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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is for ANOW senior.
- 0:01Speaker 2: Whyet straight? And you're listening to the Top one hundred
- 0:04Speaker 2: countdown on the Walcome Preps podcast with.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Tyler and Ryland. It's a matter of pride.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the Watchcum Preps podcast. That this
- 0:22Speaker 2: is episode of three hundred and twenty one, the third
- 0:25Speaker 2: of ten podcast in the twenty twenty four Top one
- 0:27Speaker 2: hundred football Countdown. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as
- 0:30Speaker 2: always is Tyler Anderson of watcum Preps. Tyler, how we
- 0:34Speaker 2: doing doing great?
- 0:36Speaker 3: I always love this this episode kind of the middle
- 0:38Speaker 3: of that top one hundred list, kind of the movers
- 0:40Speaker 3: and shakers, if you will. Sometimes there's players that are
- 0:44Speaker 3: new to it and they you know, they got a
- 0:46Speaker 3: big they kind of have a big jump into it.
- 0:48Speaker 3: And then uh, there's players that are I thought maybe
- 0:52Speaker 3: would maybe get the list, but they shoot way up.
- 0:54Speaker 3: It's always a fun chunk here right right right in
- 0:57Speaker 3: the middle.
- 0:57Speaker 1: Numbers forty four through sixty two. It's gonna be awesome.
- 1:00Speaker 2: We need to give a thank you to Wyatt Straight
- 1:02Speaker 2: of Ferndale. I guess it's probably no surprise at this
- 1:06Speaker 2: point he will be in the podcast. We will be
- 1:08Speaker 2: talking about him at some point. Yeah, it's a little
- 1:10Speaker 2: bit later if you really want to know the truth,
- 1:12Speaker 2: but we will be talking about him. We need to
- 1:15Speaker 2: give a thank you to Anytime Fitness in Linden, Linden
- 1:18Speaker 2: North and Ferndale. They are the official sponsors of the
- 1:20Speaker 2: Top one hundred countdown, Big, big time supporters of WAT
- 1:26Speaker 2: come perhaps and and everything you do over there.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Tyler, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Anytime Finnis is amazing.
- 1:32Speaker 3: I mean they've jumped on so many different things, different sports.
- 1:35Speaker 1: It's such a such a cool deal.
- 1:38Speaker 3: I mean, and they give me a lot of encouragement too,
- 1:41Speaker 3: which sometimes I need when it's getting tough out there,
- 1:44Speaker 3: you know.
- 1:44Speaker 1: So yeah, great, great partnership, and I hope to stay
- 1:48Speaker 1: with him for a while.
- 1:50Speaker 2: If somebody would like to get a hold of you
- 1:52Speaker 2: to become a sponsor for anything, I mean, stuff's starting
- 1:55Speaker 2: to fill up now a little bit in the on
- 1:57Speaker 2: the winter sports side of things, but there's still some
- 2:00Speaker 2: stuff that needs sponsorship. And if somebody wants to come
- 2:02Speaker 2: and to start talking about the spring, Tyler, what do
- 2:04Speaker 2: they gotta do?
- 2:05Speaker 3: Yeah, just search for walking preps on social media's and
- 2:08Speaker 3: send a message and just we kind of get going
- 2:12Speaker 3: from there. And it is crazy how fast things turn around.
- 2:16Speaker 3: I mean we are we're a month into the winter
- 2:18Speaker 3: season already, and it really is a three month season,
- 2:22Speaker 3: and so all of a sudden.
- 2:23Speaker 1: The spring will be coming up.
- 2:24Speaker 3: Things are been kind of spoken for, things have already
- 2:28Speaker 3: been paid for for spring.
- 2:30Speaker 1: So you know it's time to get on. And now
- 2:33Speaker 1: with you know the.
- 2:34Speaker 3: New year coming up, it might be a new fiscal
- 2:36Speaker 3: year for you, a good time to be looking at
- 2:39Speaker 3: where you can put out those dollars for advertising. So
- 2:45Speaker 3: keep it local, local youth sports. It's an awesome thing
- 2:48Speaker 3: and I'd be very appreciative.
- 2:51Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean we basically have essentially what is
- 2:54Speaker 2: two months left of the winter sports season, and then
- 3:00Speaker 2: it's right into spring with baseball, softball, track and field,
- 3:04Speaker 2: and is it boys or girls soccer?
- 3:07Speaker 1: Boys?
- 3:08Speaker 3: It will be boys soccer, boys boys boys and girls golf,
- 3:11Speaker 3: it'll be girls tennis. Spring is loaded. Spring has a
- 3:16Speaker 3: lot of stuff going on, very very busy. Yeah, it's
- 3:20Speaker 3: a lot of fun.
- 3:21Speaker 2: I could be wrong, but I believe spring is the
- 3:24Speaker 2: season that has the most athletes, is what I've always
- 3:26Speaker 2: been told. Yeah, I would imagine partly because the track
- 3:29Speaker 2: and field teams are usually humongous. But that being said, Tyler,
- 3:34Speaker 2: there is a lot of stuff that needs to be
- 3:35Speaker 2: sponsored in the spring as well. So maybe if somebody
- 3:38Speaker 2: hit you up and said, hey, I'd like to I'd
- 3:40Speaker 2: like to get on board for the spring. But you know,
- 3:41Speaker 2: maybe can we a little pro rate a little something
- 3:43Speaker 2: here in the winter and just kind of double up
- 3:45Speaker 2: if you can, I mean, a good opportunity to get
- 3:48Speaker 2: basically what would be what like almost six months worth
- 3:52Speaker 2: of sponsorship out of wat come perhaps because you get
- 3:55Speaker 2: the final two months and then I mean we go
- 3:58Speaker 2: all the way into June, I mean we do, you know,
- 4:00Speaker 2: and and the heck, then we got the the top
- 4:03Speaker 2: one hundred for baseball and or no, it's top fifty fifty.
- 4:06Speaker 1: Yeah, baseball.
- 4:07Speaker 2: And I was gonna say fast pitch as well. So
- 4:09Speaker 2: technically it is a I guess a.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Ball top one.
- 4:14Speaker 2: Hundred if you will, Yeah, exactly, because it is technically
- 4:18Speaker 2: a hard ball, not a softball. So yeah, I mean,
- 4:20Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you right now, that thing hits you
- 4:22Speaker 2: in the head. It hurts, not that I know, but
- 4:25Speaker 2: there has been a precedent. But yeah, anybody who wants
- 4:29Speaker 2: to reach out get a hold of Tyler. He'll take
- 4:30Speaker 2: care of you.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Today.
- 4:32Speaker 2: Though this is the Top one hundred Countdown for football,
- 4:35Speaker 2: we will be going from sixty two down to forty four.
- 4:38Speaker 2: The next Top one hundred podcast will be released after
- 4:41Speaker 2: the new year on January sixth at ten am, and
- 4:45Speaker 2: that one will count all the way down to twenty five.
- 4:48Speaker 2: Tyler getting real hot and heavy here. If you would
- 4:50Speaker 2: like to hear either of the first two installments of
- 4:52Speaker 2: the Top one hundred Countdown, go back find episode three
- 4:55Speaker 2: seventeen where we went from one hundred down to eighty two,
- 4:58Speaker 2: or three nineteen was eighty one down to sixty three.
- 5:03Speaker 2: We've got nineteen names to talk about today, Tyler, what
- 5:07Speaker 2: do you say we get right into it. Yeah, let's
- 5:10Speaker 2: do it Alrighty at number sixty two, five foot six,
- 5:14Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty six pounds. We're starting with the
- 5:15Speaker 2: biggest guy on the list here, wide receiver and corner,
- 5:19Speaker 2: just a sophomore from a Meridian. It's number twenty three,
- 5:23Speaker 2: Casey Brennan.
- 5:24Speaker 1: Yeah. If you're that size, you better have a lot
- 5:26Speaker 1: of skill, and he sure does.
- 5:28Speaker 3: I mean there's mega megaspeed to burn, and there's there's
- 5:32Speaker 3: guys that are.
- 5:32Speaker 1: Fast, those guys that are football fast. He is both.
- 5:37Speaker 1: And it's just he kind of had the season that
- 5:39Speaker 1: I expected.
- 5:40Speaker 3: I mean, he you know, he did some good things
- 5:42Speaker 3: as a freshman, but then this year, you know, a
- 5:45Speaker 3: two way starter, no doubt about it. Meridan loves to
- 5:50Speaker 3: have guys that they feel comfortable about throwing the bomb
- 5:53Speaker 3: on the first play of the game. I mean that
- 5:55Speaker 3: they've kind of been known to do that over the years,
- 5:58Speaker 3: and with him, he's kind of that.
- 6:01Speaker 4: He's kind of that, you know, he's kind of that
- 6:03Speaker 4: ideal guy to do that because he doesn't look you know,
- 6:07Speaker 4: he doesn't he's not gonna wow you when he's standing
- 6:10Speaker 4: out on the field, and so you might sl slough
- 6:13Speaker 4: off a little bit and all of a sudden, he'll
- 6:14Speaker 4: just run right past.
- 6:15Speaker 3: You and you get burned. And boy, what a playmaker.
- 6:19Speaker 3: You can return kicks. And he's pretty darn good on
- 6:22Speaker 3: defense too, you know is you know, despite his size,
- 6:25Speaker 3: he's a he's gonna go after you and tackle you,
- 6:28Speaker 3: and I love to see that. Twenty nine catches for
- 6:31Speaker 3: four hundred and sixty five yards and three touchdowns, twenty
- 6:34Speaker 3: six tackles, eight passes defended, two tackles for a loss
- 6:37Speaker 3: and a forced fumble. Returned twelve kickoffs for two hundred
- 6:41Speaker 3: and twenty yards, including a touchdown, and he had two
- 6:44Speaker 3: punt returns for twenty three yards. I remember that touchdown.
- 6:48Speaker 3: I think I believe it was to start the second
- 6:50Speaker 3: half in a home game where he kind of had
- 6:53Speaker 3: a rough first half. I think he had a fumble,
- 6:55Speaker 3: he had, he had a couple of drops. It just
- 6:57Speaker 3: things just weren't happening for him, and man first opportunity
- 7:01Speaker 3: he had to catch a pass or to touch the
- 7:04Speaker 3: ball in the second half, he returns it all the
- 7:06Speaker 3: way for a touchdown.
- 7:07Speaker 1: So he's one of those guys. He's a home run threat.
- 7:11Speaker 3: So excited that he's going to be playing the next
- 7:13Speaker 3: few years because they're going to be seeing a lot
- 7:15Speaker 3: of him with the Meridian Trojans.
- 7:18Speaker 2: Number sixty one in the top one hundred countdown five
- 7:20Speaker 2: to eleven, the two hundred pounds running back, an inside linebacker.
- 7:23Speaker 2: He is a senior from the Linden Christian Lynks, number
- 7:26Speaker 2: twenty four. Hollis Owen.
- 7:28Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a player, and we talked about it during
- 7:30Speaker 3: the senior goodbyes. He was a player that I didn't
- 7:35Speaker 3: know what to expect this year. He got really sick
- 7:37Speaker 3: in the offseason, lost a bunch of weight, and I
- 7:41Speaker 3: was like, oh, man, because they need, you know, they
- 7:43Speaker 3: want to have that, you know, that power runner in
- 7:46Speaker 3: the backfield. And when I talked to him in August,
- 7:49Speaker 3: he said he was feeling good.
- 7:51Speaker 1: He's ready to play.
- 7:52Speaker 3: And every single week you could see him get bigger, stronger, better, faster,
- 7:57Speaker 3: just more healthy. And by the end of the year
- 8:00Speaker 3: was doing awesome. And what really, what I really loved
- 8:03Speaker 3: about his game this year was how well he played
- 8:05Speaker 3: on defense. You know, he played a little bit of
- 8:07Speaker 3: defense here and there, but this year he kind of
- 8:10Speaker 3: they kind of played a lot of different guys next
- 8:12Speaker 3: to Bosman early on in the season at that inside
- 8:15Speaker 3: linebacker spot, just kind of, you know, getting a feel
- 8:17Speaker 3: for it. And you know, they didn't have a league
- 8:19Speaker 3: game until you know, week four or five.
- 8:22Speaker 1: And so you're able to try a few things.
- 8:24Speaker 3: And boy, it was perfect timing because right when they
- 8:27Speaker 3: got in a league play, he kind of secured that
- 8:29Speaker 3: other inside linebacker spot and that defense was so good
- 8:32Speaker 3: and he was a huge part of it. One hundred
- 8:34Speaker 3: and twelve carries on the season. Four hundred and forty
- 8:37Speaker 3: nine yards, three touchdowns, did catch four passes for thirty
- 8:40Speaker 3: four yards. Then on defense, sixty two and a half tackles,
- 8:44Speaker 3: three tackles for loss, two fumble recoveries, a forced fumble, a.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Sack, and a pass deflection.
- 8:49Speaker 3: I think that was the thing that really put him
- 8:51Speaker 3: over the edge for me was his defense, and that
- 8:55Speaker 3: was just so welcoming to see. And you know, Lennon
- 8:58Speaker 3: christian As it kind of turned into a little bit
- 9:01Speaker 3: of a linebacker factory right now. So just another guy
- 9:05Speaker 3: in that long line of great linebackers for the.
- 9:07Speaker 2: Links, number sixty on the top one hundred count down,
- 9:10Speaker 2: six foot two, five pounds wide receiver Am Corner. He's
- 9:15Speaker 2: a junior from the Knicksack Valley Pioneers. It's number one,
- 9:18Speaker 2: the Cole Koppinger.
- 9:20Speaker 3: Yeah, freaky athlete, can you know, jump out of the gym,
- 9:24Speaker 3: all those good things, great, great speed, will never get tired,
- 9:28Speaker 3: kind of everything you want in a in a skill
- 9:31Speaker 3: athlete on the outside.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Like that on the on the perimeter.
- 9:36Speaker 3: And last year he kind of got thrown into it
- 9:38Speaker 3: at Corner, had some struggles here and there, but just
- 9:41Speaker 3: used athleticism to overcome a lot of that stuff. This
- 9:44Speaker 3: year was a much more polished player, became one of
- 9:48Speaker 3: the big main targets in the offensive game plan and
- 9:53Speaker 3: didn't have a ton of tackles, only eleven and a
- 9:55Speaker 3: half tackles, but not but deflected ten passes and intercepted
- 10:01Speaker 3: four of them that it returned one hundred and sixty
- 10:04Speaker 3: six yards and including a touchdown. So a big play
- 10:07Speaker 3: guy once he has the ball in his hands. I mean,
- 10:10Speaker 3: what he's averaging forty yards forty one and a half
- 10:14Speaker 3: whatever it is yards per interception return. I mean that
- 10:18Speaker 3: is he turning defense into instant offense. And then on offense,
- 10:22Speaker 3: he caught thirty nine passes for five hundred and forty
- 10:24Speaker 3: six yards and four touchdowns. And what I love about
- 10:27Speaker 3: him too is that you know, the whole route tree
- 10:30Speaker 3: is open. He can catch the small, he can catch
- 10:32Speaker 3: the short ones, he can catch the over the middle,
- 10:34Speaker 3: intermediate stuff, he can go deep, all that stuff. He's
- 10:38Speaker 3: scored in a lot of different ways possible. So yeah,
- 10:42Speaker 3: he's and he's gonna be a big time guy. They're
- 10:44Speaker 3: gonna lean on next year. They're gonna lose another big
- 10:46Speaker 3: senior class, and so you're gonna have a lot of
- 10:49Speaker 3: new guys coming in, and I think they're gonna be
- 10:53Speaker 3: a little bit more pass heavy than they've been recently.
- 10:56Speaker 3: And he could be one of those guys next year
- 10:59Speaker 3: that you know, catches sixty seventy balls and so he's
- 11:02Speaker 3: got that kind of ability and I wouldn't be surprised
- 11:05Speaker 3: if he does it.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Number fifty nine in the top one hundred countdown. He's
- 11:09Speaker 2: five to nine, one eighty five inside linebacker senior from
- 11:13Speaker 2: the Seahome at Mariners. It's number ten that Carl Bach.
- 11:17Speaker 3: Yeah, the tackling machine. I say it all the time.
- 11:20Speaker 3: I mean he is, he's he's just scary good. He
- 11:23Speaker 3: doesn't miss a lot of tackles. You know, he's not
- 11:26Speaker 3: he doesn't have super speed or anything, but he knows
- 11:29Speaker 3: his limitations. He knows where he can get to the
- 11:31Speaker 3: ball career, but when he does, the ball carriers going down.
- 11:35Speaker 3: He's played with injuries over the past, and it's one
- 11:37Speaker 3: of those things where I find out about.
- 11:40Speaker 1: It after the fact, like I can't even tell.
- 11:42Speaker 3: And that tells me a lot when a players that
- 11:45Speaker 3: kind of has that kind of ability and is that
- 11:46Speaker 3: kind of toughness that could play through stuff and you
- 11:50Speaker 3: know that he's hurting, but you find that out later
- 11:52Speaker 3: and you're just thinking, my goodness, like that's that's pretty
- 11:55Speaker 3: incredible for him to be able to do that, and
- 11:59Speaker 3: just a lot of fun watch. Uh. Doesn't didn't play
- 12:02Speaker 3: any offense. And you know, I I it's hard to
- 12:06Speaker 3: get ranked high on this list if you just play
- 12:08Speaker 3: on one one side of the ball. But when you're
- 12:10Speaker 3: as dominant as he is, that helps a lot. Eighty
- 12:13Speaker 3: six and a half tackles that is a ton, especially
- 12:17Speaker 3: the way I take tackles. Four tackles for loss or
- 12:20Speaker 3: two force fumbles, a sack and a fumble recovery.
- 12:23Speaker 2: Uh.
- 12:24Speaker 3: These last two years have been unbelievable to watch him play.
- 12:27Speaker 3: He's gonna be a really, really tough player to replace.
- 12:31Speaker 2: Number fifty eight on the top one hundred count down.
- 12:33Speaker 2: Six foot one, two hundred and five pounds. He's a
- 12:35Speaker 2: guard in defensive tackle, a senior from the Meridian Trojans.
- 12:38Speaker 2: It number fifty four at Jackson Hurlbit.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Yeah, two way starter for my goodness, three years four years.
- 12:47Speaker 3: Got thrown into it as a freshman. But and this
- 12:49Speaker 3: year he's that he was that guy where he's had
- 12:52Speaker 3: to play a lot of different positions on the offensive line,
- 12:54Speaker 3: and he's kind of the trustworthy guy that you know
- 12:57Speaker 3: that you can put him, you know.
- 12:59Speaker 1: Left guard, right guard, left tackle.
- 13:01Speaker 3: He's probably played center a little bit, you know, just
- 13:05Speaker 3: an athletic kid that it was so funny because these
- 13:09Speaker 3: guys that are for your players. You know, we've talked
- 13:11Speaker 3: about it with Landon Hatchet and stuff like that, where
- 13:14Speaker 3: you look at their freshman picture and you go from
- 13:17Speaker 3: freshman year to senior year and just the change in
- 13:19Speaker 3: their face and their body is completely different. And he's
- 13:22Speaker 3: a kid that if I sent you his freshman picture
- 13:25Speaker 3: you would just laugh. I mean, he just completely changed everything.
- 13:30Speaker 3: And he's gone through injuries as well. I mean, he's
- 13:32Speaker 3: played through a lot of stuff. And this year he
- 13:35Speaker 3: was named All Conference first team as an as an
- 13:38Speaker 3: offensive lineman. You know, probably had his heart on being
- 13:42Speaker 3: a linebacker, but but was it could help out the
- 13:45Speaker 3: team more as a defensive lineman. So he did that
- 13:48Speaker 3: in this final his senior year, twenty eight tackles, five
- 13:51Speaker 3: tackles for loss and a sack, but probably more of
- 13:54Speaker 3: a force on the offensive side of the ball. Just
- 13:57Speaker 3: a great player over the years, and finish finished his
- 14:01Speaker 3: career off Strong his senior year.
- 14:03Speaker 2: Number fifty seven on the top one hundred count down
- 14:06Speaker 2: five foot nine, two hundred and eleven pounds. He's a
- 14:09Speaker 2: guard and defensive tackle junior high school. Thanks coach number
- 14:15Speaker 2: fifty two, Noah Ilichev.
- 14:18Speaker 3: Yeah, just strong as an ox, no surprise.
- 14:23Speaker 1: A lot of these Mount Baker linemen.
- 14:24Speaker 3: You you start just noticing how how strong they are
- 14:28Speaker 3: and puts a you know, a ton of time into
- 14:30Speaker 3: the weight room. I have a feeling he might get
- 14:34Speaker 3: moved to center next year. He just kind of has
- 14:36Speaker 3: that that center body and and you know coach left
- 14:39Speaker 3: gloves having a you know, a center that he can
- 14:42Speaker 3: really depend on. The they do return for their five
- 14:46Speaker 3: offensive linemen, they have to replace their center, and so
- 14:50Speaker 3: you know, it's it's a little bit different skill set.
- 14:52Speaker 3: You got to do some more things. And I think
- 14:54Speaker 3: that's the guy they'll probably trust with that and they'll
- 14:56Speaker 3: bring up They'll have another underclassman to fill in his
- 14:59Speaker 3: spot at right guard. So we'll have to see with that.
- 15:02Speaker 3: But has A had a a low center of gravity.
- 15:06Speaker 3: And like I said, just so so strong was injured
- 15:10Speaker 3: early early in the year, but rally did really well.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Uh was the one Mount Baker offensive lineman, name to
- 15:16Speaker 3: the All Conference First Team for offensive line.
- 15:19Speaker 1: Played a little bit of defense, not a not a ton.
- 15:21Speaker 3: Did have eight tackles and a half a tackle for loss,
- 15:24Speaker 3: but just a just a rock on that offensive line.
- 15:28Speaker 3: And one of those guys where you know when you
- 15:33Speaker 3: go to like practice and they got the you know,
- 15:36Speaker 3: the short sleeved jerseys on stuff like that.
- 15:38Speaker 1: He's the guy that stands out. You know.
- 15:40Speaker 3: I I remember, you know, seeing Brian Pullman Rest of Peace,
- 15:44Speaker 3: the old Squalicum player. It's like, well, that guy looks
- 15:47Speaker 3: like a man. That guy looks completely different than the
- 15:49Speaker 3: other athletes out here. Noel Chef is the exact same way.
- 15:54Speaker 3: And you know he transformed his body from sophomore to
- 15:58Speaker 3: junior year.
- 15:59Speaker 1: Really excited to see what he does next year.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Number fifty six on the top one hundred countdown, five
- 16:04Speaker 2: foot ten and eighty pounds. He's a wide receiver and
- 16:08Speaker 2: a corner. He's a junior from the Linden Lions.
- 16:12Speaker 1: Tyler.
- 16:12Speaker 2: He wears a number that has no value. There's no
- 16:17Speaker 2: value in his number, but it does represent the power
- 16:19Speaker 2: of ten.
- 16:20Speaker 1: It's number zero. Danny Bowler, I know you love that number. Zero. Don't,
- 16:24Speaker 1: don't you. I do. I think it's awful.
- 16:26Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's so dumb to wear the number zero,
- 16:29Speaker 2: I know.
- 16:30Speaker 3: And since they started it, the players fight over it
- 16:33Speaker 3: at Lindon, so the at a lot of places. Yeah,
- 16:36Speaker 3: so it's just different.
- 16:38Speaker 1: You know.
- 16:39Speaker 3: Danny is such an awesome kid, I mean, four point
- 16:42Speaker 3: zero student, you know, got his heart set and playing
- 16:46Speaker 3: in the ivy leagues.
- 16:47Speaker 1: I think he definitely has a shot at it. Speed
- 16:50Speaker 1: to burn.
- 16:51Speaker 3: Probably would have been ranked higher if he would have
- 16:53Speaker 3: stayed healthy. He missed a handful of games here and there,
- 16:57Speaker 3: and but what's been great so far this year, knock
- 17:01Speaker 3: on wood if I can find wood in my office here,
- 17:04Speaker 3: is that I haven't really had much complaints about players,
- 17:07Speaker 3: and he's one of those players that I was kind
- 17:08Speaker 3: of worried about because the talent level. Like if you're saying,
- 17:13Speaker 3: you know, throw one hundred these hundred players on the
- 17:15Speaker 3: playground and say pick your teams, he'd probably be picked,
- 17:19Speaker 3: you know, higher than number of fifty six. But because
- 17:22Speaker 3: of the injuries, he was down a little bit. Still
- 17:27Speaker 3: had you know, some really fun moments in the season.
- 17:30Speaker 3: Twenty six catches three hundred and eighty two yards and
- 17:33Speaker 3: a touchdown. Started at corner all season twenty eight tackles,
- 17:36Speaker 3: five passes deflected, and an interception. He can't return seven
- 17:40Speaker 3: kickoffs for one hundred and nineteen yards. Also had four
- 17:43Speaker 3: punt returns for eighty eight yards and a touchdown.
- 17:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 17:48Speaker 3: Just I mean, you've seen it, you know, you've seen
- 17:51Speaker 3: it where his his speed is different and he is
- 17:56Speaker 3: man when he's one hundred percent healthy, he is really
- 17:58Speaker 3: really something.
- 17:59Speaker 1: And you know, Linden didn't have a big senior class.
- 18:03Speaker 3: He's a junior, but he's going to be one of
- 18:06Speaker 3: those main guys next year. And I think I think
- 18:10Speaker 3: Linden's gonna be interesting to watch next year because obviously
- 18:13Speaker 3: you don't have the pocket passer anymore. You're gonna have
- 18:16Speaker 3: Lucas Lolgy back there, who's that dual threat. And you
- 18:19Speaker 3: could see some really interesting concepts with getting the ball
- 18:22Speaker 3: to Danny Bowler in space and seeing.
- 18:24Speaker 1: What he can do.
- 18:26Speaker 3: I'm really excited to see how they use him next year,
- 18:28Speaker 3: and if he can stay healthy, he could have a
- 18:30Speaker 3: gigantic year.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Something tells me next year could be maybe the most
- 18:39Speaker 2: creative year that we've seen out of Linden.
- 18:42Speaker 1: You know, in quite a while.
- 18:44Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't have that guy to stand back there
- 18:46Speaker 2: and pick it apart. But they also have a guy
- 18:49Speaker 2: that can throw. But yes, he's also a dynamic runner yep.
- 18:54Speaker 2: I mean this is totally different than what they've had
- 18:56Speaker 2: because it's usually been one or the other, right, Like, yeah,
- 19:00Speaker 2: you know, it's going to be interesting. I think it
- 19:02Speaker 2: could be a lot of fun.
- 19:05Speaker 1: They haven't had.
- 19:06Speaker 3: I mean, they haven't had the duel guy really since
- 19:09Speaker 3: Josh Kraft, maybe like a true true duel guy. I mean,
- 19:13Speaker 3: I know, like Sterling Summers could run a little bit,
- 19:15Speaker 3: but he was more like a Brent Hepner, you know.
- 19:17Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is what he can run, but you
- 19:20Speaker 2: don't want him to run like that's not that's not
- 19:22Speaker 2: his game. Whereas with Lucas Logy, it's like, bro, he
- 19:25Speaker 2: can fly, yep, you know, he can fly and he
- 19:29Speaker 2: can sling it. I mean, yes, it's going to be
- 19:31Speaker 2: really really interesting. I mean, I'll tell you what if
- 19:34Speaker 2: if if the coaches up there want to talk about
- 19:37Speaker 2: some things, they'd probably like a lot of the stuff
- 19:39Speaker 2: we did on offense this year because it's very similar.
- 19:42Speaker 1: To probably what they would be capable of doing.
- 19:44Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, Tyler number fifty five on the Top
- 19:48Speaker 2: one hundred Countdown. It's six foot, two hundred pounds running
- 19:51Speaker 2: back an inside linebacker. He is a senior from Squalcom
- 19:55Speaker 2: Storm's number five. Malachi Smith.
- 19:58Speaker 1: Yeah, just personally one of my one of my favorites.
- 20:00Speaker 3: I always feel like, man, if he was on a
- 20:03Speaker 3: different team, he could probably run for a thousand yards.
- 20:07Speaker 3: You know, he's sharing, you know, sharing in the same
- 20:10Speaker 3: class as Marcus Nixon.
- 20:12Speaker 1: It's tough to get looks.
- 20:14Speaker 3: It was also behind DeAndre Dunmore last year. But man,
- 20:17Speaker 3: when he he just runs hard. I mean there are
- 20:21Speaker 3: there are times when if it's like, yeah, you have
- 20:24Speaker 3: some great athletes, but if it's third and two, that's
- 20:26Speaker 3: who you want, you want to give it to. Malachi Smith. Uh,
- 20:29Speaker 3: probably a better linebacker. Just an unbelievable player who has
- 20:35Speaker 3: tremendous instincts, is extremely smart, can see things almost before
- 20:38Speaker 3: they happen.
- 20:40Speaker 1: And acts on it really quickly. Yeah. I just a
- 20:45Speaker 1: just an awesome kid too, a great player, super polite. Uh.
- 20:49Speaker 3: You know when you start hearing coaches and parents and
- 20:53Speaker 3: teachers and different people and administration just gush over a
- 20:58Speaker 3: kid that that tells me a lot Uh, and he's
- 21:01Speaker 3: one of those kinds of kids. I don't even think
- 21:05Speaker 3: he's on Instagram. You know, there's just those kinds of
- 21:07Speaker 3: kids that are just kind of like that. You know,
- 21:10Speaker 3: if I get a hold of him, he's he's on Twitter,
- 21:12Speaker 3: so I can get a hold of him through there
- 21:13Speaker 3: sometimes and and you know, ask him a question or
- 21:16Speaker 3: he'll help me out with something, and yeah, just I've
- 21:21Speaker 3: really enjoyed watching him play football the last few years.
- 21:24Speaker 3: Fifty five carries for three hundred and fourteen yards and
- 21:26Speaker 3: four touchdowns. Also caught six passes for thirty eight yards
- 21:30Speaker 3: and a touchdown, did have a kickoff return for sixteen yards,
- 21:33Speaker 3: and then on defense, sixty two and a half tackles,
- 21:35Speaker 3: two and a half tackles for lost, two sacks, two interceptions,
- 21:38Speaker 3: one that was returned for a touchdown, a pass deflected,
- 21:41Speaker 3: and a fumble recovery.
- 21:43Speaker 1: A guy that can do a lot of things, that
- 21:45Speaker 1: is looking.
- 21:46Speaker 3: To play at that next level in that you know
- 21:48Speaker 3: that ups peel you kind of you know whitworth kind
- 21:52Speaker 3: of that you know Lynnfield like that area where he
- 21:56Speaker 3: would go and just be a football player and they'd
- 21:58Speaker 3: probably just find something, whether it be a strong safety,
- 22:01Speaker 3: or if he could gets it a little bigger to
- 22:03Speaker 3: play some linebacker, or he'll be running down on kickoffs.
- 22:06Speaker 3: He's one of those kids that is a really really
- 22:08Speaker 3: smart kids. He can fit into the school and then
- 22:12Speaker 3: you know, we'll do anything that he's asked to do.
- 22:14Speaker 3: And that's you know, you coaches love players like that,
- 22:17Speaker 3: and I think he could really make a difference a
- 22:19Speaker 3: on a team at the next level.
- 22:21Speaker 2: Number fifty four in the top one hundred countdown, six
- 22:23Speaker 2: foot one and eighty five pounds a running back and
- 22:26Speaker 2: outside linebacker. He is a junior from the Linden Lions.
- 22:30Speaker 2: It's number thirty two. Max Austink.
- 22:32Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of had an up and down year,
- 22:34Speaker 3: had some had some tough games, had some really good games.
- 22:39Speaker 1: Took a while to get him going a little.
- 22:41Speaker 3: Bit, and uh and then by season's end you look
- 22:44Speaker 3: and he's you know, he's got over ten touchdowns. He
- 22:46Speaker 3: almost ran for a thousand yards, and you're just like,
- 22:49Speaker 3: my goodness, Like he did it pretty quietly, almost and
- 22:53Speaker 3: he played, you know, played a lot on offense, didn't
- 22:57Speaker 3: play a ton on defense. Started but they kind of
- 23:01Speaker 3: have a good rotation going with different outside linebackers that
- 23:03Speaker 3: can come in. They like to have at least four
- 23:06Speaker 3: guys that they can depend on, they can get in
- 23:08Speaker 3: and out of the lineup, and but you know.
- 23:11Speaker 1: They will start with him.
- 23:14Speaker 3: But it was around the ball. I mean, he had
- 23:17Speaker 3: three fumble recoveries. There was one player where I think
- 23:20Speaker 3: he returned to block kick for a touchdown. He had
- 23:24Speaker 3: a sack, passed, effected seventeen and a half tackles, returned
- 23:27Speaker 3: five kickoffs for eighty seven yards. One of the better
- 23:30Speaker 3: pass catchers as a running back this year, which Lindon
- 23:34Speaker 3: likes to do a little bit here and there. He
- 23:36Speaker 3: had thirteen catches for one hundred and twenty eight yards,
- 23:39Speaker 3: but running the ball one hundred and fifty three carries
- 23:41Speaker 3: for nine hundred and fourteen yards and thirteen touchdowns. You know,
- 23:47Speaker 3: is kind of tall for a linebacker and little lean,
- 23:51Speaker 3: but a lot stronger.
- 23:53Speaker 1: Than you think.
- 23:55Speaker 3: And you know he's just as the season we're on,
- 23:58Speaker 3: especially looking from last year even to this year, was
- 24:01Speaker 3: his ability to break tackles really really jumped off the
- 24:04Speaker 3: page as far as how it was. You know, from
- 24:08Speaker 3: his sophomore year to his junior year, a lot you know,
- 24:10Speaker 3: just put in the time in the weight room, and
- 24:12Speaker 3: he's one of those guys that puts in a lot
- 24:13Speaker 3: of times. So he had a great, great year. Another
- 24:16Speaker 3: guy they're going to really depend on next year.
- 24:19Speaker 2: Number fifty three on the top one hundred countdown. Five
- 24:22Speaker 2: foot eleven two d and fifteen pounds. He's a center
- 24:25Speaker 2: and a defensive tackle, a junior from the Seahome Mariners.
- 24:29Speaker 2: It is number sixty nine Finn sites at Greg Wire.
- 24:33Speaker 1: Yeah, he is a holy cow. He's good.
- 24:38Speaker 3: He another kid that had a big improvement from sophomore
- 24:41Speaker 3: to junior year and disruptive on defense. Just finds a
- 24:48Speaker 3: way to get in the backfield and knows how to
- 24:50Speaker 3: use leverage.
- 24:51Speaker 1: I'm I think he's a rugby kid as well.
- 24:54Speaker 3: And you know kids like that, they just you know,
- 24:57Speaker 3: the Jacob Gandhi's and those guys, they just know how
- 24:59Speaker 3: to you know, get they know how to force their
- 25:02Speaker 3: ways in between the tackles when they're playing defense and
- 25:05Speaker 3: make plays in the backfield.
- 25:06Speaker 1: They just they're just better at it. And a really
- 25:10Speaker 1: really good center too.
- 25:11Speaker 3: I don't recall Nolan Wright ever, you know, getting a
- 25:14Speaker 3: snap over his head or anything. And they're in the
- 25:17Speaker 3: shotgun almost exclusively. So really really great player. Thirty and
- 25:23Speaker 3: a half tackles, eight and a half tackles for loss,
- 25:25Speaker 3: five sacks from the defensive tackle spot, and one fumble recovery.
- 25:30Speaker 3: Another kid that as the season wore on, got better
- 25:33Speaker 3: and better and he made huge plays when it was
- 25:36Speaker 3: needed the most, especially on third downs. Different things like that.
- 25:41Speaker 3: He's a kid that you know you're looking at as
- 25:44Speaker 3: a senior, will be in that Lineman of the Year
- 25:46Speaker 3: running got you know, a kid that that has that
- 25:49Speaker 3: kind of ability. Although he's a little bit undersized, plays
- 25:54Speaker 3: a lot stronger than his size would indicate. So that's
- 25:58Speaker 3: a that's a great thing too, because he can still
- 26:00Speaker 3: maintain the foot speed and do the things that you
- 26:02Speaker 3: want as an offensive lineman.
- 26:04Speaker 2: Number fifty two in the top one hundred countdown six
- 26:07Speaker 2: foot one, three hundred pounds left guard and defensive tackle.
- 26:11Speaker 2: He's a junior from the Linden Lions at number seventy five.
- 26:14Speaker 2: Carter Reeling.
- 26:16Speaker 3: Yeah, unique body frame. I mean he is wide, and
- 26:21Speaker 3: he is strong, and he can move and he can
- 26:24Speaker 3: move people, and that's that's what's so fun to see.
- 26:27Speaker 3: I mean, Lyndon loves those big, strong, three hundred pounds
- 26:31Speaker 3: left guards and they've had you know, a boatload of
- 26:36Speaker 3: him over the years, and he.
- 26:37Speaker 1: Just fits that bill perfectly.
- 26:39Speaker 3: Can get around on the corner, just a road greater,
- 26:45Speaker 3: awesome kid too. Doesn't play a ton of defense. You know,
- 26:47Speaker 3: it might come in on some goal line packages and
- 26:49Speaker 3: stuff like that was only in on one tackle, but
- 26:53Speaker 3: stalwart on offensive line left guard. I'm sure he'll be
- 26:58Speaker 3: right back at left guard next year. They've got had
- 27:00Speaker 3: a good thing going there with with him and.
- 27:02Speaker 1: You know, Zach Dykstra to his left, logan O Street
- 27:04Speaker 1: to his right.
- 27:06Speaker 3: I I am really excited for his future. I just
- 27:10Speaker 3: think that he you know, because he has that that
- 27:14Speaker 3: frame that's just different. And he if he he gave
- 27:19Speaker 3: if he gets a little taller, that'd be fantastic. And man,
- 27:24Speaker 3: he just the way he in the run game, the
- 27:26Speaker 3: way he pushes guys around, and especially you know, I'm
- 27:29Speaker 3: it's like you're saying, it's really unique. You know, you're
- 27:32Speaker 3: talking about like your offense that you ran last year
- 27:35Speaker 3: and you basically had like five guards on the offensive line. Yeah,
- 27:38Speaker 3: it's like he's he's the guy that would be just
- 27:40Speaker 3: like those guys, you know what I mean, Like he's
- 27:42Speaker 3: perfectly built for the kind of offense that you're probably
- 27:45Speaker 3: talking about. So really curious to see how they how
- 27:48Speaker 3: they how their offense will run next year.
- 27:51Speaker 1: And he's going to be ran behind a.
- 27:52Speaker 2: Lot number fifty one in the top one hundred countdown,
- 27:57Speaker 2: six foot two and twenty pounds. I think back in
- 28:00Speaker 2: nose tackle, interesting combo. Uh. He is a junior from
- 28:03Speaker 2: the Linden Christian Lynks at number forty two. Trayson Johnson.
- 28:08Speaker 3: Yeah, strong, strong, strong catcher on the baseball team, has
- 28:12Speaker 3: been ever since, you know, day one is freshman year.
- 28:16Speaker 3: He is when he gets the ball, he's just a force,
- 28:21Speaker 3: you know, kind of a goal line kind of guy.
- 28:24Speaker 3: You know, third and short kind of guy. Not gonna,
- 28:27Speaker 3: you know, not gonna break it outside and do a
- 28:30Speaker 3: spin move or anything like that. But he's gonna he
- 28:32Speaker 3: wants to go through you. It's just his mentality. Start
- 28:37Speaker 3: of the year kind of as a hybrid linebacker nose
- 28:40Speaker 3: tackle kind of went back and forth, back and forth.
- 28:42Speaker 3: Like I was talking about earlier with Hallis, Owen tried
- 28:44Speaker 3: a lot of different combinations at the inside linebacker spot.
- 28:47Speaker 3: He'd be in there every once in a while, but
- 28:49Speaker 3: once he.
- 28:50Speaker 1: Settled in a nose tackle.
- 28:52Speaker 3: Uh. He was a problem for offensive lineman. And he
- 28:57Speaker 3: was in on a ton of tackles, I mean a
- 28:59Speaker 3: lot nos tackles, as you know, more than anybody.
- 29:02Speaker 1: They're just they they're just usually.
- 29:04Speaker 3: Not going to get a ton of stats. And and
- 29:08Speaker 3: it's and but he would find a way. And I
- 29:12Speaker 3: don't know if it was just his you know, he's
- 29:15Speaker 3: got his baseball background.
- 29:17Speaker 1: Or you know, carrying the ball, or the.
- 29:18Speaker 3: Kind of skill position guy he's always been. But his
- 29:21Speaker 3: quickness allowed him to, you know, defeat offensive lineman. But
- 29:26Speaker 3: he's still just as strong as most defensive lineman anyway,
- 29:30Speaker 3: So that combination was lethal. And and boy, he really
- 29:35Speaker 3: I was kind of surprised he didn't get it. And
- 29:38Speaker 3: he was nominated, but he didn't he didn't get named
- 29:40Speaker 3: All Conference first team. And this is where I, as
- 29:43Speaker 3: a defensive lineman, I'm talking about, And this is kind
- 29:45Speaker 3: of where I feel I have a platform to show
- 29:50Speaker 3: my you know, you know, as they say, give him
- 29:53Speaker 3: his flowers, as the kids say to certain players that
- 29:57Speaker 3: I believe need it, you know, not or not need it,
- 30:00Speaker 3: but deserve it. And he just I thought he was
- 30:03Speaker 3: awesome this year. And I kept bringing him up every week.
- 30:06Speaker 3: I was like man every single week when I would
- 30:08Speaker 3: when you would say, well who on defense did well?
- 30:11Speaker 3: You know, I used to always lead with Trey Bosman.
- 30:13Speaker 3: Then I started leading with Trayson Johnson. I mean, he
- 30:16Speaker 3: just was that. He was kind of that kind of
- 30:18Speaker 3: difference maker. Especially late in the season. He had forty
- 30:20Speaker 3: carries for one hundred and sixty nine yards and two touchdowns,
- 30:24Speaker 3: and he also had three catches for two yards. These
- 30:27Speaker 3: were all on fly sweeps where I believe that they
- 30:30Speaker 3: just wanted to get him running so he could just
- 30:32Speaker 3: run into somebody, get him, get him going side to side,
- 30:36Speaker 3: and they could turn it up field and just watch
- 30:38Speaker 3: the collision happen. Fifty nine and a half tackles on defense.
- 30:42Speaker 3: That's a lot of tackles for that spot. Four and
- 30:44Speaker 3: a half tackles for lost, three sacks, a forced fumble,
- 30:47Speaker 3: one pass deflection, and a fumble recovery. Great, great player.
- 30:52Speaker 3: Can't believe he's just a junior. This Lennon christ this
- 30:55Speaker 3: Lindon Christian team next year is going to be a force.
- 30:58Speaker 2: Whoa halfway there? I wish I still had the button
- 31:07Speaker 2: the audio. Yeah, they played it for Scott Ecklin.
- 31:10Speaker 1: Yeahf waypoint, which.
- 31:12Speaker 2: Means, Tyler, we are at number fifty in the top
- 31:14Speaker 2: one hundred count down five to eleven, one eighty five
- 31:17Speaker 2: center and nose tackle. It's almost like you did this
- 31:20Speaker 2: on purpose to keep me warm over here, Tyler. Uh.
- 31:23Speaker 2: He is a senior from the Meridian Trojans. It's number
- 31:26Speaker 2: seventy six. Carson Campbell.
- 31:29Speaker 3: Yeah, a great example of what makes high school football great.
- 31:33Speaker 3: You know, you you grab any high school football roster
- 31:38Speaker 3: and look for a guy that's five eleven, one eighty five,
- 31:41Speaker 3: and they could play a lot of different positions, you
- 31:44Speaker 3: know what I mean, lying is not one of them, right,
- 31:48Speaker 3: And but that's what's great.
- 31:50Speaker 1: You know.
- 31:50Speaker 3: It's like this kid, he's so strong, he's been playing
- 31:53Speaker 3: center for so long, really really good nose tackle. You know,
- 31:58Speaker 3: I've always you know, I we I would make that
- 32:01Speaker 3: joke about him, is that he plays center on the
- 32:02Speaker 3: football team, a guy that could probably play center on
- 32:04Speaker 3: the baseball team center field, which that's a rare combination
- 32:08Speaker 3: to be able to do both.
- 32:10Speaker 1: I don't know how he is at hockey. I'm not
- 32:11Speaker 1: sure if he could play center hockey.
- 32:12Speaker 3: But probably uh yeah, but uh just really really liked
- 32:17Speaker 3: watching him play. I remember going to practice and he
- 32:20Speaker 3: wasn't participating a ton and it was really rainy, and
- 32:22Speaker 3: I was like, uh oh, it's like, are you injured.
- 32:24Speaker 1: He goes He's like, I'll be all right.
- 32:25Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, good, because man, he was just a huge,
- 32:30Speaker 3: huge part of what they did. You know, so many
- 32:34Speaker 3: veteran linemen on that team, and he's right up there
- 32:36Speaker 3: in the middle, smallest guy of the lineman, but you know,
- 32:41Speaker 3: pushing for being one of the strongest and great great
- 32:44Speaker 3: defensive player. Two could cover you know, ground as a
- 32:48Speaker 3: nose tackle side to side. I mean, it's unbelievable. Twenty
- 32:51Speaker 3: five and a half tackles, three tackles for lost, two sacks,
- 32:53Speaker 3: and a fumble recovery. Really enjoyed watching him play. Just quiet,
- 32:58Speaker 3: quiet kid, but you know, and another one where I
- 33:02Speaker 3: you know, a little surprised didn't get any All conference love.
- 33:06Speaker 3: So but man, what a what an awesome player, And
- 33:10Speaker 3: he's a great example of the reason why.
- 33:13Speaker 1: You know, I love high school football so much.
- 33:16Speaker 2: Number forty nine on the top one hundred countdown, six
- 33:19Speaker 2: foot three and ninety pounds, he's a wide receiver in
- 33:22Speaker 2: defensive back. He's a senior from the Bellingham BayHawks. It
- 33:25Speaker 2: is at number eight. Blie Henderson.
- 33:28Speaker 3: Yeah, I think of a couple of things here because
- 33:30Speaker 3: I think of, man, if he would have been healthy
- 33:32Speaker 3: the entire year, they would have probably had more than
- 33:35Speaker 3: two wins. Also, maybe if they would have started the
- 33:38Speaker 3: year the you know, with uh with Leonard at quarterback,
- 33:43Speaker 3: it could have been a different thing. And they kind
- 33:45Speaker 3: of everything kind of came apart at the same time,
- 33:48Speaker 3: you know, around the Lakewood game, and and you know,
- 33:51Speaker 3: he wasn't playing. I mean, it was just it was tough.
- 33:54Speaker 3: But man, when he came back out there, he was
- 33:56Speaker 3: just a difference maker with the ball in his hand.
- 33:58Speaker 3: I mean, he's just a physical specimen and really quiet kid.
- 34:04Speaker 1: But my goodness, just he would.
- 34:07Speaker 3: Make certain plays like I love those guys that that
- 34:10Speaker 3: that will never quit on a play, you know, And
- 34:13Speaker 3: he had he had some tackles where he came out
- 34:16Speaker 3: of nowhere and ran a guy down, and you know,
- 34:18Speaker 3: I was thinking, like that Benjamin Watson play, you know,
- 34:21Speaker 3: and yeah, you probably would know exactly.
- 34:24Speaker 2: What I'm talking about all the way across the field.
- 34:26Speaker 1: Right It's like he made a play like that, is it? Yeah?
- 34:30Speaker 2: I think it was Champ Bailey, Yeah, I mean somebody
- 34:32Speaker 2: fast from the Broncos that he chased down.
- 34:34Speaker 3: Right, yeah, And and that's when I, you know, BLI
- 34:38Speaker 3: Henderson made a play like that, and I you know,
- 34:41Speaker 3: I could vividly see it in my mind, and I
- 34:43Speaker 3: believe he knocked him out at like the two yard
- 34:46Speaker 3: line or something, and they ended up not scoring, and
- 34:48Speaker 3: it was a it was an important play, and I
- 34:50Speaker 3: just thought, my goodness, like that's those are the kind
- 34:53Speaker 3: of players that that's why you That's how you win
- 34:55Speaker 3: games right there.
- 34:56Speaker 1: It's players like that.
- 34:57Speaker 3: And another kid that a lot like Coppinger where you
- 35:01Speaker 3: can throw it to him short, medium, long, it doesn't matter.
- 35:04Speaker 3: He's really great at all those things.
- 35:07Speaker 1: Like I said, he.
- 35:07Speaker 3: Missed a handful of games, still had thirty nine catches
- 35:10Speaker 3: for three hundred and twenty eight yards and a touchdown.
- 35:13Speaker 3: His touchdown, oh my goodness, it was crazy like he
- 35:16Speaker 3: caught like it was like a two yard pass. Then
- 35:18Speaker 3: he made like four or five guys miss and just
- 35:21Speaker 3: the size, strength, speed, combo was awesome to see. Defensively,
- 35:27Speaker 3: kind of a hybrid you know, played played corner back,
- 35:31Speaker 3: you know you used to, and then he just got
- 35:33Speaker 3: so much more physical and bigger. And stronger and kind
- 35:37Speaker 3: of went into an outside linebacker spied he'd just send
- 35:39Speaker 3: a you know, he'd send him to attack the quarterback
- 35:41Speaker 3: every once in a while.
- 35:42Speaker 1: Did have two and a half sacks doing that.
- 35:44Speaker 3: Also had thirty six tackles, four and a half tackles
- 35:47Speaker 3: for lost, three passes broken up, a force fumble.
- 35:49Speaker 1: And a fumble recovery.
- 35:52Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I feel like he was a little
- 35:56Speaker 3: bit forgotten this year. You know, probably because Joe Hart
- 36:00Speaker 3: had such a big year and his injuries and stuff
- 36:03Speaker 3: like that.
- 36:03Speaker 1: But my goodness, he's a kid that was really, really
- 36:08Speaker 1: dynamic and I hope he plays at the next level
- 36:12Speaker 1: somewhere because he definitely has the ability to do that.
- 36:15Speaker 2: Number forty eight on the top one hundred countdown, six
- 36:18Speaker 2: foot two two and sixty five pounds, left guard, defensive tackle.
- 36:23Speaker 2: He's a sophomore from the Lyndon Christian Lynx. It's number
- 36:26Speaker 2: sixty six. Kyler Stirk.
- 36:29Speaker 3: Yeah, he was in the running last year for Freshmen
- 36:31Speaker 3: of the Year. Started the entire year as a freshman
- 36:34Speaker 3: at right tackle and that.
- 36:36Speaker 1: Is just not done very often.
- 36:37Speaker 3: Oh and this year got moved to left guard and
- 36:41Speaker 3: kind of you could see that he is their.
- 36:45Speaker 1: Guy on the offensive line. It was, It was apparent,
- 36:49Speaker 1: And it's.
- 36:50Speaker 3: Always unique when you know kind of who the best
- 36:52Speaker 3: guy on the offensive line is and then where they're
- 36:54Speaker 3: going to put him. And you know, different teams have
- 36:57Speaker 3: different strategies and different things like that. So I was
- 37:00Speaker 3: so putting him at left guard. You know, told me
- 37:03Speaker 3: a few things they're gonna run, maybe some counters and
- 37:05Speaker 3: different things like that, and.
- 37:07Speaker 1: And uh, boy, he's so good. He is so good.
- 37:10Speaker 3: He played a little bit of defense, not a ton,
- 37:14Speaker 3: but would come in every once in a while in
- 37:15Speaker 3: certain situations, you know, much like Linden where they put
- 37:18Speaker 3: in their their big guys back there when they get
- 37:21Speaker 3: you know, backed up a little bitter inside the fifteen
- 37:23Speaker 3: or ten and you know it was in on three tackles.
- 37:27Speaker 1: But as a left guard was phenomenal. Really really thinking.
- 37:33Speaker 3: That he could have a big time future, especially if
- 37:35Speaker 3: he gets up to like six ' four, which is
- 37:38Speaker 3: possible because I think he was about at six foot
- 37:40Speaker 3: as a freshman six two now as a sophomore, And
- 37:43Speaker 3: these kids out at LC tend to keep growing, so
- 37:47Speaker 3: I would imagine there could be some really good stuff
- 37:50Speaker 3: to come here. We'll probably be in the running for
- 37:54Speaker 3: Sophomore of the Year this year. Uh, and you know
- 37:58Speaker 3: a future you know, gonna be in the running for
- 38:00Speaker 3: Lineman of the Year. He just has all those things
- 38:03Speaker 3: you know coming his way, and and uh, the future
- 38:06Speaker 3: is extremely bright for him.
- 38:09Speaker 2: Number fifty seven, fifty seven, forty seven in the top
- 38:13Speaker 2: we're going backwards. Uh, in the top one hundred. Downdown, Yeah,
- 38:17Speaker 2: six foot one, two hundred and eighty five pounds, guard
- 38:19Speaker 2: at defensive tackle is a senior from the Ferndale Golden Eagles.
- 38:23Speaker 2: The young man who gave us the intro today. It's
- 38:27Speaker 2: number sixty Wyatt Street.
- 38:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 38:29Speaker 3: I love that he's listed to eighty five, which is
- 38:31Speaker 3: probably true.
- 38:33Speaker 1: But I'm curious, Oh excuse me.
- 38:35Speaker 3: I'm curious if he because he's the he's their star
- 38:39Speaker 3: wrestler at two eighty five, and so I'm always like, oh,
- 38:42Speaker 3: is he is he really two eighty five? Ors he's
- 38:44Speaker 3: just used to the two eighty five thing there? Holy cow,
- 38:48Speaker 3: he doesn't he doesn't move like he's too eighty five.
- 38:50Speaker 3: He moves like he's two thirty five. Uh.
- 38:53Speaker 1: Great, great, I.
- 38:54Speaker 3: Mean you you get these really really great top end
- 38:58Speaker 3: wrestlers and they can turn into some amazing lineman. And
- 39:01Speaker 3: last year there were moments like where I'd go, who's sixty,
- 39:05Speaker 3: He's number sixty, and I'd have to keep looking again,
- 39:07Speaker 3: you know, and he would do some really good things
- 39:10Speaker 3: on both sides of the ball. But this year it
- 39:12Speaker 3: was kind of a he turned into like a monster
- 39:15Speaker 3: on both sides of the ball. It was a huge upgrade. Man,
- 39:19Speaker 3: and he's one of those guys I'm like, oh.
- 39:20Speaker 1: He's a senior. Crap.
- 39:22Speaker 3: I wish there was another year of him playing football
- 39:25Speaker 3: because the jump from junior to senior year was so
- 39:28Speaker 3: great and I feel like there's more there that I
- 39:31Speaker 3: want to see, and unfortunately that was it. But it
- 39:35Speaker 3: was really fun to see twenty seven tackles, four tackles
- 39:39Speaker 3: for lost, three sacks, and a forced fumble, just to
- 39:43Speaker 3: the way he could use his feet in his hands
- 39:45Speaker 3: and the point of attack everything both sides of the ball.
- 39:49Speaker 1: Just a phenomenal player.
- 39:50Speaker 3: Loved watching him play and I would expect some pretty
- 39:54Speaker 3: big things out of him.
- 39:55Speaker 1: Just wrestling season.
- 39:57Speaker 2: Number forty six in the top one hundre countdown, five
- 40:00Speaker 2: foot seven, one hundred and forty five pounds wide receiver
- 40:03Speaker 2: in a safety. He's a senior from the Squalkum Storm.
- 40:06Speaker 2: It's the number one Joachin Ortez.
- 40:10Speaker 1: Boy, we've been talking about him a long time. I
- 40:12Speaker 1: was just thinking of that too.
- 40:14Speaker 3: And the crazy thing is is that going into his
- 40:18Speaker 3: sophomore year, I didn't I'd never heard of it.
- 40:21Speaker 1: I didn't know anything.
- 40:23Speaker 3: So usually I kind of expect certain guys, and you know,
- 40:28Speaker 3: I kind of know who the starting lineup's gonna be.
- 40:30Speaker 3: And he's out there just catching all the passes and
- 40:32Speaker 3: doing all the things, and I'm like, who is this guy?
- 40:36Speaker 3: Like I I I knew nothing, didn't have a headshot
- 40:39Speaker 3: of him, nothing. And I remember I needed to get
- 40:41Speaker 3: a head shot because I'm like, he's gonna be in
- 40:43Speaker 3: the top one hundred. This is during his sophomore year,
- 40:46Speaker 3: and and I kind of had one last chance to
- 40:49Speaker 3: get him after a game, and it was after a loss,
- 40:52Speaker 3: which I felt horrible about.
- 40:53Speaker 1: And boy, he does not look happy in that picture.
- 40:55Speaker 1: But he looked tapp. He looked tapp in the last
- 40:58Speaker 1: two that I got. So that's that's that time. The
- 41:01Speaker 1: way you said that was great. Boy does he not
- 41:03Speaker 1: like having that picture? Well, I mean, you know, it.
- 41:06Speaker 3: Is what it is, but but man, what a just
- 41:11Speaker 3: a dynamo like hard to bring down at one hundred
- 41:14Speaker 3: and forty five yard one hundred and forty five yards
- 41:16Speaker 3: at one hundred and forty five pounds and hard to
- 41:18Speaker 3: bring down. That's that's a unique combo. You know, constantly
- 41:24Speaker 3: the smallest guy on the field uses his whole body
- 41:28Speaker 3: when he tackles, throws everything he has. And what's fun too, is, yeah,
- 41:33Speaker 3: they do little things where they do end of rounds
- 41:36Speaker 3: and you know, do the kind of unique plays with
- 41:38Speaker 3: him in the fly sweep and him in the slot
- 41:40Speaker 3: and running emotion a lot. But they'll go they'll go
- 41:43Speaker 3: deep to him, will he'll outjump opponents. They have no
- 41:46Speaker 3: problem with that. He's just that kind of athlete. I
- 41:50Speaker 3: thought his I thought his play as a safety this
- 41:52Speaker 3: year really really improved over the last you know hour,
- 41:56Speaker 3: over last year. And and uh, he's always been very
- 41:59Speaker 3: staf he as a receiver and very very good, but
- 42:02Speaker 3: his plays a defensive player this year shot up. Did
- 42:06Speaker 3: miss a little bit of time with an injury, not
- 42:09Speaker 3: too much. Was unbelievable in the return game once again,
- 42:14Speaker 3: all those things combined just turned out, you know, a
- 42:16Speaker 3: guy that did a lot of everything. Twenty catches, for
- 42:19Speaker 3: two hundred and fifteen yards and four touchdowns, twelve carries
- 42:23Speaker 3: for seventy yards, forty nine tackles, two passes broken up,
- 42:26Speaker 3: one and a half tackles for loss, two interceptions, returned
- 42:30Speaker 3: eleven kickoffs for two hundred and fifty one yards, and
- 42:33Speaker 3: then had seven punt returns for ninety nine yards. Just
- 42:37Speaker 3: finding the ways to get him the ball in unique
- 42:39Speaker 3: spaces and.
- 42:42Speaker 1: Watch him go. I mean he is he was kind of.
- 42:47Speaker 3: Not that he's like the Tyreek Hill of Walking County,
- 42:50Speaker 3: but he's that kind of shifty player with unbelievable speed
- 42:54Speaker 3: at first step, and yeah, so fun to watch him
- 42:58Speaker 3: play and really curious who's going to be in that
- 43:01Speaker 3: slot next year. Number forty five on the top one
- 43:05Speaker 3: hundred countdown, six foot three, two pounds. He is a
- 43:08Speaker 3: defensive end, a senior from the blame border rights, number
- 43:11Speaker 3: sixty six, one of our favorites.
- 43:14Speaker 1: Zu yeah ze you my goodness.
- 43:19Speaker 3: He is. The quickness off the ball is what stands
- 43:24Speaker 3: out to me, and the ability to, you know, just
- 43:29Speaker 3: get after the passer, but play controlled. Meaning a lot
- 43:34Speaker 3: of guys are great pass rushers, but then they miss
- 43:37Speaker 3: on stopping the run when they could have in that
- 43:39Speaker 3: play if they would have played controlled. It doesn't doesn't
- 43:42Speaker 3: you know, doesn't let he doesn't let go of his
- 43:45Speaker 3: outside contain and read things quickly and then react quickly.
- 43:51Speaker 3: All those things so.
- 43:53Speaker 1: Much fun to watch.
- 43:55Speaker 3: Didn't really know how he would play on offense, or
- 43:58Speaker 3: if he would. I thought maybe he could be a
- 43:59Speaker 3: tied up end. It ended up being kind of like
- 44:02Speaker 3: the sixth offensive lineman, but wasn't used very much. I'll
- 44:05Speaker 3: never forget when you know, all the freshmen came into
- 44:08Speaker 3: the game in that week one game against Renting and
- 44:12Speaker 3: it was basically him and a bunch of freshmen and
- 44:15Speaker 3: he's and he's kind of learning offensive line, and he's
- 44:18Speaker 3: showing the young guys like, you know, okay, be ready
- 44:21Speaker 3: for this, be ready for that. And he you know,
- 44:23Speaker 3: he took a lot of those younger guys under his
- 44:25Speaker 3: wing and was super polite. And and that's that's the
- 44:28Speaker 3: kind of leadership that I just I just love. You know,
- 44:32Speaker 3: kids flocked to him. Awesome, awesome kid, super polite to me.
- 44:38Speaker 1: You know, I just a just a just a.
- 44:42Speaker 3: A great human and super respectful of me and what
- 44:47Speaker 3: I do. And I always really really appreciate that. It
- 44:50Speaker 3: goes a long way. I do not forget stuff like that.
- 44:52Speaker 3: But then his abilities on the field was were just awesome.
- 44:57Speaker 1: I mean.
- 44:59Speaker 3: Yeah, because fantastic thirty four tackles, six and a half
- 45:03Speaker 3: tackles for loss, six sacks, three passes broken up with
- 45:06Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage, and two forced fumbles. When he
- 45:10Speaker 3: got going, there was little you could do to stop him.
- 45:13Speaker 3: And I was just so glad that he just kind
- 45:14Speaker 3: of kept getting bigger and bigger every year, and then
- 45:17Speaker 3: you know, peaking out at two hundred and ten pounds.
- 45:19Speaker 3: That's a great size for a high school defensive end,
- 45:22Speaker 3: standing six foot three. Awesome career and his fantastic senior
- 45:26Speaker 3: year the.
- 45:28Speaker 2: Last one, and for today, number forty four on the
- 45:31Speaker 2: top one hundred countdown six foot five, two hundred and
- 45:34Speaker 2: twenty six pounds left tackle and defensive end, just the
- 45:38Speaker 2: sophomore high school. It's number sixty seven. Kel Reardon.
- 45:44Speaker 3: Yeah, despite him being an official in our alumni game
- 45:47Speaker 3: the other night with some horrible calls, atrocious, still really
- 45:52Speaker 3: like the kid. I you know, he had some calls.
- 45:55Speaker 3: I grabbed him after the game, I said, do you
- 45:56Speaker 3: want to make this top one on your list? I
- 45:59Speaker 3: was like, you got to make some better calls than that.
- 46:01Speaker 3: Come on, that was off him, that was that's that's.
- 46:03Speaker 2: Our ball off the top of your head. Did you
- 46:05Speaker 2: know too that, like when you were saying that, like
- 46:07Speaker 2: it's only about a day away that he's going to
- 46:09Speaker 2: be on there.
- 46:09Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I knew he was coming up close and
- 46:12Speaker 3: so uh he just laughed it off. He's just a
- 46:15Speaker 3: great what a what a great and it built in
- 46:19Speaker 3: leader like he is, Like especially on the basketball court,
- 46:22Speaker 3: he is a vocal leader. He is setting everything up
- 46:24Speaker 3: on the football field, a vocal leader getting these guys together.
- 46:27Speaker 3: You would never ever think that he's a sophomore. I
- 46:32Speaker 3: don't know if he's a basketball kid or a football kid,
- 46:35Speaker 3: but I think that he is can kind of do
- 46:39Speaker 3: what he wants to do. I think he's better suited
- 46:42Speaker 3: for football at the next level. It's just his frame
- 46:46Speaker 3: is really really.
- 46:47Speaker 1: Unique and and.
- 46:49Speaker 3: I you know, I don't what I I don't know.
- 46:53Speaker 3: I know Coate, when coach Lepp has a left tackle
- 46:57Speaker 3: that's athletic.
- 46:58Speaker 1: Boy.
- 46:59Speaker 3: He hangs onto those guys, you know, with the Alex Mololi's,
- 47:02Speaker 3: the Jay Allens. You know, He's had these guys that
- 47:05Speaker 3: are just holy cow they're good and he and he
- 47:09Speaker 3: wants he doesn't want to move them from that spot.
- 47:12Speaker 3: But my goodness, I think him as a tight end
- 47:15Speaker 3: and like the TJ. Bass mold would be scary.
- 47:19Speaker 2: I can tell you this much, Tyler. I don't know
- 47:21Speaker 2: a lot about basketball recruiting, but with his size, like
- 47:25Speaker 2: probably not going to Vision one, you know, right.
- 47:28Speaker 1: Right, unless he gets like six ' eight or something
- 47:30Speaker 1: like that.
- 47:30Speaker 2: Yeah, and even then it's it's it's kind of tough, right,
- 47:34Speaker 2: like sure, But when I look at him as a
- 47:37Speaker 2: football player, yeah, I think there's every bit the opportunity
- 47:41Speaker 2: to play Division one football.
- 47:42Speaker 1: I I look.
- 47:43Speaker 2: At him and I see a guy that is right
- 47:45Speaker 2: in line with kind of what Brady Ackerman was about
- 47:48Speaker 2: this time. Yes, you know, I I see a very
- 47:51Speaker 2: similar player. I see a frame that is is built
- 47:54Speaker 2: to add weight, and you just look at it. And
- 47:56Speaker 2: if you're a if you're a college coach, you're just slobeign,
- 48:00Speaker 2: you know what I mean. You were just sitting there waiting, going,
- 48:03Speaker 2: I can't believe he's got two years left of high school?
- 48:05Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And there were some time, there was
- 48:09Speaker 3: some weeks there. It was like week seven, eight nine,
- 48:11Speaker 3: Like in there where. It was like, holy cow, he's
- 48:15Speaker 3: he's now dominant. Like I would be like, that's the
- 48:17Speaker 3: best game he's ever played, and then the next week
- 48:19Speaker 3: that's the best. That's the best game he's ever played. No,
- 48:22Speaker 3: this one's the He just kept getting more dominant. I
- 48:25Speaker 3: think he just got more you know, just comfortable with everything.
- 48:29Speaker 3: And and he was out on the field all the time.
- 48:32Speaker 3: I mean he is you know, he's playing left tackle,
- 48:34Speaker 3: he's playing defensive end, he's playing on special I think
- 48:38Speaker 3: he was even like long snapping maybe on punts or something.
- 48:41Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's doing a lot of things. But
- 48:44Speaker 3: he's in great shape, always with a good smile on
- 48:46Speaker 3: his face. You know, whenever he sees me, he's you know,
- 48:48Speaker 3: he gives me howdy. You don't get a lot of
- 48:50Speaker 3: howdy these days, you know, like he's just he gives
- 48:54Speaker 3: he gives you the howdy.
- 48:55Speaker 1: I love it. What do you say back? I just
- 48:58Speaker 1: smile and say hey, cal and uh you need to
- 49:01Speaker 1: be like hey, partner, Yeah I had a partner.
- 49:03Speaker 2: Yeah it's riding rope brou who's uh, Like I like
- 49:07Speaker 2: a little piece of like weed or whatever like in
- 49:09Speaker 2: your mouth.
- 49:09Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, I'll be sticking out.
- 49:12Speaker 3: Yeah, he's just he's just so happy, go lucky, and
- 49:16Speaker 3: and uh but he's.
- 49:18Speaker 1: Intense, you know. And I know, you know, I know
- 49:23Speaker 1: his dad, I know his uncle. You know.
- 49:25Speaker 3: I mean I played football with his uncle. I know
- 49:27Speaker 3: that there's you know, some lineage of good, good athletes here.
- 49:31Speaker 3: I mean I think his uncle, Pete wrestled. I think
- 49:35Speaker 3: he placed like fifth or sixth in state at either
- 49:38Speaker 3: one seventy eight or one ninety. I mean he was
- 49:40Speaker 3: a great, great wrestler. There's there's some there's some interesting,
- 49:46Speaker 3: you know ways that this can go with him, and
- 49:48Speaker 3: I'm really really excited for his future. Defensively, he had
- 49:52Speaker 3: forty three and a half tackles, five and a half
- 49:54Speaker 3: tackles for loss, four sacks, two pass deflects in Atlanta scrimmage,
- 49:59Speaker 3: one force fumble, fum recovery, and he had an interception
- 50:01Speaker 3: on a screen pass where he just kind of jumped
- 50:05Speaker 3: up and got it and just grabbed it out of
- 50:07Speaker 3: the air. Love watching him play. He is, like you said,
- 50:13Speaker 3: there's there's some uh, there's not a ton of limitations
- 50:16Speaker 3: for him the next few years, and we'll just have
- 50:18Speaker 3: to see kind of where he goes and I know
- 50:20Speaker 3: coach LEP's probably very excited about it.
- 50:25Speaker 1: Tyler.
- 50:25Speaker 2: I'm looking up really quickly here, just because we have to.
- 50:30Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
- 50:31Speaker 2: Peter Reardon graduate from now Baker High School nineteen ninety five.
- 50:36Speaker 2: Earned letters in football. Earned three letters in football at
- 50:40Speaker 2: the fullback and defensive end positions. Earned four letters in wrestling.
- 50:44Speaker 2: Also competed in baseball, earning one letter. Attended North Idaho College,
- 50:47Speaker 2: competing in wrestling from ninety five to ninety eight. Interesting
- 50:51Speaker 2: that they put his birthday in here. Has one brother
- 50:55Speaker 2: is pursuing a degree in history, was recently married. Oh interesting,
- 50:59Speaker 2: this was from Central Washington University wrestling profiles. I don't
- 51:03Speaker 2: even know they had wrestling. Wow, Yeah, I don't know.
- 51:07Speaker 3: So his brother Simon and his older brother that's Kel's dad, gotcha. So,
- 51:11Speaker 3: and he was a senior when I was the ball
- 51:12Speaker 3: boy on the football team. So I've known Kel's dad
- 51:14Speaker 3: since for thirty two years. And so it's just it's
- 51:19Speaker 3: a it's a really really cool deal. And he is Yeah,
- 51:24Speaker 3: Like like you said, I think that's a great comparison
- 51:26Speaker 3: with Brady Ackerman. I mean they both played basketball. You know,
- 51:30Speaker 3: Kel's a little little bit taller and uh, but Kel's
- 51:35Speaker 3: been six five since he was like in eighth grade,
- 51:37Speaker 3: so I don't, you know, we'll have to see kind
- 51:39Speaker 3: of where that goes. But man, he's uh, he's he's
- 51:45Speaker 3: got it, you know, and it's gonna be really cool.
- 51:47Speaker 3: And I think he was named All Conference first Team
- 51:49Speaker 3: as a defensive lineman, which is pretty cool.
- 51:52Speaker 1: Alrighty, Tyler, Uh, we done? Is that it?
- 51:56Speaker 2: I think that's it. This went way faster than I
- 51:58Speaker 2: had expected. We are just over fifty one minutes, Tyler.
- 52:02Speaker 2: How about that?
- 52:03Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're usually right under an hour, just a
- 52:05Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, it's not too bad.
- 52:07Speaker 2: Just usually once we start getting, you know, into the
- 52:09Speaker 2: lower numbers, let's say, it starts a Although we had
- 52:11Speaker 2: quite a few alignment in this one, I feel like, maybe.
- 52:14Speaker 1: Yeah, there weren't his main numbers. Maybe yeah, that could be.
- 52:17Speaker 2: Yeah, that being said, the next one coming up on
- 52:21Speaker 2: the Top one hundred Countdown January sixth, ten AM. Be
- 52:24Speaker 2: sure to subscribe to the podcast. You'll get a notification
- 52:27Speaker 2: when it comes out. Yeah. Thank you again to Anytime
- 52:30Speaker 2: Fitness in Linden North and Ferndale for being the sponsor
- 52:34Speaker 2: of the Top one hundred Countdown. That being said, he's
- 52:37Speaker 2: Tyler Anderson of WAKAM Preps walkompreps dot com onm Ryland Spencer.
- 52:40Speaker 1: Are you be listening to.
- 52:41Speaker 2: Episode at three hundred and twenty one, the third of
- 52:43Speaker 2: ten podcasts in the twenty twenty four football Top one
- 52:46Speaker 2: hundred Countdown here on the Walkam Preps podcast. We will
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