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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 374 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 5 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Ford senior Jonathan Stannik and you listening to
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  Speaker 1: Walkom Preps podcast with Tyler Anderson. It's a matter of pride.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the Gatorade Game Day preview on
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  Speaker 2: the Walkham Preps Podcast. This is episode three hundred and
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  Speaker 2: seventy four and I am Tyler Anderson with Walkham Preps
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to preview all eight games this weekend
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  Speaker 2: involving Walcome County teams. I want to give a special
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  Speaker 2: thank you to Jonathan Stanek Ferndale senior for the intro.
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  Speaker 2: That kid is pure football. I remember the first time
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  Speaker 2: I saw him play as a sophomore and got in
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  Speaker 2: with you know, some garbage time at the end and
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  Speaker 2: did some really good things and I was kind of
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  Speaker 2: asking around, like who is this kid? Who is this kid?
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  Speaker 2: So I was kind of waiting for his moment to shine,
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  Speaker 2: and now as a senior, it is here, and boy,
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  Speaker 2: he's playing awesome. Love the way he carries the ball,
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  Speaker 2: love the way he plays defense, love how active he
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  Speaker 2: is on the field. So thank you very much Jonathan
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  Speaker 2: for doing the intro. And I gotta give congratulations to
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  Speaker 2: squal coums Cole Burke and Asher Osby Ornson on winning
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  Speaker 2: the Week four Pepsi Play of the Week with their
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  Speaker 2: seventy yard touchdown. Because of that, they each won a
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  Speaker 2: case of Gatorade thanks to Walton Beverage. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to step away for a short fifteen seconds so we
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  Speaker 2: can hear from our title sponsor.
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  Speaker 3: You hear that that's the sound of Pepsi zero sugar.
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  Speaker 2: I can't tell you all of you how blessed and
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  Speaker 2: thankful I am for a company like Walton Beverage, who's
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  Speaker 2: been a staple in our community for over ninety years
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  Speaker 2: to take an interest in Walkome Preps and allow me
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  Speaker 2: to keep doing what I'd love to do. It is
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  Speaker 2: truly amazing and it's a game changer for me, and
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  Speaker 2: I will continue to work harder every day to make
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  Speaker 2: the fantastic people at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth
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  Speaker 2: sports in our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment,
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  Speaker 2: and I plan to do the same. Okay, so let's
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  Speaker 2: talk football. We have eight games to talk about for
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. One of them is kicking off tonight and
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  Speaker 2: so one for Thursday, seven on Friday, none of them
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday. So first weekend with no Saturday games, which
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  Speaker 2: is great because Hello Mariners and Seattle Mariners that is.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll start with the tonight seven o'clock game, which
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  Speaker 2: is the Seahome Mariners. They are hosting the Linden Lions
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  Speaker 2: at Civic Stadium tonight seven o'clock. Seahome is three and
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  Speaker 2: one and Linden is three and one. Based on the
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  Speaker 2: ranking systems on max Preps, which is not affiliated with
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  Speaker 2: Walking Preps, Linden is ranked third in the state in
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  Speaker 2: two way and Seaholme is ranked fourth. In the Washington
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  Speaker 2: State Coaches Association poll, Linden is fourth and Seahome is seventh.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't able to connect with coach Young of Seaholme,
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  Speaker 2: but I dig track down Linden's coach and we are
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  Speaker 2: now joined on the Gatorade Game day preview by Linden
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  Speaker 2: football coach Blake ven Dalen. Coach, thank you for joining
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  Speaker 2: me today. How are you doing good?
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  Speaker 4: Glad to get a chance to talk to you again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it always kind of I love how these are
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  Speaker 2: all scheduled and it always makes me feel like, Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 2: right in the middle of the week right now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking to coach Vin Dale, and I love it. What's
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  Speaker 2: your favorite football movie?
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  Speaker 4: It depends on my mood.
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  Speaker 5: If I'm really like wanting to just you know, be motivated,
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  Speaker 5: I'll probably watch Remember the Titans, right, Yeah, But if
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  Speaker 5: i just want to you know, have a good time,
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  Speaker 5: then I'm then I'm watching water Boy.
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  Speaker 2: That's great. I've been getting that a lot from coaches
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  Speaker 2: that it's funny, you know, And uh yeah, those are
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  Speaker 2: two great ones obviously, and I think I saw him
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  Speaker 2: both in the theater, to be honest. Yeah, So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's there's some good ones out there. Uh. Before talking
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  Speaker 2: about your Week five opponent, let's go to your game
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  Speaker 2: last week. It came in as the game of the
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  Speaker 2: week and it delivered a close twenty six twenty three lost.
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  Speaker 2: Anna Chordis you know there were so many moments, there
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  Speaker 2: was back and forth. I kind of felt like if
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  Speaker 2: there was, you know, a fifth quarter, you would have
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  Speaker 2: probably won the game. What was your biggest takeaway from
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  Speaker 2: that game?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I think the two takeaways were our fight, our attitude,
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  Speaker 5: our effort once again, our kids down two scores, didn't blink,
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  Speaker 5: they came back, gave ourselves a chance, and then you know,
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  Speaker 5: from a film standpoint, we're able to show the kids
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  Speaker 5: how many mistakes we made against a very quality opponents,
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  Speaker 5: So you tip your hat to them as well. It's
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  Speaker 5: not that it was all on us, but our mistakes
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  Speaker 5: led to a situation where instead of being up a
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  Speaker 5: score at the end of the game, we were down
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  Speaker 5: a score. So so the consequences, you know, fit the actions.
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  Speaker 5: But we have a lot to learn, a long way
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  Speaker 5: to go, but we fought and that's something that I
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  Speaker 5: don't know any coach that wouldn't love to have a
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  Speaker 5: team that doesn't care what the score is. They're gonna
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  Speaker 5: scratch and claw, uh till the till the final horn blows.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you you know you didn't come into the
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  Speaker 2: game one hundred percent. There were some guys that were
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  Speaker 2: banged up. It really speaks to the depth of your program.
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  Speaker 2: How do you how did you feel that some of
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  Speaker 2: the younger guys did that, came in and played some
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  Speaker 2: quality minutes against a really good appointment. Guys like Marcus
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  Speaker 2: Kanan on defense and and Dawson Ben Dalen on offense.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if you've watched film of Anna Chordis, this
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  Speaker 5: was the first time they didn't have a vertical touchdown
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  Speaker 5: if you will, They didn't get over top the defense
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  Speaker 5: for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 4: And you're right with uh.
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  Speaker 5: With Sam Morango, Marcus Kane and Gordy Bedlington, all those
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  Speaker 5: guys filling in for Danny.
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  Speaker 4: That was one of those things.
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  Speaker 5: And last Sunday, the game plan was for Danny to
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  Speaker 5: to lock down one of their vertical threats and then
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  Speaker 5: we'll tag team on the other one. Well, we didn't
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  Speaker 5: have him, and so I am very proud of those
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  Speaker 5: young kids stepping in.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't fly. They all had really good games, you know.
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  Speaker 5: And then it was tough because in the second half
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  Speaker 5: we were in a throwing situation, so Dawson didn't get
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  Speaker 5: to run as much as as we could or he
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  Speaker 5: needed to. But but he'll have that opportunity this week
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  Speaker 5: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about this week. Thursday night, you go
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  Speaker 2: back on the road, this time to Civic Stadium against
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  Speaker 2: Sea Home. Tell our listeners about this year's See Home team.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's the best Fee Home team that I've
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  Speaker 5: got to coach against.
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  Speaker 4: By that, I mean Obviously everybody knows about Nolan Wright.
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  Speaker 5: He's been starting for four years and he's been special
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  Speaker 5: for four years.
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  Speaker 4: They have a few new faces that I.
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  Speaker 5: Think came from another Bellingham school to help them, but
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  Speaker 5: they had a lot of big guys inside to start with,
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  Speaker 5: and so they have those guys ended up in kind
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  Speaker 5: of a complimentary role and are helping them complete their team.
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  Speaker 5: And so for us, it's a really great challenge. They
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  Speaker 5: were ahead of Anna Cordis at home, so that is
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  Speaker 5: a tough task, you know, and that's something we weren't
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  Speaker 5: even able to do. And so so I really think
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be you know, if you will, the classes,
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  Speaker 5: the Titans and and they they.
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  Speaker 4: Want an opportunity to to do.
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  Speaker 5: Something they haven't done in a while, and our kids
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  Speaker 5: get the opportunity to have what we call it set
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  Speaker 5: back comeback.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And and tell the listeners too about playing on
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  Speaker 2: a Thursday night is how does that throw off kind
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  Speaker 2: of what you guys do as a program.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I had two young men in my office today
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  Speaker 5: and they literally said to me, I don't even know
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  Speaker 5: what day it is right now, because we're such a.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to say strict program.
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  Speaker 7: But we do things.
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  Speaker 5: A certain way on a certain time at a certain
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  Speaker 5: so our kids get in a really nice rhythm.
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  Speaker 4: And but the good.
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  Speaker 5: News is playoffs kind of throw you off that rhythm
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  Speaker 5: as well, when you're playing on Saturdays and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: So there's positives in every thing if you look for it.
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  Speaker 5: But after an extremely physical game Friday night, a Thursday
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  Speaker 5: night game for us is really tough because there's one
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  Speaker 5: less data practice, one less data watch film, one less
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  Speaker 5: data recover from bumps and bruises, and and you're going against,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, a quality opponent. And so luckily we
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  Speaker 5: don't believe in excuses, We don't believe in in looking
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  Speaker 5: for ways to fail, but just trying to find ways
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  Speaker 5: to be successful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's it's it's a tough task. You
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  Speaker 2: were thrown every single thing that could have happened as
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  Speaker 2: far as Yeah, after playing the two time state defending champs,
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  Speaker 2: now you've got a short week, you're on the road
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  Speaker 2: playing against a really, really talented see home team. And
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  Speaker 2: but you know, you looked at the schedule months ago
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  Speaker 2: and saw that you know this was gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: tough turnaround. So I'm sure that you guys are ready
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  Speaker 2: for it. Awesome stuff, coach. Good luck against the Mariners
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday, and thank you for joining me on the
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  Speaker 2: Gatorade game day preview.
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  Speaker 4: All right, appreciate everything you do. Good talking to you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks coach. It's going to be a great game, and
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  Speaker 2: see them hasn't beaten Linden over the last twenty four years,
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  Speaker 2: but this will be a good shot for them, just
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  Speaker 2: kind of with everything aligning, you know, short week and
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  Speaker 2: on the road and some guys banged up and see
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  Speaker 2: them with some guys coming that will be eligible for them.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, it's gonna be a fantastic game. I advise
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  Speaker 2: a lot of you to head out to Civic Stadium
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  Speaker 2: tonight and check it out. And we'll start the Friday
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  Speaker 2: night games with the Meridian Trojans heading south to take
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  Speaker 2: on Kingsway Christian down in Vancouver, Washington. That'll be on
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  Speaker 2: Friday at five o'clock. Meridian is four and oh, Kingsway
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  Speaker 2: Christian is one in three based on the Max Preps rankings,
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  Speaker 2: Meridian is favored here.
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  Speaker 7: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't able to track down Coach James either, and
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  Speaker 2: it's understandable as we usually talk on Tuesday nights, but
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday happened to be his dad's eightieth birthday. Happy birthday
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  Speaker 2: to coach Bob Ames. I was so honored to be
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  Speaker 2: there for the field dedication and just witness that and
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  Speaker 2: congratulate him afterwards. So that's a really cool deal. And
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  Speaker 2: it's a long road trip for Meridian on Friday night
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  Speaker 2: that might end up getting them a little bit in
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of the game if they can't shake their
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  Speaker 2: bus legs, But the Trojans are hungry and ready to
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  Speaker 2: play after Forks canceled on them last week. This game
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  Speaker 2: will also be the last non conference game for Meridian
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  Speaker 2: this year, and it has by this time on Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: they will be the only Walking County team that has
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  Speaker 2: yet to actually play a conference opponent, So yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty crazy. Now we get into the Friday night games
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  Speaker 2: that start at seven o'clock. We'll start with the elimination
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  Speaker 2: Blackhawks going on the road to face the Concrete Lions.
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  Speaker 2: Elimination is one and two on the season and Concrete
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  Speaker 2: is two and one. Max Preps has these two teams
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  Speaker 2: ranked just one spot apart from each other, so it
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  Speaker 2: should be a close matchup. And we are now joined
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  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Elimination Football Coach
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  Speaker 2: with Tiko Layton coach. Thank you for joining me today.
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  Speaker 2: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing pretty good. Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 2: You bet? Another new question this week? What's your favorite
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  Speaker 2: football movie?
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  Speaker 7: Favorite football movie? Uh, I would say The Gridiron Game.
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  Speaker 8: I really love the stories and the the the emotion
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  Speaker 8: it has towards the movie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. I that's a I love
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  Speaker 2: asking all the coaches these different questions because you really
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  Speaker 2: get a broad spectrum of everything, and that's I love.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's a good one. Before talking about a Week
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  Speaker 2: five opponent, let's go over your game last week. Tulala
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  Speaker 2: Parrotage came to town. You warned me that they had athletes,
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  Speaker 2: and right, Uh, you played even with them in the beginning,
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  Speaker 2: but then they kind of went on a run. What
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  Speaker 2: was your biggest takeaway from that game?
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  Speaker 8: So we we had real good schemes and plans for it,
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  Speaker 8: but you know, they have athletes, and with the eight
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  Speaker 8: man football field, if so they can break one little tackle,
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  Speaker 8: it's it's a big.
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  Speaker 7: Play for them. But you know, hats off to them.
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  Speaker 8: They they had a lot of schemes and of that
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  Speaker 8: struggle to offense and some new offensive plays that we
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  Speaker 8: weren't scouted for that week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's always the tricky thing is if they show
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  Speaker 2: you something that you've never seen. It's how you react
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  Speaker 2: to that and then adapt. And then all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden you look up and it's third or fourth quarter
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, man, we're running out of time. And
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  Speaker 2: that's always a tricky thing. How's the overall health of
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  Speaker 2: the team. Are you guys at full strength? It's one
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  Speaker 2: of those things at the eight man level where there's
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  Speaker 2: usually not a ton of kids on the sidelines. Are
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  Speaker 2: things looking okay in that spot?
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  Speaker 8: It's looking kind of if we got a couple of kids,
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  Speaker 8: I got some little injuries and bumps and bruises, but
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  Speaker 8: overall a lot of our kids are still healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. I mean, it's it's one of those things.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, football is going to do it to you.
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  Speaker 2: You know. You know that better than anybody. Being a
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  Speaker 2: player at Ferndale and having you know, dealing you have
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  Speaker 2: to play through stuff and there's always a difference between
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  Speaker 2: being hurt or being injured. If you're hurt, you can play.
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  Speaker 2: If you're injured, you can't. So right, let's talk about
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  Speaker 2: Friday night. You're back on the road, headed to Concrete
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  Speaker 2: High School. What do you know about this year's Lions.
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  Speaker 8: I know that they are a more compact team that
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  Speaker 8: likes to bounce it outside with their runs. They're another
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  Speaker 8: team that lost a lot of their star players last
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  Speaker 8: year due to being them seniors. So this year it's
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  Speaker 8: a new team that we're looking at, but a lot
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  Speaker 8: of the same schemes that they did last year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting, you say, you know a compact team
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  Speaker 2: that likes to bounce it out, so when they come
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  Speaker 2: up to the line of scrimmage, everything is kind of
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  Speaker 2: bungled up, but then they break it one way or
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  Speaker 2: the other. Is that kind of what you mean.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, whether it's a sweet boo or just passes to
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  Speaker 8: the outside, quick passes.
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  Speaker 7: But they all like to line up compact.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's tricky because on defense you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: spread out too much because they're compact, but then if
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  Speaker 2: you get too far in then they will go out.
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  Speaker 2: And that's an interesting way of playing in the eight
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  Speaker 2: man game. Another crazy thing about Concrete is for those
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  Speaker 2: if you have never been there, you will drive underneath
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  Speaker 2: the school to get to the stadium. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: the most unique areas around. What's it like playing at
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  Speaker 2: that field?
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  Speaker 7: It's very awesome.
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  Speaker 8: I like how the the nature around it just makes
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  Speaker 8: it look beautiful. And then driving under that tunnel is
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  Speaker 8: pretty nice.
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  Speaker 7: The good it's a good visit always it's.
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  Speaker 2: It's really cool.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day, that was a league game for
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  Speaker 2: us at the one A level, and it was always
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  Speaker 2: fun to go out there, you know, football, baseball, whatever
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  Speaker 2: it was. And and I always remember those those two things,
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  Speaker 2: driving underneath the school and then seeing the huge water
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  Speaker 2: tower that says welcome to Concrete.
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  Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: So that's always a great thing. Coach, is going to
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  Speaker 2: be an interesting game. They're two and one on the season.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, one of their wins was a four foot win,
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  Speaker 2: but but they they played cool scene about the same
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  Speaker 2: way you guys did, so it could be a really
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  Speaker 2: even game. Best of luck against Concrete on Friday. And
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  Speaker 2: thank you for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
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  Speaker 7: Awesome. I appreciate it, Tyler, thanks for having.
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  Speaker 2: Us you bet well. There you have it from Coach
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  Speaker 2: lighton a big road on a big road game for
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  Speaker 2: his squad. Now, let's pay some bills.
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  Speaker 2: Next up are the Ferndale Golden Eagles traveling to Stanwood
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  Speaker 2: to take on the Spartans. Ferndale is two and two
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  Speaker 2: and Stanwood is three and one. Neither team is ranked
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  Speaker 2: in the top ten poll, but Max Preps has Stanwood
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  Speaker 2: two spots ahead of Ferndale. And we are now joined
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  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Ferndale football coach
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  Speaker 2: Jamie Plankovich. Coach, thank you for joining me today. How
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  Speaker 2: are you doing, I'm doing all right, all right? First question,
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  Speaker 2: what's your favorite football movie?
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  Speaker 9: Oh boy, water Boy?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I've gotten a few of those. That's that's great,
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  Speaker 2: that's great. Why water Boy?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: I love Adam Sandler And you know the rooting for
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  Speaker 9: the underdog, I guess so, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. You probably there might be a Bobby
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Bouchet jersey up somewhere, and yeah, I love it. Before
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: we talk about week five, let's go over your game.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Last week. The Bulldogs got out to really fast start,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: returning the opening kickoff for a touchdown. They had a
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: few long pass plays early on as well that went
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: for scores. But I feel like the second half you
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: guys played much better and and I get the feeling
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: like if there was a fifth quarter, you would have
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: probably won. What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's pretty accurate. We felt like we ran out
• 16:46
  Speaker 9: of time in that game. We dug ourselves such a
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: big hole in the first half. Needed to make some adjustments,
• 16:52
  Speaker 9: obviously with some of the things there they were doing.
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: A kickoff return is such an emotional for a team,
• 17:02
  Speaker 9: so really got them going right away in that game.
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: I think we played on our heels a little bit
• 17:09
  Speaker 9: to start and they hit us with some big plays.
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: But what I we talked about at halftime, we challenged
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: the kids to come out like it's zero zero and
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: keep fighting, and our kids did that. We played extremely
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: hard in that game and had opportunities to get back
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: in the game and had had a lot of adversity
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: that we had to try to overcome. So you know,
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: we're always going to look at both sides, the things
• 17:41
  Speaker 9: that we need to work on and the positives. We
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: saw some character things from our players that we really
• 17:48
  Speaker 9: like and that they didn't play. You know, they played
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: with a lot of effort and determination even though we
• 17:56
  Speaker 9: had dug ourselves such a deep pole.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and that sayscuse me, that says a lot about
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: your team too. And and you know, if I recall
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: last year, that game went into overtime with them, so
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: that's a you know, and they had a kick off
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: return for a touchdown in that game as well, and
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: so yeah, it was just, you know, I was expecting
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: something crazy. I was only out there for the first
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: quarter because I had to run to a volleyball game,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: but man, it was. It was pretty exciting there in
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the first quarter. A lot of stuff going on. I thought.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Nolan Boliak had perhaps his best varsity game, completing ten
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: out of thirteen passes one hundred and twenty six yards
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: a few touchdowns. He also took off and ran a
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: few times. He got some positive yards, you know, lowering
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: his shoulder at the goal line getting down to the
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: two in that first quarter. Run After the game, he's
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: out there playing catch with the ball boys. He just
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: seems like a great kid. Tell our listeners about your
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: senior quarterback.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he is.
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: He is a great kid and a good leader for us,
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: just trying to he's trying to get batter each every day.
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: Epitomizes what we want from uh, you know, as far
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: as character and our players, and he just worked to
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: get better and better. I can tell you that, you know,
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: we have thrown more Adam coach Locker with what we're
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: doing offensively is thrown more at him and more responsibility
• 19:21
  Speaker 9: on that position than we've probably ever had in our program.
• 19:25
  Speaker 9: And so he's handled that exceedingly well. And you're starting
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: to see that the benefits of that. You know, we
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: we were down by a lot, but are we're able
• 19:36
  Speaker 9: to battle back with some things that are little wrinkles
• 19:42
  Speaker 9: for us on offense. So he's done a he's done
• 19:45
  Speaker 9: a great job playing the toughest position to play.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, All right, let's talk about Friday night a little bit.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: You're back on the road against stan Wood. What do
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: you know about this year's stand Stanwood squad.
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: Well, they're de only different scheme wise on offense than
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: they have been. They've been a you know, a version
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: of wing tea the last few years and they are
• 20:10
  Speaker 9: very multiple now got some spread. They'll run a ton
• 20:14
  Speaker 9: of different formations. They've got some big guys up front.
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: They are very good on both sides of the ball
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: up front, so we're gonna have some challenges there. Defensively,
• 20:27
  Speaker 9: they're fairly similar to what they've ran the last couple
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: of years, maybe a little different version of the three
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: four or five to two, whatever you want to call it.
• 20:39
  Speaker 9: They're very aggressive and their kids play really hard, So yeah,
• 20:44
  Speaker 9: we're gonna have our hands full on Friday.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: So an odd man front, it sounds like on defense
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: for them, does that throw things off a little bit
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: when you're trying to run your offense as far as like,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: does that make it easier for them for their backers
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: to read the guards and stuff like that?
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I think you know, you could say that they
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: actually play a lot of where they cover the interior linemen,
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: so they cover the center in both guards.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, but they Yeah.
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: Their backers probably have you know, running that system, They're
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: going to have some good views at guards. We try
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: to pull different guys. We don't always pull our guards
• 21:28
  Speaker 9: to give teams different looks. So they're they're very downhill
• 21:34
  Speaker 9: aggressive players on the defensive side of the ball, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: hopefully those are some things that we can give them
• 21:41
  Speaker 9: some some things to look at that we'll hopefully give
• 21:45
  Speaker 9: give them some false keys and give us some things
• 21:47
  Speaker 9: we can take advantage of.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean you can get them going one
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: way the wrong way and when they're aggressive, and that
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: can really help you. And and you guys have been
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: able to have some deception in different things, so it
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: could play into your hands and then you just got
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: to break it after that. So awesome stuff. Coach, good
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: luck against the Spartans on Friday, and thank you for
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: joining me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: Anytime, Tyler. I really appreciate it.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you. This will be a very important game for
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: the Golden Eagles and we'll all be rooting for them
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: to get that one huge game with playoff implications stuff
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: like that. It could turn into one of those things
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: like last year where everybody beat everybody else at the top.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: So we'll find out see what happens. Another team traveling
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: south will be the Bellingham BayHawks and they are facing
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: the Granite Falls Tigers. Bellingham comes into the game with
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: a record of two and two and Granite Falls is
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: four and oh. Although Granite Falls is a one a school.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Max Preps shows them with the edge in this one.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: preview by Bellingham football coach Adam Leonard. Coach, thank you
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: for joining me today. How are you doing, I'm doing great.
• 22:53
  Speaker 10: Thanks for having me today here.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Welcome. What is your favorite football movie?
• 22:58
  Speaker 11: Well that's another terrific question, my goodness. So we were
• 23:01
  Speaker 11: just talking about that in the office overgre at the University.
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: A great football movies ranging from Brian Song and Rudy
• 23:10
  Speaker 11: and Oh my gosh, Necessary Roughness.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's underrated.
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: Under that isn't underrated. It's one of my favorites.
• 23:18
  Speaker 11: But yeah, not many movies get me emotionally. Sports movies do.
• 23:24
  Speaker 11: Roy Hobbs hits the walk off that gets me in
• 23:26
  Speaker 11: baseball game winning shot by Jimmy Chitwood and Hoosiers. But
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna have to go for football, I'm gonna have
• 23:33
  Speaker 11: to go with Rudy.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that is for me too. I'm a little
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: bit more relatable to Rudy than you are. Why why Rudy?
• 23:43
  Speaker 12: For you?
• 23:45
  Speaker 11: It's the ultimate underdog story And you're right, I mean,
• 23:48
  Speaker 11: you know, playing sports growing up and growing to be six.
• 23:51
  Speaker 10: Foot seven, six foot eight.
• 23:52
  Speaker 11: I always had a lot of opportunities, but for me,
• 23:55
  Speaker 11: nothing speaks more than the you know, kind of the
• 23:58
  Speaker 11: heart of the part of a part of a champion
• 24:01
  Speaker 11: type role of Rudy and the overcoming obstacles. Plus my
• 24:05
  Speaker 11: dad's gonna hate me saying this, but Notre Dame is
• 24:07
  Speaker 11: one of my my It's my favorite institution in the
• 24:10
  Speaker 11: in the country, and I think there's nothing more traditional.
• 24:13
  Speaker 10: In college football than Notre Dame football.
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: And just just.
• 24:17
  Speaker 11: That that movie just it was just fantastic, and you know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 11: it's it's it's a movie where you know, the bonds,
• 24:25
  Speaker 11: the friendships between teammates, between family, and and just his
• 24:31
  Speaker 11: overcoming so many obstacles. It just I don't know if
• 24:34
  Speaker 11: it necessarily speaks to me. It's just a fantastic movie.
• 24:36
  Speaker 11: And I love just I love underdog. I will always
• 24:40
  Speaker 11: root for underdogs in games in sports movies, and that's
• 24:45
  Speaker 11: just really just what I love watching.
• 24:48
  Speaker 10: So I'm definitely going with Rudy.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more. Before we talk about
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Week five opponent Week five, isn't that just the craziest thing?
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: We're that far into the season, how long it is.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: It goes fast. Every year goes faster. Let's go over
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: your game last week really quickly. You kind of went
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: from the frying pan in week three and jump right
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: into the fire in week four against Archbishop Murphy. I mean,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: nobody in the state is going against those two teams
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: back to back. It was crazy. But despite the loss,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: you were able to put up four touchdowns through the air,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: two of which came in the first half. What did
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: you like the most about your team's performance.
• 25:25
  Speaker 10: Well, I mean, all credit to Archbishop Murphy.
• 25:28
  Speaker 11: You know last week when we were having this conversation,
• 25:31
  Speaker 11: you know, Ana Chordus is obviously a two times day
• 25:33
  Speaker 11: champ there probably favorite to win it again. I would
• 25:36
  Speaker 11: have to put arch Bishop Murphy right there with them.
• 25:38
  Speaker 11: They just an incredible team, incredible athletes, just so physical,
• 25:43
  Speaker 11: you know, so many future power for players out of
• 25:46
  Speaker 11: that team.
• 25:46
  Speaker 10: So all credit to them.
• 25:49
  Speaker 11: Really, I'm really proud of my team for the way
• 25:52
  Speaker 11: they just competed. And I granted, you know, sometimes you
• 25:55
  Speaker 11: know one is getting subbed out for twos and threes,
• 25:58
  Speaker 11: you know, you know we move the ball a little
• 25:59
  Speaker 11: bit better, But the fact that we just wanted to
• 26:01
  Speaker 11: keep competing the entire game is I'm really just proud
• 26:04
  Speaker 11: of for that.
• 26:04
  Speaker 10: They actually, you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 11: Know, you know, a game that ended sixty one to
• 26:08
  Speaker 11: twenty eight, there was a lot of positive to build
• 26:11
  Speaker 11: off of as we get into the meat of the season.
• 26:13
  Speaker 11: So I just proud of the way they competed from
• 26:15
  Speaker 11: start to finish. And we're looking forward to Week five.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to talk about I try to spotlight
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: a different player each week with each team, and this
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: week I kind of want to talk about Eli Good
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Buffalo a little bit a unique journey in his high
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: school football career. To say the least, he was a
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: backup quarterback for a while, moved a tight end and
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: defensive end last year, did some great things, and now
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: he's starting on the offensive line defensive line. He played
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: pretty well against the Wildcats on Friday, had that big
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: monster sack. Tell the listeners a little bit about Eli.
• 26:48
  Speaker 11: Eli's a tremendous, tremendous young man, tremendous football player, tremendous athlete.
• 26:52
  Speaker 11: Is a great baseball player too, So knowing some baseball background,
• 26:55
  Speaker 11: Eli was our backup quarterback. He's a big kid, sixth
• 26:58
  Speaker 11: three chain age, two hundred and sixty five, two hundred
• 27:01
  Speaker 11: and seventy pounds, but he's very mobile, great defensive tackle.
• 27:05
  Speaker 11: He's one of our strongest offensive linemen and plays both ways,
• 27:09
  Speaker 11: but you know, quick feet and he can get he
• 27:11
  Speaker 11: can get to the ball carrier. He can do some
• 27:13
  Speaker 11: damage on the D line, and he's anchoring down our
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: old line. He's just a tremendous football player, tremendous athlete.
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: I get opportunity to coaching in football and then obviously
• 27:20
  Speaker 11: during baseball, he's gonna get to coach him as well.
• 27:22
  Speaker 11: And he's just a big part of the Bayhawk athletic
• 27:27
  Speaker 11: family and we're just lucky to have him.
• 27:29
  Speaker 10: I'm too bad as a senior, love to have him
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: a couple more years.
• 27:32
  Speaker 11: But he's I've I've coached him since I've been there,
• 27:35
  Speaker 11: and I'm coaching, you know, previously to in the youth
• 27:37
  Speaker 11: sports as well.
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: He's just an all around great guy.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's just a fun kid to talk to. He's
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: been very gracious towards me, and and you know, I
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: love to be able to communicate with kids like that
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: because it gives me hope for the future and it
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: keeps me loving doing what I do too. So let's
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: talk about this upcoming Friday night. You're back on the
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: road again, this time against the undefeated Granite Falls Tigers.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: What do you know about this year's team.
• 28:05
  Speaker 11: Well, we've watched film on them obviously, you know, coming
• 28:08
  Speaker 11: off back to back weeks against and I would say
• 28:11
  Speaker 11: I have the top two teams and definitely the top
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: two teams in two A. You know, it's gonna be
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: a little bit of a different look. They're still a
• 28:17
  Speaker 11: tremendous team there four and oh, I mean the record
• 28:19
  Speaker 11: doesn't lie, that's where they are. Got an opportunity to
• 28:22
  Speaker 11: talk to coach Olsen a little bit as they just
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: got done playing Blame and you know, he had nothing
• 28:27
  Speaker 11: but positive to say things say about their athletes and
• 28:30
  Speaker 11: their scheme and what they do. So it's going to
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: be definitely a challenge, you know, planet Granted, it's not
• 28:35
  Speaker 11: an easy task. They've you know, we've been playing over
• 28:38
  Speaker 11: over the years and this is probably one of the
• 28:39
  Speaker 11: best teams they've had in a while.
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: So even though it's.
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: A non conference opponent, a one A opponent, they again
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: they have not lost a game. They're you know, they're
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: putting up tons of points. But I believe too that
• 28:52
  Speaker 11: you know, going from the last two opponents to playing
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: Granted Falls will be a little bit coming back to
• 28:58
  Speaker 11: I won't say a high school reality of athletes, but
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: they have they have some great athletes. It's just it's
• 29:02
  Speaker 11: I don't know if they're gonna be the same caliber
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: as what we face the last two weeks with Archbishop
• 29:06
  Speaker 11: and Quarters.
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: But we're up for the challenge.
• 29:08
  Speaker 11: We know it's going to be a definite, you know,
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: packed house environment up there Granted Falls, but we're ready
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: to come out and compete.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a I've actually played a game there. It
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: was natural grass back then. It's the only game I
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: ever played in where where I believe the lines were
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: actual chalk. They weren't painted, and and it was below
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: freezing and you could trip over the ten yard line
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: the five yard line stuff because they were kind of
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: raised a little bit after it froze, and with the
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: with the frozen chalk. I'll never forget that. I think
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: that was the only game I kicked extra points without
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: using the tee because you could put it right on
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: that ten yard line and it was like using a
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: te So, but you're right, I mean, you know, traditionally,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Grant Falls is it. They've always struggled in the past,
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: but boy, the last you know, four or five years,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: they've really put together some athletic teams. They've tried to
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: spread it out, use a lot of speed, use the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: field horizontally. You know, is it is it something that
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: you feel like your scout team can replicate, and you can,
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: and you can, you know, see what they do on
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: film and then this week you can try to kind
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: of figure out that attack.
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: I do absolutely.
• 30:18
  Speaker 11: They have a tremendous running game, so I feel like
• 30:20
  Speaker 11: we'll be able to mimic that and our and our
• 30:22
  Speaker 11: scout offense.
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: Ki Nelson, our backup quarterbacks.
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: He's a tremendous athlete himself, and he's been playing a
• 30:27
  Speaker 11: lot of scouts, so he will replicate what their QB
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: has done.
• 30:30
  Speaker 10: And you're right. In the past, in the last few years,
• 30:32
  Speaker 10: they've had some tremendous athletes.
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: Their quarterback a couple of years ago is playing at
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: Western Montana right now. He was a Lake Stevens transfer.
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: And they're getting more, you know, they're getting more of
• 30:41
  Speaker 11: their guys. They're recruiting well in their own hallways to
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: get some of their best athletes out and playing football.
• 30:45
  Speaker 11: And so they've made a tremendous resurgence in their program
• 30:48
  Speaker 11: and it really shows with their record and what they're doing.
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: So it's again no weeks off in terms of opponents.
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: We're gonna have a tough one this Friday, and we're
• 30:58
  Speaker 11: ready for the challenge.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't I can't wait. Coach, awesome stuff. Best
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: of luck against the Tigers on Friday, and hopefully you
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: get back above five hundred. And thank you so much
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: for joining me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 31:09
  Speaker 10: Thank you for having me Tyler, you bet well.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: There you have it from coach Leonard. Can they give
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: the Tigers their first loss of the season. We'll have
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: to wait and see. In our first one A conference
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: game of the season to talk about, we have the
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Blaine Borderights going to Lyndon Christian to take on the Links.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Blaine is one and three and Lenny Christian is four
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: and o Elsie has a strong advantage in this one,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: but you never know how to'll play out on the field.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: preview by Blaine football coach Andy Olsen. Coach, thank you
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: for joining me today.
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: How are you doing I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, Tyler.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: You bet. What's your favorite football movie?
• 31:47
  Speaker 13: Oh, I mean Recency Bias, probably based on when I
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: was in high school?
• 31:53
  Speaker 12: Makes it Friday Night Lights?
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 31:56
  Speaker 12: Would you play Bob Thorne as the head coach that one? Yes,
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: have to be that one.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Did you read the book like before you saw the movie?
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: No?
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: I did not before, but I read it after.
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: In fact, when I was teaching down South, we actually
• 32:09
  Speaker 13: read the book in class as well.
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: It was pretty good.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a it's a great book. And and I
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: did I did see the movie. I liked the movie.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Did you ever see the TV show?
• 32:20
  Speaker 12: Yes? I saw the TV show.
• 32:22
  Speaker 13: I cannot tell you exactly what happened with its less
• 32:25
  Speaker 13: football and more drama. Right, definitely faded on me a
• 32:30
  Speaker 13: little bit there, but it was a decent TV show.
• 32:33
  Speaker 12: Coach Saracen was a was a good man.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean watching it was I mean I just
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: recently saw that the TV show, and and I kept
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: pointing things out like, well, that wouldn't happen, Well, that
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: wouldn't happen, you know exactly, But you know, you gotta
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: you gotta watch it a certain way, I think and.
• 32:50
  Speaker 12: Proof it's been a while. It's coach Taylor and quarterback Saracen.
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, there you go, QB one and all that
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: jazz and yeah, exactly. All right, that's my fun question
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: for the day. Before talking about your Week five opponent,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Let's go over your game last week. You battled the
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: undefeated Granite Falls Tigers. Outplayed them in the first half,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: I thought, but they took advantage of some mistakes in
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: the second half pulled out the win. What was your
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: biggest takeaway from that game?
• 33:19
  Speaker 13: Yeah, Grand Fall is a good football team. I would say,
• 33:22
  Speaker 13: probably the best team that we've played so far this season,
• 33:25
  Speaker 13: which is always great to kind of amp up going
• 33:27
  Speaker 13: into league play there, and they.
• 33:29
  Speaker 12: Do it the right way.
• 33:30
  Speaker 13: We had some self inflicted wounds, we found some new
• 33:34
  Speaker 13: ways to make some new mistakes and we're going to
• 33:36
  Speaker 13: learn from them. But overall, I was happy with the
• 33:40
  Speaker 13: kids effort. I didn't feel like we ever had any
• 33:41
  Speaker 13: quitting on us. When things went bad, we bounced back
• 33:44
  Speaker 13: and then we're able to put together some drives and
• 33:46
  Speaker 13: keep playing physical football that we expect at Blaine. When
• 33:49
  Speaker 13: you come to Blaine, you're gonna see us play forty
• 33:50
  Speaker 13: eight minutes physical football, and so a lot of teachable
• 33:54
  Speaker 13: moments there well us to learn from. But again, overall,
• 33:58
  Speaker 13: effort wasn't the problem.
• 33:59
  Speaker 12: Execution was. Will continue to work on that.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's a great thing as a coach. When
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: in effort's not the problem, that's great because there's things
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: you can, like you said, you can teach, you can
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: you can work on in efforts. Sometimes if that's not
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: going well, then that's really tough. But you have it
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: going the right way. Before the season started, you know,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: you and I talked about your defense and your face
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: lit up when you talked about how your defense is
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: going to fly around and have fun. And right now
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: your defense has more interceptions than any other team in
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Wakam County with six What makes this group so special?
• 34:32
  Speaker 13: One thing I love is also six different kids. Yeah,
• 34:35
  Speaker 13: that's right, it is unique this defense.
• 34:38
  Speaker 12: We're having some fun.
• 34:39
  Speaker 13: I mean, the one thing that we really enjoy about
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: coaching in Blaine is it allows us to be creative
• 34:45
  Speaker 13: and trying new things. And you know, we experiment with
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: new philosophies on how to play.
• 34:50
  Speaker 12: Defense every year as we've been here, and we.
• 34:52
  Speaker 13: Found something where we think it really fits our athletes
• 34:55
  Speaker 13: in that secondary. They like to attack the football and
• 34:59
  Speaker 13: we're becoming more or physical too. A lot of these
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: kids haven't played football prior this year. I mean our
• 35:03
  Speaker 13: two starting corners weren't football players last fall. They're in
• 35:06
  Speaker 13: the stands watching so and then one of our safeties
• 35:08
  Speaker 13: is a freshman, so he's playing middle school football on Thursdays.
• 35:12
  Speaker 13: So it's been a lot of fun and just to
• 35:14
  Speaker 13: watch them grow each week. They're super coachable. They're super coachable,
• 35:18
  Speaker 13: which is the most important thing. Like they want to
• 35:20
  Speaker 13: be coached hard, they want to be challenged, they want
• 35:24
  Speaker 13: to own their mistakes, they want to grow from them.
• 35:26
  Speaker 13: So that piece has been really fun. But overall, just
• 35:28
  Speaker 13: as a defense as a whole, you know, we're not
• 35:31
  Speaker 13: going to really win the scale battle or the walk
• 35:34
  Speaker 13: off the bus battle when you see us coming right.
• 35:37
  Speaker 13: We're small, we're fast, but we're scrappy, and you know,
• 35:40
  Speaker 13: those are certain traits that you know we can launch
• 35:42
  Speaker 13: for it and build from too, because we can always
• 35:44
  Speaker 13: get bigger and faster and stronger, but that's scrappiness. You
• 35:47
  Speaker 13: don't always have that, and this group has that, yeah, and.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: It's great when you have you know, you coach at
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: a school that is a wrestling powerhouse because you can
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: get some of those kind of scrappy guys from the
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: wrestling mat and it can translate pretty well, which is,
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: you know, fantastic conference plays coming up. Coaches a lot
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: of times will talk about getting questions about their team
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: answered during the non conference schedule so they can go
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: into conference games ready with, you know, everything kind of set.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like your questions have been answered?
• 36:23
  Speaker 12: No?
• 36:23
  Speaker 13: I mean I think that the day we stop asking
• 36:27
  Speaker 13: more questions is probably the day I should retire.
• 36:31
  Speaker 12: We we always have.
• 36:33
  Speaker 13: Some questions getting answered and then other ones arise, right like, Yeah,
• 36:37
  Speaker 13: there's always new ways to do it, and the battle
• 36:39
  Speaker 13: is to continuously improve and that's what we'reppreacing to our
• 36:41
  Speaker 13: kids do. So the day I think, yeah, you know,
• 36:44
  Speaker 13: we figured out who we are and we've settled with
• 36:45
  Speaker 13: who we are, that's gonna be a bad state for
• 36:48
  Speaker 13: our football program. So we're always trying to find new
• 36:51
  Speaker 13: ways to do that and give ourselves.
• 36:52
  Speaker 12: A competitive edge.
• 36:54
  Speaker 13: And again this year, how can we continue to improve
• 36:57
  Speaker 13: and maximize our growth? So this was kind of friends
• 37:00
  Speaker 13: play coming up. We know that we have some really
• 37:02
  Speaker 13: tough teams that we're going to face because this county
• 37:03
  Speaker 13: is loaded with talent and some programs are at different
• 37:06
  Speaker 13: phases in their development than we are. But we're looking
• 37:09
  Speaker 13: forward to, you know, challenging ourselves because it's not necessarily
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: who we play or where we play, but it's how
• 37:15
  Speaker 13: we play. So focusing on us, yeah, and.
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: To who and the where is coming up? Friday night?
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: You're back on the road against an undefeated then the
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Christian team first conference game of the year. Tell our
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: listeners about what makes the Links so great?
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: Well, the Links are super talented and have been for years,
• 37:33
  Speaker 13: and coach Turps has done a good job over there.
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: They're going to be one of the top couple teams
• 37:38
  Speaker 13: in the state. I know that they have aspirations to
• 37:40
  Speaker 13: play on Thanksgiving weekend and beyond, which is always kind
• 37:43
  Speaker 13: of that the barometer, right, can we make it to
• 37:45
  Speaker 13: having things Giving Day practice and playing my finals? I
• 37:49
  Speaker 13: don't see any reason why they shouldn't be there, based
• 37:52
  Speaker 13: on the talent that they have on the field and
• 37:54
  Speaker 13: how they do things. They're they're big and physical upfront,
• 37:57
  Speaker 13: which is maybe breaking the traditional that Elsie has kind
• 38:01
  Speaker 13: of had as at least a stereotype the last decade.
• 38:04
  Speaker 13: Or so, and then they're just absolutely loaded on the outside.
• 38:08
  Speaker 13: Eli Mayberry is a very talented quarterback. They have very
• 38:11
  Speaker 13: good wide receivers that go across the board at about
• 38:14
  Speaker 13: six foot two to six foot four, and uh boys
• 38:17
  Speaker 13: might be the most talented kid in our conference at
• 38:20
  Speaker 13: wide receiver in the one ACE this year. So they're
• 38:24
  Speaker 13: at a different spot, like they're searching for that Thanksgiving
• 38:27
  Speaker 13: Day game or Thanksgiving Day practice, and you know what
• 38:29
  Speaker 13: we're searching for launching ourselves forward and continuing to build.
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: For our future.
• 38:33
  Speaker 13: So it's gonna be a great opportunity for us to
• 38:36
  Speaker 13: go match or with and kind of see how it's
• 38:38
  Speaker 13: done at the highest level at the one as.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great measuring stick. And and you know
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: last year against Lennon Christian, I was, you know, you
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: had definitely a different squad and you outgained them, but they,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: you know, had some short fields and took advantage of
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: a few things and they pulled out the win. But
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: I you know, I'm I'm excited for this one just
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: because it's I love it when Walking County teams play
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: each other and I'm finally gonna start seeing some of
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: this and so I'm really really excited about it, and
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: and I really love what you guys have been doing.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: And you know, the six interceptions, like you said, with
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: the six different players, it's just been a lot of
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: fun because it seems like every single week and they're
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: returning them for you know, they're not just intercepting them
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: and going to the ground. It's been over almost two
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: hundred yards of return yardage too, so that's been also
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: great to see. Really good stuff.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: Coach.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Good luck against Elsie on Friday, And thank you for
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: joining me on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 39:38
  Speaker 12: Thanks for having me, Tyl.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: And of course we will give equal time here and
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day Preview
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: by Lyndon Christian football coach Greg Turpstra, the coach, thank
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: you for joining me today.
• 39:49
  Speaker 12: How are you doing, hey, Thanks for having me.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you bet. What's your favorite football movie?
• 39:59
  Speaker 14: You know, my nie is Rudy. I think we have
• 40:05
  Speaker 14: to go with Rudy. I'll be honest. There's a lot
• 40:08
  Speaker 14: of them that were done that just don't have the
• 40:11
  Speaker 14: realism what real football is sort of the dramatic, you know,
• 40:16
  Speaker 14: I just like and you look at it as a
• 40:18
  Speaker 14: coach and a player, and you're like, oh, that's not
• 40:20
  Speaker 14: really how it is, right. I'm sure other movies depicting
• 40:24
  Speaker 14: other professions or other activities, the pros there are probably like, yeah,
• 40:30
  Speaker 14: that's not how it is. But Rudy just you know,
• 40:32
  Speaker 14: it wasn't about football as much was the spirit of football.
• 40:36
  Speaker 12: So I just love that.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I as the small skit on
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: my team growing up. That game. That movie came out
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: when I was in eighth grade. I mean, it was
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: perfect for me, and I to me, that is my
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: favorite as well. So I do love that answer. Before
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: talking about your Week five opponent, let's go for your
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: game last week. You know, in the first three games
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: we had talked about how impressed you were about how
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: fast of a start your team got off to, and I.
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: Knew this question was coming.
• 41:07
  Speaker 15: You're right.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: In week four it was. It was kind of reversed,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: but your team recovered got the win. Do you feel
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: like it's a great coaching moment and your team can
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: learn from something like this?
• 41:17
  Speaker 14: Absolutely absolutely, you know, and credit to Lakeside. They're a fast,
• 41:22
  Speaker 14: explosive team that has a lot of experience. Their coaches
• 41:26
  Speaker 14: have a lot of experience. They exploited some things. I think,
• 41:28
  Speaker 14: just you know, on both sides of the ball. Defensively,
• 41:31
  Speaker 14: Coach Bauma thought that we made some uncharacteristic mistakes, just
• 41:36
  Speaker 14: little things that they were able to exploit. And offensively
• 41:40
  Speaker 14: we were just weren't as sharp and my play calling
• 41:42
  Speaker 14: wasn't as sharp as well. So you know, we all
• 41:45
  Speaker 14: had a hand in in the slow start, and we
• 41:48
  Speaker 14: like to think we all had a hand in a
• 41:51
  Speaker 14: rolling after that.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's kind of nice to, you know,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: in a weird way. I mean, it wasn't a loss.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Obviously you got the win. You're undefeat on this. But
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: sometimes people are like, man, this is a good time
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: to have this loss, you know, going like so, I
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: think having it right before conference play is probably the
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: best time for it. You recovered, you learned things from it,
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: So that was the first thing I thought when I
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: watched it. But obviously your team recovered, and of course
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: you had to go across the mountains again. I mean,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. It's tough to get going, and your
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: team is driven by a lot of great experienced upperclassmen.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: But I want to talk to you about a couple
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: of sophomores that especially stood out last week linebacker Gavin
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Van Lowe and kicker Jackson Yune. Tell me about those
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: two young men.
• 42:38
  Speaker 14: Oh boy, you know, Gavin stepped in out of an
• 42:43
  Speaker 14: injury situation. But we knew he was really good, not
• 42:47
  Speaker 14: quite sure we knew how good, you know, until he
• 42:51
  Speaker 14: got thrown in on a Friday night situation and he
• 42:56
  Speaker 14: just really stepped up. He's got a sophomore body. When
• 43:01
  Speaker 14: he gets a junior body, senior body, he's gonna.
• 43:04
  Speaker 12: Be really Yeah.
• 43:06
  Speaker 14: He's just got a real nose for the ball. He
• 43:09
  Speaker 14: can find where it's going. He knows his assignment and
• 43:13
  Speaker 14: he meets the runner where he's at and doesn't wait,
• 43:16
  Speaker 14: no hesitation. He's got the stuff you can't coach, but
• 43:20
  Speaker 14: what you can coach. He just gets better and better
• 43:23
  Speaker 14: and better. So it wasn't surprising, but it was pretty impressive.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then Jackson June for a seven year field goal.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: You know, the person who I thought was the most
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: excited was you. Oh it was great, I mean it was,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I mean it was It was near the end of
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: the game. So it's a nice thing to try out, right,
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: to see if he can do it. Did you when
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: you sent him out there was it kind of like, well,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: let's just see what he can do, or where you're like,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: I know he can do this, Let's see if he
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: can do it.
• 43:56
  Speaker 12: I knew he had a really good leg. It was
• 43:59
  Speaker 12: not my call.
• 44:00
  Speaker 14: I heard Nate Owen, coach Nate Owen say, hey, why
• 44:04
  Speaker 14: don't we keet field goal?
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: Now?
• 44:05
  Speaker 14: Later on I gave Nate credit. Nate said that Chris
• 44:09
  Speaker 14: Koyman or somebody said, hey, how would a field goal? So,
• 44:12
  Speaker 14: uh yeah, it was just a really brilliant coaching move
• 44:16
  Speaker 14: by me to listen to everybody else. No, the surface there,
• 44:21
  Speaker 14: Brewster is a really good field. They mow it with
• 44:24
  Speaker 14: a greens mower and it's firm but grass, and boy,
• 44:30
  Speaker 14: great conditions, no win and he just he was dead center.
• 44:36
  Speaker 14: It hits the crossbar. I don't know if you can
• 44:38
  Speaker 14: see it on the video. It hits the crossbar and
• 44:41
  Speaker 14: then trickles over the top. So yeah, forty seven yards
• 44:45
  Speaker 14: first field goal I think attempts by him. Maybe he
• 44:48
  Speaker 14: had one last year, but just awesome, and you know
• 44:53
  Speaker 14: he was cool as the other side of the pillow.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it was impressive. The film does
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: not show that. And so when I'm watching it. I
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: just see the sideline erupt. You go absolutely nuts and
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: with excitement, and so obviously it was good. And that
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: was that was really cool, which spiraled me into looking
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: up things and you contacted coach km in to find
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: out if that is the furthest one and a ninety
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: nine chance that it is you know who knows, going
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: back to the toe punching days of the of the
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: sixties and seventies, right, But it was really cool to
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: see and and they both just they but they both
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: just wowed me. Twenty three carries by Chris Coyman. You know,
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: obviously you got something going there. You feed the beast.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Can you tell me the most carries that you had
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: in a in a in one game in your farsity career?
• 45:45
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 45:45
  Speaker 10: Guy, no, it wouldn't be close.
• 45:49
  Speaker 14: My junior year Roger Anderson I shared the backfield, and
• 45:52
  Speaker 14: then senior year Chris Bauman, so you know all you
• 45:58
  Speaker 14: know other good running backs, right yeah?
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Do I just throw out a number to throw out
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: a guess because I have the answer here.
• 46:04
  Speaker 14: Oh oh oh, this is a test.
• 46:09
  Speaker 12: Fifteen.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: Ooh, that's close. It was sixteen. Okay, it was the
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: playoff lost your junior year at Civic against Granite Falls
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: and that seven zero crazy weather game.
• 46:21
  Speaker 10: Oh that's the one.
• 46:22
  Speaker 14: Yeah, where I was trying to catch a punt and
• 46:25
  Speaker 14: I think when it hit the ground it was floating
• 46:28
  Speaker 14: and the ball was spitting in circles.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they were probably running the ball heavily. Yeah,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: it was sixteen carries you had. I mean you had
• 46:36
  Speaker 2: fifteen games with at least ten carries, but that was
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: the one with the most. So, I mean twenty three
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: carries in a game, that's that's quite a bit. But
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: he looked like he could handle the load there a
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 46:48
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I mean we were going with what's working right,
• 46:50
  Speaker 14: and you know, I think if he had twenty three carries,
• 46:55
  Speaker 14: he wish he wished he had thirty.
• 46:58
  Speaker 12: And TJ.
• 47:00
  Speaker 14: Trason Johnson is a great, you know, middle reliever there
• 47:04
  Speaker 14: for him when he comes in, people tend to not
• 47:07
  Speaker 14: want to take him head on either.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. You see that. You see that big strung
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: kid with that with that protective helmet thing, and you
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: know that that kid likes to use the helmet. So yeah,
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: it's uh, it's it's a sight to be seen. Conference
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: played finally coming up and coaches always talk about getting
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: questions answered during the non conference schedule. Uh, you know,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: so they can go into conference games kind of ready.
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: Do you feel like a lot of your questions have
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: been answered?
• 47:38
  Speaker 14: I feel like we are just slowly building, climbing that ladder, I,
• 47:47
  Speaker 14: you know, to say questions answered, I'm not sure we
• 47:51
  Speaker 14: had deep questions. I think we had a lot of
• 47:54
  Speaker 14: these guys get some experience last year, so I think
• 47:57
  Speaker 14: we kind of knew where they're at.
• 47:59
  Speaker 12: But I guess if you're gonna go.
• 48:01
  Speaker 14: Question wise, what where's their ceiling? And we just feel
• 48:05
  Speaker 14: we haven't hit that yet.
• 48:07
  Speaker 12: So that's a good thing for us.
• 48:09
  Speaker 14: As far as the offensive calls the defensive calls, I
• 48:14
  Speaker 14: think we're doing what we thought we could do. And
• 48:17
  Speaker 14: so you know it, just like I said, let's go
• 48:20
  Speaker 14: one and oh each week and keep building and climbing
• 48:23
  Speaker 14: this mountain.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about Friday night finally back at home.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: The rest of your games and the regular season anyways,
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: will be in Walkham County, so that'll be kind of
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: nice for you. You're hosting Blaine, it's your first conference
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: game of the year. Tell our listeners about this year's
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: border rights.
• 48:41
  Speaker 14: They're vastly improved from last year. They have a real
• 48:44
  Speaker 14: dynamic quarterback. I'm sorry their quarterback has improved from last year.
• 48:50
  Speaker 14: Their quarterback play, I should say that. I gotta be
• 48:53
  Speaker 14: careful there. He's a real dynamic athletic kid. And you know,
• 48:59
  Speaker 14: just like football awareness, they seem to really know what
• 49:05
  Speaker 14: they're doing. Andy's a great coach and his systems are
• 49:09
  Speaker 14: syncing in pretty deeply. And those kids just they know
• 49:12
  Speaker 14: how to play football now. And they had.
• 49:16
  Speaker 12: Some bruisers last year.
• 49:17
  Speaker 14: I'd say this group is pretty energetic and they just
• 49:23
  Speaker 14: I think they know Andy's system and so that's what
• 49:26
  Speaker 14: makes them dangerous.
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And then finally, you know, playing at home. You've
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: only had the one home game so far, so it's
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: going to be it's gonna be pretty great playing in
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: front of that home crowd again. And just tell us,
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's the field you played on in high school.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: Tell us about when you walk on the sidelines, and
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: just how it feels to be coaching at your alma
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: mater and just standing on those sidelines. It's got to
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: be a thrill every single time for you.
• 49:54
  Speaker 16: It is.
• 49:54
  Speaker 14: And what I'm so glad about is, you know, the
• 49:57
  Speaker 14: kids that embrace that. You have kids in the past
• 50:01
  Speaker 14: like a Tyson Bima who just lives and breathes it,
• 50:04
  Speaker 14: who gets to school, you know, eight hours ahead of
• 50:06
  Speaker 14: the game time and running up and down and doing
• 50:09
  Speaker 14: all those routes. We got a bunch of kids like
• 50:11
  Speaker 14: that who just really embrace the home field advantage and
• 50:15
  Speaker 14: just being in front of our crowd and our support.
• 50:18
  Speaker 14: I'm just so glad that our kids get to experience that,
• 50:22
  Speaker 14: and there's just our and our fans. It's just a
• 50:26
  Speaker 14: real family atmosphere. It's a very competitive atmosphere. It's I
• 50:32
  Speaker 14: don't know how intimidating it is. Maybe it is for
• 50:34
  Speaker 14: some people, but I think it's just an exciting atmosphere.
• 50:37
  Speaker 14: And I'm glad for other teams that get to come
• 50:40
  Speaker 14: in and experience that too, because we've gotten some teams
• 50:43
  Speaker 14: that have come up and played our way who don't
• 50:45
  Speaker 14: really get many fans, and for them to experience it,
• 50:48
  Speaker 14: I think it's really cool for them too. But Friday night,
• 50:51
  Speaker 14: underneath our lights, I'm as glad for our kids that
• 50:54
  Speaker 14: they get experienced it. I wish all of our games
• 50:56
  Speaker 14: were home I wish we had more than four. Hopefully
• 51:01
  Speaker 14: we can get that on the schedule next year. But yeah,
• 51:05
  Speaker 14: we just really are recipients of a lot of people's support,
• 51:10
  Speaker 14: and coach Brady Bomber's done such a great job as
• 51:13
  Speaker 14: ad this year as well setting everything up. I really
• 51:16
  Speaker 14: don't have to worry about much.
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: That's awesome, good stuff, coach. Best of luck against Blaine
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: on Friday, and thank you for joining me on the
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: Gatorade Game day preview.
• 51:25
  Speaker 10: Thank you, Tyler.
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I expect a great crowd out at that one. Now,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: are you thinking about sitting back and having a Pepsi zero?
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Me too?
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: You hear that that's the sound of pepsi zero sugar.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: The better tasting, more refreshing zero sugar cola Pepsi zero sugar,
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: Let your taste decide.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: Next up is a conference game in the two A
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: as the Squalicum Storm are hosting the Anacortus Seahawks. Squalicum
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: is two and two and Anachordus is four and Oh.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: The Seahawks are loaded and hold the advantage here and
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: by a squalk and football coach Nick Lucy. Coach, thank
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: you so much for joining me today. How are you
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: doing Hey, I'm good.
• 52:10
  Speaker 17: Thanks for having me.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: You bet. I'm gonna start off with this question. What's
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: your favorite football movie?
• 52:17
  Speaker 17: Oh? Man, you know there's some really good ones.
• 52:21
  Speaker 18: I gotta go with the tie between Rudy and the
• 52:24
  Speaker 18: water Boy.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Oh nice. A couple of them that came out in
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: the nineties, drastically different. One's a true story and the
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: other one's Rudy. Right, no, exactly, Why are those your
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: two favorite?
• 52:41
  Speaker 17: You know what?
• 52:42
  Speaker 18: Growing up Catholic and watching Notre Dame, Rudy just kind of,
• 52:46
  Speaker 18: you know, spoke to your soul, sure, and and my
• 52:50
  Speaker 18: dad liked it. And then water Boy, I mean, how
• 52:54
  Speaker 18: do you not like wat classic ninety lot?
• 52:58
  Speaker 17: Right, Adam Sandler? What you want?
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's fantastic, you know. I remember seeing that in
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: the theaters and I was so bummed out because before going,
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: because my girlfriend had broke up with me, and I
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: was bummed. And my buddy's like, hey, let's go see
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: water Boy, and I was like, okay, And we go
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: to them and we go to the movies and she
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: was there with her new boyfriend. So I have this
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: weird feeling about water Boy, although i've seen obviously i've
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: seen it since and I do love the movie and
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: and who doesn't love Adam Sandler, So that's awesome. Before
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: talking about your Week five opponent, let's go over your
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: game last week. A lot of guys got involved in
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: the action and your win over Lake Wuiod, which was
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: great to see. What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 53:47
  Speaker 18: You know, like our guys responded coming off the loss
• 53:50
  Speaker 18: last week, and uh, we challenged them to get better.
• 53:54
  Speaker 18: You know, we talk about every week like our opponents,
• 53:56
  Speaker 18: our opponents is nameless, faceless opponent. It's you know, it's
• 54:00
  Speaker 18: it's us going against ourselves and you know, put our
• 54:03
  Speaker 18: best thing out there.
• 54:03
  Speaker 17: And I thought we did. I thought we did a
• 54:05
  Speaker 17: lot of things better.
• 54:07
  Speaker 18: We also played some younger players, got have some opportunities
• 54:10
  Speaker 18: at times.
• 54:11
  Speaker 17: And you know, really like what we saw that way
• 54:13
  Speaker 17: from a number of guys.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I mean watching the film, a kid that
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: has stood out to me and I talked about on
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: the podcast earlier this week was Maddox Strickland. I mean
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: he came in late in the games in week you know,
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: I guess it was week three, week four, and did
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: some nice things against some backups. But he came in
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: and early in this one first quarter and looked great.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: What has it been with his progression this year? That
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: doesn't look like a kid you might be giving the
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: carries to a little bit more.
• 54:46
  Speaker 17: Yeah, he's worked his way into plane. And that's one
• 54:48
  Speaker 17: of the guys. We moved him to outside linebacker.
• 54:51
  Speaker 18: Well, he'd been playing outside linebacker, Well we moved to
• 54:53
  Speaker 18: met and he started outside linebacker this week. And he's
• 54:57
  Speaker 18: a green Horne hasn't played a ton, but he's just
• 54:59
  Speaker 18: so dang athletic. But he's sudden when he sees the ball,
• 55:03
  Speaker 18: like he can accelerate.
• 55:04
  Speaker 17: Like as well as anybody.
• 55:06
  Speaker 18: Yeah, and you know, anytime you have a chance to
• 55:08
  Speaker 18: get speed and explosiveness on the field, to figure that out,
• 55:11
  Speaker 18: and that let us put Jacob Clark's hand down in
• 55:13
  Speaker 18: the dirt and you know, just get a little faster
• 55:15
  Speaker 18: and more athletic on the field. So an offensive standpoint,
• 55:18
  Speaker 18: he runs like a like a like a great train
• 55:20
  Speaker 18: and have fun to hand the ball top and watch
• 55:23
  Speaker 18: him go and put his foot in the ground.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And and you know, like I said, he
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: really stood out late in those games earlier in the season.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: So it was night and I was kind of thinking
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: to myself. I wonder if he's kind of working himself
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: into playing time, And all of a sudden, I see
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: him in the first quarter scoring a touchdown and I thought,
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: all right, he has that's that's really great to see. Yeah,
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: you have a young offensive line, but I really like
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: the way they played this past week together, and you
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: have the and you know there's been injuries and all
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: sorts of different things going on, But tell me about
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: your leader up front, Joseph Floyd.
• 55:57
  Speaker 18: Yeah, you know, he's been a three year starter and
• 56:00
  Speaker 18: he has just been our mainstay up front, along.
• 56:03
  Speaker 17: With you know, Bryson Vereen who got hurt right before
• 56:05
  Speaker 17: this year.
• 56:05
  Speaker 18: But right, you know, he's just the heck of an
• 56:08
  Speaker 18: offensive lineman, heck of a leader.
• 56:11
  Speaker 17: Guys look up to him.
• 56:12
  Speaker 18: He's nasty, he's physical, and we're lucky to have him
• 56:16
  Speaker 18: as our bell cow up there with those guys.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, I love what he did, especially
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: with your left guard position. You're going to be pulling
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: a lot with a lot of your counters and traps
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: and different types of things, and and he really stands out.
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: When you see that seventy seven come up and start moving,
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: it's a sight to see, let's talk about Friday night
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: you're hosting Anna Chordis, the two time state defending champions.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: What's the biggest challenge that they present?
• 56:44
  Speaker 12: Oh?
• 56:44
  Speaker 18: Man, I mean I see this how long when we
• 56:47
  Speaker 18: have Yeah, Like like all good teams, you know, they prevent,
• 56:52
  Speaker 18: so they present several challenges. I think the thing that
• 56:54
  Speaker 18: jumps off to me is fast and they're explosive. They
• 56:59
  Speaker 18: can you know, I'm a defensive standpoint, they swarm, you know,
• 57:03
  Speaker 18: from an offensive standpoint.
• 57:05
  Speaker 17: Uh, they've obviously got a really good.
• 57:08
  Speaker 18: Quarterback and he's gonna get the ball to everybody, and
• 57:10
  Speaker 18: they got you know, all their guys. Your threats are
• 57:12
  Speaker 18: too many guys that are out there, you know, just
• 57:14
  Speaker 18: taking up space, so you know, they literally make account
• 57:17
  Speaker 18: for everybody.
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great way to put it, because you
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: know that's something that a coach will see is on
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: either side of the ball, where where's their eleventh guy at?
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Where's there a spot we could take an advantage? Where's that?
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: And with a team like Anna Chordis, they just don't
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: have that guy, you know they are they're gonna have
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: a lot of you know, they're gonna have everybody out
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: there is a great player, and they've kind of been
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: that way the last few years. And but I tell
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: you what, you know, you got some explosive guys too,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: and you never know, and you're back at home and
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: and uh, it's gonna be it's it's going to be interesting.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, I you know Cole Burke this past week,
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: you know, I I understand he's a really accurate quarterback.
• 58:01
  Speaker 2: And as far as you know, numbers go, and I
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: don't know if you're real you know, even care about
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: the numbers, but as far as completion percentage and Walking
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: County history, for a guy that has thrown enough passes
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: to qualify, he has the highest in Walking County history.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: And he was and it kind of showed this last
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Friday night only with two incompletions on the night. And
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: I know you put him in position to to make
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: the throws, you know, with some rollouts and you have
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: some spots where it's easy to complete certain passes. But
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: he's just so darn accurate. What is it about him?
• 58:35
  Speaker 17: You know, he's just kind of got it.
• 58:36
  Speaker 18: Some guys, I don't know how to describe it, you know,
• 58:39
  Speaker 18: a little bit like a shooter in basketball, just kind
• 58:42
  Speaker 18: of that that vision, that feel for relationships in space. Uh,
• 58:46
  Speaker 18: you know, combined with the timing and the touch, all
• 58:48
  Speaker 18: the things to make quarterback play.
• 58:50
  Speaker 17: You know, only a few guys can do it. Only
• 58:52
  Speaker 17: a few guys can do it really well.
• 58:55
  Speaker 18: So you know, he's a guy that's got that, and
• 58:57
  Speaker 18: he's coachable and he's I mean, credit to him, he's
• 59:00
  Speaker 18: always getting better and he's just a hell of a
• 59:02
  Speaker 18: lot of fun coach and be around every day.
• 59:04
  Speaker 17: So I know he's really accurate.
• 59:08
  Speaker 18: Like that's I didn't know, you know, where he stood
• 59:11
  Speaker 18: all obviously in the ultimate stats and you know that.
• 59:14
  Speaker 17: But yeah, it's just cool to dial it up and
• 59:17
  Speaker 17: watch him go to work.
• 59:18
  Speaker 18: And it's also got the ability to scramble and make
• 59:20
  Speaker 18: things happen.
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right. You know, he can keep it play alive,
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: and he can throw the ball down the field and
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: he's always looking at different guys And it's one of
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: those stats that, yeah, he's leading the county now, but
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: after next week he can be down and then he
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: can get back up. He's kind of bounced back and
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: forth with Josh Kraft, who was one of the best
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: ever at Lyndon, who finished at like sixty six point
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: five percent and cole keeps jumping between sixty eight and
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: sixty five, so it'd be fun to see if after
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: he graduates, if he ends up on top, and I
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: think he will. He's so he's so accurate. Awesome stuff, coach.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Good luck against the Seahawks on Friday, and thank you
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: for joining me on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 17: Hey, thank you.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: And finally we have the Nuxack Valley Pioneers playing host
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: of the Mount Baker Mountaineers and another one A conference matchup.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Nukzack Valley is two and two and Mount Baker's three
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: and one. Both teams are ranked in the top ten
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: in the coaches pool, with Nukzack Valley at number seven
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: and Mount Baker right behind them at number eight on
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: mox on mox on max Preps. The Pioneers are ranked
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: fourth in one A and the Mountaineers are ranked ninth.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: Preview by Mount Baker football coach Ron Lepper. Coach, thank
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: you for joining me today. How are you doing doing well?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 17: Tyler Doll?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 6: It was a pleasure hang on with you over zoom call.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: Awesome. I'm gonna start with this one. What's your favorite
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: football movie?
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 16: First sake, clet in my mind is Brian's song nineteen
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 16: seventy version.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: The original Nice, the original, oh Man. Yeah, that one
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: is that's hard to hold it in watch that movie.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I know, that's one of the two songs that
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 10: I or pretty. That's one of the true movies I
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 10: cried at so that one. That was one of the three.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: Oh man. Yeah, and a true story. And you know,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: I always believe that sports movies in general are better
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: when they're true stories. So I got you on that one.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Before talking about your Week five opponent, let's go over
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: your last your game from last week. A lot went
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: right at home against Sultan. Some records were broken. All
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: in all, very good game. But I'm gonna guess there
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: are still some things that you can work on.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean we you know, we're in the back
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 10: than anticipated.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 11: You know this.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 16: Some things that were good on defense that made us
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 16: do something different. So you're going to try to take
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 16: away to run, We're gonna throw the ball, and so
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 16: we had some success doing that.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 10: We were saying to run around the ball a little bit.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 16: But uh, you know, if the team's gonna give that
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 16: feels really glad to get after it.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean, you know that's that's the thing, right
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: If especially teams that maybe don't play you a ton,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: they're going to say, oh, it's Mount Baker, we gotta
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: stop the run. That's just what's gonna come up in
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: their mind. And you had to be able to have
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: that ability to do something different and catch them off
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: guard is always great. And so let's talk about your
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: quarterback a little bit. Toga Tigelau. He started most of
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: the season as a sophomore before getting injured. He was
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: the backup last season to Luke Smith, and he's he's
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: back in there now at the starter. It's a unique
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: journey and I only know of a few other quarterbacks
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: in Walkin County history that started as sophomores and then
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: we're backups as juniors and then started again as a senior.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: What have you liked about him so far this season?
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 16: Saying, we know he has some experience, so that part
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 16: of it you don't have to worry about as much.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 16: You know, talk you to the kind of a laid
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 16: back a little bit more nothing. He is to take
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 16: his job serious, but you might not be as intense
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 16: outwards as some people.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 6: Camping like the fact that he's you know, hit back
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 6: in the pocket.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 16: Did a great job on his first touchdown pass last
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 16: week of stepping up into the pocket and deliver a throw.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 16: You know, I think that he's making good decisions for
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 16: the most part, you know, always learning. Like I said,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 16: you know, we talked about like the Bellevue is a
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 16: couple of things he missed and so always trying to
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 16: work on that. And then you know the kids. He
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 16: gets all everybody. You know, he gets a long with
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 16: everybody on the team, which is always nice.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 16: You know, he doesn't if you looked at him walk
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 16: around slowly, you wouldn't think he was a quarterback just
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 16: by the way he presents himself. But uh, you know,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 16: he's going to compete, and we kind of like what
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 16: he's doing right now.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And I'm glad you mentioned that about you know,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: when you want your leader, your quarterback to be liked
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: by everybody, and and I I you know, I've had
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: great conversations with him. He's always in a good mood, smiling,
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: and I think that brings the team together a lot,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: especially when you have to take control of the huddle
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: and you can you know, you can rely on that guy. Uh,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: let's talk about Friday night. You're finally going into your
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: first conference game. It's going to be at Knooksack Valley.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: The radio is going to be there, all the hooplag
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: on all that stuff. Tell me about this year's pioneer group, Well.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 16: They you know, they still have they say, have weapons,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 16: They got size up front. I know, some of the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 16: names that they've had the last couple of years are gone.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 16: That's just you know, that's you know, that's just the
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 16: way it is. But uh, you know, quarterbacks solid. You know,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 16: probably probably the best quarterback we faced this year is
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 16: a toilet package quarterback. And then they got guys outside
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 16: that can catch the ball and run with it. And
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 16: they're big upfront, you know, and so playing with confidence
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  Speaker 16: from the standpoint that you've had a lot of success
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  Speaker 16: the last few years and stuff and so and plus
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 16: going to their place, we're expecting a real tough battle
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  Speaker 16: over there. And you know, like I said, some of
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 16: the names are gone that have been there the last
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 16: couple of years, and you've documented that, you know, you
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 16: know very well. But at the same time, they got
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 16: the guys stepping in there and get their chance. And
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 16: they they're you know, they did some really good things
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 16: last week against some water and so you know we're
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 16: expecting a battle on Friday night.
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  Speaker 2: And what I to about this matchup is that the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: coaching staffs have so much respect for each other. You know,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: yourself and coach Bartell are our friends and and it's
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 2: just that's kind of what makes it fun too, because
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: you know, when I spoke with Coach Bartell yesterday, uh,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: you know, he kind of said the same thing. He's like,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: you know, we talk all the time, and it's a
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: really cool thing. So how fun is it to just
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: kind of have that chess match against these this coach
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: and the assistants because the assistants on both staffs have
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: been together forever and you kind of know what each
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 2: other is gonna do, so you have to kind of
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: outthink each other.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean it makes it's it's fun. I mean,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 19: you know, you on the field, you know you're getting
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 19: after each other and that's what it's about. But ultimately,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 19: you know, you know, I still want to be able
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 19: to have a relationship with people out outside of football,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 19: you know, the field and stuff, and so let's get
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 19: to talk with coach Bartell and stuff. Like you said,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 19: the assistants and both sides have been around, you know,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 19: we've known each.
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  Speaker 6: Other for a long time.
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  Speaker 16: I think it makes it for more ideal situation, you know,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 16: I don't think it you have to hate everybody that
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 16: you play against that you know, and so yeah, you
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 16: still you still want to get that done, and it
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 16: still it stings a little bit, you know, But at
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 16: the same time, it's like, you know, last year they
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 16: got us, and you know, we were hoping, you know,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 16: those guys do some really good things in the postseason,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 16: and you know, I thought our chances were probably you know,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 16: didn't look good at for a while there also we
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 16: got an opportunity.
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  Speaker 17: But you know, that's the.
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  Speaker 16: Thing, and I liked I like to be against people
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 16: who I get along with. I mean, it just makes
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 16: it interesting and it makes it you know, it makes
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 16: it more fun, you know, from the standpoint that you
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 16: know they're gonna do things the right way. You don't
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 16: have to worry about, you know, stuff that you know,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 16: you know, maybe some cheap stuff for Shenanigans, as we'd
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 16: like to say, but you know, you know you're gonna
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 16: get there and and it.
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  Speaker 10: Just makes it a more enjoyable experience overall.
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  Speaker 16: You know, I go back to like last Saturday when
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 16: we saw you that you know, Coach Aims dedication, you know,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 16: Coach Kmi and I are there and you know, we
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 16: think about all the years that we the three of
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 16: us coasted against each other and on that and that
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 16: just makes that just feel a little more enjoyable to
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 16: be part of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you brought that up because I did
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: want to ask you about that, you know, as someone
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: that's coached against Coach Aims so much in his career.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: You and Coach came Ink as well, and Rob Meyer,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: and there's a lot of those guys that have faced
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: him for twenty years plus. And do you have any
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: fun Bobb Ames story that you could tell us.
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  Speaker 16: Obviously early on I like to call him out at
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 16: his stuff when he has you know, Steve Wall listed
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 16: at five foot three, you know, one hundred and seven pounds.
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  Speaker 19: You know, that's like but that I remember, you know,
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 19: in a little more serious tone.
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  Speaker 6: I think it was want to say that.
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  Speaker 20: Two thousand and two or two thousand and three season
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  Speaker 20: and we're playing over there first game of the year
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 20: and the game is at the end of the game
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 20: in regular regular you know, time.
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  Speaker 16: Allowed regulation is what I'm looking for, zero zero and
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 16: we have losing to them sixty three in overtime time.
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  Speaker 16: And I remember walking across the field to shake hands
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 16: and and Coach James gave me a hug and kind
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 16: of said, basically, you've kind of arrived. Now you're you know,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 16: like we got to start doing things a little bit
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 16: differently because you're getting you're getting there. And that just
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 16: made me feel like, you know, I kind of got it.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 16: It was accepted into that and you know, always made
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 16: me have to get better as a coach. Same with
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 16: coach Camick. You know, those guys and we're competing against
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 16: each other. You had to you know, you this is
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 16: probably what you're gonna do, but they're gonna have something
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 16: else that you haven't seen yet, and you have to
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 16: take time to get that done.
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  Speaker 10: So it was nice to get out there.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 16: You know, Coach James deserves out it's you know, this
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 16: ridiculous amount of things he's accomplished there. But in the end,
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 16: you know, out there trying to do things and helping
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 16: kids and and so it's just really nice to. I
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 16: was able to be out there and watch him go
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 16: through that ceremony with coach ca.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was fantastic and coach you know,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 2: he's one of a kind and had some good one liners.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: But deep down, you know, it's about the kids, and
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: it's about family, and it's about football, and it's just
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: it's a it's a rich history over there. So thank
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: you for sharing that good stuff. Coach. Good luck at
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: Nuksack Valley on Friday, and thank you for joining me
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 6: Hopey Friday night, and thank you for for the kids you.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: Bet, coach, and we are now joined on the Gatorade
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: Game Day preview by Knuksack Valley football coach Craig Bartle. Coach,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: thank you for joining me today. How are you doing good?
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  Speaker 6: Thanks?
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: How are you doing all right?
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 6: Good?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: What's your favorite football movie?
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 6: Favorite football movie?
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 7: You know what?
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 6: I think it's greater.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that one. Oh, it's that with the
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: with the Is that the one with the Colts lineman
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: that went to Oklahoma and I went to Arkansas or Arkansas? Yes,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: that's right, yep, yeah, I have not seen that. I
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 2: want to see that.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it. It's it's good about U. You know,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 6: just his life and how he.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 15: Was made fun of because he was too big and
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 15: he really wanted to go to Arkansas and it goes
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 15: to Arkansas and just he works his way up and
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 15: uh yeah, just his life and his message and yeah,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 15: it's really good.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, true story. Was he a walk on?
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 15: Yeah, started to walk on and then earned a scholarship
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 15: and right they changed coaches and his senior year and
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 15: he rallied the guys to come back their senior year
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 15: and yeah, yeah, it's a really good movie.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, won't give away the ending for anyone that hasn't
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: seen it. I haven't seen it, but I do know
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: about the story. So I really do want to see that.
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: And you know, someday when I retire from walking Preps,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: I will be able to see all these movies do
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: these things that I want to do. Before we talk
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: about your your Week five opponent, let's go for your
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 2: game last week. You stood toe to toe with Tom Water.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: A few mistakes here and there and and it would
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: have been and it would have been a much closer game.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I mean, you hit it on the head.
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 15: We did a lot of good things, but we made
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 15: some little mistakes. And it gets a really good team
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 15: like that, you can't make little mistakes.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 6: And so please, I mean, we don't like to lose.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 15: But the takeaways coming from that and just the little
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 15: things that we need to get better at, it's a
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 15: good thing.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 6: It's a good learning experience.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 15: And I mean, yeah, in the fourth quarter, we were
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 15: only down by twelve points and had the ball, and
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 15: so we need to learn how to how to.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 6: Be able to move the ball and get some points
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 6: and then you know, see what happens.
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  Speaker 15: But yeah, overall, pretty pretty pleased with our effort from
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 15: our kids.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there was some things that happened in
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: that game that you looks like you found some things
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: that worked offensively in your passing game that you were
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: able to go back to a few times and then
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: it kept working and scheme wise, it was there. The
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: players executed. I don't even know how to describe this
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: play that you ran a few times, but I'm gonna
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna butcher it, but just bear with me. But
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: it's a quick it's it's almost like a screen pass,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: but you throw to like an area and when you're
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: watching the film, it looks like the ball is just
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: gonna be incomplete and out of nowhere. Dane Ackerman just
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: kind of runs and catches it on the run and
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: he just has a seam and that play worked a
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: few times. Is was that something that you saw because
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: I hadn't really seen that play specifically earlier in the year.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: Was that something that you worked on in practice because
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: you notice something in Tumwater's defense or was it just
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: some new thing that you put in?
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 6: Uh, kind of all the above.
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 15: It's it's a screenplay that.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 6: That we've had all year, and we've run in a
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 6: couple of times, but but not not too much.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 15: And yeah, based on what they were doing on defense,
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 15: you know, we were to to take advantage of that.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 15: It's it's part of a screen game that you know,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 15: had a good conversation with Graham Capalisen coach over the
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 15: summer and they run a ton of screens and so
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 15: it's it's thanks to him. We kind of took that
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 15: from from their program, which is a good program.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 6: To take it from. Yeah, And so yeah, our kids
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 6: are finally.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 15: Understanding that and and our timing of that is getting better.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's incredible when you could see how it develops
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: a certain way when maybe earlier in the season it's
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: kind of clunky and it's it might be a completed pass,
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: but you might get two or three yards. But when
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: it's ran the correct way, it's amazing how everything works together.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: And obviously football the ultimate team sport, you know that,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: So when when everybody's working together, it really just looks
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: great and it's efficient. Let's talk about Friday night, you're
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: hosting Mount Baker. It's a complex game. The radio is
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: going to be out there. Tell our listeners about this
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: year's Mountaineer.
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  Speaker 14: Two.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 6: Uh, they're they're really good.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 15: They're always well coached, us leap.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 6: In this whole entire staff.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 15: They do a great job over there, and their kids
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 15: always play hard. They're big upfront and and their their
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 15: skill guys are deceptively fast and elusive, and so they.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 6: Present a challenge and in like to water, they run their.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 15: Offense really well, and so it's hard to uh to
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 15: figure out who's about the ball, and so we have
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 15: to read our keys and do the little things right, uh,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 15: in order to just stay with them.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: You know, you guys playing Tombwater this past week, Mount
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: Baker playing dev the week before. Did you did you
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Coach Left kind of have conversations about this a little
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 2: bit as far as I don't know, just maybe share
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 2: a few things. You're both going to get really strong
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: wing T teams, maybe the two strongest wing wing T
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: teams in the state and regardless of classification. And then
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: you know, just kind of how it is about. You know,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: you guys are going to be a smaller team, the underdogs.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of similarities. Did you guys kind of
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 2: talk to each other about these games? We did?
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 15: Yeah, Coach Lap and I we usually talk once a
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 15: week just to kind of check in with each other
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 15: and see how things are going. You know, our staff
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 15: and their staff go along really really well.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 6: And so yeah, we talked a little bit.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 15: He was I think he says that was one of
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 15: his first calls when they when they put Beov on
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 15: the schedule, and so yeah, we talk about, hey, you know,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 15: what a great opportunity for both programs to play, you know,
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 15: teams like that. And one thing about not just us
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 15: in Baker, but teams up in Walking County. We're not
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 15: afraid to play anybody in the state, and I think
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 15: that makes us unique. And word has gotten out around
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 15: the state that, Hey, the teams up here, whether it's
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 15: two A or three A, you know, we'll go play anybody.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 15: And you know, it's a different brand of football up here.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 6: We're pretty we're pretty.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 15: Tough in our whole Walkham County, in Skadget County, and
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 15: so you know we've earned that reputation everybody up here has.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 6: And so yeah, Coach lep.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 15: And I talked about that kind of stuff and just
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 15: you know what it means for the programs to play
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 15: schools like that, and you know, you see the speed
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 15: and you see the size and execution and.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 6: And you can only get better from that, right.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's so cool that you guys are friends
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: too with with you and coach lef I'm talking about
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: and you talked about the respect level being so high
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: for each other and each other's programs and staffs, and
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: you know, for the most part, the two staffs have
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: really been around for so long, so they know each
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: other's you know, kind of what they might do. If
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: we do this, then they'll probably do this. So lot,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: let's try this, because they're gonna see this, and it
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: they'll hold back and forth. But I might be putting
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: you on the spot a little bit here, Coach, But
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: do you have any good Coach Left stories that you
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: can share, not that.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 6: I can share.
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 15: No, he you know, he he always has a wrinkle
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 15: and so yeah, I mean we we know each other pretty.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 6: Well, especially you know x's and o's.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 15: For the most part, it's it's it's a fun chess match,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 15: you know, trying to anticipate the moves, and he always
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 15: comes in with something different every year, and so it's
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 15: just trying to figure what that is.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 6: And then tipping your hat and you're like.
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 15: Hey, he did it again, you know, good job, and
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 15: hopefully we can adjust. We just have a good time.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 15: We have lots of laughs together him and his staff.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 15: When they go on road trips. They'd like to give
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 15: me a call at like twelve o'clock at night and
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 15: and maybe it helps with there at their road trip home.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 15: So yeah, we have good conversationss fun. There's lots of
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 15: joking around. But in the end, I think there's a
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 15: huge respect for Coach Left Band, his whole.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: Staff, absolutely, and that's what makes it so fun. And yeah,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: it's just it's a it's a really cool deal. I mean,
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: and I might have this wrong, but I mean you
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: did coach against him in ninety nine when you were
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: at Nooksack, and then when you took over when Bellingham
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: came back from football, they were Bellingham was closed for
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 2: two years with the remodeling. All the kids transferred to
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 2: Squalkum and you went to Bellingham and I believe you
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 2: guys played Baker at that point too. Yeah, and so
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: it's cool that there is this history. And I was
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: trying to think back, and I mean your sophomore year
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: at Seahome coach Lepp was on the staff for Ferndale,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: So I mean you might have gone through the handshake line,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: you know, in the fall of nineteen eighty eight. So
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: it's a it's a really cool deal that it goes
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: back that far. And yeah, it's gonna be a great game.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, Thursday night is there there, there's a big
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: one there at Civic Stadium between Seahome and and Linden.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: But as far as Friday Night goes, I think it's
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: the game of the week. I think it's uh. And
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: you kind of nailed it on the head with the
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  Speaker 2: respect on both sides and and it's one that I
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  Speaker 2: cannot wait for. I am so excited. You know, the
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 2: radio will be out there at three o'clock, so be
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: ready for the long pregame and and I'm sure you'll
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  Speaker 2: hop on and do an interview and and uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited about it. Coach, best of luck against Baker
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  Speaker 2: on Friday, And thank you for joining me on the
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  Speaker 2: Gatorade game day preview.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks.
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  Speaker 15: And and you know what, that's pretty good information, Lepper.
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  Speaker 15: He leads me to believe that we're about the same age.
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  Speaker 15: But now that I know that he's he's quite a
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  Speaker 15: few years older than I am that, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 15: gonna have to use that to use that against him.
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  Speaker 6: And it explains probably.
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  Speaker 10: Some of the stuff that he forgets a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm glad you get me that information. I'll certainly
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  Speaker 6: use that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that sounds good. I think that's where he
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  Speaker 2: got his wing tea stuff. I'm just guessing is from
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  Speaker 2: Vick Randall, whether the one year he was just out
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  Speaker 2: of college coach and the coaching the C team I
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  Speaker 2: believe out of Ferndale. So yeah, yeah, all right, Well
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to a coach. I'm gonna leave that
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  Speaker 2: to you. Thanks for joining me, all right, thanks to
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  Speaker 2: Yah and that wraps it up. I hope you've enjoyed
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: the Gatorade Game Day Football Preview for Week five, and
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  Speaker 2: I just want to thank all the coaches that made
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: time out of their busy day to join me here.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to do it again next week. Also
• 1:20:33
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  Speaker 2: And you've been listening to episode three hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 2: four of the Welcome Preps podcast, it's the Gatorade Game
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• 1:20:49
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