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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 5 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Greetings and welcome into episode five of the Bothel Football Coaches Show. I'm your
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  host Rolan Spencer. Along with me, I was always the head coach of
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  the Boffel Cougars. Tom Baker Coach. How are we doing? Doing great?
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  twenty eighth Street Southeast in Bothel. Coach, we got something exciting for this
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  week. Before we go too far into the show, we need to let
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  all the students know there is a router bus headed to our game this Friday.
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  Inn is a quat forms for the Router bus can be found outside the
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  ASB room. Just five dollars to get a bus to and from the game.
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  That price is not included ticket into the game itself. Deadline for the
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  Router Bus is Thursday, So get on at ASA P Baffle Football program two
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  and one this week or two and one since we last spoke. I guess
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  we'll start with the freshman game last Wednesday, downpour, downpour up there at
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  North Creek, but the freshman Coups come away with a forty one nothing win
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  to improve to four and oho on the season. I'm going to give you
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  some numbers here, coach, and we don't go too crazy here, but
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  right now the freshman team is averaging thirty four and a half points per game
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  on offense and allowing just three points per game on defense. I mean,
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  when you just talk numbers, that's pretty exciting. Absolutely, they back to
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  back shutouts, and you know, I was fortunate enough to be able to
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  get over there after our practice last Wednesday in the porn rain and see the
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  second half and got there and sid was twenty eight and nothing at half,
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  and that was always a good feeling. And then just watch the where kids
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  play every kid play, every players contribute into and it's just fun to see
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  the joy that they have just competing with each other and against other teams.
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  And like I've said, for five weeks in a row now or whatever,
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  these guys are impressive. The coaching staff, the players very fun to watch
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  and you know something that we're excited about. On Monday, the JV team
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  took on Lake Washington at Lake Washington, another wet game for the JV team.
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  It seems like they just can't get a break as far as the weather
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  goes, but they fall twenty two to twenty on a last second two point
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  conversion. Is what coach Monson told me. Did you get a report from
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  the JV game from Coach Munson or any of the other coaches. I always
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  do, and yes, hard fought battle. We had a lead going into
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  the last part of the game, and we had a turnover that turned into
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  a drive that turned into a touchdown and then they were able to convert.
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  And so you know, those are tough losses, but you know, lessons
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  learned along the way, and it's it's you know, you get back to
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  the drawing board right and you fix the mistakes and you make your weaknesses stronger,
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  and you know, that's what we'll do with those guys, and they'll
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  do that and we'll get back on the right track here soon. Talking varsity
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  now thirty to seventeen win over Skyline on Friday night, it was homecoming.
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  You always expect a great crowd, but I'll tell you what, that place
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  was loud from the moment we got there on Friday night. The student section
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  was unbelievable. Also, it's really cool to see how many alumni faces that
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  I know that you know, doing media for the last thirteen or so years,
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  So many faces that I recognize on the sideline. It's always good to
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  see Nardoni there standing with a couple other you know, older guys that are
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  just loving Boffel football coach. I mean, it's got to be fun for
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  you to see so many faces you recognize in the crowd. Absolutely, you
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  know, start with what you said at the beginning. The absolute the size
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  of our band and cheers staff is just absolutely incredible in terms of their presence,
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  their noise, and what they do. You add the student body to
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  that, and then you know the fans that continue to support us and have
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  for years and come out and the size of the of the support is tremendous,
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  so you know that's that's a constant for sure. But then you add
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  the fact that you start seeing some guys who had a couple of guys come
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  over and say, Coach, we're here for our twentieth reunion and there are
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  players for me, which realized made me realize I've been here a little bit.
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  You know, I'm not as young as I used to be, but
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  I'll tell you what, there's still joy in my heart when I see those
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  guys. And and you know, we always say once a cougar, always
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  a cougar, and when they're there, I'm just telling you it's a weird
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  feeling, but I just tend to feel more confident when when guys who have
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  been there and done it before show up and support our program and our team,
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  and it's just a great feeling. Maybe a little bit of a bend,
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  but don't break type defensive, you know mode on Friday night, the
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  defense only giving up seventeen points, but I think most impressive three interceptions Nolan
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  Ellis, Mason Kim and then maybe the one that comes out of nowhere,
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  Jude Roy, who has just been getting better and better each week returns one
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  to the house and pop KINI was going absolutely bonkers. Yeah, you know,
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  you're talking about two of those kids who were backups when the season started
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  in Nolan Ellis and Jude Roy And and you know, part of part of
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  what makes a kid a JV kid into a varsity kid is his ability to
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  believe in himself. And you know, it's been fun to watch the growth
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  on these two players, especially Mason Kim as well. I mean, he
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  has just played lights out solid defense two weeks in a row. Maybe you
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  know, maybe arguably the best defensive player the last two weeks, but certainly
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  to see Jude jump that pick and then use his athleticism and speed to take
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  it all the way to the end zone was such a joy for me because
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  I've always seen what I believed is is what his ability is, and sometimes
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  I don't know that he always does and I think, you know, he's
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  he's gaining a better understanding of how good he really is and how talented he
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  could be. And and uh so that's fun. Our our defenses has been
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  great all year. Our scoring defense has been outstanding. We we again early.
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  You know, they they have time of possession and plays, but they
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  they end up we forced a turnover. In the first half. You know,
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  offensively, we had troubles getting it going. We weren't clicking very well.
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  And and but our defense would, like you said, Ben, but
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  not break, give us another chance. And then of course we have the
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  uh, the heads up play by our punter on a on a punt run,
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  and uh, you know that kind of changed the tides of the game.
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  We go on to score into two play drive and pretty soon it's seven
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  to three at half, and even though they've had the time of possession win
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  and more plays and more yards, we have a we have a lead,
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  and we're getting the ball back and so huge, huge first half ending there.
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  That that I think had a major role in the outcome of the game.
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  Yeah, and that, I mean you talk about just momentum right before
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  the half, getting that long fake punt. I mean, I don't even
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  know that it's a fake punt. It was. It was a design punt
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  that he just kept it and took off running. I mean, you can't
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  even really call it a fake because it wasn't designed that way necessarily. But
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  you know, the second half, you know, come out, the offense
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  looks a lot better, but there were also some stalls at times. But
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  one scoring drive that I thought was really fun. Tyson Hope catches a pass
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  from Jalen Viers, makes a couple of moves downfield the way he goes maybe
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  the next player. Two plays later, here we are, Jalen Virs is
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  now catching a pass from Tyson Hoke. I mean, how many times have
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  you been able to maybe draw something up like that in your life? Well,
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  you know, it doesn't happen very often. For sure. We do
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  have a kind of a homecoming tradition where we do try to run a fake
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  play just you know, we know that there's going to be some people who
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  come to one Bothel football game and it might be the homecoming one so they
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  can see friends and things like that, so we try to reward them with
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  a trick play. We don't always get to run it because the defenses,
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  you know, it doesn't allow us, or the the you know, the
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  the how the game's going, maybe it's not the most opportune time to do
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  it. But uh, you know, we're in a good position to do
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  it, and and it was kind of a fun fun thing to do and
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  and but but we only just do it for fun. We do it because
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  we think it's it's gonna work and score. And we got it down to
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  the one and punched it in in after that, So that certainly was was
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  a blast. But no, those two kids, you know, Jalen's gonna
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  gonna get more consistent in the first half, and you know, when he
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  can put two halfs together like he's been in the second half of the last
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  couple of games, we're going to be really tough to defend. And you
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  know, proud of the way we came out in the second half, Proud
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  of that first drive, went right down the field and scored I think it
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  was a seven or eight play drive and gave us a two score lead,
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  and and and kind of helped us to de breathe a little easier throughout the
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  rest of the game. Offensive line this week really doing some yeomen's work out
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  there. I mean the big guys you know, just go left right,
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  well go Bennett Teamer and Cayden Price. I mean, Cayden Price is having
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  himself a fantastic season, you know. And then you hop over to the
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  other side and you've got you know, Braden Boucath, who when you talk
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  about two guards, I mean, Beaucath and Price. Those guys are as
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  mean and nasty as anybody. And then you know on the right side,
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  just a sophomore, you know Zach Foltz, who I think is getting better
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  every week. And you know, as the old line really starts to come
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  together, and you know, the tight ends are getting in the act,
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  and you know Bryce and Bell doing some work, and then you know the
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  H's are in there also. It's got very much a collective effort. But
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  I think this was maybe one of the Personally, I think this was maybe
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  one of the better games that the offensive line had. You know, some
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  things weren't maybe going their way, but they kept grinding, kept grinding,
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  and eventually things start to come out of it. You're absolutely right. It's
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  been one of the most consistent things. I don't know if you know the
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  viewers or listeners here, you know, remember week one, but we started
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  talking about going into the season, what were some of our question marks,
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  and certainly on offense, you know, the the the old line, not
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  just the depth, but but just you know, the inexperience and the new
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  guys and and and some of the youth there. And it's been our most
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  reliable group. Uh. They have played phenomenally from day one. They are
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  physical, they are they will maul you. They they they do take it
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  personally. It is where the game is won and lost. And there's no
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  question you know they're they're doing their job. We do have a sophomore at
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  right tackle who is you know, you you wonder you know if you've seen
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  him before the first start in New York and I didn't know he's gonna throw
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  up or or faint or what his he was nervous, but man, you
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  never see that when he plays. He plays with a maturity about him and
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  a strength about him. That's that's uncanny for a sophomore. Sure is nice
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  to have two returning starting guards who are physical and and and athletic and and
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  tough. And you know you mentioned uh you know Caden and and Brayden and
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  man, those guys have done a great job every game. And Bennett Temer
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  continues to to grow, you know, a converted high end to and do
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  a tackle. Was injured a lot of last year, works his tail off
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  every single day, plays through pain and injury and and and you just never
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  know, and you would never know he's hurting and he just he just fights,
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  and so there there's a there's a warrior kind of a mentality to that
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  group, and it's it's really the strength of our offense right now. Yeah,
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  you know, and these guys are also playing on the defensive side of
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  the ball. I mean, I think maybe the only one that hasn't seen
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  time on defense is is Zach Folt. Obviously he'll get plenty of time down
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  the road. But you know, another name that it's been popping in and
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  out here has been Nolan to Do you know. I mean, I think
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  at this point he's played four out of the five offensive line positions. I
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  mean, it's really nice to have a guy like that that can step in
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  at any time. You know. He he's been impressive too. From last
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  year to this year. There was a there there was a lack of a
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  physicalness to him in the past, and and this year he's here and here
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  is a good adjective for an offensive lineman. And you know, he's our
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  Swiss Army knife. You know, he'll snap the ball, he'll play guard,
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  he'll play tackle, he's our long snapper in pat field goals. He
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  he he's done a great job of knowing and learning all the positions and filling
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  in and his toughness is you know, something that's helping us out for sure.
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  Let's stock special teams really quickly. It's been a real positive this year.
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  You know, obviously a Week two kickoff return for a touchdown, but
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  you know, I think the coverage units have been just tremendous. I mean,
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  last week we give a young man a lot of credit. Cam Weir
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  is a is a dynamic athlete from Skyline, and you know, the coverage
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  units did a tremendous job against him, and you know, keeping the ball
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  away from him when you can, and really just you know, all season,
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  I think the coverage units have just been rock solid. You know,
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  we do something different we have for a long time here. We don't have
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  a special teams coordinator. Each special team has its own coordinator. We assign
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  and one coach to each special team. And you know, I think it
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  gives ownership to that to that coach. I think it gives that coach a
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  sense of belonging in pride and understanding that that that they're in charge of one
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  thing. Now they go through me as well, and we do it collectively.
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  But the fact of the matter is they're in charge, and they they
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  set up the drills they want to run in practices and together we do schemes
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  and all of that. And and I will tell you they've worked hard.
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  You know, our offense, I mean, our kickoff team, excuse me,
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  was was not great at first, and we called them out on that
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  and we told them this is the weakness of our special teams. And it's
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  been a strength ever since. And you know, I don't know which special
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  teams has done better, but we you're right, started out our Sunday meeting
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  praising our special teams and the coaches who are running those and the kids who
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  are performing. And and we we've done a great job with that. Our
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  players have have bought in, have worked hard, have improved, and we're
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  definitely seeing the results of in you know, games this year. And that's
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  that's critical, that's crucial. The theme that we've had the last few weeks
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  has been you know, limiting penalties. Lots of penalties. This week felt
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  like it was maybe the best week as far as penalties, but I still
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  feel like there's a definite room for improvement. You know, we've improved greatly.
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  I mean when you go back two weeks before that we had sixteen penalties.
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  The next week we had twelve, and I believe we have three or
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  four is all this week. And certainly offensively, we had one hold and
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  that was the only offensive penalty we had. And so and we talked about
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  it. We did a different drill this week where we you know, we
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  called perfect plays and we we you know, you have to do it perfectly
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  with discipline, and we talked about discipline being one of our core covenant words
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  and and you know, I'm very pleased with the way the kids have focused
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  on it and took it to heart and we got better, there's no question.
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  So it'll it'll be something we constantly will will battle with and work on
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  all year long. But very very pleased with the growth from the last week
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  to this week. Other scores from around Kinko. Eastlake moves to five and
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  zero on the season and three to ozer in league play with a twenty eight
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  eighteen win over Woodinville. Mount SAI took down i Ishaquah forty six nothing North
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  Creek. They had the non conference game this week and opted to take a
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  buye this week. Friday night, east Lake plays host to Lake Stevens in
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  a non conference game, while North Creek heads the Skyline Saturday afternoon at Papakini
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  Woodinville will host Mount Sai. As far as botho goes. Friday night coach,
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  we had to beautiful Gary Moore Stadium on one of the real fun places
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  to go. It's it's always a great scene out there. Take on the
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  Isaquai Eagles. Is Aquah, you know, a growing program that has made
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  some real strides. Fifth year head coach Josh Brookshire. I think you and
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  I are both in agreement that the things he has going on there are definitely
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  moving that program in the right direction. Yeah. I like that guy.
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  I don't know him very well. I see him and talk to mckinko meetings,
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  but he has my utmost of respect and admiration for the way he has
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  handled their adversity that they've had there. We have. You know, he
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  had the opportunity, if he wanted to, when they went oh and nine
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  and lost to Inglemore and Redmond and everybody else, to try to opt down
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  and be a three a even though four a size or two, to play
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  an independent schedule, and his philosophy was no that will hurt us. We
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  must continue to play the toughest teams in order to improve and see where we
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  need to be. He's done a wonderful job of growing that program. From
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  his freshman level up, they get better and better and better and better.
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  And you know, they've won two games this year. They've competed in every
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  game they did lose their quarterback last week was his first non start, and
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  they brought in a backup. And I think that kid is going to be
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  better this week as he as he continues to gain experience. But I'll tell
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  you what that coach and that staff has done with those kids, the way
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  they play, the way they put their foot in the ground and run and
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  compete, it's very admirable. And it's going to be a wonderful challenge for
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  us, and we're going to have to bring our best game to go into
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  Izaquah and continue to improve and to beat a team that will be better each
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  and every every game this week. So our hats are off to them.
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  That's how it's who you want to play. And in our league, you
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  don't get a lot of rests, and and we certainly don't get one this
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  week, and we won't against Woodenville and we won't against East Lake or Mount
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  Sai. But it's one of the joys of this league. There's great coaching,
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  there's there's great athletes, and it's it's fun to compete every week.
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  All right, Coach, we will see you out there at Gary Moore Stadium
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  on Friday. Good luck, Thanks coach. Later today the Freshman play host
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  the Skyline. Kickoff is set for seven pm here at Boffel High School.
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  JV is back in action on Monday when they host Iaquah, also here at
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  Boffel. Kickoff for that game is also at seven pm. Admission is free
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  to both games and contestion standard will be open, so come on out support
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  Baffel football. As mentioned earlier, Varsity headed to Izaquah on Friday to take
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  on the Eagles, kickoff seven pm. That game will be streamed on the
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  nfl HS Network. But why not show up to the game uh today's episode
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  of The Coach. The show is proudly sponsored by Steve Brada and Melan Ving
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  Chic of Wilson Realty. If you need help with your real estate or just
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  have a question, take a time out give Steve a call. Two oh
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  six ninety nine zero nine. I'm Rylan Spencer you've been listening to episode five
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  of The Bafel Football Coach, a show with head coach at Tom Bainter.
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  We will talk to you next week and Gokoo