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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 8 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Three dings and welcome to episode eight of the Boffel Football Coaches Show. I'm
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  your host Ryland Spencer, along with me as always is the head coach of
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  the Bothel Cougar's Tom Baker Coach. How are we doing? Doing great?
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  Everett Highway and treats your home team to a delicious gourmet burger. Well coach.
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  The Baffle Football program went one and two since we last spoke, We'll
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  do what we we always did. We'll start with the freshman team. They
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  played a home game last week. Freshman Koog's moved to seven and oh after
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  a forty two to thirty four come from behind victory over Woodinville. You were
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  out there, coach, I heard it was a heck of a football game.
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  Great game for fans, great game for players. It was. It
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  was a lot of fun. You know, I'm not sure how many,
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  if any Woodenville players were sophomores, but if they're, if they didn't have
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  any, wow, two great freshman classes coming up here in the North Short
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  School District. They've got linemen, they've got skill positions, they've got kids
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  who run to the ball. It was a physical game, fun to watch.
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  It tested us were we were down the second half for the first time
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  this year, and we responded wonderfully with a long touchdown drive and it was
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  actually a long one, but quick, I think it was only like five
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  plays, and we took the lead. And then you know, Woodenville comes
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  right back down too, and they're going to respond beautifully, and we ended
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  up getting an interception and we returned it to the one and go up and
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  miss our first extra point of the game, and you know, it ends
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  up being an eight point game and instead, and so Woodinville has a chance,
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  but we stopped them in the end. And it was a great football
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  game and a wonderful win for our kids and a great to see them overcome
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  a game where, you know, for the for the really the first time,
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  they wouldn't down and it looked like, oh, this could not go
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  our way tonight, and to see them respond was was you know, very
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  positive. Monday night, JV fell twenty four to seven to East Lake.
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  The JV Coogs actually scored first, had some breakdowns of the game went along,
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  but it seemed like maybe this was the first game that I've seen at
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  least where I think of just about everybody on the roster got in the game
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  and got some pretty significant playing times. Yeah, you know, that's the
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  goal. I think that's what we try to do. I know that there
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  might have been a couple of kids who didn't get as you know, as
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  many snaps as say that they'd like, But the goal is to play everyone
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  at the sub varsity level. I mean, that's that's why you turn out,
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  that's why you work out all years to play, and so we try
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  to do that. And I think that's an important piece to to anybody's you
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  know youth or you know under programs. Right the JV subvarsity levels, freshman
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  seed team, whatever. Yeah. You know, I would tell you east
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  Lake had a running back that was really quick and fast, and you know
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  he would turn gains of four three into gains of you know, ten or
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  twelve or fifteen at times, and he got loose on a couple of them
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  and went the distance. And you know, we start with a great drive
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  and we go march right down the field and we you know, we throw
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  a touchdown pass on a little fade from about the twelve or fifteen or whatever,
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  and we're up seven nothing. And you know, they east Lake responded
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  and came down and scored again, and it was pretty close. They kick
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  a long field goal right before the end a half to make it ten to
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  seven, and then they kind of got you know, the next touchdown,
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  you know, put them up seventeen to seven, and you know, you
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  need to come back and score. We didn't weren't able to do that.
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  They get the ball into that you know, little number five again and he's
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  a tough runner and so yeap didn't turn out how we wanted. But you
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  know what, this is a tough league. I mean you talk about the
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  top teams in this league and how well, they're coached and you've got to
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  come out every single night ready to play. Yeah, And I think that's
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  something about the JV teams that I've noticed is how much fire and intensity there
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  is in the coaching staffs of both sides, which you might not think in
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  a JV football game, but man, I'll tell you what they were.
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  Both sides were out there coaching their butts off. Let's talk about the varsity
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  game, fourteen to seven overtime loss at East Lake. I think the first
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  thing we got to talk about the fans. Support our fans. We know
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  they're incredible. They do just awesome things. And Miss Crow and the ASB
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  and the Router bus was out there and we saw families and alumni for an
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  away game. I mean, that is something that's truly special. It is,
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  But coach, I do have to correct you. The first thing I
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  think we need to talk about is the introduction of the game. If you
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  fans weren't there, you missed a gym. They had senior night. They
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  turned out the lights, they had all black uniforms. They were playing some
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  ac DC and it went a little long, and I was about to go
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  argue that you know, the games needed to start two minutes ago, and
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  we've been standing there, but when the lights came on, you already saw
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  the flag on the field, and so you know, they started off with
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  a fifteen yard penalty and I thought that was kind of funny and something that
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  you don't always see. But now, our fan base is awesome. I'll
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  tell you the first game I ever coached here in two thousand, I was
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  in awe of the support. You know, before there was North Creek and
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  we had more students at our school, and each school was a little bigger.
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  You know, you'd see more numbers, but I'll tell you the support
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  we get home or away. Our cheerleaders are unbelievable, are awesome. There
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  are state champs almost every year for a reason. Our student body is wonderful.
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  Ms Crow and and you know, mister Frederickson comes out and they volunteered
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  to sit on that router bus and we get kids to fill it and they
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  dress up in their shreds and our colors and they go and support, and
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  you know, that's that's a pride thing. That's why it's fun to be
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  a high school student. That's why you know, we're fortunate in the North
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  Shore School districts. Our student body has pride over their their sports programs,
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  and certainly we do, and we're so thankful for it. It's such an
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  energy boost. And then you know, I lastly, I would tell you,
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  like I told our kids, I was so proud of our sidelines.
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  Our sideline for the first time this year really had you know, an impact
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  in our game. And they were loud, and they were emotional, and
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  it was it was good. Yeah. I think that's a good point too,
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  because you know, it's not really expected of a sideline to do things
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  like that. And you know, at times I turned around and I would
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  look and you know, some of the kids are jumping up and down,
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  hooting and hollering. Some of them are turned around looking at the fans,
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  throwing their arms up in the air, say telling the fans to get into
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  it. The fans are getting into it. There was a fourth down stop
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  I think maybe in the fourth quarter or third quarter, where it was you
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  know, fourth and one or two, and we stopped them just short and
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  I looked around and it was I mean, the place was just I mean,
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  they're coming on glued. It was really really cool to see. Speaking
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  on the game, this felt like an old school Kinko in your face,
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  just punch for punch, heavyweight fight is what we experienced up there on Friday
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  night. Yeah, you know, from our perspective, you know, first
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  and foremost, we didn't feel like we played a full game with great effort
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  the week before, and so certainly we challenged ourselves to that a little bit.
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  And I thought our effort was wonderful. I thought our attitude, our
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  effort, our mindset, our heads were always up. We believed in each
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  other, we counted on each other. I would tell you I was really
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  pleased with that part of the game. Defensively, we were tough. It
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  was difficult for them to score, and uh and and then the same and
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  versely too, it was their defense was tough on us and and it was
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  difficult for us to score. And you know, we got out to a
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  seven at the lead and it was tied seven to seven. It stayed that
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  way of the whole second half. And you know, we we we had
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  opportunities. They might be saying that they felt like they did too as well,
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  but both defenses came up clutch, and and you know, the game
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  goes in overtime, and you know, we have one, we have one
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  mistake. We give up one play. Really, I mean they had they
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  had explosive plays, but we usually stopped them on tackles. And this one
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  scores. And then we have some opportunities we don't we don't quite take advantage
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  of, and and you know, hats off to them and frustrating loss for
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  us. And you know, but but in the end, you look at
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  was our effort there and was our heart there? And and it was and
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  now we can work on the execution things we need to do defensively. Uh,
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  you know, the week before, a lot of points on the board
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  for Woodenville, and uh, you mentioned the effort, and I think the
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  I think the defensive effort was especially tremendous on Friday. But you know,
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  a couple of turnovers creating some opportunities for our offense. Jake Wells gets an
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  interception. Good to see him finally truly get rewarded with something there, you
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  know what I mean. He's played really well this season. He although I
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  you got to step back. He had a chance for another interception, he
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  dropped it. So we got to work on that maybe in practice this week,
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  or maybe get him some better gloves. I don't know, Hey,
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  we call that a knockdown. He knocked it down. Yeah, pass defended,
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  right, Yeah, that's exactly. And then Kingston Miley also picks off
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  a pass, and you know, it's good to see him getting back into
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  the rotation. There a guy that had some injuries this season and finally works
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  his way out of it and you know, played well. But overall defense,
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  you know, I guess some people at home, you know, or
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  some fans might look at that one play and just go wow. But you
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  know what, as a whole, the defense played very well. They did.
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  You know, first of all, it's nice to have Kingston back.
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  Kingston is a heck of a football player with great instincts. You know,
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  as soon as he you know, he's not into week nine form. He
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  hasn't played in a long time. So as soon as he gets more snaps
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  and reps under him, and and and and get some more of that,
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  Okay, I'm feeling like I'm in mid season form, We're just going to
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  continue to see great things from him. Nolan Ellis makes a great play,
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  kind of overruns a play, but it's smart enough and wise enough and and
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  crafty enough to smack the ball out of the hands of the back and then
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  he falls on it and then let's not forget Tyson Hope too. At the
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  end of the at the end of the regulation, they're coming down to try
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  to get in field goal range and he seals, he seals and shuts down
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  there their drive with a with an interception gets two feet in on a on
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  a deep ball and and you know, does a great job there. So
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  yes, we're uh, you know, the goal of the defense is to
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  score, and if we can't score, we want to turnover. And you
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  know, certainly we've been doing well on the turnover factor and and the stinginess
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  and it is fun. It's fun to see we've got a lot of good
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  athletes out there with some physicalness and heart and playing team football, and you
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  know, that's that's what everybody wants to have, and certainly we see that
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  in our defense. Yeah, I kind of forgot about the Tyson Hok one.
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  Maybe it's because it was just the you know, kind of the final
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  play there, But that's one of those plays that he makes look real easy.
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  You know, it's it's one of those center fielder reading the ball off
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  the bat and just chasing it down in the gap is kind of what it
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  was, and you know he's kind of got a little bit of a knack
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  for that. Yeah, he certainly does. He's a really heady football player.
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  He has a wonderful feel great in stinks. He's one of our league's
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  best players for sure. Other scores from around Kinko Chia Wanta defeats Mount Sai
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  and then the lone non conference game fourteen to twelve. Skyline wins the battle
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  for the Cole Bucket eighteen to seven over is Aquah. And there it is
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  again. You know, is aqua team that did not win a league game
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  this year playing a Skyline team who could end up finishing second in the league,
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  playing them to an eighteen to seven game. I mean, it just
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  speaks to how tough it can be to win in Kinko Woodinville Down's North Creek
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  thirty to fourteen. This is the final week of regular season play and there's
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  still a lot on the line. Coach games, get them out of the
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  way real quick. East Lake and North Creek they're playing Saturday, five pm
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  at pop Kini. East Lake's already locked into the one, North Creek already
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  locked in as the number six is a Qua. They will play the non
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  conference game this week on the road at Cascade of Everett, the two big
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  games. When I say there's a lot on the line, from what I
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  can tell looking at the standings, it appears as though everybody bothel Woodinville,
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  Mount Sigh and Skyline could end up finishing anywhere from second to fifth and Kinko
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  depending on who wins both games seven pm kickoffs on Friday. This is what
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  you want if you're a Kinko football fan right here, except for the fact
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  that they're both playing at the exact same time. Woodenville heads the Skyline.
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  We will be hosting Mount Sigh at POPKINI. You know, I think the
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  first thing to talk about when we start talking about Mount Sai and this game
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  specifically, and we kind of talked about it with homecoming. You know,
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  it is senior night. We'll be honoring our senior class. But there's also
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  some pregame stuff that goes on, and you know, there's a lot of
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  hype leading into the game because it is senior night. It can but you
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  know, be some type of distractions along the way. Yeah, I think
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  if you're not mentally tough, it can be. And the fact of the
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  matter is you know, we're gon we're gonna alter our pregame by ten minutes
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  or so, and and there will be a little bit of a pause and
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  we will honor our seniors and they will get their name called, and their
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  family members will come through and be recognized as they should, and they'll go
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  take a picture. And when we get done with that, it's right back
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  to the pregame and you go from there. And you know, we're also
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  going to be wearing our our alternate black jerseys, which is a you know,
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  something that you know the old timers probably are not going to think fondly
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  of, as you know. And then I'm starting to become an old timer
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  myself, and I'm kind of a traditionalist, but you know, in this
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  day and age, you know, kids kids love this stuff and it's what
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  they see at college and in the NFL and the alternate jerseys and all this
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  stuff, and so's I'm excited for him. It'll it'll be a fun thing.
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  But you know, once the game starts, you never think about a
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  uniform anymore. You never think about senior night. You just play football.
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  And so I'm not expecting a distraction. I'm not expecting any change in emotion.
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  It's not going to be anybody's last game, and so let's just go
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  play football and do the best we can. I'm a traditionalist who I prefer
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  tradition as far as jerseys and stuff, and you know, it's always I
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  don't know, I don't like when, as a Nebraska fan, when we
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  break out these crazy black jerseys and stuff. I'm not a big fan of
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  it. But I will say this, I've seen our black jerseys and they
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  look pretty good. They look pretty dang good. So let's talk about some
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  more about Mount Side, specifically the coaching staff. These are guys. I'm
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  sure as I go through some of these names coach, you probably know every
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  single one of them. Charlie Kannun he was there for thirty years. Steve
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  Bolinski takes over, he was on the staff beforehand. He took over before
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  the twenty twenty two season. And there are just names all over the place.
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  Matt Taylor, former state champion head coach at Skyline. Don Bartel was
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  the head coach at Eastlake for a while before that, he was the defensive
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  coordinator at Skyline. I believe under Matt Taylor, I'm pretty sure he won
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  a state championship there as well. Greg Prater was the offensive coordinator of former
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  KOUG former KOUG Washington State coog. That is, he was the offensive coordinator
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  at Newport when you guys played them in the semi finals in twenty fourteen.
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  Tom Collins has been an assistant in Kingko for ever. I feel like that
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  guy has been around as long as King Goo almost but two former players up
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  at Mount Side, guys that you may or may not have coached against,
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  Chris Schlichting, Jojo Hillel. They're just coming off coaching in college. So
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  when you start looking at this coaching staff, these are guys that you know,
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  they're they're smart, they're good football coaches. This is a team that's
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  going to be well prepared, and you know a little bit of almost a
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  star studded cast on the other side of line. It's like an All State
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  game. Man, you have all the all star coaches on, you know,
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  coaching together. There's talent on this staff for sure, and you know,
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  really great football minds and and you know, good good people for kids,
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  right and so you know, that's that's part of the fun challenge.
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  I think. I think there's a lot of staffs in this league that we
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  go against, you know, once a year that are really talented and do
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  a great job and certainly mount size one of those staffs. Now, they
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  present a lot of problems. They've got they've got a bevy of running backs,
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  they've got a physical line, they've got a physical defense. They have
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  athletes, they move around, they sprint to the ball. They've lost a
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  couple of games they probably felt like they should have won. They were up
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  twenty eight to fourteen and was six minutes to go against east Lake, and
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  you know, somehow Eastlake pulls that out and lost a tough, hard fought
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  game to Skyline, in which they might argue that they had you know,
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  the ball, that field positioned that sometimes they came away with nothing. But
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  I think that's kind of what we are all feeling at times in this league.
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  And with exception maybe east Lake, who somehow always pulls the rabbit out
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  of the hat at the end of the game. Uh, you know,
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  the rest of us are just scratching and klon And it's going to be that
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  type of a football game at pop Kini on Friday night, just like probably
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  the Woodenville Skyline game will be up on the you know on the plateau as
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  well, and they do have huge you know, uh in terms of when
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  you talk about playoff seeds and and uh you know where you where you go.
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  Yes, these these are big. We're all tied with the same number
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  of wins and losses, the four of us with with in terms of king
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  Ko conference play. And you know, the two teams that win will we'll
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  have a better seeding and the two that don't, well, you know,
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  we're going to have a tougher road. So uh, yep, that's what's
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  on the line. We all know it. And uh, you're right,
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  if you're a fan of king Ko football, you should be at the Pop
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  this Friday watching a really uh great competitive game with a lot of really good
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  athletes on the field. Yep. And that's that's week in week out almost
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  in Kinko nowadays. And uh, I mean nowadays, it's been like that
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  ever since I was a little kid. I mean, you were on coaching
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  staffs that I watched when I was a kid with you know Inglemore, and
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  those were week in week out, and you know Inglemore, Newport, Inglemore,
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  you know Woodinville, Inglemore, won Eta for you know a long time.
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  We're just tremendous games. So yeah, expecting big things, big crowd
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  out there on Friday night, coach, and we'll see you out there and
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  yeah, good luck, Thank you very much. Later today, the freshman
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  team hits the road for East Lake. Kickoff set for six thirty pm.
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  The game will be streamed online. You can find that stream by searching East
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  Lake Wolves Football on YouTube or go to any of our social media pages and
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  the link should be in the Freshman Game Day post. That's what you're looking
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  for. Freshman Game Day post. JVS back in action on Monday when they
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  travel to Mount Sig. That game will kick off at six point thirty.
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  We do not know of a stream at the moment, but if something becomes
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  available, be sure to check out our social media pages and you can find
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  it there. As mentioned earlier, varsity home on Friday against Mount Side kickoff
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  set for seven pm. It is Senior night, so come on out as
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  we honor our senior class and take on the Wildcats. Today's episode of The
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  Coaches Show is proudly sponsored by Steve Brada and melon Vin Chic of Wilson Realty.
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  If you need help with your real estate or just have questions, take
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  a time out, give Steve a call. Two O six two five ninety
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  nine zero nine. I'm Rylan Spencer. You've been listening to episode eight of
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  the BOFEL Football Coaches Show with head coach Tom Bainter. We'll talk to you
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  next week and go Koog's