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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 218 - Senior Goodbye Ferndale Nooksack Valley Sehome · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Knooksack Valley seeing your brock lank Car, and you're listening to the
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  Welcome Perhaps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland Rally the Valley. Greetings and welcome into
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  the watcom Perhaps podcast. This is episode at two and eighteen, the last
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  of four podcast. As we say goodbye to the class of twenty twenty four,
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  I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson of WAT
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  Come Perhaps with Tyler. How we doing doing? Good man? A couple
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  more schools to talk about the seniors and and I got some big time ones
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  coming up here. It'll be fun. Yeah, before we get too far
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  into it, we need to give a thank you to brock Lankar, a
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  name that Tyler, I've heard once or twice, but frankly, we haven't
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  talked about that young man a lot. So we get an opportunity. And
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  this is why we love this scene your podcast here is because we get an
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  opportunity. You know, I think maybe more than anything, Tyler, we
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  get an opportunity to talk about the linemen, and that's kind of what I
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  like the most. But yeah, before we go too far, we need
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  maayberry farm dot com. That's Kirt with a C Mayberry m A B E
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  r r y farm dot com. Let's see here, Tyler. Today we
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  are talking about Ferndale, k Nooksack Valley and Seahome. We've already talked about
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  everybody else. Mount Baker and Linden was last week, Lynnon Christian and Squalcum
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  was earlier this week, Blaine, Bellingham and Meridian. That was a couple
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  of days ago. If you were listening to this when it got posted,
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  that would be Friday, December eighth. And Tyler, we got all kinds
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  of stuff coming up. As a matter of fact, this weekend is packed
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  with stuff. Yes, the football Top one hundred actually starts posting tomorrow.
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  So heck, by the time some of you hear this, it might already
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  be going. I mean, people need to go look, it might already
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  be up there. But nine am noon three pm every day for the next
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  like shoot month and a half, I don't even know. It's a while,
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  but it's gonna be going, so be sure to keep an eye on
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  walcompreps dot com. But Tyler to tomorrow Sunday the tenth. So some of
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  you tomorrow, some of you maybe even today, some of you in a
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  couple of days, you're gonna find Sunday the tenth, Tyler, We're going
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  maybe outside the comfort zone a little bit here. We're gonna talk about the
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  volleyball Top Fifty podcast. The Top fifty countdown will be done by that point.
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  I mean, oh yeah, it's done. As we record, is
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  it done. It's only two left, only two left, so so that's
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  I mean, it's yeah, I mean, it's going. It's it's it's
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  well, it's done by the time that people are hearing this. But we're
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  gonna talk about volleyball on Sunday and then on literally the next day. A
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  new podcast, the Weekly Winter Sports wrap Up Podcast, is what we're gonna
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  do. It's just gonna be the WAKAM Preps podcast. We're just gonna talk
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  about the weekly Winter Sports wrap Up. We're gonna have basketball boys and girls.
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  We're gonna have boys swim and dive. We're gonna have wrestling boys and
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  girls. We're gonna talk about everything that went on the prior week, and
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  that'll go out Monday mornings at eight am. It's new. It's another one,
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  a little outside the comfort zone, and frankly, we don't know what
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  we're even gonna do yet, how it's gonna be structured. We do know
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  this, Tyler. We figure it out as we go, and that's how
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  Underscore mohawk at hotmail dot com. Tyler will get your squared away absolutely all
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  right, you ready? We got three teams to talk about here, Tyler.
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  The first one we're gonna start with is Ferndale. You're ready to go,
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  Yeah, let's do it. Golden Eagles. Some Golden Eagles here,
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  huh yeah yeah. Maybe not as big names as we talked about last year,
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  Tyler, but I'm looking this over. Some dudes some Yeah, there's
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  some dudes. Yeah, some absolute dudes here, Dudes with a capital Z.
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  At the end of it, that being said, we're gonna start off
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  with five foot eight, one hundred and seventy pounds running back and linebacker number
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  six Cleveland Atwood. By the way, Cleveland with a K. That's awesome.
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  Yes, we've again as one of these he's one of those cult favorites
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  I feel like of ours. So we've talked about him for a while and
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  and but never started a game, but was a reliable backup as a full
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  back inside linebacker. I take that back. I believe he started at linebacker
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  kind of strong safety. On the game that Connor Walker missed during the middle
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  of the year, he believe was against Marysville Ketchel on the road. Uh,
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  and he had a whale of a game that game. I think he
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  had like six or seven tackles and played pretty well in his career forty six
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  carries for two hundred and thirty five yards and a touchdown. Also had a
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  touch down reception of seven yards, thirteen and a half tackles. A guy
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  that is more than capable. I feel like, you know that running back,
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  you know, all those running backs at Ferndale really hard to get into
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  the rotation. There. Probably could have been more of a featured guy at
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  a different school, but again at Ferndale, that's tough. That's stuff to
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  compete there. Six foot one, two hundred pounds running back and safety number
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  nine, the only guy Jerry to Poto can't trade. That's Dylan Moore.
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  Yeah, Dylan Moore. I you know, he really come on the scene
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  as a sophomore, had a long touchdown catch and and there was just something
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  about him that was really that I really liked, you know, there was
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  he even I think he was starting at corner as a sophomore and he was
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  he was making plays, and I always thought there'd be a bigger progression with
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  him, but it was still he was still a good player over the years,
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  but nothing nothing crazy. I thought that, you know, man,
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  he's gonna be like an All conference type guy or something. But it just
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  there's something about that steady demeanor of his though, that you know, they
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  always try to find him to get him, get him the ball one time
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  a game or whatever. And then he was starting at safety this year after
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  starting at corner as a sophomore, and you know, he returned some kicks
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  for thirty yards and just did a lot of different things. Was a wingback
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  when it was needed. Fifty two carries for two hundred and forty three yards
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  and a touchdown of his career, five catches for one hundred and twenty nine
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  yards and a touchdown, big, big play guy on the outside at times,
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  eight tackles, six passes broken up, one tackle for loss, a
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  fumble, recovery and interception, and the four kickoff returns for thirty yards.
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  It's funny because you look at that fifty two carries for two hundred and forty
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  three yards. I don't know if you ever carried the ball more than like
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  three times in a game. It was just you know what I mean,
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  there was number like that time where he had like ten carries in a game.
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  It was all spread out, two or three a game, but he
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  was there every single game. You knew it. You knew what you got.
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  Six for three one and fifty pounds wide receiver and corner. It's number
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  fifteen. Kevin Woods. Yeah, guy that got his you know, his
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  turn as a senior, especially at corner right off the bat in Week one,
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  he really showed me something against Lyndon. You know, Lindon had they
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  had an off day passing that game. I want to say, Brent Hepner
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  was like six for twenty two or something like that. And Kevin Woods was
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  a huge reason why long arms, fast, super fast and could just cover
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  a guy. I think he broke up like three passes that game, and
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  big big moments too, you know, third down plays, deep passes where
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  maybe an average cornerback would have, you know, not made the play there,
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  and he made some great, great plays. And been watching him on
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  the basketball court reminds me of Dennis Rodman Man he gets he's like a pogo
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  stick, just gets every rebound and he's leading the county so far and rebounds
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  per game. I know it's early, but boy, just you know,
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  just very very active, very athletic, and as a receiver at Ferndale,
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  like we always talk about, you know, you better be able to block.
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  Did have one catch for eight yards, finished with nineteen tackles, eleven
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  passes broken up, an interception for ten yards, and three kickoff returns for
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  fifty three yards. And I believe he's playing in the Cleats Versus Classic as
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  well, so Cancer Classic. I'm sorry, yeah, Cleats Versus Cancer Classic.
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  And you know it's hard to do. If you know, if you're
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  a wide receiver with eight catch with one catch on your resume, you better
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  you better be a good blocker. And you say, oh, I played
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  for Ferndale, I say, oh, I get it now. So but
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  it's really really cool. He'll be able to play at that very very athletic
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  kid six five two hundred wide receiver and safety number twenty one Aiden O'Toole.
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  Yeah, a physical specimen again, six five two hundred pounds. I mean
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  that's you know, you love seeing that out there. Rangy long Arms made
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  big plays at big moments a lot of time, and on the defensive side
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  of the ball, did catch five passes for fifty eight yards. Could be
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  a mismatch on the outside. A really good run blocker as well. Thirty
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  three and a half tackles, two and a half tackles for loss, five
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  passes broken up, one fumber recovery, and two interceptions in his career.
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  And he's a kid that didn't you know, didn't play a ton in high
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  school, played enough and is looking to play at college. And I think
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  with that, with that size, he might he might get some sniffs.
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  I mean, every once in a while, all of a sudden, a
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  kid that you didn't see very much in high school gets an opportunity because of
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  the prospect of the size and athleticism. And he's a kid that kind of
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  fits that mold. You want one, you want an example there Tyler.
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  What's that Bothel High School? Twenty eighteen I think it was or twenty nineteen
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  class a young man by the name of Leon Johnson. Okay, Leon Johnson
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  goes to George Fox University down there in Oregon. Right, yep, yeah,
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  play some D three ball. Has a good time this year catching touchdowns
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  at Oklahoma State. They just played in the Big twelve championship, right,
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  yeah, exactly, Yeah, I mean it's a great call. Yeah.
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  Look, doesn't happen a lot, but it happens, man. And let
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  me tell you Leon, I could be wrong here. I think he only
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  had like maybe three hundred and fifty four hundred total receiving yards in his high
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  school career, right, you know, he's a D three All American.
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  I mean it was crazy anyway, six foot one, ninety five Tyler running
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  back, defensive end, kicker and punter Number twenty three. Phoenix fink Bonner
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  and Tyler. Yeah, I've got two things for you about Phoenix fink Bonner
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  before we go too far, of course you do. I did a little
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  research on Phoenix fink Bonner. Okay, okay, okay. He's the only
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  guy on the Senior Podcast that has four positions listed. Yeah, that's one,
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  yep. Two. He's the only guy on the Senior podcast with a
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  first name that is spelled incorrectly for the city in Arizona, with an NBA
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  mascot that is a gorilla on the entire Senior Podcast. I think you're right
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  and with that, and I think that's what people love about stats is you
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  can always find a way to, you know, have it work right.
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  You can't. Can't deny stats man, that's right, Phoenix pink Bonner is.
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  He's been one of our favorites over the years. You know, we've
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  talked about him quite a bit. Became much more of a featured player this
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  year. Was a backup running back in the linebacker previously this year starting it
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  running back. Loved the way he ran the ball, ran hard at one
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  hundred miles an hour all the time. Well, he didn't really run one
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  hundred miles an hour. I think Usain Bolt touched twenty eight miles an hour,
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  which is pretty fast. Wow, did he reach Yeah? Well,
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  DK metcalf the other day in the game against the Cowboys was at like twenty
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  three, wasn't he Yeah, which is insane. Yeah, on twenty three
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  miles the hour. That's O crazy, Yeah, Michael, but Michael Scott
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  ran thirty one miles an hour in that in that one episode. You know,
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  so yeah, it suck at Toby but uh but yeah Phoenix Fink Bonner
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  boy, you I mean you said it. Running backs, defensive end,
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  kicker, punter. Uh. Halfway through the season, gave up the kicking
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  duties and uh still still punted. But man, I mean even early on
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  in his career, on kickoffs, more often than not, he's the one
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  making the tackle. And I just you know, it's not and it's not
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  like they're breaking through and he's making the tackle. He's going down there and
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  making the tackle. Wasn't a tackle in midfield, No, not at all.
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  Uh. And I loved that about him and that fake Punny had last
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  year in the playoffs. I think it was against Seattle Prep and he ran
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  for a touchdown and and uh just he he had so many moments like that
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  for him to get kind of rewarded as a senior in and be be an
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  All Conference you know, honorable mention, you know, running back, and
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  it's just it's a really really cool deal. Uh. And switch positions on
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  defense, became a defensive end, they needed speed off the edge. You
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  know, they loved what they had with Jake Mason. You can't replicate that.
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  But the next best, you know, kind of guy with that kind
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  of speed, that first up was Phoenix Finkbonner and he he had a great
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  year defensively as well. Finished his career with one hundred and fifty carries for
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  eight hundred and fifty two yards and twelve touchdowns, two catches for forty nine
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  yards and then one touchdown. Forty seven tackles and I'm going to say at
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  least fifteen of them on kickoffs, seven and a half tackles for loss,
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  two sacks, fifty seven extra points kicked, two field goals kicked, forty
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  four punts averaging thirty two point eight yards of punt, and he returned to
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  kickoff for fifteen yards. A major value in a player like him. He's
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  gonna play is a big time You know, a guy is big time,
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  gonna be missed next year, and he fits so many things, so many
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  needs for a high schoo FOOTBA team. And he's a great kid too.
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  Five a one to seventy running back, a defensive back number thirty two are
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  turo tell Us another guy that's just kind of got lost in the mold with
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  the running back so many running backs, and it's funny because you go you
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  find out that a lot of these kids that were running backs growing up become
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  guards or something like that. Because if you want to get on the field
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  at Ferndale, it's really hard because everybody wants to play running back. Would
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  come in late in games, get some, get some carries. Finished with
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  ten carries for thirteen yards, also had four tackles. He did pretty well
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  on special teams as well as I recall five seven, one fifty another running
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  back, defensive back, it's number forty, Diego Sanchez. It's kind of
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  the same story, just a little smaller version. Two carries for three yards.
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  Again a lot of times there's every once in a while on a Ferndale
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  box score, you'd see like if they won by you know, five touchdowns
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  or so, you see like twelve different guys carried the ball, and they
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  make a really cognizant effort of giving like every single carry in the fourth quarter
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  will go to a different kid, you know, like get trying to get
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  as many different kids. That's a huge thing, you know, to to
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  have that happen where you get the ball under the Friday night lights. That's
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  a really fun deal. Five one seventy five tight end defensive ends number forty
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  one, Brandon gudieris Yeah, he's I have a funny story about him.
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  So I was noticing as the season went on that he was kind of turning
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  into that special teams demon that would be the first one down and make a
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  tackle. Uh. He also there was a moment when Lincoln Thomas got hurt
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  at the tight end, he went in and played tight end. Uh.
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  He'd come in late at games to play defensive end and make a lot of
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  plays. But the game against I was the Week ten game. I'm trying
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  to remember who they played against, is Aerin? Was it Timberline, Yes,
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  Timberline s And it was the Tyberker game, right yeah? And uh
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  And I was walking down the sideline my I wasn't I was kind of looking
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  towards the goalpost. It was on a kickoff play and I heard this.
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  I heard like a huge hit. It was the loudest hit I heard all
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  game. And as soon as I turn and looked, I saw it was
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  forty one that was getting up and just was excited and I was like,
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  man, that's gudyeerra is again on a kickoff, and it just I couldn't
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  wait to see the film because I only heard it. I didn't see it,
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  and I knew that once I saw it on film, I'd be like,
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  that was the one that I missed. And holy cow, I didn't
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  disappoint. Fifteen and a half tackles in his career, one and a half
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  tackles for lost and a fumble recovery, A big time football player. Brandon
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  Gudier's six' five two seventy five right tackle defensive tackle sumber fifty one Cooper
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  Herrick Boy as a junior, started all year at the right tackle spot and
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  the strong tackle in their offense. And that's that offensive line was just loaded
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  when you looked at all the guys, you know, uh and and he
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  was one of the main guys returning well coming into this year. He was
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  injured and missed the majority of the year, and it was just a huge
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  disappointment. I was so excited to see him play and dominate that size.
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  Man. Uh, I just thought he's gonna be an All Conference first team
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  guy. Missed most of the year, which is you know it just is
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  what it is. But one and a half tackles in his career, has
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  played a little bit of defense, but he was, like I said,
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  a full year starter as a junior right tackle, and it just didn't happen
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  for him in his senior year due to injuries. Five foot nine, two
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  twenty five offensive line, defensive line, Tyler. I feel like Ferndale over
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  the years has always just had guys that are like kind of this similar like
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  between five nine and like six one and like two twenty five and two forty,
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  like just tons of these guys. Uh they you know what it is,
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  Tyler. They like to pull their guards and they have a ton of
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  guards, guys with guard bodies, right this one here at number fifty five
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  Jayden Gagos, Yeah, you're absolutely right. There is a ton of those
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  guys, and uh, you know they will they will find roles for the
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  for those guys, you know, whether it's running down on kickoffs or you
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  know, giving a good scout look and different things like that. And and
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  he fits that bill five nine, two twenty five. You're exactly right.
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  That is a high school guard, right, and to happen right there,
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  Yeah, like when you think of like smaller towns and stuff like I I
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  look at rosters all the time, and I just see guys that are like
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  five nine two twenty five. And then you look and it's like they're out
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  there just taking dudes down at guard or at center, and heck, sometimes
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  even at tackle, you know what I mean. Like you're like, wow,
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  that's a small tackle, and you look and he's just out there pummeling
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  some dude fifteen yards downfield. Yeah. Yeah, Davis Gatterman played tackle.
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  Played let's lef left tackle it five pounds, that's right? Uh six twenty
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  tyler offensive line defensive line number fifty seven, Charlie de spain Tonias. This
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  is a great athlete, athlete and kind of late to the football game.
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  Was basically the kind of their sixth offensive lineman. There was an injury late
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  in the season to Camden Raymond, and I knew he was hurt, but
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  the one thing I was really curious about was who's gonna play that that quick
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  side tackle? And I I just couldn't, you know. I was like,
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  is Heroic going to be healthy? Is he gonna go in? Are
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  they gonna kick a post out or what? What? What are they gonna
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  do? And and I saw number fifty seven out there, and I was
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  like, man, that's a good sized kid and he could move athletic.
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  I think he's a kid that we'd be We would have talked about a lot
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  more if if he would have came out for football earlier and and and gotten
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  more, more more reps. He was more than capable got some playing time
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  on defense as well. If he did have a tackle this this year.
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  I think he's a lacrosse kid. I'm not one hundred percent sure about that,
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  but but man, you could you could just see the athleticism. It
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  just it just it was on the screen all the time when he was out
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  there. Six one two forty guard defensive ends. Of those guards that we
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  were talking about, Tyler number sixty four, I think he gave us an
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  intro a few weeks back. But Kellen le Faith, Yes, he definitely
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  did. He's a He's a kid that became one of my personal favorites too.
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  As a junior, he was slated to start on the offensive line,
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  no doubt about it, as a horrible arm injury and missed basically, like
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  I think he played in the first game and he might have suited up for
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  like the final, like the quarterfinal game, and so he just missed that
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  huge chunk in the middle. And for some reason, I thought he was
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  a senior last year, and so I was so excited when I went out
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  to practice and I saw he was there, and I was like, oh,
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  he was a junior. This is perfect because I was worried, you
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  know that, like his career was, you know, all that stuff with
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  the injury and how it ended that way for him to come out and dominate
• 21:53
  this year, All Conference second team on both sides of the ball. Boy,
• 21:59
  it was awesome. I remember I remember him messaging me late at night
• 22:02
  on Friday and he's like, wait, wait till you see my interception.
• 22:03
  And I'm like, interception. What a defensive end. And so I was
• 22:08
  excited to watch the film and see it. It was cool, you know,
• 22:12
  Uh, it was what a great way to finish it off a career
• 22:17
  where you come back from injury and and dominate on both sides of the ball.
• 22:21
  Thirty eight tackles, eight tackles for lost, two and a half sacks
• 22:23
  of fumble recovery, and the interception. Awesome career and a really great kid.
• 22:30
  I got to know a little bit over the year six to two hundred
• 22:33
  offensive line defensive line number sixty six. William Post, a converted tight end,
• 22:37
  played at the strong side right tackle this year with Herrick out and not
• 22:42
  the biggest kid, especially for that Ferndale offensive line. You think about a
• 22:47
  strong side like the right tackle, you you got to be big, but
• 22:49
  not the biggest kid. But because he's he played next to that spot before
• 22:53
  as a as a tight end, he kind of knew what to do and
• 22:57
  put on the number six, which is no easy task at that school right
• 23:02
  now, and following Land and Hatchett and and did really well, you know,
• 23:08
  started throughout the year at basically right tackle, but strong strongside tackle and
• 23:15
  held his own. A kid that got his opportunity as a senior and took
• 23:19
  advantage of and never left the field. Two and a half tackles as well
• 23:22
  on defense, but was mostly an offensive player. You mentioned Hatchett. Did
• 23:26
  you see the award that he won, Yes, Freshman of the Year for
• 23:30
  you dub. Yeah, that's really cool. It is really cool. I
• 23:33
  don't know if it stands up next to the Walk and Preps Lineman of the
• 23:36
  Year, which he won twice, but you know, Oranges and apples.
• 23:41
  I guess not to toot my own horn. Tyler. Remember I told you
• 23:45
  one of the few linemen I've ever seen in high school that was ready to
• 23:47
  walk in right away and play. Absolutely, let's see here, Tyler six
• 23:52
  foot one seventy quarterback and cornerback. That's I did that better than I thought.
• 23:57
  Number thirteen Bishop see oh man, Well, you know, obviously one
• 24:03
  of my girlfriend's favorite players. The man can fix a banana sp like no
• 24:07
  other. I totally forgot about that. I'm like, uh, where's it
• 24:11
  going with this? Yeah, no, no, And just like just one
• 24:17
  of the greatest people too. Obviously a great athlete, three sport kid,
• 24:22
  leader and and vocal and plays way bigger than he is. I mean,
• 24:30
  he forced a couple of fumbles this year on hits that you just don't see
• 24:33
  on like a running back coming around on his sweep and he just pull he
• 24:36
  just comes right up in the in the box boom and just just hits him.
• 24:40
  Ball pops out. It's like, dang, Bishop, Okay, Just
• 24:45
  a great, great kid, a kid that you want leading your program,
• 24:48
  a kid that you want to be the face of your program. Uh,
• 24:51
  you know, not asked to throw a ton but was very efficient when he
• 24:55
  did only through the one interception all year to eight touchdown passes. Great race
• 25:00
  Show was asked to run a lot more this year than he did last year,
• 25:03
  but as a corner I mean as lockdown as it got. A three
• 25:10
  year starter at corner. Finished with twenty six passes broken up in his career,
• 25:15
  which is, you know, only like five off the Walkham County record
• 25:22
  from games that like, I haven't obviously watched all the games, but I've
• 25:26
  watched you know, over a thousand of them getting defensive stats and and he's,
• 25:34
  you know, he's up there. He's top ten all time and passes
• 25:37
  defended, so really tough to complete a pass against him. Completed his career
• 25:44
  with sixty five completions for eight yards and twelve touchdowns. Also had ninety five
• 25:51
  carries for three hundred and two yards and three touchdowns, and then defensively seventy
• 25:55
  nine tackles. I talked about the twenty six passes broken up, three tackles
• 25:59
  for lost, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries, four interceptions that have
• 26:03
  returned forty seven yards, and this year, which is something you don't see
• 26:06
  a lot, they were asking him to return kicks and punts and playing quarterback.
• 26:11
  You just don't see that too often where you're back there, you return
• 26:14
  a kick, you get popped, and then you're and then you're leading the
• 26:17
  huddle. Just it just, especially at the three A level, you just
• 26:21
  never see it. So really, that's the kind of special kid he is
• 26:26
  to do all those things. Had a nineteen kickoff returns for three hundred and
• 26:30
  eighteen yards, returned eight punts for seventy nine yards. Gonna miss him a
• 26:36
  lot, you know, there's just a lot of things about him that I
• 26:37
  really like and just one of those special kids. Six foot two, two
• 26:45
  and eighty pounds tackle defensive tackle number seventy five, A very good looking individual.
• 26:51
  Camden Raymond, Yeah, boy, you know when we go back and
• 26:56
  talk about guys we've talked about for all long time. Yeah, Cam and
• 27:03
  Raymond was starting from day one during the COVID shortened year. That seems like
• 27:07
  a long time ago because it was a long time ago. Well, this
• 27:11
  is the class. This is where the guys that were freshmen for that COVID
• 27:15
  spring are now seniors. Yeah, and you know there's a there's a handful
• 27:18
  of them that played as freshmen and there's a very few that played as well
• 27:25
  as he did as a freshman at that high of a level, starting at
• 27:29
  defensive tackle. Then he started both ways as a sophomore and just never stopped
• 27:36
  toughness, the toughness meter. He broke the toughness meter this year with what
• 27:41
  he had to deal with late in the year and playing through the pain he
• 27:45
  had to play through was just unreal. And then constant double teams. Still
• 27:52
  ended up with ninety one and a half tackles in his career and and that's
• 27:57
  good. I mean, I have that. I've I only have defensive stats
• 28:00
  for Ferndale going back about eight years, and he's ninth all time in tackles.
• 28:06
  And this is from a defensive tackle. Wow, you know, it's
• 28:11
  just he had seven tackles for loss as a junior. That ranks wide up
• 28:15
  there. Eleven and a half tackles for lost in his career, that's eighth
• 28:18
  all time. He had eight quarterback sacks in his career, that seventh all
• 28:22
  time. You know, a really impressive athlete too. That that because he
• 28:30
  started as a defensive tackle as a freshman. I always looked at him more
• 28:33
  as a defensive player, but as the last couple of years went on,
• 28:37
  I realized that he is really gifted as an offensive lineman. All Conference First
• 28:42
  Team offensive line twice now as a junior and senior. Was All Conference First
• 28:48
  Team defensive line this year as well. One of the best overall football players
• 28:53
  in Walkin County. Great baseball player, very very just super athletic for his
• 29:00
  size. Got to know him a lot off the field, saw him at
• 29:03
  volleyball games. Just you know, just a good, humble kid that that
• 29:11
  does that carries himself in such a great way where you know, other kids
• 29:15
  see him and they're just kind of like, that's Camden Raymond and he just
• 29:18
  he's just like, yeah, you know, it's no big deal, and
• 29:19
  and uh, it just really fun to get to know him over the years,
• 29:25
  especially his senior year. Tyler, give me a baseball camp anybody major
• 29:30
  League Baseball all time, I've got one for you. For Campbell, I
• 29:34
  have one too, I got move on. Well, I was gonna say,
• 29:38
  Matt Stairs, Yeah, that's a good one. You know, the
• 29:42
  mustache, like you know, how about how about Boog Powell? Yeah,
• 29:48
  boot boot Powell, boot pal right handed though I'm trying to think of left
• 29:52
  handed guys. Only Matt Stairs. Was there anybody ever that's had a bigger
• 29:56
  swing than Matt Stairs? Oh my goodness. I mean that guy swing was
• 30:00
  just I mean the circumference had to have been just unbelievable comference. Yeah,
• 30:07
  yeah, you're right, man, he was. He was all or nothing
• 30:10
  with that with that. So Camdon Raymond's got a good swinging. He can
• 30:12
  go the other way with it. Uh, but that's a good that's a
• 30:15
  good comp I like that was it was, It was it Matt Stairs.
• 30:18
  Doesn't he have like maybe the most pinch hit hits of all time or something
• 30:22
  like that, or like maybe pinch hit home runs. That might be what
• 30:26
  it is, because I remember he was like the professional hitter, you know,
• 30:29
  like right, yeah, John Vanderwal had a ton of pinch hits.
• 30:32
  The John Vanderwall there's a great name. Yeah. Uh, Tyler the last
• 30:36
  one on the list here for Ferndale six three two ten running back wide receiver,
• 30:41
  strong safety number twenty five. My cousin from Boston would call him Conna
• 30:45
  Waka. It's Connor Walker. Oh man. The first time I ever saw
• 30:49
  Connor Walker, I'll never forget. I was at practice his sophomore year.
• 30:55
  I had no clue who he was. And I see this kid back at
• 31:00
  safety and he is standing out on a field that has Isaiah Carlson Landon hatchet,
• 31:08
  Jake Mason, Jason Gillery Jason Yeah. And it was like, who
• 31:15
  is that transfer? Yeah, it just came in from a four A school,
• 31:18
  Like who's that kid? And then we do the headshots and it says
• 31:22
  sophomore on a sheet and I'm like, no way, that kid's a sophomore.
• 31:26
  Tyler. I remember you you like messaged me yeah from the field or
• 31:32
  like when you got back to your car. Yeah, you were like,
• 31:34
  hey, there's a guy that you're gonna need to know about here. And
• 31:38
  I remember being like, all right, well, Tyler doesn't usually go that
• 31:42
  crazy, like right, Usually he'll wait until we talk about a podcast,
• 31:47
  you know something. But now you like message me, like on your walk
• 31:49
  to your car or something to tell me how excited you were about this kid.
• 31:53
  Yeah. It was unbelievable. I just and I'd found out that he
• 31:56
  hurt his ankle his freshman year or else he would have started as a freshman
• 32:00
  as well on that COVID team. But and then and getting to know him
• 32:06
  as well man that the the the compilation of greatness, talent, and humbleness
• 32:15
  is just off the charts, which is holy cow, that's that's that's the
• 32:21
  that's the He's ideal with everything. He's a great person, he's a good
• 32:24
  student, he's got great size, he's incredibly fast, he's he's tough,
• 32:30
  he's he's got good hands, he can hit, he's smart. I mean,
• 32:34
  everything that you want in a football player. And he made an impact
• 32:39
  immediately a sophomore year. Uh you know, the game winning touchdown catch against
• 32:45
  Arlington, fourth down catches that were clutch, just and then having to transform
• 32:52
  his junior year to not be wide out, to be more of a wing
• 32:55
  back and do different things. And then his senior year just kind of doing
• 32:59
  whatever was what was needed. And just every week it seemed like he put
• 33:05
  out these huge numbers where he touched the ball like ten times, but he
• 33:07
  had a total like two hundred and twenty yards of offense somehow incredible, incredible
• 33:13
  plays, you know, highlight type of plays, and defensively, just an
• 33:19
  animal. I mean the plays he make behind the line of scrimmage, the
• 33:22
  interceptions. I think he had ended up with eight interceptions in his career,
• 33:28
  but forty five catches in his career for over one thousand yards, so you're
• 33:31
  averaging over twenty yards to catch for an entire career, ten touchdowns, and
• 33:36
  then he didn't really carry the ball a ton in his career, but he
• 33:37
  almost had a thousand yards rushing, which is just mind blowing when you think
• 33:43
  about him more as a receiver. But one hundred and seventeen carries for nine
• 33:45
  hundred and eighty yards and twelve touchdowns. He also completed two of five passes
• 33:51
  for ninety two yards and a touchdown. He was he was it was considered
• 33:54
  it was between him and Bishop Bootsie their junior year to play quarterback. But
• 34:00
  on defense, like I said, I've been keeping stats for Ferndale's defense going
• 34:05
  back to about eight years. He has more tackles than anybody, and we're
• 34:08
  talking about some big time players in that Ferndale defense over the years, one
• 34:13
  hundred and seventy one and a half tackles, four and a half tackles for
• 34:15
  loss, twelve passes broken up, one forced fumble, two fumber recoveries,
• 34:20
  eight interceptions which is also the most of the last eight years for eighty one
• 34:24
  yards, twelve kickoff returns for two hundred and twenty two yards, four punt
• 34:28
  returns for sixty three yards. You know, I could go on and on
• 34:31
  about Connor Walker. He just you know, he's the guy. He is
• 34:38
  him as the kids say, he's just he's just you know, he's that
• 34:45
  main guy. When you the visiting team sees him and goes, Yep,
• 34:50
  that's the guy. You know, he doesn't have to wear his jersey number.
• 34:52
  They know that's the guy. So been it's been awesome just watching him
• 34:58
  progress over the years and and and play the game of football the way it's
• 35:02
  supposed to be played and give it all out all the time. Yep.
• 35:05
  Headed off to college to play some college ball. So we will be continuing
• 35:08
  to follow his career. But Tyler, give me give me your final thoughts
• 35:13
  here Ferndale. Well, I think they I think they overachieved this year.
• 35:16
  I think that we didn't really know what to expect. And but this senior
• 35:21
  class, which wasn't huge and it wasn't as star driven as the last one,
• 35:24
  still had a lot of pride and and play you know, into the
• 35:29
  state, get a state playoff, a home game in the state playoffs.
• 35:31
  I love the new stadium and it's going to be another big turnaround for next
• 35:38
  year. They do have you know, talent, bun guard and guys like
• 35:42
  that that are coming back. Jacob Gandhy I like him a lot. Lincoln
• 35:45
  Thomas, but uh, we'll see what happens. Colsch in the Valley is
• 35:51
  another kid I really like to their new center, but it's going to be
• 35:54
  a new crop. They have great coaching staff. But this senior class was
• 36:00
  there's some big time, big time guys here that are gonna be missed.
• 36:04
  Let's move on to talk about some pioneers. Huh, alrighty, alrighty,
• 36:07
  here we go knook Sack Valley. You're up five nine one seventy five wide
• 36:12
  receiver and safety is number one. Jackson Bennett. Yeah, Jackson Bennett.
• 36:16
  Wow. I'm just saying wow for a lot of these guys. Jackson Bennett
• 36:22
  is Jackson Bennett's cool man and that is the handle Instagram. Jackson Bennett is
• 36:30
  cool. Yeah, I love it. He is. He is. He's
• 36:38
  just just that way, like he doesn't get over excited. Uh. You
• 36:43
  know, he's a guy that has no problem. If I'm standing on the
• 36:45
  sideline taking a picture, He'll stand next to me waiting for a fist bump
• 36:52
  and it just walk and he won't even say anything. He just under the
• 36:54
  radar. Coolest could be and All Conference first team both ways this year.
• 37:01
  Played a position on defense that you wouldn't expect to get. His size to
• 37:06
  play was almost like a you know, a lot of teams are on the
• 37:09
  spread, so he's gonna cover like a He's like a nickelback almost but almost
• 37:15
  like an outside linebacker. Could play the run really well. Finished his career
• 37:17
  with ten tackles for a loss for a for a you know, a smaller
• 37:22
  guy, but boy, he's physical. He had he had to carry this
• 37:24
  year on a reverse that could have been like the play of the year and
• 37:30
  he got ten yards out of it. But the what but what he did
• 37:32
  with the ball was just incredible. It was against Lennon Christian. It was
• 37:36
  the game at home, and it's like I could watch that play over and
• 37:40
  over again. It's like, how does he not tackled? He there's just
• 37:45
  so many things to his game. That was a lot of fun. But
• 37:47
  I love this stat. Fifty two catches in his career for a thousand yards
• 37:52
  on the dot, exactly exactly a thousand yards. That's about as cool as
• 37:57
  it gets, yeah, exactly, and ten touchdown a perfect ten. Nineteen
• 38:01
  carries for ninety six yards in touchdown. Defensively, seventy six tackles, ten
• 38:06
  tackles for loss, eight passes broken up, three force fumbles, a fumble
• 38:09
  recovery, three interceptions, one of them he took to the house. Eighteen
• 38:15
  kickoff returns for three hundred and sixty seven yards, two punt or twenty two
• 38:19
  punt returns for three hundred and thirty six yards and a touchdown. I think
• 38:22
  he's the all time leading punt returner in school history. And they rarely kicked
• 38:27
  to him. I mean, boy, there were so many times when he
• 38:30
  just put his hands up like all right, you know, and but man
• 38:34
  deadly in the return game. Get him the ball quickly, make him make
• 38:37
  some moves. But you could throw the ball dp to him. You can
• 38:39
  throw to him on a slant. Very reliable, So fun to watch him
• 38:45
  play football. Really great player, six one one seventy eight wide receiver and
• 38:51
  corner. It's number two, Casey Newton. Yeah, great baseball player.
• 38:55
  Probably the best play baseball player on his team is going to be. He
• 39:00
  threw a no hitter a couple of years ago on my birthday. But uh,
• 39:05
  football football player was kind of that next he was kind of the next
• 39:08
  How should I put this? Kind of the if you know, he's he's
• 39:13
  a he's a backup player, but he's kind of that next guy in on
• 39:15
  both sides of the ball. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's the twelfth
• 39:22
  man in a way. Jackson Bennett got hurt in that game against Lakeside Boom.
• 39:25
  First person. Casey Newton plays at that that receiver. I believe it's
• 39:31
  the Z spot for them, and uh, and you can run all the
• 39:35
  same plays. Uh. Casey Newton never gives up on a play. There
• 39:39
  was the long run that Skyler Witern had where he fumbled the ball at the
• 39:44
  one inch line. Case Newton falls on it for a touchdown. I love
• 39:49
  that about about him, you know, scrappy. Uh you know, like
• 39:53
  I said, he's a baseball player playing football. This is not his main
• 39:57
  sport, so it is a little bit different. But I'll never forget him
• 40:00
  even as a freshman, or it might have been him as a sophomore where
• 40:05
  I was, you know, walking down the track and he looks around and
• 40:07
  he's like Tyler Anderson, what's up? And I was like I have no
• 40:10
  clue who this kid is. And uh, and he's just he's kind of
• 40:15
  a goofball. You know. He said some things that that were just they
• 40:19
  would make you think he'll like come up to you and say something and walk
• 40:22
  away and you go, what does that mean? And then it's just it's
• 40:25
  deep, but it's not that deep. Or does he know that that was
• 40:29
  deep? I don't know. Uh. Five catches twenty one yards, four
• 40:31
  carries for forty seven yards and a touchdown, thirteen tackles, three passes broken
• 40:36
  up, a fumble recovery, and an interception that he returned thirty four yards.
• 40:42
  A fun player, A fun A fun kid too. Five nine eight
• 40:46
  running back outside linebacker number five, Skyler Wittering. Oh boy. The first
• 40:52
  time I saw Skyler Witten was at Blaine High School in the summer during a
• 41:00
  uh scrimmage whatever thing, you know what I'm talking about. Scrimage. Yeah,
• 41:06
  well it's like it was a summer yeah, summertime. Yeah, you
• 41:10
  know what I'm talking scrimmage Like Knukzac was there, Blaine was there, Ferndale
• 41:14
  and somebody else, is what I'm saying. Yeah, but I thought it
• 41:17
  was like in June or something. But yeah, I guess spring so well,
• 41:22
  it's it's called spring football, but it's yeah, it's yeah, yeah,
• 41:24
  yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. And I didn't know
• 41:28
  anything about him. He was it was going into his junior year and and
• 41:34
  he was wearing like number seventy six or something like that, but he was
• 41:37
  carrying the ball and he was he looked, Yeah, he was like awkward
• 41:43
  looking, and he was playing some linebacker for the first time. And I
• 41:45
  was talking to T. J Ackerman and he goes, see that seventy six.
• 41:50
  It's like, yeah, I go, I've been kind of looking at
• 41:52
  him. He goes, he goes, he's been playing line like but he's
• 41:57
  not alignment. So we're trying him out at some different things. I think
• 42:00
  he's gonna be all right. And holy cow, understatement of the Decade,
• 42:07
  My goodness. His ability to break tackles was it's like, it's like it
• 42:13
  doesn't make sense a lot of times. I like, he's not he's not
• 42:16
  always running towards guys that just don't know how to tackle, right, Like,
• 42:20
  how how come at five nine seventy eight is he breaking that tackle?
• 42:24
  It just it doesn't make any sense. But he refuses to be tackled.
• 42:30
  I've never seen a running back that refused to be tackled more than him,
• 42:34
  I think. Ever, it's and it's why he averaged over ten yards of
• 42:37
  carry this year. Averaged ten and a half yards of carry this year.
• 42:39
  He was named All Conference first team at running back and was did not start.
• 42:45
  Uh, just crazy numbers. Hilarious kid. We were at Eastern camp.
• 42:52
  He brought me a pizza to my dorm room and and in hopes I
• 43:00
  think to land the top one hundred list this year. Uh, it's just
• 43:05
  a it's just a hilarious kid, like pie. I don't remember. I
• 43:09
  was hungry. I wolfed it down. I know that, like, was
• 43:12
  it like just was it pepperoni? Was it? I think so? Yeah?
• 43:15
  It might have just been extra breadsticks for all I know. I don't
• 43:19
  know. I was just I was hungry and it was great. It was
• 43:21
  awesome gesture. Uh. And and he's you know, he's just a it's
• 43:27
  a fun it's a fun loving kid. I mean like he was. Yeah,
• 43:30
  he asked me a question about something. Oh, it was because he
• 43:32
  was. It was like after the second week he was tied for a fifth
• 43:37
  place for sacks or something like that. And he goes, He's like,
• 43:40
  how come I'm not on your top five graphic? You know. I go,
• 43:44
  well, you're tied with a few other kids. You're you're you're doing
• 43:46
  fine, And he goes, yeah, I'm gonna probably run for like four
• 43:50
  hundred yards today. I just started laughing. He carried the ball four times
• 43:53
  that game for like one hundred and seventy yards. I mean, he wasn't
• 43:58
  kidding, man, he just and I I think three touchdowns or something.
• 44:00
  It's just crazy. One hundred and seventy three carries for one thousand, six
• 44:05
  hundred and sixty eight yards and twenty touchdowns so in his career over nine yards
• 44:10
  to carry for his career, five catches for twenty seven yards, seventy four
• 44:14
  tackles, five tackles for loss, two sacks, a force fumble, two
• 44:17
  passes defended, three fumble recoveries. He also punted the ball three times for
• 44:22
  eighty nine yards as a junior, so emergency punter one, I'm really gonna
• 44:28
  miss. And And I tell you what, Skyler, you didn't need to
• 44:31
  get me a pizza to to earn a top one hundred spot. You're gonna
• 44:35
  be just fine this year. Awesome year, Buddy, and it's just unbelievable,
• 44:39
  unbelievable player. Tyler, you can't say that, Okay, cut it
• 44:45
  out, well, because people bring you anything anymore? Yeah right, I
• 44:52
  mean who knows, maybe you get again, bring you a car I mean
• 44:57
  yeah, yeah, hey yeah. Number one on the top one hundred list.
• 45:00
  Five carries for eleven yards this year. It's Bob Johnson. Yeah,
• 45:05
  Tyler, six foot one, one hundred and ninety pounds. It's a kicker.
• 45:08
  It's number eight. It's Boom Boom Jorgan Vigory. Wow. Coming into
• 45:15
  this year, I didn't know who the best kicker was going to be.
• 45:19
  I was a toss up between three names. It was either gonna be Grady
• 45:22
  Evans, It's gonna be Boom Boom Vigory, or the freshman out of London,
• 45:25
  Malachi Canan. Those were the three I kind of expected to have kind
• 45:29
  of the same years. Vigory blew them all out of the water. Uh.
• 45:34
  He doubled everybody in every stat and and his from when I first saw
• 45:43
  him kick his first game as a junior to the end of this year as
• 45:46
  a senior, it was just night and day like it was. There was
• 45:50
  no there's no ifs about some of these extra points, you know, it's
• 45:53
  I swear he kicked the extra points further than he would kick off, you
• 45:57
  know. I It just his ability on that was fantastic and always looked like
• 46:02
  he was moving before the snap. But he never got called on it.
• 46:08
  He must have just had it time just right, or maybe the officials just
• 46:12
  say, who cares, it's just the kicker, you know. But he
• 46:15
  just had a great rhythm to his kicks, like it looked identical every single
• 46:21
  time. And that's what they always talk about, like it's a lot like
• 46:22
  a golf swing. If you can just replicate it every time, you're fine.
• 46:28
  One hundred and two extra points in his career eight field goals along of
• 46:32
  thirty nine. He basically holds every kicking record that you can at the school
• 46:38
  for a season, a game, a career, everything. So he'll go
• 46:45
  down as the greatest kicker in Knokzac Valley history. I think there's no doubt
• 46:47
  about that. Boy and a great kid. You know, went to Eastern
• 46:52
  Camp and there's no kicking there. Went there just wore T shirt and shorts.
• 46:59
  Just wanted to hang with his eyes, you know. Uh, And
• 47:02
  that's really really cool. And a weapon, a big time weapon that they're
• 47:08
  gonna have to figure out they're gonna have to replace next year. And that's
• 47:10
  that's that's a big one for them because they're I think they're expected to do
• 47:14
  some pretty good things again. But that's gonna be a big you know,
• 47:19
  that's a that's a big hole right there. That if you're gonna if you
• 47:22
  want to make another run in the playoffs, kicking is a huge part of
• 47:24
  it. Six two two oh five tight end at corner number thirty, Wayne
• 47:30
  Silvis. Yeah, another one of my personal favorites. I you know,
• 47:36
  got hurt a broken leg against Lennon Christian in Week six, missed the rest
• 47:40
  of the year and you know, you can go back and go they really
• 47:46
  if there was one kind of issue that Knuksac had during the year, it
• 47:51
  was it was maybe the deep ball or defending the big play on passes.
• 47:55
  And losing him was not you know, didn't help, obviously, but you
• 48:01
  can't say, you know, what would have happened or anything like that.
• 48:06
  But man started at corner as a as a sophomore and maybe maybe it was
• 48:12
  before he was ready, but everybody around him was so young as well,
• 48:15
  so it just kind of fit. You kind of looked at coming into there,
• 48:17
  you know this year that okay, this is how it all was supposed
• 48:21
  to happen. Started this year at tight end, that wise spot that Ryan
• 48:24
  Hughes had, and then when he got hurt, Cameron Bauman came in and
• 48:29
  filled out the rest of the year. Another great kid with a high GPA,
• 48:34
  and it just a had great instincts. I mean got called for past
• 48:38
  interference a couple of times when he just he timed it just right, like
• 48:44
  it was too good almost for the one A level, unbelievable tackler as a
• 48:47
  corner, great size obviously six two, two of five. I think I
• 48:52
  think he's bigger than that. I feel like he's at least sixty three,
• 48:54
  but could come in and run support and make a huge tackle. Finished his
• 48:59
  career with eight catches for one hundred and eleven yards, sixty five tackles for
• 49:02
  two and a half, tackles for loss, one sack, two interceptions,
• 49:07
  and eighteen passes broken up. I think he had nine passes broken up when
• 49:12
  he got hurt in the first quarter in Week six. He was well ahead
• 49:15
  of everybody else and still ended up near the top five when the season was
• 49:17
  over. Yeah, it's just sad to see him go down for his senior
• 49:24
  year, but glad to see that he's healthy and he's gonna be able to
• 49:28
  play basketball this year. And can't wait to see him durin those deep threes.
• 49:31
  He's one of those guys that will take a deep three every once in
• 49:35
  a while and hit him. It's fun to watch five five running back and
• 49:40
  defensive back. It's number thirty three Mason maua yeah, kid that I didn't
• 49:45
  know about until this year. I didn't see him out at practice for headshots.
• 49:50
  I think he may have came to the team late. Small kid,
• 49:53
  but he did get a carry for three yards in one of those games.
• 49:58
  And again that was one of those times with who's thirty three and I look,
• 50:00
  I was like, oh, as a senior, that's awesome. So
• 50:02
  again when you get that one carry and and uh, you know something that
• 50:07
  you'll remember for the rest of your life. And he got to do that.
• 50:10
  Five seven, ninety running back, inside linebacker and number forty five,
• 50:15
  a guy that I'm pretty sure I took like every other week. It's Damian
• 50:19
  Perez. Yeah, and a kid that you know, I know it says,
• 50:22
  running back, inside linebacker. But uh, he's an inside linebacker period.
• 50:28
  I think that, you know, they have a lot of running backs.
• 50:31
  They tried to get him the you know, give him a series every
• 50:35
  once in a while, but man, he's a linebacker. There's no there's
• 50:38
  no doubting that did have eleven carries for sixty one yards, but as a
• 50:45
  linebacker, just you know, halfway through his sophomore year, there was something
• 50:49
  that either a spark that he hit or something where it started to make sense
• 50:53
  for him, and he was making all sorts of plays. And I was
• 50:57
  asking some coaches about him, and I was like, who's that kid,
• 51:00
  because he's gonna be a player for you coming up. And he goes,
• 51:02
  yeah, and now he can see. I'm like, what what do you
• 51:07
  mean? Now he can see? He goes, he wasn't wearing glasses last
• 51:08
  year. He was just running around making plays. Now he's got special glasses
• 51:13
  he can wear under the helmet and you just wait until he sees what he's
• 51:16
  hitting. And holy cow, just it upped his game even more. One
• 51:21
  hundred and sixty six and a half tackles in his career, ten tackles for
• 51:24
  loss, four sacks, two forced fumbles, six passes broken up, and
• 51:29
  three fumble recoveries. The unsung hero of that team over the years, Damian
• 51:35
  Prez, what is just a fantastic player, six foot three, two hundred
• 51:39
  and sixty five pounds. He's a center and a defensive tackle though. Five
• 51:45
  to one or number fifty one, five to one, Yeah, that's a
• 51:51
  good number. First center too, by the way, like fifty one,
• 51:54
  fifty five and then everything else has got to be in the seventies. Kean
• 51:59
  Coppinger, Yeah, unbelievable strength. Just I don't even know how strong like
• 52:07
  he does. It doesn't understand his own strength. I think that sometimes.
• 52:10
  I mean, if he has you like locked in, like it's over.
• 52:15
  Johnny I started. I think he may have even started some games as a
• 52:20
  freshman as well. But it played some right tackle, I think as a
• 52:25
  sophomore, got moved to center as a junior, stayed there this year.
• 52:32
  Yeah, just that that pillar in the middle of that unbelievable line. I
• 52:37
  heard multiple coaches say that's the best line we've played against ever, That's best
• 52:42
  line we played against this year. And he was right in the middle of
• 52:45
  all of it. Was more of an impact player on defense this year than
• 52:50
  he had been in the past. Finished his career with fifty six tackles,
• 52:54
  ten and a half tackles for lost, five and a half sacks. I
• 52:58
  think he had four of them just this year and two passes knocked down at
• 53:00
  the line of scrimmage. A kid that is very aware of everything too,
• 53:07
  and wants to get better and learn the game, and and and and and
• 53:13
  understand why certain things, the analytics all those all those things about like he's
• 53:17
  not just a big brute going out there and just demolishing guys. He wants
• 53:22
  to He wants to refine his skills and get better all the time. And
• 53:25
  that's what I really loved about his game six three, two thirty five right
• 53:30
  tackle, defensive end Summer fifty six Dalton Hickey. I think he gave us
• 53:34
  an intro, didn't he? Yeah, just recently. He's a guy as
• 53:37
  well that was is very much like Damian Perez, very much unsung guy,
• 53:45
  quiet kid, and he was the former center. So him and Keyn just
• 53:50
  switched between seeing sophomore and junior year and it was a it was a great
• 53:57
  fit all the way. As Dalton just kept being taller. He did really
• 54:00
  well over at right tackle and then as a weak side defensive end, coming
• 54:06
  on the pass rush a lot of times on the weak side, you know,
• 54:09
  on the blind side of the quarterback. Became a big time pass rushing
• 54:15
  threat over the years. Finished his career with twelve and a half sacks,
• 54:19
  forty four tackles, three tackles for loss, two forced fumbles, three passes
• 54:22
  broken up, two fumble recoveries. He also had an interception in that first
• 54:27
  round playoff game at Civic this year. Yeah, just farmer, strong and
• 54:35
  just really yeah underrated. Like I was so excited for him to get All
• 54:42
  Conference first team as an offensive lineman. You know, there's so many good
• 54:45
  ones in the county and there's so many good ones on his own team that
• 54:47
  I always feel like he's getting overlooked. But really cool that he got the
• 54:52
  recognition this year and he really deserves it. Great great player, six foot
• 54:57
  two ten offensive line defensive end number sixty eight. Young man who gave us
• 55:00
  this intro, it's Brock Lankar. Yeah, a kid that boy on a
• 55:05
  lot of teams would have been starting at center, a really good lineman.
• 55:09
  When they went jumbo, he came in and so I was it was cool
• 55:15
  to see that formation because if you truly want your best eleven on the field,
• 55:21
  you know, he's a guy that deserves to be on the field.
• 55:23
  He's that good. But that line was just loaded. It has been the
• 55:27
  long snapper for years, you know, punts, pats everything. There was
• 55:32
  that sequence against Kings at home his junior year where they had to punt out
• 55:37
  of their own goal line, like over and over again, and they're just
• 55:39
  trying to get out of there and just get out of there with a win.
• 55:43
  And he and there were and like the punt returner like muffed the ball
• 55:47
  and he recovered it like two plays in a row, but there were odd
• 55:51
  penalties so they had to repunt again. And it was just man, he
• 55:54
  was all over those plays. A little bit undersized, but very athletic.
• 55:58
  Plays basketball. Uh. You know, same with Dalton Hickey, he plays
• 56:02
  basketball too. Uh. These are at these are big athletic kids. And
• 56:07
  uh. And on defense, a backup defensive end, nine and a half
• 56:12
  tackles, two tackles for loss and two sacks. Made a ton of his
• 56:15
  opportunity, made the bust of his opportunities when he came in there, and
• 56:17
  there weren't that many of them. But when he when there were there,
• 56:21
  he made great He made great things happen five ten, two, fourteen offensive
• 56:25
  line, defensive tackle. There were seventy six. Mohammed Azam, Yeah,
• 56:30
  he played. I think he played a little bit more as a junior than
• 56:34
  he did as a senior, especially in the rotation and that interior of the
• 56:37
  defensive line. Uh maybe got lost in the shuffle a little bit this year,
• 56:42
  but still provided some presence as an interior defensive lineman. Had four tackles
• 56:46
  in his career and uh, just another guy, you know, showed some
• 56:51
  really good things at Eastern Camp. I thought, so uh you know,
• 56:54
  they that that that as a one A team. Not many teams had the
• 56:59
  depth that k Nooksact Valley did and it was able to carry them far six
• 57:04
  one three twelve, six one three twelve left guard, defensive tackle number seventy
• 57:12
  one. Do kala appy appie, Holy cow. Well we've been talking about
• 57:16
  him forever. Four year starter both sides of the ball and even as a
• 57:23
  freshman. I mean he won our Freshman of the Year award and he just
• 57:30
  it just it's just been the same ever since. I mean, Dominant missed
• 57:37
  a few games. Is sophomore year. But boy, the things that he's
• 57:44
  gone through and the person that he is just is just resonates with everybody who
• 57:51
  meets him. A coach told me that they came up to him and I
• 57:59
  think it was after a and said, I just have one question for you,
• 58:02
  duke, and without missing a beat, he goes head and shoulders and
• 58:07
  he walked away. I mean, that's that's that's that's that's just the way
• 58:13
  he is. He's wait wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on,
• 58:15
  hold on. Another coach told you this, Yes, now, did
• 58:20
  you ask the question that we all need to know? Is that a question?
• 58:23
  No? I we all laughed when he was telling the story, and
• 58:27
  we never knew what the question was. Well we got to find out.
• 58:30
  Yeah, it's just it's just one of those funny things, because yeah,
• 58:34
  and that's just the way he is. Like he can he can meet you
• 58:37
  and start talking to you, and he will be your best friend right away,
• 58:43
  you know, Like I what I got to when I finally was able
• 58:45
  to get to know him. You know, he come up to me on
• 58:49
  the sidelines, put his arm around me, and he he'd point to the
• 58:52
  field and he goes, let me tell you about how good Jackson Bennett is
• 58:54
  I think you're underestimating him a little bit and he just start and he's not.
• 58:59
  I'm I'm like, this is hilarious, this is great, you know,
• 59:04
  and when when he's on, there's few that are better than him.
• 59:08
  And boy left guard pulling and then point of attack, Holy cow, a
• 59:19
  lot of fun to watch. Very athletic played basketball last year, shoots threes
• 59:24
  and you know, of course he does right. Yeah, And but his
• 59:30
  numbers defensively in his career pretty pretty cool. One hundred and twenty two and
• 59:36
  a half tackles, twenty two and a half tackles for loss, seven and
• 59:40
  a half sacks, four forced fumbles, six passes broken up. I think
• 59:45
  he believes he can like play safety because he would like to drop back and
• 59:52
  coverage every once in a while when I don't believe it was called for,
• 59:53
  but you know, he he'd knocked down six passes, two fumble recoveries.
• 59:58
  He also had a carry for three yards his junior year where he got stopped
• 1:00:01
  at the at the behind the line of scrimmage and still made three yards out
• 1:00:05
  of it because he was not going to be tackled. Uh. What a
• 1:00:09
  fun kid, just to be around, and uh, I was voted a
• 1:00:14
  captain this year, and and you know there's there's just not going to be
• 1:00:19
  another one like him for a long while. Six four two ten quarterback and
• 1:00:23
  punter. It's number twelve, Joey Brown. Yeah, just freak of an
• 1:00:29
  athlete. You know, possibly the fastest kid on the team and you're six
• 1:00:36
  four pounds and and uh, everything looks like it's relative ease. You know,
• 1:00:43
  he's running around buying time and then he's like, well, I'll just
• 1:00:46
  run for twenty yards and got to bounds. Uh. Sometimes if he smells
• 1:00:51
  the end zone, he's gonna you know, he's gonna hurdle over you.
• 1:00:53
  You know, I told the story about I was at a track meet and
• 1:00:57
  he came up to me. And track meets are funny because there's just stuff
• 1:00:59
  going on all over the place and you can kind of talk with athletes here
• 1:01:01
  and there. And every event I would go to, he's doing a different
• 1:01:06
  event. Like he just like, I'm doing long jump, I'm just throwing
• 1:01:08
  javelin. Well I'm gonna do an eye jump. Well I'm doing sprinting.
• 1:01:12
  And he's like, well, they got me doing hurdles today. And I
• 1:01:15
  was like awesome, and he goes, I'm terrified. I have I've never
• 1:01:19
  done hurdles. It's all timing. I have no clue what I'm doing.
• 1:01:22
  I go, dude, you're six' four and you're like the fastest kid
• 1:01:24
  out here. I think you'll be fine. And he got first place and
• 1:01:29
  he beat the kid that he beat was like a legit state hurdler, and
• 1:01:35
  he was just shocked. At the end. He's like, Wow, I
• 1:01:37
  guess I'm pretty good at So he's just one of those kinds of kids,
• 1:01:38
  you know. And I think he's got an offer to go to Western Washington
• 1:01:44
  University as a decathlete, So makes sense all these all these different things that
• 1:01:50
  he can do for your startup quarterback. I mean, I remember, you
• 1:01:54
  know that game one it is freshman year against that really good Mount Baker defense,
• 1:02:00
  and it was like, all right, throw you to the Wolves.
• 1:02:05
  But he made the most of it and got through a tough freshman year and
• 1:02:09
  played an average junior year and to a fantastic or average sophomore year to a
• 1:02:15
  fantastic junior and senior year. All Conference first Team quarterback as a junior and
• 1:02:19
  a senior, finished his career with completing two hundred and seventy five passes for
• 1:02:24
  three eight hundred and fifty five yards and thirty seven touchdowns. Also carried the
• 1:02:29
  ball two hundred and eighty seven times for one thousand, four hundred and nineteen
• 1:02:34
  yards and twenty five touchdowns. When you can when you look at like at
• 1:02:37
  least thirty eight hundred passing yards and at least fourteen hundred rushing yards, there's
• 1:02:42
  only like six guys in Walking County history that have done that. And we're
• 1:02:45
  talking about like the Jake Lockers and Josh Krafts of the world. You know,
• 1:02:49
  these are the big time guys. Also punted this year and averaged thirty
• 1:02:54
  eight point four yards punt, and how about kicking four extra points when a
• 1:02:59
  Boomoo got hurt against Mount Baker. So he's kind of the decathlete of the
• 1:03:02
  special teams. He just asked him to do something. He's really good at
• 1:03:05
  it. So wonderful career. I think that I always felt like he was
• 1:03:13
  never confident of how good he really is. And I wish that he would
• 1:03:17
  trust himself and his abilities because he's amazing and and I know these geared towards
• 1:03:24
  track now, which is awesome and he's gonna he's on the basketball team too,
• 1:03:30
  So, like he always says, he goes, I'm just on that
• 1:03:31
  team just to run around. I don't. I don't. I'm not that
• 1:03:34
  any I'm not any good. But I mean he's pretty good. But track
• 1:03:40
  is gonna be fun to watch him play. But man, he can really
• 1:03:44
  throw a football and it's been fun to get to know him too as a
• 1:03:46
  person over the years. The last one on the list for Knikzack Valley six
• 1:03:51
  foot three, two and fifty five pounds. Tyler, you're missing a position
• 1:03:55
  on here. Yeah, running back, right guard, insideline backer a number
• 1:04:00
  fifty two with John Stromlin. Holy cow, another four year starter at both
• 1:04:08
  on both sides of the ball. And who I mean. I saw him
• 1:04:14
  as a freshman. He was about six two, one hundred and eighty five
• 1:04:17
  hundred and ninety pounds and I thought that's a pretty good size freshman. There's
• 1:04:23
  something there. And then as a junior he was just like knocking kids heads
• 1:04:28
  off. I was like, WHOA, there's a transformation here. And I
• 1:04:31
  remember his head shot his sophomore year looked like he was looking into your soul
• 1:04:36
  and I was like, he just turned into like a monster overnight and he
• 1:04:42
  hasn't turned it off since then. He is he what when you watch them
• 1:04:46
  out on the field, he's scary like he is not demonstrative in a bad
• 1:04:53
  way, but he he is is he's he's he's animated. But it's to
• 1:04:57
  pump up his team and get guys going. And we got this, we
• 1:05:00
  got this. And you know, even after like the pass interference in overtime,
• 1:05:06
  you know, he was the one going guys next play Like you could
• 1:05:11
  see it, you could physically see it on the field. What a leader,
• 1:05:15
  you know, what a kid you want. That's the guy you want
• 1:05:18
  on your football team. You do not want to play against that kid.
• 1:05:21
  When they moved him to linebacker this year, I understood that. You know,
• 1:05:25
  they had kind of a surplus of defensive ends and they needed that linebacker
• 1:05:30
  next to Perez, and why not you put him there? He's he can
• 1:05:34
  run really really well, and he showed that he can cover a ton of
• 1:05:39
  ground. Two hundred and twenty two and a half tackles in his career.
• 1:05:45
  From what I have, that's the most in Knukxac Valley history. Now I
• 1:05:48
  know there's you know, I got to look back and find watch more film,
• 1:05:53
  but for right now, that's what I have. Twenty nine and a
• 1:05:56
  half tackles for loss, seventeen and a half, four forced fumbles, nine
• 1:06:01
  passes broken up in a fumble recovery. But of course the stats that everyone's
• 1:06:06
  listening for. Seven carries, Yeah, for one hundred and twenty eight yards,
• 1:06:12
  averaging eighteen point three yards of carry and two touchdowns. Man, it
• 1:06:18
  almost makes me wonder if he'd been playing running back this whole time, would
• 1:06:23
  he have ran for a thousand yards because dude would have been on the bench.
• 1:06:30
  I mean, it's crazy, like when he would take off and run.
• 1:06:33
  Man, he knew what he was doing. He put the ball.
• 1:06:35
  On the other hand, he did everything, and uh, the weight room
• 1:06:41
  and him have become good friends. And and I saw that there was the
• 1:06:46
  preferred walk on offer at eastern. Yes, and that's really cool because that
• 1:06:51
  he just kind of kind of fits that bill a little bit. I would
• 1:06:56
  think he'll go back to the D line and they'll probably right keep him up
• 1:06:59
  a little bit, move inside and then again inside the athletic guy in there,
• 1:07:01
  man, exactly you get him to about two seventy five and and to
• 1:07:06
  eighty and beep them up even more. Yeah, I think that's a great
• 1:07:11
  call. And he's a kid that he just you know, just wants to
• 1:07:15
  play football and he's he's one of the best in Walcome County. Well,
• 1:07:18
  Tyler, give it to me, give me your last thoughts on Knoksack Valley.
• 1:07:24
  Wow. Well, this was a class that had a lot of freshmen
• 1:07:28
  starters. I think four different kids at some point started as freshmen out of
• 1:07:30
  that group. It's a special class, very special class. And uh,
• 1:07:39
  there's a great class behind them as well. But this was this was this
• 1:07:44
  was a big moment for them. This class led them to the semi finals
• 1:07:47
  two years in a row and something that no other Pineer team has done.
• 1:07:53
  So it's a lot to be proud of. Big time guys coming next year,
• 1:07:58
  coming back, but huge holes that'll be very dearly missed. And but
• 1:08:05
  again they you know, they have some big pieces coming back and a deep
• 1:08:12
  playoff run is gonna again is going to be what's in their sights is just
• 1:08:15
  going to be a little harder this year or this upcoming year. Very very
• 1:08:20
  great class that they lost, Tyler. Let's move on, talk about some
• 1:08:24
  Sea Home Mariners. Huh sounds good. Not a lot to talk about.
• 1:08:28
  There's only four guys, that's true. This could go pretty quick, although
• 1:08:31
  there's a couple of guys that we got enough to talk about here. But
• 1:08:34
  sure we are going to start with a five foot ten, one hundred and
• 1:08:39
  seventy pound kicker, number twenty, Kyle Diifele. Yeah, first year player.
• 1:08:44
  I did not see him out at practice, and so I had it
• 1:08:46
  all along that there was actually two seniors, and then I heard about a
• 1:08:50
  third, and then a fourth comes out, so I'm like, okay,
• 1:08:54
  double your senior class. Gotta love that. Of course, the big moment.
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  He was kicking off most the year and hadn't seen him kick any do
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  any place kicking, and the Squalicum game was outrageous. Could have might have
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  could have been like one of those Games of the Year type games. It
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  was just like if you're just a football fan and you didn't know any of
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  the players, and you're like, just show me a game from Walker County
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  this year, that might be the one to watch. And in that game,
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  Grady Evans was sick. Kyle Daifel comes on and he's relied upon to
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  kick kick three. He made three extra points and he made a field goal
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  turned out to be a heck of a field goal because they won by three.
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  Uh So, talk about making the most of your opportunity. That was
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  definitely it. And so and I've been a backup kicker, which is like
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  the depths of nothing. I mean, you you're not going to get the
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  field if you're a backup kicker because usually especially if you're the guy ahead of
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  you, just kicks because you know you're not allowed touch him. That's a
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  penalty. So it's just it's you don't think he's ever gonna get injured or
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  miss a game. And so for him to be ready and step up at
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  the moment, that says a lot and really really cool for him to do
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  that as a senior backup kicker. Is your middle name, Tyler? Yeah,
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  smashing six, two hundred and fifty pounds left tackle, defensive lineman.
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  It's over seventy two backster arps. Yeah, he was. He was gonna
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  be, you know, lean leaned upon heavily on the offensive line this year
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  because it was so young. Everybody else was so young, and he started
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  as a junior, came back of this year as a senior, kind of
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  leaned out a little bit. Was a little bit more active, but I
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  was really impressed with what he did on the defensive line. They rotate quite
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  a bit, so there wasn't like a main cog of guys in there,
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  so not a lot a ton of stats for a main guy here or there.
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  But when he was out there, he made some plays in big,
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  big moments. Fifteen and a half tackles, two and a half sacks and
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  two tackles for loss. And he again, like I said, it was
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  a big was a main spot of that offensive line as well. So a
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  guy that I saw him as a sophomore and I, you know, I
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  had the long hair and a big, tall guy, and I thought,
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  man, this guy could be a player someday. And he became one.
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  So that was really cool to see it all come together like that six foot
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  one eighty five defensive back. It's number twenty three. Alden Jacobs. Yeah,
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  one of those just different high school careers than we've seen, you know,
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  started as a sophomore at corner. Was kind of the you know,
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  the guy that maybe got you know, picked on a lot. You had
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  Zac Chisholm on the other side, so the senior so you you throw it
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  over the sophomore, and as the year went on, he just got better
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  and better, and he started intercepting passes and he's like, man, this
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  guy's gonna be awesome. And then he transfers and you're like, well,
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  dang it, I hate when we have great sophomores that transfer. It seems
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  like it happens more than you'd think. And then he transfers back and you're
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  like, dang, look at him now, and now he's all filled out
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  and strong, and and they moved him to say because they had some really
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  good young corners and so put him in safety and he's just lighting guys up
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  and had a wonderful year. Had one game where he had like twelve tackles
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  just coming up in the box. And really, you know, he doesn't
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  miss many tackles at all. He's very very good with that. Ninety two
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  tackles in his career, four tackles for loss, eleven passes broken up,
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  a fumble, recovery, three interceptions, all from his sophomore year. He
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  also returned three kickoffs his sophomore year for fifty two yards. Really really pumped
• 1:12:30
  that he came back and got to play for Seahome once again. The last
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  senior to talk about in these podcasts. Eiler six foot six, two hundred
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  pounds tight end and outside linebackers number twelve, Braddock and Duckworth. Well another
• 1:12:45
  guy that we've been talking about forever. I mean, his sophomore year,
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  Week one, he had that breakout game against Nook Sack and you know,
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  I remember we were talking about that right away. I was like, Man,
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  they got this kid who's super tall, and he looks like he's gonna
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  get like like cut in half when he gets tackled because he's so tall and
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  skinny, but he fights for the extra yards like he's not like your typical
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  tall, skinny receiver. And I learned that right off the bat, and
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  I never questioned his toughness after that. I was like, this kid is
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  not worried about, like, you know, getting hit. He wants to
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  initiate the contact. And every game it just like they would just throw a
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  quick out to him and he would just bowl forward. I mean, he
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  would play like a full back that was six' six. It was incredible
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  to something he didn't see a whole lot and uh, as you know,
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  and then as that sophomore year rolled along, he ended up starting it outside
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  landbacker when Tommy Funk got hurt, and in that game he returned to fumble
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  for twenty seven yeard, I think he may cause a fumble. It was
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  the trifecta stripsack, recovered it, returned it for a touchdown, and and
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  then it was like, okay, this guy could play some defense too.
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  His junior year, he was still being split out wide every once in a
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  while, and then he'd play. He was playing safe, maybe a little
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  out of position, but you know, I mean, I wouldn't want to
• 1:14:02
  throw the ball up with a six to six guy back there that was athletic
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  as he is. And then this year started another new position, playing tight
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  end. Now you know, with his hand in the turf most of the
• 1:14:14
  time, you know, split him out every once in a while, create
• 1:14:16
  some mismatches. But again coming off the edge as an outside linebacker, made
• 1:14:20
  huge plays. He had a big sack against Burlington and that game that they
• 1:14:25
  won just by one score. But the numbers he put up over the years,
• 1:14:29
  it was just this it was like a slow drip almost. I mean
• 1:14:31
  it was it was always going to be there. He's always going to have
• 1:14:34
  four catches for fifty yards or something like that. And then his career ends
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  up with ninety one catches for one two hundred and thirty four yards and ten
• 1:14:43
  touchdowns. I mean, that's an unbelievable career, top you know thirty,
• 1:14:49
  top twenty five, top thirty all time in Walkom County history for a guy
• 1:14:54
  that never had I mean his biggest game might have been his first game when
• 1:14:57
  he had like eight catches for one hundred and eleven yards or whatever it was.
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  You know, a great, great career. And then defensively, I
• 1:15:05
  think unsung. I think people don't understand how good he was defensively. One
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  hundred and nine tackles, thirteen tackles for lost, ten quarterback sacks, four
• 1:15:15
  forced fumbles, five passes broken up, and that fumble returned for a touchdown.
• 1:15:19
  A really, really great career for him, and an All Conference second
• 1:15:25
  team guy on both sides of the ball, and and and a heck of
• 1:15:30
  a volleyball player too. So yeah, a lot of fun and it became
• 1:15:34
  a really good leader this year. And and I think he was the first
• 1:15:39
  kid this year that I asked to do an intro now that now that I
• 1:15:44
  think about it, see him was the first practice I went to and he
• 1:15:46
  was the first one I locked in for the for the preview intros and how
• 1:15:53
  fitting now it's the last senior to talk about, so kind of kind of
• 1:15:57
  open or the you know, the opening cover and the final chapters all Braddock
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  Duckworth for this. Final words on Seaholme Tyler, I think it's a it
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  was a really talented team that that played well, had a winning record,
• 1:16:12
  tough conference, small senior class, a lot of guys coming back. It's
• 1:16:19
  gonna be interesting next year because they returned a lot of talent. But you
• 1:16:25
  know, you also got the state champions. Now, so three state champions
• 1:16:28
  in a row coming from out from that conference. It's gonna be hard to
• 1:16:30
  make the playoffs. Still a fifty to fifty shot. If there's gonna be
• 1:16:34
  a round to thirty two next year, I think a team like Seahome it
• 1:16:38
  would really benefit. Like a round of thirty two would really help a team
• 1:16:41
  like Seaholme is what I'm trying to say. So we'll see it's gonna be.
• 1:16:45
  It's gonna be great, small class, small senior class. But they
• 1:16:48
  all helped in huge ways this year in their own way. Well that's it.
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  Ferndale Knooksack Valley and Seahome. We've already done the others, so go
• 1:16:57
  back and listen to them. Coming up, we've got the Top one hundred
• 1:17:00
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• 1:17:04
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  and get all of that information as soon as it happens. Before we head
• 1:17:14
  out, let's give one last thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurt Maayberry farm
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• 1:17:24
  of their sponsorships and everything that we've done. He's Tyler Anderson. I'm Ryland
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  Spencer. You've been listening to episode two hundred and eighteen, the last of
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  the podcast. As we say goodbye to the twenty twenty four class here on
• 1:17:35
  the Walk On Preps Podcast, we will talk to you soon