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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 181 - Lynden Christian Lyncs Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Lynden Christian Senior, King State and you're listening to the LC football
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preview on the Welcome Preps Podcast with Tyler and Rylan go Links. Greetings and
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welcome to the Welcome Preps Podcast. You're listening to the twenty twenty three Linden
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Christian Links team preview. I'm Rylen Spencer along with me as always is Tyler
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Anderson of Whatcome Preps. Tyler, how we doing. I'm all doing fantastic,
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, And it's uh man. We're getting so
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much closer to the season and as these previous roll on and the voice will
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get more excited as we keep going. And I can't wait. This is
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the third of ten team previous as we get ready for the upcoming season.
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Later today, the twenty seventh, we'll be talking about the Linden A Lions.
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Tomorrow the twenty eighth, we will have the Qualicum Storm and blame border
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Rights. Yesterday we kicked off the team previews with Seahome and Bellingham. If
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you would like to listen to those, head over to walka Prepps dot com
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Tyler, we gotta thank Cayden Stight Eastern Washington Eagles committed for the intro today.
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Is that the first time we've had Cayden Stight as the intro? I
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yeah, what I was looking for. We're seniors that have never done an
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intro before, and I don't think he had ever done one. I just
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so I thought, you know, why not? And and I just want
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to thank him again because right after practice he had to go and volunteer at
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the Northwest Washington Fair and uh, but he stuck around anyways and did some
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more stuff with me. So great kid, just awesome kids. So thank
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him again for doing the intro. What a guy? Yeah, what a
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guy. Tyler. Let's see, so you would have been out there on
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what's Saturday? I was out there Friday night. Oh you did three on
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Friday. Well you just wait until you hear about Saturday. I don't want
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to hear about it, Tyler. You you will, yes, general thoughts
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on the day out there, Linden Christian, Yeah, you know, going
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out there, it's always kind of that that that same feeling, you know,
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you walk down the you know, the hill there and you get to
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the stadium and uh, well you walk down by the stadium and then you
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go out of the Prex field and I look out there and it looks like
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fifty college wide receivers and uh and it's just is what it is. You
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know, they're tall, they're lanky, and you kind of look around and
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go, okay, who are are they going to make into lineman this year?
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But what was cool was there was some guys that had come back,
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hadn't played for a while that were big lineman that are going to get a
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chance to start right away. There's a big freshman class. It's always exciting
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and it's you know, maybe a freshman or two that's gonna get some pretty
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decent playing time on this kind of squad, which tells you something. But
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it was it was good. I mean, a lot of team speed.
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Uh you know, the Pactors, the pact. It was hot out there.
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You know, is that is that Friday afternoon, you know, you
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know, three to six time? But it was cool. It was It's
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a lot of fun out there. And uh and Turp's got him whipped into
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shape. So it was good. Turp being Greg Turps for a second season
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with Lynn and Christian. They went eight in one last year. Uh.
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They play their games at Lynn and Christian High School. Oddly enough, no
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name for the stadium. I mean, I got I got a good one
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here, Tyler Anderson Field. Yeah, you know I did. I did
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throw a pass on a fake punt in a JV game there once. I
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believe I got hit pretty hard and the ball was intercepted. So I could
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see why you'd want to go Tyler Anderson Field. And from that day forward
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he had CTE, which led him into Walcom Prep dot Com. Uh.
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Like I said, eight one last season, seven and three the season before,
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they were state semi finalists. Last year they missed the state tournament.
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But at eight and one, I mean, that's you guys work to do
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to get back to eight and one. I mean, that's that's always a
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tough thing to do. Uh. They lose some really big names, Kate
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Eldridge, Tyler Sima Quick, Kick, Brandon Quick, Uh, you know,
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Lane Diceter, Griffin, Dister Tough. I mean, there's a lot
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of names, Tyler that you have listed here. And by the way,
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if you're not looking at their team preview, if you're just listening to the
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podcast Walcome preps dot Com Team Preview right there on the top of the page.
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Why aren't you looking at it? The returnees? Though? Wow?
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I mean wow wow. Yeah. As a matter of fact, I went
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down here, I scrolled down a little a little early, and I looked
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at your featured four. Yeah. I don't know how you've only picked four.
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I mean there's there's a couple of names on here that you don't have
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listed, And I'm like, that guy would be a feature four on most
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teams in the county, right except for maybe Nooksack Valley, who we'll talk
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about that game here in a little bit. But wow, I mean,
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Days have returned some serious talent, Tyler. And really it starts at quarterback
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with Jeremiah Wright, who lasted through for fourteen hundred yards over fourteen hundred yards,
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fourteen touchdowns to just five interceptions. Pretty efficient too, Tyler, when
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you really look at it, one hundred and forty seven attempts, ninety seven
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completions. I mean, yeah, yeah, that's good. Yeah, he
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he really he kind of surprised me because I didn't know what to expect last
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year as at quarterback. I really thought Tyler Sipman was going to play quarterback
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and have Jeremiah right, Uh, you know, and a why or split
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out? Uh when he said when he took over, I was kind of
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surprised, but he just he just did some awesome things, including throwing for
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four hundred and eight yards in the game against Mount Baker. That's the that's
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a school record. So uh, he proved that he could do a lot
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of things, dual threat guys, scoring twelve touchdowns on the ground. Uh.
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Is a big kid, I mean six six, two hundred and twenty
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two pounds, you know, great, great basketball player, two time state
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champion there, and and he's getting looks as not as a quarterback, but
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maybe like a tight end tight guy. And you know when he's he's he
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just looks that part, you know, and it you know, and it's
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I'm not saying he's Casey Bauman, but when like he's throwing like a ten
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yard pass, it's funny to see the ball at the like the trajectory just
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go downwards, you know, because he's so tall and that and it kind
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of made me think of uh Casey when he would play. You know,
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but you know, I think the accuracy is better, you know, a
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grasp a year into now, Coach Tripster's offense I think is huge for him
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and for all the kids. Uh. You know, you can kind of
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came into it last year just like, Okay, this is all new stuff.
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I gotta learn it all. But he's a you know, he's a
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great quarterback. There's there's some other ones. As Coach trip will be the
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first tell you he wants to have ten quarterbacks on his team. Uh.
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Thomas Thomas den Hartog is a backup quarterback that's been going to camps. He's
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got an absolute cannon. He's a six foot tall, one hundred and eighty
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pounds senior. And then they have a sophomore, Eli Mayberry, who you
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know, coaches saying he's the smartest kid out here. Heck, he's probably
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the smartest kid out here, including the coaches. Uh. And you just
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love to have a guy like that. He's a six one, one hundred
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and sixty pounds sophomore. H just a big time player on the baseball team
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as a freshman. You know, got top two in the lineup, kind
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of guy, shortstop, center fielder, and so he could he could do
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some things as a quarterback if needed. So they have guys there, and
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you know, Lennon Christian depth wise is not going to be an issue,
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especially at the skill position. So you've got three kind of different guys that
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could do that can do different things. And Jeremiah Wright is He's He's the
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real deal. And I always kind of feel like he gets forgotten a little
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bit just because of so some of the main quarterbacks around the county and uh
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and for what he can do on defense as well. Yeah, you had
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him on the I was unavailable for the Quarterback podcast, but had you had
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him on for that right? Yeah? Yeah, definitely. You know it
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was him and Josh Leonard, Joey Brown and Bishop who see, we just
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talked about all sorts of goofy things about other sports and other positions. In
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your first first touchdown pass and just having fun with that. We we talked
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about the Royal game from last year and how impressive that was. He scored
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all three touchdowns in that game. So it's just it was a unique season
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last year. It just kind of came to an abrupt end. But Jeremiah
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right throughout the year when he was All Conference first team as a quarterback,
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so he proved his worth at the position. And when we talk about the
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rushing game, Tyler, the running backs, if you will, there's no
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real I mean, there's no Kade Eldritch, right. So Jeremiah Right the
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leading rusher returning four the links, sixty seven carries, four hundred and sixteen
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yards, and an insane twelve touchdowns from a quarterback. Now tell me this,
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Tyler. Were those twelve touchdowns where a lot of them like close goal
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line type things and they just had him like reach forward because he's got go,
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go, gadget arms And not as many as you would think. I'd
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say a lot of them were you know, less than ten yards, but
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most of them are in that you know, four to seven yard category.
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Now, when we talk about running backs, though, I see some names
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here, some guys with stats returning, but Hollis Owen, oddly enough,
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Brody Bauman one for twenty seven? Was that one of those ones where just
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nobody wanted to touch him? That was that was on like a reverse against
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Yeah wow, Yeah, that's probably some business decisions made on that one where
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guys didn't get in there. But who are the names we need to know
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about in the backfield other than Jeremiah Right. Well, there's a big group
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of underclassmen and UH, and so you kind of start off with maybe Hollis
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Owen. Hollis Owen is a really athletic kid who does a ton of training
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in the off season. Is six feet tall, two hundred and five pounds
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of junior and he is UH is a between the tackles, powerful kind of
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runner. And then you could go Mick Owen, who is He's gotten a
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lot thicker, He's probably put on thirty pounds of muscle at least. Who's
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five nine, one hundred and eighty pounds. He's also a junior great athlete,
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a kid that's five to nine that can high jump, probably taller than
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he is, which is always impressive. You know, it's a triple jump
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state champion. And it was awesome too because when he you know how they
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get on the podium like the first, second, third, fourth, fifth
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or whatever, you know, you did that for wrestling a lot stuff like
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that. He just he just like did like a like the like the broad
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jump or whatever you call it, like to just jump straight up to the
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number one spot to get his uh, to get his yeah, vertical jump.
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Yeah, he just hopped right up to It was pretty cool. Uh,
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and Miko. It's funny too, because I gotta tell you a little
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story's that's that's pretty good. Last year it was what was It was like
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coach Terpsha and Miko and had a benching contest and and Terpstra out benched him.
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So he had a shirtman that said I benched, I benched more than
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Mikoen or something like that, and they put it on Instagram and everything.
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So when I went to practice on Friday that morning, uh, Mick challenged
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him back and he out benched coach Terpister this time. So now he's gonna
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he Now he wants a shirt made and he wants coach to burn his shirt.
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So I love that they have the camaraderie and they know, like,
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you know, what they're doing, and we're talking, you know, we're
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talking Mick oh and probably benching around two hundred and fifty pounds. He's one
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hundred and eighty pound kid. Usually people have shirts next to me that say
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I'm with stupid, Yeah, you're right, and and you know, so
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those are those are kind of some main guys, uh, and then some
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backups, you know, Junior Austin Angels, another baseball star. Uh,
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he's a five nine, one hundred and eighty five pound junior. And Trason
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Johnson, who's a five eleven, two hundred and ten pounds sophomore, another
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baseball kid, this starting catcher as a freshman. I believe his dad Jared,
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as a freshman. Yeah, and they went they went pretty far.
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Yeah, and uh in baseball. And his dad, Jared was a running
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back at Meridian back in the late nineties, and they're and they're kind of
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their heyday there, so uh, you know, he's he's a big kid
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run. So you kind of have those four guys, and you know,
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you can't underestimate maybe throwing Caden Stite back there. You know, you just
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never know when they would put Zach Sipman back there. Every once in a
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while for a short yard of situation. You put the big two hundred and
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thirty pound back back there to get some yards. And Cadence he's pretty quick
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now, so you never know. So they got a pretty good stable of
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five guys there that they could hand the ball off to. Sounds to me
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like the one kid could be a good fullback, might have to go under
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center with the I formation. Their turp probably not gonna happen receiving threats.
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They got some guys, and they got some height, and they got some
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length, which is no surprise because you know, Lynn and Christian got about
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eleven guys that are six foot nine and taller. Tyson Bima, Caden Stit.
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I mean, these are some guys that you know, they weren't maybe
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the main target last year, but now they're going to be. And I
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got a feeling they're gonna step and be just fine. Who are the who
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are the guys we need to know about there that are going to beat these
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downward passes from Jeremiah? Right? Yeah, Tyson Bima really stands out.
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He's up to about six four now six four one ninety. Uh, and
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he really impressed some other coaches around the league from what I've heard from them.
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Uh, they were like, man, that number fourteen is really really
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something. I think he's gonna be kind of that main target and mismatch problem.
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Dawson Bauma on the outside is another guy six eighty five, really put
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together, built really well. He can make plays. Trevin Blair is another
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kid that's gonna kind of get his chance. He's another baseball kid two six
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two one ninety. You know, you start seeing these kids, it's like,
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my goodness, and these are just the ones that are split out wide.
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And then how about another more lake coming Luke Moore Lay really Yeah,
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he's yeah, five nine, one sixty. He's gotten a lot bigger uh
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in the off season and he and he's a senior as well, so he's
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more of the tyler or is he more of the of like what Sima played
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last year? Then well he's not. Yeah maybe you know he and but
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I kind of like you feel like that, like yeah, but that but
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but you know what I'm saying, like he's more of that guy that's gonna
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like move around and and kind of more of a speed guy. Yeah.
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And you could see mick Owen doing that too. You could see mick Owen
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uh in the slot and you know, doing some fly sweet type stuff,
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finding ways to get him the ball where he's already running. Uh. They
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could be pretty creative with that. I think mick Owen's gonna do whatever he
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wants because you know he owns it now. So yeah. Yeah, And
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then and and Jaden Juliet is a six foot, one hundred and seventy pound
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junior, so he's the only junior in that mix if you take out Mick
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Owen and but yeah, a lot of seniors there, senior heavy and the
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wide receivers, and then you know they're gonna they're gonna run with an H
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back. You know, they just have so many of these H bodies and
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you know, they just they usually go wide with a lot of guys.
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But based on personnel, you know, you put Kaden Stit in as a
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you know, and they might run some true tight end. Uh. Kayden
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now is six four thirty pounds, looks fantastic. I think that he is
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h He's gonna catch those balls over the middle and it's gonna be scary.
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I mean, he loves the contact. He's gotten a lot faster, and
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he's gotten bigger, and you know, he's he's one of those guys that
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that people, a lot of people are gonna have to be aware of.
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And I'm really excited about him. Brody Bauman we talked about with that twenty
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seven yard reverse last year. He's six three two oh five now, he's
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another one of those H bat guys that just wants to just block and hit
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guys. And Trey Bossman's another guy. He's a junior at six one two
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oh five. He's another kind of h body that could do those kinds of
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things. But you know, Coach Tripson was joking with me about and I
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knew and he knew you'd get a kick out of this. He goes,
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I was watching the Panthers against the Seahawks last year and they did some thirteen
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personnel, you know, one back, three tight ends, yes, he
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thought, And he thought, do I have three tight ends? He goes,
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I think I do and so and he just has like those kinds of
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bodies now to be able to maybe be a little bit more creative in the
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run game, a little bit more powerful. So and those are the guys
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that can do it. And he did. The depth is there, you
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know, and and and you know, hopefully that can help out the overall
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balance of the offense. Now, Tyler, and looking over the the key
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losses in the top attorneys, the one thing that maybe stands out the most
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is that there's a lot of key losses that had c O L d L.
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There's not a lot of ols and d l's on the top atturnees.
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So, uh, Carter Siegmann is one of them, or he's the only
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one sorry, the only one that I see here that has ol or d
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L next to him. Now, Yeah, yeah, like Jeremiah right,
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Like you know some of these outside linebackers too, like they're they're helping turn
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on the d defensive side. But offensively, Tyler, what do we got
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here? Yeah, offensive lines, it's gonna be tricky. They kind of
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had to deal with this last year where they had that all new offensive line.
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You know, this year, Carter Sigman returns. He's you know,
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he's a rocket at offensive tackle, six foot three, two hundred pounds.
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I believe he probably played at about one eighty last year, So he got
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a little bigger, filled out a little bit more, which is gonna help.
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They got some kids that, like I said earlier in the podcast,
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that have come out this year after not playing before. Cody Craig is a
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senior six two two seventy You could probably see him on the interior of the
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line maybe a little bit. Jason Ryan is a six two two twenty five
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pound kid that could play some offensive line. His thing is that he you
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know, he's really quick and so you know, you just gotta you know,
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I remember Matthew Burrows was a left tackle that they had was that was
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maybe the fourth or fifth fastest kid on the team. And and you can
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do some things at left tackle if you pull or you get outside on a
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screen patch or something, you could use that quickness. I could see that
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happening for him. And they got a freshman. They got a freshman named
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Kyler Sterk. And you know, if people know the Stirk name or around
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these parts, and it's always good. So, uh, I didn't I
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wasn't able to get a head shot. I just heard about him, but
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I think he went over to camp at Eastern, played varsity and did not
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disappoint against some pretty good teams. So you could see him starting on the
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offensive line perhaps, And yeah, it's just gonna be We're gonna see what
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happens. But man, it's uh I'm excited. There's another there's another Sigment
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on the way, and a veldman and and some big, big kids in
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that freshman class. So so we'll see how it all turns out. But
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I'm glad they're getting some of these kids to turn back out again after a
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few years off. Yeah, that's huge. And you know, when you
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start looking at the defensive side of the ball, Tyler in the trenches.
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So I see a lot of sacks, a lot of tackles for a loss.
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But these guys aren't aren't defensive lineman. These guys are other positions.
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So who are the guys inside we need to know about on the defensive side
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of the ball. Yeah, I think the big the big key will beat
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Carter Sigment again now as a as a defensive tackle, and he had a
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great year last year. Was an All League first team guy on the defensive
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line. So he returns. So that helps Jack Pereira. As a kid,
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there's a junior six one two twenty five he's and he's he can cause
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problems inside as a nose tackle, defensive tackle type guy. We talked about
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Jace Ryan's speed. Maybe as a defensive end. Malachi bander May was a
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kid that when he got in a little bit last year, he made some
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things happen. A six two, two hundred and five pounds senior, he
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could get some run in there. And then of course they liked They liked
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a lot of their running backs in this spot. You know Trason Johnson,
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Austin Angles, Hollis Owen. These are kids that are bigger running backs,
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that are quick, that can make some things happen, maybe coming off the
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edge or just causing some havoc on the inside. But those guys will be
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in the rotation on the defensive line for sure. And he messed a segment
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twenty six and a half tackles, ten tackles for a loss and a sack.
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So I mean, that's that's a really nice piece to kind of have,
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is I guess, an anchor if you will, of a defensive line,
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you know what I mean, that's a that's a great starting point.
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And then you mentioned vander May limited time, but five and a half tackles
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and two of them or two tackles were for a loss. So yeah,
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I mean yeah, yeah, average those out and you move them up.
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I mean, you could be looking at two really really good defensive linemen there
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for for Lynn and Christian. Then you know, adding some other pieces and
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we're looking at some things. Let's talk linebackers, Tyler. There are some
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decent linebackers. They're okay, I mean, yeah, I'm taking the Bob
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Ames approach here, Uh, Cayden Stight, Brody. I mean, there's
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there's some names here, Tyler. This has got to be the real strength
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of that defense. Yeah, I mean a lot of a lot of returning
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experience here. Right. You got Cayden Stight and Brody Bauman on the inside,
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and it's so rare to see, especially at the one A level and
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high school football, of your two inside linebackers that are six four and six
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three. Uh, it's just it's just just don't see that too often.
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And these are kids that can play the past. You know, they can
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put their hands up. Brody Bauman returned two interceptions for touchdowns last year.
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You know Kayden Stit was knocking down passes, intercepting passes, knocking the ball
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out of people's hands. They could both you know, make plays behind the
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line of scrimmage. They both had over fifty tackles last year each. So
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these are big time playmakers. An inside linebacker backup in that spot. Maybe
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Thomas Dent and Hartog could be an inside linebacker as well, coming off the
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edge as an outside linebacker. You know, Jeremiah Wright as a sophomore,
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was playing defensive end last year. He was a stand up outside linebacker.
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He's been putting pressure on the opposing quarterbacks for a couple of years now.
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I see Trey bossman. Maybe on the other end, he was kind of
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coming in. He could play inside or outside. They could kick stight outside,
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they could do a lot of different things kind of based on their opponent.
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And Trey Blair is a sophomore six two, one hundred and eighty five
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pounds that you know, you could project him in a lot of different spots,
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the younger brother, I believe, the younger brother of Trevin Blair.
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And he's just one of those kids that usually when is a guy that's a
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really good athlete that could play a lot of different positions, sometimes they just
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find that home an outside linebacker and make it there. So he's kind of
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the next up and coming guy with those a lot of senior linebackers. He's
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that kind of guy in the mix that can really make a spark perhaps next
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season. I mean, I'm just looking at their stats returning numbers here.
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Yeah, and I mean we're talking math. I can't even add I mean,
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my goodness too. Yeah, we just talked passes defended two two eight
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three one one three. I mean interceptions two two one one one two,
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I mean two one. I mean interception from from one guy that I think
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you mentioned on the defensive line. I mean, what in the world is
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going on here? They got a lot of guys with returning stats here.
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I mean, this is just wild. Let's talk about the second. We
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haven't got to the secondary yet, Tyler secondary. Who are the names we're
22:49
looking at here? Yeah, this is a really really great, really good
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group here. You know, Tyson Bima kind of leading it as a strong
22:56
safety. He did a lot of good things, especially when they were a
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lot of team you know, go three wide, four wide, and he'll
23:00
come up and cover a slot receiver, which is tough to do at six
23:04
foot four, but he could make plays he had to pick six. Uh,
23:08
he could really you know, do some good things. Trevin Blair as
23:11
a kid that was there was one game I believe it was against Archbishop Murphy
23:15
last year replayed five different positions on defense. He's just one of those kids
23:19
that he will do the right thing all the time, but mostly played defensive
23:22
end last year. He'll be back and playing a safety now at six two
23:26
and one hundred ninety pounds. They're moving a defensive end back to play safety.
23:30
Hey man, they just they just have that they're all built the same.
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Yeah, you know, it doesn't matter. It's just wild. I
23:37
mean when you look at there, when you look at his stats, eighteen
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and a half tackles, five and a half tackles for a loss, one
23:42
pass defended, two interceptions, and then you go, oh, by the
23:45
way, he's moving from the end of safety, so we'll see what he
23:48
does this year. Yeah. And then the ability to do that as such
23:52
a cool thing. Yeah. And then other safeties, you know, Eli
23:56
Mayberry, the sophomore could see some time. You know, boys Row Robertson,
24:00
uh he's got some amazing bloodlines there, as does Mayberry. Uh and
24:03
and Josh Hubbard who had a safety last year to a sixty three, one
24:07
hundred and sixty five pounds senior. These are all just safeties. Then you're
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talking corners. Dawson Bauma as a returning corner that that made a lot of
24:17
plays, was one of the leaders and passes broken up. Mick Owen,
24:19
who we've been talking about on the offensive side of the ball, could be
24:22
a playmaker on the defensive side of the ball as a corner. And then
24:26
you got Jadeen Juliett Luke moreleg These are all guys that can make plays at
24:30
the corner position. There's just a lot of depth right now. And with
24:33
the schedule they have too, it's it's good. They're gonna need it,
24:37
and they're gonna have a lot of guys playing. And you know, they're
24:40
not necessarily gonna play You're you're an offensive guy, you're a defensive guy.
24:42
But they're just gonna get a lot of guys in the mix. And there's
24:45
just a lot of talent all around. Yeah. I mean you mentioned it
24:48
their schedule, and we'll get to it here. But by the time they
24:51
get to their first league game against the exact valley, they're gonna be battle
24:53
tested. I mean they yeah, they're gonna be battle tested. It this
24:56
is this is yeah, we'll talk about it here with the schedule. Quit
25:00
kick gone gone. He's he's off in college. So when I'm looking at
25:07
scoring and I see extra points zero all the way down, field, goals
25:11
zero all the way down, my first thing is, Tyler Anderson, do
25:15
you have eligibility? Are you coming out of retirement? You know there?
25:19
What are we looking at here? I mean, we don't even I'll tell
25:23
you this. I cannot afford to go to Lennar Christian, but you know,
25:29
especially with walcome preps being my main soul in sell the house Tyler.
25:33
Yeah, I'll just I'll just do that again. Sure, I you know,
25:37
and I thought Jude Decker was the backup kicker last year. He's an
25:41
underclassmate, but he's focusing solely on soccer. So they have Gunner Pereira who's
25:47
a five nine hundred and thirty pound junior. He's going to be their main
25:49
guy kicking off and pats and field goals. Hunting is still up in the
25:55
air. I don't know. Kate Eldritch Punnett last year, he did punt.
26:00
I remember he punted one in the Royal game that hasn't landed yet.
26:04
So they're there. You know, there is some talent to be replaced there.
26:10
But you see you see the bodies of these guys and you just think,
26:14
oh, I sure one or two of them are awesome punners. They
26:15
just don't even know it yet. So I mean, you put Jeremi right
26:18
back there. You know, Reggie Roby, You got a lot of guys
26:22
with Reggie Roby type legs. You know, they could be kissing their own
26:26
knee when they're up there kicking a ball. I mean, yeah, there's
26:29
some if they got somebody that can teach them how to punt. There's some
26:32
serious potential with those long legged dudes. They got their living Christian. Sure.
26:36
Yeah, I mean it's uh, it's it's it's it's it's crazy.
26:40
But you know, and with that offense, I mean, who knows how
26:41
much they're gonna really have to punt. But I you know, you don't
26:45
find a guy, he'll be great and they'll just go on. Now in
26:48
the return game, you know, it's a little it's a little different because
26:53
it's I remember Kate Elders returning that kickoff for a touchdown last year and and
26:57
I just kind of smiled and took my head and I said, you know,
27:02
you can get away with that kind of stuff in high school football.
27:03
You can put your best guy back there. You can hope for something or
27:07
whatever. And so when I was asking coach Turpster about, you know,
27:11
kickoff returns, and I said, you know, you got guys like a
27:14
Mick Owen, uh, you know, Dawson Obama. You got guys that
27:18
have done it before that have that kind of abilities. And he's he kind
27:23
of laughed, and he goes, he goes, I can't get Kayden stight
27:26
out of there. And and it made me think of when you know,
27:32
Katee Elders was returning kicks last year. You know, he's like he loves
27:36
doing it, He absolutely loves it, and he's he's gotten fast and you
27:41
know, we've talked about those business decisions again, you know, and and
27:47
who knows, you could see him back their returning kicks. Uh, probably
27:49
not punts that might get thrown back to Owen and Obama again. But they've
27:55
always been so great at special teams, you know, you know, going
27:59
back to Jackson Apaul days, the Red Shoe kids, the you know,
28:03
the Tyler Sittma last year and you know, kicking, the punting, they're
28:07
returning all that stuff. They've been so good Zach Owen in the past.
28:11
I mean, it's it's been a huge staple for Lennen Christian football over the
28:15
years. Coach Turpstra was an amazing kickoff punt return guy back when he played
28:19
two. So, uh, they believe in it, they practice it,
28:22
and it shows on on Friday nights. It seems like over the last few
28:26
years we've had a lot of Linnen Christian Special Teams Players of the Week.
28:32
Yeah, you know, you can just put it that color all the time,
28:34
you know, and just and just roll forward. It makes it easier
28:37
for editing graphics, does it not, Yeah, make the template and just
28:41
leave it. Yeah, Tyler. Let's talk a little bit about the schedule
28:45
here. It's basically a flip from last year except for two games uh Siaka
28:48
Woman. Week one has been replaced with Lakeside of nine mile Falls. We
28:52
talk about a road trip, that's the tack of a road trip. While
28:56
we could call coach leap and figure that one out and then what is it
29:00
one, two, three, four, Week five is instead of going down
29:03
to Renton or I guess hosting Renton this year, they will be hosting Napavine,
29:10
who they're probably going to be the number one team in the state coming
29:14
out to start the season at the two B level. They returned some really
29:18
nice pieces pieces in including their quarterback. So yeah, I mean when you
29:23
look at it though, at Lakeside at Archbishop Home versus Bellevue, Christian Home
29:30
versus Royal Home versus Napavine, get out your sunblock because those are two pm
29:36
Saturday games, three of them right in a row, and then they get
29:40
right into the league play boom. Here we go at Nooksack Valley at Meridian
29:44
Home versus Blaine Home versus Mount Baker, Tyler, this is a schedule that
29:51
has them battle tested. They're gonna be ready to go when it comes time
29:56
to travel out. What is that road? Is it Badger? Yeah?
30:02
Well yeah, Badger kind of heads out to Nooksack Valley. Yeah right,
30:04
Actually they're gonna head down Badger to Nooksack Valley for a big, big matchup
30:11
there on October sixth, one that I would assume Tyler Anderson is going to
30:15
be at. Other than that, what are the games? What are you
30:17
looking at here, Tyler? What do you see on the schedule? Well,
30:19
I'd love I'm excited for these Saturday games obviously, and with three of
30:23
them in a row only game in town. Uh, you know, I'll
30:26
be there the Royal one, I you know, And you might have to
30:30
ask coach all read yourself. I know, you guys, he will.
30:33
Guys have each other's phone numbers and everything. I don't think role has ever
30:37
come and played at Walkin County. And if you know who the guy to
30:41
ask would be, oh yes, Michael, yeah yes, and you yes,
30:47
And if he doesn't know he knows somebody that can tell him that.
30:48
You know, somebody will know. Yeah, and you know who that somebody
30:52
might be. He might have to call this guy Tyler Anderson, who has
30:55
like all of the records and everything. Well, if Michael, if you
30:59
know, I'm just hoping he comes out to the game. I'd love to
31:02
see him again. I'm sure they'll probably broadcast the game back home. Yeah,
31:06
so it was it was great to meet him at the state championship last
31:08
year. I got to talk to him during halftime and and but yeah,
31:11
that's a game that it was a tremendous game last year. So you know,
31:17
I'm sure the Royal is excited to get back and play that one again.
31:22
Lennon Christian is excited for the host now. But the Nappifying game is
31:26
awesome. I saw a Nappifying in person last year. They were amazing.
31:30
So going to get back to back state champions in week five and they're four
31:33
and five, that's that's gonna be tough, you know. And of course,
31:37
yes, the game at Nook Sac Valley is going to be great.
31:38
That that finale against Baker could hinge a lot on some some playoff implications.
31:45
Four weeks into the season last year, it didn't look like that game was
31:49
was maybe gonna have a ton to do with anything, because Mount Baker was,
31:52
you know, struggling, and Lynn and Christian they were just blown people
31:56
away. But then as it kind of got closer, You're like, runt
31:59
Row, like this one has a little I'll tell you what, Lennon Christian.
32:01
I'm sure they're probably a little salty, you know. Oh yeah,
32:06
I'm sure they still have a bad taste in their mouth that they are going
32:08
to be they're gonna be looking for blood, you know what I mean.
32:12
They're they're they're not going to be happy about it. And if if that
32:15
game means something, boy, I'll tell you what. That's one of those
32:17
ones where I kind of wish Ryland Spencer could get up there and watch him
32:22
some football, because I'll tell you what that was actually when when I was
32:24
up there a couple of years ago, remember I came up for that one.
32:27
That was one of my more favorite games I attended, even though it
32:30
was probably one of the sloppiest games I've ever seen. But it was just
32:32
one car wreck after another in the trenches, and I remember it wasn't there
32:37
a was there a block punt, or there was a punt or I can't
32:38
remember exactly what it was, or a short punt, and man, it
32:42
was, it was, it was. It was a great game, and
32:44
the fans were all into it and it was I remember it was kind of
32:46
chilly that day, and yeah, it was fun. But yeah, I
32:51
mean, this is a good looking schedule here, Tyler. I think I
32:53
think they're sending themselves up to really learn some things, because you got a
32:58
couple of different types of offs too, that they're going to come up against.
33:00
I think that Archbishop game you could end up with a lot of stuff
33:04
under center based on, you know, kind of their coaching staff. Now.
33:08
So Royal is going to give you some looks that you know, spread
33:13
offense looks, and they're going to do some really good things. And when
33:15
you play some of these teams, you know, when you play a Lakeside
33:19
of nine mile Falls, when you play an Archbishop, when you play a
33:21
Royal and a Napifye, you're playing teams that are going to be well prepared,
33:25
yep. And that's always a great test. If they're well prepared,
33:29
you might you might run them out of the building by fifty, but when
33:32
they come in well prepared, it's always going to be a little tougher.
33:37
Let's talk really quickly about the Linnen Christian breakout player. Tyler. It's a
33:42
guy whose name you've mentioned about six hundred times on this podcast already. We
33:45
can't get away from him, Mick Owen. Yeah, I just I'm excited
33:51
to see what he does. I really saw him, you know, I
33:52
was over Eastern Camp. I got to see him a little bit there where
33:55
he kind of stood out to me, and it was it was fun to
34:00
watch, you know. And then so I got to see him at practice
34:04
and he's just he's he's so quick. He could stop on a dime,
34:07
he could turn. He's just super athletic, catch the ball, physical,
34:13
all those things. So you know, it didn't put up, you know,
34:17
hardly anything numbers wise. Last year he had a one and a half
34:21
tackles and he returned to punt for nine yards and they kick off for fifteen
34:23
yards and that was it. So I like finding these kids that haven't done
34:28
too much on Friday nights and then watch them explode the next year. And
34:30
I think he falls into that category. Anything else before we get out of
34:35
here, Tyler, No, I don't think so. You covered it all.
34:38
You're good to go. All your notes are have been exhausted. You're
34:42
you're ready to go. Later today we will be talking about the Linden Lions
34:45
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See Home Bellingham, a couple of the Bellingham schools. We'll finish off
35:00
the Bellingham schools tomorrow. Yeah. Other than that, you've been listening to
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the twenty twenty three team preview of the Lindon Christian Links. I'm Ryland Spencer.
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He's Tyler Anderson. We will talk to you later today.