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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 329 - Top 100 #2 Andre Watson · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is you know. I'm Senior Andre Watson and listening
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Speaker 1: to the Top one hundred Countdown on the Walking Press
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Speaker 1: podcast with.
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Speaker 2: Tyler Anderson and Ryland Spencer, Rome Mariners.
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Speaker 1: Greeting exam. Welcome into the watkom Preps podcast. This is
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Speaker 1: episode at three hundred and twenty nine, the ninth of
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Speaker 1: ten podcasts in the twenty twenty four Top one hundred
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Speaker 1: Football Countdown. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always
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Speaker 1: as Tyler Anderson of WATKAM Prep. Tyler, how we doing
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Speaker 1: my goodness? Goofball?
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Speaker 2: Make me choke on my spit?
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Speaker 1: Hey, I had a little mountain dew for a launch, Tyler.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna keep me up tonight, all right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah sounds like it. Yeah, I'm doing good. I'm doing good.
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Speaker 2: This is This is gonna be crazy because you're gonna
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Speaker 2: hear numbers that you'll probably never hear again in Walkom County.
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Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what too is this This is
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Speaker 2: you know. I've talked about in the past about making
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Speaker 2: the Top one hundred list and how difficult it was,
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Speaker 2: And I was talking earlier about how getting like how
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Speaker 2: difficult it was to to I had to cut a
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Speaker 2: lot of guys off that I thought were deserving of
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Speaker 2: the top one hundred list. But this was also the
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Speaker 2: hardest year of between the top two. And I went
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Speaker 2: back and forth and back and forth and back and
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Speaker 2: forth and back and forth, and I you know, this
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Speaker 2: is basically one A and one B. Someone had to
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Speaker 2: be number two. But my goodness, what a great player.
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Speaker 1: You know, Teyler. A lot of times when you're trying
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Speaker 1: to make decisions like that, like you'll reach out to
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Speaker 1: me and I don't even know if you ever did.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah I didn't. I didn't this year, and yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I'm glad that you didn't, honestly, because you see it.
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Speaker 1: How do I say this, You see it more than me.
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Speaker 1: I hear the stats, I know the numbers, I know
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Speaker 1: the impact, I know you know, I know all of that,
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Speaker 1: but you actually see it, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: And so there's nobody, nobody more qualified. I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: for damn sure, Like I mean, there's just, yeah, there's
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Speaker 1: nobody more qualified. So everybody has to just put up
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Speaker 1: with it because it's not going to change. Tyler. We
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Speaker 1: need to give a thank you to any time Fitness
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Speaker 1: in Linden, Linden, North and Ferndale for their continued support
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Speaker 1: of Walcome Preps. They are the official sponsors of the
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Speaker 1: Top one hundred Football Countdown and they're always sponsoring stuff.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they just they're all about Walcome Preps. That
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Speaker 1: being said, there's plenty of things to be sponsored Tyler.
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Speaker 1: So somebody wants to sponsor something, what do they gotta do?
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Speaker 2: Well, the best way is get a hold of me
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Speaker 2: through social media, search for walk and Preps and and
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Speaker 2: send a message and or you know, if you happen to,
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Speaker 2: you know, just know me from social media, you can
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Speaker 2: send a message to my personal account or whatever and
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Speaker 2: just ask the questions and say how can I get involved?
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Speaker 2: And it's very it could be very open ended. It
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Speaker 2: could be very just kind of because I don't have
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Speaker 2: a lot of set prices for things. I have ideas,
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Speaker 2: but we can work around ideas. And there's all sorts
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Speaker 2: of different things and different sports, you know. I mean
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Speaker 2: there's some people, you know, some people say I can
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Speaker 2: afford this much, what can I get from it? Some
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Speaker 2: people say I want to do this, you know, well
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Speaker 2: how much would it be? And everybody's different everyone, And
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Speaker 2: that's what I I because this is all still kind
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Speaker 2: of new to me. I want to be able to
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Speaker 2: make it work for you. Once I get everything kind
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Speaker 2: of plugged in, then everything's set and I can go
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Speaker 2: forward and then you know, the cost of living goes up,
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Speaker 2: I can bring it up, you know, ten to fifteen
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Speaker 2: percent or whatever it is. But for now, I kind
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Speaker 2: of want everything to just kind of get settled and
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Speaker 2: get in there and stuff like that. And a lot
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Speaker 2: of people are asking me, you know, five six years
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Speaker 2: ago when Walking Preps was going, how come you don't
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Speaker 2: do any sponsors? How come you don't do any sponsors?
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Speaker 2: And I said, you know, because I'm just starting out.
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Speaker 2: I want walkam Preps to be a thing that kind
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Speaker 2: of like rolls off the tongue like. And I was
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Speaker 2: always comparing it to Sports Illustrated how it used to be, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, back in the day.
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Speaker 2: Day was everybody knew what sports soolstrut. Everybody'd heard of it,
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Speaker 2: and so when you heard it, you knew it was
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Speaker 2: it was valid. It was it was what it was.
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Speaker 1: It was the thing, right.
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Speaker 2: And I kind of wanted to walk the Preps to
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Speaker 2: do that for Walkome County. And I just said, if
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Speaker 2: I just keep working hard and keep doing all this
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Speaker 2: stuff and keep going all these games and not get
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Speaker 2: paid for it. Then people will see that I'm serious
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Speaker 2: about it for years and years and years and years,
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Speaker 2: and I'm putting in all the work and then eventually
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Speaker 2: I open it up to different things and then they
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Speaker 2: start coming. So that's what I've been really proud of.
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Speaker 2: But there's still room for more. There's always room for
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Speaker 2: more and to keep it going. And so you know,
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Speaker 2: if we could, if it's something that you want to
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Speaker 2: jump on board with, now's the great time to do it.
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Speaker 1: All right, Why can I get for fifty bucks? Can
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Speaker 1: I just get my face in the background somewhere? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Can I get my face looking at lep in a picture?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, right there behind the homepage.
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Speaker 1: There, yeah, yeah, with a picture of Andy Olsen in
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Speaker 1: the background laughing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I think I have a picture of him laughing.
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Speaker 2: Or maybe it's just in my head, you know, because
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Speaker 2: I like to make him laugh.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, you know, that guy does laugh a lot.
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Speaker 1: I mean he really does. He does.
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Speaker 2: He makes other people feel pretty good about themselves. That's
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Speaker 2: what makes him so successful, I think.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean even when stuff isn't funny, He's the
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Speaker 1: type of guy that'll laugh just and then in his
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Speaker 1: head though, he's kind of kind of going, all right,
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Speaker 1: whatever you say, dude, Yeah, hey, Tyler, do you know
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Speaker 1: what this is? You know what? Oh, it's the Top
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Speaker 1: one hundred Countdown. It's the Football Top one Hundudow that's
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Speaker 1: what we're doing.
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Speaker 2: I thought you were going to play a sound bite.
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Speaker 1: What you mean like, oh, hey, coach, how you doing?
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Speaker 1: This is the Football Top one hundred Countdown sponsored by
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Speaker 1: Anytime Fitness in Linden, Linden, North End, Ferndale. Today we
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Speaker 1: are talking about Numero dos number two. Uh. The next
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Speaker 1: Top one hundred podcast will be released tomorrow at two
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Speaker 1: pm when we find out who the top dog is
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Speaker 1: number one Tomorrow two pm Friday, two pm. If you
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Speaker 1: want to do that. Some people are probably listening even
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Speaker 1: a couple days later and they're like, wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: it comes out tomorrow, Like no, no, it came out
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Speaker 1: on Friday. People. If you would like to hear any
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Speaker 1: of the previous eight installments of The Top one hundred Countdown,
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Speaker 1: go back find episodes three seventeen, nineteen, twenty one, twenty three,
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Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty six, twenty seven and twenty eight and
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Speaker 1: while you're at it, spend the night and listen to
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Speaker 1: the Winter Sports weekly wrap ups. I mean we've probably
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Speaker 1: done what like three Winter Sports Well, it would be
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Speaker 1: eighteen twenty six total. Yeah, I'm saying like in the
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Speaker 1: in between with the top Yeah, so three seventeen, so
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Speaker 1: it would be three eighteen, three twenty three, twenty two,
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Speaker 1: and three twenty five. So four of them. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: how long the Top one hundred football Countdown takes. It
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Speaker 1: takes four Winter Sports Weekly wrap ups. That's the length
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Speaker 1: of it. Yeah, it's been a lot of fun and
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Speaker 1: you know, the time. But the thing I love about
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Speaker 1: this too is like there's names here that I hear
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Speaker 1: on occasions, you know what I mean. But there's been
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Speaker 1: some names in this that I barely recognized, you know.
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Speaker 1: And we've sat there and talked about him from one
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Speaker 1: hundred all the way down to two tonight. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we are a couple of psychos. Tyler's what we are.
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Speaker 2: But I think that's obvious.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but we need to talk about number two. And
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Speaker 1: that being said, number two and the Top one hundred countdown.
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Speaker 1: Five ft eleven, one hundred and eighty five pounds. He's
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Speaker 1: a wide receiver in a defensive back. I feel like
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Speaker 1: he does more than that, uh, kick returner, punt returner,
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Speaker 1: due Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, wide receiver, all everything here.
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Speaker 1: He's a senior from the Seahome Mariners. It's number seven
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Speaker 1: Andre Watson. Wow.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, what a great season. And coming into
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Speaker 2: the season, I looked at it saying, he has a
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Speaker 2: chance to, you know, break some Wakham County records, and
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Speaker 2: he put him so far behind him. There was a
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Speaker 2: line out there ahead of him that had the Walkham
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Speaker 2: County records with all sorts of different records, and he's
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Speaker 2: so far past that. He looks back and then the
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Speaker 2: line is a dot to him.
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Speaker 1: Now, I mean, isn't it It is really quickly When
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Speaker 1: you look at the final numbers, isn't it funny that
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Speaker 1: we ever even questioned some of them like he might
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Speaker 1: be able to get there? And then now you look
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Speaker 1: at the numbers and you're like, my goodness, what the
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Speaker 1: heck were we even thinking? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's incredible. He caught a touchdown in
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Speaker 2: every single game all twelve games, but only had one
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Speaker 2: touchdown catch in five of them, so he had multiple
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Speaker 2: touchdowns in seven of games and the lowest the lowest
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Speaker 2: output he had all year was three catches in a game,
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Speaker 2: two of them went for touchdowns, and that was in
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Speaker 2: the rain storm sideways reign against Bellingham. I mean, just
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Speaker 2: the overall numbers are crazy. Obviously an All Conference first
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Speaker 2: team pick at wide receiver, and I love that he
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Speaker 2: was named All State first team. I think he led
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Speaker 2: the entire state in receiving. He had to have with
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Speaker 2: one hundred catches on the year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just such a hard number to get to nowadays, Like.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because there's so many guys and yeah, yeah, well,
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Speaker 3: and usually when you have a guy, like if you
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Speaker 3: come into a game plan, you're like, wow, this guy's
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Speaker 3: got eighty five catches, you're going to make sure that
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Speaker 3: he doesn't have more than about five, you know what
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Speaker 3: I mean, Like you just are and then all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden, Andre Watson has like twelve and you're like,
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Speaker 3: what the crap, Like, how did that happen?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the thing. And there was so many rolling
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Speaker 2: coverages to him. There's so many double teams. There's always
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Speaker 2: somebody over the top, and a lot of the times
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Speaker 2: guys covering him were bigger than him, taller than him,
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Speaker 2: but they just didn't outwork him, and he and that's
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Speaker 2: what I love about his game is you look at him,
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Speaker 2: you go, oh, he must be.
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Speaker 1: A slot guy.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, he will go he will out jump
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Speaker 2: you for the ball. And when he grabs it out
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Speaker 2: of the air, he does this turn like it's almost
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Speaker 2: like he's grabbing a rebound. You know, like when the
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Speaker 2: big guy's grab a rebound and they just turn their
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Speaker 2: whole body and they kind of snatch it away. Like
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Speaker 2: he does that because he knows that, you know, the
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Speaker 2: other guy might be you know, a little taller than him,
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Speaker 2: or he has to get an advantage somehow. And and
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Speaker 2: he's just he's been doing this for so long, I
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Speaker 2: mean ever since he was little and going running routes
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Speaker 2: catching balls.
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Speaker 1: That it's he is.
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Speaker 2: That part's the easy part. It's the it's the it's
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Speaker 2: the doing the other things that like that's all natural now.
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Speaker 2: So now he can expand upon it and do and
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Speaker 2: and he can see things a certain way to where
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Speaker 2: he knows where to get open or or where to
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Speaker 2: find the you know, the soft spot in the zone
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Speaker 2: and those kinds of things that like that's the next
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Speaker 2: level of playing. And at the high school level. When
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Speaker 2: you're doing that, it's really really hard to stop you
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Speaker 2: because you can find weaknesses and defenses. Every once in
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Speaker 2: a while, you know, there's guys that, you know, coaches
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Speaker 2: they might have nine guys they really trust out there
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Speaker 2: on the defense, you know, and they have to kind
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Speaker 2: of hide a couple guys every once in a while. Well,
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Speaker 2: you know, a guy like Andrea Watson is really gonna
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Speaker 2: you know, he's gonna really exploit that and he's really
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Speaker 2: going to show, you know, like, you know, you better
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Speaker 2: have some dudes covering me you're in trouble. He knows
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Speaker 2: when to come back to the ball. And you got
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Speaker 2: to give a lot of credit to Nolan Wright as well,
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Speaker 2: who can keep plays going and has the arm, you know,
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Speaker 2: to throw it deep and get the ball to him.
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Speaker 2: And it's been a great combination these last few years.
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Speaker 2: But Andre Watson is special. And to catch a hundred
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Speaker 2: balls over sixteen hundred yards receiving and twenty four touchdowns receiving,
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Speaker 2: I mean obviously not just school records. All three of
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Speaker 2: those are Wakam County records and buy quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: The old record for catches in a season was eighty seven,
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Speaker 2: so he broke He upped it by thirteen. The old
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Speaker 2: record for receiving yards, he upped that by one hundred
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Speaker 2: and thirty one yards. The old record for receiving touchdowns,
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Speaker 2: he upped it by four touchdowns. He's not just barely
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Speaker 2: getting past these, he's blowing these away. And that's for
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Speaker 2: a season. And that's what we're talking about, is the season.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we talked about the career numbers during the
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Speaker 2: Seniors podcast when we said goodbye to all the seniors,
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Speaker 2: and those numbers are just crazy. I mean, we always
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Speaker 2: celebrate when a guy gets to a hundred catches in
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Speaker 2: a career, yeah, you know, and he had two hundred
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Speaker 2: and twenty. I mean, it's just it's just crazy. It's crazy.
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Speaker 2: And I was thinking, oh, he has a good chance
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Speaker 2: to get to one sixty five to break the all
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Speaker 2: time record, and he just blew way past that. A
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Speaker 2: huge reason why CEO mad the season that they did.
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Speaker 2: I mean, to get to the second round of the
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Speaker 2: playoffs for the first time in twenty nine years, you know,
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Speaker 2: basically basically went up state playoff game for the first
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Speaker 2: time in twenty nine years. You know, it's the same
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Speaker 2: deal and what and what he did as a part
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Speaker 2: of that comeback against Othello to win that game twenty
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Speaker 2: two to twenty one. You know, doing what he did
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Speaker 2: in this in the play in game, three hundred and
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Speaker 2: forty five receiving yards in that game. There are guys
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Speaker 2: that have had three hundred and forty five receiving yards
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Speaker 2: in the season and be named All Conference first team.
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Speaker 2: He did it in one game. I mean, it's just
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Speaker 2: incredible to see all these things and then you can
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Speaker 2: you could look at you know, what he did on defense.
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Speaker 2: You know, he had a he had a really underrated
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Speaker 2: season on defense, and he didn't I thought. What I
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Speaker 2: really liked to buy him is his was his run
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Speaker 2: support too, because in the past, I mean he would
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Speaker 2: he would play back and he was he was a ballhawk,
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Speaker 2: and he kind of turned into a more physical player
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Speaker 2: this year. Had more tackles this year than he'd ever
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Speaker 2: he had. He had forty two tackles this year. He
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Speaker 2: had five tackles for loss, you know, playing as a
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Speaker 2: defensive back, so there was a lot more physicality in
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Speaker 2: his game. He forced a couple of fumbles, uh, he
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Speaker 2: defected a pass, he intercepted, he set to two passes
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Speaker 2: and had a fumble recovery, and then in the return game,
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Speaker 2: it was it was outstanding. Seventeen kickoff returns three hundred
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Speaker 2: and seventy four yards, averaging twenty two yards a kickoff return,
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Speaker 2: and you average twelve and a half yards per punt return.
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Speaker 2: Seven punt returns for eighty eight yards.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talk about it and think over ten is great, right, Like.
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Speaker 2: It is tremendous. Yeah, over twenty in kickoff returns, over
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Speaker 2: ten on punt returns. He was well over that on
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Speaker 2: both all purpose yards. He had over two thousand to
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Speaker 2: all purpose yards. And that's with what not being a
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Speaker 2: running back. Yeah, you know, that's something you do not
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Speaker 2: see at the high school level. You just don't and
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Speaker 2: you just throw all that together and it's just like,
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Speaker 2: my god, goodness, like it is crazy. And what I
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Speaker 2: think is gonna happen. And I know he's he's gonna
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Speaker 2: play somewhere at the next level, is that he's going
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Speaker 2: to go somewhere and he's gonna shine at practice, he's
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Speaker 2: gonna get into a game, he's gonna have an amaz
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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, they're not gonna be able
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Speaker 2: to get him out of the lineup and then bear
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Speaker 2: schools are gonna go who is that kid? And that's
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Speaker 2: just because that's just kind of the way that he plays.
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Speaker 2: He plays differently than other people, and I understand at
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Speaker 2: the college level everybody's good, but there's something different about
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Speaker 2: his natural ability of making guys miss and having moves
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Speaker 2: and catching every single thing that comes his way.
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Speaker 1: Is really a sight to see, you know the thing
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Speaker 1: I really like. So first off, you know that one
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Speaker 1: handed catch that he had against against.
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Speaker 2: Tom Water, Yes on the sideline.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sitting here watching this film and I'm waiting
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Speaker 1: for that play than Boom, there it is, right, and
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Speaker 1: you're just like, wow, there it is again, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that catch is ridiculous. I don't think that's the best
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Speaker 1: catch he hat all year. Yeah, that interception he had
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Speaker 1: against Burlington Edison, Yeah, oh my god. First off, he
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Speaker 1: like kind of bites on what he thinks is gonna
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Speaker 1: be like a slant and then like recovers, spins around
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Speaker 1: and then gets his head around and it's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: the ball is right here. Boom hands up, spins around
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Speaker 1: in the air and catches the ball and it's like,
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Speaker 1: good lord, I mean, yeah, that is one of those
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Speaker 1: catches that is just mind boggling, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: It just really is the thing that I think impresses
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Speaker 1: me the most. You know, one thing that's kind of
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Speaker 1: become become like a stat in the NFL. You know,
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Speaker 1: I love these next gen stats. Most of them mean
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Speaker 1: absolutely nothing, right, Like, oh, the guy's top end speed,
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Speaker 1: Like it doesn't mean anything, like, you know, okay, great,
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Speaker 1: he's fast. But it's like, you know, nobody was going
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Speaker 1: to catch a lot of these guys. You know, but
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Speaker 1: there's one stat that always kind of makes me laugh
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Speaker 1: is like how much separation or receiver has Andre Watson
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Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of separation and a lot of
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Speaker 1: his catches, but he makes these guys look silly. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And it's just like the determination is really what it is.
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Speaker 1: It's like, how did he get come away with that ball? Yep?
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Speaker 1: You know there's there's times where the ball is underthrown
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Speaker 1: and if it was put on the money deep over
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Speaker 1: the top, then yeah, he's got a home run, you
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Speaker 1: know what I mean. But instead he adjusts to the ball.
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Speaker 1: There's one touchdown that he had at Civic going to
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Speaker 1: the right and when no one right throws the ball,
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Speaker 1: I'm like I was it looks like interset. Well, yes,
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Speaker 1: but I'm also like I don't even know who's thrown to,
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Speaker 1: Like I don't know which one is Watson. And then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he just jets in front of
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Speaker 1: these guys and dives, and you're just like, bro, how
17:36
Speaker 1: did he do that? Like? How did he do that?
17:38
Speaker 1: The thing that that truly impresses me, though, is there's
17:42
Speaker 1: only on his highlights, there's only a couple of like
17:47
Speaker 1: over the top bombs. There are way more plays where
17:52
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it's a stat like yard
17:55
Speaker 1: you know, like yards after contact? Yeah, right, and then
17:58
Speaker 1: like is there a staffer yards after because if there was,
18:01
Speaker 1: he had to lead like the world in that.
18:03
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's the original Yak And that's why I always
18:06
Speaker 2: compare him to Jerry Rice. Yea is Jerry Rice was
18:10
Speaker 2: the master at taking a three yard slant and an
18:13
Speaker 2: eighty yard touchdown.
18:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a it's a nothing. He there's a
18:17
Speaker 1: couple of plays here where he takes like a you know,
18:19
Speaker 1: just a nice easy hitch route, turns, spins off, a
18:22
Speaker 1: guy gets across the And the thing that's crazy too
18:25
Speaker 1: is you know, normally guys kind of run towards the sideline.
18:28
Speaker 1: He like runs back towards the middle of the field
18:29
Speaker 1: like where the linebacker and then and then just like
18:33
Speaker 1: barely makes a little head oh boom, and then he's
18:35
Speaker 1: like boom boom doing this and you're just like, good lord.
18:37
Speaker 1: He he reminds me also a lot obviously different because
18:40
Speaker 1: he's doing it on the outside, not so much in
18:42
Speaker 1: the slot. But it's it's a lot of like Edelman, Ammondola,
18:47
Speaker 1: Danny Woodhead, you know, like these guys that that that
18:50
Speaker 1: played a lot of that like slot for the for
18:52
Speaker 1: the Patriots. You know, who's the other guy, Wes Welker,
18:58
Speaker 1: Wes Welker exactly who I was thinking of. He reminds
19:02
Speaker 1: me a lot of those guys because is the top
19:05
Speaker 1: end speed lightning? You know, is he Usain Bolt out there? No?
19:08
Speaker 1: But he's football fast, you know, and you're just like, wow,
19:13
Speaker 1: how did he pull away from those guys like that?
19:15
Speaker 1: You know, like how did he do that? And the
19:19
Speaker 1: vision to see where an opening is going to be?
19:22
Speaker 1: And remember that time we talked about it a few
19:24
Speaker 1: different times where oh goodness, who is the quarterback at
19:29
Speaker 1: squaal come a couple of years ago. That was really fast.
19:33
Speaker 1: Spencer Lloyd no, no, no, no, he was at Wazoo
19:36
Speaker 1: as a receiver or maybe still lives, I don't know.
19:39
Speaker 1: He transferred in from outside the outside the stake, Oh
19:42
Speaker 1: lighton Smith Layton Smith's then remember that one play we
19:45
Speaker 1: talked about where he like saw the two safety. Yeah. Yeah,
19:49
Speaker 1: there's like times where you can see Andre Watson sees
19:52
Speaker 1: that opening like twenty yards away, right, and and then
19:57
Speaker 1: he's like, all right, I'm just gonna run right between
19:59
Speaker 1: these two, and those guys should make that tackle, you
20:02
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like they should just slowly close
20:04
Speaker 1: down the gap. But somehow he just runs right between him,
20:08
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And it's like, man, that's
20:10
Speaker 1: gotta be so frustrating as like a defensive coach to
20:12
Speaker 1: be like, all right, if we can just kind of
20:14
Speaker 1: bottle this guy up. And you can see it too,
20:16
Speaker 1: like you mention it. There's a couple of times where
20:19
Speaker 1: like there's a linebacker that's out by the hashes, there's
20:22
Speaker 1: the corner that's at the numbers, and the safety that's
20:24
Speaker 1: kind of in between the numbers and the hashes, and
20:27
Speaker 1: somehow he makes all three of them. Miss I'm just
20:30
Speaker 1: a little cheap seven yard you know, in and you're
20:34
Speaker 1: just like, bro, how did he do that? There was
20:36
Speaker 1: one play I think he picked up like fourteen or
20:38
Speaker 1: fifteen yards where he's got like five guys on his
20:41
Speaker 1: back and somehow spins out of it and you're just like,
20:44
Speaker 1: what in the heck is going on here? You know?
20:46
Speaker 1: And a lot of that is you know, there's obviously
20:50
Speaker 1: athleticism there, like there's no doubting that, but it's just determination.
20:57
Speaker 1: It's just like, you know what, I Am going to
20:58
Speaker 1: do everything I can to get that ball in the
21:01
Speaker 1: end zone and and we're just gonna keep going full power,
21:06
Speaker 1: full speed until him take him down.
21:08
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
21:09
Speaker 1: You know, and they better bring more than one guy.
21:11
Speaker 1: They better bring two or three of them, you know,
21:13
Speaker 1: probably three of them, you know. And it's it's fun
21:16
Speaker 1: to watch. I mean, it just is. It's another one.
21:18
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about it with like Talon bung Guard.
21:20
Speaker 1: You know, the guys like this are what make high
21:23
Speaker 1: school football so much fun. That's exactly what it is.
21:25
Speaker 1: You just watch him and it's like, you know, is
21:27
Speaker 1: he six foot three? And you know, is he is
21:29
Speaker 1: he Randy Moss? No? You know what I mean, like
21:32
Speaker 1: he's not super tall and can take the roof off
21:34
Speaker 1: of any you know what I mean. He's not that guy. Yeah,
21:37
Speaker 1: But is he just a good football player? Is he
21:39
Speaker 1: a smart football player? Absolutely? You know. What he does too,
21:42
Speaker 1: is like he'll make the catch and already have the
21:44
Speaker 1: moves set up.
21:45
Speaker 2: Yes, that's and that's the first thing I noticed as
21:47
Speaker 2: a freshman.
21:48
Speaker 1: Yeah.
21:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, he only caught like seven balls as a freshman,
21:51
Speaker 2: but every time he would catch it, he'd make the
21:53
Speaker 2: first guy miss, like he would already start to do
21:55
Speaker 2: that move.
21:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's not even he's not even looking at
21:58
Speaker 1: the guy yet, you know what I mean. But he
22:00
Speaker 1: knows exactly what he's setting up, you know. And it's
22:02
Speaker 1: it's just it's football savvy, it's football smart, it's you know.
22:07
Speaker 1: And there was a punter or a kick return or
22:09
Speaker 1: something I saw. I don't know, I don't know if
22:11
Speaker 1: it was the video I'm watching right now, but there
22:13
Speaker 1: was one that I saw where it was like caught
22:15
Speaker 1: it kind of like stood there almost for a second
22:18
Speaker 1: to like analyze the situation and then be like, all right,
22:21
Speaker 1: this is what I'm gonna do. Like you know, it
22:23
Speaker 1: was like you remember when Barry Sanders used to do
22:25
Speaker 1: that like behind the line, where like he would like
22:27
Speaker 1: run one way and then like stop, like turn to
22:29
Speaker 1: the entire defense and then go, oh, okay, I see
22:31
Speaker 1: where I'm supposed to go now, and then like just
22:35
Speaker 1: like you know, run through eight different guys, you know,
22:37
Speaker 1: and then you've got some you know, random guy Tony
22:40
Speaker 1: Tolbert or something. He's just like standing there like, oh,
22:42
Speaker 1: where'd he go? What's going on right now?
22:44
Speaker 2: You know?
22:45
Speaker 1: It's it's it's truly fun to watch in the highlights
22:47
Speaker 1: are very impressive. I think he's one of those kids.
22:52
Speaker 1: I think he's one of those kids that like if
22:54
Speaker 1: he went n ai A, got some scholarship money, get
22:57
Speaker 1: a good education, could absolutely be like an All American
23:00
Speaker 1: at that level. Oh yeah, you know, and a guy
23:03
Speaker 1: that you know, we talked about it with another guy too,
23:06
Speaker 1: and I really don't like doing this, but a guy
23:09
Speaker 1: that is like built for the transfer portal, you know
23:11
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like I'm gonna go here, I'm gonna
23:13
Speaker 1: put up a ton of yards at you know, whatever
23:17
Speaker 1: state college or whatever you want to say, right, and
23:19
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, it's like, oh, he moved
23:21
Speaker 1: up to d two or D two up to Oh,
23:24
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's at Idaho State and he's
23:26
Speaker 1: just routing guys, you know, and you're just like, well,
23:29
Speaker 1: we knew that could happen. Yeah, you know, we knew
23:32
Speaker 1: that could happen. He had to go prove it a
23:33
Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, just fun to watch man, and uh,
23:38
Speaker 1: you know one of those things that next year is
23:39
Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see. Uh we might get
23:43
Speaker 1: to see more of Nolan Writes' legs maybe a little
23:45
Speaker 1: bit because he's not gonna have that piece, you know,
23:48
Speaker 1: that that that safety valve to you know what, I'm
23:51
Speaker 1: just gonna throw that five yard route and watch him
23:53
Speaker 1: run for thirty and we'll see what happens here. You know.
23:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a little different. And but what
24:00
Speaker 2: what's cool is that he's still you know, he's gonna
24:04
Speaker 2: have guys. I don't think they're gonna change too much
24:05
Speaker 2: of the offense. But yeah, but you know, I was
24:07
Speaker 2: thinking one of the one comp that came to mind
24:11
Speaker 2: as a seahawk for him.
24:13
Speaker 1: Well, hold on was okay, you got like a you
24:16
Speaker 1: got like a almost at a genre, you got like
24:18
Speaker 1: an era I got.
24:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say early tens.
24:24
Speaker 1: Oh, Bobby Ingram.
24:26
Speaker 2: Golden Tate.
24:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know what, he's like thicker in the waist,
24:30
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
24:31
Speaker 2: The physical aspect.
24:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's like, you know, he's like thick from
24:35
Speaker 1: the waist down to a point that it makes him
24:37
Speaker 1: really hard to tackle, you know. And and and he's
24:40
Speaker 1: he's so strong from the waist down that you know,
24:44
Speaker 1: it's the the other guy that I'd like to just
24:46
Speaker 1: throw out there, and I don't think it's really a
24:47
Speaker 1: comp I just want to say Bobby Joe Edmunds. So
24:50
Speaker 1: I just want to say it because I'm looking at
24:52
Speaker 1: tech bo ball right now. It's just right there.
24:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, as a returner, Yeah I could.
24:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. Absolutely, Yeah. I just want to
24:58
Speaker 1: say Bobby Joe Edmonds. Yeah. Anyway, Tyler, anything else before
25:03
Speaker 1: we get out of here. I mean, there's so much
25:06
Speaker 1: to say. And you know what, Tyler, I have a feeling,
25:08
Speaker 1: just just a slight feeling, we might get to talk
25:11
Speaker 1: about Andre Watson again one more time here coming up,
25:15
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
25:16
Speaker 2: I have a pretty good feeling too.
25:17
Speaker 1: I have a feeling we might have an opportunity to
25:19
Speaker 1: do it. So anything else here on the Top one
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25:27
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