Latest / Whatcom Preps Podcast / Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 371 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 4

Transcript

Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 371 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 4 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, this is Cascadia Daily News Post reporter Nick.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Zeller sing and you're listening to the Welcome PEPs podcast.
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: Tyler Anderson.
• 0:16
  Speaker 3: Greetings, and welcome into the Gatorade Game Day preview on
• 0:19
  Speaker 3: the WALKAM Preps podcast. This is episode three hundred and
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: seventy one and I am Tyler Anderson with WALKOM Preps
• 0:26
  Speaker 3: and we're gonna preview all ten games this weekend involving
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: Wokcom County teams. I want to give a special thank
• 0:33
  Speaker 3: you to Nick Zeller Singh from the Cascadia Daily.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: He is the sports reporter over there.
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: He's been doing it for over a year now and
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: he's a lot of fun.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: He's a very good writer. Always enjoy seeing him on
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: the sidelines.
• 0:47
  Speaker 3: And what happens is we get talking and laughing and
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: sharing stories, and all of a sudden, the game's over
• 0:53
  Speaker 3: and it's like, Oh, we're supposed to work, we're supposed
• 0:56
  Speaker 3: to do stuff. We're supposed to know. I could talk
• 0:59
  Speaker 3: sports with him forever. He's an awesome guy and glad
• 1:02
  Speaker 3: that he's still around doing it.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: So always fun to see him.
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: If you you know, he's a great, great guy to
• 1:09
  Speaker 3: talk to and still involved with sports plays a lot
• 1:12
  Speaker 3: of recreational sports, you know, golf, basketball, all sorts of things.
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: So that's something I need to do. If there were
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: thirty hours in the day, oh man, goodness, would I
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: be doing it. So thank you very much Nick for that.
• 1:25
  Speaker 3: And congratulations to Blaine senior Kai Kerwin, who won the
• 1:29
  Speaker 3: Week three Pepsi Play of the Week with his amazing
• 1:31
  Speaker 3: eighty seven yard interception return for a touchdown. Because of that,
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: he won a case of Gatorade thanks to Walton Beverage.
• 1:38
  Speaker 3: And I'm gonna step away for a short fifteen seconds
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: so we can hear from our title sponsor.
• 1:45
  Speaker 4: You hear that that's the sound of Pepsi zero sugar.
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: The better tasting, more refreshing zero sugar Cola Pepsi zero sugar.
• 1:56
  Speaker 4: Let your taste decide.
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: I can't tell all of you how blessed I am
• 2:00
  Speaker 3: and thankful for a company like Walton Beverage who's been
• 2:03
  Speaker 3: a staple in our community for over ninety years to
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: take an interest in walking preps and allow me doing
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: to keep doing what I'm doing that I and stuff that.
• 2:11
  Speaker 5: I love to do.
• 2:12
  Speaker 1: It's amazing.
• 2:14
  Speaker 3: It's a game changer for me and I will continue
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: to work harder every day to make the fantastic people
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth sports in our community.
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: They deliver superior quality and commitment, and I plan to
• 2:26
  Speaker 3: do the same. Okay, let's talk some football. We have
• 2:29
  Speaker 3: ten games to talk about for this weekend. One of
• 2:32
  Speaker 3: them is kicking off tonight, being Thursday night, eight on
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: Friday night, and then one on Saturday afternoons. Let's get
• 2:38
  Speaker 3: right to it. We'll start with tonight's seven o'clock game.
• 2:41
  Speaker 3: The Ferndale Golden Eagles are hosting the Mount Vernon Bulldogs
• 2:44
  Speaker 3: at Ferndale High School tonight at seven o'clock. Ferndale is
• 2:48
  Speaker 3: two and one and Mount Vernon is two and one.
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: Based on the ranking systems on max Preps, which is
• 2:53
  Speaker 3: not affiliated with Walking Preps, Ferndale has the advantage and
• 2:58
  Speaker 3: we are now joined on the Gatorade Game. The preview
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: by Ferndale football coach Jamie Plankovich. Coach, thank you for
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: joining me today. How are you doing?
• 3:06
  Speaker 6: I'm doing good?
• 3:06
  Speaker 7: How about you?
• 3:07
  Speaker 1: I'm hanging in there.
• 3:10
  Speaker 3: First question that I'm asking every coach this week kind
• 3:13
  Speaker 3: of random, who's your all time favorite football player?
• 3:17
  Speaker 6: Oh boy, that's a tough one. But I'd say to
• 3:24
  Speaker 6: two different ones, Walter Payton at the professional level and
• 3:30
  Speaker 6: Steve Atman when he played for the Huskies.
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: Oh dude, great ones. Tell tell me why. For Peyton.
• 3:37
  Speaker 6: He was I just remember watching him when obviously I
• 3:41
  Speaker 6: was a lot younger and he was. He just seemed
• 3:45
  Speaker 6: like he'd do incredible things. Uh, he was just fun
• 3:50
  Speaker 6: to watch. He wasn't big, he played physical, but then
• 3:53
  Speaker 6: he could make guys mess. He was just whole package
• 3:57
  Speaker 6: as a running back. I should say Barry Sanders two.
• 4:00
  Speaker 6: Those two were just super fun to watch. Steve Evan
• 4:05
  Speaker 6: was so dominant at the collegiate level and obviously played
• 4:10
  Speaker 6: on a great team, but he was super fun to
• 4:14
  Speaker 6: watch as well.
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: Oh man, and if his if injuries didn't take place,
• 4:19
  Speaker 3: that would have been quite a career, definitely with the
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: Colts and whoever else he would have ended up playing with.
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: But yeah, those are those are great ones. I loved
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: watching the highlights that you know. And then Walter Payton
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: running up the hill right with the Yeah, and that
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: was a guy that you know. Yeah, he was the
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: all time leading rusher when he retired, but man, he
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: could block. He could catch, he could throw. You're you're
• 4:44
  Speaker 3: absolutely right. He did everything and and.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: Did it well.
• 4:50
  Speaker 3: Before we talked about your Week four opponent, let's go
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: over last week. It seemed very similar to Week two.
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: You know, a conference opponent, you get off to a
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: fast start. Again, what was your biggest takeaway from that game.
• 5:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a good point. I mean, the last two
• 5:03
  Speaker 6: weeks we have gotten off to a quick start. I
• 5:09
  Speaker 6: thought we played really well defensively and taking away their
• 5:13
  Speaker 6: triple option stuff. They really until late in the game,
• 5:17
  Speaker 6: really didn't have much success doing that. I liked how
• 5:22
  Speaker 6: efficient we were on the offensive side of the ball again,
• 5:26
  Speaker 6: when we have opportunities to put some points on the board,
• 5:31
  Speaker 6: the fact that we were able to do that when
• 5:34
  Speaker 6: we get in the red zone, just making sure that
• 5:36
  Speaker 6: we finished drives and then we scored one on defense too.
• 5:40
  Speaker 6: Ryder Bevin did a great job jumping an out route
• 5:43
  Speaker 6: and so it just kind of got us off to
• 5:47
  Speaker 6: a good start. I think it was twenty one to
• 5:49
  Speaker 6: nothing in the first quarter, and I still would like
• 5:52
  Speaker 6: to see us we got maybe a little bit lazy
• 5:55
  Speaker 6: in the second half while our starters were in So
• 6:00
  Speaker 6: that's something we talked about this week. That score can't
• 6:04
  Speaker 6: matter or can't change how we play. So we still
• 6:07
  Speaker 6: got some work to do, but we're two and one
• 6:09
  Speaker 6: league exactly where we want to be.
• 6:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And I'm glad you brought up Ryder Bevans pick
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: six because it's crazy what momentum can do for sixteen
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: seventeen year old kids. I feel like anytime there's an
• 6:22
  Speaker 3: early interception return for a touchdown, it can.
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: Really shift the momentum quickly.
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: There's been a handful of them so far this year,
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: and every single time it happens in the first quarter,
• 6:32
  Speaker 3: it really just lifts everything.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: And you know, talk.
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: About kind of what it's like to coach, you know,
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: sixteen and seventeen year olds and managing their emotions and
• 6:43
  Speaker 3: how you know that affects the game.
• 6:46
  Speaker 6: Well, We've to be honest, We've been talking to our
• 6:48
  Speaker 6: guys about making sure that we celebrate the good things. Yeah,
• 6:52
  Speaker 6: sometimes we are you know, don't congratulate a teammate on
• 6:57
  Speaker 6: a big play and are a little bit I don't know,
• 7:03
  Speaker 6: for a lack of a better term. We we don't
• 7:04
  Speaker 6: get that excited. And football is a game of emotion.
• 7:08
  Speaker 6: What was cool about writers play is if you watch
• 7:11
  Speaker 6: it and let the tape roll afterwards. Is how many
• 7:15
  Speaker 6: people are meeting him in the end zone and and
• 7:17
  Speaker 6: being excited about that play. And that's that's what we're
• 7:20
  Speaker 6: trying to get out of our team. We want to
• 7:23
  Speaker 6: celebrate the good things with teammates. It's it's hard to
• 7:26
  Speaker 6: score points in this game. It's any chance you get
• 7:30
  Speaker 6: to celebrate the success and the good stuff. And like
• 7:34
  Speaker 6: you said, that positive emotion carries over throughout the game.
• 7:39
  Speaker 6: So we want to we want to play with emotion
• 7:43
  Speaker 6: directed in the right way. We want our kids to
• 7:46
  Speaker 6: have fun. This should be fun when we're out there
• 7:48
  Speaker 6: on a Friday night. They put a lot of work
• 7:50
  Speaker 6: into getting to Friday nights and then let's let's let
• 7:54
  Speaker 6: her rip and go have fun.
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 7:56
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and uh and let's move on now because instead
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: of Friday's Yeah, and you're gonna be hosting Mount Vernon.
• 8:05
  Speaker 3: And before we talk about the Bulldogs, what are the
• 8:07
  Speaker 3: challenges of having to play on a Thursday night as
• 8:10
  Speaker 3: opposed to a Friday night.
• 8:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it changes your whole week schedule, right. You kind
• 8:14
  Speaker 6: of get into a routine of this is what we're
• 8:16
  Speaker 6: doing Monday, is what we're doing Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
• 8:20
  Speaker 6: Now you've got one less day, so yet changes how
• 8:24
  Speaker 6: we're approaching practice. You know, you do a little bit
• 8:28
  Speaker 6: more on a Monday, which is tough because you don't
• 8:30
  Speaker 6: have your JV kids there, so you still have to,
• 8:35
  Speaker 6: you know, work without the usual numbers. Tuesday and Wednesday
• 8:41
  Speaker 6: are real important. Wednesday instead of a Thursday practice like
• 8:47
  Speaker 6: we have for a Friday game. We're kind of more
• 8:50
  Speaker 6: of a normal work week Wednesday practice even though we play,
• 8:56
  Speaker 6: we play Thursday instead of Friday. So you're just condensing
• 8:59
  Speaker 6: things and trying to get everything done that you need
• 9:02
  Speaker 6: to get done in three work days instead of four.
• 9:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it could be tricky because I know I'm
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: the same way, and I'm sure coaches are too very
• 9:10
  Speaker 3: routine schedule, you know, oriented, and everything is just kind
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: of that way and all of a sudden, but you
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: at least you know going in that, hey, you're gonna
• 9:17
  Speaker 3: have a game on this week, it's gonna be a
• 9:19
  Speaker 3: Thursday game.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: And you know, that's just kind of the way that
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 9:23
  Speaker 3: And so Mount Vernon they always seem to have good athletes.
• 9:26
  Speaker 3: What do you know about this year's squad?
• 9:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, like you said, they have some They have some
• 9:33
  Speaker 6: really good skill kids, their quarterback and the running back
• 9:36
  Speaker 6: or back from last year. Their quarterback's really good. He's
• 9:42
  Speaker 6: got a strong arm, he can do everything throwing the football.
• 9:46
  Speaker 6: Their running back runs exceedingly hard, is a great cutback player,
• 9:52
  Speaker 6: has great vision. They were very patient against us last
• 9:56
  Speaker 6: year with the running game and had some success. So
• 10:00
  Speaker 6: those are things that we've got to do a good
• 10:02
  Speaker 6: job containing both those guys. And on the edge, they
• 10:06
  Speaker 6: have some guys that can make big plays. So for us,
• 10:12
  Speaker 6: the challenge defensively is is trying to limit run game
• 10:16
  Speaker 6: while not giving up big plays in the passing game.
• 10:19
  Speaker 6: Hopefully we can get some pressure on their quarterback to
• 10:22
  Speaker 6: speed his clock up a little bit.
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, it's you know, I look around the West,
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: got three a north, and you know, this is going
• 10:30
  Speaker 3: to be your biggest conference test to this point in
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: my opinion, and I think most people's and and so
• 10:36
  Speaker 3: it's a big.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: Big test. Playing at home is going to be great again.
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: I was out there for most of the third quarter
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: on Friday, and it was a great atmosphere. I mean,
• 10:46
  Speaker 3: so many people you know, in the stands walking around
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: behind the end zone on the scoreboard side.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just it's rocking, And I mean,
• 10:56
  Speaker 1: do you have.
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: You felt like this. This new stadium feels like you're
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: home stadium yet. I mean it's only been a few years,
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: but it feels like does it feel like a home
• 11:05
  Speaker 3: field advantage?
• 11:07
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, it's and it's always been that way,
• 11:12
  Speaker 6: even in the old stadium. You know, we have unbelievable
• 11:16
  Speaker 6: support from our community. And you know, even in the
• 11:19
  Speaker 6: old stadium, you think about all the people that stood
• 11:21
  Speaker 6: on the track around around the field. So this definitely
• 11:26
  Speaker 6: feels it feels like our home field. It was a
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: great environment on Friday night. It was our first home
• 11:34
  Speaker 6: game of the year, so you know, we were excited
• 11:38
  Speaker 6: to not have to take a bus anywhere and get
• 11:41
  Speaker 6: to play at home in front of our fans, and
• 11:44
  Speaker 6: and yeah, they don't disappoint. They come and make it
• 11:46
  Speaker 6: a great atmosphere for our players to play in. So
• 11:49
  Speaker 6: we're excited about Thursday. There's a little more competition with
• 11:52
  Speaker 6: the Seahawks plane, so we'll see how that works and
• 11:57
  Speaker 6: the fact that it's not a Friday, But like you said,
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: this is our toughest test league wise, league wise so far,
• 12:05
  Speaker 6: so we gotta be ready to go.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be a good one.
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm a Seahawks fan, but I'm gonna be
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: out there for this one. Coach high school, high school sports.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Takes precedent for me, so good. Yeah, good luck against
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: the Bulldogs. And thank you for joining me on the
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Gatorade Game day preview.
• 12:21
  Speaker 6: All right, sounds good, thanks, Tyler, you bet well.
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: There you have it from coach Plankovich. Now let's move
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: on to Friday nights games. We'll start with the Blaine
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: Border Rights hosting the Granite Falls Tigers. Blaine is one
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: and two and Granted Falls is three to oher based
• 12:36
  Speaker 3: on the Max Preps rankings, Granted Falls is a slight favorite.
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: preview by Blaine football coach Andy Olsen. Coach, thank you
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: for joining me today. How are you doing.
• 12:49
  Speaker 8: I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, Tyler.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: You're welcome.
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna start off with a random question, who's your
• 12:54
  Speaker 3: all time favorite football player?
• 12:57
  Speaker 8: Reggie White?
• 12:59
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: My follow up question is always why? But boy, I
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: get you on that one. Tell me about Reggie White.
• 13:08
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm dating myself a little bit. Here, Reggie White
• 13:11
  Speaker 9: was actually playing in the NFL like when I was born,
• 13:14
  Speaker 9: with the Eagles, but he was my first Like watching
• 13:18
  Speaker 9: him play football made me fall in love with football
• 13:20
  Speaker 9: right away in the nineties. I remember him as a
• 13:23
  Speaker 9: Packer more than an Eagle. Just the level of intensity
• 13:27
  Speaker 9: played with, plus when he was sharing some of his
• 13:30
  Speaker 9: beliefs and values that resonated with me as a young
• 13:33
  Speaker 9: kid and now as I've grown older too, just reflecting
• 13:37
  Speaker 9: on the man that he was on the field off
• 13:40
  Speaker 9: the field. What a tremendous athlete in human being.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I mean you could make a case the
• 13:46
  Speaker 3: most dominant defensive player in NFL history.
• 13:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah, at least on the Mount rushmore of it.
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean he's up there.
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: He was crazy. I mean you've heard the story about
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: him joining.
• 13:57
  Speaker 8: The Packers, right, yes, yeh awesome.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: And it was crazy because that was the first year
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: of free agency in the NFL and they had this
• 14:06
  Speaker 3: thing called Plan B but it wasn't really true free agency.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: And then of course that that year was he so
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: he was the first really big free agent. But yeah,
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: holy cow, what it?
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: He was amazing.
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: All right, let's talk to high school football before we
• 14:22
  Speaker 3: talked about your Week four opponent, Let's talk about your
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: game to get Shelane. It was the first home game
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: of the year. I thought the kids played amazing. Tell
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: me what you liked out there.
• 14:31
  Speaker 9: I just love that we continue to get better each week.
• 14:35
  Speaker 9: I love that we played together. I think the biggest
• 14:37
  Speaker 9: takeaway from the game wasn't necessarily the physical effort we displayed,
• 14:41
  Speaker 9: because we've had moments where it's like, hey, we're playing
• 14:44
  Speaker 9: at the right energy, it's just going the wrong direction right,
• 14:47
  Speaker 9: So we.
• 14:48
  Speaker 8: Fixed that piece.
• 14:49
  Speaker 9: But what impressed me the most was our mental maturity
• 14:52
  Speaker 9: to handle adversity, and for a young team, I think
• 14:57
  Speaker 9: we really closed the gap on when we talked about
• 15:00
  Speaker 9: the horizon at Blane of like, hey, the future is
• 15:02
  Speaker 9: bright here, let's keep working towards that you know the
• 15:04
  Speaker 9: better tomorrow. In order to do that, you have to
• 15:07
  Speaker 9: learn how to win difficult situations, and you have to
• 15:10
  Speaker 9: learn how to stay you know, neutral, not getting too
• 15:14
  Speaker 9: high when things are going well for us, not getting
• 15:16
  Speaker 9: too low when they're not. And we had both opportunities
• 15:18
  Speaker 9: to get too high or too low on Friday night,
• 15:21
  Speaker 9: and the kids really did stay the course and they
• 15:23
  Speaker 9: walked to the field, and I could hear them talking
• 15:25
  Speaker 9: about I'm like, man, you know, coach was right, the
• 15:28
  Speaker 9: staff was right with the things we talked about. Not
• 15:31
  Speaker 9: being reactionary really pays off. That's a that's a huge
• 15:35
  Speaker 9: lesson for a group of young border rights.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. And tell me about Kay Kerwin.
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: I mean, one of the one of your few seniors
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: you probably had the best game of his varsity career
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: just overall. He did so many things on the field
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: in all three phases. What is he meant to your
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: team so far this season?
• 15:53
  Speaker 9: Kai is the lead by example kid for that young
• 15:56
  Speaker 9: secondary and receiving room. They looked at him and know
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: that he's been here with us for you know, all
• 16:02
  Speaker 9: three years that I've been here, he's been on the field,
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: and you know the.
• 16:06
  Speaker 8: Way he goes about his business.
• 16:08
  Speaker 9: They really hone in on that he's not an overly
• 16:11
  Speaker 9: vocal kid. But for him to be able to go out,
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: be back home, you know, have some good punt returns
• 16:16
  Speaker 9: for us, which we know he always does anyway, but
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: to go make some plays on defense, to stick some
• 16:20
  Speaker 9: guys to while tackling and kind of say no, this
• 16:23
  Speaker 9: is how we hit. And then on offense to go
• 16:26
  Speaker 9: make some really spectacular catches and clutch moments for us
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: to keep drives alive or to go, you know, put
• 16:31
  Speaker 9: the game on ice.
• 16:32
  Speaker 8: It was just a really fun night for Kai.
• 16:34
  Speaker 9: We lost him there for about eight minutes in the
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: third quarter to cramping because we we just used the
• 16:39
  Speaker 9: kids so much. Right He's like, coach, I probably have
• 16:42
  Speaker 9: been hydrating, and I had no doubts that he had been.
• 16:44
  Speaker 9: It's just one of those things. So we just we
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: love having Kai on the team. He's going to be
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: one that we'll really miss after this year. But we're
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: really thankful because he has again the right temperament when
• 16:55
  Speaker 9: we talk about some of our senior leaders.
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: That we do have.
• 16:58
  Speaker 9: Between him and Malachi, both have the right temperament to
• 17:01
  Speaker 9: work with the younger kids.
• 17:03
  Speaker 8: And it was great Saturday. I was out up and deming.
• 17:06
  Speaker 9: Watching the Wolverines take on the Mountaineers, and kaiwaks in
• 17:11
  Speaker 9: with a handful of sophomores and a couple of juniors
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: to go watch football and to hang out.
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: So like he's invested in those grades and it's just
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: one of those things. We're so thankful.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: That's awesome. I love that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was out there for that and I saw
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: kids from I think six or seven different schools out there,
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: so that was really really cool to see. They probably
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: didn't see me though, because I dressed pretty inconspicuous on
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: the sideline.
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: No one knows the vibrant kneon in the corner, No,
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: not at all.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: You know, one play, because I was there for that
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: game for the first quarter at least until I buzzed
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: out to Meridian, and I was standing behind the goalpost
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: right before your first touchdown that was scored. And I
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: catch little things on the field and it's it's amazing
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: what you can hear when you're at field level, as
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: you know. But that fourth down play, you're at the
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: thirty yard line. It's fourth and twenty, so you're kind
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: of in that no man's land and where high school
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: team's probably gonna.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: Go for it.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: Right, You're not gonna punt it. It's a forty seven
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: yard field goal attempt. You're probably not gonna do that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: So what was funny about it was I noticed I
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: kind of looked over the sideline and I noticed some
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: of your coaches kind of waving a kid back on
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: the field and saying it's empty, it's empty.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: That means you're on.
• 18:28
  Speaker 10: You're on.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: And I looked over there and it.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Was your freshman, Jackson Bogart, who was coming off the field,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: and I thought, oh, he's playing offense.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: That's that's pretty cool. They're gonna go empty.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, here here we go, and I get my camera
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: out and I'm just kind of focused on Connor, your quarterback,
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Connor Brown, and he rolls out to the left and.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Throws a pass.
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: It.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: By the time I go over there to.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Ket to see who it was, it was Jackson Bogart's
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: your freshman that caught the touch.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: He looked like he caught it twice. He was so excited.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Tell me about that play and just kind of how
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: that all had up in there.
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Jackson is a testament to if you show up
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: every day, you work really hard, you'll get noticed. And
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: he just keeps impressing our coaching staff, And in that moment,
• 19:12
  Speaker 9: I know he's really earned the trust of myself and
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: our offensive coordinator Hunter Anderson, where we feel like, Okay,
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: this kid's really talented. We got we gotta find a
• 19:19
  Speaker 9: way to get him on the field.
• 19:20
  Speaker 8: So empty seemed like a.
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: Reasonable kind of just taste test to offense because he's
• 19:26
  Speaker 9: on the field almost all the time on defense now,
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: and in that moment, we knew, hey, he's he's a gamer.
• 19:32
  Speaker 9: He's going to go make up play if he has
• 19:33
  Speaker 9: the opportunity to go do it for us.
• 19:35
  Speaker 8: And he's just that kid.
• 19:37
  Speaker 9: So Connor rolls out and he chucks it deep and
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: we had the play design kind of to go to
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: Jackson there because we wanted to go beyond the sticks,
• 19:43
  Speaker 9: and we knew that, you know, also a testament to
• 19:46
  Speaker 9: a couple of our other kids that they're going to
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: get more notice.
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: You know, Peyton Balmah, I Kerwhin.
• 19:51
  Speaker 9: If I'm game planning, that's who I'm you know, looking
• 19:53
  Speaker 9: at in that moment.
• 19:54
  Speaker 8: So we took a.
• 19:54
  Speaker 9: Shot to Jackson and yeah, he did catch twice and
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: thankfully using bounce for both of them. I think that moment,
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: you know, even for it's relatable for any kid. You know,
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: your first path being thrown kind of your way in
• 20:07
  Speaker 9: that moment and you're thinking, man, I can get my
• 20:09
  Speaker 9: first reception for a touchdown, I can get to lead here.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: All those sos going through your head.
• 20:12
  Speaker 9: But yeah, he's got a little bit of a dog
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: in him, which we love to see like he's gonna
• 20:17
  Speaker 9: go out, he's going to compete, he's gonna fight, and
• 20:18
  Speaker 9: he's gonna stick his nose in there. And I was
• 20:21
  Speaker 9: reading your article and I had no idea that he
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: was the third freshman in Boyan history to record a touchdown.
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: So he's joined some pretty good company there right away
• 20:29
  Speaker 9: in his career.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, a receiving touchdown. And those those other two
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: guys you know went on to you know, Joey Patchork
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: obviously played in professional baseball. Anthony Ball went and played
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: college football. So all right, let's talk about.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Your game this week.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: You'll be back at home again, this time against Granted Falls.
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: What do you know about this year's team?
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: Granted Falls is always very athletic, very well coached. They
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: run a whole bunch of different looks and they'll throw
• 20:56
  Speaker 9: the kitchen sink at you. They want to spread the
• 21:00
  Speaker 9: ball horizontally and vertically in their past game, so they'll
• 21:02
  Speaker 9: run a lot of different tunnel screens, bubble screens, things
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: like that pre snap motions and then you know, randomly
• 21:08
  Speaker 9: they'll just take a complete shot down the field. So
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: it's going to be a great test for our kids
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: to be prepared for a variety of different things defensively,
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: and then when we're on offense, they're physical inside. We
• 21:19
  Speaker 9: love their D line. We think that they're very aggressive
• 21:22
  Speaker 9: and they're going to do it the right way. It's
• 21:24
  Speaker 9: going to be a sound defense. So they're going to
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: get lined up correctly and they're going to give us
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: a great challenge and it's another great opportunity for us
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: to keep getting better.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they've been putting up a lot of points.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: They've I mean, I've not seen them on film yet,
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: but as far as just as the scores go, they
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: look impressive. It's so weird because you know, twenty five
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: years ago they were it was a real struggle for them,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: and in the last four or five years they've been
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: a team that has been really athletic and usually with
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: a pretty good quarterback that can is a you know,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: a dual threat quarterback is what I'm trying to say.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: And right, let's spread it both ways, you know, And
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: but I think that not that it plays into your strength,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: but your secondary is pretty strong.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: So they're gonna have a pretty big task ahead of them.
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah, they're going to and speaking of the dual threat quarterback,
• 22:15
  Speaker 9: This quarterback loves to get out on sprints and boots.
• 22:18
  Speaker 9: He throws the ball very well down the field. He's
• 22:21
  Speaker 9: got no problem on corking a fifty yard pass. So
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: it's gonna be it's gonna be a great test. We're
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: gonna be able to We're gonna have to communicate really
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: well in the secondary and be checking our coverages. When
• 22:32
  Speaker 9: you're talking about having you know, two sophomores and a
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: freshmen out there in the secondary. That's that's gonna be
• 22:38
  Speaker 9: a really good test for us before we get into
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: the league plays.
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: Are we ready now? Week one? No? Week two?
• 22:44
  Speaker 11: Not?
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: Really? Last week better?
• 22:47
  Speaker 9: So this week can we start to take that next step,
• 22:50
  Speaker 9: which is really between the ears. The kids are gonna
• 22:52
  Speaker 9: go play hard, we know that, and we love them
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: for that. They're gonna go compete for forty eight minutes.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: But can we take care of our homework ahead of time,
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: be speaking the same language. That's gonna be the big
• 23:03
  Speaker 9: test for the border rights.
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, And you know, it was awesome to see Vannon
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Brown got a lot more playing time in the secondary.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: And when you have a six or four corner out there,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: that's a little imposing for a quarterback to look and go, oh, geez,
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: I don't want to throw it up over there.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I thought he played really well last week too.
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 23:21
  Speaker 9: LB keeps getting better. Fairly new to football, pretty green
• 23:25
  Speaker 9: to it. He understands the game.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: He loved football.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: He would always talk to me after games last year,
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: walking on the track and things like that. But having
• 23:33
  Speaker 9: him out this year has been been awesome. And he's
• 23:36
  Speaker 9: becoming more and more comfortable with our systems and you know,
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: speaking football and understanding you know what his job is.
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: And then you know, once you gets to that point
• 23:46
  Speaker 9: of understanding, you can play fast and physical and he's
• 23:49
  Speaker 9: starting to turn that corner, which is really exciting. So
• 23:52
  Speaker 9: looking forward to seeing where he goes this year and
• 23:54
  Speaker 9: then on the next as well.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, So yeah, that's gonna be It's gonna be
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: a great one. If you enjoyed it Friday night out
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: at the stadium and blame go check them out again
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: this Friday.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Best of luck against the Tigers and that's.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Gonna be a lot of orange and black on the
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: field and uh with the Tigers coming to town. And
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining me on the Gatorade
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: game day preview.
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: Thanks for having me Tyler go border rights.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Next up for Friday night is the big one. The
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: Linden Lions are hosting the Anacortas Seahawks. Both teams are
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: three and oh and in a lot of polls and rankings,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: they were number one and two in the state. Based
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: on the Max Preps rankings, Anacordis is a slight favorite here.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: And we're now joined on the Gatorade Game day preview
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: by Linden football coach Blakeman Dalen coach, thank you for
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: joining me today.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: You're glad to talk to you.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm gonna
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: start off with a random question. Who's your all time
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: favorite football player?
• 24:52
  Speaker 12: All time favorite football player? You're talking high school, pro? College?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Where do we Yeah, let's go NFL?
• 25:00
  Speaker 12: NFL. You know I would go with Steve Largent just
• 25:05
  Speaker 12: because of the journey that he took and what he
• 25:09
  Speaker 12: was able to accomplish with what God gave him.
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: You know I've asked every coach this and that's the
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: first double I've gotten. So I'm glad that another person
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: says Steve Largent. I'm sitting near my office looking up
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: at posters. I got two of them with Steve Largent,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: and actually right next to him were back to back
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: posters of state champions for Lynnen Lyons. So it's kind
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: it's kind of cool what I'm looking at right now.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: So that was a pretty good answer by you.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: I love it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just curious, now, what about college.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Pledge?
• 25:43
  Speaker 12: I would as a man of faith, I just really
• 25:48
  Speaker 12: respect how Tim Tebow handled himself. And so even though
• 25:51
  Speaker 12: I'm maybe not a floor and a guy, I'm gonna
• 25:54
  Speaker 12: go with the impact Tim Tebow had.
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, what an easy guy to root for right there, right, Yeah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: everything the right way, and he.
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: Lived in the weight room.
• 26:03
  Speaker 12: And after I watched that thirty for thirty I realized
• 26:06
  Speaker 12: how important the weight room was to that program at
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: that time.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I Seeah, absolutely.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Before talking about your Week four opponent, let's go over
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: your game last week really quickly.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: You faced a.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Very young and inexperienced Marysville Pilchuck team. You picked up
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: the win forty nine to zero. Did you accomplish everything
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: you pretty much wanted to in that one?
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: Yeah? I mean I know, Coach Alexander, We've talked a
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: couple different times throughout the years at different places, and
• 26:32
  Speaker 12: so we had talked before that game, and he had
• 26:35
  Speaker 12: shared where they were at with their program, and so
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: we wanted to do our best. Our number one was
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: get our timing down, clean a few things up, get
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: some guys in that hadn't played the week previously, get
• 26:46
  Speaker 12: out without any injuries, and then not have them have
• 26:51
  Speaker 12: any injuries as well.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And then.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: You know, we have a.
• 26:55
  Speaker 12: Ton of kids that really buy in and commit to
• 26:58
  Speaker 12: our program, even though they know Friday nights are not
• 27:01
  Speaker 12: going to be a lot of playing time, and so
• 27:04
  Speaker 12: that was an opportunity for those kiddos to get out
• 27:07
  Speaker 12: there and have a lot of fun.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, a lot of senior backups got to play in
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: that one, and some things stood out to me.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: You know, Kay Smith had a couple of catches, Quinn.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Tolzma with the interception, Yvonne Garcia Zapata with three for
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: three on extra points, looking awesome doing it.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Did you have a favorite moment of your backup seniors?
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: Yeah, mine was watching the starters cheer on those guys.
• 27:32
  Speaker 12: When Quinn got that interception, the sideline erupted it as
• 27:35
  Speaker 12: if we had just won the state championship. And so
• 27:39
  Speaker 12: that's always a true test of how, you know, our
• 27:42
  Speaker 12: kids don't go sit on the bench and take their
• 27:44
  Speaker 12: helmet off and sign autographs. Our kids they're begging us
• 27:47
  Speaker 12: for headsets so they can help call plays, to get
• 27:50
  Speaker 12: kai another catcher or get you know, a certain kiddo
• 27:53
  Speaker 12: in the game. And they're just happy for their teammates
• 27:57
  Speaker 12: to get the experience what they get to experience every
• 27:59
  Speaker 12: other Friday.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you just brought that up about the sideline erupting,
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: and I was watching that on film, and you're absolutely right,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: it went crazy.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: As soon as you brought it up. I got goosebumps
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: on my arm because because I was that kid, you know,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I I yeah, I kicked extra points and stuff. But
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: during the week, you know, it was it was different.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: And so when you get to go in and make
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: a play like that, it's just uh and all the
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: all the other guys cheering you on.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: It's a really really great deal. Yeah, you know, so
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: let's talk about Friday night. It's the big game.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: All the hoopla, the radio be out there, all that
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: great stuff, and the Cordus is coming to town and
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: and these two teams have won the last four state championships,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: so that's kind of a neat deal there.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Tell me about this year's Seahawk team.
• 28:46
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you know, it's really been an interesting rivalry. You know,
• 28:51
  Speaker 12: they were an up and coming program. We saw them coming.
• 28:54
  Speaker 12: They gave us some of our toughest games the two
• 28:56
  Speaker 12: years we want it. I bet you they would tell
• 28:59
  Speaker 12: you we'd given in them their toughest games the two
• 29:01
  Speaker 12: years they've won it. And so you have it's an
• 29:06
  Speaker 12: interesting You have a team that really believes in themselves
• 29:08
  Speaker 12: and who they are in anti Chordus, I would say,
• 29:11
  Speaker 12: and then as well as our kids feel like we
• 29:15
  Speaker 12: can be that team as well. And so there's a
• 29:17
  Speaker 12: little bit of a legacy thing going on there where
• 29:20
  Speaker 12: our kids want to re establish some things that we've
• 29:24
  Speaker 12: been able to do in the past. And I think
• 29:27
  Speaker 12: Annacordus is in a position where they want to hold
• 29:29
  Speaker 12: on to what they have as long as they can.
• 29:31
  Speaker 12: So you know, I mean the coaches poll came out
• 29:35
  Speaker 12: and they were one and.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: We were two.
• 29:37
  Speaker 12: So that's a cool little sidebar. And we love being
• 29:40
  Speaker 12: the lower ranked team in any matchup. And so and
• 29:43
  Speaker 12: then it's on our home field where you know, our atmosphere.
• 29:47
  Speaker 12: I would put it up against anybody's atmosphere in the state.
• 29:50
  Speaker 12: And so really, really this is this week full of
• 29:54
  Speaker 12: positives and everything matters.
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm not going to ask last time you mowed
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: the grass, but you know, I think that it's gonna
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: be an amazing, amazing atmosphere.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: It's just there's something special about something in the air,
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: and not just when a big rival comes to town,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: but just playing a game at Lynn in high school
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: and now with the getting darker earlier and stuff like that,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: it's going to be mostly under the lights.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I just I'm excited.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: You know, Goner Brock, Beaner, Brady Beaner, Ryland Lang, but
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: they're still Luca Moore, Zee Cowkins, Shia Webster, Micah Dickinson
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: and then that quarterback Ryan Harrington. What makes Harrington such
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: a great quarterback, Well.
• 30:43
  Speaker 12: I think what stands out would be his arm, but
• 30:47
  Speaker 12: anybody who knows football will tell you it's his legs.
• 30:50
  Speaker 12: You know, he he can run. You better account for
• 30:53
  Speaker 12: him on every play because he can take a broken
• 30:56
  Speaker 12: play and make it something special. So he's extremely he's
• 31:00
  Speaker 12: extremely accurate, and he's extremely athletic. You know, I think
• 31:04
  Speaker 12: I saw this week he got his first offer from Wazoo.
• 31:07
  Speaker 12: You know, he's only a junior, so there'll be more
• 31:10
  Speaker 12: offers from other schools, I'm sure coming. But he is
• 31:13
  Speaker 12: a very skilled quarterback who can hurt you with his
• 31:18
  Speaker 12: legs and his arm. So we'll need to know where
• 31:20
  Speaker 12: he's at and what he's doing on every play for sure.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: It's really interesting too because I did get to see
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: them up close and personal on last Thursday against Bellingham,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: and it really looked like when they were on offense,
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: they would look at kind of how the defense would
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: line up and then just play accordingly. You know, if
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: it's they have a three you know, three guys down
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: and they're really wanting to protect the back, you know,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: the perimeter, they'll just gash you, run after run after run.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: And that's kind of what they did running for almost
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: four hundred yards. I didn't throw very much in that game.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Is it. I mean, there's got to be that. That
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: chess game has just got.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: To be crazy going up, you know, your defense against
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: their offense and vice versa. I mean it's and both teams,
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: I believe, kind of go in with the play and
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: then look at the defense and.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Then might change at the line of scrimmage. Am I
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: correct on that?
• 32:17
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you know. I mean their offense I think is
• 32:19
  Speaker 12: averaging sixty points a game this year, and last year
• 32:22
  Speaker 12: they were almost in the forties, if not over and
• 32:25
  Speaker 12: and I think they even had a sixty in the
• 32:27
  Speaker 12: state championship game. And and I mean over the last
• 32:32
  Speaker 12: four years, I would say defensively, we've played them as
• 32:36
  Speaker 12: well as anybody. And so I would like to think
• 32:39
  Speaker 12: that getting lined up right and getting your eyes right
• 32:43
  Speaker 12: and understanding what they're trying to do gives you a chance.
• 32:48
  Speaker 12: But now then after that it comes down to players
• 32:50
  Speaker 12: making plays, and they definitely have playmakers. And so we're
• 32:54
  Speaker 12: just hoping our kids can match up with their kids
• 32:57
  Speaker 12: and create a few of our own plays. It's it's
• 33:02
  Speaker 12: just gonna be It's gonna be a fun chess match. Yeah,
• 33:05
  Speaker 12: both sides of the ball will be watching, you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 12: to see what the other side does and call the
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: plays accordingly.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. I can't wait. Coach, best
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: of luck against the Seahawks. Thank you so much for
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 33:19
  Speaker 12: All Right, I have a great week. See you tonight
• 33:20
  Speaker 12: a Friday night.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: You bet that's gonna be a great one. Get there early,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: check out the Kpug booth. It's gonna be a packed
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: house though. Kpug will be there at three o'clock starting
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: the pregame. And yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: It's I mean, it's gonna be an atmosphere that is
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: worth just going out to, even if you don't know
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: much about football.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: It's gonna it's the kind of feeling that you will
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: not forget for a long time.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: You hear that, that's the sound of Pepsi zero sugar.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: The better tasting, more refreshing zero sugar cola Pepsi zero sugar,
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Let your taste decide.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Next up are the Belly and BayHawks traveling to Archbishop
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Murphy to take on the Wildcats.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Bellingham is two.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: And one, Archbishop Murphy is three and zero. Max Prepp
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: shows Archbishop Murphy with the big advantage and we are
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: now joined on the gatory game day preview by Bellingham
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: football coach Adam Leonard. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: How are you doing.
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: I'm doing all right.
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: Thanks for having today, Tyler.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Awesome random question who's your favorite all time football player.
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: All time football player. That's a great question.
• 34:31
  Speaker 13: Honestly, I transitioned to become a Seahawks fan when I
• 34:36
  Speaker 13: moved back to the Northwest in two thousand and six,
• 34:41
  Speaker 13: and he's my favorite quarterback of all time.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: So I have to go with Matt hassel Oh, that's awesome.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I love Matt Hasselback. Is there a reason?
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Is there a reason why or is it just kind
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: of all that together, Like you moved back up here
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: and it was just he was the guy at that
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: time that just came up with Super Bowl appearance.
• 35:00
  Speaker 13: Well, when I was living in Las Vegas before I
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: moved back to Northwest, didn't have the NFL package or anything.
• 35:05
  Speaker 10: But for some.
• 35:06
  Speaker 13: Reason I got the station in Seattle on a certain
• 35:10
  Speaker 13: hill in Las Vegas, it would come in on my radio.
• 35:12
  Speaker 13: So I grabbed my truck out there the middle of
• 35:13
  Speaker 13: the desert and listened to the Seahawks games. And I
• 35:15
  Speaker 13: was just a huge hassi Back fan. And has nothing
• 35:18
  Speaker 13: to do with the fact that that Matt Hasseback and
• 35:20
  Speaker 13: I have the same haircut either that, you know, he
• 35:23
  Speaker 13: was my favorite quarterback, you know, taking to the Hawks at
• 35:26
  Speaker 13: the first Super Bowl and I'll never forget that. My
• 35:30
  Speaker 13: son Josh was just a newborn at the time when
• 35:35
  Speaker 13: you got hosed on that year. But no, he's always
• 35:39
  Speaker 13: been my favorite quarterback. I love the Seahawks. I was
• 35:42
  Speaker 13: from Las Vegas, where at that time we don't have
• 35:44
  Speaker 13: a pro team. So even though my father was from
• 35:47
  Speaker 13: Los Angeles, huge Rams fan. I actually met Jim Everett back.
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: In the day.
• 35:52
  Speaker 10: Nice, but it's all Matt Hasseback.
• 35:54
  Speaker 13: He's my favorite Seahawks whole time, my favorite football player
• 35:56
  Speaker 13: of all time. I have all his jerseys. I'm just
• 35:58
  Speaker 13: a big fan.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. I got.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I actually got a funny story I was I was
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: talking to Mark Holloman, who was a great, great player
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: at Lindon Christian back in the early two thousands. He's
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: the uncle of Boyce Robertson, and and he goes, are
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: do you He goes, do you collect stuff? You know,
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: like do you have a man cave? I was like,
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: kind of, and he goes, hang on for a second.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: He goes up to his to his old bedroom. He
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: was visiting his parents at the time, came back down
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: with an official NFL football signed by Matt Hasselbeck, and
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: I was like, are you kidding me?
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah, he goes, because he.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Worked for the Seahawks for a while and so he
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: had a few of them still left over. And so
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: I'm sitting here right now doing this interview with you
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: looking at Matt Hasselbeck official NFL signed football. So that's
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: that's so cool that you brought.
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: That up off my birthdays of December, So you might
• 36:50
  Speaker 10: want to consider that.
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: That sounds that sounds easy. So let's talk some high
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: school football here.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Uh and before we talk about Week four, let's let's
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: talk about the game against Anti Chordis. It was a
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Thursday night game. You saw them up close and personal.
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: What was the most impressive thing about the Seahawks.
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: They're impressive in every aspect of the game. They they're
• 37:14
  Speaker 10: they're they're very well coached. Justin Corts has done a.
• 37:17
  Speaker 13: Phenomenal job with that program, building it up throughout.
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: His time there in the years, from.
• 37:23
  Speaker 13: Obviously the back to back state champions They're they're tough
• 37:26
  Speaker 13: in every aspect of the game.
• 37:28
  Speaker 10: We prepared to stop their passing game, but in.
• 37:30
  Speaker 13: Doing that, we didn't stop their running game, and you
• 37:34
  Speaker 13: just you take away something from them they'll just beat
• 37:36
  Speaker 13: you in other areas, including special teams that they have
• 37:39
  Speaker 13: tremendous athletes. They're wild coach, and in my vote, you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 13: they're they're the one. They're still the number one team
• 37:45
  Speaker 13: in the state, and there's a reason why they're the
• 37:47
  Speaker 13: back to back state champs.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they they looked very really really efficient, fast, big, strong, physical,
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: kind of all the things, all three phases everything.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Are there positives you can take away from that game?
• 38:03
  Speaker 10: I think the one positive you know, you're coming off.
• 38:05
  Speaker 13: You know, we didn't you know lin wud You know,
• 38:07
  Speaker 13: they weren't the opponent we played in week two and
• 38:10
  Speaker 13: Lakewood wasn't the pun we played and obviously in week three.
• 38:12
  Speaker 13: The one thing that we can take away is that, hey,
• 38:14
  Speaker 13: we got hit in the mouth a little bit. This
• 38:16
  Speaker 13: is a wake up call today. This is what our
• 38:17
  Speaker 13: conference is all about. This is the kind of grind
• 38:19
  Speaker 13: and competition that we can expect all the way through
• 38:23
  Speaker 13: to the end of the season. I mean, four four
• 38:26
  Speaker 13: of our top teams in our conference are probably the
• 38:28
  Speaker 13: four best teams in the state, and we're going to
• 38:30
  Speaker 13: have to play them and that, uh, that is something
• 38:33
  Speaker 13: that we can take out of Hey, this is a
• 38:34
  Speaker 13: wake up call. We need to we need to buckle down,
• 38:36
  Speaker 13: get back to work on Monday. And we actually, for us,
• 38:38
  Speaker 13: we got back to work on Friday, the day after WELM,
• 38:41
  Speaker 13: and we're ready.
• 38:43
  Speaker 10: For another challenge. And that's really really tough. Artificial Murphy team.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's crazy because you look at the schedule
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: and to play these two teams back to back is
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: just you know, no mercy, right and and and uh,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: let's let's talk about them. You know, you were in
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: the stands Friday night, got to see them in person.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: They're pretty good.
• 39:08
  Speaker 10: Huh, They're they're phenomenal.
• 39:10
  Speaker 13: I mean, we talked about Anna Kortus being, you know,
• 39:12
  Speaker 13: number one thing. They're probably number one beat. I mean,
• 39:15
  Speaker 13: they're just.
• 39:17
  Speaker 10: They look they look the past the eye test.
• 39:20
  Speaker 13: They look like a small college team when they were
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: walking out there so many three and four star athletes
• 39:26
  Speaker 13: who are committed to Power five Conference teams. They do
• 39:30
  Speaker 13: things really really well. They're big, physical fasts. They just
• 39:36
  Speaker 13: have playmakers out there. They're gonna be tough. We we're
• 39:39
  Speaker 13: we have some We're gonna try to throw some wrinkles
• 39:41
  Speaker 13: in on defense to try to gamble a little bit,
• 39:43
  Speaker 13: and that's what you have to do.
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: You can't you can't match them blow for blow.
• 39:46
  Speaker 13: So we'll try to sneak up on them in some
• 39:48
  Speaker 13: ways on defense and you know, throw some wrinkles in
• 39:50
  Speaker 13: on offense, try to catch it by surprise. At the
• 39:53
  Speaker 13: end of the day, we're going to compete our butts
• 39:54
  Speaker 13: off and give them everything we have. And you know,
• 39:56
  Speaker 13: our goal is the most importantly for me as we
• 39:58
  Speaker 13: get into the need of our season is them out
• 40:00
  Speaker 13: healthy and get ready for the remainder of the season.
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: But this is to be quite a challenge for us.
• 40:03
  Speaker 10: They are a tremendous team.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know from what this was, this was
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: my first time seeing them as well. You know, this
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: is the first time in week three, it was that
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: they first time that they played a Walkham County team.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: You know, I try not to watch too much film
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: if it's no Walking County team playing, and I think
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: one of you know, there's a lot of things that
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: surprised me and made me go wow. They looked bigger,
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: stronger and faster than last year's team, which is hard
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: to do. But I think the one thing that was
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: really interesting to me was.
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: I thought they would throw a little bit more. I
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: think they only.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: Attempted to passes in the game against Squalcum And I
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: you know, I heard they brought in some new quarterback
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: and so I was I was expecting them to throw
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: maybe five or.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Ten times a game, but they but they didn't.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: Do you kind of look at that and go, I mean,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: I don't want you to give away the game plan.
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: You said you have some wrinkles, but you know, if
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: you really bring it up front, you just and I
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: have to hope for that and hopefully they don't they
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: don't spring one and try to force them to throw
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit.
• 41:05
  Speaker 13: Well, you know what, in our game last year, we
• 41:06
  Speaker 13: came out we actually stopped him on their first strap.
• 41:09
  Speaker 10: Remember, yeah, and we were playing you know, we like
• 41:12
  Speaker 10: defending the wing team. We love defending that offense.
• 41:16
  Speaker 13: Our plan is going to try to We're going to
• 41:17
  Speaker 13: go with the same blamber to come and try to
• 41:19
  Speaker 13: stop their run. And you know when they put the
• 41:22
  Speaker 13: number eighty five Jack Years on the outside.
• 41:24
  Speaker 10: He is a huge He's a Wisconsin commit, huge matchup issue.
• 41:28
  Speaker 13: But we also have a pretty tough player and Joe
• 41:29
  Speaker 13: Harwar They could probably match up with him for size
• 41:31
  Speaker 13: and physicality.
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: So I think our plan is to.
• 41:35
  Speaker 13: Put Joe out there and do our best to stop
• 41:37
  Speaker 13: that run and get Mr nee gut. I'm a little
• 41:39
  Speaker 13: bit more concerned about how we're going to handle.
• 41:42
  Speaker 10: Moving the ball. We didn't need the ball well at
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: all against Anta Chorus, but.
• 41:46
  Speaker 13: That's something we need to improve on this week and
• 41:49
  Speaker 13: try to keep our defense off the field.
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: I mean I remember that game last year. They came
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: out in the spread, like in the second quarter or.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Something like that. It was, it was, it is shocking.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: I think you could feel the collective, you know, the
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: fans kind of go whoa because it's just something they
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: nobody expected and you're right, and it was something that
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: you were able to take away, and then you played
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: really well in the second half. I was when you
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: made that switch at quarterback and receiver and things were
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: starting to click. So you never know, I mean, it's
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: you know, you'll be you'll be. Uh, you'll be on
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: the road for this one though, right.
• 42:28
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we're down there and uh I think that's every area.
• 42:31
  Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, at Archbishop Murphy Stadium. Of it will be,
• 42:36
  Speaker 13: it'll be, it'll be tough. I think our boys were
• 42:38
  Speaker 13: ready for our challenge, and I think you know it's
• 42:42
  Speaker 13: good coming into this game after playing a state champion
• 42:45
  Speaker 13: caliber team like Anna Chortus Speacause, Okay, we know what
• 42:47
  Speaker 13: to expect.
• 42:48
  Speaker 10: We know it's going to be a different level, and
• 42:50
  Speaker 10: we need.
• 42:50
  Speaker 13: To have be a little bit more prepared to do
• 42:52
  Speaker 13: the more aware and just and just be ready to go.
• 42:55
  Speaker 13: This is this will be a heck of a challenge
• 42:57
  Speaker 13: for us. I'm hoping to be as competitive as possible.
• 43:00
  Speaker 13: We get into Week five the following week, and my
• 43:03
  Speaker 13: number one sers be healthy is to go into that season.
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's gonna be great. Thank you so much, coach.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Best of luck against the Wildcats on Friday. Thank you
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 43:14
  Speaker 10: All right, thank you for having me.
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a tough task for Coach Leonard and
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: his BayHawks. Another team traveling south will be the Squalicum
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: Storm and they are facing the Lakewood Cougars. Squalicum comes
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: into the game with a record of one and two
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: and Lakewood is zero to three on the season. Max
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Preps shows an advantage for the Storm and we are
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: now joined on the Gatorade Game Day preview by Squalicum
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: football coach Nick Lucy coach, thank you for joining me today.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: How are you doing? He and good?
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Awesome random question to start it out? Who's your all
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: time favorite football player?
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Oh? Man, I think I gotta go in his prime?
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: Russell Wilson.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, why? Why? Why him?
• 44:00
  Speaker 14: You know, I mean the guy just found a way
• 44:02
  Speaker 14: to win. Russell Wilson running the ball back in the
• 44:06
  Speaker 14: day when his legs are young and dropping bombs and
• 44:09
  Speaker 14: making things happen is happy times.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Before we talk about your Week four opponent, let's talk
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: about your season a little bit. So far, one close game,
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: one blow out win, one blowout loss. You've played very
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: three very different opponents so far. What if you liked
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: about your team so far to this point.
• 44:30
  Speaker 14: You know, we got a really good group of seniors
• 44:33
  Speaker 14: that love to play together. They love the game, they
• 44:36
  Speaker 14: love to prepare, They've worked their tails off, They've been
• 44:39
  Speaker 14: a core part of what we do. So you know,
• 44:41
  Speaker 14: it's so much fun to come coach these guys up
• 44:44
  Speaker 14: every day and get spend Friday nights with them. You know,
• 44:48
  Speaker 14: it starts with that because they set the tone for
• 44:50
  Speaker 14: the rest of our team and it's a good group.
• 44:53
  Speaker 14: So you know, the season's young. We really like like
• 44:56
  Speaker 14: a lot of the things we've done. Obviously, we feel
• 44:58
  Speaker 14: like we can get better at some other things, and
• 45:01
  Speaker 14: we're excited because we get seven more weeks with these guys.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: It's a The season does go fast, so you're going
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: to savor every moment. I can't believe we're already going
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: into week four here. Speaking of your seniors, tell me
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: a little bit about Zach Watt.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: He's he's a He's been such a.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: Great guy for me to cover, just as a player,
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: but also as a as a person. He seems like
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: a dream to coach, always in the right place, knows
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: what to do out there, almost like a coach on
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: the field. Is that kind of a fair assessment.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Absolutely?
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: I mean he is, like you said, he is everywhere.
• 45:32
  Speaker 14: He's making past breakups, getting intercessions, coming on, making tackles
• 45:37
  Speaker 14: at the line.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: He's just he's a hell of football player.
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: He's a great kid.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: He knows what it takes to prepare.
• 45:44
  Speaker 14: He's a great teammate, you know, just one of those
• 45:46
  Speaker 14: kids like you're like, man, I'm so lucky to get
• 45:50
  Speaker 14: to be around this kid every day and makes others better.
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: But he is a heck of a player too, and
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: he's rangy and I think as a future.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: Playing Yeah, absolutely, he's He's you know, they're there's kids
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: that come and go that I've met over the years,
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: and you're probably the same way where certain kids stick
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: out and you'll you know, and you'll always remember them.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: And he's one of those for me right now. And
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: I'm just glad he's still around so I can cover him.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: So I have I have a crazy stat for you.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: At least to me, it is.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: And since you've come to Squalicum, would you like to
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: guess how many pick sixes your team has had?
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, let's go with seven.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Okay, here's and I'm gonna I'm just gonna throw this
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: out there because other schools. This is how many of
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: the other schools have had since your arrival at Squalum.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: Seaholmes had four, Ferndale's had seven, nuk SACS had ten, Lyndon, Lynden,
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: Christian and Meridian have all had eleven, Blaine has had nine,
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Baker's had thirteen, and Bell Bellingham has had fourteen.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: You guys have had twenty three really.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, since you've been the head coach twenty three, I
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: think there was one year where you had five. I mean, wow,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: that you've already got two this year. I mean, what
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: is it? Is there something specific? Is it a scheme
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: that you guys have. Is it a way that you
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: coach like when like when you see the ball in
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: the air, just just just go get it.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Is there something to that number?
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 47:15
  Speaker 14: You know, I think it's a I just think it's
• 47:16
  Speaker 14: that kind of moment when preparation meets a little bit
• 47:19
  Speaker 14: of luck on the field where you know, oftentimes you're
• 47:22
  Speaker 14: getting either a late throw, you know, you're pressure with
• 47:26
  Speaker 14: the quarterbacks throwing it before he's ready. And we've had
• 47:29
  Speaker 14: some really good dbs and linebackers, not to discount the
• 47:33
  Speaker 14: d lineman that may have had some pick sixes, but
• 47:36
  Speaker 14: had some really good guys with a nose for the ball.
• 47:38
  Speaker 14: And you know, when that ball comes out either a
• 47:41
  Speaker 14: little late or for the quarterback wants to and got
• 47:43
  Speaker 14: eyes in the right place, like good things happen. And
• 47:46
  Speaker 14: you know, obviously that's the product too of like a
• 47:48
  Speaker 14: not only the guy picking it, but everybody else, you know,
• 47:51
  Speaker 14: doing their job and making that happen. I remember there's
• 47:54
  Speaker 14: one that sticks out to me back in like twenty
• 47:57
  Speaker 14: eighteen and Spencer Lloyd's coming off the edge against the
• 48:00
  Speaker 14: catchel quarterbacks got to pull up on sprint out and
• 48:02
  Speaker 14: throw it before he wants and our safety steps in
• 48:05
  Speaker 14: front picks it off.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: And yeah, definitely team effort.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm glad you brought that up because you know,
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: the name, you know in the paper and online is
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: who intercepted it, who scored the touchdown.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: But so many.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: Times it could be a tipped pass that leads to that,
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: it could be a defensive lineman hurrying the quarterback.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: So I'm glad that you brought that up.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: And it is a team effort, and that's why I
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: wanted to bring it up with you because it's it's
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: something that you guys have done as a team really
• 48:32
  Speaker 3: well since you've been there. Squallkum only had eight in
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: their whole, you know, existence before you got there, and
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: you've had twenty three since you've been there. So there
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: is something going on with what you got going on,
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: and it's so much fun to watch. All Right, let's
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: talk about your game this week. Okay, you'll be on
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: the road at Lakewood.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: They're a pretty young team. What do you know about
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: them so far?
• 48:55
  Speaker 14: You know, they're a team that makes you strain to
• 48:57
  Speaker 14: prepare defensively, they are they are a spread team, but
• 49:01
  Speaker 14: they're gonna get in some different formations. They got an
• 49:03
  Speaker 14: athletic a couple of athletic guys playing quarterbacks, so you
• 49:06
  Speaker 14: got to prepare for that kind of carry the ball
• 49:08
  Speaker 14: and then for them too with so they're always a
• 49:11
  Speaker 14: unique prep They use different things like swinging gate and
• 49:14
  Speaker 14: we'll jump into it wherever, and then defensively in the
• 49:17
  Speaker 14: pass it for them some different looks. So I know
• 49:20
  Speaker 14: they're a young squad. They're gonna keep getting better. And
• 49:23
  Speaker 14: you know, one of the things about teams like that
• 49:24
  Speaker 14: is you just never know. You know, you got to
• 49:26
  Speaker 14: be ready when you hit the game on Friday to
• 49:28
  Speaker 14: have to adjustice something you may not have seen. But
• 49:30
  Speaker 14: like every week, it's all about us and doing our
• 49:33
  Speaker 14: stuff as ball as we can.
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and another kid I want to touch on really
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: quickly too is Bryce and Veren unfortunately got injured during
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: the jamboree and he's been such a you know, just
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: a stallwart for your team the last couple of years
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: and now his senior year and he's not able to play,
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: but it's so cool to see him.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Out there on the sidelines.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: He's still a part of the team. You know, it's
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: unfortunately he's missing his senior year, but you know, maybe
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: just talk about him a little bit and how how
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: you know how big of an impact he has on
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: your team still just being on the sideline.
• 50:07
  Speaker 14: Yeah, you know you talk like just like Zach, I mean,
• 50:09
  Speaker 14: talk about a kid that gets it and a kid
• 50:11
  Speaker 14: that uh like like is all about making like he's
• 50:15
  Speaker 14: he's a heck of a football player too, but it
• 50:17
  Speaker 14: is all about making others around him better. That's just
• 50:21
  Speaker 14: like when you can do that, you're on a different level.
• 50:23
  Speaker 14: And I think the day after he found out he'd
• 50:25
  Speaker 14: torn his acl comes up me after practice and goes, hey,
• 50:28
  Speaker 14: you want to go check on this player.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: He seemed like he was kind of down during practice and.
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: Like, like, my kid does that that? Yeah, you know,
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: just lost his season.
• 50:36
  Speaker 14: He was you know, he should have been a three
• 50:38
  Speaker 14: year starter, just a I mean, just a great kids
• 50:43
  Speaker 14: to do that and look out just kind.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Of yeah, yeah, that's.
• 50:47
  Speaker 14: For some faith in humanity and kids after one another
• 50:50
  Speaker 14: that way.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: So we're bummed to lose me.
• 50:51
  Speaker 14: He's obviously, you know, a heck of a player on
• 50:53
  Speaker 14: both sides ball, being a multi starter, but you know,
• 50:56
  Speaker 14: even more than that, like he's.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: A leader and just a high quality young man.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a that's a great point, and that's a
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: you know, that is really cool to hear that kind
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: of thing where he says, hey.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Why don't you, you know, check on him a little bit.
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's I love hearing stuff like that, and
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: that's why I love having these having all your coaches
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: on on the on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: It's great.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: Best of luck on Friday against the Cougars, coach, and
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: thank you so much for joining me.
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: All right, appreciated, Tyler.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: You bet well. There you have it from coach Lucy.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: I was so excited I was able to make contact
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: with him and line him up for that interview.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Hopefully going forward it'll be on track.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: That's as another really fun guy to talk football with.
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: Next up are the Mount Baker Mountaineers. They are playing
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: host to the Sultan Turks. Mount Baker is two and
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: one on the season. Sultan is one and two and
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: based on the Max Preps rankings. Mount Baker has the
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: pretty strong edge here and we are now joined on
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: the Gatorade Game Day Preview by Mount Baker football coach
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: Ron Lepper. Coach, thank you for joining me today. How
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: are you doing?
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: I'm doing doing well and again, appreciate it time that
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: we get a chance to communicate.
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm I love it as well. It's always a
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: great deal of fun. And uh, I'm gonna start off
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: with a random question. Who's your all time favorite football
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: player Marlins?
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Why is that?
• 52:16
  Speaker 7: I grew up a Rams fan growing up, because you know,
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: it's Oxopoor around then. I loved I loved the love
• 52:25
  Speaker 7: the Rams and Merlin Olson was a defensive lineman. That's
• 52:28
  Speaker 7: what I wanted to be and he was really really good.
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: So yeah he was. He was my guy.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's part of the fearsome forsome right exactly.
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: You know I didn't hesitate on that. No.
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it when when people know right away
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: he had giant hands too.
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: I mean he was he was a he was a beast. Yeah.
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: It was the Pro bowler every year he played in
• 52:52
  Speaker 7: the NFL.
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was definitely when you talk about interior lineman,
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: uh in NFL history. His name him Joe green allan
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: Page or kind of the you know in that era,
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: right or those big ones, And.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was amazing. I love it. I love it.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: I've asked every single coach and it's always interesting to
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: hear who their.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: Favorite guy is.
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: And that's a that's a great one. Before talking about
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: your Week four opponent, let's go back to last Saturday
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: where you faced Bellevue and you battle them for four quarters.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: What was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: You know that we battled the whole time, like and
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: we know we competed, we gave ourselves some opportunities, and
• 53:36
  Speaker 7: so you know, ultimately we did not you know, did
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: not take care of business and win the game. But
• 53:42
  Speaker 7: you know, I think it was the game we needed
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: at this time, you know, a non league game against
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: a very quality opponent to show us what we need
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: to work on, you know, things we got to make
• 53:53
  Speaker 7: sure we clean up a little bit and then just
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: to be able to be a game where you have
• 53:59
  Speaker 7: you're ready to go every the whole game. So that's
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: that point that you know, that's what we can take
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: on that and you know, and now that the key
• 54:07
  Speaker 7: is not to take a step back. We got to
• 54:09
  Speaker 7: continue to get better to move forward. But you know,
• 54:13
  Speaker 7: you take away a couple of little you know, a
• 54:14
  Speaker 7: couple of mistakes that happen. You know, that's way it goes.
• 54:16
  Speaker 7: It happens. But yeah, we were I'm pretty sure people
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: when I was twenty one zero thought, okay, you know,
• 54:23
  Speaker 7: this is the game's over. But our guys, you know,
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: didn't do that. And it was just a lot of
• 54:28
  Speaker 7: fun to coach them and watch them go on and
• 54:30
  Speaker 7: give us what they had last Saturday.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: It was a tremendous atmosphere. I was, I was, man,
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: you're right. Every single play. I mean, it's just it
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: has a different had a different intensity to it and
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: because you're gonna get hitting the mouth on every single play,
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: and I thought, your guys just exemplified what it was
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: to be a Mount Baker football player. And it was
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: it was really really great to see.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Jet Ross a little bit.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: He's he's proving weekend and week out to be a
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: game changer on the outside. What if you liked about
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: his season so far?
• 55:05
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean we knew as a freshman he has
• 55:08
  Speaker 7: some ability, you know, some natural ability with his hands,
• 55:10
  Speaker 7: and then I think for me, the biggest part is
• 55:12
  Speaker 7: his leadership, especially throughout the spring and stuff. You know,
• 55:18
  Speaker 7: he's not gonna wow you with you know, blazing speed
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: and all that kind of stuff, but you know he's
• 55:22
  Speaker 7: a competitor. You know, he'll go and make a play
• 55:25
  Speaker 7: you give him a chance, He's gonna give every every
• 55:27
  Speaker 7: opportunity to do that. The big catch he had downfield
• 55:31
  Speaker 7: last week, you know, he ended up discilcating his finger,
• 55:33
  Speaker 7: but you know, football game and still played. And that's
• 55:37
  Speaker 7: just how it is. I mean, you know, he's he's
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: a guy that you know, one of the reasons why
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: we moved Kel you know, reared the tight end so
• 55:45
  Speaker 7: we could put Jet Ross out of X because we
• 55:48
  Speaker 7: knew we needed to be able to target him multiple
• 55:51
  Speaker 7: times a game and give us a chance, you know,
• 55:52
  Speaker 7: to be successful.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he is.
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: Every single week he's coming up with big, big plays.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: And I tell you what, when you're guy.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: His offense as that kind of weapon on the.
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: Outside, it really really opens things up. And of course
• 56:07
  Speaker 3: you know that and going into the league season, it's
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: just another weapon that other teams are gonna have to
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: be on the lookout for and and that's what makes
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: play calling fun. Let's talk about Friday night, you're gonna
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: be it's gonna be your first home game under the
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: lights hosting Sultan.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: What do you know about this year's Sultan team.
• 56:27
  Speaker 7: Well, it's gonna be our first home game under the lights,
• 56:29
  Speaker 7: our new lights. We got new lights this summer.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Oh nice.
• 56:33
  Speaker 7: So yeah, that'll be interested to see how that actually looks.
• 56:38
  Speaker 7: Sulton one. Last week they beat Nathan Hale. Believe they've
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: got some athletes and you know, they had a couple
• 56:43
  Speaker 7: of guys back from last year that you know, we're
• 56:46
  Speaker 7: the number nine for them is a really good ballplayer.
• 56:50
  Speaker 7: They want to get the ball in his hands, either
• 56:51
  Speaker 7: as a return man, as a receiver, you know, run
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: us some reverses. He's also the defense of safety on
• 56:59
  Speaker 7: defense on the ball. He's their kicker hunter, you know.
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: He They've got some guys that run hard. I mean,
• 57:05
  Speaker 7: they did a nice job with Nathan Hale last week,
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: you know, and so we expect them to come out
• 57:13
  Speaker 7: and they want to try to run the ball. It's
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: a little bit of a wing tea look, but they
• 57:17
  Speaker 7: go out of the gun, so a little bit different
• 57:19
  Speaker 7: than us. But some of the same, the same, the principles.
• 57:22
  Speaker 7: You'll see them want to run you know, uh sweep
• 57:25
  Speaker 7: how we run sweep? Uh they tried chriss cross, you know,
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: the double hand off there. So you know, our guys
• 57:30
  Speaker 7: just be ready for that. Make sure we're staying home.
• 57:32
  Speaker 7: And then, like I said, they do have a couple
• 57:34
  Speaker 7: of athletes that skill guys that you know, if you
• 57:37
  Speaker 7: fall asleep, they could make you, make you look silly,
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: and we want to try to avoid that.
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's I mean, you used to play
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: Sultan all the time when it back when it was
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: a conference game in the old North Cascades Conference, and
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: and then there was a lot of uh you know,
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: week ten type of playing games against them. So it's
• 57:55
  Speaker 3: cool that you're being able to bring them back last
• 57:58
  Speaker 3: year and this year and into the schedule and and
• 58:02
  Speaker 3: uh yeah, it's just it's it's cool when I when
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: I see them because it brings back memories on the
• 58:08
  Speaker 3: schedule and I know last year you got them pretty good.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: But but it's you know, it's a new year, it's
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: a new team, and you never know and is there
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: any kind of like I don't know how to put this,
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: but like league is coming up the following week. Is
• 58:21
  Speaker 3: there any thing that you still feel like you need
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: to kind of sharpen or work on in this game?
• 58:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, you know, you always wanted to fleet
• 58:29
  Speaker 7: up things. You want to make sure that you make adjustments,
• 58:31
  Speaker 7: you know, as you're going. You know, we had a
• 58:34
  Speaker 7: couple you know, turnovers. We want to clean that up
• 58:37
  Speaker 7: as we get ready for you know, our for our
• 58:39
  Speaker 7: conference schedule. You know that that's important for us. And
• 58:43
  Speaker 7: then you know, for us, like you know, we we know,
• 58:46
  Speaker 7: like you know, we know we got looks act and
• 58:48
  Speaker 7: it's gonna be a solid game. And our league's tough
• 58:50
  Speaker 7: with the other schools also, but for us, it's about
• 58:53
  Speaker 7: focus on what we needed to make ourselves better. So
• 58:55
  Speaker 7: we give ourselves and our athletes the best opportunity to compete. Right,
• 59:00
  Speaker 7: So we're going to make sure that we're you know,
• 59:02
  Speaker 7: we're taking our steps like we're properly supposed to do.
• 59:05
  Speaker 7: Want to play, you know, are we blocking the right guy?
• 59:08
  Speaker 7: You know, defensively? Are we lined up right? Like you
• 59:10
  Speaker 7: know against Bellevue, there was a couple of times we
• 59:13
  Speaker 7: didn't line some guys up, and so we've got to
• 59:15
  Speaker 7: be better at seeing that we got to be better
• 59:16
  Speaker 7: at understanding what we want to get done and you know,
• 59:19
  Speaker 7: in the overall scheme of what we're trying to do.
• 59:22
  Speaker 7: And that's the that's the that's kind of the tricky
• 59:24
  Speaker 7: part of coaching right now is you know, kids don't
• 59:28
  Speaker 7: understand know, kids don't they watch football, but they don't
• 59:30
  Speaker 7: watch it to learn per se and understand things. And
• 59:33
  Speaker 7: so you know, all of a sudden, if you as
• 59:35
  Speaker 7: we talked about it as you know, one situation where
• 59:37
  Speaker 7: we'd stop the film, we're lined up and we said,
• 59:40
  Speaker 7: what doesn't look right here? Well a little too close
• 59:42
  Speaker 7: to said yeah, so you've got to do to make
• 59:43
  Speaker 7: that adjustment. You know, we see it, we can do it,
• 59:46
  Speaker 7: but sometimes we don't see it. So you guys got
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: to notice that, you know. And if it's d lineman,
• 59:50
  Speaker 7: linebackers got to know that. And if it's linebackers, the
• 59:52
  Speaker 7: the easy to the right in front of you. So
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: those those kinds of things that we want to focus
• 59:57
  Speaker 7: on getting better there and being clean. We want to
• 59:59
  Speaker 7: just be efficient as possible being clean and well we
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 7: have some oportuitment you take advantage of that.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, coach, Thank you so much.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: Good luck against the Turks, and thank you for joining
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: me on the Gatorade Game day preview.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 7: Anytime, Tyler, for you, anytime, buddy.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: They Mountaineers had a short week to prepare and now
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: let's see how they play. And also now let's have
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: a word from our premier sponsor.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: You hear that that's the sound of Pepsi zero sugar.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 4: The better tasting, more refreshing zero sugar Cola Pepsi zero sugar,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: Let your taste decide.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: Next up is a conference game at the two A level.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: The Sea Home Mariners are hosting the Burlington Edison Tigers.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: Seahome is two and one and Burlington Edison is also
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: two in one. Seahome holds the advantage here. Now, I
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: was unable to get a hold of coach Young this week.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: We got really close. There was some back and forth
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: and you just were not able to make the interview happen.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: But you know, if I had to take a look
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: at this game, I mean, you know, yeah, Seahome holds
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: the favorite here. Burlington is very They're very efficient. You know,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: they have a big, strong quarterback that likes to run
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: a lot to probably lead their team in carries, but
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 3: he can throw when needed. Everything is very precise with
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: their offense. I think the Burlington Edison Tigers are on
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: the upswing right now. They gave Seaholme a really great
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: game last year. I believe it was a one score game.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: I want to say it was like twenty eight to
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: twenty one. Seehome came out on top, but it took
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: some doing at the end of the game. It took
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: some you know, it took turnovers, it took this and
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: took that, and took a herculean effort by Nolan Wright,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: who I think got injured during the game and kept
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: playing kind of limited his ground game, which is also
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: you know, can be very very you know, a big
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 3: weapon for Seahome, but so far the weapon has been
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 3: through the air. And really exciting thing here is when
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: Nolan Wright throws his next touchdown pass, it will be
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: it will be the most ever for a walka county
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: quarterback at the high school level. So he's tied right
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: now with eighty four touchdown passes. His next one, number
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: eighty five will break the all time record. So that's
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: gonna be really cool. So good luck Nolan Wright and
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: the Sea Home Mariners. Well as you take on the
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: Brwinston Edison Tigers. It's going to be it's gonna be
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 3: a little tougher than your last week's opponent. But I
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: think they know that and they're gonna prep for it.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: Friday night, we'll also have the Knuxack Valley Plant Pioneers
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: playing host to the Tombwater Thunderbirds. Max Preps gives a
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: strong edge to the two way powerhouse.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: That is Tumwater.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: preview by Nuksack Valley football coach Craig Bartell.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Coach, thank you for joining me today. How are you
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: doing good?
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 10: Thanks again for doing this.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always fun. It's always fun. I'm gonna start
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: off with a random question that I'm asking each.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: Coach, who's your favorite who's your favorite all time football player?
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 15: Favorite all time football player. That's a great question I'm
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 15: going to say, and I'm gonna get so much heat
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 15: for this, probably, but I'm gonna say Tom Brady, why
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 15: is that you know just how he prepared for games?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 15: And if you listen to his story about how when
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 15: he was at Michigan and he would get one snap
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 15: or two snaps when he was young, and how he
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 15: talks about you have to make the most of those
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 15: two snaps, and then you get four or five snaps,
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 15: and you have to make the most of those two
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 15: and you have to enjoy the process of, Hey, I'm
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 15: only going to get a short window that I have
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 15: to show what I can do, and that that resonates,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 15: and then just his preparation for games and his in
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 15: depth knowledge of defenses, are going to do this and
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 15: do that and that that kind of sticks out, but
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 15: mostly because of his mentality at Michigan.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: It's so weird because you know, I remember him at
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: Michigan and it was wasn't Drew Henson was there, and
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: there was other guys, right, he wasn't really the guy
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: for a while. So yeah, it's crazy and what a career.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: Obviously.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: Yea, before we're talking about Week four opponent, let's go
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: over your last game really quickly, a close twenty.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: Two to nineteen loss on the road to Kings. What
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: was your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 16: I think we left some plays out on the field.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 16: The biggest takeaway is as a coach, you know, I'm
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 16: gonna take take this one. I don't know that you know,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 16: I prepared us enough or very well to go down
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 16: there and play that game.
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 5: And so the kids showed up.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 16: They played hard, and so I take a look at
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 16: at at myself uh and figure out, Okay, are we practice?
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 16: Was practice what it should have been this week? Do
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 16: we hope the kids accountable like we should have been
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 16: this week? And I think I felt short of that,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 16: And so this week it's it's gonna be uh, you know,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 16: a lot more focus. We made some really good plays.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 16: We had some kids that got hurt, and we inserted
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 16: some some younger kids that that didn't have a lot
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 16: of our experience, uh, and they did the best they can.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 16: Credit to Kings who had a pretty good game plan.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 16: They did some things defensively that we hadn't seen before.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 16: And so I think that overall this is gonna be
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 16: a really good learning uh experience for us and hopefully,
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 16: well we'll take that into practice this week.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, you were talking about injuries and you're without
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: some major game breakers Matthew Blake, Jayden Jones, there's been
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: sickness going through your team. How is your team's health
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: as a whole right now?
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 5: I think it's improving.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 16: We should get a couple of those guys Jackson Hester
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 16: got hurt and halfway through the game, and so you
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 16: take some some some firepower.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 5: Off of our offense.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 16: But I think we'll have a couple of those guys
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 16: back this week. And credit to the guys that stepped
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 16: in did a fantastic job. But yeah, if you it's
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 16: not it's not just the players, it's the continuity that
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 16: you've kind of built up for the first couple of
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 16: weeks in the mash points and just the familiarity with
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 16: that that it.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 5: Just takes a while to get used to.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 16: But the kids that that stepped in, I think that
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 16: are a fantastic job and give them a ton of
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 16: credit for playing different positions.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: Or going in to your first varsity start or first varsity.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 16: Game, and that's a lot to put on the kids,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 16: and they did a great job.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, you know, I thought Tyler Martin going over
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: and playing safety. He also was a big part of
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: your first scoring drive. He returns that punt forty one yards.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: He ends up kicking a twenty yard field goal. Though,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: a kid like that that can do a lot of
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: different things is a kid that you can lean on.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: You know, that one.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: Drive that you had, which I called the cool Coppinger drive,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 3: where it was basically just take over, We're gonna throw you.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: The ball and you do some stuff. He goes down.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: There were some there were some really good things that
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: you could take away from that game. And but you're
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: right about the continuity and and that's such an important part.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: And the season flies by. You know, we're already a
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: third of the way through and and just like that
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 3: league is going to be right.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: Around the corner.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: But before that, let's talk about your game this week.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: You're going to be back at home and it's against
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: a two AA powerhouse and tomb Water. I'm gonna guess
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: there's still a run heavy wing tea team.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: Yes they are.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 16: Yeah, Fortunately I've become pretty good friends with with Willie
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 16: down there at Tumwater.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 5: And yeah, if they throw the ball more than I
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 5: don't know, five or.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 16: Six times a game, then you know it's it's, uh,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 16: that's an anomaly.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 5: So they are they're run heavy.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 16: Uh, they're they're fast, and they're really good at what
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 16: they do.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, they're just the really good wing tee teams.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 3: You know, they look machine like right where it's just
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: the Archbishops and the Bellevue's and the Ferndalees and the
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 3: Mount Bakers that you could you could it's almost looks
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: video game like where they kind of just move in
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: a certain spot and they you can tell that maybe
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 3: they only run.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Six or eight plays, but they do it. So they
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: do it so much at.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 3: Practice over and over again to where it's it's the
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: precision is right there. I mean, you played them last year.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: It was down there. You were able to get on
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: the board a few times. But they had some big
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 3: dudes up front. Is it do they look as big
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: or as menacing, or there some new guys or is
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 3: it just kind of same old dumbwater.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: All the above.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 16: Yeah, it's it's they hit, they're they're fast, they have
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 16: some big guys, and like you said that there is
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 16: precision on what they do.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 5: They and just talking with Willie down there, that they do.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 5: They practice.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 16: They wrapped their handoffs a lot, and so this week
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 16: I think it's important for us to focus on us.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 5: You know, we're not outcome based, and.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 16: So we have to focus on the process of what
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 16: we need to do, and that's that's take care of ourselves.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 16: And last year I think we you know, watched the
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 16: film again. We played them really tough for the first half,
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 16: and then we got tired because we have we have
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 16: a lot of guys.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: Going both ways. They don't.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 16: And when you get tired, you mentally start to relax
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 16: a little bit, and the keys and reads that you're
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 16: supposed to.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: Make you start to start to slide a little bit,
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 5: and then you're half.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 10: A step slow.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 16: And so that's going to be kind of the important
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 16: thing to battle this this year is in this week,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 16: is to get over that mental drain and still do
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 16: your job, still make your reads and if they beat you,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 16: they beat you on apply, but still get to the
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 16: right spots. And so mentally it's going to be just
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 16: as important as physically this week.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm so glad you brought that up, Coach, because
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: that's such an important thing that a lot of people
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: in the stands don't realize is and it's something that
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: everybody can relate to, maybe in their own work or whatever.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: When it's you're working overtime or it's late in the day,
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: late late in the week and you're like, oh, I
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 3: forgot about that email or I forgot about this, and
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: it's but on the football field.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: It's you have to you have to see something be
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: able to react to it.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 3: And if you're tired and you're physically tired and you
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 3: become mentally tired.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, it's just something as quick as that.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: And that's the big difference between you know, a bigger
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: school and you know, like you said, guys, that go
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: both ways, and it's really hard to stay.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: Attuned to what you're supposed to be doing.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 3: So I'm really glad you brought that up, because that
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 3: is something that people don't think of a whole lot.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: And that's why I love talking all all your coaches because.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 3: Even I even though I know that it's I don't
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: remember it all the time, and so it's a it's
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 3: a good thing to remember. So yeah, I mean, I'm
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: glad you're back home. It's gonna be it's gonna be tough. Obviously,
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: they're a great, great school. I don't know how often
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 3: they play on grass, but and then pretty pretty soon,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know how often you guys are gonna be
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: playing on grass.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: It'll be a completely new thing next year.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 10: So but that's true.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's awesome.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 16: I told Willie, I said, hey, we we're not gonna motograss.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 10: We haven't promoted for two weeks. We're gonna get that
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 10: thing high.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 16: We're gonna have the corn cut and we're gonna talk
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 16: to the farmers around and have them spread their their
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 16: their liquid waste on and so.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 5: We'll try to create a build advantage.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, anything you could do. You know.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 3: I love it when it's when I go out there
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, ah, smells like money, and yeah, it's
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: a it's a great atmosphere out at s Lambert Field.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: I don't think I will be out at that one.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 3: I might pop in there for a little bit, but
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: we'll we'll find out. Best of out coach on Friday
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: night against the Thunderbirds, and thanks for joining me on
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 3: the Gatorade game day preview.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 10: Appreciate I appreciate everything you do.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 16: It's great for the sports, great for the kids, and
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 16: we appreciate you more than you know.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: Awesome, thanks coach. The final game on Friday night has
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: the Leimonation Blackhawks playing host to the two Layup Heritage Hawks.
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: Lemon Nation is one and one on the season after
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 3: having a bye week last week, and Tu Laila Heritage
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: is two in one, but that loss came on a
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: forfeit to begin the season. They put up seventy points
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 3: in their last week's game. This is a really tough team.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 3: And we are now joined on the Gatorade Game Day
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 3: preview by Elimination Football coach Tico Layton coach, thank you
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 3: for joining me today.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: Doing pretty good? Thanks for having me?
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you bet.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna start off with a random question here that
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: I'm asking every coach this week.
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: Who's your all time favorite football player?
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: I would say Sean Taylor.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 17: I loved how Sean Taylor played on the field and
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 17: how he reacted and just who he was.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: Oh man, Sean Taylor. That hit in the Pro Bowl?
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 10: Cool, No, you're right.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: You're right, Sean Taylor.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: You know he should get more consideration for the Hall
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: of Fame. Obviously shortened career, shortened life, but when you
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: look at his body of work, it's pretty amazing what
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: he did. My goodness, what a great and what a
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: guy that people listening right now probably have no clue
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: who Sean Taylor is. Just go to YouTube and yeah,
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: if his life wasn't tragically, you know, cut short, he
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 3: would be in the Hall of Fame, right, now there's
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: no doubt about that. So let's talk about your season
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: so far. Before we talk about your Week four opponent,
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: let's kind of go or the season.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: One and one on the year, Darrington. They got you
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: pretty good a bye week last week. Was it a
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: good timing for a bye week?
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 17: It was a good development week for our kids and
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 17: a little reset for our kids and to look forward
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 17: into the season.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 3: The Loggers looked pretty fast out there, was it was
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: it just a.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Matter of big plays.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: For them, Yeah, matter of big plays.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 17: They made it to the outside, beat us with their
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 17: speed that we talked about, and saw a couple of
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 17: pass plays over top to where we got beat.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 3: I mean it's and like you always say, I mean
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: in eight man football, it's getting outside is huge because
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of room out there to run. So
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: obviously that can happen. Let's talk about your game this week.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: You're back at home and it's a big one under
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: the lights Friday night. The radio is going to be
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: out there calling the game, and your opponent has been
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: putting up some major points.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: Tell me about this two lay the parrotage.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 17: So there are another very athletic team. They got a
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 17: couple of good kids that can move fast. Where they
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 17: were on that team that took fifth place at state
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 17: for basketball. So just a lot of coordinated athletic kids.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 17: They like to compact their offense and spread out a
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 17: couple in a couple situations, but they're more run oriented
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 17: with a couple pass plays that are just deep.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 3: Okay, Yeah, I remember that basketball team last year, and
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 3: it was it was unique because I hadn't you know,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: I hadn't seen a lot of your opponents, especially your
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: league opponents, and I haven't even seen your team really,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: and then I watched that first game online when you
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: were on the road playing them, and you know, I
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: was like, holy cow, this is a one beat school.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: Like they were so athletic.
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: So you're telling me some of these basketball kids are
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: out there playing football too.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're back out there.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Gracious, you had a little bit of
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: injury issue earlier in the year.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: It's week four now, did you were able to get
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: some of these kids back now?
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 17: So we got JJ Pantalia back for the Darrington game.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 17: He'll be back for this talal up week four. And
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 17: we also got Isaiah zarus Our quarterback who will be
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 17: back hopefully in the rotation.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: Nice does that? What does that mean for Michael Wilson?
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: Is he gonna be playing somewhere a different, different spot
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: as far as the offense goes.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 17: He'll be staying at quarterback and also our running back
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 17: in situations, and then he'll keep a spot on defense.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So it's just it's about putting your best
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 3: aid on the field, right and you gotta you gotta
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: move him around and stuff like that. It's it's gonna
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: be awesome, coach. I'm pumped, and it's on the radio,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: and uh, yeah, this is gonna be a good one.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: Obviously a major opponent you're going against. I believe they're
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: three and zero on the year. So yeah, it's a
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: it's a it's a tall task, but I like your
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: guys and and uh I'm I'm excited for it.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining me.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: Best of luck on Friday night, coach, and we'll talk
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 3: to you next week on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: Appreciate it, Tyler. Thank you.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: Not only one game left to talk about, but first
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: let's take just fifteen seconds to pay some bills.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 4: You hear that that's the sound of Pepsi zero sugar.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 4: The better tasting, more refreshing zero sugar cola Pepsi zero sugar.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 4: Let your taste decide.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: All Right, it's the lone Saturday game and we have
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: the Linden Christian Links traveling to Winatchi to take on
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: the Lakeside nine Mile Falls Eagles. Boy, that's a lot
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: of words there, Lakeside nine Mile Falls Eagles. Linden Christian
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 3: is three and zero on the season, Lakeside nine Mile
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: Falls is two and one, and Max Prep shows the
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 3: Links as the favorite. And we are now joined on
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 3: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Lyndon Christian football coach
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: Greg Tirpstra coach, thank you for joining me today. How
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: are you doing?
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 7: Hey?
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 18: I think we just got back from Okanagan about two
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 18: hours ago.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: Random question to start out, who's your all time favorite
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: football player Cam Chancellor?
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 18: Because he hits, He just gritty, just embraces the Yeah,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 18: just the embodiment of football.
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: Just the toughest guy.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 18: I don't know, I you caught me off Guard's the
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 18: first one that came to mindse that's one I went.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: With nice.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 3: Before we talked about your Week four opponents talk about
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 3: your game at Okanagan. Another dominant performance. And it has
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: it been the same things that's been working in week
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: one and two or was there something different in this
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 3: one that you liked?
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 18: You know, our balance I think was good again and
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 18: I don't really think it was new. We were prepared,
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 18: I felt, came out strong, came out physical right away
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 18: out of the gate, and I think that's been a
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 18: pretty good formula for us the last three weeks.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you brought up a good point about coming out strong,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: because sometimes a long bus trip can cause tired legs
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 3: in the first quarter. But your guys look great from
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 3: the get go. Is there is it a did how
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 3: early did you get there? Did you get there pretty
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 3: early to where you could prep a little bit and
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: get ready?
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 10: No?
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 18: No, were we were I want to say behind, but
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 18: we were there just barely in time.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 7: But I gotta.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 18: Really think our boosters and people that support us, because
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 18: they got us one of those awesome, you know, bel
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 18: air buses where they're just really comfy, and that made
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 18: all the difference. That was a big deal. Now what
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 18: we're gonna do is we're gonna test that theory because
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 18: we got just school buses lined up for WINATCHI this
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 18: week where we're going to go meet Lakeside.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 8: In timl Fall.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 18: So you know, maybe we just blow that game and
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 18: then we just make the the excuse why we need
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 18: a bel air bus every time.
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, Yeah, let's talk about it.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: You're back on the road again, this time not going
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 3: as far, pretty close, pretty pretty far going to the
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 3: Apple Bowl and when Natch you to take on Lakeside
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 3: nine Mile Falls on Saturday at noon. That's an early
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 3: game for Saturday for having to travel. What's the what's
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: your meeting time there in the in the in the
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: at the school there in the morning.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 18: Bus is rolling at five thirty am. So yeah, that's
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 18: gonna be a little early. It wasn't going to be
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 18: that early. We found out later that the locals there
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 18: needed to get a soccer game in and so we
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 18: got bumped to an earlier time, which is a little unfortunate,
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 18: but hey, you know, all these are great experiences for
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 18: hopefully later on in the season where you know, games
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 18: come up, you got to go a long way. He's
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 18: got to get up early, and so yeah, I think
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 18: we're okay.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. What do you know about this Eagle team.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 18: They're they're improved since last year two years ago, so
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 18: let's be third year in a row that we played them.
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 18: Two years ago, they had a real salty bunch that
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 18: what got to the championship and then they lost a
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 18: lot of those fellas last year and so they were
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 18: on the rebuild last year and then they've gotten a
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 18: lot better. They have a really dynamic quarterback, they're solid
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 18: up front. Yeah, they're they're pretty multiple, so they're they're
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 18: gonna be a challenge to defend and a challenge to
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 18: make some yards on.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, they're traditionally pretty strong team, and they were
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 3: down a little bit last year. I got to see
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 3: him a couple of times, you know, against you guys,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: against Nick sac Valley, and they, you know, something just
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: seemed off. But it looked like a lot of first
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: year of varsity guys. But I'm not surprised that they're
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 3: bouncing back because they're traditionally, you know, like you said,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 3: pretty pretty strong program, and they were in the championship
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 3: game a couple of years ago. So man, it's been
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 3: a lot of fun watching it. You talked about balance,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 3: you know, last week, I think like twenty six run plays,
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: twenty two pass plays, both of them riding around.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: Close to two hundred yards each.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 3: That's about as balanced as it gets, is it. Do
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: you do you go into the game going we want
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: to be balanced or is it more about, oh wow,
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 3: they're lining up like this. I guess we'll just do this.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: Well, do I lie to you or not?
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: That's your call.
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 18: No, I you know, it's no secret. We go with
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 18: what the defense gives us. And you know you can
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 18: ride a hot hand too. You know, there's there's just
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 18: so many minds thinking together and giving input that just
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 18: to say like it's it's my idea to be balanced,
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 18: it's just completely inaccurate. So you know, I'm taking all
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 18: sorts of feedback from Crieter and Facima, Unlibelt and Kaepernick
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 18: now and it's just we Yeah, it's a whole. It's
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 18: it's a team on the field and it's a team
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 18: on the sidelines. So that's that's really fun.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: I've I've sat up in the booth probably you know,
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 3: with each coaching staff at some point over the over
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 3: the years, and one of the things that's funny sometimes
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 3: is you talked about writing a hot hand. How many
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 3: times have you gone like how many? I mean, I
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: hear this all the time and say do it again,
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 3: you know, and and especially on run play that that's
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 3: that's working. Has there been a moment yet where you're like, hmm,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna do the exact same thing and you've
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 3: done it multiple times.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 18: Yeah, it's called give the ball to clemen and TJ. Yeah,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 18: and and that's just a real shout out to our
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 18: life line who who wants it? Like, you know, they
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 18: they're saying, let's run the wall, whereas sometimes you get
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 18: a line that says, can we pass blocked for a
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 18: little while? You know, they just they really want to
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 18: impose their will and they're just they're having fun doing it.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: That's awesome and that that's so great to see.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 3: And I've I've known, I've heard from coaches that maybe
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 3: we'll call a time out on a crucial fourth down
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 3: play near midfield, big big part of the game, and
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: sometimes the coach will ask the line, what do you
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: guys want to run on this on this fourth and two?
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 8: You know, that's about that's about every time.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean, and it's great because they get there,
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 3: they're kind of feeling what's going on. And if they
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 3: feel like we're wearing these guys down, they're gonna say,
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 3: let's let's run this, let's.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: Let's do this. We want to run the ball. So
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: I love hearing that.
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: I love that the offensive line is back, and and uh,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 3: you know, I mean the LC offensive line for years
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: was just a staple. I mean, geez, Louise, when when
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: I played, when you played, that was strength. And it's
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 3: so cool to have them back and being that wall
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: that is there, and it's suspen so much fun watching
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 3: the team. There's only a few undefeated teams left for
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 3: Walking County, only three of them, and you're one of them.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 3: So I'm glad that it's going well coach, and best
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 3: of luck over at Winatchie on Saturday against the Eagles.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: And thanks for joining me on the Gatorade game day preview.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks so much, Tyler.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 3: All right, well you heard it right there from Coach
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: Turf show that one's going to be played in the
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: Apple Bowl and Winnatchie at noon on Saturday.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's gonna be the lone.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 3: Game on Saturday. There was supposed to be another one.
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 3: We did have one more game scheduled which was Meridian
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 3: hosting Forks, but unfortunately that game was canceled. But there's
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: still there will still be a reason to head out
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: to Laurel on Saturday. And now we are joined on
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 3: the Gatorade Game Day preview by Meridian football coach Patrick Games.
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: Coach, thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 5: I'm not doing too bad, Tyler.
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you bet. I'm starting off with this.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: Interview with all the coaches with a random question, Who's
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 3: your favorite all time football player?
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 10: Steve Largent?
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, that was the quickest answer and the best answer.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: Well done. Why Steve Largin?
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 11: When I was a very impressionable young football fan and
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 11: a fan of the Seattle Seahawks, he was the most
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 11: identifiable player on that team and for a team that
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 11: you know, was.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 5: Average to a slightly above average for most of my
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 5: most of my young fandom of the Seahawks.
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 11: And he was a really good football player, not because
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 11: he was the most talented, but very very smart, very heady,
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 11: a good teammate and those role traits that I tried
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 11: to identify with also so class act too.
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 3: That's I'm looking right now at two Steve largent posters
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 3: up in my.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: Office, so, oh yeah, those are That's a good answer.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: So before we talk about Saturday, let's go over your
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 3: game last week thirty three to twenty win over four
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 3: a Cameac.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: Was your first home game of the year. What was
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: your biggest takeaway from that game?
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 11: That we're happy that we don't have to play that
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 11: two hundred and twenty found running back was just a
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 11: sophomore in the next couple of years, that they're not
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 11: a legal opponent.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 5: He was alone. But I was really heartened by the
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 5: fact that.
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 11: Again against a team that was bigger than us, like
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 11: ourpon of the week before that, we just continued to
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 11: fight and battle and gave ourselves opportunities to score a
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 11: couple of touchdowns and keep them out of the end
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 11: zone a couple of times when they threatened. So we
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 11: were able to play a relatively solid football game start
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 11: to finish. And anytime you can do that, still in
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 11: the first half of your season, when you've got as
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 11: many new guys in new spots and we were dealing
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 11: with injuries, like I know, probably a lot of smaller
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 11: schools like we are that we were able to weather
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 11: that one as well and come out on the winning
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 11: end of it.
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, I was on the sideline for
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: a little over a quarter of that game, and it's
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 3: always fun to be able to have the access, and
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: I thank you for that, to be able to see
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 3: kind of things at that point of view. And one
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 3: of the things that I noticed was, and you know,
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 3: it's such a unique thing. And then after watching the
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 3: game film as well as so you have your quarterback,
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: you have your five offensive linemen, but after that, I
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 3: think I counted like twelve different guys that occupied those
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 3: five other spots from time to time? Are there formations
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 3: that are specific to players? Do you like to ride
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: a hot hand?
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: Every now and then? Is is someone counting snaps?
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: How do you know from play to play which five
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: school guys you're going to have out there?
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 11: Some of it is dependent upon formations, is dependent upon
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 11: some is dependent upon creating opportunities for guys to contribute
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 11: and creating opportunities for guys to prove themselves.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: Also in some in some Friday night situations.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 11: So yeah, those are all factors in how we were
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 11: working guys in and out of those spots. As the
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 11: running backs coach, I tried to be really intentional about
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 11: creating opportunities for a lot of different guys to be
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 11: able to play back there. We graduated three seniors who
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 11: played for us in the backfield last year, and so
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 11: we're still kind of in the in the mode right
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 11: now where we want to get an evaluation of all
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 11: of our guys that right now we think have the
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 11: ability to contribute on on Friday nights. And you see
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 11: that in a running back, in our running back spots
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 11: and in the different ways that you know, we can
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 11: we can run receivers out there. So yeah, it was
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 11: interesting that you notice that because right now we're trying
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 11: to be intentional about it.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's you know, you're holding up, you know,
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: and when and and all of a sudden, certain guys
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: come to you and it's like they know what's going on.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: But it's really and it's really unique because a.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: Lot of one A teams don't have that luxury, you know,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: And so it was it's, uh.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 3: And I you know, one of the things I did
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 3: notice is you ran out your freshman running back for
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 3: a play and he games twenty four yards and it's like,
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 3: holy cow, like they got lots of different guys.
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 3: It was really really cool to see. Uh yeah, it's
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: I loved it. Let's let's talk about Saturday a little bit.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 3: Originally you're scheduled to play Forks. Every time I think
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: of Forks, I think of Pat Bennett, you know, you
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 3: know that was a long time ago. But but the
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 3: game was canceled.
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: Is there a reason? Is it just as simple as that,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: just a canceled game.
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 11: We were told, we were alerted to the fact that
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 11: it could happen on Friday, and they cited player safety
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 11: concerns and and.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 5: We can communicated with them that we've fully understood.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 11: That was you know, going into our game with a
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 11: you know, a foury opponent, we said, okay, we get it, yep.
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 5: And then coming out of their game on Saturday.
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 11: And I'm not sure like if they looked at our
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 11: score and said, okay, you were sandbagging on this one,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 11: because you actually beat that for a team and they
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 11: lost to a two B team and they said they
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 11: had even they lost even more guys in that game.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 11: So they said that they didn't think physically for them
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 11: it was going to be a good idea to come
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 11: and play. So we've we've taken it all the way
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 11: through today and we've been we've contacted everybody we could
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 11: think to contact to see if we could get a game,
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 11: and we've got it on the wi AA Games Wanted
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 11: site say we'll play, We'll play anybody, and that one's
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 11: gone has gone unanswered. So at this point, yeah, we
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 11: don't we don't have an opponent to play this weekend.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and again to our listeners, you know we're doing
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 3: this interview on a Tuesday evening. This post will be
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: coming out Thursday morning. So fingers crossed coached that something
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: can still happen. I know usually this late in the game,
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 3: it's probably not gonna happen.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: But I've seen things like this.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 3: Happen, and I know you have too, So yeah, it
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 3: is you know, you never know, and it's it is crazy.
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 3: And you know, when you have five non league games
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 3: you have to schedule every year, I can't even imagine
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 3: the difficulties and the you know, just going through and
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: having to do that every single year and then having
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 3: things fall through, you know, and it just that's just
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 3: kind of the way that it is. The dedication on
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 3: Sunday Bob Amesfield. I saw the sign above the scoreboard
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 3: last Friday. It looked awesome. I saw the signature on
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: the field, it looked awesome. I'm so glad this has happened,
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: so glad that this is happening. How did it all
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 3: come together?
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 11: I know our district formed a subcommittee of a facility's team,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 11: and I believe that committee met to discuss how they
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 11: wanted to recognize important contributors to our district, whether that
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 11: was athletics or otherwise. And I know the first two
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 11: names that came up were Diane Axelson, our longtime volleyball coach,
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 11: and they named the varsity gym after her last year,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 11: and then this year it was going to be to
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 11: name the football field after my father. And after that,
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 11: I don't know, I don't know if there are any
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 11: plans in the works to name anything else around here
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 11: after anybody, but I know those were kind of the
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 11: two priorities of.
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 5: The committee that met to discuss that.
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 11: So we had that on the calendar to happen this year,
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 11: and you know, we had it schedule for the weekend
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 11: that you know we were going to play. You know,
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 11: when you schedule football games, By the way, when you
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 11: only have you know, four or five of them a year,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 11: you try to layer as many things as possible to them.
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 5: I got to tell you a quick story because I
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 5: thought this was really funny.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 11: So last weekend home opener, we have mini cheer, Right,
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 11: We've got over a hundred families here with little girls
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 11: for minichair, including my seven year old, and we're trying
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 11: a layer you know, events onto football games because they
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 11: naturally bring people together, and you don't have to love
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 11: football to come to a football game. My leadership class
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 11: through a big community tailgate party beforehand, we had mini
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 11: chair to the point where it's halftime and my little
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 11: girl's ready to go home with my wife, and she
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 11: says to my seven year old, m Okay, it's time
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 11: to go home and Dominic my son.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 5: He'll come home with dad, and my my seven year.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 11: Old says her, wait, dad's here, Like she had no
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 11: idea like that she was at a football game that
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 11: she's come to literally every game of her entire life.
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 5: That I was still out there coaching.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 11: But to the point where, like these are big community events,
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 11: you know, the football sometimes feels a little bit secondary
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 11: to all the other things that go into it. So
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 11: we scheduled the dedication ceremony for you know, the middle
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 11: of the season, so it's not going to be on Homecoming,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 11: it's not going to be on Senior night, right, and
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 11: then obviously we've got the the snaffoo now with not
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 11: out able to actually play a game the day that
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 11: the field is going to be dedicated. But that's that's
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 11: why I kind of hit here in the in the
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 11: middle of the season and not you know, with a
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 11: with another league of oponents, just because you have so
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 11: many few games and you're already kind of kind of
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 11: layered up when it comes to some of the other
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 11: things that go into celebrations around football games and in
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 11: small communities and schools like ours.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: Oh that's I love that story.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 3: That's uh, but you're so right about that. It is
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 3: a community grouping. It's just such a great way, uh,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 3: you know, Friday night or Saturday afternoon get everybody together.
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine seven year old Patrick Games someone telling him, uh,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 3: you guess.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: Your dad's here. What my dad's here too?
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 3: I think you probably knew your dad was at the
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: football field on Friday night.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 11: Yeah, there was a different level of awareness between a
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 11: seven year old and my seven year old.
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: That's oh yeah, that's crazy.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, it's such a it's such a cool deal.
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, I you know, I've probably listened to your
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 3: speech at least three or four times when you when
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 3: your father was inducted into the Hall of Fame and
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 3: and just loving hearing your words for him and talking
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 3: about what kind of Meridian High School was like before
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 3: he got there, and then how things have changed and
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 3: how he really implemented the weight room, and it's just
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 3: there's so many fun stories and I know, I mean,
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 3: I could talk for hours about him, but and I
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 3: know you could too.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: But is there I don't know, is there something.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 3: I think one of the most unique stories and you
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 3: could probably tell.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: Me better than I can, but I heard that.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 3: I think your older brother, Christopher was in eighth grade,
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 3: and you guys lived in the Mount Baker School district.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: You guys went to you know, Harmony Elementary and growing
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 3: up and stuff like that. But I think when he
• 1:36:51
  Speaker 3: was about to go into ninth grade, your dad was thinking,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: you know what, I'm just gonna probably hang it up
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 3: and be an assistant with Stu Gorski and until Christopher said, no,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: I'm going to Meridian because I want to play football
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 3: for you, and then that, and then because of that,
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 3: he just kept coaching. Is there any is there any
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 3: truth to that?
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: Do you know about this?
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 17: No?
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 5: That that's that's that's true. Yeah.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 11: And my brother Christopher was just a year older than me, Yeah,
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 11: in school, and I always appreciated that was a that
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 11: was a really courageous step, right for him to be
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 11: able to take sure and we were always kind of
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 11: connected to here, but to be able to say, you
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 11: know what, I'm I'm going to leave all my friends
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 11: that I've gone to school with, you know, from from
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 11: kindergarten through eighth grade. Uh, and go to another school
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 11: for for an.
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 5: Eighth grade or for a middle school student, to take
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 5: that step. I don't know.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 11: I don't know that I would have been able to
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 11: take that step if I had been the oldest. And
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 11: I actually hadn't even thought about that till till you
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 11: just reminded me of.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 5: Of kind of how that played out.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 11: But as soon as he did it, like I had
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 11: already kind of made up my mind, like that was like, oh.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 5: Yes, that's exactly what what I plan on doing too.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 11: And of course I came over and I did a
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 11: I spent a day here as an eighth grader kind
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 11: of going through classes just to kind of solidify and
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 11: confirm my decision.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 5: So I didn't feel like something that you.
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 11: Know, was forced upon me or rushed into And yeah,
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 11: and then you know, so I did it. And then
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 11: my younger brother, Michael followed two years later, and lo
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 11: and behold, and my two sisters that you know, weren't
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 11: going to play football obviously, but felt connected enough to
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 11: hear and to my dad obviously more than more than
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 11: just the.
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 5: Place, decided to do the same thing. And it wasn't
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 5: you know, it wasn't.
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 11: A hardship for us to get to school, right, It
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 11: was just now that you know, we're we're taking that
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 11: drive with my dad.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 5: He doesn't have to take that drive by himself, you know,
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 5: in the morning to school.
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 11: So for our family, that where Meridian football had always
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 11: felt like a family.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 5: Affair, then all things Meridian.
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 11: High School then started to feel like, you know, a
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 11: family affair. As my siblings and me were really ill
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 11: come in with open arms by by everybody else here
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 11: and you know, our roots, you know, obviously we're we're
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 11: watered with, you know, the the blood, sweat and tears
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 11: of the football team that they've grown obviously a lot
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 11: deeper here in this community. And yeah, it's interesting to
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 11: think about what might have been had had my older
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 11: brother not made that decision as a you know, as
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 11: a fourteen year old.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, it is.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 3: When he told me about that, I you know, this
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 3: was probably I don't know, probably ten eleven years ago.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 3: We were just I was out at your parents house
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: and we were just talking football and he told me
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 3: that story and I and I had no idea.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: I was kind of shocked by it.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 3: And and so I just thought that I was always
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: really unique. And yeah, it's uh because well, we grew
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 3: up together. We were in school when we.
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: Were younger, and I'd never I never put two and
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 1: two together.
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 3: But it makes sense, and it's a it's a really
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: cool thing. And I love that you know, your your
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 3: sisters joined as well, because why not, right the whole
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: family's there, you're putting down roots. Now you're a teacher there.
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 3: I just think it's wonderful and it's such a great thing.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: I can't wait to go out there, say hi to
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 3: your dad and and congratulate them, and just and and
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: just be a part of it. Because even though I'm
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: a tiny, tiny, tiny part of the history of Walking
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 3: County High school football, I'm so glad that I'm living
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 3: in the moment where you know, I'm friendly with your
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 3: dad and you and the communities all around the county.
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: So when something like this happens, it's a really fun
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 1: thing for me too. And and so I'm really really
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: excited about it.
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 11: No, And and to that point, I think, as much
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 11: as anything, what I think my dad is looking forward
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 11: to is seeing guys like you, and I know some
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 11: of the coaches that have coached in our league and
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 11: coaches at.
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 5: Schools against him and against us are planning to be here.
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 11: And then of course all the all the community members
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 11: and players that are coming from you know, parts of
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 11: the stay parts of the country just you know, to
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 11: show up and and you know, take part in a
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 11: in a celebration of a career worth celebrating. So I'm
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 11: glad that you feel that way too, And I know
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 11: it's it's gonna be really gratifying for him, uh, to
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 11: be able to see all the people that are are
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 11: gonna show up and and show up for him and
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 11: and be able to reminisce and and shake hands and
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 11: and just.
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 5: Enjoy what should be a really really good community gathering.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I can't wait for it. You know, it's too bad.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 3: I know that the radio crew is going to be
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 3: out there from eleven to noon doing their new Saturday
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 3: uh you know, the day at that kind of the
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 3: morning after the Friday night games, and they're gonna be
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 3: live out there.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: That's it's just a it's.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: Such a cool deal and I'm so glad I'll be
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 3: able to witness it. And uh yeah, So thank you
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 3: so much for joining me, coach. Hopefully you find a game, David,
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: so football can be played. I know it's tough, especially
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 3: when you're tucked up in the corner of the not
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 3: just the county, but the state. So good luck and
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 3: thank you so much, coach. Thank you for joining me
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 3: on the Gatorade Game Day preview.
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, my pleasure, Tyler. We'll see you Saturday. Yeah.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 1: And that wraps it up.
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed the Gatorade Game Day Football preview
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 3: for Week three, And I just want to thank all
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 3: the coaches that made time out of their busy day
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 3: to join me here. I can't wait to do it
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 3: again next week. Also a huge thank you to Walton
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: Beverage for their sponsorship. And you've been listening to the
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 3: episode three seventy one of the Walcome Preps podcast, it's
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 3: the Gatorade Game Day Football Preview. Don't forget to vote
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 3: on Monday for the FC Play of the Week and
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 3: we'll talk to you again next week.