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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 267 - 2024 Lynden Lions Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is senior quarterback Brett Hebner and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: a Linen football preview on the Walking Press podcast with
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Speaker 1: Tyler and Ryland co Lions. Greetings and welcome into the
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Speaker 1: Watch Them Preps Podcast. This is episode of two and
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Speaker 1: sixty seven, the fourth of ten football team previews. I'm
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Speaker 1: Ryland Spencer along with me as always as Tyler Anderson
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Speaker 1: off Watchkam Preps. Tyler, how are we doing?
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Speaker 2: Doing great? I'm probably almost one hundred percent now, recovering
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Speaker 2: from the big cove from earlier this month, but get
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Speaker 2: my energy back and went to a lot of practices,
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Speaker 2: ten of them in four days, and and good. It's
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Speaker 2: fun to be sitting down now relaxing and talking about it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you had a little out of the old CVD
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Speaker 1: and now we're going to talk about BBD in the boys.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: Intro for this one provided by Brant Hepner, who has
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Speaker 1: been playing high school football since Tyler was in high school.
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Speaker 1: Brant Hepner has been around forever, it seems like Tyler,
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Speaker 1: but he has a lot of fun to watch, so
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Speaker 1: if he wants to stick around, I'm fully on board.
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Speaker 1: Got a filling the coaches in the rest of the
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Speaker 1: two A probably wouldn't be too happy. But let's see here, Tyler,
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Speaker 1: Kurt Mayberry Farm, you need to give them a thank
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Speaker 1: you for their continued support of walking preps. Kurt Mayberry
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Speaker 1: Farmer is a fourth generation, family owned and operated a
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Speaker 1: berry farm committed to growing the highest quality berries, meaning strawberries, blueberries,
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Speaker 1: and raspberries. Tyler, you and I big fans. I'm a
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Speaker 1: big fan of all three. You big fan of all three?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, blueberries, I could kind of take it or leave it.
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Speaker 2: I used to work at a blueberry farm in high
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Speaker 2: school and I ate so many. I think I kind
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Speaker 2: of got sick of them, and so that ever since then,
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Speaker 2: I've been really sensitive to blueberries. Like if I see
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Speaker 2: some like got a you know, an event or whatever,
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Speaker 2: and you see fruit, kind of I was like, I'll
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Speaker 2: grab a few and eat him. But I'm good. After that,
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Speaker 2: I'm good. But the other one's holy cow, I can
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Speaker 2: just go go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. You put a piece of
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Speaker 1: cheesecake down with any of those three. It's gone. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's it's and it's I might not even use
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Speaker 1: a fork. I might just go face first, Yeah, right
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Speaker 1: into the what do they call it when it's like
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Speaker 1: a you know, like if you have like blueberries, but
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Speaker 1: then there's like a blueberry sauce.
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Speaker 3: What is like the sauce called you know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: Is it a compote or something like that or I
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Speaker 3: don't know, like a gel. I don't know, you know what, you.
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Speaker 1: Know what it is, Tyler, It's just called blueberry good
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Speaker 1: because yeah, I would eat the crap out of some
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Speaker 1: of that, Tyler. This podcast, as you know it, will
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Speaker 1: be previewing the Linden Lions football team. Here yesterday we
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Speaker 1: posted previews over the Bellingham BayHawks and Blaine Border Rights
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Speaker 1: earlier today. You can find the Linden Christian links. So
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Speaker 1: if you're subscribed, you've already got that information. If not,
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Speaker 1: head over to walkompreps dot com. Just go right to
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Speaker 1: the top. It's right there. You can find them all
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Speaker 1: the team previews. Gotta imagine, Tyler, you're probably not posting
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Speaker 1: a whole lot else at the moment as far as
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Speaker 1: when these are going up, it's probably kind of the
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Speaker 1: main feature on the website. So so yeah, go over
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Speaker 1: to walkompreps dot com, take a peek at everything, and
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Speaker 1: while you're over there after you read pause this, go
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Speaker 1: read about the other ones, but then come back to
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Speaker 1: the Linden one, and then start looking at the Linden stuff,
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Speaker 1: because we're going to talk about pretty much everything you
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Speaker 1: can view right there. Tomorrow we will have Squalcum and Meridian,
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Speaker 1: followed by Ferndale and Mount Baker, and then we will
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Speaker 1: finish with Seahome and at Nooksack Valley Tyler. As far
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Speaker 1: as Linden goes, though, you were out there on the
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Speaker 1: second day of fall camp, you kind of had a
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Speaker 1: busy day there on Thursday. It was Lindon, then Bellingham,
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Speaker 1: then Squalacum out there at Linden though BBD and the
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Speaker 1: boys and uh, well you know our guy Witman general thoughts, well,
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Speaker 1: what did you see out there?
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Speaker 2: It's always awesome going out to there, going out to
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Speaker 2: Lyndon High School, and especially early in the morning, it's
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Speaker 2: always that same kind of feet. There's some you know,
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Speaker 2: there's some stew in the air still, and it's really
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Speaker 2: kind of ominous and quiet. The stadium is empty, the field,
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Speaker 2: nobody's on there. And then you keep walking down the
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Speaker 2: track and then you hear the music and then you
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Speaker 2: see it, and then you see the green and gold
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Speaker 2: and black jerseys, and you see the hitting and you
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Speaker 2: see you hear the whistles, and you just kind of
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Speaker 2: start to get tingles. And there's there's not a lot
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Speaker 2: of places that are like that, but it's just kind
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Speaker 2: of the way that it sets up as you're walking
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Speaker 2: towards practice. A lot of the other ones, you know,
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Speaker 2: you drive in and you can see them, this just
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Speaker 2: has a little different feel to it.
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Speaker 1: And you're like describing Rudy and the montage, yesh.
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Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, and it's it's it's so unique. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they move around so much. They get coached up every
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Speaker 2: play and they get fired up if you do something wrong.
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Speaker 2: But it's yes, coach, no coach, And it's like, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's a ten minute drill here, it's a fifteen minute
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Speaker 2: drill there, it's get water, go to this drill. There
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Speaker 2: was a time where and this was this is so Lindon.
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Speaker 2: They like they did it was time to do kickoff
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Speaker 2: and kick and kick return. And they ran out there
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Speaker 2: and they all lined up for kickoff and they line
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Speaker 2: up and kick return and guys are like, you know,
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Speaker 2: coaches are talking about, okay, if this happens blah blah
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Speaker 2: blah blah blah. We talk for about three or four minutes,
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Speaker 2: and then they ran to do something else. They lined
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Speaker 2: up and kick off a kick kick return and didn't
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Speaker 2: even kick a ball. You know, they were there to
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Speaker 2: show some things. Okay, boom, time, let's go to this
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Speaker 2: other thing. And it's just it's just fast, and it
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Speaker 2: just it. It's a movement and it's it's really really
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Speaker 2: impressive to go to those practices and know those coaches
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Speaker 2: have been doing it a long time and they have
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Speaker 2: a system down, and you know, the music is not overbearing.
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Speaker 2: It's usually pretty darn good classic rock, and which I'm
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Speaker 2: a fan. There's some good Jeff Leppard going on and
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Speaker 2: stuff like that.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, we get a weird mix at our practices, Tyler.
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Speaker 1: I try to take over. I try to take over
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Speaker 1: the audio every now and then, and and then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden it goes back to some stuff that
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'll.
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Speaker 3: Tell you what.
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Speaker 1: Every now and then, you know, what song pops up,
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Speaker 1: A little bit of regulators, you know, oh yeah, regular,
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Speaker 1: every time that song pops up, I'm like, hey, here
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Speaker 1: we go, here we go. You know, a little a
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Speaker 1: little uh nineteen nineties, little childhood here, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just it's a it's a it's a great
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Speaker 2: feel there. It moves fast. They get the most out
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Speaker 2: of what they're doing, and they you know, they take
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Speaker 2: role at the end and it's it's just it's just
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Speaker 2: really I don't know, professional, you know, and and there's
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Speaker 2: no wonder why you're in and you're out. There's always
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Speaker 2: a big season.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can hear the song, Tyler,
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Speaker 1: but oh oh yeah, no, it's the rudy song. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's that's the song I think of.
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Speaker 3: You know, yep, yep.
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Speaker 2: Uh Bill Bill CONTI wrote that.
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Speaker 1: You know, I could tell you, but I already closed
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Speaker 1: out of it. And although I should probably give him
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Speaker 1: credit or else we might get shut down, Tyler. While
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Speaker 1: you were out there, you sat down with head coach
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Speaker 1: of Blake Van Dalin for a nice little eight minute interview.
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Speaker 1: So we will pass it off to you and BBD.
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Speaker 1: From where were you guys sitting when this was going on?
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Speaker 2: We were in his office in his office?
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Speaker 1: Interesting, So now did you take the head chair? Did
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Speaker 1: you let him have it?
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Speaker 2: Oh? No, no, he's sitting behind the desk. I'm sitting
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Speaker 2: right in front of the desk, and I saw his
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Speaker 2: prominently displayed WALKOM Preps awards, his Coach of the Year
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Speaker 2: awards and from multiple years, and he had those up
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Speaker 2: and along with many many many other rings and all
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Speaker 2: sorts of different awards all over the place. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot of cool stuff in there. Ohs he wont some
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Speaker 2: stuff before.
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Speaker 3: Interesting. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Eight minute interview with head football coach Blake Van Dalen
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Speaker 1: of the Linden Lions.
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Speaker 3: Tyler, take it away.
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Speaker 2: This is Tyler Anderson with WALKOM Preps and I am
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Speaker 2: catching up here on location at Lindon with head coach
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Speaker 2: Blake Van Dalen. Coach. The lines are known for being
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Speaker 2: studs in the weight room. How has the off season
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Speaker 2: workout program been this year?
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Speaker 4: It's been a lot of fun. We redid our weight
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Speaker 4: room back in twenty eighteen, and then we also kind
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Speaker 4: of recommitted to the weight room, if you will, in
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Speaker 4: that summer as well. And this year we've had as
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Speaker 4: many kids as any season, if not more. We have
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Speaker 4: two programs, it's the Dirty thirty and the Core twenty four,
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Speaker 4: but with the extra week this year because we started
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Speaker 4: a week late. We kind of had to change it.
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Speaker 4: So even to get in the dirty thirty, you got
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Speaker 4: to be at least the thirty four days, and to
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Speaker 4: get in the court twenty four you got to be
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Speaker 4: in twenty eight days. And we had, like I said,
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Speaker 4: as many kids. I think we averaged over fifty kids
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Speaker 4: a day in the weight room. We lived in the
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Speaker 4: morning and in the evening, and some kids make it
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Speaker 4: to both. Some kids just pick one or the other.
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Speaker 4: But and it was cool. We're a young team, so
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Speaker 4: it was paramount that they do that. Probably the most
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Speaker 4: freshman we've ever had consistently in the weight room, which
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Speaker 4: was really cool because Bennett Roorda, who played for US,
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Speaker 4: he took it upon himself to do a clinic at
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Speaker 4: the start of the summer and train all of the
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Speaker 4: freshmen on how to use Lenin's weight room, and he
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Speaker 4: said it was the best week of his life. And
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Speaker 4: I can see the results those freshmen, you know, they
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Speaker 4: got mentored by a great one. He was a weight
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Speaker 4: room wawyer. So yeah, so our weight room was full
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Speaker 4: the summer, which is good because it prevents injury. It's
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Speaker 4: gets you more prepared for the contact that's about to come.
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Speaker 4: So both purposes were served and I'm proud of our
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Speaker 4: kids for their hard work.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome, Mike.
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Speaker 2: I don't expect anything less out of Lenin. It just
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Speaker 2: seems like that's been the way. A new rule this
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Speaker 2: year which has been in place for the three A
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Speaker 2: and four A now it's going to be with you
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Speaker 2: guys also with the one a's the round of thirty
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Speaker 2: two the week ten game. How can that benefit the Lions?
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Speaker 4: Well, what it does is, you know, we were at
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Speaker 4: the meeting this year where it looks like it'll be
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Speaker 4: two berths again, but because of the round of thirty two,
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Speaker 4: now we have the potential of getting four and possibly
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Speaker 4: a fifth team in So I really my heart goes
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Speaker 4: out to Sidro. The last two years. You know, we
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Speaker 4: saw the success Anachordus had, We saw the success that
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Speaker 4: we've had the previous two years. So we know that
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Speaker 4: our conference is loaded and has been loaded.
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Speaker 2: And now you.
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Speaker 4: See teams like Seahome and you see teams like Archbishop
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Speaker 4: Murphy like these are teams that should have had a
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Speaker 4: shot in the playoffs last year and possibly this year
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Speaker 4: will earn those spots. So the good news is we
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Speaker 4: will be more represented hopefully when it gets to the
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Speaker 4: final sixteen with an opportunity to play, and then we'll
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Speaker 4: see how many end up in the final sixteen. But
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Speaker 4: you know, I think back to that Week four game
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Speaker 4: with Sidro. So many of our kids said that was
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Speaker 4: the highlight of the season, which I think Siedro woil
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Speaker 4: tell you was probably the low light of their season
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Speaker 4: because at that point they knew mathematically their season unless
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Speaker 4: something weird happened, was over and that should never happen, right,
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Speaker 4: and so the Round of thirty two should prevent that
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Speaker 4: and allow I was looking at the schedule. I think
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Speaker 4: there's gonna be some games Week nine that are you know,
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Speaker 4: three possibly three different games where the winner's in and
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Speaker 4: the loser might be out. There are some really unique matchups,
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Speaker 4: and so I think that's the impact of the Round
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Speaker 4: of thirty two versus Siedro being out week four. There
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Speaker 4: might be three teams getting in the last week of
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Speaker 4: the season that would have been out previously. So I'm excited.
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Speaker 4: I'm proud of the WI for going through the process
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Speaker 4: and allowing us to make that change.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a I mean it's interesting because you want
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Speaker 2: the best sixteen and there's been years where you go
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Speaker 2: into your first round game and you go, oh, I
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Speaker 2: feel bad for these guys. You know, it's like it's
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Speaker 2: all you know, so you're gonna get the best sixteen,
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Speaker 2: which is great. This is year three now with Brent
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Speaker 2: Hepner behind center. Coaches all over have told me over
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Speaker 2: the years that when they have that third year starting quarterback,
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Speaker 2: it can relieve so much. As far play calling, you
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Speaker 2: don't have to explain as much. What kind of luxuries
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Speaker 2: do you have with Brent Hepner.
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Speaker 4: It It is exactly that. Offensively, we're further along than
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Speaker 4: we've ever been at this point because of him. I
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Speaker 4: can do things and I feel bad comparing him, but
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Speaker 4: it's like having a Tom Brady out there, if you will,
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Speaker 4: because when I give him something, even if the young
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Speaker 4: receivers don't know what they're doing, he makes everybody right
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Speaker 4: and so he allows me to do things that we
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Speaker 4: haven't been able to do in the past because of
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Speaker 4: who he is. Also, you know you talked about the
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Speaker 4: weight room this summer. In our workouts, he ended up
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Speaker 4: with sixty eight total workouts, which just crushes any previous record.
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Speaker 4: Plus he would organize route running and playing catch with
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Speaker 4: the guys on Saturdays, Sundays, any day of the week.
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Speaker 4: And so you're talking about when your best kid is
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Speaker 4: also your hardest worker that resonates with the entire team.
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Speaker 4: The line want to go to war for him, but
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Speaker 4: he just does things the right way and he's he's
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Speaker 4: a team guy. But his IQ. Yeah, he's a gun
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Speaker 4: slinger and we've seen him grip it and rip it,
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Speaker 4: but his IQ is, you know, I've never seen coach
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Speaker 4: bomber ro line coach spend more time with a quarterback
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Speaker 4: teaching him our protections, knowing that this is a new
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Speaker 4: thing that we get to do this year where he
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Speaker 4: can help make those calls and get those things checked right.
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Speaker 4: And so it's it's it's a gift that I don't
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Speaker 4: take lightly, and I totally understand how blessed I am.
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Speaker 4: And he's just a wonderful young man.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of him playing offense, what do you like so
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Speaker 2: far about your offense as a whole. Is it people
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Speaker 2: that just go to Linden football games every Friday night,
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Speaker 2: are they gonna kind of see something new or is
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Speaker 2: it kind of be that same kind of offense that
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Speaker 2: you've been doing.
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Speaker 4: Yes, and no, we know, we're not stupid. We know
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Speaker 4: what it takes to win games, right, but we have
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Speaker 4: some weapons that we would be foolish not to utilize.
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Speaker 4: And like I said, with the versatility of Brandt, that
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Speaker 4: gives us an opportunity to you know, we like to
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Speaker 4: we like ball control, and so we want to have
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Speaker 4: ball control, but we also want to take advantage of
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Speaker 4: our weapons. So there'll be that balance to it. And
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Speaker 4: so I don't know, it'd be interesting to see what
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Speaker 4: Joe Blow thinks when they walk, you know, away from
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Speaker 4: our game, if to them it looks any different we
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Speaker 4: as coaches, and you know, you see the subtle little
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Speaker 4: things that are different. So it'll be interesting to see,
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Speaker 4: you know, part of it. We don't obviously probably want
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Speaker 4: it to look different, even though it is. That's just
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Speaker 4: part of the gamesmanship. And so I'm really excited because
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Speaker 4: some of the unique weapons we have, some of the
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Speaker 4: consistency we've had in the weight room. Coach Bomber does
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Speaker 4: a great job with our O line. I've got two
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Speaker 4: young receiver coaches, Zach VISs and Blair Bamber, who are
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Speaker 4: one and two in Lennen history for a receptions and
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Speaker 4: and so those guys are coaching their tails off out there,
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Speaker 4: and that's to me just a blessing. You know, to
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Speaker 4: be around and have guys like that. You go to
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Speaker 4: the defensive side of the ball and you got coach
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Speaker 4: Whitman who's been doing it forever, and coach Notabum has
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Speaker 4: been with us forever. I'm just so blessed that these
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Speaker 4: guys pour into our kids and give us the best
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Speaker 4: chance to win. So, yeah, offensively, we'll probably be similar,
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Speaker 4: but hopefully have some tweaks. Defensively we're gonna be I
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Speaker 4: think if you study Linden, you know what we do
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Speaker 4: and how we do it. They'll just be a lot
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Speaker 4: of new faces. You know, we're strong as far as
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Speaker 4: the program. Those have got one hundred football players. But
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Speaker 4: when you look at our starting rotation, we're going to
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Speaker 4: be young.
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 4: This year we only have ten seniors. That's just the
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Speaker 4: way it worked out. The last two years we had
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Speaker 4: thirty and thirty. The freshman class is forty, so it
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Speaker 4: have been flows. So we'll be young. But that doesn't
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Speaker 4: mean we'll be bad, you know what I mean. We
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Speaker 4: don't really rebuild here, we reload. We're just going to
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Speaker 4: be reloading with some kids who can't drive to practice yet.
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Speaker 1: Already, thank you to coach Van Dalen for his time.
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Speaker 1: You talk about a guy that will, like I mean,
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Speaker 1: give time anytime you want it.
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Speaker 3: Like, that's the guy, you know what I mean? Like that,
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Speaker 3: that's a guy right there.
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Speaker 1: He if I called him right now, you know it's
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Speaker 1: nine to fifteen on a Sunday night, he might answer
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Speaker 1: the phone and talk for an hour. Now that being
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Speaker 1: said Blake Whitman, he would answer the phone and talk
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Speaker 1: for six hours.
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Speaker 3: Well but uh overachiever, Yeah, yeah, big time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's one of those guys. It's like he just
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Speaker 1: wants to do everything like one and a half better
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Speaker 1: than everybody else.
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Speaker 3: Tyler.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about the Lyndon Lions head
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Speaker 1: coach Blake Van Dalen. As we mentioned eighth season with
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Speaker 1: the well, eighth season as the head coach. How long
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Speaker 1: has he been there overall?
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Speaker 2: You know oo, the ninety eight season was his first year.
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Speaker 2: So he's getting closing in on on thirty years you
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Speaker 2: know years?
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Speaker 3: Wow?
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Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, twenty twenty six years. Eighth the season is
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Speaker 1: the head coach though sixty three and sixteen overall record
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Speaker 1: last season eight and three and Tyler. When you start
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Speaker 1: looking at the key losses and the top returners, wow,
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Speaker 1: I mean there are not only are their names of
17:16
Speaker 1: the key losses, but I'll tell you what the top
17:18
Speaker 1: guys returning. There are some serious names here as well.
17:22
Speaker 1: You look over the schedule though from last season, lost
17:25
Speaker 1: to Ferndale week one, seventeen to fourteen, and then went
17:28
Speaker 1: on a string where kind of hammered a few teams,
17:31
Speaker 1: won a couple of close games, had a forfeit, really
17:36
Speaker 1: took it to Lakewood, and then you know, got tripped
17:39
Speaker 1: up in the final regular season game of the year
17:41
Speaker 1: by anachordus fifteen to eight eventual state champion at a
17:45
Speaker 1: chordus I must mention. And then in the first round
17:49
Speaker 1: of the state tournament, really took it to Bremerton, then
17:51
Speaker 1: went out in North Kidstapp got a little revenge from
17:54
Speaker 1: a couple of losses to the Lions, and Lindon ends
17:58
Speaker 1: their season in the quarters. This last year thirty four
18:01
Speaker 1: to twenty eight with a loss to North Kidsap in
18:03
Speaker 1: a game that you and I had some things to
18:05
Speaker 1: say about afterwards. I can remember talking about some timing
18:10
Speaker 1: and some timeouts and different things, and.
18:13
Speaker 2: Maybe a certain amount of players on the field.
18:16
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, exactly, But hey, you know what, games are played,
18:19
Speaker 1: and games are over once they're over and you move on.
18:22
Speaker 1: So and I'll tell you what, I'll guarantee you Linden's
18:25
Speaker 1: not looking at that game like. I'm sure they don't
18:27
Speaker 1: care anymore. So, Tyler, let's talk about the roster here
18:31
Speaker 1: and we will start off in the backfield where I'll
18:34
Speaker 1: tell you what, Linden, they returned some guys. As a
18:37
Speaker 1: matter of fact, they returned their two leading rushers, one
18:40
Speaker 1: of them being Brent Hepner, who also is obviously the
18:43
Speaker 1: leading passer coming back. Last year, Heppner nineteen hundred yards
18:46
Speaker 1: through the air, another three hundred and eighty six on
18:48
Speaker 1: the ground overall, twelve passing touchdowns twenty or excuse me,
18:52
Speaker 1: twelve rushing touchdowns, twenty two passing touchdowns, so you know,
18:56
Speaker 1: in a way, he accounts for thirty four total touchdowns.
19:00
Speaker 1: Austin though the running back one hundred and two carries
19:03
Speaker 1: last year, six hundred and one yards, four touchdowns, So
19:05
Speaker 1: there is a lot going on in the backfield, Tyler.
19:08
Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's more than just those two guys.
19:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, those gonna be Those are the two
19:13
Speaker 2: main guys that returned from last year, which is a huge,
19:16
Speaker 2: huge benefit, you know. I mean, yes, they are a
19:19
Speaker 2: spread team, but you and I both know they are
19:21
Speaker 2: a power spread team. They like to run the ball,
19:23
Speaker 2: they like to control the clock. But you know, but
19:26
Speaker 2: with Brent Hepner at quarterback, you have to be leary
19:29
Speaker 2: the pass at all times. But he can tuck it
19:31
Speaker 2: and run too. He's not the he doesn't have the
19:34
Speaker 2: quickness that a Max Austin has, but yeah he will
19:38
Speaker 2: lumber ahead and lean forward and get those yards that
19:40
Speaker 2: you need. He's really effective at the goal line, especially,
19:44
Speaker 2: so you always have to be, you know, leary of that. So, yeah,
19:48
Speaker 2: he returns at quarterback. I really like his backup, Lucas Loalgi,
19:51
Speaker 2: who is a very different look than Brent Hepner. You know,
19:55
Speaker 2: is about a half a foot shorter, and but he
19:59
Speaker 2: could definitely beat you with his feet, so he could
20:01
Speaker 2: be a good change of pace at times, much like
20:03
Speaker 2: Charlie Ayres would do when he would come in. And
20:06
Speaker 2: you know that he'll be ready a very very good athlete,
20:08
Speaker 2: just a sophomore the running back spot. Yeah, Max Osinc
20:12
Speaker 2: is going to be the guy he was banged up
20:14
Speaker 2: last year and missed some missed some time in the
20:17
Speaker 2: middle of the season, came back. I'm not quite sure
20:19
Speaker 2: if he was one hundred percent, but he did do
20:22
Speaker 2: some really good things. So he's kind of will be
20:24
Speaker 2: the main guy. And there's a bunch of underclassmen that
20:27
Speaker 2: are behind him. Again, Max Ocinc only a junior now
20:30
Speaker 2: this upcoming year, so he's also an underclassman. But you
20:33
Speaker 2: got some young guys behind him. Malachi Canaan, who is
20:36
Speaker 2: a thumper, you know, it can it can really really
20:39
Speaker 2: hit you. And he's bulked up to about two hundred
20:41
Speaker 2: pounds now, so he could he could you know, he's
20:44
Speaker 2: really really good. Uh when they bring in like the
20:47
Speaker 2: you know what they call deuces where they have double
20:50
Speaker 2: tight and two running backs and can be helped be
20:53
Speaker 2: a lead blocker, and he's he has no problem with
20:56
Speaker 2: physicality there.
20:57
Speaker 4: Uh.
20:57
Speaker 2: Dawson Van Dalen's another sophomore that we haven't seen very much.
21:01
Speaker 2: Tavan's little brother, so we all remember Tavan van Dalen,
21:05
Speaker 2: So another one coming along. And then Dane Marty who's
21:08
Speaker 2: a junior. You know, he's he's he's done some pretty
21:12
Speaker 2: good things in the past as well pretty athletic, uh,
21:15
Speaker 2: you know, has played some quarterback and is getting moved
21:18
Speaker 2: moved to running back. So you kind of got a
21:20
Speaker 2: handful of guys back there that you know, could play
21:24
Speaker 2: some running back and you never know, maybe you'll see
21:26
Speaker 2: a Danny Bowler back there or Lucas Lolgi. They got
21:29
Speaker 2: a lot of guys that are very, very athletic. But
21:33
Speaker 2: I think it's it's Max AUSSI will get you know,
21:36
Speaker 2: the bulk of the carries and if he could stay healthy,
21:40
Speaker 2: that's just the way it's gonna be. But you do
21:42
Speaker 2: have a lot of underclassmen behind him that that could
21:45
Speaker 2: spell him from time to time.
21:47
Speaker 1: Now on the outside, obviously, Lyndon is a team that
21:50
Speaker 1: over the years has just had one after another. It
21:53
Speaker 1: seems like in terms of receivers that and even tight
21:57
Speaker 1: ends and guys that aren't even really reallys that have
22:00
Speaker 1: the frame of a tight end, like was it Scooter
22:02
Speaker 1: Hastings right like nine feet tall? I mean that could
22:05
Speaker 1: do was huge. But you know, they they lose some
22:08
Speaker 1: guys as well. I mean, they lose some serious talent
22:10
Speaker 1: on the outside. But when we start talking about the
22:13
Speaker 1: guys that they returned, Danny Bowler twenty seven receptions, six
22:16
Speaker 1: hundred nine yards, six touchdowns, and then Isaiah Audman thirteen receptions,
22:20
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty two and four touchdowns as a
22:22
Speaker 1: tight end. Audman now committed to the to the Eastern
22:26
Speaker 1: Washington Eagles. Seems like there's almost like a little bit
22:28
Speaker 1: of a pipeline to to there. And then what's the
22:32
Speaker 1: school in? What's the NAI school that ends up with
22:35
Speaker 1: a lot of guys from Lyndon? Northwestern Northwestern? Yeah, so
22:38
Speaker 1: it's like Northwestern or Eastern Washington one of the two.
22:42
Speaker 1: There are only two places you can go, guys.
22:44
Speaker 2: You can only go to directional schools.
22:46
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, only directions. Yeah, don't don't you dare
22:49
Speaker 1: try to go to Washington, although they got one there too,
22:54
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean Tyler. This is one of those
22:56
Speaker 1: things where, yeah, we know Bowler, we know Admin, and
22:58
Speaker 1: we know that those guys are going to put up numbers,
23:00
Speaker 1: But who are some of the other guys as well?
23:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's there's always gonna be a hand a handful
23:04
Speaker 2: of guys. There's a kid, I think he's just a sophomore,
23:10
Speaker 2: sam Orango, who I've been hearing some just tremendous things
23:14
Speaker 2: about Uh. I think he's gonna you know, he's worked
23:17
Speaker 2: himself up in the lineup and he's gonna probably start
23:20
Speaker 2: from day one. And and if you're a sophomore starting
23:23
Speaker 2: at wide receiver for Lyndon, that tells me a lot.
23:26
Speaker 2: So uh only can only been hearing great things about him.
23:30
Speaker 2: Gordy Bedlington is just this crazy great athlete, that three
23:35
Speaker 2: sport guy and growing up playing quarterback. And I think
23:42
Speaker 2: that he's in the mix as a receiver. I think that, uh,
23:46
Speaker 2: he's just his athleticism will allow that to happen and
23:49
Speaker 2: and make some big plays. Brody Price is another kid
23:52
Speaker 2: that is moving his way up and to play some receiver.
23:55
Speaker 2: And then you know, Audman will be split out quite
23:58
Speaker 2: a bit. If there's no tight end in the form,
24:00
Speaker 2: Audman will still be on the field, he'll be on
24:02
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage much like an X. He'll be
24:04
Speaker 2: split out and he'll just be a mismatch problem. Ty
24:08
Speaker 2: Jorgensen is another guy. His tight end Malachi Bauman. And
24:12
Speaker 2: both these guys are underclass and both of them are
24:15
Speaker 2: six four, two hundred pounds, so he just Linden just
24:18
Speaker 2: grows them on trees man and they are they are,
24:22
Speaker 2: They are all physical, they look the part. They will
24:25
Speaker 2: have no problem going double tight. They have a lot
24:29
Speaker 2: of guys that if you know, if you want to
24:30
Speaker 2: spread it out, you want to go jumbo whatever. Uh,
24:33
Speaker 2: they can kind of do all those things. And and
24:37
Speaker 2: you know, Brian Hepner will be able to get them
24:39
Speaker 2: the ball. So Hepner will help them, you know, get
24:43
Speaker 2: get good, get better faster if that you know, if
24:47
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, like Sam Arango who's never
24:49
Speaker 2: played in a varsity game, I think he can make
24:51
Speaker 2: an impact right away, but that'll be aided by Hepner
24:54
Speaker 2: and his accuracy and his and his decision making.
24:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be a little different. What you're saying is
24:59
Speaker 1: a little bit if it was a first year starting
25:01
Speaker 1: quarterback or even maybe a freshman sophomore type thing. You know,
25:07
Speaker 1: having that big senior quarterback that's one state championship that
25:13
Speaker 1: you know can do some things.
25:14
Speaker 3: That's pretty valuable to have. Not a lot of.
25:16
Speaker 1: Teams have that ability. Huh. Let's talk offensive line, Tyler.
25:20
Speaker 1: You know you typically will go offense defensive line together.
25:23
Speaker 1: I think we gotta go we got to split them
25:24
Speaker 1: up here. But offensive line, I mean we all, we
25:27
Speaker 1: all know they're going to be coached well. And there's
25:30
Speaker 1: always seems like at Lyndon there's always like a mix
25:34
Speaker 1: of you know, lose a couple of guys, return a
25:36
Speaker 1: couple of guys. Kyper Assinc Obviously no longer there, Bennett
25:40
Speaker 1: Rordan no longer there. You know, two guys that have
25:43
Speaker 1: just been almost like stall warts, just guys that were
25:46
Speaker 1: just mean and nasty, and it's seemed like they'd been
25:48
Speaker 1: there for a while. But we're returning some guys here,
25:52
Speaker 1: you know, Blake Holeman who has quite a bit of experience,
25:55
Speaker 1: Carter Reeling, a lot of experience. Ryan van Berkham. I mean,
25:58
Speaker 1: these are guys that can flat out play the game
26:00
Speaker 1: of football. And you know when you got Bomber over
26:03
Speaker 1: there coaching them, there's gonna be some good things.
26:06
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean going from left to right, Blake
26:09
Speaker 2: Holman will take over the left tackle spot. Senior six
26:12
Speaker 2: feet tall, two hundred and eighty five pounds Ryan van Berkham.
26:16
Speaker 2: How about that the tackle is six feet tall? Ryan
26:19
Speaker 2: van Berkham is six foot seven playing guard, six seven
26:23
Speaker 2: seventy five. Uh, just a mountain of a man. And
26:27
Speaker 2: you know what Linden likes to do. They'll put their
26:29
Speaker 2: two studs on the left side and they will lead
26:32
Speaker 2: with them, and they will counter with them. They'll make
26:34
Speaker 2: no bones about it, Nope. And so that's kind of
26:37
Speaker 2: how they've got that lined up. Logan Logan Austrie at
26:40
Speaker 2: six one five will be at center. Carter Reeling who's
26:44
Speaker 2: tipping it right at about three hundred pounds. He's six
26:46
Speaker 2: feet tall as well. Zachdikstra, who I really really like,
26:51
Speaker 2: is a sophomore at six two two fifty at right
26:54
Speaker 2: tackle right now. So, uh so, yeah, you're averaging about
26:57
Speaker 2: two sixty cross the line there, maybe two sixty five,
27:01
Speaker 2: and then you got a couple of seniors that are
27:03
Speaker 2: that six and seventh spot that it's very valuable with
27:07
Speaker 2: the Linen offense. They want to make sure they always
27:09
Speaker 2: have two more guys that can step in any time
27:11
Speaker 2: or maybe even go jumbo. We've seen that where all
27:13
Speaker 2: seven guys of a seventy number. I think I took
27:16
Speaker 2: a screenshot of that from watching film and sent it
27:18
Speaker 2: to you, and yeah, you were pretty happy about that.
27:21
Speaker 3: I was drooling all over myself.
27:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, Cooper Kastanti and Joe Ban Kunga. So those two
27:27
Speaker 2: guys both you know, Kastani is about two twenty five,
27:31
Speaker 2: Conga is about is about two twenty. So a couple
27:35
Speaker 2: of seniors there will be the next guys in line.
27:37
Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's always a stalwart the offensive line
27:40
Speaker 2: at Lynd and that's just the way that it's going
27:42
Speaker 2: to be. Not only are they big and they're good,
27:44
Speaker 2: but like you said, they're really well coached ed Bamber
27:47
Speaker 2: who knows exactly what he's doing, and they will always
27:50
Speaker 2: go as far as the offensive line goes.
27:54
Speaker 3: Bucking baals what is it? Bucking bales eating bee from
27:57
Speaker 3: moving bodies move?
27:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
28:00
Speaker 3: Still need to get one of those shirts made.
28:03
Speaker 2: I have two of them, but I don't. I think
28:05
Speaker 2: he gave one to me for you too, but I
28:07
Speaker 2: think I might. Well, you've been losing some weight, I
28:10
Speaker 2: think you'd be able to fit into it.
28:11
Speaker 3: Probably not. I lost some weight, but I didn't lose
28:13
Speaker 3: that much.
28:15
Speaker 1: Yeah. Let's see here, Tyler. Let's move over talk defensive
28:18
Speaker 1: side of the ball, and on the defensive line, I mean, well,
28:21
Speaker 1: let's just talk defense in general. It's kind of interesting
28:24
Speaker 1: because you look at the top three returning tacklers, and
28:27
Speaker 1: you got one on the defensive line, one of the
28:29
Speaker 1: linebacker and one that it was a linebacker that's moving.
28:32
Speaker 3: Back to safety.
28:32
Speaker 1: So which obviously we'll talk about in a minute, but
28:36
Speaker 1: defensive line wise, the only guy really coming back here
28:39
Speaker 1: is Parker Williams with twenty five tackles, four tackles for
28:42
Speaker 1: a loss. But I mean, I think if there's anything
28:45
Speaker 1: we've learned about Lindon over the years is they'll find
28:47
Speaker 1: some guys. They might not be the biggest guys in
28:49
Speaker 1: the world, and they might not be the smallest guys
28:51
Speaker 1: in the world, but they're gonna find some guys on
28:52
Speaker 1: that defensive line.
28:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, you know, Parker Williams will definitely lead
28:56
Speaker 2: that attack. He's a captain this year, very very act
29:00
Speaker 2: for a lineman. I mean they're doing the sprints, and
29:02
Speaker 2: when the lineman sprint, I mean he's the guy. He's
29:05
Speaker 2: the guy out out in front. Uh and he'll he'll
29:09
Speaker 2: lead that attack. And then you know, next to him
29:13
Speaker 2: Joe ban Kunga and Isaiah Harris. Isaiah Harris is a project.
29:18
Speaker 2: He's he's really athletic linebacker, about six feet tall, two
29:22
Speaker 2: hundred pounds built really really well and is really extremely quick.
29:28
Speaker 2: And I think that he's a guy that if he
29:31
Speaker 2: just continues to learn the game and and and he'll
29:35
Speaker 2: he will find himself on some all conference type teams.
29:38
Speaker 2: He's he's that kind of player. And uh. But also
29:41
Speaker 2: at the same time, you know, Lennon likes to to
29:44
Speaker 2: sub quite a bit on defense. And it looks like
29:47
Speaker 2: a hockey game, like, oh, look a line change happening.
29:50
Speaker 2: I mean, they will bring out a whole new group
29:52
Speaker 2: of guys and then you know, it's a lot of
29:54
Speaker 2: the more experienced guys that play on the offensive line
29:56
Speaker 2: that could come in and play defense of Blake Holeman,
29:59
Speaker 2: a Logan, O Street, Zachdikstra. You could see those guys
30:02
Speaker 2: coming in and put there. They're a little heavier, a
30:05
Speaker 2: little little, little, little bigger, harder to get pasted in
30:08
Speaker 2: the run game. And you might see that happen if
30:10
Speaker 2: you know, if it if it gets a little closer
30:13
Speaker 2: to the goal line. But those first three guys will
30:15
Speaker 2: be the guys that will start out with. They'll they'll
30:17
Speaker 2: set the tone. They'll be able to use their quickness
30:19
Speaker 2: to get after the quarterback and get past those blockers
30:22
Speaker 2: to make plays behind the line of scrimmage.
30:25
Speaker 1: At the linebacker spot. Really, it's two guys that return
30:28
Speaker 1: with significant experience here. It's Isaiah Audman and Max Austink.
30:32
Speaker 1: Audman thirty two and a half tackles, two and a
30:35
Speaker 1: half tackles for a loss, two and a half sacks.
30:37
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, he's the only sacks returning
30:40
Speaker 1: for Linden. On the defensive side, there two forced fumbles,
30:43
Speaker 1: one pass defended and an interception. Auscinc fifteen and a
30:46
Speaker 1: half tackles, a half tackle for a loss and one
30:50
Speaker 1: pass defended. But you know, over the years, Tyler, and
30:54
Speaker 1: it seems like it's almost one of those things that
30:56
Speaker 1: you just kind of got to accept, is this is
30:58
Speaker 1: probably gonna find a way to end up being a
31:00
Speaker 1: strength at Linden.
31:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, it always seems to be right. I mean you
31:04
Speaker 2: start looking at like when I would do the all
31:06
Speaker 2: decade teams, I mean, picking the Linden linebackers seem to
31:08
Speaker 2: be like an impossibility. Yeah, And when I was trying
31:11
Speaker 2: to do the Walking County all decade, It's like for
31:14
Speaker 2: the linebackers, it'd be like half Linden guys. So you're right,
31:17
Speaker 2: it always seems to be a strength. Uh though, both
31:20
Speaker 2: those guys you mentioned are outside linebackers, so you know
31:23
Speaker 2: Audman has got that spot nailed down, no doubt.
31:27
Speaker 3: Uh.
31:27
Speaker 2: You know with max Osinc, Yeah, I think that's where
31:29
Speaker 2: they I think they would want to have him there,
31:32
Speaker 2: and he will definitely play there, but they don't want
31:34
Speaker 2: it to you know, get in the way of his
31:37
Speaker 2: production needed on offense. You know, you see that kind
31:40
Speaker 2: of the other way sometimes where you're like, well, we
31:43
Speaker 2: need him on defense, so we can split time with
31:45
Speaker 2: him on offense. I think it's kind of the opposite
31:47
Speaker 2: with Austinc. I think they he's you know, he's much
31:51
Speaker 2: far and away the number one back in their offense.
31:53
Speaker 2: They want to give him, you know, the bulk of
31:55
Speaker 2: the carries, and if that means subbing him out on
31:57
Speaker 2: defense quite a bit, or finding guys that can play
32:00
Speaker 2: more plays on defense, that might happen. Now, he'll still
32:04
Speaker 2: play when it's needed as an outside linebacker, and like
32:07
Speaker 2: you said, he has a lot of that experience. Dane Marty,
32:11
Speaker 2: Lincoln van Rye. These are other guys that could play
32:14
Speaker 2: that outside linebacker's part. Weston card stick seven two hundred
32:18
Speaker 2: and twenty five pounds outside linebacker. It's like Ted Hendricks
32:21
Speaker 2: out there kidding me. It's just it's it's it's unbelievable.
32:24
Speaker 2: When you start seeing these guys, especially at practice, up
32:27
Speaker 2: close and personal, it's like, man, these guys are huge.
32:30
Speaker 2: Where it's going to be tricky is the inside linebacker spot.
32:32
Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen some of the best players. I mean,
32:36
Speaker 2: my goodness, you start talking about the you know, Gauge Baits,
32:42
Speaker 2: I mean he hit the amount of tackles, I mean
32:44
Speaker 2: the way I count tackles, he had like one hundred
32:46
Speaker 2: and forty nine tackles in the season. You know, Jeremy
32:49
Speaker 2: Martin and and all those guys. The guy that you
32:52
Speaker 2: just bumped into not not too long ago, My goodness,
32:57
Speaker 2: I can't body human.
32:58
Speaker 3: Yeah body, I remember his name either.
33:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just there's so many of these great players
33:04
Speaker 2: that we've seen recently, and and they you know, there's
33:08
Speaker 2: there's there's two spots, and you got four sophomores.
33:11
Speaker 3: Uh.
33:12
Speaker 2: Malachi Canaan got quite a bit of playing time. He
33:14
Speaker 2: was one of the you know, first subs to come
33:17
Speaker 2: in and play inside linebacker, and now is a sophomore
33:20
Speaker 2: and up to two hundred pounds. He's a really hard
33:21
Speaker 2: hitter and his smart player. I think he will kind
33:24
Speaker 2: of lock down one of those spots and we'll see
33:27
Speaker 2: where the other one lines up. It could be Dawson
33:29
Speaker 2: Van Dalen. Tavn's little brother, Taven Tavan was another great
33:31
Speaker 2: one that played at the inside linebacker spot. You know,
33:34
Speaker 2: we saw Charlie Errs last year. There's been a ton
33:36
Speaker 2: of them, and you know, Landon Tolsma is really really
33:40
Speaker 2: effective there. But he's you know, he's kind of h
33:43
Speaker 2: I think he had you know, he suffered a knee
33:46
Speaker 2: injury and he's still coming back from that, so he
33:48
Speaker 2: might be a little a little late to the game,
33:50
Speaker 2: you know, by the time the season starts, but he
33:52
Speaker 2: has all the tools to be really really good. And
33:55
Speaker 2: uh and so and Adam Holman. So they have guys
33:58
Speaker 2: that are gonna compete for that spot. But the crazy
34:01
Speaker 2: thing is they are all sophomores. So it's gonna be
34:04
Speaker 2: really really interesting to see these next three years. And
34:07
Speaker 2: you know, we could be talking about some All state
34:09
Speaker 2: kind of kids by the time they're they're seniors. I
34:11
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised one bit.
34:13
Speaker 1: Now when we talk about the defensive backfield here, we've
34:18
Speaker 1: got some names. I mean, some guys that are gone,
34:21
Speaker 1: you know, and I mean, I guess we should even
34:23
Speaker 1: mention that Charlie ayerrs Being gone was about as big
34:26
Speaker 1: as it gets for I mean, defensively, there's not too
34:29
Speaker 1: many teams in the county that lose a guy like
34:31
Speaker 1: Charlie Ayers, you know what I mean, right, But defensive
34:34
Speaker 1: backfield wise, Brady Elson's gone, Cooper Moore's gone that well,
34:37
Speaker 1: just gone. I mean, there's guys a lot of guys
34:40
Speaker 1: that are just gone, you know.
34:41
Speaker 2: And now all three of those guys too, are going
34:45
Speaker 2: to play college athletics. That's how that's how talented they
34:48
Speaker 2: are too football when playing basketball.
34:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, and that's kind of what Lyndon's
34:53
Speaker 1: done recently. And we're gonna sit here talk about some
34:55
Speaker 1: guys that, you know, quite a few guys nobody's ever
34:57
Speaker 1: heard of. And these guys are probably gonna end up
34:59
Speaker 1: doing the same thing, you know what I mean, They're
35:01
Speaker 1: going to play some college athletics. But yeah, you know,
35:04
Speaker 1: when we start looking at the defensive backfield, though, one
35:08
Speaker 1: name that Tyler you told me, Lofa. Tigelau is now
35:11
Speaker 1: going to move. He was the he's the returning leading
35:14
Speaker 1: returning tackler at Landon with thirty eight tackles, two tackles
35:17
Speaker 1: for a loss, and one force fumble. He is going
35:20
Speaker 1: to move back and play some defensive or play some
35:22
Speaker 1: play him the defensive backfield.
35:25
Speaker 3: Uh.
35:25
Speaker 1: And then also Danny Boller is another one Bowler you know,
35:28
Speaker 1: a corner but you know pulled in. I mean, I
35:32
Speaker 1: hate to say because it sounds, you know, not like
35:34
Speaker 1: not like a lot. But for a guy that you
35:38
Speaker 1: know playing corner, fourteen tackles, one force, one fumble recovered,
35:42
Speaker 1: one pass defended, and an interception. They returned three players
35:46
Speaker 1: with interceptions and I believe only one of them is
35:49
Speaker 1: from the defensive backfield.
35:50
Speaker 3: Correct.
35:51
Speaker 2: Well, no, Jayden Oaks as well, he will he will
35:54
Speaker 2: be the other corner.
35:55
Speaker 1: Oh, I had my eyes are all messed up. I'm
35:57
Speaker 1: looking at Logan Oustri going that's hear that he would
35:59
Speaker 1: have an inn?
36:00
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, No. And and Jaye Noakes was the
36:04
Speaker 2: backup safety last year, got a little bit of playing time.
36:07
Speaker 3: Uh.
36:07
Speaker 2: But he is so stinking fast him, him and him
36:11
Speaker 2: and Danny Bowler a probably the two fastest kids on
36:13
Speaker 2: the team. They will be the starting corners.
36:15
Speaker 3: Uh.
36:15
Speaker 2: Jay Noakes just a tremendous kid, just awesome, awesome kid.
36:19
Speaker 2: Uh you know, saw him play some baseball and now
36:23
Speaker 2: he's gonna step up this year and start at corner.
36:25
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna have a really really good year.
36:28
Speaker 2: Whenever they have safeties that moved a corner, they seem
36:31
Speaker 2: to do pretty darn well. Ryan Kleindel comes to mind.
36:35
Speaker 2: There's been some guys that have done that and it's
36:37
Speaker 2: worked out pretty pretty well for them. And then also
36:41
Speaker 2: you know, Sam Orango will probably be like that third corner.
36:44
Speaker 2: And then at safety, you know, with with low particular
36:47
Speaker 2: backing up now, uh from linebacker back to safety, he'll
36:51
Speaker 2: be joined back there probably by Brody Price.
36:54
Speaker 3: Uh.
36:54
Speaker 2: Ty Jorgensen's another kid that that could get some reps
36:58
Speaker 2: back there. He's about six four five playing at free safety.
37:03
Speaker 2: That's always a little little interesting to see, but at
37:05
Speaker 2: Lindon it's usually not a surprise. And then Gordy Bedlington
37:09
Speaker 2: is a kid that can kind of play all four spots.
37:12
Speaker 2: And when you have a young athletic sophomore that is
37:15
Speaker 2: learning everything, it's really nice to have, especially when he's
37:18
Speaker 2: really smart and you can trust him to you know,
37:21
Speaker 2: if any of those four go down. Uh he's a
37:23
Speaker 2: guy you can go right to and just say, hey,
37:25
Speaker 2: I need you to go play left corner. I need
37:26
Speaker 2: you to go play strong safety or whatever it is,
37:28
Speaker 2: and he can do it.
37:29
Speaker 3: So.
37:30
Speaker 2: Uh so they got seven guys and those four spots
37:32
Speaker 2: that are looking pretty good. And uh again it's you
37:36
Speaker 2: know Linden defense man. Uh it's the next guy up.
37:41
Speaker 2: And if you don't know who he is, you'll find
37:43
Speaker 2: out pretty.
37:44
Speaker 1: Quickly when we talk about special teams, Tyler. I mean
37:48
Speaker 1: there's one name that instantly stands out, Malachai Canaan. But
37:52
Speaker 1: you know, Danny Buller is is a very very capable
37:56
Speaker 1: kick returner and somebody that I think teams may want
37:59
Speaker 1: to try to avoid this year when when kicking off,
38:02
Speaker 1: even though it's not like he returned you know, five
38:05
Speaker 1: to the house or anything, but that's a guy that
38:07
Speaker 1: just has the speed that you're gonna want to be
38:09
Speaker 1: very careful with.
38:10
Speaker 4: Yeah.
38:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're definitely gonna want to be aware of where
38:13
Speaker 2: he is. And he's gonna be wearing number zero this year,
38:17
Speaker 2: so it might stand out.
38:18
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, blacks of value Tyler.
38:21
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, but uh but man, he is he's
38:26
Speaker 2: dynamic and you're absolutely right. He can definitely hurt you
38:29
Speaker 2: in the return game. You mentioned Malachi Canaan that the
38:33
Speaker 2: main kicker and punter last year. Uh can do a
38:36
Speaker 2: lot of really good things. He's got a very very
38:38
Speaker 2: powerful leg and he's being pushed by his freshman brother,
38:42
Speaker 2: Marcus Kanaan. So Marcus is probably a little smoother and
38:48
Speaker 2: probably I would say maybe even a little more accurate,
38:52
Speaker 2: so you could see him maybe do pats while older
38:55
Speaker 2: brother Malachi does the punting and the kickoff. So uh,
38:59
Speaker 2: so we'll see there's no shortage of great kickers out there,
39:03
Speaker 2: and and uh being coached up by their dad obviously
39:07
Speaker 2: Michael who played in the NFL, and then his mentor
39:10
Speaker 2: was Morton Anderson. So I mean, it doesn't get any
39:13
Speaker 2: better than that. And those guys are gonna be around
39:17
Speaker 2: for quite a while. And uh, and that's a huge deal,
39:21
Speaker 2: especially if you get to the playoffs and there's close games.
39:24
Speaker 2: You need it, you need field goals. I mean, there's
39:26
Speaker 2: been so many great kickers at Lyndon, just in the
39:29
Speaker 2: last couple just as long as we've been doing the
39:30
Speaker 2: podcast for Crying Out Loud with Troy Pets doing so
39:33
Speaker 2: many great things and and Marco Samukovic our guy. Uh.
39:38
Speaker 2: You know, it just seems like year in and year
39:40
Speaker 2: out they have really really really strong kickers and and
39:44
Speaker 2: uh and punters and yeah, they just they find a
39:48
Speaker 2: lot of ways to win games. Those Linden Lions.
39:50
Speaker 1: I tell you, I just want to say Diakianus for
39:53
Speaker 1: no reason.
39:54
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it. And don't be surprised
39:57
Speaker 2: to see like a Lucas slalgy back reach turning kicks too.
40:01
Speaker 2: He's another kid that's very slippery, very very quick. And
40:06
Speaker 2: you know, when you got a couple guys back there
40:09
Speaker 2: and you have to kick it in one of them,
40:10
Speaker 2: you know, you have to make it. You have to
40:12
Speaker 2: make a choice. So uh, Linden Linnon has some guys
40:14
Speaker 2: like that, and it's uh, it's gonna be fun to watch.
40:18
Speaker 1: Uh breakout player Tyler this one here, you finally went
40:23
Speaker 1: a little off the radar with it. Like the first
40:26
Speaker 1: couple that we had here were names that you know,
40:30
Speaker 1: we we had heard before maybe or you know what
40:33
Speaker 1: I mean, Like they're like, no, you decided to go
40:37
Speaker 1: with a sophomore receiver that nobody really knows about at
40:41
Speaker 1: the moment. Well, they do because they've been listening to
40:43
Speaker 1: this podcast. That's the only reason why.
40:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, it's rare that I go with a
40:48
Speaker 2: guy that when I go to practice I've never heard of, Yeah,
40:51
Speaker 2: and all I keep hearing about is just how like
40:57
Speaker 2: this guy is the next guy this, he's amazing, this
40:59
Speaker 2: guy this, this guy that. And it's so funny because
41:03
Speaker 2: people would talk about him, and I kept forgetting his
41:06
Speaker 2: name because it's not etched in my head yet. Yes,
41:09
Speaker 2: And after a while it became etched in my head.
41:14
Speaker 2: I've heard, you know, he's you know, the he's an
41:17
Speaker 2: amazing route runner. I've heard he's got great hands. I've
41:20
Speaker 2: heard he's got great quickness. I've he's got great instincts.
41:22
Speaker 2: I keep hearing all these different things from all these
41:24
Speaker 2: different people, and and I trust these people that I'm
41:29
Speaker 2: hearing it from. So, you know, like last year with Bellingham,
41:33
Speaker 2: you know, I put Josh Tole's my breakoup player. I'd
41:36
Speaker 2: never seen him play, didn't know anything about him, but
41:38
Speaker 2: all I heard was this and that and muscle beach
41:41
Speaker 2: and all these things, you know, and then he and
41:44
Speaker 2: then he gets hurt in week one, and I'd like,
41:45
Speaker 2: oh man, I lost that one, but he ends up
41:47
Speaker 2: the year with seventy five catches for over a thousand yards.
41:49
Speaker 2: I was like, okay, so that worked out pretty well.
41:52
Speaker 2: I'm not saying Sam Morango is gonna have seventy catches
41:54
Speaker 2: for a thousand yards. But whenever they have a sophomore
41:57
Speaker 2: receiver that just kind of comes in and takes every
42:00
Speaker 2: and went by storm, you know, Danny Boehler did it
42:02
Speaker 2: last year. I remember Isaiah Stanley doing that. I remember
42:05
Speaker 2: Jordan Wittenberg showing up during the playoffs, you know, and
42:09
Speaker 2: as a sophomore, all of a sudden, he became kind
42:11
Speaker 2: of like the main guy, you know. And it's just
42:13
Speaker 2: it's really really unique when a sophomore can come in
42:16
Speaker 2: and do some big, big things. And I think they're
42:19
Speaker 2: expecting big things from Sam Morngo.
42:21
Speaker 1: Oh, Tyler, you, like I said, you went out on
42:24
Speaker 1: a limb that that one there a little bit a
42:27
Speaker 1: little bit. Well, we'll see what happens. I mean, you
42:28
Speaker 1: didn't say anything about windmill dunk, so I think we're
42:30
Speaker 1: gonna be all right. H Let's take a look at
42:33
Speaker 1: the schedule here, Tyler, and I'll tell you what. There
42:36
Speaker 1: is not a lot of easy here. I mean, not
42:40
Speaker 1: a lot at all. I mean, it's just it's it's
42:43
Speaker 1: truly crazy when you look at this schedule and go, whoa,
42:46
Speaker 1: it just doesn't really slow down. Start the season at Ferndale,
42:51
Speaker 1: seven pm game that is Friday the sixth. I'm sure
42:55
Speaker 1: we'll talk a lot about that one in the preview podcast.
42:59
Speaker 1: Then they come home from back to back games, one
43:01
Speaker 1: against Mariner High School, the the the Marauders of South Everett.
43:07
Speaker 1: That's a seven pm game. Mariner a four A school
43:11
Speaker 1: that has really struggled, one of those schools that just
43:15
Speaker 1: they have a lot of athleticism, a lot of you know, talent,
43:19
Speaker 1: but they've just never really been able to kind of
43:22
Speaker 1: bring it all together, you know.
43:23
Speaker 3: Ye.
43:26
Speaker 1: Then they get Marysville Pilchock the first league game of
43:29
Speaker 1: the year. Yes, Marysville Pilchuck in that two A conference
43:32
Speaker 1: now seven pm. That that's an interesting game. That's a game.
43:36
Speaker 1: It's at home. First look at Marysville Pilchuck in the
43:40
Speaker 1: in the conference, you know, and we don't really know
43:44
Speaker 1: what to think. You know, they've all traditionally been very good,
43:49
Speaker 1: and then they kind of fell on you know a
43:50
Speaker 1: couple of seasons where you know, they struggled a little bit,
43:53
Speaker 1: but there's always going to be talent in that area.
43:56
Speaker 1: And so it's it's one of those ones where I
43:59
Speaker 1: think you were telling me Tyler, like there's some people
44:01
Speaker 1: out there. I think that Pilchuck team could be pretty good.
44:05
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens there. Then again, like I said,
44:08
Speaker 1: doesn't get easy. And they go on the road at
44:10
Speaker 1: Anachordus seven pm, the defending state champs, and we know
44:14
Speaker 1: the Beaner brothers and tell you what, they got a
44:16
Speaker 1: sophomore quarterback that's pretty stinking good. I mean he's he's
44:19
Speaker 1: not Rex Larsen, but he Yeah, he's pretty good himself.
44:24
Speaker 2: Ryland Lang, he's still around, isn't he.
44:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, not a terrible name. Yeah, he just committed to
44:29
Speaker 1: I think Eastern not too long ago. It reminds me
44:32
Speaker 1: a lot of Efton Chisholm, who is who's at Eastern
44:35
Speaker 1: right now, and Efton Chisholm reminds a lot of people
44:39
Speaker 1: of Cooper Cup, so kind of in that same mold
44:43
Speaker 1: of what they look for there.
44:45
Speaker 2: But and I could be wrong, but I believe Ryland
44:47
Speaker 2: Lang state champion and wrestling.
44:49
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he was and really really close to
44:53
Speaker 1: having a great name, like just slightly a couple of
44:56
Speaker 1: couple of letters are not. Yeah, but he's very I mean,
45:01
Speaker 1: he's unbelievably really is. I saw that guy do like
45:04
Speaker 1: a backflip or something one day. It was pretty crazy.
45:08
Speaker 1: But then yeah, then they get Seahome at home, who
45:11
Speaker 1: I think for the most part we all expected that's
45:14
Speaker 1: gonna be an improved Seahome team this year. Seven PM
45:17
Speaker 1: and that one. Then they go on the road down
45:20
Speaker 1: to Civic Stadium to play Squalicum. Then they get Archbishop
45:23
Speaker 1: Murphy at home, and that's gonna be that's gonna be
45:26
Speaker 1: one of those games at that point where not sure
45:28
Speaker 1: how many how many bursts they're going to have to
45:31
Speaker 1: the state tournament or to the playoffs, but that's one
45:34
Speaker 1: that could have some some serious implications on it. That
45:39
Speaker 1: But you know, the good thing for Lynden that's that's
45:41
Speaker 1: a home game. And I mean, I'll tell you what,
45:43
Speaker 1: anytime you got to go up to Lynden in the
45:45
Speaker 1: middle of Nove or October, that's that's a tough place
45:49
Speaker 1: to play. You know, I would say, maybe grow the
45:52
Speaker 1: grass a little long that week, boys, But then back
45:56
Speaker 1: to back get home games actually with Lakewood coming in
45:59
Speaker 1: and then finished the season on the road down at
46:01
Speaker 1: Kirkby Field against Burlington Edison. So Tyler, uh, this is
46:05
Speaker 1: always interesting now with these two ways, because when you
46:08
Speaker 1: look at it, there's well, we've got nine games on
46:11
Speaker 1: the on the schedule here and I only see three
46:14
Speaker 1: of them that are in the county. So what are
46:16
Speaker 1: the games you're looking forward to? And don't tell me anachordus.
46:21
Speaker 2: Well, the first thing is Ferndale, but like you said,
46:23
Speaker 2: we'll talk a lot about that in the in the
46:25
Speaker 2: you know, but that's always just such a great rivalry
46:27
Speaker 2: game and so so much fun. It'll be the first
46:29
Speaker 2: time Lennon's going to the new stadium at Ferndale. I
46:34
Speaker 2: really like to see them one. I mean I I
46:36
Speaker 2: you know, I just big see them. Gave them a
46:38
Speaker 2: little bit of a scare two years ago. And we're
46:40
Speaker 2: talking about two years ago that team that you know
46:42
Speaker 2: won the state title and and SEEHM did it with
46:46
Speaker 2: you know a lot of underclassmen in that game. They
46:48
Speaker 2: are still playing now. So that's going to be a
46:52
Speaker 2: really really interesting game, I think, And and I love
46:56
Speaker 2: the game at Burlington. I know that Burlington had a
46:59
Speaker 2: really rough year last year, but that's always been a
47:02
Speaker 2: really good game Lyndon and Burlington. I mean, you you
47:05
Speaker 2: you were there a couple of years ago when it
47:06
Speaker 2: was a three point game when Troy Betts won it
47:08
Speaker 2: on the game winning field goal there, and you know,
47:11
Speaker 2: it's just they just play each other really really tough,
47:15
Speaker 2: year in and year out. So it's kind of cool
47:16
Speaker 2: that it's the final final week of the season. You know,
47:19
Speaker 2: I've never ever been to a game at Kirkby Field.
47:22
Speaker 3: This my bv.
47:23
Speaker 2: Tyler they could be so I mean, I'm just saying, like,
47:26
Speaker 2: it's just it's just one of those things. And I
47:28
Speaker 2: went to a basketball game there last year on a
47:30
Speaker 2: Saturday morning, and it's the first time I'd been to
47:33
Speaker 2: Burlington Edison High School in years. I remember playing a
47:36
Speaker 2: baseball game there or a couple and I walked by
47:39
Speaker 2: the field and saw it and it was kind of
47:41
Speaker 2: cool because I'd only seen it on film or from
47:43
Speaker 2: the freeway, so like I've never seen it really up close. Uh,
47:47
Speaker 2: so that was kind of cool. I kind of I
47:48
Speaker 2: kind of, you know, peeked in a little bit and
47:50
Speaker 2: it just it was neat to see. Uh And then
47:53
Speaker 2: I walked into the gym and watched the basketball. But
47:56
Speaker 2: that's always a really really good game.
47:58
Speaker 3: So uh yeah.
48:00
Speaker 2: And again I've heard some people talk to me and say, oh,
48:02
Speaker 2: Lyndon's a little down, you know. And I've made that
48:06
Speaker 2: decision a few times before. And I remember the first
48:10
Speaker 2: year that I covered stuff on the weekly for Walk
48:14
Speaker 2: the Preps, well Walking Preps wasn't around yet, but I
48:16
Speaker 2: was doing it. I was going out and getting headshots.
48:18
Speaker 2: And I believe it was coach Crani's last year, and
48:21
Speaker 2: they graduated so many guys from the year before, and
48:24
Speaker 2: they missed out on the playoffs. The year before. I
48:26
Speaker 2: was with Sterling Summers and Jordan Wittenberg, and I just
48:29
Speaker 2: kind of thought, well, they missed out on the state playoffs,
48:31
Speaker 2: which is really rare. Plus all those guys are gone now,
48:35
Speaker 2: and I just thought this could be like a five
48:38
Speaker 2: and four year for them. I really really thought so.
48:41
Speaker 2: And then they get to the Semis and lose to
48:43
Speaker 2: that Archbishop team that was just overly loaded and whooped
48:46
Speaker 2: up and everybody. So what do I know. What I've
48:50
Speaker 2: learned is that I don't I just don't make that
48:53
Speaker 2: mistake anymore. They do not rebuild. They reload and there
48:57
Speaker 2: are a lot of new names, much like el See,
49:00
Speaker 2: especially on the defensive side of the ball. But I
49:03
Speaker 2: see these names and I see Jade Noakes and I'm like,
49:05
Speaker 2: I've seen them play baseball. He's a good athlete. I
49:07
Speaker 2: see the last names like Price and be like, oh,
49:09
Speaker 2: there's been a that's like a legacy at Lindon. I
49:11
Speaker 2: see you know, Jorgensen and Bedlington, and I you know,
49:15
Speaker 2: you start van Dalen, you start seeing these names and
49:18
Speaker 2: you go, we'll probably be pretty darn good. We just
49:22
Speaker 2: you know, in the youth program is always amazing. I mean,
49:25
Speaker 2: the eighth grade team probably hasn't lost a game since
49:29
Speaker 2: who knows when, you know, it's just so these kids
49:32
Speaker 2: are always really really good. So we'll see what happens.
49:36
Speaker 2: I think it's a really really tough league, and you know,
49:39
Speaker 2: Archbishop's going to be up and better, and people are
49:41
Speaker 2: talking about Marysville Pilchuck and Wat's see. It's gonna be
49:44
Speaker 2: a fun year.
49:45
Speaker 3: Yeah.
49:46
Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't know what to think of Lindon,
49:49
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Because I know they're gonna
49:52
Speaker 1: be well coached, obviously, and I know they're going to
49:54
Speaker 1: be prepared I just don't know. I just don't know
49:58
Speaker 1: if you know, if if some of these young guys
50:03
Speaker 1: have got to step up obviously, and you just kind
50:06
Speaker 1: of never know, you know what I mean. It's one
50:07
Speaker 1: of those things you just never really know. But the
50:10
Speaker 1: one thing we do know is we've never or we've
50:14
Speaker 1: learned to never count them out.
50:16
Speaker 3: Yeah.
50:17
Speaker 2: I mean, you go out there and you're thinking, Okay,
50:19
Speaker 2: well we'll see what happens, and then they run out
50:21
Speaker 2: there and do this circle and the band is louder
50:23
Speaker 2: than ever, and the stands are overly packed, and there's
50:26
Speaker 2: tons of truer leaders and you see the actual Linden
50:28
Speaker 2: Lion and it's just like in the Green Track and
50:31
Speaker 2: you're just like you start getting chills and you go, oh.
50:34
Speaker 2: And I've always said that about the basketball team. And
50:36
Speaker 2: I was talking to Brent Hepner about this when he
50:38
Speaker 2: was helping out at the youth, the Walking Preps youth camp,
50:40
Speaker 2: and I was like, you know, with basketball, because they're
50:42
Speaker 2: three times defending state champions and he played on all
50:44
Speaker 2: three of those teams, going for a fourth coming up,
50:47
Speaker 2: and it's like, I go, you walk into the gym
50:49
Speaker 2: and you already have you know, you already have five
50:51
Speaker 2: to ten points because of the Linden on your chest.
50:54
Speaker 3: Yep.
50:54
Speaker 2: It's just the way that it is. And there's something
50:58
Speaker 2: about those home games that Lyndon and you know, I
51:01
Speaker 2: know it's I know it's crazy. But like even when
51:04
Speaker 2: that even that year when a Stillicum showed up with
51:07
Speaker 2: with a mecca.
51:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, a mecha book, I mean that team was freaking loaded.
51:12
Speaker 1: It was load, yeah it was. It wasn't just him,
51:14
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's the I mean, he's probably gonna be
51:17
Speaker 1: a first round NFL pick and he's playing for Ohio State,
51:19
Speaker 1: and yeah, and and and I remember making jokes about
51:24
Speaker 1: growing the grass along that day too, you know what
51:26
Speaker 1: I mean. And it didn't help because they put up
51:29
Speaker 1: a ton of points, but Linden put up just enough more,
51:31
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, yeah.
51:32
Speaker 2: I mean it was just one of those crazy games.
51:34
Speaker 2: And I remember I was right there on the sideline
51:38
Speaker 2: when Buka had a pick six and he ran right
51:40
Speaker 2: past me, and there was no way I could get
51:43
Speaker 2: him in frame or get it in focus because he
51:46
Speaker 2: was the fastest kid out there.
51:48
Speaker 1: Who was faster him running by that day or you
51:50
Speaker 1: going down the stairs that day at the Lennon Christian game.
51:53
Speaker 1: Well I had a place to be, yeah, and he
51:55
Speaker 1: had the momentum of gravity.
51:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did, I did, I was. I was booking
52:00
Speaker 2: it down those stairs.
52:01
Speaker 3: Yeah.
52:02
Speaker 2: But that's the thing. You go to a game at
52:04
Speaker 2: Linden and it's tough, man, and and you start seeing
52:08
Speaker 2: these games that are you know, Mary's Noelle Pilchuk is
52:11
Speaker 2: going there, Archbishop is going there, See Home is going there.
52:15
Speaker 2: Those are gonna be tough to win for those opposing teams,
52:17
Speaker 2: and like you said, Lynn will always be very well prepared.
52:20
Speaker 3: Yeah.
52:20
Speaker 1: I mean, especially you've got that, You've got that loud, loud,
52:25
Speaker 1: loud band. The fans are there early. It's intimidating. I mean,
52:29
Speaker 1: it just is. Especially you know, you pull up, you
52:31
Speaker 1: drop the kids off in front of the stadium and
52:34
Speaker 1: they've got that, you know, massive letters on the outside
52:37
Speaker 1: of the stadium, and it's just it's it's imposing even
52:41
Speaker 1: from there, you know, from from the parking lot, it's
52:45
Speaker 1: you know, it looks like a tough task. So yeah,
52:48
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's gonna be fun, I know that much.
52:51
Speaker 1: Because this team is they're gonna find a way to
52:54
Speaker 1: be really good, and they're gonna find a way to be.
52:57
Speaker 3: They're gonna find a way.
52:58
Speaker 1: To be a tough opponent, is what it is, you know,
53:02
Speaker 1: because that's just what they do. And at the end
53:04
Speaker 1: of the day, I don't know what the wins and
53:05
Speaker 1: loss are going to look like, obviously, and I don't
53:08
Speaker 1: even know that I would want to make a prediction
53:10
Speaker 1: on it, you know what I mean. I don't know
53:11
Speaker 1: that i'd want to go through and go, yeah, that's
53:13
Speaker 1: probably a lot, that's a win, that's a no. I
53:15
Speaker 1: don't even want to do it because I feel like
53:17
Speaker 1: some of these I feel like this team's going to
53:19
Speaker 1: get really battle tested, and if they get to the
53:22
Speaker 1: to the state tournament, that's a team that somebody on
53:25
Speaker 1: the other side is going to look at and go,
53:26
Speaker 1: oh crap, we got to play these guys. You know,
53:29
Speaker 1: we got to play Lyndon in week ten? What like,
53:33
Speaker 1: how did that happen?
53:34
Speaker 3: You know? Right?
53:35
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm excited. I think it's gonna be a
53:38
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Anything else, Tyler, before we get out
53:41
Speaker 1: of here, I think we covered it. We did cover
53:43
Speaker 1: a lot. This is a forty five minute podcast here,
53:47
Speaker 1: I mean even well even he's listening and going at
53:53
Speaker 1: this point, you know, what I mean. He's he's ready
53:55
Speaker 1: to go, Tyler, So let's wrap it up there. He's
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Speaker 1: Tyler Anderson. Walcom Preaps. Wacompreps dot com is the website.
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Speaker 1: I'm Ryland Spencer. You've been listening to episode at two
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven, the fourth of ten football team
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Speaker 1: previews here on the WACOM Preps podcast. We will talk
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Speaker 1: to you tomorrow