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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 307 - State Quarterfinal Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Seahome senior Grady Evans, and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: the Walkom Preps podcast, The Tyler and Ryland Go Mayors.
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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Walcome Preps podcast. This is
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Speaker 1: episode three hundred and seven, a state quarterfinal football preview.
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Speaker 1: I am Tyler Anderson of Walcome Preps. Ryland has been
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Speaker 1: without power for over forty eight hours to this point
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Speaker 1: and we wish him well, so I'm going han solo
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Speaker 1: once again. I want to give a special thank you
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Speaker 1: to Seahome senior Grady Evans for the intro. Just an
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Speaker 1: awesome player and an awesome person. Been doing it all
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Speaker 1: on all three phases this year, whether it's a wide receiver,
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Speaker 1: the community and get paid for it. So to win
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Speaker 1: win Anyways, we have three games to look at I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: four games to look at for Saturday here. The first
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Speaker 1: one going chronologically, the very first one will be Nukzak
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Speaker 1: Valley at nine and two going across the mountains to
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Speaker 1: take on Kashmir at nine and one. That'll be at
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Speaker 1: one o'clock at Winnatchi's Apple Bowl. Yeah, this is a
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Speaker 1: great matchup here where you know, four versus five and
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Speaker 1: at Kashmir. Their only loss all year was to Royal,
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Speaker 1: but I think it was fifty five to fourteen. Nuzack
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Speaker 1: Valley a few losses this year, one to Tomwater, one
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Speaker 1: to Montico, two teams that are still alive in the
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Speaker 1: state playoffs as well, So I think that this is
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Speaker 1: going to be one of the best matchups just pure
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Speaker 1: you know, pick them type games over the weekend. Nooks
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Speaker 1: that Valley is gonna get Colton Lentz back. He hasn't
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Speaker 1: you know. I mean two weeks ago he played he
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Speaker 1: only carried the ball four times, So it's really been
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Speaker 1: quite a while since he's been you know, turned loose
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Speaker 1: and played a lot. It's been since that game at
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Speaker 1: lind and Christian when they won the Outright Conference championship
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Speaker 1: on the road there. So they'll be ready to go
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Speaker 1: on both offense and defense. I really like what the
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Speaker 1: Pioneers are at right now as far as just you know,
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Speaker 1: everything's clicking. The lines, have looked pretty good, getting a
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Speaker 1: lot of different guys involved. You know, all three levels
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Speaker 1: on defense has been good. Tyler Martin the kicker has
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Speaker 1: been great. It's just his steady improvement throughout the whole year.
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Speaker 1: There's just you know, it's hard to find a hole
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Speaker 1: in that team right now. And you know they've been
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Speaker 1: to the semi finals now the last two years. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna try and make it three years in a row
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Speaker 1: here with a win. I don't I can't tell you
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Speaker 1: a lot about Kashmir, to be honest with you, so
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Speaker 1: don't really know a ton of what to expect. But hey,
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Speaker 1: they're nine to one for a reason. They got that
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Speaker 1: first round by and you know, I don't know if
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Speaker 1: that can help a team or hurt a team. You know,
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Speaker 1: I've I've heard both parts of it where you know
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Speaker 1: you're off for a week and it can kind of
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Speaker 1: you know, you I don't know, it just it's different,
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Speaker 1: right because you're not used to that routine, or you're
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Speaker 1: you are used to a routine and then this happens
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Speaker 1: where you're not actually playing. I'm sure they did some
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Speaker 1: sort of thing where they kind of did something to
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Speaker 1: keep it as rhythmic as usual and just kind of
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Speaker 1: keep it going. But we'll have to see they don't
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Speaker 1: have to go too far to go up to a
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Speaker 1: Nachi and Nuxack Valley traveling across the mountains on that one.
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Speaker 1: So it's a one pm game at Weinachi's Apple Bowl
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Speaker 1: Knukzack Valley versus Kashmere for a chance to go to
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Speaker 1: the state semi finals in one A at two pm,
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Speaker 1: another game right kind of in that area. Lyndon Christians
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Speaker 1: seven and four try having to Royal ten and zero again. Royal,
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Speaker 1: now number one team in the state all year, hasn't
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Speaker 1: really had a tough competition this year. I think, you know,
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Speaker 1: they've their closest game they still won by four touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: and then they're playing at home, so you kind of
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Speaker 1: have all these things that collide together. Lyndon Christian has
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Speaker 1: been on a heck of a run despite numerous injuries,
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Speaker 1: especially to the skill positions. You know, I'm sure a
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Speaker 1: lot of them still won't be able to be to
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Speaker 1: be playing, but you look on the sidelines and street
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Speaker 1: clothed and you see a Trey Blair and an Austin
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Speaker 1: Angles and a Jacob Penner and a Dawson Heintz and
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Speaker 1: Mick Owen. I mean, it's just the list goes on
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Speaker 1: and on, all these guys that will be out, and
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Speaker 1: that's really really tough. But sometimes it can galvanize a
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Speaker 1: team and make them do things that they didn't think
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Speaker 1: they could do, and it builds confidence. And they've been
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Speaker 1: playing so well lately, but to go up against a
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Speaker 1: team like Royal right now, I'll tell you this though,
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Speaker 1: Royal in the last you know, if you don't count
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Speaker 1: this year because they haven't played any well, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I guess you could look over the last three years,
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Speaker 1: counting this year, their three closest games have all been
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Speaker 1: to walkin county teams, one of them being a loss
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Speaker 1: the last time Lennon Christian went over to Royal which
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Speaker 1: was a few years ago, and one of them being
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Speaker 1: a game last year against Lennon Christian again where it
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Speaker 1: was twenty eight to seven. Royal won that one, but
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Speaker 1: it was a three touchdown game. And the other one
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Speaker 1: being the state championship that Royal won a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago against Mount Baker. I believe they won by
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Speaker 1: fifteen points, So a fifteen point win, a twenty one
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Speaker 1: point win, and a loss. Those have been their three
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Speaker 1: closest games over the last three years, all of them
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Speaker 1: against Walking county competition there, So so we'll see. You know,
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Speaker 1: Royle has not played as tough as a schedule as
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Speaker 1: Lennon Christian has, but you know, you play who's in
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Speaker 1: front of you. And Royal I'm sure they have a
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Speaker 1: lot of they have a lot of trouble finding opponents.
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Speaker 1: You know. I'm sure four A teams don't even want
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Speaker 1: to play them because they know they would probably be
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Speaker 1: in for it, so and then it doesn't look good
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Speaker 1: for them, right, so it's hard to schedule that team.
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Speaker 1: So we'll have to see. I mean, this is going
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Speaker 1: to be a really tough one for the Links. I
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Speaker 1: would love to see this matchup next year, but this
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Speaker 1: year it looks really strong for the Royal Knights. But again,
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Speaker 1: having that week off, I don't know if it'll hurt them.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it'll help them. They might have
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Speaker 1: some bruises and stuff like that, and every team by
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Speaker 1: this point of the year has got a lot of
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Speaker 1: kids that are banged up, and so maybe it will
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Speaker 1: really really help them. Again, that's at two pm at
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Speaker 1: Royal High School, Linden Christian taking on the top seeded
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Speaker 1: Royal Knights at the exact same time two pm on
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Speaker 1: Saturday at Ferndale High School. Lynden will be hosting Archbishop Murphy.
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Speaker 1: Lynden ten and one on the season, Archbishop Murphy nine
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Speaker 1: and one on the season. Archbishop had a at a
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Speaker 1: bye week during the regular season, so they've played one
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Speaker 1: less game. The Lions their one loss all year came
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Speaker 1: to Anacortis and Archbishop Murphy's won loss all year, well,
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Speaker 1: that came to Linden and that game out at really
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Speaker 1: to Costa Field where it was seven to three in
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Speaker 1: a muddy, sideways rain slugfest where Archbishop Murphy had trouble
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Speaker 1: with the grass, the field, the mud, you know, trying
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Speaker 1: to get their footing, the polling guards kept falling, the
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Speaker 1: stuff that they do, just it wasn't conducive to that environment,
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Speaker 1: and that really that game really spring loaded Linden, you know,
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Speaker 1: forward for the rest of their season. And they've been
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Speaker 1: on a roll right now. I mean, it's hard to
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Speaker 1: find a hotter team right now than the Linden Lions,
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Speaker 1: and they've been and they've been loving these games at Ferndale.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're just scheduling this little This will be
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Speaker 1: their third week in a row playing at Ferndale, and
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Speaker 1: they've put up some huge numbers there. I think what
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Speaker 1: was a sixty six to seven the first game, and
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Speaker 1: then it was, you know, thirty eight to six the
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Speaker 1: second game. So you know, their their defense hasn't all
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Speaker 1: their first string defense hasn't allowed a touchdown the last
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Haven't allowed a point last couple of weeks,
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Speaker 1: I should say. And but this is going to be
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Speaker 1: interesting because so many people have said, you know, I've
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Speaker 1: talked to some announcers, I've talked to some assistant coaches,
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Speaker 1: and they all say it's tough to beat a team twice.
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Speaker 1: And I'm really curious to see what the Wildcats will
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Speaker 1: do on turf. So yeah, all those things considered, that's
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Speaker 1: going to be really tough for Linden. But I tell
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Speaker 1: you what, when the lines get into the playoffs, they
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Speaker 1: just kind of turn it up another notch and they're
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Speaker 1: they're just a little bit better. And because they know
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Speaker 1: what it takes. I mean, they they've had all these
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Speaker 1: deep runs recently. Last year their season ended in this
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Speaker 1: round at the quarterfinal round. It was kind of a
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Speaker 1: kind of a surprise, I would say, but you know,
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Speaker 1: the two years before that they won state championships, and
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Speaker 1: so there's still a lot of guys on that team
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Speaker 1: that have you know, played that did a lot of
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Speaker 1: playing for the state championship. I mean, you look at
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Speaker 1: the Brent Hepner's and Isaiah Audmans and Blake Holman's and
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Speaker 1: those kinds of guys. These guys, you know, were big
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Speaker 1: time players on that state championship runch just a couple
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Speaker 1: of years ago. So this is going to be a
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Speaker 1: really really good game. I mean because I I think
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Speaker 1: if it stays close, I think Linden has the better
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Speaker 1: edge there just because I just you know, their coaching
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Speaker 1: is so good. But if it starts getting out of hand,
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Speaker 1: I could see it getting out of hand the other
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Speaker 1: way because Archbishop can just rack up points so fast.
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Speaker 1: It's not saying that Linden can't, but I've just seen
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Speaker 1: it so many times with the Wildcats where it's really
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Speaker 1: really tough. I really like Linden's you know, defensive coaching staff,
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Speaker 1: looking at all the different things that Archbishop does moving
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Speaker 1: the ball on the ground, and they're so good at
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Speaker 1: having their players learn discipline on what they need to
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Speaker 1: do and do your job. And if they can have
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Speaker 1: discipline and follow what they're supposed to do, they can
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Speaker 1: stop that wildcat running attack. That's that's what it comes
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Speaker 1: down to. You're trying to get you know, fifteen and
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Speaker 1: sixteen year olds to be disciplined and that's that's that's
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Speaker 1: pretty tough. So but that Landing coaching staff is really
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Speaker 1: good at instilling that into their young players. So this
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Speaker 1: is gonna be a great one. This is probably where
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be since it's the only one in
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Speaker 1: the county. And yeah, it's a it's gonna be an
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Speaker 1: awesome game. I mean, it's just you know, another four
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Speaker 1: versus five matchup and two teams that have played each
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Speaker 1: other a little bit, you know, recently now, so they
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Speaker 1: know each other pretty well. So that'll be two pm
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Speaker 1: at Ferndale High School Archbishop Murphy and Lyndon, both with
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Speaker 1: just one loss on the year, trying to get one
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Speaker 1: step closer to the gold ball at Husky Stadium. The
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Speaker 1: final game this weekend will be Sea home at eight
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Speaker 1: and three. You're going to travel over to Tumwater, who's
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Speaker 1: eleven to er. That'll be at three pm at Tumwater
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Speaker 1: High School, and boy, the Mariners right now, they're in
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Speaker 1: the quarterfinals for the third time in school history. They've
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Speaker 1: never been to the semi finals in school history. And
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Speaker 1: this is one tall task to try to beat Tumwater. Tumwater.
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Speaker 1: You know, at the beginning of the year, I was
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Speaker 1: kind of flipping and flopping, you know, from a lot
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Speaker 1: of different places on who the number one team in
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Speaker 1: two way was. Was it Tumwater was at Anachordus. Once
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Speaker 1: Anachordus dropped that game to Archbishop Murphy midway through the year,
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Speaker 1: then it kind of shot Tumwater ahead with you know,
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Speaker 1: kind of a stronghold of that number one spot and
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Speaker 1: they haven't let it go since. I've only seen the
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Speaker 1: Thunderbirds play once this year. They were hosting Nuksack Valley
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Speaker 1: and they looked fantastic, They look huge, they looked fast.
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Speaker 1: Their line was out of this world. And that was
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Speaker 1: early in the year. That was Week four, so that
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Speaker 1: was two months ago when I saw him. But you know,
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Speaker 1: Tumwater's Tumbwater. They just they just find a way. They're
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Speaker 1: very much like Royal and these programs that have just
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Speaker 1: been great for so long and Lindon's like that too,
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Speaker 1: you know. I mean, they just they have this tradition
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Speaker 1: where they just win all the time, and they know
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Speaker 1: what it takes, and they build it up from youth
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Speaker 1: and they keep going and and they're just so so good.
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Speaker 1: Seal Mariners. I mean, boy, that was a heck of
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Speaker 1: a game last week. Could have been the game of
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Speaker 1: the year. How everything went with the blocked punt, late
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Speaker 1: going for two, late, getting every getting it and just
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, that momentum switch right with like
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Speaker 1: two minutes to go in the game, just did it
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Speaker 1: for the Mariners. And if the Sea, if the Seal
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Speaker 1: Manners can pull off some more plays like that, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you who knows what they're going to do, whether it's
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Speaker 1: going to be a surprise on side or just you
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Speaker 1: just don't know. Andre Watson he's tough to stop. Nolan
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Speaker 1: Wright when he gets cooking. I mean, he can move
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Speaker 1: around in that pocket, he can he's a threat to run.
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Speaker 1: He's he's he makes a few takes a few chances
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Speaker 1: throwing the ball because he believes in himself and I
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Speaker 1: like that. So there's a few interceptions every once in
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Speaker 1: a while. But uh, you you know, when you have
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Speaker 1: a player that's like that you can give him that
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Speaker 1: you know that okay and say you you do it?
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And he's one of those players you know now in
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Speaker 1: his third year as a starting quarterback at Sea Home
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Speaker 1: High School, he's you know, he's he knows everything about
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Speaker 1: that offense. He knows his strengths, he knows how where
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Speaker 1: to roll out, how to roll out, when to run everything.
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Speaker 1: So you know, we'll have to see and I love
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Speaker 1: the I loved how you know al Miller came out
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Speaker 1: last week and did so well. And you know Cooper
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Speaker 1: mcartee at tight end and all these other receivers, Grady
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Speaker 1: Evans who gave us the intro, and who knows. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if theo Quiggle will be back, but he's
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Speaker 1: another huge target at six foot four. You know they've
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Speaker 1: been missing Fisher Hall the last couple of weeks. I
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Speaker 1: really hope he can come back because he's he is
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Speaker 1: such a game changer, not just on defense from his
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Speaker 1: linebacker spot, but covering kicks on kickoffs, things like that.
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Speaker 1: You can't let you can't have any big play spring
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Speaker 1: you loose. That was one thing that tum Water struggled
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Speaker 1: with a little bit against Knoksack was covering kickoffs, so
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Speaker 1: you know, if Watson can, he might be able to
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Speaker 1: spring one on a kick return and bring it in
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Speaker 1: for a touchdown because I think you know, Evan Bravo
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Speaker 1: had like a seventy yard kickoff return against them. He
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Speaker 1: did not get into the end zone, but it was
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Speaker 1: a huge return. So they're gonna need some big plays
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Speaker 1: like that. You know, you don't block a lot of
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Speaker 1: punts during the year. They may have used up their
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Speaker 1: one on the year last week, but they needed it great.
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Speaker 1: If they can get another one here, just forcing Tumwater
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Speaker 1: to hunt will be a huge accomplishment. It's they're such
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Speaker 1: a strong team. So see home at Tumwater at three pm.
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Speaker 1: Down I five there a little ways Tomwater again eleven
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Speaker 1: and zero on the season. The Mariners are eight and three,
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Speaker 1: So those are your four games. Well, we're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to find out. You know, the weather has been a
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Speaker 1: little crazy in Washington State this week with this bomb
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Speaker 1: cyclone stuff that's affecting some places more than others. And
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Speaker 1: this will be a really interesting weather forecast from our
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Speaker 1: weather man, Randy Small. Randy take it away.
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Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, it's Randy Small, Walking County weather, and we've
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Speaker 2: just come off a crazy windstorm last night. I'm recording
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Speaker 2: this on Wednesday, early afternoon, but looking ahead to Saturday's games.
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Speaker 2: Everything is on Saturday this weekend. I have actually checked
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Speaker 2: Kashmir's weather, Royal City's weather, and Waukham County, as well
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Speaker 2: as Tumwater's weather, and it kind of goes that Tumwater
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Speaker 2: and Ferndale are similar forecasts. Chance of showers on Saturday
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Speaker 2: at this point on Wednesday doesn't seem like a lot,
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Speaker 2: but this could change, of course, as we get closer.
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Speaker 2: But I definitely put out a chance of showers, so
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Speaker 2: chance of rain, chance of showers pretty high, just depends
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Speaker 2: on where in the area will actually the showers happen.
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Speaker 2: Wind could be a little breezy in Ferndale, I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure about Tumwater. Didn't look at the wind very closely there.
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Speaker 2: Regarding east of the mountains, Royal City might have the
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Speaker 2: best forecast. It'll be cool and maybe some clearing at times,
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Speaker 2: and then Kashmir has a twenty percent chance of snow
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Speaker 2: slash chance of rain. I doubt it's going to be
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Speaker 2: much probably just cool and crisp over there over all,
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Speaker 2: maybe just a little bit of precep the attempts for
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Speaker 2: the west side is also going to be on the
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Speaker 2: cool side in the mid forties. So overall, I think
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Speaker 2: at this point the weather shouldn't be too much of
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Speaker 2: a factor at this point. Okay, good luck to all
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Speaker 2: the teams that are left, and we'll hopefully check in
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Speaker 2: with another report for the semifinals next weekend.
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Speaker 1: All right, thanks Randy. Visit all, you know, check out
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Speaker 1: all his stuff at you know, WALKOINCOUNTYWX dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: the website, and you could, you know, see his stuff
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Speaker 1: on Twitter, the Facebook page, Facebook dot com backslash Walkincounty Weather.
18:42
Speaker 1: I thought I had a lot of followers. That's nothing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's he's got like thirty forty thousand followers,
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Speaker 1: maybe close to fifty thousand now on his Facebook page.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to get to seven thousand right now. I'm
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Speaker 1: getting really close. I just got a few more. Tell
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Speaker 1: your friends and family. So yeah, the forecast, we'll see
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Speaker 1: how that goes. You know, the weather could play could
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Speaker 1: play a little bit into these into these games, because
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Speaker 1: it sure did last week. You saw a lot of
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Speaker 1: teams that had to kind of change their game plan
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Speaker 1: and and do some different things, and you know, the
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Speaker 1: weather can play effect. That's just the way that it is,
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Speaker 1: so u So thank you again, Randy Small for that.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to our pickhams now and yeah, we're
19:26
Speaker 1: we're all doing pretty well here. The guests are still
19:29
Speaker 1: leading with the sixty seven and eighteen overall record, unbelievable,
19:34
Speaker 1: beating Joe consensus right now, Joe just one game behind
19:37
Speaker 1: the guest at sixty six and nineteen. I'm a few
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Speaker 1: more games back at sixty four and twenty one. Ryland
19:43
Speaker 1: is at sixty three and twenty two, and Mikayla and
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Speaker 1: Jeff are both sixty two and twenty three. So we're
19:50
Speaker 1: all basically winning, you know, two thirds of our games
19:54
Speaker 1: or three quarters almost so, so we're doing okay there.
19:59
Speaker 1: Our guest picker this week is Randy Farmer. You've probably
20:02
Speaker 1: heard him doing play by play for football games on
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Speaker 1: KPUG and KGM I and and UH does a great
20:08
Speaker 1: job with him and color man Rick Todd and Randy
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Speaker 1: Farmer a Seahome graduate, so you know, is interested in
20:17
Speaker 1: how they're going to be doing. I'm pretty sure him
20:19
Speaker 1: and Rick will be going over the mountains to call
20:23
Speaker 1: the Nuxack Valley Kashmeir game on KPUG. So, so yeah,
20:28
Speaker 1: so be sure to listen for that. KGM I, Jim
20:32
Speaker 1: Bring and Dan Kamenk will give you the call of
20:35
Speaker 1: the Linden Archbishop Murphy game. But Randy Farmer is our
20:39
Speaker 1: guest picker this week, and as the picks turn out,
20:42
Speaker 1: only Jeff and Mikayla are picking Linden Christian to defeat
20:46
Speaker 1: to defeat Royal, and only Jeff is picking Sea Home
20:51
Speaker 1: to defeat Tumwater. So Jeff is going straight up Homer,
20:55
Speaker 1: picking up picking all the Walking County teams. And you know,
21:01
Speaker 1: as far as the other two games, you know, we
21:03
Speaker 1: are all picking Knuksack Valley to beat Kashmere, we are
21:06
Speaker 1: all picking Linden to beach Art beat Archbishop Murphy. So
21:11
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's getting down to the thick of it here,
21:13
Speaker 1: and we're all still pretty close together here, so we'll
21:17
Speaker 1: see if there's any jockeying for position there. And so
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Speaker 1: thanks again Randy Farmer for agreeing to be our guest
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Speaker 1: picker this week, and good luck to you. And that
21:28
Speaker 1: takes us to the fantasy standings right now. I am
21:32
Speaker 1: six and five. Ryland is five and six, So this
21:35
Speaker 1: week could be huge, you know, especially if some teams
21:39
Speaker 1: get knocked out, because that kind of eliminates the game.
21:43
Speaker 1: For instance, if he gets me this week and then
21:46
Speaker 1: we only have a few teams left, that's probably it.
21:49
Speaker 1: I don't know how we're gonna do it, if we're
21:51
Speaker 1: going to continue, but right now I hold a one
21:54
Speaker 1: game advantage, and and I did win last week, which
21:58
Speaker 1: means he to pick first. We did. He had a
22:03
Speaker 1: little bit of availability on his cell phone today. He
22:08
Speaker 1: didn't want to use too much of it because he
22:11
Speaker 1: needs it to be his alarm clock tomorrow morning so
22:13
Speaker 1: we can wake up and go to work. But hit
22:17
Speaker 1: with him being without power. But I said, hey man,
22:19
Speaker 1: we have to do our fantasy picks. And he's like,
22:22
Speaker 1: you got it. So he had the first pick, and
22:24
Speaker 1: he took Colton Lentz, running back from Nukzack Valley. I think,
22:28
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously him waiting and waiting to play, he's
22:32
Speaker 1: expecting a big breakout game. I think we all are,
22:34
Speaker 1: so not a bad pick there. That leaves me with
22:37
Speaker 1: two picks, and I went with Brent Hepner, the quarterback
22:40
Speaker 1: from Lyndon. Who I mean when it gets to the
22:44
Speaker 1: playoffs time, he just turns it on and he knows
22:46
Speaker 1: what it takes. He's won five state championships now in
22:51
Speaker 1: his career. Just you know, he's i mean in different
22:55
Speaker 1: sports and stuff like that, so he obviously knows what
22:57
Speaker 1: it takes. And I also went with Andre Watson from wide,
23:00
Speaker 1: the wide receiver from Seahome. I just you know, it's
23:03
Speaker 1: hard to pick against that guy. He just keeps putting
23:05
Speaker 1: up numbers. And you look at last week where he
23:07
Speaker 1: had something like seven catches for you know, eighty six
23:10
Speaker 1: yards and two touchdowns and a two point conversion. You go, man,
23:13
Speaker 1: that's that's unbelievable. But to him, that's a down week.
23:16
Speaker 1: So I'll take those numbers all day. Then Ryland had
23:19
Speaker 1: two picks and he stayed on that. He stayed, he
23:22
Speaker 1: stayed purple here. He went Nuksack Valley offensive line and
23:27
Speaker 1: he went Colton Lentz front seven. So he's doing what
23:30
Speaker 1: he does quite a bit where he picks the same
23:32
Speaker 1: guy on both sides of the ball there. Really hoping
23:35
Speaker 1: for a big time game there. And you know, if
23:39
Speaker 1: he wasn't going to take Lents there, I was probably
23:41
Speaker 1: gonna take him after that defensively, so not surprised that
23:44
Speaker 1: he took him. It did kind of throw me for
23:47
Speaker 1: a backup plan that I had to do. So when
23:50
Speaker 1: I picked, I went Tyler Martin Kicker from Nuksack Valley,
23:57
Speaker 1: just a freshman, but I tell you he's really steadily
24:00
Speaker 1: improved this year and I think he could have a
24:03
Speaker 1: big game. And then I chose Hudson Neff from Seahome
24:07
Speaker 1: for my back seven player. I just think that he's
24:10
Speaker 1: such a good tackler and Tumwater can really run the
24:14
Speaker 1: ball and there's really good at you know, kind of
24:17
Speaker 1: getting through that first wave, so he might have a
24:19
Speaker 1: lot of chances back there being that last chance to
24:22
Speaker 1: make the stop, so I think he can really rack
24:24
Speaker 1: up the numbers there. Ryland then picked in the back seven,
24:29
Speaker 1: he went with another linebacker. He chose Trey Bosman, the
24:32
Speaker 1: senior from Lyndon Christian And then as a defensive team,
24:36
Speaker 1: he chose Nuksack Valley, so staying in the one a's
24:41
Speaker 1: primarily he was doing right there. And after that I
24:45
Speaker 1: picked Lance Van Berkham to be in my front seven,
24:47
Speaker 1: the Nuksack Valley defensive end who is really every single
24:51
Speaker 1: week just gets better and better and it couldn't come
24:54
Speaker 1: at a better time for the for the Pioneers right now.
24:57
Speaker 1: And I also took Lynden Christian's offensive line. You know,
25:02
Speaker 1: are just gonna go with it and see what we
25:04
Speaker 1: do here, and you just never know. I I I
25:07
Speaker 1: think they can put up some yards here. So we'll
25:09
Speaker 1: see how it goes if you get into the ends
25:10
Speaker 1: in a few times even better. Ryland then took Grady
25:15
Speaker 1: Evans sea home kicker, and then Isaiah Audman tight end
25:20
Speaker 1: from Linden as his receiver. So going into the two
25:24
Speaker 1: a's a little bit there. I like it picking guys
25:27
Speaker 1: from other teams. So with my last two picks, I
25:31
Speaker 1: chose Hallis Owen running back from Lyndon Christian. I just
25:34
Speaker 1: have a feeling and I just think that you know,
25:38
Speaker 1: he's gonna, you know, be in this being a senior,
25:41
Speaker 1: he's you know, he's gonna put everything out there that
25:44
Speaker 1: he can. And he's at full strength now, which I love.
25:47
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go with Linden's defense. I talked about
25:50
Speaker 1: it a little bit earlier. I just I don't know.
25:54
Speaker 1: I just think they've all bought in at the right
25:57
Speaker 1: time and they're swarming to the ball so well, and
25:59
Speaker 1: those coaches are so great on the defensive side, so
26:02
Speaker 1: so yeah, I'm gonna go Linden Lions defense. And with
26:05
Speaker 1: the last pick, Ryland needed a quarterback and he chose
26:08
Speaker 1: Nolan Wright. Might as well he can. He's a dual threat, running, passing,
26:13
Speaker 1: doing it all, and he's gonna need to have a
26:16
Speaker 1: big game for the Mariners to have a chance there.
26:19
Speaker 1: So if you look over the teams, I have Brent
26:21
Speaker 1: Heppner at quarterback. He has Nolan Wright at running back.
26:25
Speaker 1: I have Hollis Owen. Ryland has Colton Lentz at receiver.
26:29
Speaker 1: I have Andre Watson. Ryland has Isaiah Audman at offensive line.
26:34
Speaker 1: I have Lyndon Christian. Ryland has Nuksack Valley for team defense,
26:39
Speaker 1: I have Linden. Ryland has Nuksack Valley. For front seven,
26:44
Speaker 1: I have Lance Van Berkham. Ryland has Colton Lentz for
26:48
Speaker 1: back seven. I have Hudson Nef. Ryland has Trey Bosman
26:53
Speaker 1: and at kicker, I have Tyler Martin and Ryland has
26:56
Speaker 1: Grady Evans. So that that's about it. It's a little
27:01
Speaker 1: shorter podcast than usual. Usually Ryland and I rattle on
27:04
Speaker 1: for a little bit, we take some we take some
27:07
Speaker 1: left turns and start talking about food or eighties baseball
27:11
Speaker 1: or you just kind of never know where we're gonna go.
27:14
Speaker 1: But pretty short and sweet this week. Hopefully you know,
27:18
Speaker 1: by the time we can recap these games, Ryland will
27:22
Speaker 1: be back. Who So yeah, that's it, And you've been
27:27
Speaker 1: listening to the Walkom Preps podcast. This is episode three
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Speaker 1: oh seven, a state quarterfinal football preview. I'm Tyler Anderson
27:35
Speaker 1: with Walkom Preps and we'll talk to you in a
27:37
Speaker 1: couple of days. Have a great weekend, everybody,