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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 271 - 2024 Mount Baker Mountaineers Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Senior Luke Smith and you're listening to the
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker football preview on the Walcome Preps Podcast with
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Speaker 1: Tyler and Rowland Go.
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Speaker 2: Baker, Geting Xander. Welcome into the Walk Them Preps Podcast.
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Speaker 2: This is episode two and seventy one, the eighth of
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Speaker 2: ten football team previews. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me
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Speaker 2: as always is Tyler Anderson of WAKAM Prep. Tyler, how
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Speaker 2: are we.
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Speaker 3: Doing doing good?
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Speaker 4: I almost thought you were gonna say Tyler Anderson of
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Speaker 4: and then play a SoundBite, but yeah, this will this
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Speaker 4: will be a this will be a fun one. This
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Speaker 4: will uh, this will be good. And I always have
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Speaker 4: fun talking about coach slap and I'm doing great. I'm
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Speaker 4: doing great. We're getting really really close out of the
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Speaker 4: football season.
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Speaker 3: Boy, that's a lot of lemons.
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Speaker 2: Got a feeling we're gonna be using a lot of
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Speaker 2: these today, Tyler, let me tell you, yep, you guys
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Speaker 2: up for a toga party. I mean, we got them
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Speaker 2: all ready to go. We need to give a thank
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Speaker 2: you to Luke Smith for the intro. Obviously, as you
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Speaker 2: can tell, we're talking Mount Baker. Yeah, it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: a fun one. We need to give a thank you
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Speaker 2: to Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurk Mayberry Farm is a fourth
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Speaker 2: a generation family owned and operated berry farm committed to
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Speaker 2: growing the highest quality berries, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. You
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Speaker 2: can find them online Kurt with the c m a
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Speaker 2: b E r Ry Farm dot com. Tyler, my goal
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Speaker 2: in all of this is to get to a fifth
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Speaker 2: generation family owned and operated Barry Farm. Like they will
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Speaker 2: be sponsoring us all the way to the fifth and
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Speaker 2: the sixth. That's what we're going for.
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Speaker 3: Yep. It's funny.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about six because I don't know how
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Speaker 2: far we're into the fourth you know what I mean, Like,
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Speaker 2: like are we even close to the fifth at this point?
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Speaker 2: Or like is fourth just I think the fifths might
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Speaker 2: be in high school? Okay, so maybe we got a
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Speaker 2: little time to go before we get to the fifth.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, we're trying to outlast the fourth generation
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Speaker 2: Berry Farm is what we're gonna do here, Tyler. This podcast,
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Speaker 2: as I mentioned, is going to be about the Mount
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Speaker 2: Baker Mountaineers. Earlier today we talked about the Ferndale Golden Eagles.
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Speaker 2: Well that's a lot of words for team names here.
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Speaker 2: Yesterday we posted Meridian at Squalicum, and then we've also
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Speaker 2: already posted the Linden's, Bellingham and Blaine Tyler. At this
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Speaker 2: point it might be easier to mention who we haven't posted, which,
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Speaker 2: by the way, is Sea homean Nooksack Valley, which you
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Speaker 2: can find tomorrow, so be sure to subscribe to the podcast.
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Speaker 2: And then on Thursday we will have a week one
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Speaker 2: preview and the county volleyball preview as well, so be
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Speaker 2: on the lookout for those right in the games. After that, Tyler,
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Speaker 2: we are, well, yeah, we're ready to go. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's it's it's officially go time, you know what I mean? Like,
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Speaker 2: what are we at the day before? The day before?
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Speaker 2: Is that where we're at? I don't even know what
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Speaker 2: is the day before? The day before? That would be Wednesday, right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is still This is going to
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Speaker 4: be on Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: Is that Tuesday? Oh?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Because Wednesday would be Sea homean nook Sac Valley. So
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Speaker 2: we got a day. We got a day to go
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Speaker 2: before the day before the day before which is I
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Speaker 2: believe a Pete Carroll thing if I can remember, right,
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Speaker 2: But yeah, let's see here, Tyler, Friday morning you went
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Speaker 2: out to Meridian. We talked about them already, and then
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Speaker 2: you went to Ferndale, we talked about them already. Then
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Speaker 2: you made your way out to Mount Baker High School,
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Speaker 2: where you are a living legend long time. I mean, Tyler,
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Speaker 2: the how many is Mount Baker a four year school? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: so that was the best five years of Tyler's life
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Speaker 2: out there at DEMI almost Yeah. Yeah, you were out there,
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Speaker 2: coach Lab doing his thing. I assume still a lot
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Speaker 2: of the same coaching staff, anybody knew. I mean, well,
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Speaker 2: what did you see out there, Tyler? What are your thoughts?
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Speaker 2: I mean, I have a feeling it's probably a lot
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Speaker 2: of the same faces on the coaching staff.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's all they're all Mount Baker grads,
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Speaker 4: a lot of the same faces. See Caleb Bass out
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Speaker 4: there throwing the ball forty fifty yard yards out, you know,
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Speaker 4: to for the defensive backs and and uh, you know,
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Speaker 4: it's it's fun seeing him out there.
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Speaker 2: And you see forty or fifty yards for the defensive backs.
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Speaker 4: Like like you know, like a deep ball, like yeah,
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Speaker 4: the bombs huh right, yeah, I mean everything, So yeah,
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Speaker 4: I just you know, it's a lot of fun going
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Speaker 4: out there. There was the end of a long day.
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Speaker 4: Usually I stopped by my parents when I'm heading on
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Speaker 4: the way out there, but I wasn't able to. I
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Speaker 4: saw them just a few days prior to that, so
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Speaker 4: it was okay. But but yeah, I mean it's always
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Speaker 4: fun going out there and just and just uh if
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Speaker 4: it's home, you know, you know it it has a
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Speaker 4: different feel to it. You know, I always get to
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Speaker 4: see a lot of conditioning at the end of practice.
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Speaker 4: Mount Bakers, you know, traditionally does that pretty heavily, and uh,
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Speaker 4: you know that's that's just a you know, a staple
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Speaker 4: with with Coach Leap is conditioning. You're you know, you're
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Speaker 4: not going to be beating the fourth quarter and you know,
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Speaker 4: I think that, you know, when they went on that
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Speaker 4: recent run where they got all the way to the
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Speaker 4: state title game, I mean that was just kind of
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Speaker 4: their thing. I mean, they're gonna be in great, great
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Speaker 4: condition and they're gonna outlast you, you know, and so yeah,
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Speaker 4: it was a lot of fun going out there, obviously,
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Speaker 4: you know, to catch up with Coach Leap and you know,
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Speaker 4: Tom Horseman and those guys that I've known forever. I mean,
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Speaker 4: this will be it was thirty years ago around this
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Speaker 4: time when I met coach let for the first time.
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Speaker 4: I've known Tommy for forty years, you know. So it's
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Speaker 4: it's it's a lot of fun. It's it's it's it
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Speaker 4: feels natural, like, it feels easy and and obviously you
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Speaker 4: know this time of year when all that stuff combined,
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Speaker 4: it's just it's a it's a big smile on my face.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, It's one of those things like still to this day,
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Speaker 2: even though I spend less and less time looking at
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Speaker 2: worrying about anything one to eat of football, one of
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Speaker 2: those things that when I still go back to one ETA,
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Speaker 2: it's still kind of kind of fun, you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean. It's like when I went there for the
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Speaker 2: Blaine Cedar Park Christian game last year. You know, like
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Speaker 2: it was still fun to just be there, you know,
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Speaker 2: even though the school looks totally different because they tore
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Speaker 2: it down and built a college basically. Yeah, Tyler, Uh,
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Speaker 2: you know the interesting thing about Mount Baker is I
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Speaker 2: think this is maybe is this the first time we've
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Speaker 2: talked about we've talked about it, like the team from
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Speaker 2: the previous year having a losing record on the on
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Speaker 2: the podcast.
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Speaker 4: I think Squalk them, they went I think they went
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Speaker 4: four and six last year.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, I'm saying for Mount Baker.
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Speaker 4: What do you mean, like for like, oh, the first
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Speaker 4: time that Mount Baker's had a losing record.
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Speaker 2: Since we've done the podcast. Yeah, I think you're right.
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Speaker 4: I think you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, which is kind of a weird position for Mount
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Speaker 2: Baker in a way.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: And but that being said, I mean there's a lot
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Speaker 2: to like here. And you were out there, you got
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Speaker 2: out there, you talked to Coach Lap. I'm sure he
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Speaker 2: didn't stop talking for about nine hours. What Tyler, before
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Speaker 2: I go any further, what's the beard look like out there?
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Speaker 2: What's the beard situation?
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Speaker 4: It's looking sharp, it's looking sharp, it's trimmed, it's it's
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Speaker 4: you know, it looks it looks sharp. It's not it's
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Speaker 4: not Santa Claus.
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Speaker 2: But it's uh no Christmas in August. But it's there. Yeah, gotcha, gotcha,
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Speaker 2: Coach Lap, twenty nine years Mount Baker, Tyler, and you
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Speaker 2: sat down with him for a long time. Eight minutes
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Speaker 2: is what we got here with Coach Lapp live from
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Speaker 2: Mount Baker High School. Not live, it's s tape recorder.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna play it right here though, So yeah, Tyler
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Speaker 2: take it away.
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Speaker 1: This is Tyler Anderson from Walking Preps. I'm sitting here
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Speaker 1: with coach lap out at Mount Baker High School on
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Speaker 1: leg on location and we're gonna talk to Mount Baker Football. So, coach,
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Speaker 1: thirty years ago you arrived on campus and they haven't
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Speaker 1: let you go. You're still here. How has it been
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Speaker 1: the progression in the last thirty years. You've set roots
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Speaker 1: and you've become a fixture. How I mean, just if
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Speaker 1: you could sum that up?
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Speaker 5: Oh, I mean, yeah, it's awesome. I mean from the
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Speaker 5: standpoint that you know, it didn't come here expecting to
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Speaker 5: move around. I mean, my wife and I Trish, you know,
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Speaker 5: we kind of made a decision that I was coaching
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Speaker 5: at the college level before he came back down to
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Speaker 5: high school, and we, you know, we decided that we're
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Speaker 5: going to have our ladship together and get married and
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Speaker 5: spend some time together. And we wanted a family. And
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Speaker 5: so the choice was stay in college and probably move around,
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Speaker 5: or go to high school and not move as much.
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Speaker 3: And we chose the high school route, you.
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Speaker 5: Know, start out in California, had a really good experience there.
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Speaker 5: We really liked the lifestyle, but we just realized that
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Speaker 5: the educational system at that time was probably not going
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Speaker 5: to be advantageous for us to be there. And so
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Speaker 5: I got a phone call from coach Preston, you know,
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Speaker 5: to say, hey, we have an opening and we have
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Speaker 5: a job.
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Speaker 3: Are you interested?
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Speaker 5: And I was all excited about it, you know, I said, yeah,
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Speaker 5: I come up and want to do the defense for
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Speaker 5: you and stuff, and he goes, I want you to
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Speaker 5: coach the offense, and I was like, okay, And so.
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Speaker 3: We made that decision.
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Speaker 5: It was you know, less money and a little stressful. We
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Speaker 5: had he had to wait for our third child to
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Speaker 5: be born and wait two weeks where we can move here.
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Speaker 5: So new job, new house, new kid, all that kind
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Speaker 5: of stuff, and got here and and uh, we had
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Speaker 5: a pretty successful year the first year here, and then
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Speaker 5: you know, second year had a chance, and and then
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Speaker 5: you know, I thought about I was actually in the
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Speaker 5: process of applying to go to Kashmere, back where I
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Speaker 5: graduated from, and I didn't know at the time that
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Speaker 5: coach Preston was doing the same thing for one atchie.
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Speaker 5: And then he got off the job before I did,
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Speaker 5: and so then it was like you know what do
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Speaker 5: I do. And I talked with my old high school
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Speaker 5: coach and you know, I said, as much as he
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Speaker 5: would love to have me there, he goes, I think
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Speaker 5: you have a chance to have a good thing at
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Speaker 5: my Baker.
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Speaker 3: So we stayed history ever since.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. So, Yeah, it's been great. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 5: it's been a really good experience. You know, great people
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Speaker 5: in the community, you know, competing against really good coaches
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Speaker 5: and programs and are you know, and all that kind
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Speaker 5: of stuff, and it's just been I don't I don't
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Speaker 5: know what I expected. I guess, you know, I just
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Speaker 5: knew I wanted to be a head football coach and
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Speaker 5: try to do things a certain way and still trying
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Speaker 5: to do that.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 4: You brought it up a little bit. The rest of
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Speaker 4: the league.
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Speaker 3: It's a tough league.
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Speaker 1: Other coaches have said, it's the sec of the state
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Speaker 1: of Washington.
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Speaker 4: Right top to bottom.
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Speaker 1: It's always really competitive.
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Speaker 4: How do you see the rest of the league this year?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, well preface that one a sec. Yes, but yeah,
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Speaker 5: it's you know, I think, uh, you know, Nooksacks still
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Speaker 5: has a lot of a lot of things going on
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Speaker 5: in their way right now, and you know, obviously, it've
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Speaker 5: had really two really good years and and that carries
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Speaker 5: over and that's a big part of high school is
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Speaker 5: that that confidence there. You know, Lenny Christian has been
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Speaker 5: has been really good. They've you know, they've won the
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Speaker 5: league the last two years in a row, or you know,
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Speaker 5: and or how to share the title. Uh, you know,
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Speaker 5: Meridian's got really good coaching there, and our kids are
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Speaker 5: getting closer, you know, and and I think Blaine's going
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Speaker 5: on the way up with their new coach and coach
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Speaker 5: Wilson's trying to get some things established there. And then
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Speaker 5: you know, we're trying to rebuild a little bit. You know,
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Speaker 5: last year was a little disappointing for us overall, not
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Speaker 5: that we expected to be undefeated state champions, but you know,
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Speaker 5: we thought we would probably be a little better. And
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Speaker 5: so again, when that happens, you got to kind of
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Speaker 5: take a look at what's going on. And so we're
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Speaker 5: excited about shaking that stuff off and getting after it
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Speaker 5: here pretty soon a.
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Speaker 1: New rule this year, the round of thirty two. You
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Speaker 1: were pretty significant in that, being in meetings and stuff
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Speaker 1: and seeing it being hands on.
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Speaker 4: What does that mean? How can that benefit the mountaineers?
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Speaker 5: Well, obviously it's going to allow more teams to get involved,
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Speaker 5: but it's just it's just not us, it's everybody. And
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Speaker 5: I think it's great for the sport. It makes Week ten,
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Speaker 5: you know, games late in the year more meaningful and
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Speaker 5: you never know what happens. I mean, you know, it's
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Speaker 5: like the you know sixty, you know, the NCAA tournament, right,
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Speaker 5: sometimes one does get knocked off, but you got an opportunity.
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Speaker 5: And although it's not technically the first round of State,
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Speaker 5: that's something.
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Speaker 3: You can build with the program.
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Speaker 5: Especially if you've got to program, you're trying to, you know,
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Speaker 5: get some confidence and try to get them in the
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Speaker 5: right direction to be able to play a game that
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Speaker 5: means something with a chance there are still you can't
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Speaker 5: ask for more than that, and I think it's gonna
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Speaker 5: be exciting. You know, the four a's and three a's
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Speaker 5: have been doing it. Two a's got in. We had
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Speaker 5: to do a little more work with the one a's
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Speaker 5: and come back and it looked like it wasn't gonna happen,
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Speaker 5: and then we got it to be able it to happen,
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Speaker 5: and so I'm excited about it. I think it's great.
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Speaker 5: You know, the idea about the tournament. You want to
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Speaker 5: get the best teams in there. And unlike you know
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Speaker 5: the match March Madness, where you have your automatic qualifiers
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Speaker 5: and you have so many at large bids, you know,
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Speaker 5: some teams still condider. But the chances are those teams,
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Speaker 5: some teams that should be in the tournament will have
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Speaker 5: an opportunity to get there.
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Speaker 1: Your offense this year, this is this will be your
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Speaker 1: twenty ninth year as head coach. And I think there
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Speaker 1: was two years where you weren't really heavy wing tea.
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Speaker 1: So you know, there's a lot of fans in the
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Speaker 1: stands that come out every year and they say, watch
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Speaker 1: them Baker. Are they going to see basic Mount Baker
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Speaker 1: wing te offense again?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think.
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Speaker 5: I mean that's just how it's kind of worked out.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 5: You know, we we had some athletes over the years
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Speaker 5: where we did spread it out one year and you know,
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Speaker 5: and and I was an eye guy before that, and
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Speaker 5: then you know we figured out how you know, and yeah,
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Speaker 5: you want to give your tailback you know, eight hundred
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Speaker 5: carries a game, and you know we had that, we
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Speaker 5: had some pretty good running backs we needed to share.
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Speaker 3: So to us, this gives an opportunity to open that
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Speaker 3: up a little bit. You know.
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Speaker 5: It's like anything else, you need to adapt, you need
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Speaker 5: to kind of be creative. And and what I like
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Speaker 5: about the wing tea is that if the shutting one
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Speaker 5: thing down, then there's something else should be there, unless
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Speaker 5: you're just being overwhelmed physically. But you know, if okay,
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Speaker 5: you want to take this away, that's fine, but then
13:43
Speaker 5: you can't do this kind of thing, and that puts some.
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Speaker 3: Pressure that way.
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Speaker 5: It's kind of what it's actually it's kind of a
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Speaker 5: funny little story, but I was in Kansas this summer
13:54
Speaker 5: visiting my daughter and her fiance coaches at a junior
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Speaker 5: college in Garden City, and I went to watch one
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Speaker 5: of the practices and kid comes up and he's from
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Speaker 5: Lake's High School.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 5: We're just talking and my fiance or my daughter's fiance
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Speaker 5: introduces me and he goes Mount Baker goes, yeah, you
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Speaker 5: guys have really good running backs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I was like, yeah.
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Speaker 5: It was like that was pretty cool, Like here's a
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Speaker 5: kid from the school in Tacoma. Yeah, and the big
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Speaker 5: school and like the one that like, hey, Mount Baker's
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Speaker 5: kind of home for running backs, which we have you know,
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Speaker 5: you know, we've had our share of good running backs
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Speaker 5: over the year, so yeah, we pought you know, we're
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Speaker 5: still gonna do the wing team. You know, if you've
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Speaker 5: watched it, we've morphed it a little bit. We do
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Speaker 5: some things out of it differently than you know, twenty
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Speaker 5: five years ago, but that's going to still be our
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Speaker 5: base offense.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Defensive wise, Coach Horseman's been by your side to
14:43
Speaker 1: coach the defense for a long time now, almost as
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Speaker 1: long as you've been the head coach. What do you
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Speaker 1: like about your defense at this moment?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think again, coming back, we're going to try
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Speaker 5: to prove some things that we didn't that we need
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Speaker 5: to be better than we were last year, you know,
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Speaker 5: and I and and defense is seen a little bit
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Speaker 5: more you know, controlled chaos, you know, and we just
15:03
Speaker 5: got to have that that fire there and stuff, and
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Speaker 5: so we just got to make sure that we understand
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Speaker 5: what we're what we're supposed to do and then find
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Speaker 5: a way.
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Speaker 3: To get it done, you know.
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Speaker 5: And coach Orsen does a great job with you know,
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Speaker 5: talking about assignments and stuff. We don't have a lot
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Speaker 5: of miss assignments, but it's just getting that confidence that, Hey,
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Speaker 5: that's your job, go do it, you know, and you
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Speaker 5: heard them last. Hear him today talking you know, like, hey,
15:23
Speaker 5: you're just about half a step where you're away from
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Speaker 5: what you need to be. So it's early, but you
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Speaker 5: know getting that. So we have uh, you know, expecting
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Speaker 5: us to you know, come come, come play hard and
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Speaker 5: you know, compete and and give ourselves a chance to
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Speaker 5: you know, come to fourth quarter again.
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Speaker 2: Thank you coach Lep for his time. Talk about guys
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Speaker 2: generous with his time, Tyler. I mean, heck, sometimes sometimes
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Speaker 2: you don't even have time, but he's going to be
15:46
Speaker 2: generous with his you know what I mean, Like he's
15:48
Speaker 2: just going to call you out of nowhere to let
15:49
Speaker 2: you know that he was right about something. I love it,
15:53
Speaker 2: like on his way back from was it Lakeside or
15:55
Speaker 2: whatever it was, or I don't remember what they were
15:57
Speaker 2: doing but or yeah, somewhere I don't even know what
16:00
Speaker 2: it was. But yeah, like I said, twenty ninth season
16:03
Speaker 2: at the Helm in Deming, Tyler, how many years was
16:07
Speaker 2: he there before becoming the head mail.
16:09
Speaker 4: Yeah, two years as an assistant coach calling the offense,
16:12
Speaker 4: and became the head coach right after that, just after
16:15
Speaker 4: the two years. So he was there as an assistant
16:18
Speaker 4: for my sophomore and junior year and became the head
16:20
Speaker 4: coach my senior year.
16:21
Speaker 2: So they really went out on a limb. They didn't
16:23
Speaker 2: even know the guy when they hired him full time.
16:26
Speaker 2: Two hundred and three wins all time, ninety six losses.
16:30
Speaker 2: They played their games out there as you know at
16:32
Speaker 2: Bob Tisdale Field, Tyler three and seven last year, some
16:36
Speaker 2: definite losses, some definite names, guys that made some big
16:40
Speaker 2: plays for them. The thing that's interesting is they like
16:45
Speaker 2: they kind of like lose a piece or like a
16:48
Speaker 2: significant piece at like each kind of group, you know
16:51
Speaker 2: what I mean. But when you start looking at the
16:54
Speaker 2: top attorneyes, there's a lot of names here and it's
16:58
Speaker 2: four lines deep. Again, if you're not reading this stuff
17:02
Speaker 2: on watkompreps dot com, it's the easiest way to go
17:04
Speaker 2: look it up because I say stuff like it's four
17:06
Speaker 2: lines deep, and you're like, what are you talking about?
17:08
Speaker 2: Then you get on watkampreps dot com and you're like, ah,
17:10
Speaker 2: I see what he's talking about here. There's a lot
17:11
Speaker 2: of names on here, Tyler. That being said, though, when
17:15
Speaker 2: we look at last year's schedule. You know, I I
17:19
Speaker 2: don't know how to say this. I kind of feel
17:21
Speaker 2: like it's almost like when you look at this schedule,
17:24
Speaker 2: it's kind of like they won the games they should
17:26
Speaker 2: have won. Last year they lost the games Maybe that
17:28
Speaker 2: they should have lost is maybe the way I would
17:30
Speaker 2: put it.
17:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, I mean it was. It was,
17:35
Speaker 4: you know, coming off a big, big year where they're
17:38
Speaker 4: in the state title game, and I don't know, I
17:43
Speaker 4: just I thought that they should have probably beat Wenacchi
17:47
Speaker 4: for some reason, you know, but when ACTU was just
17:49
Speaker 4: bigger and stronger in for a and I was like, okay,
17:52
Speaker 4: because they had beaten them, you know, they had beaten
17:54
Speaker 4: them previously. And then and I saw the game against
17:58
Speaker 4: Top Finish, and I know Top Nish was down a
18:00
Speaker 4: little bit, and when they got them by just a touchdown,
18:02
Speaker 4: it was a pick six that kind of won them
18:04
Speaker 4: the game. I just thought, wow, like there it is
18:08
Speaker 4: a lot of new guys, you know last year.
18:11
Speaker 2: Yeah.
18:11
Speaker 4: And and I thought they played their best game against Blaine.
18:15
Speaker 4: I mean it was a really complete game offense, defense
18:17
Speaker 4: and special teams, a kicker off return for touchdown in
18:19
Speaker 4: that In that game, I thought they played pretty well
18:22
Speaker 4: against the Center too. They they were missing one of
18:24
Speaker 4: their stars land and Hanstead in that game. So that
18:27
Speaker 4: game was on the road against a really good the
18:29
Speaker 4: Center team, So you know it was I definitely think
18:33
Speaker 4: that they ended better than they started. I think they
18:35
Speaker 4: got better as the season war on. But it's a
18:38
Speaker 4: really tough league, and and uh, that was a really
18:41
Speaker 4: that was a really tricky part about it. I'm noticing
18:44
Speaker 4: on the results. I don't have the Linden Christian game
18:46
Speaker 4: put in there, but that was after the Meridian game,
18:51
Speaker 4: and they lost that one by about five scores.
18:54
Speaker 2: So well, it's good that we're recording this early. Then huh, yeah,
18:58
Speaker 2: you can go put it in there before the p
19:00
Speaker 2: We'll see it.
19:01
Speaker 4: People will see that it's in there when they notice it.
19:04
Speaker 2: The people that I just told to go look at
19:05
Speaker 2: the thing, they're going, no, it's Tyler, it's right there. Yeah,
19:08
Speaker 2: it's right there. Well, now you know why Tyler. When
19:12
Speaker 2: we look at the backfield, obviously, you know the the
19:16
Speaker 2: quarterback position at Mount Baker. You know, sometimes those guys
19:20
Speaker 2: will throw for you know, good chunky yards or something,
19:23
Speaker 2: but you know, last couple of years, maybe not the
19:26
Speaker 2: the the dynamic gunslingers that they were in previous years,
19:31
Speaker 2: if you want to say it. But in the backfield
19:33
Speaker 2: they return some guys that have some serious experience, but
19:36
Speaker 2: also maybe not the greatest depth as far as names
19:41
Speaker 2: that we know. But Tyler, Dylan Moa, Brady Brulin, these
19:44
Speaker 2: are guys that you and I have been talking about
19:46
Speaker 2: for a couple of years now, really good football players.
19:49
Speaker 4: Yeah, when you return your two top leading rushers at
19:52
Speaker 4: Mount Baker, that's usually a really good signed. You know,
19:54
Speaker 4: you go back to the Jedge Slammer Carson Ingholm combination,
19:58
Speaker 4: they were together for a while. When you got those
20:01
Speaker 4: two kids that are in the same grade and they
20:03
Speaker 4: play together, uh, that's just going to be huge. Jilla
20:06
Speaker 4: Moa is up to two hundred pounds now, looks really
20:09
Speaker 4: really strong, really fast, really really good. H Brady Brulin
20:13
Speaker 4: is just I mean so dynamic he's got It's crazy
20:17
Speaker 4: because I feel like at almost like he's he runs
20:20
Speaker 4: track too, but it almost feels like he's faster on
20:22
Speaker 4: the football field than he is on the on the track.
20:25
Speaker 4: It's I don't know how to explain it. Like some
20:26
Speaker 4: guys just are just really football fast, you know, like
20:31
Speaker 4: Jerry Rice Jerry Rice ran what like a four six
20:34
Speaker 4: eight forty, but I never saw him get caught from.
20:36
Speaker 2: Behind, you know what I mean. Nobody was getting that guy.
20:39
Speaker 4: So it's like it's it's that kind of deal with
20:41
Speaker 4: with with Brady Brulin. You know, you return two quarterbacks
20:45
Speaker 4: with a lot of experience, and and uh, you know
20:49
Speaker 4: last year, going into the season, there was it was
20:52
Speaker 4: a you know, it was a quarterback. It was a
20:55
Speaker 4: battle for who was gonna start, and Luke kind of
20:57
Speaker 4: got dinged up at at camp and so and so
21:01
Speaker 4: Toga started, and then Toga started three quarters of the year,
21:05
Speaker 4: he gets injured, Luke plays the rest of the year,
21:08
Speaker 4: gets some really good Luke Smith gets plays the rest
21:10
Speaker 4: of you gets really good experience that way. So coming
21:14
Speaker 4: into this year they both returned, they're both battling it
21:16
Speaker 4: out again. This time Toga gets dinged up at camp
21:21
Speaker 4: and so now and Luke did really well. So now
21:24
Speaker 4: Luke Smith will be the starting quarterback and when Toga's
21:27
Speaker 4: healthy again, he'll be able to be the backup. And
21:29
Speaker 4: it's kind of it's, you know, you got two guys
21:33
Speaker 4: with a lot of experience. I remember coach Leap's very
21:36
Speaker 4: first year, he comes in thirty years ago. He's the
21:40
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator, and he had two guys that basically split
21:43
Speaker 4: time at quarterback the year before. One of them was
21:45
Speaker 4: Tommy Horseman. The other one was Lance Zamzau who was
21:49
Speaker 4: just unbelievably dynamic, ran like a four to six forty
21:53
Speaker 4: and two completely different guys. And he looked at both
21:57
Speaker 4: of them. They didn't have any receivers returning, and after
22:01
Speaker 4: one game put him both at receiver and brought in
22:03
Speaker 4: a new quarterback and it and went undefeated in the league.
22:07
Speaker 4: In the league sced you know, in the regular season
22:10
Speaker 4: and went onto the state playoffs, so the first time,
22:12
Speaker 4: and you know, seven or eight years so I think,
22:16
Speaker 4: I don't think that was gonna happen here. But he's
22:18
Speaker 4: dealt with this where he has a couple of quarterbacks
22:20
Speaker 4: and at the running back spot, yeah, you have those two.
22:22
Speaker 4: Sean Dugger is kind of the in the in the
22:26
Speaker 4: spot right now to be the wing back. He played
22:29
Speaker 4: a lot of defense last year. And then other guys
22:32
Speaker 4: that could be in the backfield, Bryce Cooper. I thought,
22:36
Speaker 4: he's a really dynamic player and he's he's gonna get
22:38
Speaker 4: a little bit more. He's gonna become featured a little
22:41
Speaker 4: bit more this year. I think he'll be in the
22:42
Speaker 4: rotation a little bit more. He had a good long
22:45
Speaker 4: touchdown run I want to say against Knicksack Valley and
22:49
Speaker 4: he is really fast and uh and Campden Moa too
22:54
Speaker 4: had a couple carries last year average over ten yards
22:57
Speaker 4: and on those carries, I think he could get a
22:59
Speaker 4: little bit more run. Both these guys played a little
23:01
Speaker 4: bit more defense than the offense, but I think they
23:03
Speaker 4: could get featured into that offense a little bit this
23:06
Speaker 4: year now.
23:07
Speaker 2: Very similar to Ferndale. The receiving game is what we're
23:10
Speaker 2: looking at Mount Baker. Now, I will say this, they
23:15
Speaker 2: do lose a guy, they lose one, well, they lose
23:18
Speaker 2: a couple of them. But Tyler Landon Hanstead. How many
23:20
Speaker 2: times did we mention his name over the last couple
23:23
Speaker 2: of years where it was just random one play fifty yards?
23:27
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Like that's something that in
23:30
Speaker 2: that Mount Baker offense is is big because if they
23:33
Speaker 2: can just go okay, great, now, the defense has got
23:38
Speaker 2: to be a little wary, just a little bit, tiny
23:40
Speaker 2: tiny bit on their heels if they must. You know,
23:45
Speaker 2: it's it gives you a little bit more of the
23:46
Speaker 2: ability to run inside. That being said, they returned some
23:50
Speaker 2: guys that have some receiving yards. Unfortunately, one of their
23:55
Speaker 2: leading receiver coming back is also one of their leading
23:57
Speaker 2: rushers coming back. But over all, Tyler, there's probably some
24:02
Speaker 2: talent on the outside. I just don't really know who
24:04
Speaker 2: it is.
24:05
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know you're right about Brady Bruland he is
24:07
Speaker 4: a running back, but he's got very very good hands.
24:10
Speaker 4: Saw him with some great catches against Blaine uh and
24:13
Speaker 4: you might see him go in motion and split out
24:15
Speaker 4: wide because he because he is an option out there.
24:18
Speaker 4: They've had that that trio of receivers, the Landing Handstead,
24:22
Speaker 4: Tanyon Stayton, and Hayden Rossa and those three all of
24:27
Speaker 4: them are you know five nine maybe yeah, five eight,
24:31
Speaker 4: five nine, and so they kind of had those little
24:33
Speaker 4: speedy guys and it's so crazy how they all graduate
24:37
Speaker 4: and kind of the trio that's coming in now they're
24:40
Speaker 4: all like six two six three, So it's a completely
24:43
Speaker 4: different you know. Look, and they've done really well with
24:45
Speaker 4: those tall receivers, you know, going back to Thomas Barbo
24:49
Speaker 4: and then Michael Kentner and then Garrett Smith, and they
24:51
Speaker 4: always kind of whenever they had that six two sixty
24:54
Speaker 4: three receiver on the end there as an ex they
24:57
Speaker 4: always knew really well how to use a and how
25:00
Speaker 4: to get them open and make mismatch problems. Now you've
25:04
Speaker 4: got a lot of guys that can do that. You
25:05
Speaker 4: talk about Jet Ross, who's just a great athlete just
25:08
Speaker 4: a junior. Dean Alred another really good athlete as a senior.
25:13
Speaker 4: And then there's a transfer from Lyndon Darius Gilstrap, who
25:16
Speaker 4: we saw some good things on the basketball court, we
25:19
Speaker 4: saw some good things in the track and field, throwing
25:21
Speaker 4: the javelin, doing long jump, and he's a really good
25:24
Speaker 4: athlete as well. So all three of those guys kind
25:28
Speaker 4: of fit that mold. And you know a lot of
25:31
Speaker 4: times when they go with more of a traditional pro look,
25:35
Speaker 4: they'll just put their wing out as like the Z,
25:39
Speaker 4: you know, off the line of scrimmage. And so you
25:43
Speaker 4: might not get two of these guys at one time.
25:45
Speaker 4: So I don't think any of these guys are gonna
25:46
Speaker 4: be wings, but you never know. I mean, who knows
25:50
Speaker 4: what you're gonna get from coach Left because as they
25:53
Speaker 4: do run the wing tee, but they do some different
25:56
Speaker 4: variations off of it sometimes and it can kind of
26:00
Speaker 4: stretch a little bit into some other stuff. So but
26:03
Speaker 4: those those three guys are very very athletic. They can
26:08
Speaker 4: they can make plays. You can throw that, you can
26:09
Speaker 4: throw the jump ball to them. And then there's another
26:12
Speaker 4: Smith coming up. This will be the fourth one. So
26:14
Speaker 4: Gage Smith is a sophomore and he's kind of on
26:19
Speaker 4: that next group that's knocking on the door that can
26:21
Speaker 4: make some plays on the outside as well. And in
26:23
Speaker 4: the tight end position, Cayden Moser returns and he got
26:27
Speaker 4: five catches last year. He was a starter last year.
26:29
Speaker 4: I could see him getting more into the offense a
26:32
Speaker 4: little bit. So having that returner at tight end is
26:34
Speaker 4: really nice. And and to go with these these these
26:38
Speaker 4: new guys on the outside playing wide receiver.
26:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, and technically speaking, as far as receiving target goes,
26:44
Speaker 2: not a guy not a guy that technically plays running back.
26:48
Speaker 2: Mojor is the leading receiver returning, I mean as a
26:51
Speaker 2: tight end. But five catches fifty five yards. But you know,
26:55
Speaker 2: malt Baker, again we're not looking at, you know, trying
26:58
Speaker 2: to have a lot of big time passing numbers, but
27:02
Speaker 2: they always do. There's always numbers there to be had,
27:05
Speaker 2: that's for sure. Let's talk in the trenches, Tyler. And
27:09
Speaker 2: I'm looking over the top, attorneyes here, I see a
27:13
Speaker 2: couple of guards, and I see another big man on
27:16
Speaker 2: the offensive line. So what are we looking at here?
27:18
Speaker 2: Because I know Malowly's gone, my guy Vance Lawrence is gone.
27:23
Speaker 2: I mean, there's some pieces that are missing that are
27:25
Speaker 2: big time things. But the one thing we know about
27:28
Speaker 2: Mount Bakers, they don't need the biggest guys. They just
27:31
Speaker 2: need the ones to do the job the right way.
27:33
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, you know they had they had three seniors
27:37
Speaker 4: on the line last year at both tackle spots and center,
27:40
Speaker 4: alder Gardi being another one, and then they had the
27:43
Speaker 4: two sophomore guards. And when there were some injuries, then
27:46
Speaker 4: kel Reardon came in and played some guard as a freshman.
27:49
Speaker 4: I think he'll be kicked out to left tackle now.
27:51
Speaker 4: He's about six six five, very very athletic. Coach Lepp
27:57
Speaker 4: loves having a big, athletic left tackle. You know, Alex Mololi,
28:01
Speaker 4: a former tight end, got moved to left tackle. Jay Allen,
28:04
Speaker 4: a former running back, got moved to left tackle, and
28:06
Speaker 4: they became all State caliber left tackles. Because you're gonna
28:10
Speaker 4: be doing a lot of polling different things like that.
28:12
Speaker 4: So Kel Riverton kind of fits that spot. The guards
28:15
Speaker 4: return and they are a lot bigger, a lot stronger,
28:18
Speaker 4: and now they have a year experience. Jeremiah Sheridan and
28:21
Speaker 4: Noah Ilicheff. Sheridan is you know, he's a he's a
28:23
Speaker 4: he's a thrower on the track team. Big strong kid,
28:26
Speaker 4: about six one two forty. He's got a nice full
28:29
Speaker 4: beard going. Uh, looks like a man out there. Noah Ilicheff,
28:33
Speaker 4: who was about five to nine but was two point fifteen. Uh,
28:37
Speaker 4: looks like he could out bench anybody in the county.
28:40
Speaker 4: He is put together extremely well, very very strong. So
28:44
Speaker 4: I think that if that can translate to football strong,
28:47
Speaker 4: that could be a huge, huge deal. Logan Reeves as
28:50
Speaker 4: a senior, has kind of waited his turn. He's gonna
28:52
Speaker 4: take over at center, or at least get the first
28:54
Speaker 4: crack at it.
28:55
Speaker 2: And uh.
28:56
Speaker 4: And then there's a kid at right tackle that people
28:59
Speaker 4: seem to be very high on. His name's Caden Reta Sell.
29:02
Speaker 4: He's about six three two twenty five, very very impressive.
29:06
Speaker 4: So uh, coach likes his line. I mean, he's gonna
29:10
Speaker 4: put a lot of He's gonna put a lot of
29:11
Speaker 4: work into those guys because they have to make thing
29:14
Speaker 4: go as far as the wing t goes, and there's
29:17
Speaker 4: so many little steps and little things you have to
29:19
Speaker 4: do just right to make everything else right. And this
29:23
Speaker 4: is where the ultimate team game becomes the ultimate you know.
29:27
Speaker 4: An inside of that is the offensive line, excuse me,
29:30
Speaker 4: the offensive line with the wing te and you got
29:33
Speaker 4: they got some backups that they're happy about, John Weingart,
29:37
Speaker 4: Cody Moa, and Peyton Zamzau. So you got some guys
29:40
Speaker 4: that are kind of knocking on the door that have
29:43
Speaker 4: decent size and good speed, and they'll be ready to
29:46
Speaker 4: go on Friday nights.
29:48
Speaker 2: Tyler. I know, I know one Moa graduated, another one's
29:53
Speaker 2: in the backfield, then there's another one that's on the
29:55
Speaker 2: rushing list, and then you just named another one. How
29:57
Speaker 2: many stinking Moas are there?
29:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a time, I think last year there
30:01
Speaker 4: were five Moas and none of them are brothers. So
30:07
Speaker 4: uh so, yeah, that's just a name out in Deming.
30:11
Speaker 4: You know, I played with three of them and and
30:15
Speaker 4: they were they were all brothers, and yeah, so I
30:20
Speaker 4: mean it's you know, my dad graduated with one. I mean,
30:23
Speaker 4: they're just they're all over the place now, you know,
30:25
Speaker 4: they just they just keep having boys.
30:28
Speaker 2: I guess Moa and Deming is like Anderson most places
30:33
Speaker 2: right now, Tyler, who did you say.
30:35
Speaker 4: The right tackle was Caden Rita Cell?
30:38
Speaker 3: In?
30:38
Speaker 2: What year? Is that young man?
30:41
Speaker 4: I wish I knew off the top of my head.
30:44
Speaker 4: I I think he's a junior. I think he's a
30:47
Speaker 4: junior because I think he was injured the entire year
30:50
Speaker 4: last year as a sophomore, and that was they really
30:52
Speaker 4: really were hoping he'd be ready and he wasn't able
30:54
Speaker 4: to play. And this year he's ready and and uh,
30:58
Speaker 4: I think they're expecting some pretty durmn good things out
31:00
Speaker 4: of him.
31:00
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow. Defensive line, Tyler, Yeah, I assume a lot
31:05
Speaker 2: of the same names that we just talked about right there.
31:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could say I see the tackles Rearden and
31:11
Speaker 4: Reta Cell being the defensive ends. They both are kind
31:14
Speaker 4: of fit that mil that mold as far as just
31:16
Speaker 4: looking at him, you know, the six six two twenty
31:18
Speaker 4: five six three two twenty five, those are good sized
31:21
Speaker 4: one A defensive ends. Trent and George started into the
31:25
Speaker 4: interior last year and that he's about five eight, two thirty.
31:29
Speaker 4: You know, he's got that great build as far as
31:32
Speaker 4: a load of the ground get you know, get leverage
31:36
Speaker 4: underneath defensive tackle spot. And then you'll see a lot
31:39
Speaker 4: of other guys. You'll see the two guards shared in
31:41
Speaker 4: and Ilachev kind of share time there. You can see
31:43
Speaker 4: Peyton Zamza out getting there, Logan Reeves and there's a kid,
31:46
Speaker 4: Aaron Torres as well that has shown flashes. So you
31:49
Speaker 4: got you know, you got a handful of guys. You
31:51
Speaker 4: got you know, eight guys that you can rotate into
31:53
Speaker 4: those four spots. I could definitely see uh kind of
31:57
Speaker 4: the main guys being reared and and reta Cell on
31:59
Speaker 4: the ends and George in the middle. You might also
32:04
Speaker 4: see Caden Moser get some get some time at defensive
32:07
Speaker 4: end as well. He played a little bit there last year,
32:09
Speaker 4: so a lot of experience back on the defensive line.
32:12
Speaker 2: Now, correct me if I'm wrong here, Yes, I mean,
32:16
Speaker 2: we both know I'm not wrong very often, Tyler. That's
32:20
Speaker 2: one time wrong right there. When we look at the defense,
32:24
Speaker 2: it looks to me as though linebacking is is kind
32:27
Speaker 2: of this the strength here. I mean, we've got I
32:30
Speaker 2: believe four out of the five returning tacklers including tackles
32:34
Speaker 2: for a loss, where they've got some pretty dang good numbers.
32:37
Speaker 2: And then you start talking about turnovers and passes defended
32:39
Speaker 2: and there's a lot of numbers in there too, but
32:41
Speaker 2: four out of the five coming from the linebackers. Correct, Yes, those.
32:45
Speaker 4: Four are they've played a lot and they are all back.
32:48
Speaker 4: So that's a huge bonus for Mount Baker. Dila Moa
32:51
Speaker 4: and is now his third year starting at linebacker, and
32:55
Speaker 4: that was a huge deal. I mean he was starting
32:57
Speaker 4: at middle linebacker for you know, for the team that
33:00
Speaker 4: went all the way to the state title game, so
33:02
Speaker 4: you got a lot of experience that way. It didn't didn't.
33:06
Speaker 4: He was a tight end his sophomore year and then
33:08
Speaker 4: before he got moved to running back and and then
33:11
Speaker 4: and ran for a ton of yards. So but yeah, defensively,
33:14
Speaker 4: he'll be in the exact same spot. You know, had
33:18
Speaker 4: eight tackles for loss as well. Hard to get tackles
33:21
Speaker 4: for lost when Alex Molowli grabbed all of them. I
33:23
Speaker 4: think he had over twenty for crying out loud, but yeah,
33:26
Speaker 4: you're right. Dylan Moa, Brady Brulin, Camden Moa and Sean
33:29
Speaker 4: Dugger all return at at linebacker, and that's just what
33:34
Speaker 4: a huge benefit because you could do so many things
33:37
Speaker 4: when you know those guys are going to be in
33:39
Speaker 4: the right spot, and you've got a couple, got a
33:41
Speaker 4: couple of younger kids pushing them as well. Gunner McGrath
33:45
Speaker 4: and Noah Nicole Mills. Those two guys are you know,
33:49
Speaker 4: they're not quite there yet, but they are very athletic,
33:53
Speaker 4: and you know if they have to spell some of
33:55
Speaker 4: these guys because you know, Moa, Brulin and Dugger are
33:59
Speaker 4: going to be probably the three backs that are starting
34:01
Speaker 4: as far as half back, full back and wing back.
34:04
Speaker 4: And Cam Demoa will get his time every once in
34:06
Speaker 4: a while, but it will definitely start on the defense.
34:08
Speaker 4: But you know, sometimes those guys need a little break,
34:11
Speaker 4: and so you have these young younger sophomores here that
34:14
Speaker 4: can fill in for a possession here or there.
34:18
Speaker 2: Oddly enough, the defensive backfield, even though maybe production isn't huge,
34:25
Speaker 2: I say that, but also the fifth of the top
34:28
Speaker 2: five actually be the fourth of the top five with
34:31
Speaker 2: including the linebackers in terms of returning tacklers is Luke
34:35
Speaker 2: Smith from the defensive secondary. But then you have jet
34:39
Speaker 2: Ross Dean all Red, Bryce Cooper. You've got some guys.
34:44
Speaker 2: Not a ton of production out of those guys, but
34:46
Speaker 2: I also see some interceptions here. I mean, these are
34:49
Speaker 2: guys that look like they can play the game, but
34:52
Speaker 2: maybe they aren't household names because they didn't put up
34:55
Speaker 2: huge numbers to this point. But I'll tell you what,
34:57
Speaker 2: these are some guys with some experience.
34:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, they so they all kind of got their time
35:01
Speaker 4: in there last year when different things happened. I mean,
35:04
Speaker 4: you know, back in the backfield, you had land In
35:07
Speaker 4: Handstead and Hayden, Rossa and Tanyon stateon playing quite a bit.
35:11
Speaker 4: So you know, every once in a while you'd see
35:14
Speaker 4: a Dean Already come in and make a play, get
35:16
Speaker 4: an interception. Jet Ross would come in at free safety,
35:18
Speaker 4: get an interception. So they got those, they got that experience.
35:21
Speaker 4: I remember Bryce Cooper coming in and playing a lot
35:24
Speaker 4: of corner at one point. Well, now it worked out
35:26
Speaker 4: perfectly because now all those guys are going to start.
35:29
Speaker 4: You could see Allred and Cooper as the corners. Allread
35:32
Speaker 4: is about you know, he's he looks great. He's six
35:35
Speaker 4: ' three one ninety five and it just is a
35:39
Speaker 4: great looking athlete that you could do a lot of things.
35:41
Speaker 4: Bryce Cooper is a little smaller but probably faster. He'll
35:45
Speaker 4: be the other corner. And then Luke Smith returns at
35:48
Speaker 4: safety like you were saying, he brings back thirty one tackles.
35:51
Speaker 4: And then Jet Ross, who is, my goodness, another really
35:55
Speaker 4: good athlete as well so and he's just a junior.
35:58
Speaker 4: So those those four are probably start the season at
36:01
Speaker 4: those four defensive back spots. I could see Darius Gilstrap
36:04
Speaker 4: be a backup to any of those four. He's very
36:07
Speaker 4: athletic and and he could kind of he's he's good
36:11
Speaker 4: enough to be a starter, but it's just finding where
36:13
Speaker 4: he'll fit in. And you know, you never know if
36:15
Speaker 4: something gets banged up, something like that, get back can happen.
36:19
Speaker 4: But he's kind of that next guy up in any
36:21
Speaker 4: of those spots. And it seems like a lot of
36:23
Speaker 4: these schools have a guy in the defensive backfield that's
36:26
Speaker 4: that next guy that could fill into any of those spots.
36:29
Speaker 4: And that's a really valuable thing to have.
36:31
Speaker 2: From Mount Baker High School, just felt like I haven't
36:34
Speaker 2: hit it in a while. Tyler. Let's talk special teams
36:37
Speaker 2: here and Tanyan State has gone you know the one
36:42
Speaker 2: thing that we know about Mount Baker, well one thing
36:45
Speaker 2: for sure. It could literally be anybody kicking, punting, I
36:48
Speaker 2: mean anything. I mean I remember one time we were
36:51
Speaker 2: talking about how they had like the biggest kicking crew
36:54
Speaker 2: or whatever, like was it Robless.
36:57
Speaker 4: Was a kicker or something? Robless kick off? Yeah, he
37:01
Speaker 4: was about two sixty. Wyatt Thomas kicked extra point he
37:04
Speaker 4: was three hundred.
37:05
Speaker 2: And then.
37:07
Speaker 4: Well I can't I remember his name. He went to
37:09
Speaker 4: Simon Fraser and now he's at Eastern Aiden Corning. Yeah,
37:13
Speaker 4: was the punter who was like six six to eighty five.
37:16
Speaker 2: Yeah.
37:16
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean that's that's a lot of that's
37:20
Speaker 4: a lot of meat on the hook.
37:21
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then Tany and Stateon has been doing it
37:23
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. He's about you know the
37:24
Speaker 2: size of your leg. Yeah, right, you know. But so
37:27
Speaker 2: who are we looking at Tyler? Because I'm looking at
37:29
Speaker 2: the kickoff returning Brady Rulin two touchdowns last year, and
37:33
Speaker 2: so I mean, I'm sure he's gonna have an opportunity
37:35
Speaker 2: to do some things again this year. Bryce Cooper had
37:37
Speaker 2: nine kickoff returns, Jet Ross had a few kickoff returns,
37:41
Speaker 2: and then somehow Kate Mojer had one. I don't know
37:43
Speaker 2: how that happened, but but yeah, so, I mean you
37:46
Speaker 2: feel like the maybe the return game is is solid,
37:48
Speaker 2: but what are we look into the other spots?
37:50
Speaker 4: Well, you're absolutely right about Brady Berlin. I mean, he
37:52
Speaker 4: had a kickoff return protection as a sophomore two again
37:55
Speaker 4: last year. He's pushing some Mount Baker all time records
37:58
Speaker 4: there for total yard gardage and kick and touchdowns as
38:01
Speaker 4: far as the kickoff returns go. But nobody returns with
38:06
Speaker 4: punt return experience, kicking experience, or punting experience. So it's
38:10
Speaker 4: it's wide open right now. You know it's gonna be.
38:15
Speaker 4: It's anybody's guests right now. Coach Lepp didn't quite know
38:19
Speaker 4: at the moment. Melowly punted last year, like you said,
38:21
Speaker 4: Tannye and Stayton kicked. There was another Zavalla kid that
38:24
Speaker 4: kicked last year. And we'll see what happens. Uh, I'm
38:29
Speaker 4: not I'm not quite sure. I know. I know Peyton
38:32
Speaker 4: Zamzoo played soccer, so he could be a kid that
38:35
Speaker 4: could that could come out and do some things. You know,
38:39
Speaker 4: his dad Lance punted brought him up earlier. He was
38:42
Speaker 4: one of those two quarterbacks that got moved a receiver,
38:45
Speaker 4: So who knows it's it's It could be it could
38:48
Speaker 4: be wide open. You might see Luke Smith back there punting.
38:51
Speaker 4: You could see a lot of times they put like
38:52
Speaker 4: one of their receivers back there. I know Michael Kentner punted,
38:55
Speaker 4: Thomas Barbo punted, So maybe Jet Ross or Dean all
38:58
Speaker 4: Red could punt it something that by that by the
39:01
Speaker 4: time I was out of practice, they hadn't really had
39:03
Speaker 4: it settled yet. I do have a year of eligibility,
39:07
Speaker 4: but uh, you know, you're not gonna talk me into
39:10
Speaker 4: doing it, so they will. They will figure something out.
39:12
Speaker 4: Maybe they'll just go for two. Who knows. With that Uh,
39:15
Speaker 4: with that wing te offense, you can get a little
39:18
Speaker 4: bit creative. But right now, the definite is that you
39:21
Speaker 4: got you know, one of the best kick returners in
39:24
Speaker 4: the state coming back in Brady and Brady Brulin. So
39:27
Speaker 4: you have that set and Bryce Cooper, like I said,
39:29
Speaker 4: could do some really good things too in the return game.
39:32
Speaker 4: But uh, after that, uh, and the special teams, it's
39:36
Speaker 4: gonna be tough. Now you do have your snappers back.
39:38
Speaker 4: Camden Moa and kel Reared both long snap last year.
39:42
Speaker 4: So it's nice to have the foundation there and he's
39:46
Speaker 4: gotta find he's gotta find guys that to kick the ball.
39:48
Speaker 2: After that, yeah, you'll you'll get the ball in a hand,
39:51
Speaker 2: but from there, not really sure what's gonna happen. By
39:55
Speaker 2: the way, Tyler, if you did join the team in
39:58
Speaker 2: some kicking capacity, you'd probably be kicked off after two
40:02
Speaker 2: weeks and then coach lepwould.
40:03
Speaker 3: Just boy, that's a lot of lemons in a way.
40:06
Speaker 2: You go a lot of lemons, Tyler. Let's talk breakout
40:11
Speaker 2: player this year, Tyler. And to me, it's one that
40:15
Speaker 2: I look at and I go, I see what you're
40:17
Speaker 2: doing here. I see what you're doing here, Tyler. There's
40:21
Speaker 2: two returning running backs that have put up solid numbers,
40:25
Speaker 2: and there's another guy that's right there, ready to go,
40:28
Speaker 2: ready to take, you know, ready to take some of
40:31
Speaker 2: these handoffs. And you're picking Bryce Cooper, junior wing back
40:36
Speaker 2: and corner.
40:37
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, is just a great, great athlete. And
40:42
Speaker 4: he's got that you know, he's got that kind of
40:45
Speaker 4: speed that shoots through the gap and you're like, WHOA,
40:47
Speaker 4: that's different. And he's another track kid and part of
40:51
Speaker 4: the relay team that did pretty durned well last year,
40:54
Speaker 4: and he's a kid that I've been expecting some pretty
40:58
Speaker 4: good things for. I've heard a lot of things. He
41:00
Speaker 4: got that little bit of time last year where I
41:02
Speaker 4: got to see some good things. Played probably a little
41:03
Speaker 4: bit more defense than offense at the varsity level, but boy,
41:07
Speaker 4: he had some runs where you know, he's like I'm
41:11
Speaker 4: watching the film, I'm like, who's that?
41:13
Speaker 2: Like who is that kid?
41:15
Speaker 4: I think he was number three or something like that,
41:16
Speaker 4: and I just didn't have it in my brain like
41:18
Speaker 4: who is that kid? That kid is fast? And that
41:20
Speaker 4: probably happened two or three times where I look at
41:22
Speaker 4: the roster and go, oh, that's Bryce Cooper. Yeah, I've
41:24
Speaker 4: heard that he's really fast. So you know, I know
41:28
Speaker 4: his dad pretty well. His dad was a crazy good
41:30
Speaker 4: athlete to just jump out of the gym, you know,
41:34
Speaker 4: I think he Yeah, he was a hurdler that was
41:37
Speaker 4: really really good and did amazing all the way through
41:41
Speaker 4: the season. And I think he ended up getting like
41:44
Speaker 4: fourth at state or something like that, third or fourth
41:46
Speaker 4: of state. And then they asked him when the middle
41:48
Speaker 4: of year just to try long jump because they needed
41:49
Speaker 4: to get some points, and he like jumped like twenty
41:53
Speaker 4: one feet or some crazy thing. He'd never done long
41:55
Speaker 4: jump in his life, so he's got the jeans there.
41:57
Speaker 4: And then his dad, his grandpa, Chuck was a good
42:00
Speaker 4: receiver for Mount Baker in the seventies, you know, big
42:04
Speaker 4: time receiver. So there's some lineage there, and so I
42:07
Speaker 4: expect Bryce Cooper to to put up some pretty good
42:11
Speaker 4: numbers this year, not just maybe at a wing back,
42:13
Speaker 4: but even spell Brady Brulin to half back every once
42:16
Speaker 4: in a while. And and on defense, I think he's
42:18
Speaker 4: gonna be kind of the main corner. So so yeah,
42:22
Speaker 4: I think I think he's gonna have a pretty big year.
42:24
Speaker 2: When we look over the schedule, Tyler, I don't remember,
42:28
Speaker 2: was it Meridians somebody else had a really random schedule?
42:32
Speaker 4: Yeah, Meridians was really random.
42:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, and Mount Baker's is pretty random too. Now
42:38
Speaker 2: Port Angelas seems to be popping up more and more
42:40
Speaker 2: the last couple of years. It seems like I don't
42:41
Speaker 2: know if it's always been like that with Walkom County,
42:43
Speaker 2: but I feel like we've talked to Port Angelis football
42:46
Speaker 2: way more than we should be. But they start off
42:50
Speaker 2: with a game at home, and now this is kind
42:51
Speaker 2: of funny too time. I remember a couple years ago
42:53
Speaker 2: where like they didn't have a home game for a while,
42:55
Speaker 2: or like there was like maybe their second home game
42:59
Speaker 2: of the year, was like all the way into like
43:01
Speaker 2: late October or something.
43:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, a ton of road games and then they finally
43:05
Speaker 4: were going to play at home and it got and
43:06
Speaker 4: then the other team forfeited. That's right, that's what cedar
43:10
Speaker 4: maybe and yeah, just like geez, Louise, are they ever
43:13
Speaker 4: going to play home?
43:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys can't catch a break. That's where the
43:16
Speaker 2: ad just needs to get fired. I don't know if
43:18
Speaker 2: you know who it is, Tyler, but we get no
43:21
Speaker 2: but starting on the road, or excuse me, starting at
43:24
Speaker 2: home for three games this year. As a matter of fact,
43:27
Speaker 2: they get four out of their first five at home.
43:31
Speaker 2: But yeah, Port Angeles at a home seven pm. Hockinson
43:34
Speaker 2: interesting one making a long trip up from the Vancouver
43:38
Speaker 2: area for a seven pm game, and then Centennial Secondary
43:42
Speaker 2: of British Columbia. I feel like I've heard that name
43:44
Speaker 2: a few times over the years, maybe not as much
43:47
Speaker 2: as like a Siauquam or Vancouver College or like a
43:50
Speaker 2: couple of other ones, but I feel like, yeah, New West.
43:52
Speaker 3: Yeah.
43:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, And I don't know if that's when I'm
43:54
Speaker 2: saying that, I don't know if that's a a Wakam
43:57
Speaker 2: County thing or if that's like around the area, you know,
44:00
Speaker 2: like state of Washington thing, because you know, I used
44:03
Speaker 2: to obviously cover way more than just Walkham County. But
44:06
Speaker 2: Centennial Secondary at home, and then they're gonna have to
44:10
Speaker 2: really put some seed down this year on that grass, Tyler.
44:12
Speaker 2: They got three home games in a row, I mean,
44:14
Speaker 2: my goodness, but then they had down to Sultan and
44:18
Speaker 2: then come back home for their four league games. They
44:20
Speaker 2: get their four league games, and then they have a
44:22
Speaker 2: non league game after oddly enough, but they get Nooksack
44:25
Speaker 2: Valley at home on the road at Meridian on the
44:27
Speaker 2: road at Lyndon Christian home for Blaine, and then, as
44:31
Speaker 2: I mentioned, a non league game, oddly enough, all the
44:34
Speaker 2: way over to Omac, which that'll be interesting and interesting trip.
44:39
Speaker 2: You and I were talking about it the other day, Tyler,
44:40
Speaker 2: and we both kind of screwed up and got it
44:42
Speaker 2: right and got some things wrong. And the funny thing
44:45
Speaker 2: is we both knew exactly which road we were talking about,
44:48
Speaker 2: but we but we had the whole angle and everything wrong.
44:52
Speaker 2: But yeah, by the way, what do we It was
44:54
Speaker 2: Highway twenty right, is what we decided on. Yeah, yeah, right,
44:58
Speaker 2: And I believe that does close it on point. But
45:01
Speaker 2: I don't know when. I would assume it will be
45:06
Speaker 2: after uh, you know, the game on the first of
45:09
Speaker 2: I mean, I would hope it is, or else they
45:10
Speaker 2: got to driveway around down Highway too, and then all
45:13
Speaker 2: the way up from Wanatche that way, which is a
45:15
Speaker 2: little bit of a job. But but yeah, six pm
45:18
Speaker 2: game out at Omak is how they are finishing the
45:22
Speaker 2: regular season, Tyler. Obviously, the four league games right in
45:26
Speaker 2: a row is kind of like you you you you
45:29
Speaker 2: play Sultan and you go, all right, boys, our season
45:33
Speaker 2: is the next four weeks.
45:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be tough, I mean, and it's it's
45:38
Speaker 4: uh that is the gauntlet right there. Uh, you know,
45:42
Speaker 4: you're right about Port Angels. Seems like we've been seeing
45:44
Speaker 4: them a lot lately. They've played Blaine the last couple
45:46
Speaker 4: of years, and they're playing some other teams and different
45:49
Speaker 4: things like that. You know, Omac playing finishing with Omac.
45:52
Speaker 4: Omak is gonna be playing Meridian earlier in the year,
45:55
Speaker 4: so maybe they'll have some pretty good scouting there to
45:58
Speaker 4: see kind of what they do. I'm sure coach James
46:01
Speaker 4: will help him out and just be like, yeah, it
46:02
Speaker 4: was really strange when they do this or that or whatever. Yeah,
46:06
Speaker 4: you know Centennial. I remember Centennial coming down and beating
46:09
Speaker 4: Blaine thirty five thirty four in a really really good
46:12
Speaker 4: game years ago. Josiah Westbrook caught five touchdown passes in
46:16
Speaker 4: that game.
46:18
Speaker 2: And that's what was that scoring?
46:20
Speaker 4: Thirty five thirty four. Oh, I think he cut all
46:24
Speaker 4: five touchdowns. Who was the team do you remember that
46:27
Speaker 4: game that? I think it was Squala complained with where
46:29
Speaker 4: the score was like in the eighties or something or
46:31
Speaker 4: eighty five to seventy.
46:33
Speaker 3: Yeah.
46:33
Speaker 2: Who was that against? You remember?
46:34
Speaker 4: I want to say it was New Westminster?
46:36
Speaker 2: Okay, I just remember it was a Canadian team. I
46:38
Speaker 2: don't remember exactly.
46:40
Speaker 4: They had a quarterback that was super dynamic and he
46:43
Speaker 4: just kept plays alive and they scored a lot of points.
46:47
Speaker 4: And Hawkinson. I mean they played Linden, you know, in
46:49
Speaker 4: the state title game years ago.
46:51
Speaker 2: Not too long ago.
46:52
Speaker 4: But and and but then they came up and played London.
46:56
Speaker 2: They you know that's right, Yeah, the nom League.
46:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, just a couple of years ago to start
47:00
Speaker 4: the to start the season out, so they've there's a
47:03
Speaker 4: little bit of the thing there Sultan, I mean Sultan
47:05
Speaker 4: and Baker. You know, they go way back to the
47:07
Speaker 4: North Cascades Conference, used to be in the conference. So
47:12
Speaker 4: oh yeah, so there's there's some familiarity.
47:16
Speaker 2: Uh, you're right.
47:17
Speaker 4: I mean it's there's been years when Mount Baker were
47:19
Speaker 4: like known as the road Warriors, where they're going across
47:21
Speaker 4: the mountain multiple times and doing different things. This year
47:24
Speaker 4: they're pretty relatively close to walking County all the way
47:27
Speaker 4: until they own MAC game. So you know, Sultan's not
47:31
Speaker 4: that far.
47:31
Speaker 2: Really well you can tell the other games, yeah, yeah.
47:34
Speaker 4: So so yeah, so I think it's somewhat a favorable schedule,
47:38
Speaker 4: but it is all about that gauntlet right there with
47:41
Speaker 4: those with those league games, and that's uh, you know,
47:45
Speaker 4: every coach in the Northwest Conference will tell you like
47:48
Speaker 4: like that is the toughest part. You know, if you
47:51
Speaker 4: if you can eke out and get into the state playoffs,
47:53
Speaker 4: then it's kind of like okay, this will be this
47:55
Speaker 4: will be a little break here for at least a game,
47:58
Speaker 4: and uh, but I you know that's gonna be different. Now,
48:01
Speaker 4: you know, you're not playing some fifteen seed that probably
48:04
Speaker 4: shouldn't be in the playoffs. You know, with the round
48:06
Speaker 4: of thirty two, that first round game will be a
48:08
Speaker 4: true fifteen seed, so or fourteen or thirteen or whatever
48:11
Speaker 4: it's gonna end up being. So uh, it's gonna be.
48:14
Speaker 4: But that's better for all of us, right, It's gonna
48:17
Speaker 4: be better football and uh, and good teams and the
48:21
Speaker 4: true sixteen will make it. As all these coaches have
48:23
Speaker 4: been saying in these interviews, is that's what the round
48:26
Speaker 4: of thirty two is. Four and again, Baker's gonna be
48:30
Speaker 4: one of those teams that is gonna be you know,
48:33
Speaker 4: in my eyes, they're gonna be kind of middle of
48:35
Speaker 4: the pack in this Northwest Conference. And it could be
48:38
Speaker 4: one of those years where everybody has a loss, you
48:41
Speaker 4: know what I mean, and he just who knows what's
48:43
Speaker 4: gonna happen, and uh, yeah, we'll we'll just have to
48:47
Speaker 4: see and and but it is. It is a fun schedule.
48:51
Speaker 4: I think I'm gonna try to be out there at
48:53
Speaker 4: least for that first game, maybe for the first half
48:56
Speaker 4: of that first.
48:56
Speaker 2: Game, so we'll see. I was just out of curiosity
49:01
Speaker 2: time I went to old Google maps there and typed
49:05
Speaker 2: in deming to Port Angelis because next year, if you
49:09
Speaker 2: flip the schedule right, which I feel like, I feel
49:13
Speaker 2: like Wakham County teams don't typically go into b C
49:16
Speaker 2: very often. I mean teams from the state of Washington
49:19
Speaker 2: don't typically go into b C very often, because I
49:21
Speaker 2: feel like it's maybe even a little bit harder for
49:23
Speaker 2: our teams to go do that than it is for
49:25
Speaker 2: their team.
49:25
Speaker 4: It's happened, but it's pretty rare.
49:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I've seen I saw Lakeside go up one
49:30
Speaker 2: time and play Mission Secondary, like I've seen it once
49:34
Speaker 2: or twice that I can think of off the top
49:35
Speaker 2: of my head. But so I'm just thinking to myself,
49:37
Speaker 2: like Port Angelis Hawkinson week one and two, that's a
49:40
Speaker 2: decent little jog for both those games. So I just
49:42
Speaker 2: want to see how long it is. We're talking four hours.
49:46
Speaker 2: That includes a ferry ride four hours to Port Angelus
49:49
Speaker 2: and then five hours to Hockinson if they went right now,
49:52
Speaker 2: I mean, that's two really long road trips to start.
49:56
Speaker 2: The only saving grace out of any of this is
49:57
Speaker 2: that they want have to drive all the way to
49:59
Speaker 2: Omac at the end of the season back will come
50:00
Speaker 2: to that. But yeah, Tyler, I mean, what else we
50:07
Speaker 2: got anything?
50:10
Speaker 4: Just uh you know, yeah, we'll just see. We'll just
50:14
Speaker 4: see how they how they go. I mean, Mount Baker
50:17
Speaker 4: is traditionally known for being really tough. They hit hard. Uh,
50:21
Speaker 4: they they play the right way there, you know, they
50:23
Speaker 4: help the other kids up. They're very very strict about
50:27
Speaker 4: those things about sportsmanship and stuff like that, and they
50:30
Speaker 4: really preach that and and uh so they're just fun
50:34
Speaker 4: to watch because they do things the right way and
50:36
Speaker 4: then right after the whistle they are it's all about
50:41
Speaker 4: you know, you know, helping your fellow warriors and.
50:44
Speaker 2: Stuff like that.
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Speaker 4: So it's really fun to go out and watch Mount
50:47
Speaker 4: Baker football play. And there's a lot of there's a
50:50
Speaker 4: lot of tradition there and and coach LEP's been doing
50:53
Speaker 4: it a long time, so you know, he knows what
50:56
Speaker 4: he's doing and it's it's good hard knows football.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, Tyler. Something something tells me really good
51:04
Speaker 2: things about this team. I just I just see, I
51:07
Speaker 2: just see potential to really do some things here. I
51:11
Speaker 2: just I see it. And I mean yeah, I mean,
51:15
Speaker 2: especially with all those home games early in the season.
51:17
Speaker 2: I think that's I think that's a really good way
51:19
Speaker 2: to just make sure you got everything right, you know
51:22
Speaker 2: what I mean. And then and then you know, a
51:24
Speaker 2: little road trip down to Sultan and back, and you know,
51:28
Speaker 2: a little road trip for the boys, you know what
51:30
Speaker 2: I mean. Get get the little group together and maybe
51:32
Speaker 2: you go down and smack some turks in the face.
51:34
Speaker 2: And by the way, if anybody's don't get that that's the
51:37
Speaker 2: name of the team, that that could go the wrong
51:40
Speaker 2: way if people don't know what I'm actually saying there,
51:44
Speaker 2: But Sultan Turks boys. I didn't think about until I
51:48
Speaker 2: said it. But the only person, like there's probably like
51:51
Speaker 2: eight people listening that knew what I said, you know
51:54
Speaker 2: what I mean, And everybody else was like, wait, what
51:55
Speaker 2: the heck did he just say.
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Speaker 4: That's gonna be a T shirt, go smack some turks.
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Speaker 2: In the face, SPACs some turks in the face. But yeah,
52:05
Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's you know, it's always good
52:07
Speaker 2: to have a road trip. You don't necessarily want multiple
52:11
Speaker 2: really really long ones, you know what I mean, because
52:13
Speaker 2: that's just bus legs are a real thing, you know
52:15
Speaker 2: what I mean, And to have to do those over
52:17
Speaker 2: and over again, it's just not a good thing. But yeah,
52:19
Speaker 2: I mean I look at this schedule. I think it.
52:21
Speaker 2: I think it's good for them. I think they have
52:23
Speaker 2: a solid look. They got some teams that spread it out.
52:26
Speaker 2: They got some teams you know, they're a little more
52:28
Speaker 2: traditional and and that could lead to some things that
52:31
Speaker 2: really set them up for. Uh, like you said, the gauntlet,
52:34
Speaker 2: the four games right in a row against the the
52:36
Speaker 2: other four teams in the conference, and then uh you know,
52:39
Speaker 2: finish it off with a game against Omac and uh
52:41
Speaker 2: you know, hopefully by that point you're you're still healthy
52:44
Speaker 2: and you get out of it and you've got yourself
52:46
Speaker 2: with a week ten game, you know. I mean, that's
52:48
Speaker 2: that's kind of what you're you're looking at. I mean,
52:50
Speaker 2: you'll you'll pretty much know what you got going on
52:53
Speaker 2: going forward on that uh Linden Christian game. I mean,
52:56
Speaker 2: it's kind of where it'll probably be, you know what
52:58
Speaker 2: I mean. So, uh yeah, anyway, Tyler, anything else, I
53:02
Speaker 2: don't think, so nothing else here. We'll go a gauntlet
53:06
Speaker 2: real quick, guys up for I think they liked the idea,
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Speaker 2: Oh boy, all four right in a row. As a
53:18
Speaker 2: matter of fact, we had left talking three different times
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Speaker 2: at once, which, if anybody could pull it off, he's
53:23
Speaker 2: the guy. Yeah, alrighty, Tyler, let's wrap it up. We
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Speaker 2: all got one day left preview Tyler, one day left.
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Speaker 2: He's Tyler Anderson. Walkompreps. Walkompreps dot com is the website.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to episode at two
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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy one, the eighth of ten football team previews.
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