 1:39:32
  of weeks ago. I took Landon downy at three spots right offense, defense,
• 1:39:36
  and special teams. I don't think I can take that guy for like
• 1:39:39
  a month and a half, which which sucks because he's I should well,
• 1:39:43
  I don't want to give it away, but Tyler, you get first pick,
• 1:39:47
  and then I get too, and then you get to where are you
• 1:39:50
  going with your first one? Here? I have no feeling you're going offensive
• 1:39:53
  line, because that seems to be the new norm as we always take offensive
• 1:39:56
  line first. Yeah, I really, you know. I did those points,
• 1:40:00
  man, and they they're big time point getters. And I am looking
• 1:40:03
  right at Blaine's offensive line. I think that they're gonna end the season strong,
• 1:40:09
  score a ton of touchdowns, show what they're made of, and they
• 1:40:13
  you know, they they got some big dudes up there too, so on
• 1:40:15
  that offensive line. So I'm gonna go with the border rights offensive line.
• 1:40:18
  You know, Tyler, that's not a bad pick. You took the team
• 1:40:21
  that can do some damage because we've seen them put up some numbers and some
• 1:40:25
  points of times. I guess a team that hasn't won a game all year
• 1:40:28
  not bad. Let's see here. So I get two in a row,
• 1:40:33
  and I'm gonna go with a guy who seems like, actually, you know
• 1:40:36
  what, Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna go with a guy who seems like
• 1:40:40
  he's just consistently good for some numbers, and that's Colton Lenz. I don't
• 1:40:44
  know that I've even picked him all year. Yeah, I picked him a
• 1:40:47
  few times, I know that. Yeah, sure, I don't know if
• 1:40:50
  Yeah, I don't know if you have either. Yeah, it seems like
• 1:40:54
  I've kind of stayed away from some of the bigger names this year. But
• 1:40:59
  yeah, I don't know. I feel like I don't I don't know.
• 1:41:00
  Maybe I haven't taken Colton. Let's uh so. Yeah, and obviously at
• 1:41:06
  running back, is where I want him. Yep. Oh. I could
• 1:41:10
  take him on the defensive side too, as you could, although that kind
• 1:41:14
  of limits me because the next week I can't take him at all, right,
• 1:41:17
  because he doesn't kick right, no vigory he does. Yeah, I'm
• 1:41:24
  gonna go a receiver here. I'm gonna go with a guy that I know
• 1:41:27
  I've picked a couple of times, and that's gonna be Muscle Beach. I'm
• 1:41:30
  gonna take Josh Toll out of receiver for Bellingham. I think they're gonna have
• 1:41:32
  a big one this week. Oh man. Yeah. And the first time
• 1:41:38
  the Bellim player's ever had sixty or more catches in a season. He's he's
• 1:41:42
  just tearing it up. Wow, really really big year. I guess I
• 1:41:45
  didn't even realize sixty catches. That's a lot of catches in the season.
• 1:41:48
  There's a lot of catches and he missed Week one. He's done this in
• 1:41:51
  eight games. Wow, that is really impressive. It is and uh that's
• 1:41:58
  man, Well he's done at times eight is what sixty four? Yeah,
• 1:42:00
  so he's averaging almost eight catches a game. Yeah, almost eight catches a
• 1:42:04
  game. Yeah. Wow, he's having a fantastic season. And he just
• 1:42:10
  followed me on Instagram the other day, so good for him. Nice.
• 1:42:13
  Yeah, he's gonna he's he's gonna get to see a lot of Seahawks pictures
• 1:42:15
  and random things that make me laugh. Yeah, it's a little different than
• 1:42:20
  following walking preps on it, Yes, very very so. I am going
• 1:42:27
  to pick a quarterback here, and if you're taking Josh Tole, I'm gonna
• 1:42:31
  go Josh Leonard. I think here's a guy who every week, because I
• 1:42:39
  think every week he's thrown for over two hundred yards I think. I mean
• 1:42:43
  it's wow. And there's been a couple three hundred yard games, so it's
• 1:42:46
  consistent. Is you kind of know what you're gonna get. They love to
• 1:42:53
  throw the ball deep down the field and they're not shy about like, oh,
• 1:42:58
  you know he just overthrew him by a yard. Well let's do it
• 1:43:00
  again, you know what I mean, Like this time it's gonna be on
• 1:43:02
  the money. Yeah, they really love and but it's not just that,
• 1:43:08
  you know, Bli Henderson is is catching those you know, is catching those
• 1:43:11
  uh those hitch patterns you got Gay van Hofwagen, either down the seam or
• 1:43:15
  on the out. Yeah, Josh Tole in the slot. You got Wyatt
• 1:43:18
  Stephan who's doing all sorts of crazy things. Yeah, so he's got a
• 1:43:21
  lot of options there, and he's and he's he's had a couple of rushing
• 1:43:25
  touchdowns too, which has been nice. I'm gonna go Josh Leonard and then
• 1:43:29
  I'm gonna go team defense with Blaine and I. My big reasoning for this
• 1:43:34
  is now is obviously because you know, East Jefferson has had a struggle,
• 1:43:41
  they've struggled this year. But if you pick a defense and they get a
• 1:43:45
  shutout, that's an extra ten points, right, Oh, I see you,
• 1:43:49
  and and and and I don't know if we've ever I mean we maybe
• 1:43:54
  we've had that once or twice ever, But man, I'm predicting a shutout
• 1:43:58
  in this one. And so I'm gonna I really I need the points more
• 1:44:01
  than ever right now, and so I'm gonna go Blaine's defense. Yeah,
• 1:44:04
  shoutouts are pretty tough to come by in high school football because they really are.
• 1:44:10
  Yeah. Usually if if if a team is getting waxed pretty good,
• 1:44:14
  you know, some backups come in or something, and somebody's gonna score at
• 1:44:16
  some point, you know what I mean. Yeah, A more common shutout
• 1:44:19
  is like twenty to nothing more than like fifty to nothing or something like that,
• 1:44:25
  because you know, twenty nothing, you're still kind of playing your starters
• 1:44:28
  and stuff like that. And so yeah yeah, and then Tyler remind me
• 1:44:33
  here the fantasy the defense that gets the special team stuff too. Yeah,
• 1:44:39
  kick returns part returns only if it's a touchdown only touchdown Okay, yeah,
• 1:44:43
  yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's not like yards and nothing like that.
• 1:44:45
  It's just if they score six and is that worth six? Yes, it's
• 1:44:48
  worth six? Got cha? What about field goals? No, that goes
• 1:44:53
  with your kicker. Okay, that's what I thought. So it's it's just
• 1:44:56
  kick off, it's just the return game or if you block a pun or
• 1:44:59
  something like that. Yeah, gotcha. Okay, yeah, because I mean
• 1:45:02
  Blaine, who knows they could do some of that too. I mean they
• 1:45:05
  really could. Yeah, although we don't know if East Jefferson even has a
• 1:45:10
  punter. We don't know anything about those guys other than the fact that they're
• 1:45:13
  their their rivals and there it's two teams playing one. It's kind of what
• 1:45:17
  it is. It's like my my two nephews coming after me at Thanksgiving,
• 1:45:23
  you know, trying to fight me. For the for the leg they don't
• 1:45:27
  have a chance. Let's see here, Tyler. So I've taken a running
• 1:45:30
  back on wide receiver, so we actually have taken all offensive positions now off
• 1:45:36
  the board. So I'm going to go front seven and back seven here,
• 1:45:41
  and I'm going to start with a guy that you took, I believe last
• 1:45:45
  week. I'm gonna take a Hudson neph Yeah. Yeah, one of those
• 1:45:51
  guys that you know. I think we talked about it a little bit last
• 1:45:55
  week where I didn't realize his numbers are as good as they are. Yeah,
• 1:45:58
  you know, because it's it's kind of been And maybe it's because we
• 1:46:00
  don't talk enough defense, Tyler. Maybe that's a little bit on us.
• 1:46:02
  You know, Yeah, we talk defense, but it's not consistent. Let's
• 1:46:06
  say that. That's that's the way I would put it. Yeah, so
• 1:46:09
  maybe that's why I just didn't realize he had the numbers that he does.
• 1:46:12
  But that guy is unbelievable, man. I mean, I feel like he's
• 1:46:15
  almost one of those you know, he reminds me of in a way.
• 1:46:17
  It's kind of like Nick Watt, you know what I mean? You know
• 1:46:19
  what I mean? Yes, like this, I feel like if we would
• 1:46:21
  take him every week, somebody's getting fifteen points a week. Absolutely. He
• 1:46:27
  he has zero fear and toughest nails, and he's just he just throws his
• 1:46:31
  body in there. He's the smallest guy in the field. Yeah, he
• 1:46:34
  just throws his body in there. Makes makes a player. There's a lot
• 1:46:36
  of these sophomore safeties that are coming along that are opening my eyes. And
• 1:46:41
  I'm like, you know, I think of him and Owen Anstead right off
• 1:46:44
  the bat. But there's some other guys that I've been really really liking and
• 1:46:48
  and you know, Hudson Up. I mean, here, here's a guy
• 1:46:51
  who you know, started at center field last year as a freshman on the
• 1:46:55
  baseball team. You know, a bount you know, first or second in
• 1:46:58
  the lineup the whole years, a kid that's a really good athlete, really
• 1:47:00
  excited about his future, and and he has really taken that starting spot at
• 1:47:05
  safety and just not let it go. I mean, we're talking about really
• 1:47:10
  good secondary here. You know. It's it's he's basically forced Colby Chambers to
• 1:47:15
  go out and play corner, you know, I mean it's it's it's he's
• 1:47:18
  been great. So that's a good pick. Now, Tyler. You talked
• 1:47:23
  about his size, smallest guy on the field. Yeah, I'm gonna stick
• 1:47:27
  with that theme. Okay, I'm going Josh and the Elmer front seven combined.
• 1:47:32
  I think I have about six foot two of player here, but I've
• 1:47:36
  got a lot of heart and I've got a lot of tackles. Baby,
• 1:47:40
  Oh yes you do. Yeah, yeah, joshun Omer man, I it's
• 1:47:45
  I it's I don't know. We'll talk about when we talk about the seniors,
• 1:47:48
  but him playing in his last game is it's it's a big one for
• 1:47:53
  me. It's been a lot of fun watching him well, because you see
• 1:47:55
  eyed eye with a guy I do see idee. So you need you need
• 1:48:01
  a lot, you need front seven, back seven, you need running back,
• 1:48:03
  receiver and it looks like kicker. Yeah. So I am gonna go
• 1:48:11
  Connor Walker at running back. When we talked about this last week about could
• 1:48:15
  I put him at receiver, and you said, well, where does he
• 1:48:17
  line up the most? I said wing back probably, So we said,
• 1:48:21
  okay, he is a running back, so I'm going to take him as
• 1:48:24
  a running back. And he's he's gotten hot. I mean he's oh yeah,
• 1:48:28
  oh yeah, he's like when you talk about a guy that's I don't
• 1:48:30
  want to say peaking because I don't think athletes like I don't think that's the
• 1:48:34
  thing. Maybe you can peak as a team, right, But one guy
• 1:48:38
  I never look at it that way. Yeah, that's a guy that is
• 1:48:41
  just if I had the if I had the drop the Yoda Ley who like
• 1:48:45
  he is just climbing the mountain right now, baby, because he is.
• 1:48:46
  He's cooking man, he is, he is. And then I'm gonna run
• 1:48:53
  as running back. Yeah. Well yeah six scares last week, one hundred
• 1:48:57
  and thirty yards and three touchdo give him the rock? Yeah, And I'm
• 1:49:04
  gonna go defense now. And when I look at back seven, I'm looking
• 1:49:09
  right at number twenty five again, Connor Walker. I am gonna. I
• 1:49:13
  am gonna do the Ryland Spencer special and take the same guy on both sides
• 1:49:17
  of the ball. So Connor Walker, don't let me down. That's probably
• 1:49:23
  not a bad idea, Tyler. I mean, last week for me,
• 1:49:25
  he had twenty points. Hey, you know what, you know what's funny,
• 1:49:29
  Actually you and I both flipped. You took Hudson f he got twenty
• 1:49:32
  points. I took Connor Walker. He got twenty points. And now we're
• 1:49:35
  taking. Yeah, that's funny. I didn't think about that. And then
• 1:49:38
  I took Josh Tol. You took Josh Leonard. I mean, we're just
• 1:49:41
  canceling each other out. We're left and right here. We don't even really
• 1:49:43
  know what's going on. Yeah, all right, I need kicker, offensive
• 1:49:47
  line, I need defense, and it looks like quarterbacks. So nobody's picked
• 1:49:53
  the kicker yet, so I'll be the first one to go with. Yeah,
• 1:49:56
  I got a feeling he's gonna have plenty of opportunities to kick some some
• 1:50:00
  field goals or maybe even some just just some extra points. But I've got
• 1:50:02
  a feeling he's gonna be using this leg there. I'm gonna take boom boom.
• 1:50:06
  I go boom boom Vigory out of Knoksack Valley. And then I need
• 1:50:11
  an offensive line. Let's go just looking at it here, kind of looking
• 1:50:16
  at some matchups Squad com Baker, both those kind of scare me. Offensive
• 1:50:20
  line because I think that's gonna be a real good game, so it could
• 1:50:24
  be a real tight, low scoring game. I think I'm gonna go Sultan
• 1:50:29
  Bellingham. I'm gonna go with Bellingham's offensive line. I think they I think
• 1:50:32
  you said it earlier, a little bit of like, you know, air
• 1:50:34
  it out type thing. And I think they're just gonna go I think it's
• 1:50:39
  one of those ones where you know, they might even have a few tricks
• 1:50:43
  up their sleeve. They're just gonna go nuts this week. I got a
• 1:50:45
  feeling, yeah, I do too. I think they're super excited to be
• 1:50:48
  back at home and and they're just yeah, I absolutely I think they're gonna
• 1:50:53
  do some big time things offensively. I am gonna go wide receiver, and
• 1:51:00
  I'm gonna go with a guy that I don't think either of us have picked
• 1:51:02
  all year, and I'm gonna pick Joaquin Ortez, and I you know he
• 1:51:08
  hasn't put up huge numbers this year, but man, he is so explosive,
• 1:51:14
  and I just feel like one of these little plays, he's just gonna
• 1:51:18
  scoot around and take off. And it's kind of a fast track out there.
• 1:51:23
  I'm at Baker and I'm hoping it rains, Randy, like Randy Small,
• 1:51:29
  like shine up the crystal ball, give me some rain, because I
• 1:51:31
  need that footing to be awful. Well. The thing is too with squal
• 1:51:35
  Cum is I you know, there's some injuries going on and I don't know
• 1:51:39
  who's all gonna play, but as far as I know, Ortiz, Ortiz
• 1:51:42
  looks like he's one hundred percent, and if other guys are not gonna play,
• 1:51:45
  then he might be the kind of the main focal point of that offense,
• 1:51:49
  so he just might go off. I just have a hunch, So
• 1:51:51
  I'm gonna go Joaquin Ortiz. You know what, Tiler, I just rise.
• 1:51:55
  I'm in a bad spot with that one, because if Joaquin Ortiz has
• 1:51:59
  a great game, I might lose to pick him, and I need to
• 1:52:03
  pick him to be good. So I need Marcus Nixon to play, and
• 1:52:06
  I need him to be great. Yeah, and to keep the ball out
• 1:52:11
  of Woking or Deeze's hand. That's what I need right here. I need
• 1:52:15
  a kicker, and I am gonna go Grady Evans at Sea Home. Came
• 1:52:20
  back last week, kicked a field goal. It looks like he's back to
• 1:52:27
  one hundred percent. And you know he's a guy that you know, you're
• 1:52:30
  you're you're on turf again. Still you're out at Mount Verdon, You're not
• 1:52:33
  at home, but uh off the artificial turf. That always kind of to
• 1:52:38
  you know, when I think of kickers and I want that, and I
• 1:52:41
  think Grady Evans could put up some big points. And he's kicked like four
• 1:52:45
  field goals this year or something like that, so he's tied with Matthew Hayes
• 1:52:47
  with most field goals this season. So they're definitely not opposed to, you
• 1:52:51
  know, kicking a field goal if they have to, and he's got the
• 1:52:55
  leg for it. So I'm gonna go Grady Evans. Isn't high school football
• 1:52:58
  kind of funny like that, Tyler? Like you think about the NFL and
• 1:53:00
  there's like there's guys that have four field goals in a game. Yeah,
• 1:53:03
  and the leader in Walkham County after nine games is four. Yeah, you
• 1:53:08
  know what I mean. Like it's just yeah, but that's high school football.
• 1:53:11
  I mean just ye. You know, now, if you have a
• 1:53:13
  guy that's going D one or something, then yeah, you got a weapon
• 1:53:15
  and you can use like what's his name, pets right, like if they
• 1:53:20
  needed a field goal, if they if they were you know, fourth and
• 1:53:25
  fifteen at the twenty five, well yeah they can just kick that field goal
• 1:53:29
  because they know they're getting three points out of it. You know what I
• 1:53:31
  mean. It's just high school football. You just never know. I mean,
• 1:53:33
  it's so unpredictable. Some of these guys, you know, might be
• 1:53:36
  you know, one of the best kickers. They might you know, be
• 1:53:41
  consistent, and then all of a sudden, boom, shank went so far
• 1:53:43
  to the left that it wouldn't hit the netting if they had it up behind
• 1:53:45
  it. You know what I mean. It is one of those weird things.
• 1:53:46
  You know. I'm most field goals kicked in a season Walkham County history.
• 1:53:50
  Yeah. Santiago Lopez for Lyndon had ten in twenty eleven. Wow,
• 1:53:59
  so yeah, yeah, he was. Boy, he was good. I
• 1:54:00
  think he's the kicking coach. I squalk him now. And then three guys
• 1:54:05
  had nine. Josh Randall at Meridian, Boy, he was good left footed
• 1:54:09
  kicker. Obviously, Kyle Sentkowski obviously, you know, he was you know
• 1:54:14
  money, he had a little hit a little try out there with the Bills
• 1:54:16
  earlier this year. And then Marco Sumukovich had nine as well. So for
• 1:54:23
  Linden back in twenty eighteen, back when we first started, well no,
• 1:54:26
  that was we started in twenty nineteen. But so yeah, so yeah,
• 1:54:31
  it's happened a few times. I don't see Tyler Anderson on this list.
• 1:54:34
  Anywhere, it's unfortunately. Yeah. So, Tyler, do you want the
• 1:54:39
  state records on field goals? Well, Andrew Fernie was up there. I
• 1:54:44
  know that. It was a really good guy too, Andrew Fernie, really
• 1:54:46
  nice guy. But he had he was passed and I was there the night
• 1:54:50
  that he did get past. Let's see, we'll just give you all of
• 1:54:55
  them here. Longest field goal in state history, Tyler Austin Riku out of
• 1:55:00
  Central Valley sixty seven seven yards. Yeah. By the way, that same
• 1:55:04
  night, Brett Brett Rippon broke the state record for passing yards in a game.
• 1:55:09
  That was that was a game with the final score was like fifty seven
• 1:55:12
  to fifty four or something like that was crazy. They're kicking and throwing with
• 1:55:15
  the wind. Yes, well, I mean Shadele Park at that time,
• 1:55:19
  they didn't even know what running game was. I mean they were like a
• 1:55:24
  true like We're going to air it out every single game no matter what,
• 1:55:27
  which is why they never got to the state championship game because they'd get into
• 1:55:30
  the state tournament and then it would be really really cold and they couldn't throw
• 1:55:33
  the ball. But then Kelly, So before that, okay, before that,
• 1:55:39
  sixty seven yarder. Yeah, the all time record was Kelly Imhoff of
• 1:55:43
  Kent. It just says Kent. It's not even kem raiding in nineteen twenty
• 1:55:48
  nine, Tyler. Yeah, he had a sixty two yarder in nineteen twenty
• 1:55:54
  nine. Well, that was when the ball was round and it was a
• 1:55:58
  soccer. You could really kick those mister pupps. That's what I call those
• 1:56:01
  mister puffs. Field goals in a career this is the one where Andrew Fernie
• 1:56:08
  was up. Fernie was the record holder with thirty three career field goals in
• 1:56:13
  thirty eight games, and then he was passed by Cameron van Winkle of Mount
• 1:56:17
  SI, who eventually kicked at the University of Washington. Now he sells real
• 1:56:21
  estate in Bellevue. Really good, dude too. I'm actually trying to get
• 1:56:25
  him to come work with the kicker that we have at Bothel right now.
• 1:56:29
  That was in twenty twelve, is when he broke that thirty nine field goals
• 1:56:30
  in his career field goals in a season, Tyler, this is where you
• 1:56:34
  go, Okay, Yeah, the top five actually says multiple are tied for
• 1:56:41
  fifth place with fourteen. Blake Glassner of Woodinville, who I believe is at
• 1:56:45
  UCLA right now. He was at Montana State. He had fifteen in twenty
• 1:56:51
  eighteen in only twelve games. Hunter Torset, Torset, Yes of Burlington at
• 1:57:00
  Yes, Yep, he was awesome. In twenty ten he had fifteen field
• 1:57:03
  goals in twelve games. He was tall. I remember him being really tall.
• 1:57:06
  He's good. Jack Crane from Skyline who he went somewhere. He went
• 1:57:12
  somewhere to play D one and you know what, he might have been a
• 1:57:14
  D one soccer player. I know he went somewhere. No, I think
• 1:57:16
  he went to Ta Wazoo. Anyway. In twenty fifteen he had seventeen field
• 1:57:21
  goals in fourteen games, and then Cameron van Winkle has the record. Twenty
• 1:57:27
  eleven, he had eighteen field goals in only eleven games. By the way,
• 1:57:31
  four out of the top well three out of the top four are from
• 1:57:35
  Kinko. We got kicker covered down here. Field goals in a game,
• 1:57:41
  Tyler Joe Denello, Gonzaga Prep. Nineteen sixty nine. Five field goals extra
• 1:57:47
  points in a career. How about that one? I don't know. How
• 1:57:50
  about this? How about this? There's two guys from Walking County. Yeah,
• 1:57:54
  that have kicked three field goals in one quarter. Now that's a wild
• 1:57:58
  stat. Yeah, well, here you go, Tyler. So extra points
• 1:58:01
  in a season twenty eighteen, Osvaldo Guerrero of Royal was eighty nine of ninety
• 1:58:10
  five and thirteen games. Eighty nine. Yeah. Here, here's actually something
• 1:58:15
  crazy. Three out of the top five from or of extra points in a
• 1:58:19
  season are from Royal Royal. Yeah, Jeff Jack. Do you remember Jeff
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  Jack? Oh my goodness, and he scored a ton of touchdowns. Yeah,
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  the total points was just outrageous. Yeah. Actually I could probably find
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  that too, because he has to be on there. Yeah, you would
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  think scoring in a season, Yeah, Jeff Jack two thousand and four,
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  three hundred and thirty five points in fourteen games, Oh my goodness, fourteen
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  games. And then j R. Hasty Matt Hadley from Connell who was rids
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  Jeff Jack from Royal again in two thousand and five, So scoring in a
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  career. Yeah, Matt Hadley finished first, and then Jeff Jack was right
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  behind him. Set Jeff Jack had Now and this is where you get interesting,
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  right, points per game or points total? Right, Jeff Jacks seven
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  hundred and twenty three points in forty one games. Matt Hadley seven forty six
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  in fifty three. So that's like another full season. I mean that is
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  Yeah, that's insane. Haeven hundred points. I mean I think only one
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  guy in Walkom County has more than five hundred points. Wow. How about
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  this? How about extra points in a game? Devin Dupeia of Lincoln in
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  Tacoma in twenty fourteen was thirteen of thirteen extra points in a game. That's
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  what it says, Yeah, thirteen. Oh well that was the game they
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  scored ninety or something like that. A couple guys have made eleven in Walkam
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  County. Wow, So the top five ends at twelve of sixteen. Oh
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  come on, Cecil Johnson of Aberdeen in nineteen fourteen extra point attempts? Yeah,
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  an, he only made twelve. We got this four? What's wrong
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  with that guy? How about do you know what the kickoff touchdowns in a
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  career is in Wakam County? Kickoff returns? Yeah? Uh in a career?
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  Yeah? Holy cow? Yeah I do. Wow. Actually I'm looking
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  at this. So kickoff returns into a career in the state history, it
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  says Jordan Todd of Interlake, who was ridiculous. Yes, eight touchdowns,
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  eight touchdown kickoff returns in thirty three games. Brandon Wellington of v Side Catholic
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  who played at the University of Washington, he had eight eight touchdowns in fifty
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  two games. But here's the difference. Brandon Wellington had eight in one season
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  in twenty fifteen. Yeah. At the three A level, that's not you
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  know, some random, you know, tremendous athlete that's playing B football or
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  something. You know what. I Ben Peterson had five in his career.
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  So Ben Peterson in his career, So Benson, he wouldn't be in the
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  top five. There's three guys that had seven. Tom Cray in Typool and
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  Gavin Velvardi Vollarde of Squim in twenty seventeen or twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen.
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  Yeah, I mean this is I could I could look at this stuff all
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  day. Tyler. Maybe we do. Maybe we do a podcast where we
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  just we go through and we talk about all of this stuff and see what
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  is the what is the Wakam County record and what is the state record?
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  Yeah, totally, that'd be fun. We should do that sometime. We
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  might want to finish our fantasy draft first. I mean, I don't know.
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  It doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me. Actually, what
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  can I say? I'm kicking your butt? So all right, yeah,
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  Tyler, I think I got a pick now, right, Yeah, I
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  just had a great yea. So I need defense and a quarterback. So
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  I'm gonna go see defense and a quarterback. So I need a defense that's
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  maybe not going to give up a whole lot, and a quarterback that maybe
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  can do some things. You know, I think I'll go. I think
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  I'll go with the same team here. I'm gonna go Meridians defense, and
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  I'm gonna go Jagger Fife for quarterback. I feel like I feel like we
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  haven't picked Jagger Fife enough this here. It seems like we did a lot
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  last year. Yeah, I feel like you're right. Here's the thing.
• 2:02:03
  He's been around for a decade, so I feel like we've picked him enough.
• 2:02:06
  Yeah. We got another year to do it too. Yeah. Next
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  year, Yeah, and you know what, I feel like we're gonna pick
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  him. It's gonna be him what was his name, Brent Hepner. We'll
• 2:02:16
  be picking both those guys quite a bit next year. Huh. Yeah,
• 2:02:18
  Okay, and and you know what, maybe even you guy, we might
• 2:02:23
  be picking him next year to yeah, we will be. So you need
• 2:02:28
  a front seven is all we got? I do? Yeah, And I'm
• 2:02:30
  looking around and there's a couple of guys I could look at, but I
• 2:02:33
  I want to go with Brady Ackerman. I think recently he's been getting a
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  lot of you know, sacks tackled for losses. And man, I think
• 2:02:43
  Grant it's gonna throw a lot in that spread offense, and he's gonna be
• 2:02:45
  really tough to contain coming off the edge. So I'm gonna go Brady Akerman
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  as my front seven guy. Alrighty Tyler, I am six and three on
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  there. You are three and six. You've got Blaine's offensive line. I've
• 2:02:56
  got Bellingham's offensive line. Let's see running back Holton Lentz. For me,
• 2:03:01
  you have Connor Walker wide receiver, Josh Toll. For me, you've got
• 2:03:06
  Joaquin Ortez quarterback. You've got Josh Leonard. I have Jagger Fife. Defensively,
• 2:03:14
  you've got Blaine's defense. I have Meridians defense. Front seven, Brady
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  Ackerman for you, Josh and Elmer for me. Back seven, I've got
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  Hudson Nef and you have Connor Walker again, and then Kickers, I've got
• 2:03:27
  Boom Boom, and you have Grady Evans. So we will have all of
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  that and more on the wrap up show next week. Tyler speaking a wrap
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  up, I think we're done. Yeah, and I don't want to know
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  how long this one went. I have an idea, but yeah, I'll
• 2:03:43
  just say this. We broke our record for this We broke our season record
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  for this year, the longest one ever, the longest one of this season.
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  And the only person still listening Blake Whitman. Thank you, not Jake
• 2:03:57
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  com. Tyler, we're done. You don't have any stickers, so we
• 2:04:21
  have no code word to give out. We need to get on something like
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  that though, I know and I was asked, actually last week, I
• 2:04:30
  goes, I don't know the code word, but do you have any stickers?
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  I was like, I haven't had a sticker since like week four.
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  You know what we need to do. We need to get like I don't
• 2:04:39
  know, get like some beanies made or something, and the first person to
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  find you at a game and give the code word gets one thing a week.
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  You know what I mean. Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah
• 2:04:47
  that's not a bad one there. You know. I'm full of good ideas.
• 2:04:50
  I'm just not full of money to make them happen. That being said,
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• 2:05:06
  to you. It'll come out Monday if you're subscribed, Tuesday if you're not.
• 2:05:09
  We're going to record on Sunday though, so we'll talk to you that