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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 363 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 1 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Bellingham senior Owen han Said, and you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Walkom Preps podcast with Tyler Anderson gobe os.
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  Speaker 2: A. Greetings, and welcome to the inaugural episode of the
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  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game Day football Preview. It may be the three
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty third episode of the Walkam Preps podcast,
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  Speaker 2: but this is the first Gatorade Game Day and I
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  Speaker 2: am so pumped about this. I am Tyler Anderson with
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  Speaker 2: Walkham Preps and we are finally here. It's Friday morning,
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  Speaker 2: the weather looks great, it's time for football. First, I
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  Speaker 2: want to give it thank you to Owen Hanstead, senior
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  Speaker 2: out of Bellingham for the intro. That kid has done
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  Speaker 2: a lot of varsity football on both sides of the
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  Speaker 2: ball and all three phases really and he will begin
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  Speaker 2: his senior season tonight and we'll talk about that game shortly.
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  Speaker 2: But I have some big news for Walkham Preps that
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to share with all of you. As you
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  Speaker 2: preview now known as the Gatorade Game Day. It's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: This truly is a game changer for me, and I
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  Speaker 2: in our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment, and
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  Speaker 2: I plan to do the exact same. So let's talk
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  Speaker 2: some football. We have ten games to talk about for
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. Six of them are kicking off tonight, four
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  Speaker 2: more tomorrow afternoons. Let's get right into it. We'll start
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  Speaker 2: with the earliest game on Friday night, Bellingham BayHawks are
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  Speaker 2: traveling to Edmunds Woodway High School to take on the
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  Speaker 2: Linwood Royals in a five o'clock game, and based on
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  Speaker 2: the ranking systems on max Preps, which is not affiliated
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  Speaker 2: with Walking Preps, Bellingham is favored in this one. And
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  Speaker 2: we are with Bellingham football coach Adam Leonard joining us
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  Speaker 2: on Gatorade Game Days, we talk about Bellingham's Week one
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  Speaker 2: opponent and coach, you know, the jamboree's over, you got
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  Speaker 2: guys that have enough practices now to participate. How do
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  Speaker 2: you like your team right now going into this first
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  Speaker 2: week of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Well, first, thanks for having me today. I really feel
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  Speaker 3: good about where we are. I like a preparation we have.
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  Speaker 3: We've had a very solid approach the last couple of
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  Speaker 3: weeks up until jamboree, which was very successful jamboree. We're
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  Speaker 3: getting We're seeing a lot of things we like. We
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  Speaker 3: like some of our young guys too, but a lot
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  Speaker 3: of good surprises out there with our arsity team as well,
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  Speaker 3: and some guys that maybe will swing a little bit
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  Speaker 3: to the varsity level. But it's been very very positive
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  Speaker 3: two weeks. I had mentioned before, we have brought in
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  Speaker 3: coach Matthew Nixon came over from Schwaltram High School, where
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  Speaker 3: he had coached the last twelve years under coach Lucy.
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  Speaker 4: He's a new offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 3: He brings a really great energy and a new dynamic
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  Speaker 3: to our fire system that has been greatful both the
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  Speaker 3: x's and o's as well as actually the leadership abilities
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  Speaker 3: and the way he's leading our team alongside the rest
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  Speaker 3: of our fantastic staff.
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  Speaker 4: So we feel great. We have a great culture this year.
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  Speaker 4: I think in my fourth year here.
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  Speaker 3: This has been probably the best first two weeks I've seen.
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  Speaker 3: Got a couple of guys that were coming back from vacations,
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  Speaker 3: some guys dinged up a little bit, but I would
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  Speaker 3: say we're close to ninety percent as we head into
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  Speaker 3: our Week one.
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  Speaker 4: Game this Lindwood.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome, and that's really good to hear because you know,
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  Speaker 2: I said it on the podcast with a Billing and
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  Speaker 2: football preview that it's it's it's a better feeling over
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  Speaker 2: all in the county when Bellingham is a good football team.
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  Speaker 2: And I always love that, like when they're starting to roll,
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  Speaker 2: it's such a big it's such a big base as
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  Speaker 2: far as former graduates and alumni, and it really starts
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  Speaker 2: to roll in going into Week one. You're on the
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  Speaker 2: road at Linnwood and you know the Lindwood Royals. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that much about them. I have looked at
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  Speaker 2: their record last couple of years and it hasn't been great.
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  Speaker 2: And this is also a unique thing because it's the
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  Speaker 2: second part of a of like the of the contract,
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  Speaker 2: or not a contract, but like the binding. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: week one or year one, year two, as far as
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  Speaker 2: you know, you play a home and away against a
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  Speaker 2: certain team. But this is a new opponent for you.
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  Speaker 2: So how did this game come about for you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, we were we were under the expectation that we
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  Speaker 3: were going to play Chief self up here at Bellingham
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  Speaker 3: since we went down to Seattle Moore last year to
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  Speaker 3: play and that just kind of fell through. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know if they had interest in playing this again, but
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  Speaker 3: we picked up limit was looking for a matchup. We
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  Speaker 3: need a non conference opponent in Week one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: All I can say about Lindwood is, you know, they're
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  Speaker 4: a bigger school.
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  Speaker 3: They're a three eight school, and they've had, you know,
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  Speaker 3: a couple of years, they've had some rough times, but
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  Speaker 3: they'll have athletes they'll have players, and it's whether or
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  Speaker 3: not those athletes come out to play. If they're a
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  Speaker 3: bigger school, and they could present a definite challenge to us.
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  Speaker 3: But at this time, right now, we're not taking any
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  Speaker 3: We don't look at records.
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  Speaker 4: We're throwing those out.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't have the best record last year, but we
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  Speaker 3: feel like we're a much improved team with a different mentality.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, Linwood could be the same way. And
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  Speaker 3: so we're preparing for a really really competitive game and
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  Speaker 3: it'd be fun to go down there. We're the first
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  Speaker 3: of a double header and then at Edmonds wood Way
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  Speaker 3: Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: So, and this is always an interesting thing in a
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  Speaker 2: week one game. How much footage do you have?
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  Speaker 6: Right?
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  Speaker 2: You could you can watch, you can watch last year's
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  Speaker 2: film and it could tell you some things perhaps, But
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  Speaker 2: do you have anything of did they play in a jamburey?
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  Speaker 2: What do you know about this Lendo team as far
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  Speaker 2: as x's and o's.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny, I don't We don't know much.
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  Speaker 3: And the last three days, actually the last week coach
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  Speaker 3: Quagnus Gavin Gagnas, our defensive coordinator, coach Matthew Nixon, our
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  Speaker 3: offensive corridor, and myself. We have a tech string and
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  Speaker 3: we are constantly communicating. We're just out there searching the
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  Speaker 3: world for a film on and we finally found some
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  Speaker 3: film last year between last year the year before a
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  Speaker 3: game they had.
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  Speaker 4: Against Shorewood and Sultan, and you know, we.
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  Speaker 3: Figured out, you know, they're kind of an offset offset
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  Speaker 3: I with you know, two receivers and they kind of
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  Speaker 3: run a spread in that formation we're looking with their
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  Speaker 3: defensive scheme. But again we're just kind of guessing that
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  Speaker 3: this is still what they're going to come in with.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of the same thing with us too. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we we're going to be running a little bit different
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  Speaker 3: look as you know, Bellingham likes to throw in different
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  Speaker 3: looks there.
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  Speaker 4: We're not, you know, the same formation every time.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to put different looks out there, try to
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  Speaker 3: keep you know, the talents of defense little bit. So
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  Speaker 3: as much as we're planning on this is what they
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  Speaker 3: did a year, the last couple of years might be
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  Speaker 3: a completely different schemes. So we're going to have to
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  Speaker 3: really adjust on the fly and do things as we
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  Speaker 3: see them. So it's a little bit of an unknown.
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  Speaker 3: We just know that we need to prepare with the fundamentals,
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  Speaker 3: do what we do, come out and hit hard. We
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  Speaker 3: had a little reputation for that this past weekend at
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  Speaker 3: the jamboree, but it was, you know, we're just we're
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  Speaker 3: prepared for anything.
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  Speaker 2: What's the biggest challenge for a head coach going in
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  Speaker 2: just a week one game? Not about what the who
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  Speaker 2: the opponent is, but what's the biggest thing. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's the first week. There's gonna be a lot of kids,
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  Speaker 2: but non pads, for the first time under the lights,
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  Speaker 2: all those kinds of things. What's the biggest challenge going
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  Speaker 2: into week one for a coach?
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  Speaker 3: We kind of prefaced it right, I mean you said
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  Speaker 3: right there, you don't know how kids are going to react.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they look at in practice and I look
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  Speaker 4: at it good in jamboree.
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  Speaker 3: When we're doing O versus D and we're running tangles
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  Speaker 3: in practice, it might look really really strong. What's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen when the life turn on Friday night? You
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  Speaker 3: know who's going to step up? Is the most I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking to be too big. We know our returners and
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  Speaker 3: we know those moments. We know, you know you mentioned
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  Speaker 3: in the in the preview when we switch quarterbacks, we
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  Speaker 3: put Ben Leonard in there against Archbishop Murphy, who's one
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  Speaker 3: heck of a team at halftime and said, hey, go
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  Speaker 3: out there and let's.
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  Speaker 4: See what you got.
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  Speaker 3: But some guys, you know, we're able to say who's
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  Speaker 3: going to rise up to the occasion, who's going to
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  Speaker 3: do well in the lights. We feel good about so
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  Speaker 3: many guys, But until they Tibo's life turn on on
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  Speaker 3: Friday night, it's going to be. That's kind of the
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  Speaker 3: little hesitating, a little unknown that US coaches have is like,
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  Speaker 3: how are we going to react? Other than net all
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  Speaker 3: you can do is prepare like we do. We have
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  Speaker 3: prepared so well and we have put so much time
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  Speaker 3: in the two a days, the film study, everything we've
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  Speaker 3: been doing to get up to this point. We are
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  Speaker 3: definitely ready to hit a hit a team that's not
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  Speaker 3: in our same uniform, colors across from us, and we're
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  Speaker 3: so looking forward to Friday night, and we're looking forward
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  Speaker 3: to the start of the season. Love being back in
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  Speaker 3: the conference as we were last year. But right now
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  Speaker 3: all we have circled is to live.
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  Speaker 2: With Going into the season, a lot of eyes are
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  Speaker 2: going to be on Joe Harvard, obviously for good reason.
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  Speaker 2: He's a He's a special athlete, and he did a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things for you last year, even after he
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  Speaker 2: was not playing quarterback anymore, there were times when he
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  Speaker 2: might take a snap from center as a as a
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  Speaker 2: wildcat option. Do you see him as a kid that
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  Speaker 2: you could just put in a lot of different spots
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  Speaker 2: and just finding unique ways to get him the ball?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, from lack of better words, he's our
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  Speaker 3: Deebo Samuel. You know, we're going to try to line
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  Speaker 3: him up everywhere we can. You know, in the backfield,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a tight end, wide receiver, he might play
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  Speaker 3: some wildcat. We don't know what we're gonna do with then,
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  Speaker 3: we just know that we need to get him the
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  Speaker 3: ball in space. He's he's a tremendous athlete. I've known
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  Speaker 3: Joe since he was seven years old and coached him
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  Speaker 3: in different sports.
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  Speaker 5: He is.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, when you're six four over two hundred
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  Speaker 4: pounds and you're running a.
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  Speaker 3: Four to five, that's pretty special and pretty elite abilities.
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  Speaker 3: He showed that this past weekend at the jamboree and
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  Speaker 3: just trying to get him the ball. Now, he should
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  Speaker 3: expect double coverages. He just expect a lot of attention,
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  Speaker 3: which will then in return, you know, open up some
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  Speaker 3: of our other guys that are also special athletes on
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  Speaker 3: our team. So yeah, he's going to be a big
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  Speaker 3: part of what we do. I think he's a player
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  Speaker 3: that will play at the next level because of his
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  Speaker 3: pure athleticism. As you know, Tyler, he's a tremendous three
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  Speaker 3: sport athlete, which is a rare bird these days, a
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  Speaker 3: rare person who play baseball, basketball and football at such
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  Speaker 3: a high, high level. And he does that and we're
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  Speaker 3: excited to see what he's going to do with senior here.
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  Speaker 2: And then talking about the defense, Owen Hanstead has been
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  Speaker 2: a kid that's been a stall wart back there forever.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that week one game is freshman year, he
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  Speaker 2: had to pick six and it's just kind of been
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  Speaker 2: writing ever since. Then seven interceptions as a sophomore and
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  Speaker 2: ten in his career. Now, what do you expect from
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  Speaker 2: him on the defensive side of the ball, and how
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  Speaker 2: do you look at your defense as a whole.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Owen is just he's the ultimate Swiss Army.
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  Speaker 4: If he can do anything. He can play any position.
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  Speaker 3: He could cover a corner, he can play safety, we
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  Speaker 3: can roll it in the box. He can play like
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  Speaker 3: a rover position outside line. He's he's just so versatile
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  Speaker 3: and what he can do, and he has so much experience.
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  Speaker 3: When you've been playing varsity since your freshman year year
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  Speaker 3: coming and you know, it's just so much experience and
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  Speaker 3: so many varsity snaps under your belt, you know that
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  Speaker 3: moment is not too big for you because you've been
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  Speaker 3: in those moments before. You've done it for the last
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  Speaker 3: three years going into your senior year, so he's ready.
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  Speaker 3: I like what our defense is where. I like what
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  Speaker 3: we've done with Josh Croll moving in to play both
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  Speaker 3: sides at the ball now coming in playing nose tackle.
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  Speaker 3: He's an absolute force in there. He's been begging us
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  Speaker 3: to play defense the last couple of years and he's
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  Speaker 3: going to get his wish this year and he's going
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  Speaker 3: to help anchor down that defensive line. Also with Eli
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  Speaker 3: good Buffalo, and we we're really excited about the development
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  Speaker 3: of a new football player. You can't you love to
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  Speaker 3: bring in a six to seven defensive end and with
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  Speaker 3: when we have Bear coming in and it's it's.
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  Speaker 4: Just a really going to be a really fun defensive line.
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  Speaker 3: You know, as you mentioned the podcast, we with our linebackers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, graduating. But you know, you know when we
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  Speaker 3: look at Calvin van hofwag and it's like looking at
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  Speaker 3: gave Van halfway again. So it's it's someone that's going
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  Speaker 3: to come up and step up and take that role
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  Speaker 3: Sunny Powell, you know, and and bringing Joe Harward closer
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  Speaker 3: to the ball and you know, in that rover position,
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  Speaker 3: that safety that we can bring in.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he he.
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  Speaker 4: Loves playing corner and a lot of times he will
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  Speaker 4: play corner.
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  Speaker 3: But we'd like to see him closer with the ball
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  Speaker 3: making plays because he's just so athletic and so quick
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  Speaker 3: on that field.
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  Speaker 4: So feeling really good about our defense right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome. Coach, Well, thank you so much for joining me,
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  Speaker 2: and best of lucky, you're the first You're the first
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  Speaker 2: game this weekend for Walcome County team, so you're kind
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  Speaker 2: of like our Thursday night football in the NFL. It's
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  Speaker 2: the it's the first kickoff for Walkham County, so we're
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  Speaker 2: all going to be really excited and rooting for you
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  Speaker 2: and good luck this Friday down at Edmonds.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: You bet there you have it. Belling m versus Linwood
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  Speaker 2: tonight at five o'clock at Edmonds wood Way High School.
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  Speaker 2: An hour later at six o'clock pm, the Mount Baker
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  Speaker 2: Mountaineers will be on the road taking on the Port
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  Speaker 2: Angeles Rough right at the Port Angeles Civic Field. No,
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  Speaker 2: not the civic field in our own backyard, so make
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  Speaker 2: sure you don't make that mistake. And based on the
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  Speaker 2: Max Preps rankings, Mount Baker is favored in this one.
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  Speaker 2: All right, And right now I'm joined on the Gatorade
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  Speaker 2: Game Day football preview by Mount Baker head coach Ron Lepper. Coach,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for making time to join us.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 7: So it's a gret day when I get talking Tyler
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  Speaker 7: Anderson and walking preps.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's a great day for me to coach. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much. Thirty second year in the program, thirtieth
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  Speaker 2: year as the head coach. If someone would have told
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  Speaker 2: you back in the mid nineties that you'd be involved
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  Speaker 2: in multiple sports for over thirty years at Mount Baker
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  Speaker 2: and eventually become the athletic director, what would you have said?
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  Speaker 7: I would be hard to fathom that, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: you know, back then I was just worried.
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  Speaker 8: About day to day this negative to the day.
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  Speaker 7: You remember when I moved up here, within two week period,
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  Speaker 7: moved up here from southern California, got a new job,
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  Speaker 7: had a two week old baby, with three other or
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  Speaker 7: two other young kids at the time, you know, so
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  Speaker 7: it was life was just was just busy crazy. Luckily, uh,
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  Speaker 7: I have a have an awesome wife that understood what
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  Speaker 7: my passion was for this and allowed me to do
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  Speaker 7: those things. And uh, yeah, I look back now, I
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  Speaker 7: know I didn't think that, you know. I mean there's
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  Speaker 7: some has some opportunities to take some of the jobs
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  Speaker 7: along the way and it didn't work out, And I
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  Speaker 7: guess it is the place I'm supposed to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I know that Deman community is you know,
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  Speaker 2: is super proud of that and excited, and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: the calming effect, it's the you know, it's the year
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  Speaker 2: in and year out, it's what to expect. It's great
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  Speaker 2: and and you know, being affiliated with that myself is
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  Speaker 2: it's such a pleasure. So you know, the whole community
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  Speaker 2: thanks you and loves you for that after all these years.
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  Speaker 2: Do you still have nerves moments before the game?
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  Speaker 9: Hell?
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: Yes, I mean yeah I do.
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: It's I still get a little fired up, a little
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: wound up. I've learned to control it better. But you know,
• 15:07
  Speaker 7: obviously sometimes we're a little more shaky than others, as
• 15:11
  Speaker 7: they say. But I mean, I think I start to
• 15:15
  Speaker 7: question some things if I didn't still get that excitement
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: and get that feeling inside.
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: Right. You know, when we.
• 15:21
  Speaker 7: Found out about when I when I got the confirmation
• 15:24
  Speaker 7: a couple of weeks back, about a week three game,
• 15:26
  Speaker 7: I just changed my whole outlook on life. That night,
• 15:29
  Speaker 7: you know, I was at a wedd interception and the
• 15:30
  Speaker 7: next thing, you know, I'm kind of bouncing around and
• 15:33
  Speaker 7: just thinking all this stuff, and so, you know, just
• 15:35
  Speaker 7: kind of got a shot at adrenaline in there, you know,
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: just about you know, hey, what this is gonna be
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: exciting opportunity for us in our program and our kids
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: and stuff.
• 15:43
  Speaker 6: And so yeah, I still get I still get excited.
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: I have to say excited.
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: One of the things I talk about with the kids.
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: You know, it's okay to be excited and have those feelings.
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: Nerves are a little different, Like if your nervous is
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: just because you're not sure what you're gonna do, you know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 7: So I'm okay with having a little bit of excitement
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: in our in our in our kids before game.
• 16:03
  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Uh, Friday night you'll be going on the road and
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: then going on the ferry.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: And you've never shied away from traveling aways to play
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: an opponent. Do you feel like doing that? It's a
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: good way for your team to bond.
• 16:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that's part of it. I mean, you know, obviously,
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm not gonna lie. It'd be nice if
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: we had all our games within an hour driving distance
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: or something to be easy eat on everybody concerned, you know,
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: and financial all kind of stuff. But you know, we
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: got to go play teams that are willing to play us,
• 16:31
  Speaker 7: and sometime means we've got to travel. We've got to travel.
• 16:33
  Speaker 7: But then so with that in line, yeah, then we
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: talk about that. We talk about the trip, We talk
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: about the things that we do. It's funny because you know,
• 16:42
  Speaker 7: taking those kind of long trips in all the programs.
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: But you know, you talk to some of the wrestlers
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: back in the day, you know they you know, it's
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: not so much this duel meet or this tournament, but hey,
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: remember what happened in the suburban Remember of that trip
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: over you know, the mountains and stuff, and so it's
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: just another way for the kids to be together, uh,
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: you know, continue to bomb as a group, come together
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: and hopefully take care of hopefully take care of things.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're taking on Port Angeles and who went winless
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: last year, but they're you know, they're they competed in
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of those games. What do you expect out
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: of this Rough Riders team in twenty twenty.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: Five, Well, I think the coaches, you know, there's done
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: a good job there.
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: You know, the year before it was.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: You know, they had a really good season and I've
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: running into Tombwater, you know, so I'm expecting them to
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: do what they want. I think they might try to
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: throw the ball a little bit more. Just kind of
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: a hunch watching the jamboree. But yeah, I think that
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: you know, looking for, you know, a chance to you know,
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: the defense that brings some pressure and they want to
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: bliss a little bit.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: So we got to be ready for that.
• 17:45
  Speaker 7: I think if we come out and play like we're capable,
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: you know how, I think I like our chances, I
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: think we'll get the job done. But again, traveling on
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: the road, playing a place where I played before, you know,
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: just kind of different officials, different atmosphere. You know, we'll
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: have to take all that in and then try to
• 17:59
  Speaker 7: make sure we get on get on track come game time.
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: Uh.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: And last year's game against Port Angeles, you guys got
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: off to really fast start against them. They they turned
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: the ball over a few times. You turned it into
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: quick points, jumped out to a big lead. I know
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: every coach says the turnovers are always a key factor
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: in any game, but what would you say would be
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: another key factor for the Mountaineers in this game specifically?
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: I think, you know, for us one to get off
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: to a good start. I mean, that's you know, you're
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: coming around. That's what like all coaches want. You want
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: to come out and you know kind of you know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: not necessarily shoot your foot, you know, play after play
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: after play started with you want to come out to
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: get after a good start, and then we want to compete. Okay,
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: And so that's the whole thing, right Yep.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Mount Baker's identity is you know, to run the ball.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Some seasons you might have you might pass it five
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: times a game. Sometimes you might pass it twelve to
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: thirteen times a game. Does that come down to personnel
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: or your opponent or is it just a gut feeling
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: while you're calling plays in the moment.
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: I would I would say a lot has to do with,
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: you know, personnel. I mean, obviously you got to have
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: a quarterback and get the ball there. You got guys
• 19:10
  Speaker 7: are going to catch it. And then more so when
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: we want to work on things, and then obviously dictating
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: in a game, well, I mean, situation in the game
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: will dictate that. Sometimes, as you covered us in the past.
• 19:22
  Speaker 7: Let's say we're going into a game and we've talked
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: about this is what we want to work on.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: So will come out.
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: We might throw the ball, you know, four or five
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: six times in the first ten plays, trying to work
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: some things there and then get back to what we'd
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: like to do and then work off of that. So
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: but you know, you got to be able to throw
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: the ball, you know a little bit at least, you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: I mean, that's the thing. You know, we have to
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: be able to do that in the situations we needed
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: or you know, catch them off guard a little bit,
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: and you guys had that ability for a big play hopefully,
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: and so you know, I think we have the opportunity
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: to throw the ball a little bit this year and
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: then you know, and take advantage of it when we.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Do absolutely and behind quarterback the last couple of years
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: you've had Dylan Moa and Brady Bruland and and they
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: did some good things for you. Is very even numbers
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: across the board for both those guys. This year, it's
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: a couple of new guys, but guys that we've seen
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Camden Moa and Bryce Cooper. What should the Mount Baker
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: faith will expect from those two guys.
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: I think, you know what we're what we usually see.
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: I think, you know, Brice can be pretty dynamic. Cayden
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: or Camden is going to hit the whole hard. You know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: it gets alid run and then the other guy's gonna
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: be in the mix, is knowing Nicole Mills. So you'll
• 20:28
  Speaker 7: he'p you on the field quite a bit, I think
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: in the backfield. Yeah, you know, we're just you know,
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: when we need to get tough yards, go to get
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: tough yards. We have a chance to break a big play.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: We've got to make sure we do that. But you know,
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: I can talk about that for the next twenty five
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: minutes with you, but it doesn't me anything if the
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: old line doesn't take care of business. So but I
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: like our running backs, you know, they you know, I
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: think they compliment each other a little bit, and I
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: think that, you know, they're going to have a chance
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: to be successful.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And that's the thing, coaches. Every week when we
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: do this, I'm going to try to hit a different
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: spot of the team or highlight different players. So maybe
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: next week will be that offensive line that you'll be
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: having fun talking about. So thanks a lot, coach, and
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: thank you for joining me here on the Gatorade Game
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: day preview.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: No, you're welcome, man, you know, you know, being a
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: little up as a living myself, and the time I
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: get a chance to get those guys are shot, I'm
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: gonna do that. But I appreciate the time, look forward
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: to look forward to talking to you next week.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Thanks a lot, coach.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: All right, thanks Tyler.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: The first seven o'clock game that we'll talk about is
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: actually a conference game in the two way Northwest Conference
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and it's the Squalicum Storm who will be heading south
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: to take on the Burlington Edison Tigers at Roland Kirkby Field.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And based on the ranking systems and max Preps, Squalicum
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: is an extremely slight favor in this one. I wasn't
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: able to get a hold of coach Nick Lucy this
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: week to talk to him about the game. Coach Lucy
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: kind of reminds me a lot of Barry Sanders. He's
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: not the biggest guy in the world. He's one of
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: the very best at what he does, and he can
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: be extremely elusive. One of these days I'll be able
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: to capture him and have him join me for an
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: interview for this. So I love you, coach, but I
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: really needed to come on here. It'd be awesome to
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: have you on here and give your two cents about
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: the game. And this is it's a really great matchup
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: in This one has the potential to be the closest
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: game of the weekend. It has a lot writing on
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: it as well as it's the conference opener for both teams.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Both teams graduated some big time players from last year. However,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: both teams are looking to improve their record from last
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: year and they, you know, have a good chance of
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: doing that. And it's always really tough to get a
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: win down in Burlington. There's something about that stadium. There's
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: a rich history there that goes back a very very
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: long time. I know that every coach says that it
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: comes down to turnovers, and that's very true, especially in
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: this case. But I really think this one will come
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: down to which team makes the least mistakes. And you know,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: there's gonna be a lot of first game jitters that
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: are going to be on display. The team that follows
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: its assignments the best should probably come out on top.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: Is both teams are well coached, so we'll have good
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: game plans and it's you know, or could come down
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: to like a special teams play, a kick return, something
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: big that's gonna happen. So that's gonna be a good one.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: That's gonna be a really really good game, and it
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: can determine a lot in that two way Northwest Conference,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: you know, the best overall conference top to bottom in
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the state. Now we move on to the big Walking
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: County game that everyone will be excited about. It's the
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Ferndale Golden Eagles at the Linden Lions seven pm kickoff
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: at roly To Costerfield. But you can be there a
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: few hours early and you'll still see tailgating. The radio
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: crew will be there out there doing their pregame show.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I might even be a part of that who knows.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: And when I looked at Max Prefs, it has Linden
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: with a slight advantage. And right now I'm joined on
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day football preview by Ferndale head coach
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Jamie Plankovich. Coach, thank you so much for taking the time.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: How are you doing.
• 23:59
  Speaker 11: I'm doing good. Thanks.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Tell me about the off season. What do you like
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: about your group so far this year?
• 24:07
  Speaker 12: I just I felt like our guys have done a
• 24:10
  Speaker 12: good job working to make themselves better and our team better.
• 24:14
  Speaker 11: In the off season.
• 24:15
  Speaker 12: I felt like we've had good leadership and a crew
• 24:20
  Speaker 12: that's been pretty tight, and like how we started practices
• 24:24
  Speaker 12: this year with effort and intensity.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. And you got to host a scrimmage against
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Lennon Christian and Mount Baker. Did it go well? Were
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: you able to learn some stuff about your team?
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 24:36
  Speaker 12: What's nice about jamburees. Obviously you've been going against yourselves
• 24:41
  Speaker 12: for a week and a half, so to go against
• 24:44
  Speaker 12: other varsity teams and the younger guys get an opportunity
• 24:48
  Speaker 12: as well, just gives you a better idea of the
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: speed you need to play at and kind of where
• 24:55
  Speaker 12: you're at. As a group, You're going to see some
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: technique and fundamental things that you're gonna need to fix,
• 25:03
  Speaker 12: and overall this a real positive. They get have that
• 25:08
  Speaker 12: opportunity to get out of the way before Week one.
• 25:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I love that you guys get to do that because
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: I mean personally, for me, it's for Walking County teams
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I get to take a look at. But at the
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: same time, they're all good opponents for each other, you know.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: It's a little bit of everything with the offenses and
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: defense that they provide to give you a look. This
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: is your twenty second year as the head coach of
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: the Golden Eagles, but you were the head coach at
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Coom before that and assistant before that. I'm trying to
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: figure out how many years in a row you've been
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: coaching football in Walkham County. What was your first year
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: as an assistant.
• 25:40
  Speaker 12: Coach eighty nine football season, I believe, Yeah.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: And you've been at it every year since then.
• 25:48
  Speaker 11: Right correct? Yeah?
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Oh man, that is awesome. So let's talk about your
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Week one opponent a little bit. It's been such a
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: great rivalry over the years, and I love how much
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: respect the coaching staffs have for each other. Tell me
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: about the Lenen football program and what you can expect
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: from them.
• 26:06
  Speaker 12: Oh, you just know you're gonna play a quality opponent
• 26:10
  Speaker 12: that's really well coached year and in year out. Their
• 26:14
  Speaker 12: kids played really hard, They understand what they're doing. We
• 26:19
  Speaker 12: know that going into that game, we're going to have
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: to play really good football to have a chance to
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: be successful in that game. And it's again a real
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: barometer as you kick off the year of where you're
• 26:33
  Speaker 12: at as a team. You know they're going to do
• 26:36
  Speaker 12: things well and be a challenge. And then I tell
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: the kids every year this is a fantastic rivalry. It's
• 26:45
  Speaker 12: teams that are typically, you know, pretty good teams, and
• 26:49
  Speaker 12: then both communities get behind football so well. It is
• 26:55
  Speaker 12: an incredible atmosphere to walk out into in pregame, we
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: just tell our kids, you.
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: Know, make sure you're enjoying this week.
• 27:03
  Speaker 12: A lot of a lot of high school players never
• 27:05
  Speaker 12: played in an environment like this. And then once we
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: cross the lines, we gotta we got a job to
• 27:09
  Speaker 12: do and and hopefully put our best foot forward.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, it's a it's a joy to just be
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a part of it. And so it's so cool that
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: it happens you know. I mean, it's pretty cool that
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: it happens early in the season. You know, it's a
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: non league game, and it really kicks off the season, right,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: you know, I just be okay.
• 27:29
  Speaker 11: If it was later in the year.
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: But yeah, I also think this, this rivalry is hugely
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: important to keep going. And and just with us being
• 27:38
  Speaker 12: in different conferences, we gotta play week one to make
• 27:41
  Speaker 12: it work.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, exactly, because you know, you only get two
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: non conference games a year, and I think Linen only
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: gets two, so it's hard to make it match up.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: And so it's I'm glad that it able, it's able
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: to continue that way. And this is the first time
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: in a while where yeah, and forgive my ignorance, where
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: you haven't really had that main go to guy in
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: the backfield. But however, spreading the carries can be a
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: benefit for you as you keep the other team kind
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: of guessing. Do you kind of see it that way
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: as well?
• 28:11
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I think if you look back at our history
• 28:13
  Speaker 12: when we've been the best version of ourselves is when
• 28:18
  Speaker 12: we've had multiple threats on the offensive side of the
• 28:21
  Speaker 12: ball that we're not really focused on just getting the
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: ball to one guy. I feel like we're in that
• 28:31
  Speaker 12: position this year. We have a lot of guys that
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: can contribute on that side of the ball, which is
• 28:36
  Speaker 12: going to make us harder to defend week.
• 28:38
  Speaker 11: In and week out.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And I had heard so many great things about
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Sky Freeman as a defensive coach, and he was with
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: you a few years ago. He was at a different
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: school last year, but he's back this year and I
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: got to see it firsthand a practice a few weeks ago.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: What does coach Freeman bring to your program?
• 28:55
  Speaker 12: Incredible energy, He is extremely dedicated. He just is a
• 29:01
  Speaker 12: grinder on working on you know, watching film and any
• 29:07
  Speaker 12: advantage he can get. He's super prepared, and he first
• 29:12
  Speaker 12: and foremost connects with kids in a way that he
• 29:17
  Speaker 12: just got a gift in that way. And yeah, we're
• 29:20
  Speaker 12: I'm super happy to have him back on our staff.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it was a lot of fun to see.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, coach for joining me here on
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day preview and good luck on Friday
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: night at Lindon.
• 29:32
  Speaker 11: Thanks Tyler, I really appreciate it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: You bet, And of course we got to have equal
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: time and right now I'm joined on the Gatorade Game
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Day Football preview by Lyndon head coach Blake and Dalen coach.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for taking the time. How are
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: you doing today?
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: Great?
• 29:47
  Speaker 13: Thanks for having me on and thanks for doing this.
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: This is really cool.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really excited about it. And I hopefully I've
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: watched watched enough Dan Patrick to know how to interview people,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: so we'll see how this goes. So first of all,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: let's just start tell me about the off season. What
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: do you like about your group so far this year?
• 30:08
  Speaker 13: I think what I probably liked most was the commitment
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: to the weight room over the summer. You know, we
• 30:15
  Speaker 13: averaged over seventy kids, which is unbelievable. Very few even
• 30:19
  Speaker 13: took a week off for vacation. A few did, obviously
• 30:23
  Speaker 13: normal kids, right, But but so that I would say
• 30:26
  Speaker 13: the off season commitment, which then also matched our depths.
• 30:29
  Speaker 13: You know, this might be one of the deepest teams
• 30:33
  Speaker 13: we've had, where where we literally if I start drawing
• 30:36
  Speaker 13: up a depth chart, you know, our receivers go seven
• 30:39
  Speaker 13: or eight deep, and our running backs go three or
• 30:41
  Speaker 13: four deep, and our we even have multiple quarterbacks and
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: our secondary we have tons of linebackers. So so because
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: of the commitment, I think to the weight room and
• 30:50
  Speaker 13: put kids in a position to be competitive. And so
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: our numbers are perfect, right. You know, we got one
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: hundred kids out for football and a pretty balanced roster
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: to go to work with.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome, and that's that's lenin football right there.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: In a nutshell, you got to go over to Ferndale
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: last Friday and scrimmage against Lennon Christian and Mount Baker.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: How did it go? Were you able to learn some
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: stuff about your team?
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: Yeah? It's always fun. I mean you always learn the
• 31:20
  Speaker 13: most from week one to week two. So what the
• 31:23
  Speaker 13: jamboree allows you to do is possibly head off a
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: few things that you were kind of sweeping under the rug,
• 31:31
  Speaker 13: things that you you thought you were better than you
• 31:34
  Speaker 13: were at. And so we were lucky. I mean, my
• 31:36
  Speaker 13: gut tells me Elsie and Baker will be playoff teams.
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: So not many people get to scrimmage too potential playoff
• 31:44
  Speaker 13: teams in a jamboree. So they're really good, really talented,
• 31:48
  Speaker 13: and if we make mistakes, they showed us what we
• 31:51
  Speaker 13: needed to be better at. Now the ultimate test comes
• 31:54
  Speaker 13: on Friday because we're playing Ferndale and as you know,
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: that's just always one of those classic you know, everything
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: you do wrong, they're gonna make you pay. And so
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: uh so we'll figure out once again Friday, what we're
• 32:07
  Speaker 13: good at and what we need to get better at.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I spoke with with Patrick Games, and
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: there's a very there's a lot of similarities with you
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: and him as far as you guys. You know, you
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: start out you're a ball boy, then you're a player,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: then you're an assistant coach, and now you're the head coach.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Because of all that, I know, it's gonna be hard
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: to sum up. I'm not going to ask you within
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: one word or even one sentence, but what does Linden
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: football mean to you?
• 32:34
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it's just been a big part of who I
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: am as a person. And so you know, some of
• 32:39
  Speaker 13: my very first memories, like you said, are watching my
• 32:42
  Speaker 13: brother play and being a ball boy, and that's one
• 32:45
  Speaker 13: eye opening experience because you know, you find out right
• 32:47
  Speaker 13: away that what happens on the sideline stays on the sideline.
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: Then you know, I'll get the honor of playing for Lindon,
• 32:54
  Speaker 13: which I was a typical Linen kid where that's all
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: I dreamed about was Friday night lights and and and
• 33:00
  Speaker 13: wearing the green and gold, and you know, and then
• 33:03
  Speaker 13: I think after that, you know, my senior year didn't
• 33:04
  Speaker 13: go the way we wanted to. Roly had retired and
• 33:08
  Speaker 13: there was a transition before coach Creamy got there. And
• 33:12
  Speaker 13: so I think that for me personally left a little
• 33:14
  Speaker 13: bit of a bitter taste in my mouth and wanting
• 33:17
  Speaker 13: to I don't know if you say rectify the situation,
• 33:19
  Speaker 13: but the first chance I got to come back, well
• 33:22
  Speaker 13: then I got to experience Kurt Cramey. So wow, you know,
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: talk about being molded into a head coach and being
• 33:28
  Speaker 13: trained the right way. I may be slow, but twenty
• 33:32
  Speaker 13: years I think I absorbed enough standing next to him,
• 33:35
  Speaker 13: signaling for him, talking with him on the weekend and came.
• 33:39
  Speaker 13: So I just I think, you know, every phase of
• 33:41
  Speaker 13: my life has had Linen football in it. You know,
• 33:45
  Speaker 13: I have faith, I have family, and I have Linen football.
• 33:48
  Speaker 13: And I think that's just kind of in a nutshell,
• 33:51
  Speaker 13: who I hopefully have portrayed myself to be.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Obviously. So let's let's do it. Let's talk about Ferndale
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: a little bit. It's been such a great rivalry over
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: the years, and I love how much respect the coaching
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: staffs have for each other. Tell me about the Golden
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Eagle football program and what you can expect from them.
• 34:10
  Speaker 13: It's so fun because I know, specifically the last four
• 34:13
  Speaker 13: years we've gone into the game and there's years you say,
• 34:16
  Speaker 13: I think, I think we should win this one, and
• 34:18
  Speaker 13: we didn't. And then there's years you think, oh, I
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: don't know if we're going to get this one, and
• 34:21
  Speaker 13: we got it. So that's the epitome of a rivalry
• 34:25
  Speaker 13: game where it really doesn't matter who people think is
• 34:29
  Speaker 13: going to win or who's better than each other. It
• 34:32
  Speaker 13: really just comes down to who makes the least amount
• 34:35
  Speaker 13: of mistakes because both programs are.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: Just so good.
• 34:38
  Speaker 13: Now you talk about the coaching staff, it's so fun
• 34:41
  Speaker 13: because when you play Ferndale, you know you have all
• 34:44
  Speaker 13: these things. Well, Fernail usually does this, but against us,
• 34:46
  Speaker 13: they do this, and Fernale usually does this, but they
• 34:49
  Speaker 13: know we do that, so they're going to do this.
• 34:51
  Speaker 13: And I remember they used to invert their safeties and
• 34:54
  Speaker 13: corners just to keep up with our six five wide
• 34:56
  Speaker 13: receivers and just little gamesmanship things like that, and like
• 35:00
  Speaker 13: you said, just so much mutual respect. We know that
• 35:04
  Speaker 13: this game week one is preparing us for the playoffs
• 35:08
  Speaker 13: and hopefully they feel the same way. And it's just
• 35:12
  Speaker 13: such a fun and hey, when I say fun, I
• 35:16
  Speaker 13: don't like to lose.
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: We love to win.
• 35:19
  Speaker 13: Well, I've been blessed and we won a few games
• 35:21
  Speaker 13: here Lyndon, but against Ferndale it's fifty to fifty. Hey,
• 35:25
  Speaker 13: my eight years were four and four and that's the
• 35:28
  Speaker 13: epitome of a rivalry. I think at one point over
• 35:31
  Speaker 13: thirty years, it was like sixteen and fourteen or some
• 35:33
  Speaker 13: crazy number. And so that's just a classic rivalry right there.
• 35:39
  Speaker 13: And then around the state you get a lot of people,
• 35:42
  Speaker 13: you know, tuning in. I think last year or the
• 35:44
  Speaker 13: year before that, it was close to five thousand views
• 35:47
  Speaker 13: on NFHS. And so it's fun game. And all the
• 35:51
  Speaker 13: kids that are at college are texting our kids and
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: the parents that work together at ARCO or BP or whatever.
• 35:57
  Speaker 13: I mean, there's a lot of cross over, a lot
• 36:00
  Speaker 13: of competition, but like you said, I hopefully a lot
• 36:03
  Speaker 13: of mutual respect.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean we're so lucky as a you know,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: as a community, just as a county that there is
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: a game like that, and it's fun when it opens
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: up the season. You know, it kind of gives you
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: that Ohio State Texas field, you know, or that you're
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: like what the NFL has done in the last ten
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: to fifteen years where they open it up on a
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Thursday night and it's usually you know, it's usually the
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl champion from last year against a rival, right,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: and and so it's it's a lot of fun and
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: I love it. It's it's fantastic for me. You have
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of returning starters this year, especially on the
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: defensive side of the ball, but there will be a
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: new face at quarterback and we've been so blessed up
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: here to be able to witness Brent Hepner over the
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: past three years. But tell me about Lucaslology and Gordy Bedlington,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: a couple of underclassmen that are vying for that spot.
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: It's been fun because part of what we do here
• 36:55
  Speaker 13: Lynnon is we talk about the legacy. And there's lots
• 36:58
  Speaker 13: of different ways you can do that. We have legacy projects,
• 37:01
  Speaker 13: but legacy came to me from when I studied the
• 37:04
  Speaker 13: Navy Seals and how they do things. They played for
• 37:07
  Speaker 13: something bigger than themselves. Well, I like to tell the
• 37:10
  Speaker 13: kids' stories you know, and sometimes we'll have teams that
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: will mirror previous teams and what their journey was like,
• 37:17
  Speaker 13: and it really does help prepare the kids mentally for
• 37:19
  Speaker 13: what possibly is to come. Well, these two young quarterbacks
• 37:22
  Speaker 13: I have, you know, they maybe don't remember watching James
• 37:26
  Speaker 13: marsh and Brock Kapner and then Brock Kapner and Baylor
• 37:30
  Speaker 13: Airs and then Brent Heppner and Kayden Herman, like, they
• 37:33
  Speaker 13: don't remember that we've done two quarterbacks for a long time.
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: Even Josh Kraft would give up every third series so
• 37:41
  Speaker 13: Jordan Prider could get in there and make sure that
• 37:43
  Speaker 13: he was ready to go if we needed to be
• 37:45
  Speaker 13: called upon. So Lucas is definitely our starter. But Gordy
• 37:49
  Speaker 13: is such a great weapon that the other night we
• 37:52
  Speaker 13: played the jamboree and we had to keep track of
• 37:55
  Speaker 13: He's the only player on the team that we had
• 37:56
  Speaker 13: to keep track of his snaps because you can't have
• 37:59
  Speaker 13: more than four and there was forty eight snaps, so
• 38:01
  Speaker 13: we had to make sure he was off the field
• 38:04
  Speaker 13: at least eight snaps so we're not in violation. And
• 38:07
  Speaker 13: all the other players that are either rotating on one
• 38:09
  Speaker 13: side of all the other Gordy can play and do
• 38:12
  Speaker 13: so much. So he's a weapon that we want to
• 38:15
  Speaker 13: use everywhere we can, whether it's receiver, whether it's quarterback,
• 38:19
  Speaker 13: running back, or defensive special teams. Whereas Lucas has really
• 38:23
  Speaker 13: honed his craft. He's put a ton of time in.
• 38:27
  Speaker 13: When he rips it, there are balls that, you know,
• 38:31
  Speaker 13: remind me a lot of what Brandt used to do.
• 38:33
  Speaker 13: Brant was a stand in the pocket and fire. Lucas
• 38:36
  Speaker 13: can also fire, but sometimes he'll do it on the fly,
• 38:39
  Speaker 13: like he's on the run and he'll throw a dime
• 38:42
  Speaker 13: while moving and so really, yeah, like you said, different quarterback,
• 38:45
  Speaker 13: different year, But hopefully if they paid attention to what
• 38:49
  Speaker 13: came before him, they realized what a weapon we can
• 38:52
  Speaker 13: have with multiple quarterbacks.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, opening weekend, you get to play at home. Yeah,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: you know, you know there's not a lot of home
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: games actually this weekend in Walkin County and it's against
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: a rival, and you know it's going to be packed,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: and the band is going to be awesome and cheerleaders
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: are going to go all out. How do you contain
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: your excitement on the sidelines moments before kickoff in a moment.
• 39:14
  Speaker 13: Like that, Well, I think you follow your routine first
• 39:17
  Speaker 13: of all, like no game is any bigger than any
• 39:20
  Speaker 13: other game, So you do your warm up the same,
• 39:22
  Speaker 13: you do your pregame the same, You don't change anything.
• 39:27
  Speaker 13: There will be a Tony Wilson Kickoff Classic tailgate party.
• 39:30
  Speaker 13: They do that for the first home game every year,
• 39:32
  Speaker 13: so even that's normal, but it does create a great
• 39:35
  Speaker 13: you know, the kids are pulling into the parking lot
• 39:37
  Speaker 13: and they're seeing a bunch of people there having a
• 39:38
  Speaker 13: good time. Gives you that Saturday afternoon feeling in college
• 39:43
  Speaker 13: football and things like that. So but from that point on,
• 39:47
  Speaker 13: we try to make it as normal as possible because
• 39:50
  Speaker 13: you know that energy is great and you harness it
• 39:52
  Speaker 13: and use it. But then no fence after you get
• 39:55
  Speaker 13: hitting them out. It's all about, you know, alignment and assignment,
• 39:59
  Speaker 13: getting your eyes right and four seconds of fury and
• 40:02
  Speaker 13: then reset and do that for a couple hours, so hopefully,
• 40:06
  Speaker 13: But I'll be honest, We've had kids for years tell
• 40:09
  Speaker 13: us that they say that they do that. But when
• 40:11
  Speaker 13: it's your first varsity start and it's Friday night at home,
• 40:16
  Speaker 13: in front of the band, in front of our crowd,
• 40:18
  Speaker 13: which our student section usually gets there before we do
• 40:21
  Speaker 13: like will walk out and they're already there ten deep
• 40:24
  Speaker 13: yelling and cheering and there's nobody on the field yet.
• 40:27
  Speaker 13: But I will tell you there's been a few seen
• 40:29
  Speaker 13: years in the past that it's said that first game
• 40:32
  Speaker 13: that was the most unique feeling I've ever had in
• 40:35
  Speaker 13: my life. And these are kids that have won state
• 40:37
  Speaker 13: championships in multiple sports and things like that. But so
• 40:40
  Speaker 13: I do know that first night special, and we had
• 40:44
  Speaker 13: a great view, we got a great our field is
• 40:47
  Speaker 13: in amazing condition in September, and so yeah, it's it's
• 40:53
  Speaker 13: it is one of the happiest experiences for a lot
• 40:55
  Speaker 13: of these kids and myself included.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I know the community can't wait. It's going
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: to be fantastic. Yeah, it's it's what we all live for.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: It's Christmas Morning for a lot of us. So thank
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: you so much coach for joining me here on the
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game Day preview and best of luck on Friday night.
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: Yep.
• 41:12
  Speaker 13: Appreciate having everybody there and and hopefully it'll be a
• 41:16
  Speaker 13: great show. Thank you so much.
• 41:17
  Speaker 14: Tyler.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're welcome. Man. That's going to be such a
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: good game and I'll have my super intern Michayles sparks
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: out there covering that one. That's always just such a
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: pleasure to start the season that way. It's awesome. Next
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: up is another conference game. This will be out at
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Civic Stadium in Bellingham as the Seahome Mariners are hosting
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: the Marysville Pilchick Tomahawks at seven o'clock. Max Preps shows
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Seahome as a pretty decent favorite in this one. All right,
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: right now, I'm joined on the Gatorade Game Day Football
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: previous by see Him head coach Brian Young. B Y,
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: thank you so much for making time for us. How
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: are you doing well?
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I just got off the practice field, so a little hot,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: little uh kind of horse from yelling and just getting
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: our guys jamped up. But man, we are excited about
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Friday night. Yeah.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you finally get to finally get to play a game.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: So you know, Week one is here? Is it is
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: it too early to assess your team?
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, you look at your team and you go, hey,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I think we can do this, and I think we
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: can do that. But until you actually get these guys
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: on the field and see them against other competition, you
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: still have some unknown so you know, we have a
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: game plan, we're going to go in try to execute
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: that game plan, see how things kind of fall out,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: and teams.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: Usually make their biggest jump from week one to week two.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: So you know, we'll take whatever comes out of week
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: one and we'll just say, hey, we've got to clean
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: this up, we've got to get better with that.
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: We'll keep this stuff and we'll just go from there.
• 42:49
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: Uh, you went across town to Squalkum High School last
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Friday night to play in a jamboree. How'd that go
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: for your team? Did you did you learn some things
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: were there? Was it a positive ex sperience?
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Well, it was a positive experience, right, because I think
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: anytime you go into situations like that, I always tell
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: my team, Hey, nobody wins the jamboree. We're not out
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: here to try to win anything. What we're trying to
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: do is execute see where we need to kind of
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: correct things. We want guys to compete for playing time
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: because that's the kind of team that we want to have,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: and we want to see what our guys do when
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: it's somebody else, you know, when they don't know the guy,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: when they don't know which way the defender's going they
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: don't know, you know, how they're going to line up.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: Just see how they react and go from there.
• 43:34
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, it hits somebody and it's in a different color.
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: Right finally, Oh that's it. Yes. Absolutely.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Only a few Walkham County teams have conference opponents in
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Week one, and you're one of them as you're hosting Mary'sville. Pilchuk,
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: do you like do you like coming right out and
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: playing a conference game or would you rather start with
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: a non conference game?
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I think when I look at it, Tyler, I go
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: like this, whoever the cross from us, we're going to play, right. Eventually,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: we have to play those conference teams anyway, So whoever
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: is going to line up against us, we're going to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: play that team.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: One thing you learned about playing in the Northwest Conference.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: You're not going to be able to duck anybody. You're
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: going to have to play the best of the best,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: sooner or later. Whatever the schedule is laid out, you
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: just prepare for it and you go figure out who
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: you are by getting on the field and competing.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, so you host the Tomahawks on Friday night at
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: Civic Stadium, you get to play home to start off
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: the year, which is always great. Last year's meeting was
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: a close fourteen to seven win. From what I saw
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: last year, they looked massive up up front. They like
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: to run the ball. Are you expecting that same kind
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: of team this year?
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: Well, you know what, Tyler, we're going a little bit blind.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I sent a request to have shanged some film and
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: they did send us back, like some of their scrimmage
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: film or jamboree type film, but the film wasn't very good,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Like I couldn't really like the site for heads or
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: jails of it based.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: On how it was shot.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: So I can kind of look at it and go, well,
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: you know, it looks like they're doing this, but you
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: know what, I'm not really sure. So this is kind
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: of great for some of our coaches because we're able
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: to go in and go, hey, you know what coaching
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: is the art of adjustment.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: So I'll see how they line up. You know, we
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: kind of know what we want to do.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: We have adjustments for odd or even fronts or you know,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: these blitz packages or these offensive formations, and we'll just
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: line up, see what they do, and we'll adjust then.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Go from there. And that's what's great about having a
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: veteran team like you do. You're going to have guys
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: that are going to be able to come onto the
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: sidelines and say, you know what, we need to double
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: team block this guy, or we need to do this,
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: And that's that's kind of a nice advantage that you have.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: And our quarterback, you know, he's been with me now
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the third year, so you'll be able to walk the
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and basically, you know, I've given him
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: the freedom. Hey, if you see something else you'll like,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: and you know you can get to it from the
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: set we're in, go ahead, you know what, autile lot
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: of that change it up, right, So that gives us
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: a huge advantage because he's gonna be able to look
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: at what's happening out there and he'll communicate with me
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: all the time. Hey, coach, I think we can go here.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Hey coach, I think we can do that there. So
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: looking forward to it really excited. Just anxious to get
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: back out there and start, you know, this season and
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: just see what we can do.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And you and I spoke at practice a few
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: weeks ago about your quarterback, Nolan right, and how it's
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: a luxury to have a kid like him, and I
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: talk about him a lot on the podcast, but give
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: the audience an inside glimpse about how great it is
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: to coach a kid like Nolan.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: Well, I think the first thing that you know about Nolan, right,
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: is he's a good human being.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: He cares about other people. The four point oho student,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: you know, does the right things. If he makes a mistake,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: whether it's on the field or you know, just being
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: a teenager, he's always accountable, Hey coach, I did this,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: or you know, here's what's going on. So when you
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: have a kid like that, you say, hey, man, this
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: is a great human being who work well. The next
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: thing is he picks things up really rapidly and he
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: wants to learn right. Like he'll he'll say to me like, hey, coach,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: I think we can do and you know I might
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: come back and go, well, look this is why we're
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: doing it this way. And when he absorbs that information,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: he just gets smarter exponentially better and he coaches up
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: the other kids on the field.
• 47:23
  Speaker 5: So like jad Goetgar a backup, you know, no one
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: will look.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: At him and go, hey, you know, move your feet
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: this way and move your feet that way, right, which
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: is awesome, right because they have another coach in the field,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: so I can put the ball in his hands and say, hey,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: you know what, I trust you to do this or
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: trust you to do that, and he can make that
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: adjustment and really make it.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: Work for me. So it's really really a pleasure to
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: have a young man like that quarterback.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I know we're going to be expecting some
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: great things and you got to see him on the
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: rise and it's always a great thing in Walkam County
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: when the murder is a good team. That's a look
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: on Friday, co coach, thank you for joining me here
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade Game Day preview and go get him
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: on Friday.
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: Thanks Tyler, have a good week all right.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: YouTube. I'll have coach Jeff Wood out at that one
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: and he will join us next week to recap that
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: game on the Coach's Corner, always one of my favorite segments.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: There get a lot of good insight from Coach Wood,
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: who again is helping us out on walking preps and
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: I couldn't be happy about that. The final game on
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Friday night will be the Nucksack Valley Pioneers hosting the
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: on Alaska Loggers. That will be a seven pm kickoff
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: at sid Lambert Field and Max Preps has Nucksack Valley
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: with a decent advantage and right now I'm being joined
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade Game day preview by Knucksack Valley head
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: coach Craig Bartell. Coach, thank you so much for making
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: time to join us. How are you doing, I'm doing good.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
• 48:47
  Speaker 15: And you know, we always appreciate everything you do, and
• 48:51
  Speaker 15: sometimes I think that gets lost from the people out there,
• 48:55
  Speaker 15: but what you do for our athletes in our programs
• 48:58
  Speaker 15: in Walking County is is remarkable.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you so much. It's it's I love it.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: I mean I I can always say I'm the luckiest
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: guy in the world, and this is this is Christmas
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: for me. So it's all good.
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: I love it.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: I love it. This Friday night, you get to play
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: at home? We do, yeah, and we'll talk a little
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: bit about your opponent a little bit, but first tell
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: me how exciting is it to play in front of
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: your own home crowd to open up the season.
• 49:25
  Speaker 15: Yeah, it's always a special moment. We had three home
• 49:29
  Speaker 15: games last year, so we were on the road quite
• 49:30
  Speaker 15: a bit and it's a long trip, so to stay home,
• 49:35
  Speaker 15: you know, to rally our community.
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: The first game of the year kind.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Of kicked everything off.
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: It's pretty special.
• 49:43
  Speaker 15: It's good for our seniors, it's good for our program,
• 49:45
  Speaker 15: it's good for our community.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. You're playing the Unalaska Logger is an incredibly
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: strong two B team that finished eleven and two last season.
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: You guys beat them in Week one last year and
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: then they went on an eleven game winning streak before
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: falling to Freeman in the quarterfinals of the state playoffs.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: They run a unique offense, to say the least. Can
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: you explain it to our listeners?
• 50:09
  Speaker 8: I wish I could.
• 50:11
  Speaker 15: It's it's we call it kind of football on the phone.
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: Booth type thing. It's, you know, they got two.
• 50:18
  Speaker 15: Tight ends and two kind of old school, uh you know,
• 50:24
  Speaker 15: power eye type backs, and then two quarterbacks, and it's
• 50:30
  Speaker 15: it's run, run, run, and it's with inside the tackles.
• 50:33
  Speaker 15: It's not they throw the ball maybe twice. So it's
• 50:37
  Speaker 15: it's a very unique offense that we will never see again.
• 50:42
  Speaker 15: And so it's it's challenging to prepare for that, especially
• 50:47
  Speaker 15: you know with the teams that that we've scrimmaged against
• 50:50
  Speaker 15: and teams that you know, we're going to face that
• 50:53
  Speaker 15: like to spread it out. It's even different than the
• 50:55
  Speaker 15: wing teeth that we see.
• 50:57
  Speaker 6: And so yeah, it's it's.
• 50:59
  Speaker 15: The challenge just because it's so different and we have
• 51:02
  Speaker 15: to make adjustments. We played in a jamboree last week,
• 51:08
  Speaker 15: I get some spread teams, so the chance to build
• 51:11
  Speaker 15: on you know, defending spread teams we have kind of
• 51:15
  Speaker 15: put on a back burner for a week while we
• 51:17
  Speaker 15: prepare for them.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, your defensive backs are gonna they're they're gonna be
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: either gonna fall asleep or they're gonna have to stay
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: alert because you're right, it is run, run, run, run,
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: But you don't want to fall asleep for that one
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: or two passes in a game. It's it's crazy, it is.
• 51:33
  Speaker 15: They try to, like you said, they try to low
• 51:36
  Speaker 15: you to sleep and then they'll papa a tight end
• 51:39
  Speaker 15: or a back out. And yeah, if you're if you're
• 51:42
  Speaker 15: not prepared for it and you're not reading your keys,
• 51:45
  Speaker 15: you get burned.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:46
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: In last year's game, inside linebacker Colby Martin had a
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: really really big game. Obviously in the middle of the
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: field all those runs. Andrew Dugger steps into that kind
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: of role, and he's gonna see a lot of action
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: between the tackles with guys coming at him. Explain how
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: important his role will be in this game.
• 52:04
  Speaker 15: Yeah, And ironically last year that was kind of his
• 52:07
  Speaker 15: coming out game against them.
• 52:10
  Speaker 6: You know, we knew he.
• 52:12
  Speaker 15: Was a decent player, but that game he kind of
• 52:15
  Speaker 15: got thrust in there because it was first game with
• 52:17
  Speaker 15: cramps and everything, and he did a fantastic job.
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 52:21
  Speaker 15: His the linebacker role is very important this week.
• 52:24
  Speaker 6: They have to read their keys.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: If they don't, then they'll.
• 52:26
  Speaker 15: Get caught up on the wash of just multiple linemen
• 52:30
  Speaker 15: pulling and just going different directions. And his his role
• 52:36
  Speaker 15: with Jackson Hester, both the middle linebackers is very important,
• 52:41
  Speaker 15: trying to play downhill and get get to their gaps
• 52:44
  Speaker 15: and make their reads. Otherwise they they they can spring
• 52:48
  Speaker 15: something they if they don't do what they're supposed to do.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, that's the scary thing. You know, in the
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: last couple of years, you've had a lot of success,
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: and what you get to have with that is a
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: lot of your backups get to come in late in
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: the game, experience what it's like under the light, under
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: the lights, and now you have a lot of these
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: first time, firsty starters that got to play those roles
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: a little bit, got to get it in their system,
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: got to see what it was like. But is there
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: a good way to calm their nerves or is it
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: just go out there and play and we'll do the
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: best we can with stuff like that. No, that's a
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: great question.
• 53:24
  Speaker 9: I think.
• 53:25
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Fortunately, we've had we've been in the playoffs last
• 53:28
  Speaker 15: few years, and we get to take everybody, so they
• 53:31
  Speaker 15: understand the Friday night lights, the crowds. But you're right,
• 53:37
  Speaker 15: it doesn't change when you're actually in that moment. We
• 53:41
  Speaker 15: talk a lot about the process and the process of
• 53:44
  Speaker 15: just preparing yourself and confidence in what we've done during
• 53:49
  Speaker 15: the week. We'll set you up for success, and we
• 53:53
  Speaker 15: worry about just do your job, do what you're supposed to.
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: Do, do what we practice all week.
• 53:57
  Speaker 15: And so I think if the kids feel prepared, that
• 54:01
  Speaker 15: that hopefully translates into confidence during the game that they're
• 54:06
  Speaker 15: not going to.
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: Be surprised or anything.
• 54:08
  Speaker 15: And we always talked about, you know, those those first
• 54:11
  Speaker 15: few plays, there's a lot of nerves. We try to
• 54:14
  Speaker 15: be even killed emotionally, not too high, not too low.
• 54:18
  Speaker 15: And we we actually talked to the kids, Hey, you're
• 54:21
  Speaker 15: going to feel really jacked up, and then you're going
• 54:23
  Speaker 15: to have an adrenaline dump at some point in those
• 54:25
  Speaker 15: first couple of minutes, and you've got to fight through
• 54:27
  Speaker 15: that because your body gets lethargic and slow. But you've
• 54:32
  Speaker 15: got to fight through that and you'll come back. So
• 54:34
  Speaker 15: we do a lot of mental prep as well as
• 54:37
  Speaker 15: just letting them know, hey, trust the process, trust what
• 54:39
  Speaker 15: you're prepared to do, and then just go play.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: That's awesome. I love I love hearing that because it's
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: one of those things that people don't think about right
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: for a week one game and as a fan, you're
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: just like, oh, this is gonna be great. But I
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: looking around and I because and I played, and you played,
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: and we've we've been under the lights, and that first
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: time under the lights can hitch you so crazy. So
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: those are the things I think about. And so yeah,
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: I'm glad that you kind of have a way of
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: knowing what to expect and then and and you're so
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: right about the about the like the high is gonna
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: fall at some point, right and then how and having
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: to fight through that. It's that's really well put. You've
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: had a luxury of some old state running backs the
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: past few years, Skyler Wittern, Colton Lenz, and this season
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: it's you know, you got a lot of guys that
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: are you know, carrying the ball for you know, maybe
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: the second time in the arsity career, right you know,
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: Matthew Blake, Trey Heughting, Trevin Skeenstra. Do you know who
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: you're gonna go with in week one or will they
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: all get some time? How do you how are you
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: looking at that right now?
• 55:43
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we're we're.
• 55:44
  Speaker 15: Still trying to find our identity.
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: Uh there.
• 55:47
  Speaker 15: Right now, I think Matthew Blake is probably our starter, uh.
• 55:51
  Speaker 4: There, But I think everybody's gonna get a chance.
• 55:54
  Speaker 15: To run the ball and then we'll just kind of
• 55:57
  Speaker 15: figure out.
• 55:57
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 55:58
  Speaker 15: You know, it's nice having these pre season quote preseason
• 56:01
  Speaker 15: games before league to try to figure out, Okay, you know,
• 56:06
  Speaker 15: we know in the past few years what worked well,
• 56:09
  Speaker 15: but we have different personnel and so what plays are
• 56:12
  Speaker 15: gonna work, what aren't, and it's probably going to be
• 56:15
  Speaker 15: different than last year, and so we just it's good
• 56:18
  Speaker 15: to get some games under your belt and kind of
• 56:20
  Speaker 15: find your identity and figure out, Okay, this is what
• 56:24
  Speaker 15: we're successful at this is what we maybe need to
• 56:26
  Speaker 15: put on the back burner, and all three of those
• 56:29
  Speaker 15: guys will get a shot and we'll kind of see
• 56:32
  Speaker 15: where it goes from there.
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: That's great, awesome, I can't wait. It's gonna be a
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: great game. I'll be out there for that one. Going
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: out with Sid Lambert Field is always a lot of
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: fun for me, So be best to let coach thank
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: you for joining me here on the Gatorade Game Day
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: preview and I'll see on Friday night. Awesome.
• 56:50
  Speaker 9: I appreciate it.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: Thanks Tyler. You bet that will be a fun one.
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: I'll be out there for it. It's gonna be awesome.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: And now we have four games on Saturday to talk about,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: and we'll start in the county as the Lemon Nation
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: Blackhawks will host the quill Seene Rangers at one o'clock.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Max Preps doesn't have current ratings for these two teams,
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: but we'll talk to Blackhawk coach Wautiko Layton and get
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: a feeling for this matchup. All right, right now, I'm
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: joined on the Gatorade Game Day Football preview by Lemon
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Nation head coach Watiko Layton. Coach, thank you so much
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: for making the time. How are you doing today?
• 57:25
  Speaker 10: I'm doing pretty good. It's a beautiful Wednesday morning. I'm
• 57:28
  Speaker 10: excited for this interview.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, it's it's gonna be fun. I mean for me,
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: it's kind of brand new, right. I haven't heed lemon
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: Nation football. I'm excited and so I'm gonna be learning
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: a lot. You know, a lot of these other schools,
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: I really know the history and know the players, but
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: with Lemonation, I really don't. So it's gonna be new
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: for me as well. In week one, man, it's finally here.
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: Your team ready to finally play against someone in a
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: different color uniform.
• 57:56
  Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure they've been all excited, and I can
• 57:59
  Speaker 10: hear through the hallway by my office the kids talking
• 58:01
  Speaker 10: about cool scene and upcoming week and they're just very
• 58:05
  Speaker 10: hungry to get back out there.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's it's It's gonna be great. The Blackhawks,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: you know, they have a tremendous history with football, but
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: the team has been very young the last few seasons.
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: What do you feel like your team has got how
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: do you feel your team, I should say, what do
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: you feel like your team is gonna need to do
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: to turn the corner this season?
• 58:26
  Speaker 10: I think they just need to stay confident in their
• 58:28
  Speaker 10: game and stick to the script. A lot of our
• 58:31
  Speaker 10: kids have been in the program for these last two years,
• 58:34
  Speaker 10: growing up playing the varsity sport against these other schools.
• 58:38
  Speaker 10: So seeing a lot of the other schools graduated a
• 58:40
  Speaker 10: lot of seniors last year, that's a big confidence booster
• 58:44
  Speaker 10: for my kids, and I think they're just ready to
• 58:46
  Speaker 10: get out there and succeed.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And that's you know, teams are like that, right,
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: you take your lumps early, but you know inin a
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: couple of years, it's going to be a little different
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: because you'll be the older kids out there and right
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: out of the gate. Like you said, you have a
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: home game on Saturday afternoon against the Cool Scene Rangers,
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: a team that went nine and two last season made
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: it to the state playoffs. Do you know if this
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: year's team is gonna look a lot like last year's
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: team when talking about Cool Scene.
• 59:15
  Speaker 9: I don't believe so.
• 59:16
  Speaker 10: So they started I believe six out of the eight
• 59:19
  Speaker 10: seniors both ways, and they're pretty good studs on that team.
• 59:23
  Speaker 10: When it was a quarterback, fast little kid, they had
• 59:27
  Speaker 10: a nice strong, physical running back, full back, and then
• 59:32
  Speaker 10: they also had two kids that were around six five
• 59:36
  Speaker 10: six four two hundred eighty pounds were just straight muscle.
• 59:40
  Speaker 10: They were they were men out there, but they were
• 59:43
  Speaker 10: real good at their game and stick to the script,
• 59:46
  Speaker 10: and the coaches had really good game plans for them.
• 59:49
  Speaker 9: But also.
• 59:52
  Speaker 10: Their head coach retired and moved to Texas, so they're
• 59:55
  Speaker 10: looking at a new coaching staff and a new.
• 59:59
  Speaker 6: So lineup.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean that's and that makes it You're
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: kind of going into it blind then, right, who knows
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: what they're gonna put out there? Right, run, heavy, passing. Uh,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting. Last year, you guys scored
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: three touchdowns again the against that team. What kind of
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: things need to go right for you guys to come
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: out on top this year?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 8: Uh?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 10: I think just being physical This year, a lot of
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 10: our kids are going to be older, have that more
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 10: confidence playing against new kids. So I feel like a
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 10: big thing for us this year and especially this week
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 10: one game is to be physical.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: And like I said earlier, this is my first year,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: you know, covering Leimonation football. I'm excited to learn more
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: about your players individually as well. Some of them I
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: know from basketball and stuff like that. But who's a
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: player that I should keep my eye on, especially in
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: this first game.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: I believe one of our.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 10: Players that surprised us during this fall camp was Joseph Pantalaia.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 10: He's a junior, plays running back, defensive back. Most likely
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 10: might be back for our kick returns and punt returns.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 10: But just a nice, small, physical, quick little guy.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's awesome, And and you know how it is
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: an eight man football. If you got a guy that's quick,
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: you get a big, open field and you can get
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: a lot of yards that way. So yeah, I'm really
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: really excited and Coach, it's it's been great because you know,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: I haven't been doing the Walkham preps thing for too long,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: maybe seven eight years, but I covered you when you
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: played at Ferndale, So this is kind of a fun.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of a fun full circle moment. I
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: guess I have been doing it for a while. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so it's pretty cool. So thank you a lot, coach
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  Speaker 2: for joining me here on the Gatory game day preview
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  Speaker 2: and best of luck on Saturday afternoon.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: You bet. Also at one o'clock on Saturday, the Meridian
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  Speaker 2: Trojans are heading to Kashmir High School to take on
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  Speaker 2: the Deer Park Stags. This is another one of those
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: games that could be extremely close, as Max Preps shows
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: deer Park with a slight advantage. All right, and right
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  Speaker 2: now I'm joined on the Gatorade Game Day Football preview
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  Speaker 2: by I'm Meridian head coach Patrick Ains coach. I just
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: want to thank you for taking the time to join us.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing.
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  Speaker 8: I'm doing well, Tyler. It's my pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Hey, Week one is here. Is it too early
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  Speaker 2: to assess your team?
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  Speaker 14: No, I think we're right at the moment in the
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 14: season where we should be assessing our team. I think
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  Speaker 14: everybody now in the state has played some a little
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 14: bit of live fire action in a jamboree and now
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  Speaker 14: we're still in the you know, the early stages of
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 14: seeing a far game plan for the first week's opponent.
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  Speaker 14: For us, it's deer Park is sound and trying to
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  Speaker 14: take into account all the situations and things that you
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 14: got to manage for first time guys in first time places,
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  Speaker 14: and so you know, jamboree's are a little bit of
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  Speaker 14: a dress rehearsal. But Week one really is the is
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  Speaker 14: the week that's supposed to teach you a lot of
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  Speaker 14: things about the team that you've got, and that's that's
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  Speaker 14: kind of what we're expecting.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And you hosted jamboree last Saturday in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: How'd that go for you guys?
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  Speaker 8: I think it went, you know, relatively well.
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  Speaker 14: We you know, coming out of fourteen practices in ten days,
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  Speaker 14: you know, where we only had Thursday and Friday, coming
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  Speaker 14: out of our last two day on Wednesday to really
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  Speaker 14: focus on making sure that we can manage the situations
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 14: and teams that we were going to play in our jamboree.
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  Speaker 8: And we didn't practice.
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  Speaker 14: Really very well at the end of that fourteen practice stretch.
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  Speaker 14: So our guys responded pretty well to playing against other
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  Speaker 14: opponents and we started to freshen up there at the
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  Speaker 14: end of the week, and.
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  Speaker 8: Now we're really looking forward to playing an actual football game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I kind of look at you know, you
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  Speaker 2: a lot like Blake Van Dalen at Lyndon as far
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  Speaker 2: as you've been tied to the program for basically your
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: entire life, right from baal boy to player assistant coach
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: now head coach. When you look at it as a whole,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: what does Meridian football mean to you? And I know
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  Speaker 2: that's hard to sum up. I'm not going to say
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  Speaker 2: in one word, but in a couple of sentences it
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: what does it mean to you?
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  Speaker 14: I would say at this point what feels important not
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  Speaker 14: just to the team that we have, but to our
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  Speaker 14: community and the families, and the coaches and everyone who's
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 14: been a part of the Meridian football program over the
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 14: last fifty plus years. Trying to stay tied in to
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 14: what makes us us and the traditions that we have
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  Speaker 14: established and believe in, even if it's nothing more than
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 14: just doing the same thing and saying the same things
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  Speaker 14: at the same times to provide the continuity, consistency, and
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  Speaker 14: stability that hopefully is going to continue to lead to
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  Speaker 14: the buy in and trust of our players and families
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  Speaker 14: that when you come and put on the black, white,
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  Speaker 14: and gold from Meridian, you can expect the same kind
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  Speaker 14: of that we've always had, the same kind of dedication
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  Speaker 14: that our coaches have always had and tried to pour
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  Speaker 14: into our school and our young men in community, and
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  Speaker 14: that when you play on a Friday night or a
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  Speaker 14: Saturday afternoon, or whenever it's going to be, you're going
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  Speaker 14: to have five decades worth of Meridian football players behind
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  Speaker 14: you who also were putting in the same kind of
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  Speaker 14: work under the same circumstances, in the same program.
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  Speaker 8: That you will be now. So I mean I could
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  Speaker 8: go into that probably.
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  Speaker 14: A little bit farther and a little bit deeper, but
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  Speaker 14: for nothing else, I just I'm just trying to do
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  Speaker 14: my best to keep our traditions intact and in place,
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  Speaker 14: and to make sure that we're sound, but updating things
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  Speaker 14: as they need to be updated and being responsive and
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  Speaker 14: still trying to put our kids, our young men in
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  Speaker 14: the best positions possible, to feel good about what they're doing,
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  Speaker 14: to enjoy the sport of football, to love being a
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  Speaker 14: part of our team, and compete, like heck, when it
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  Speaker 14: comes time to play, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Hear that, and it's like I want to play for Meridian,
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  Speaker 2: you know. It's like, oh, it's just and that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I love hearing stuff like that, and you know, and
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  Speaker 2: just the tradition with Meridian, along with a lot of
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  Speaker 2: other schools around here at the consistency, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: what makes this area such a tremendous area for high
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: school sports. Yeah, on Saturday, you'll go on the road
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  Speaker 2: take on Deer Park at Kashmir High School, at one o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: You beat them last year twenty eight twenty one, and
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  Speaker 2: they finished five and five on the season, like you
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  Speaker 2: guys did. What do you know about them this season?
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  Speaker 2: Is there much change? Do you have any film on
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  Speaker 2: them for this year, or is it just too early
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  Speaker 2: to say?
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  Speaker 8: You know, we're kind of in that in a really
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  Speaker 8: not unfamiliar position going into the.
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  Speaker 14: Preseason non league football game that everybody around the state
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  Speaker 14: generally plays. We do know that they graduated a lot
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  Speaker 14: of seniors off the team from the group that we played.
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  Speaker 14: We know that they've had some change as far as
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 14: their their their coaching staff goes. We know that there
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  Speaker 14: is a new head coach, but I imagine, like you're
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  Speaker 14: going to find at a lot of small schools around
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  Speaker 14: the state, I'm guessing that a lot of some of
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  Speaker 14: their coaches at least probably stayed in position. So the
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  Speaker 14: little film we had to go on of them and
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  Speaker 14: their jamboree, we saw some familiar things that they were
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  Speaker 14: doing on offense, at least as far as what we
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 14: prepared for and played against last year. They looked a
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 14: little bit differently on defense. So we're just trying to
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  Speaker 14: do the best we can to stay sound within the
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  Speaker 14: framework of what we want to do and be able
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  Speaker 14: to respond to whatever they're they're going to show us.
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  Speaker 14: So there's a little bit of uncertainty there, but like
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  Speaker 14: I think everybody around the State would probably tell you,
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  Speaker 14: at this point, we're really trying to focus on what
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  Speaker 14: we do and then within the framework of the game,
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  Speaker 14: make the adjustions that we need to to try to
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  Speaker 14: remain competitive.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you have a lot of new starters on both
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: sides of the ball. One who is an entirely new
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: but he's changing positions this year is your junior quarterback
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  Speaker 2: Trey Alexander. We've seen him in a lot of other sports,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: do a lot of great things, State runs stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: What do you like about his development over the offseason.
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  Speaker 14: I think what you just touched on is really really important,
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  Speaker 14: the fact that Trey is always engaged in a sport
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  Speaker 14: and that we can count on him to be engaged
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  Speaker 14: in the sport in which he is currently playing.
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  Speaker 8: We still put a lot of value.
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  Speaker 14: On in our program, and I remember it's been reiterated
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  Speaker 14: to us in different voices and from different schools and
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 14: different coaching staffs. At the collegiate level, they're not looking
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 14: for football players as much as they're looking for athletes
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  Speaker 14: and competitors, and the preparation and the way in which
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  Speaker 14: you would go about preparing your body and your mind,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 14: and kind of that pliability and flexibility that allows you
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 14: to adapt to any competitive situation, which you can only
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 14: really build genuinely from playing different sports.
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  Speaker 8: That's what should get in Trey.
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  Speaker 14: And we really really appreciate our guys who continue to
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 14: stay committed to all of their sports in high school.
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  Speaker 14: And we know he's a really good football player, just
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  Speaker 14: like he's a great basketball player and a great baseball player,
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  Speaker 14: and this is just kind of the next step in
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 14: his athletic progression. We're expecting a lot of really good
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  Speaker 14: things from Trey and the opportunities he had to play
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  Speaker 14: on Friday nights over the last two years, even as
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  Speaker 14: a freshman, we knew as soon as he got into
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 14: our program that it was just a matter of time
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  Speaker 14: before we could give him more and more and more
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 14: responsibility and more more create more opportunities for him. And
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 14: this year his opportunity comes as as the as QB one,
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  Speaker 14: so to speak, and we're really excited about that. We
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  Speaker 14: feel great about that, and he's you know, just one
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  Speaker 14: in a long line of our quarterbacks that we've had
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  Speaker 14: that is going to continue to progress and grow in
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  Speaker 14: the position.
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  Speaker 8: And we're going to be able to continue to give
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  Speaker 8: him more and he's going to thirst for more.
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  Speaker 14: And so we're really excited about the opportunities he's gonna
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 14: he's going he's earned for himself and he's going to
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  Speaker 14: provide for a football team.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's just a joy to cover, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: as just a kid and a competitor, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: And it's been fun to watch him grow and and
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  Speaker 2: it's great that he's still an underclassman. Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's great for the fans, it's great for me, it's
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: great for everybody. Over the years, the Meridian offense has
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: always fascinated me with its unusual formations and exciting play calls.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: And now with beaver Ellenboss coming back with the team
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: directing the offense, what can the Trojan fans expect when
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: your team has the ball?
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  Speaker 8: That's a really good question.
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  Speaker 14: When when beaver Uh decided that he was going to
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 14: be able to come back to us in a kind
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  Speaker 14: of a full time capacity, he and I sat down
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  Speaker 14: for a while.
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  Speaker 8: We talked about you know what that could look like.
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  Speaker 14: And you know, the last time he was with us
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  Speaker 14: in a more of a full time capacity, he was
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 14: devoting a lot of his time to some of the
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 14: defensive game planning. He said, well, I'd really like to
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  Speaker 14: be able to come back and be more involved in
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  Speaker 14: the offense.
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  Speaker 8: And He's like, well, what do you think about that?
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  Speaker 14: And I said, Beev, in the last fifty one seasons here,
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  Speaker 14: and if you think about all the tens of thousands
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  Speaker 14: of plays that Meridian had run in the since you know,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 14: nineteen seventy four, there have only been three people who
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 14: have ever called Friday night plays. One of course, is
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  Speaker 14: my dad, the other one is me, and the other
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 14: one is Beav. I said, if there's anybody, Bev, that
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  Speaker 14: I'd want to be able to come back and say, y,
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  Speaker 14: I really want to, you know, come back and reintegrate.
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  Speaker 8: And this way, I said, it'd be you. And that's
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  Speaker 8: not a question.
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  Speaker 14: And I would say that, you know, he and I
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  Speaker 14: align very very well philosophically in that we have we
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 14: always have some I guess, some fundamental bedrocks of what
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 14: we do that you can see its roots that go
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 14: all the way back to the nineteen seventies. But we've
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 14: never been behold into a system per se, and that
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 14: we feel like if we can teach something and our
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 14: players can exec that, there's no reason why we can't
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 14: continue to add and refine and figure out year to
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 14: year what we do best. So Tyler, you could expect
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  Speaker 14: us to try to do our best, to do whatever
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  Speaker 14: we can to continue to move the ball up and
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 14: down the field and try to score some points.
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 8: But outside of that, you're just gonna have to watch.
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  Speaker 2: That's awesome and I can't wait to do that, and
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  Speaker 2: I'll be doing that on a Saturday. Best of luck Saturday, coach,
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  Speaker 2: and thank you for joining me here on the Gatorade
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 2: Game day preview. Go get them.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 8: Anytime, Tyler, Thank you. Thanks.
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  Speaker 2: The third Saturday game that starts at one o'clock involves
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: the Blame Border Rights traveling to Renton to take on
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: the RedHawks. Despite Blaine winning this matchup last year, Max
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: Prep shows a slight advantage in Renton's favor. And now
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: I'm joined by Blaine football coach Andy Olsen. Coach, you're
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 2: getting ready for your Week one opponent, and the first
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: thing I'm going to ask is when you have a
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: team that is so inex experienced varsity wise. How what
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: are the big things you're looking for in any Week
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: one game? Despite your opponus.
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  Speaker 16: Honestly, what I'm looking forward to is watching our kids
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 16: fly around and play confidently. I think that's the biggest
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 16: challenge is how quickly can you get to a place
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 16: of confidence with a young group Because, as we know,
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 16: anything that we're doing in life, if we have to
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 16: think about it while we're doing it, we're doing it slowly.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 16: So you know, in our preseason podcast we talked about how,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 16: you know, shrinking the playbook, giving it something where the
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 16: kids can feel comfortable. So we're really trying to hone
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 16: that in and figure out what are our kids capable
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 16: of and allow them to go out and be their
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 16: best selves.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Obviously, rent and you played them last year, was a
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 2: home game on that Saturday afternoon. It went really really
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: well for you. What do you know about this this
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: renting team for this year? Are there returning guys? Have
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: you been able to It's hard to scout in week one, right,
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 2: so there might be some new things that you don't know.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: What what what do you what do you know about them?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 16: I know they have a new coaching staff, and uh,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 16: I know that they were fairly young last year, so
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 16: they're going to return some skill guys on the outside,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 16: but they haven't played a jamboree. We really are kind
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 16: of flying in a little bit blind. We expect that
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 16: they'll run a four to five defense because that's what
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 16: their new coach advertised, that he really likes to run.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 16: But yeah, it'll just be one of those things. Week
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 16: one is always a little bit frustrating in the sense of,
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 16: you know, we we love to gain plan us coaches,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 16: and you know, on Saturday mornings, you wake up and
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 16: portsel cup of coffee, do all the ex's and o's
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 16: and figure out, you know, how to attack a new system.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 16: So we're always flying a little bit blind. But ultimately
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 16: with our team, again, the focus is on us. We
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 16: haven't spent a whole lot of time worrying about what
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 16: other teams are gonna do.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 6: It's how do we get to a place where we
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 6: do what we do well.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's it's a little bit of a journey to
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: get down there. What are the advantages of kind of
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: a long bus trip, because I hear coaches talk about
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: sometimes it's kind of a nice thing for a team
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: to bond and stuff like that. Do you agree with that?
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 5: I do?
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  Speaker 16: And this is ah, this will be a short bus
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 16: trip relative to or we're going next week, which we'll.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 6: Talk about next week.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 16: But yeah, heading down to Renting, it'll be we're leaving
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 16: at eight am for a one o'clock kickoff down there.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 16: You never really know what you're gonna get as far
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 16: as traffic goes, so that's why we're leaving a little bit.
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 6: Earlier for that. But I enjoy it.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 16: It's a great time for the kids to get together,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 16: you know, and hang out and wake up. Some of
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 16: them will be you know, eight am on a Saturday.
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 16: That's not really my cup of tea coach, but that's okay.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 6: It's just a lot of fun.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 16: Last year we had a chance to go over to
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 16: Chilan and for some of it because that was their
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 16: first time going over to eastern Washington. So that was
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 16: really fun to you know, go over the mountains with
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 16: them and go explore and do different things and see
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 16: different people from different places, and you know, hey, that's
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 16: high school football. You get a chance to go bond
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 16: and have new experiences.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I loved I loved bus ride, so we didn't
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: travel too far, but they always sat me with the
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: biggest kid on the team because it was two to
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: a seat and so that was the only place I
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 2: could fit.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 6: You would have been with Malachi.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, yeah, exactly exactly. I mean, again, it's a
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: it's a young team week one, so there's probably a
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: lot of things that these that these youngsters are going
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  Speaker 2: that are have going through their heads. Do you know,
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  Speaker 2: is there a plan for Friday night? Are you guys
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  Speaker 2: gonna go are you as you as a coach, maybe
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: you're gonna go scout. Is the team going to go
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: somewhere and watch a game or is it just kind
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  Speaker 2: of you guys have a light practice Friday night get
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  Speaker 2: ready for Saturday.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean, we traditionally love to practice later for pregame,
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  Speaker 16: and we would like to match up with We're practicing
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 16: at seven pm normally if it's a Friday night game
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  Speaker 16: on Thursday night, but with the one o'clock start, obviously
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 16: we're not going to go practice in the middle of
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 16: the school day, So we'll practice right after school and
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  Speaker 16: do our normal pre pregame routine, which will be abnormal
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  Speaker 16: for our kids because most of them haven't gone through.
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  Speaker 6: That, but well we'll do that.
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  Speaker 16: And then I know our coaching staff are going to
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  Speaker 16: a few different locations throughout the county and we like
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  Speaker 16: to always advertise that the kids a great opportunity to
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  Speaker 16: go watch high school football and be around it and
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  Speaker 16: to spend time together too.
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  Speaker 6: So that's just a it's a.
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  Speaker 16: Neat opportunity playing on Saturdays because we get that and
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  Speaker 16: we have some much great high school football and Walkham
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  Speaker 16: County to go watch.
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  Speaker 2: And every week I'm I'm you know, when I was
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking to these coaches, I kind of want to
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  Speaker 2: even highlight a player per week, and you know with
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  Speaker 2: this week one, the one that really intrigues me is
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Axel Shelton on defense because it's a new style of defense.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: It kind of fits his mold. Talk about him as
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  Speaker 2: as your middle linebacker and your three three five.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, we knew we had something special to Axle the
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  Speaker 16: first time we met him when he was a freshman
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  Speaker 16: out of practice going through tackling circle without paths on
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  Speaker 16: and we had to tone him down. It was like, Wow,
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  Speaker 16: this kid's looking he's a heavy handed, heavy hitter. I'm
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 16: going to run through somebody, not to somebody right, So
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 16: putting him at the mic linebacker position and allowing him
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 16: to be his best self and kind of creating a
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  Speaker 16: defense that highlights our athletes and allows them to just
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  Speaker 16: play fast and free and loose and go. We're really
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  Speaker 16: excited about him. You know, he's only gonna be a junior,
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  Speaker 16: so we get two years of him, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 16: But yeah, he he loves to hit, loves to tackle
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  Speaker 16: a supply around and you know, more importantly too, he's
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  Speaker 16: been a really good teammate with two sophomores next to him,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 16: you know, having been a sophomore last year and kind
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 16: of thrown into the fire halfway through the year. We
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 16: moved him from D line where you don't have to
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  Speaker 16: think a whole lot, to linebacker, where you do have
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  Speaker 16: to process some things differently.
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  Speaker 6: He's done a he's just done a really good job
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  Speaker 6: leading that group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. He's so much fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: And you're right when he made that, when he made
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: that change, you could see, you know, the numbers obviously
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: came through, but that's gonna happen playing the linebacker spot.
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  Speaker 2: But he was that talented to where you needed to
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: get him in on defense right away, and that was
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: a you know, it was a really smart move. Talk
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: about you know, the little bit going backwards here the
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: weight room in the off season. That's a big thing
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 2: for any school you come from the Linden program, where
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: it's the biggest thing that they do, and just kind
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 2: of talk about how last year's seniors set that tone
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  Speaker 2: and how did it trickle into this year.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, last year's seniors we loved having them, and you know,
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  Speaker 16: they're in the weight room every day throughout the summer
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  Speaker 16: and kind of leading from the front. They love the
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 16: weight room so much. Sometimes they drive me a little nuts.
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  Speaker 16: It's like, hey, guys, we don't have to do a
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 16: two hour workout. It's an hour workout. Let's get through it.
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  Speaker 16: But they were just a lot of fun to be
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 16: around too, So they made it a cool place to
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  Speaker 16: be and for our freshmen and sophomores and juniors that
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 16: are coming back, they got to watch that and be like, wow,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 16: you know, this is pretty cool. So our weight room
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  Speaker 16: numbers have been up. We run it all summer long
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 16: in the morning times, and you know we're getting kids
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  Speaker 16: in there.
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  Speaker 6: Our numbers are up. As a program and in a
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 6: program in the weight room. We're just young and that
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  Speaker 6: makes it really exciting. You know.
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  Speaker 16: This is kind of going to be that breage year
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  Speaker 16: between the seniors of last year, kind of elevating boying
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 16: football and allowing a lot of our systems and strategies
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 16: to come to fruition. And now we're going to kind
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  Speaker 16: of grow the next crop, which is super fun.
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  Speaker 6: Awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks a lot, coach for joining me on the
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game Day and go get them at Renton on Saturday.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, thank you, appreciate it. Go Border Rights, Thanks coach.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 2: And the final game of the weekend is at one
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: thirty kickoff on Saturday, as the Linden Christian Links will
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: travel north of the border to take on the Vancouver
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: College Fighting Irish max Preps doesn't have rankings for Canadian teams,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: but Vancouver College is a big, physical football team and
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: right now I'm joined on the Gatorade Game Day football
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: preview by Lynden Christian head coach Greg Turfter. Coach, thank
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: you so much for making time.
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  Speaker 17: How you doing Hey great, I'm doing great. Thanks for
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 17: having me. We were really excited about this first week.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Yeah, everybody, it's about time, right yeah, and week one. Yeah,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 2: it's finally here. There's been a lot of talk about
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 2: the potential of your team this year. You know, everyone
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 2: I talked to, they're really excited about what you guys
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: can do. What what do you like about them at
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 2: this point so early in the season.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 17: I like their youth and enthusiasm, which is coupled with
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 17: some experience from last year that was really pivotal I
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 17: think in in them turning the corner and becoming really
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 17: good football players.
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 9: There. We still got a long.
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  Speaker 17: Way to go, both, you know, between the ears and
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 17: underneath the shoulder pads.
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  Speaker 9: But they they're excited.
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  Speaker 17: Their expectations are high, and ours are as well. We
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 17: know football is a humbling game, but we are gonna
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 17: go into every game like we got a good shot
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 17: to win it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. You went over to Ferndale High School last Friday
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 2: night to play in a jamboree. How'd that go for
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: your team? Did you Did you learn anything about your
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 2: guys over there?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 17: You know, I'll tell you what we really value that jamboree.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 17: Going up against two quality opponents in Linden and Ferndale,
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 17: and then two completely different styles of offense and defense. Uh,
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 17: Ferndale generally a forefront and Linden an odd front and
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 17: then Linden Moore spread and Ferndale more you know, wing tea.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 9: So it was a great mix.
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 17: It's it's almost, you know, too much at one time
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 17: to just even absorb.
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 9: You kind of wish he had more plays.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 17: And then you know, when you're going against big uglies,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 17: sometimes you wish you had less. But you know, we
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 17: we found out that we can hang physically. We also
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 17: know that we got to get in the weight room
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 17: and eat more cheeseburgers or something.
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 9: We need butts power sources.
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  Speaker 17: So but yeah, we we we studied that tape as
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 17: short as it was and had just some some good
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 17: some good mistakes, i'll say in some respects and that
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 17: kids were going hard and blocking the wrong guy and
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 17: then others you know, needed to hit and stick a
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 17: little bit longer and that kind of thing.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 9: So is a great reflection for the kids to watch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love it because I mean, there's four
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 2: great teams in that right there down the road I
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: get to come and watch and it's I'm glad that's
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: that's been a thing the last few years. And it's
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: a like you said, it's a great it's great opponents,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: and it's a great contrast. Yeah, you start the season
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: out with a game in a different country. You'll be
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: heading up to Canada to take on Vancouver College, one
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 2: of the top teams in the province. As far as
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 2: logistics go, how difficult is it to make a game
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: like this even happen.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 17: Well, I know that Canada has cut off their teams
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 17: from coming south.
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  Speaker 9: Uh for what reason, I don't know.
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  Speaker 17: Is it political or they just don't want the hass
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 17: So I don't know, but I know they may not
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 17: come this way and going up there. We've talked to
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 17: the border several times and the kids have three options.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 17: It's an enhanced driver's license, passport or birth certificate, and
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 17: then they need a note from their parents releasing them.
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 17: We'll just take two buses and one adult on each
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 17: bus and have a big file and serve it over
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  Speaker 17: and we're going to figure on forty five minutes, possibly
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 17: an hour at the crossing, but we feel it's worth it.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 17: Vancouver College is extremely well coached.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 9: They are They're not what.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 17: Maybe some people say, Well it's a Canadian school. All
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 17: they like is hockey and soccer and whatever. And this
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 17: is a byproduct of something just to do in the fall.
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  Speaker 17: That is not the case of Vancouver College. There's a
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 17: really quality outfit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, last year's matchup, they looked big, they looked fast,
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: they took advantage of a few turnovers that you guys had,
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 2: and then they picked up the win because of it.
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: Do they look a lot like last year's team or
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 2: is it kind of early to say? Is it hard
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: to get film on them?
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 9: Very hard to get film.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 17: They played a week zero game against Robert Bateman, and
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 17: Robert Bateman played him to an overtime and Vancouver College
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 17: came out on top on that we it was came
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 17: down to an exchange, would they take our jamboree film
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 17: for an official game from them?
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 9: And they chose not to. But that's you know, I get.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 17: If she was on the other foot, I'd probably give
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 17: it up to them. But you feel like you're not
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 17: getting as much if you're given away a full game,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 17: so you.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 9: Know, kind of flying blind.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 17: But I would imagine, you know, we've got the whole
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 17: season basically on YouTube, and I'd be hard pressed to
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 17: think they're that much different. They like to flip between
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 17: a three and a four. Front, big upfront. Just yeah,
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 17: they're they're pulling from a pretty big population base up
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 17: there in Vancouver, So they're getting a lot of guys
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 17: in a lot of different positions. And I know that
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 17: some of their guys work out down here in the States,
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 17: really wanting to get noticed and play college football in.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 9: The United States.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 17: So their program is well funded, well coached, well supported.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's awesome because you're right. I mean a lot
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 2: of times you say, oh, they're playing a Canadian team,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: and this is different. This is a this is a
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: very good football team. It seems like every year you
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: kind of a stockpile of let kids on the perimeter,
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 2: but this year you return some big guys up front
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 2: or you know, as well tell me about that group
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: and how they might change the way you call the
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: offense a little bit.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 17: You mean, I won't throw it sixty times a game.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 17: Is that what you're alluding to it? Yeah, Well, we
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 17: were really liking our guys up front.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 9: You know, luke Vin Royan in the middle.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 17: Team captain, good good guy, Cerebelly knows what everybody ought
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 17: to do.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 9: He's he's a real you know kid.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 17: You can depend on Kyler Stirk to his left at
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 17: guard boy, he just moves really, really well. His feet
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 17: are so good. You can tell he played basketball for
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 17: many years. I think he still does at Cornerstone, but
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 17: his feet are really good. He's the kind of lineman
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 17: that you look at, like from a college perspective and say, Okay,
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 17: he's big.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 9: How does he move? How does he move in space?
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 9: How what's his first step?
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 17: I think he's a college lineman. If he wanted to
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 17: do it, he'd have to put on a couple more
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 17: pounds pounds because he lost a little bit, but he
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 17: just really as quick. And then to Luke's right as
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 17: Eli Stamps, probably our strongest kid on the football team.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 9: He's he's a bad dude.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 17: He plays inside linebacker for us, just hard nos. And
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 17: then on our far left with Moses Hymnist, he's the
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 17: new kid sophomore, got a great base to him, just
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 17: you know, he's learning the position. You really only have
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 17: to tell him something once, which is really nice. And
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 17: on the right hand side, right now we've got Judah
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 17: Calvin has really put a lot of time in the
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 17: weight room. So we really hope these guys are not
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 17: just people movers, but real fast, you know, just getting
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 17: into their guy and being really physical and violent up front.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 9: And just at the point of attack. We want to
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 9: clear a path.
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 17: We want something clear for our running backs to find
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 17: and really put the shoulder down in the backfield there
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 17: with Klayman, he's a load.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 9: So we look forward to getting some tough yards.
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you have the ability to do that
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: at a premium right now, and so obviously you have
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: those guys on the outside as well, so it's going
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: to be a nice balanced attack where defenses can't just
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: lean on one thing. They got to be able to
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: do everything. Thank you so much coach for joining me
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 2: here on the Gatorade Game Day preview and good luck
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 2: on Saturday afternoon.
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 9: Appreciate it. Thank you so much, Tyler.
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: Thanks and that wraps it up. I hope you've enjoyed
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day Football preview for Week one, and
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: I just want to thank all the coaches that made
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 2: time out of their busy days to join me here.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 2: I can't wait to do it again next week. Also,
• 1:30:02
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• 1:30:05
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• 1:30:07
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• 1:30:11
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