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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 225 - Top 100 Countdown 62-44 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Lyndon Senior Zach Welch and you're listening to the Top one hundred Countdown
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on the Welcome Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Lions, Greetings,
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and welcome into the Wacome Preps podcast. This is episode two hundred and twenty
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five, the third of ten podcasts in the Top one hundred Countdown. I'm
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Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson of what Welcome Preps.
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Tyler, how are we doing? You? And good Ryland? Uh?
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Yeah, these these countdowns are This is where it starts getting crazy because
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you start getting into the upper half now and you start seeing names where it's
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kind of like really and what's cool about this is there's it's a good group
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of guys that are kind of veterans of Walking County along with guys that just
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kind of came out of nowhere. It had a huge years. So it's
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a fun group here. Yeah, we're going to talk about what do we
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got here? Three sophomores, bunch of juniors in this one bunch of them
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and you know what, we might hit all of the teams here, Sea
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Home, Blaine, Mount Baker, Lyndon, Lennon, Christian Blaine, Seaholme,
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Ferndale, Meridian Nook Sack only one. We're not talking about that.
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I see, we're not talking about anybody from squal Come. It doesn't look
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like oh okay. That being said, Tyler, we do need to give
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a thank you to young man Zach Welch out of Lindon. The guest kind
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of gives it away. We'll be talking about him here in a few minutes.
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But we also need to say thanks to Anytime Fitness for their continued support.
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They are the sponsors of the Top one hundred countdown. You can visit
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any of their three locations in Ferndale, Linden or Linden North. Tell them
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what them Prep sent you. I won't get you anything special, but yeah,
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I mean other than maybe a weird look like what walk them preps?
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Wha? What do you dence? It depends who you talked to. Yeah,
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that's true too. Yeah, maybe there's like a former player that listens
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that is running the front desk. It's right, you never know. I
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don't know. I don't know anybody at those three locations. I don't know
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anybody really in general at a lot of stuff up there that being said,
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Tyler, Uh, this is the top one hundred hundred, the top one
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hundred countdown. This is the third of ten. Excuse me just losing it
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over here, Tyler. Right, we've already posted one hundred down to eighty
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two. That was on Friday, December fifteenth. You can go back and
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find that one also posted eighty one down to sixty three. That was on
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December twenty first. So yeah, this one here, sixty two down to
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forty four, and then in a couple of days here we've got forty three
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down to twenty five. That will be January the third at noon. Twenty
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four down to six will be January ninth at noon, and then the top
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five will come right in a row right after that, one day after another.
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There's actually like a stretch of like I think it's like what I say,
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eight days. It's a lot. There's like a bunch of days in
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a row where there will be a podcast, a new podcast every single day.
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It's awesome. And now some of them are gonna be short, they're
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only gonna be like fifteen minutes. But yeah, it's I think it's like
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nine podcasts and ten days. When you consider the the winter Sports wrap Up
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and the and the Awards Show, the Football Awards Show. We've got that
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too. So yeah, lots of if you have us set notifications, you're
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gonna be get a lot of notif locations around what would be January ninth through
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like I don't even know, January eighteenth, something like that, something around
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there, and don't don't look at it. Go oh, I already heard
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from them. No, No, it's a new one. Yeah. Yeah,
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it's a brand new one. Yeah, every single day. I mean,
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it's pretty wild. That being said, Tyler, we've got some names
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to talk about here. We got nineteen names, to be specific. What
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do he said? We get right into it. Let's do it. At
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number sixty two on the top one hundred count down, five foot eleven,
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one hundred and sixty five pounds. He's a wide receiver and a cornerback.
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He's a junior from Seahome. Number one Colby Chambers. Yeah, saw him
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play a lot last year. Started at corner last year as a sophomore and
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was really really good. I think he was. He might even been tied
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for first in the conference and passes defended last year. You know, they
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had Andre Watson on the other side who led you know, the county and
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interceptions last year, so a lot of a lot of time. A lot
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of teams passed towards Colbie Chambers, but he knocked down a lot of passes
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this year, played a little bit of offense. I didn't see him play
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offense as a sophomore, so right away, I mean I saw him.
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I think in Week two, like third play of the game, he catches
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a long touchdown pass and I was like, okay, so he could definitely
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play both sides of the ball. Very very athletic kid and very very humble,
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you know. I remember pulling him aside to do an interview, like
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kind of get a group of the top guys to ask them some silly questions
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after practice, and he almost kind of seemed like he's like you really you
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want me? You know, like that, and and I love that because
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sometimes they just there's a lot of kids that are the exact opposite. They're
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like, no, you want me, you know, and he's not like
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that at all. And I really love that about him. Really fun player
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to watch. Like I said, on offense, this year, he contributed
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a lot more than he did last year. Ten catches for one hundred and
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forty one yards and that long touchdown that he had against Blaine that I witnessed.
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I remember after that touchdown passed the clock at Civic Stadium said something that
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there was like thirteen minutes and forty eight seconds left, and so right away
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I'm thinking, well, they put the wrong amount of time on the clock
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to start the game. And I looked over at coach Olsen and he looked
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at me and he goes, well, we just gave up, but we
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just broke another record for we just gave up a touchdown and the quickest amount
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of time ever in a high school football game. You know, but at
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least he had a sense of humor about it. Defensively, he also had
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thirty eight tackles, one tackle for lost, ten passes broken up, two
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interceptions, and he returned six kickoffs for one hundred and two yards. He's
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a guy that by the time he graduates, he's got a legit chance to
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break in the Walking County record for passes defended. He is in the mid
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twenties right now. I want to say the records around thirty three or thirty
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four. Again, that's from what I've gathered. I haven't you know seen
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every game or anything like that. But I'm collecting more defensive stats while I
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was doing it every day until winter season came around. So but that's a
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heck of a career. Still has another year to go. Really excited about
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next year. The Seedlm's got so many guys coming back to see him,
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you know, do the same thing again on both sides of the ball.
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Is gonna be really exciting. Number sixty one on the top one hundred countdown,
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six foot three one and ninety five pounds. He's a defensive end.
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He's a junior from the blame border rights. Number sixty six. Z U
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love watching him come off the ball. Don't know if he's gonna ever play
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offense. I don't think they really need him to play offense. They just
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say just just getting a three point stance or a four point stance and just
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and just make stuff happen behind the line of scrimmage. And he's so quick
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off the ball. You know, we have the ability on huddle to slow
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it down and look at you know who's kind of those first guys getting up.
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I mean I always used to say Zack Sima was like that. It's
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like he gets off the ball so quickly, like he's already like making contact
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with alignment before some guys or even got their hands off the ground. You
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know, it's just so fast. And zu is much is very much like
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that, but not in the interior line. Coming off the you know,
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defensive end. He can he can get through the line. He's got a
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lot of moves, very athletic, thirty four and a half tackles, eleven
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tackles for loss and three sacks, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery.
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Another really polite kid. I mean, anytime I, you know, tag
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him in anything on Instagram or anything like that, boom right away I get
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a reply, thank you very much, mister Anderson. Stuff like that,
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stuff that you just don't you don't see a ton of. But it always
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makes me feel really good about what I'm doing and why I'm doing it.
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And and there's just something about youth sports that's just just I love it.
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And it's players like that that that, you know, excite me more and
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more about doing what I do. Number sixty on the top one hundred countdown,
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five foot eight one and fifty seven pounds wide receiver and corner. He's
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a senior from Mount Bigger High School. It's number twelve. Land In Hanstead.
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Yeah, boy, he's been a favorite of ours for a while.
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Ryland, We've you know, we've talked about him over the years when he
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came in as a sophomore to do some things, and all of a sudden,
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he was making big plays. We'd see this box score right with you
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know, two catches for eighty three yards or one catch for forty five yards.
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It seemed like they just kept happening over and over again. And it
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wasn't a one hit wonder. He was just making plays over and over again.
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His numbers were a little down this year as opposed to last year.
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Catches and yards are still there, but the touchdowns weren't quite there. But
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it was a different team this year. They were a little bit more run
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oriented. He actually had thirteen carries for eighty six yards from that wingback spot
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and do these. You know, it was something that he usually didn't do
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too much of, but it split out wide. Twenty seven catches for three
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hundred and fifty one yards and two touchdowns. He's ranked up there, you
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know, career catches for Mount Baker in the top five or six with all
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the categories stuff like that on teams that were not you know, throwing the
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ball. I mean they used to throw the ball quite a bit. Those
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are a lot of those guys that are up there looking at the Roger van
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Weirdhuisen's and the Mike Perez and stuff like that, Thomas Barbo guys like that.
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But he's up there with some kind of very much run heavy teams.
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Really just just strong, fast, really good athlete, you know, just
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a great just a great overall football player. And it's kind of an epitome
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of of a Mount Baker football player as well. Defense, he had twenty
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three and a half tackles, four passes broken up, one tackle for loss.
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He had two interceptions that it returned for seventeen yards and returned to kickoff
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for twelve yards. So did a lot of things, rarely, rarely left
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the field. Number fifty nine on the top, one hundred countdown, five
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foot ten, one hundred and seventy pounds wide receiver and corner. He's a
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June or excuse me, sophomore from the Linden Lions, number twenty two.
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I'm a big fan Danny Bowler. Yeah, bright, bright future, big
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playability saw him do a little bit of stuff as a freshman. I remember
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he had like a reverse he ran for like thirteen yards, and you know,
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kind of did some stuff. I remember seeing him on the bench as
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a as a varsity freshman on the basketball team, and I just thought,
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man, you know, I want to see this kid play. I have
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heard things I haven't. I just haven't seen very much. I went out
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to you know, the scrimmage out at Arlington, got to see him do
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some stuff. I said, Okay, he looks pretty good. Go out
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to practice. You know, coaches are raving about how he's the fastest kid
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on the team. He's just he's just you know, the more he learns
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about the game, it's just condition. It's just gonna get better. And
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then he had these huge games throughout the year just you know where he just
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you know, have a game like five catches for like one hundred and forty
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yards or something like that. It's like, man, And it wasn't a
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super consistent, but you could see the glimpses of greatness. And that's what
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was really cool. Even in that, you know, the game against against
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North Kitsapp was a huge game that he had might have been his best game
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all year and to do that against that kind of opponent shows me a lot.
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He's gonna be a big time part of the team going forward. This
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year, he had twenty seven catches for six hundred and nine yards and six
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touchdowns well over twenty yards a catch. Was kind of the third corner on
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defense, didn't didn't start, but had a lot of playing time. Did
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have fourteen tackles, one pass defended, one interception that he returned for twenty
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two yards, and then he had seven kickoff returns for one hundred and six
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yards. Finding way they're gonna find ways to get him the ball. You
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know they're gonna lose Cooper Moore Brady Elsner on the outside on offense. So
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and those were the two starting corners. He's gonna he's gonna step right in,
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start both sides of the ball for the next two years and be big
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time focal point. You know, it's gonna be interesting to see how Linden's
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offense is next year. You know they return Isaiah Audman. Are they gonna
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Is he gonna go straight tight end all the time? Are they gonna be
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run oriented? You know you still have Bran Hepner throwing the ball, So
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are they gonna throw it even more? You know, it's gonna be really
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interesting. But no matter what they do, he's gonna be a huge part
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of that team. Number fifty eight on the top one hundred countdown, six
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foot two h five running back, linebacker. He's a junior from Lyndon Christians.
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The number twenty four Hollis Owen. One of my big question marks coming
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into this year with the Lynx was who's gonna run the ball? You know,
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you had Kate Eldridge last year. Once he went down, it almost
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turned into just throwing the ball. You know. Jeremiah Wright was kind of
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the main, you know, guy that would run it. They would and
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he would run if something broke down. And I just I kind of knew
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they had some guys. I thought maybe it'd be a rotation, kind of
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a committee. I didn't know who's gonna stand out and be that way that
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running back. And after the first game that lost at Lakeside, I still
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didn't know. It was still kind of no one really jumped out and impressed
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me. In Week two against Archbishop haul of S, Owen just just went
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off and was really hard to bring down. Was very much he's not gonna
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run away from guys, but he's gonna break tackles, run through tackles,
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pick up the tough yards. And it was awesome to see because that was
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exactly what that offense needed. They needed. You know, they're gonna be
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in ahead of games a lot and they're gonna need to run some clock.
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And and I messaged him after that second game, I said, I am
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super proud of the way you ran the ball. I go, you look
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great, Congratulations on a great game. You know, he just he really
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stood out and and he just kind of kept that going that momentum about the
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rest of the year and had a really good year one hundred and forty carries
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for six hundred and sixteen yards and eight touchdowns. He also had four catches
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for twenty nine yards turned eight kickoffs for fifty nine yards. And again he
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was kind of that third inside linebacker Trey Bosman and Caden Stite on the inside.
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Really hard to get them off the field, but if you need to
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give them a break, Halis one would be that first guy in it in
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the inside linebacker. Still ended up with twenty two tackles, two tackles,
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and two passes broken up in limited time. You know, he'll probably line
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up next to Trey Bosman, I would imagine next year on the inside there,
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and he'll still be kind of the main ball carrier next year as well.
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Maybe playing both ways he'll get he won't have as many carries. It's
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tough to say, but he proved that he could kind of carry the load
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and be a guy that can carry the ball fifteen to twenty times a game
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if needed. Number fifty seven on the top one hundred countdown to six foot
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three, two hundred and thirty pounds guard defensive tackles Junior from the Blaine Border
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Rights Number fifty six Otto Shelton. Coming into this year, I I thought,
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Okay, he'll probably get a spot to start. I didn't know how
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good he was gonna be. Got a lot bigger from last year and just
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kind of kind of filled out in all the right places at the right time.
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It's kind of everything kind of fell into, you know, into favor
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with that playing right guard. Was probably the best overall offensive lineman, and
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you know, we had an unfortunate moment half of through the year where he
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got a cheap shot against him right in the first play. He retaliated that's
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what was seen by the referees. So he was out the rest of that
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game, and he was out the next game as well. But boy,
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man, from what I heard, you know, even at practice during that
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week, he was you know, he was pumping his guys up. He
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was still doing everything he could and couldn't wait to get back on the field,
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and and and and boy he was just again I knew about him.
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I had no clue how good he was gonna be. And I love when
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guys just kind of come out of nowhere and surprise me like that. And
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you know, offensively and defensively defense he had sixteen tackles, three tackles for
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loss, kind of getting you know, kind of plugged up there in the
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middle of everything. But and that's by and that's missing two full games as
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well. So, uh, but man, as an offensive lineman, I
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you know, he's gonna be one of the better, one of the best
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offensive linemans in Walkin County next year. Going into the season. I think
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that you know, they have some young guys on that line. Uh,
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and he's by far gonna be the leader of that group next year. I
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really like, you know, some of those pieces the Malloy Messenger, Malachi
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Morillo. Well, that's a lot of m's and now I think about it,
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but it's at you know, and they've got some a big eighth grade
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class coming in, so you know, coach Olsen's going to be really you
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know, excited with those big guys up front, and he can coach lineman
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very well. So I'm really excited about the future for him, and if
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he takes that next leap that he took this year, he's going to be
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a big time player next year. Number fifty six on the top one hundred
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count down, five foot nine and eighty pounds. He's a linebacker, a
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junior from Seahome. It's number ten. Carl bach Tyler. Yeah, I'm
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going to throw something out here real quick. Yeah, he's on my early
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watch list for my fantasy team next year. Go ahead, what do you
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get? That's a that's a good call. Very similar to some of these
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guys we've been talking about where I didn't know that much about them at all
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coming into the season, and he filled a huge need kind of like Hollis
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Owen at running back for Lenny Christian is what he meant to the inside linebacker
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spot at Seahome coming in, they graduated some big time players at the inside
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linebacker and that was the one spot with Seahome where I just put my hands
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up and went, I don't I don't know at all who they have like
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at all. I didn't know if they were gonna have to move Alden Jacob's
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there. I didn't. I didn't know what they were gonna do with that
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spot at all. And right off the back, Carl Bach, you know,
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was filled one of that spot. Him and Cooper Mcattee filled those inside
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linebacker spots and were great. Carl Boch just turned into a tackling machine and
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every week it seemed like he'd be hovering around double digit tackles. And it's
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something kind of cool to see a number ten inside linebacker, you know,
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it's just something there's something about that that I really like. And you know,
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he's one of the strongest kids on the team, if not the strongest,
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just a kind of one of those workout wonder kind of guys, not
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the biggest, but just built really well, can move sideline a sideline.
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Finished the year with seventy five and a half tackles, three sacks and two
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tackles for loss. Like I said, just tackling machine. I mean there
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are certain guys, you know, I remember, like Jet Triplet, there
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were certain guys that just if they got their hands on you, they it
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was. It was great form tackling. They're never trying to light you up,
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They're trying to tackle you. They're doing it the right way. I
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love players like that, and he was like that the entire year. It's
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gonna be a big time player next year for that Seahome program. I could
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be wrong here, Tyler. Wasn't Jet Triplet a Cascadia Cougar. I'm not
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quite sure. He probably was. I think he was, because remember I
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picked a bunch of linebackers that had just a boatload of tackles. Yeah,
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I think you're right. Number fIF number fifty five in the top one hundred
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countdown. Six foot one seventy five corner quarter back and a corner back.
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A lot tougher to say than I expected. He's a senior from Ferndale.
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Number thirteen. One of our favorites is Bishop Bootsi. Yeah. Definitely one
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of the best leaders I've ever seen. Commands respect, gets it now.
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I'm seeing it on the basketball court. As the point guard. You see
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a lot of quarterbacks that are point guards and it just is that natural flow.
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You know, this year will probably be in center field and the baseball
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team, and might do some pitching as well. Just a great, great,
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great kid, ultra competitive. Three year starter at corner, second year
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starting is at quarterback, and then this year they put him back to return
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kicks, return punts. Talking about doing everything you can do to help your
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team win. Put up pretty good numbers passing the ball thirty eight of sixty
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five for six hundred and eighty yards and eight touchdowns. When you start getting
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into that over ten yards per pass attempt, you know that's that. I
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love the stat for yards per pass attempt. Yeah, not because like completion
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right attempt. Yeah, gotta be accurate too, Gotta be accurate down the
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field. You gotta do some good things. And if you're over ten on
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that, that's a huge number. And he was that for the year.
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Also ran the ball a little bit more than last year. I think last
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year I don't even know if he had one hundred yards total. This year
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he had two hundred and fifty eight yards on fifty two carries. Defensively,
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he was just he's just a beast, leading the county in thirteen passes broken
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up. He also had three tackles for loss. Definitely one of the better
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tackling corners that has been around in a while. And I'm talking like he'll
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pop youa and and you know, I think I even saw a mouthpiece fly
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out once when he hit somebody. The two forced fumbles, twenty eight total
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tackles. He returned nineteen kickoffs for three hundred and eighteen yards, seven punts
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for seventy four yards. Again, you just don't see that where a guy
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returns a punt and then is calling, you know, leading the huddle right
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after that. It's just it's just something you just don't see very often.
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You know, I can recall certain guys over the years, but boy just
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doesn't happen very often. So many great things to talk about with Bishop Bootsy
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and and it's gonna be one of those guys personally I'm gonna miss going forward.
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Just a fun kid to cover. Number fifty four on the top one
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hundred count down, six foot two hundred pounds tight end and linebacker. He
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is a junior from the Bellingham BayHawks. It's number forty two. Gabe van
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Hofwagen another great kid that I've really gotten to know over the years. I
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love too when kids feel okay, I guess I'm trying to think of the
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right word, but like that, they'll just message me and ask me a
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question out of nowhere. Yeah, you know, and want to engage and
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and ask good questions. And you know, you know, he asked,
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and I still haven't gotten back to him about this. We've had a lot
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of different conversations about stats and different things, but he asked me about you
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know, you know bat that point system I have for defense. Yep,
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you know. We talked about a little bit. He's like, well,
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what's your formula for that? And I was I was on the road or
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something, so I was like, well, I don't know, I'll get
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back to it. I still haven't gotten back to him because it's a long
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formula. I gotta sit out on my computer and get it. But he's
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interested in that stuff. He wants to know how other guys are doing,
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how he stacks up. He wants to get better. He has a great
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drive. Last year it was he was thrown into the mix to play quarterback.
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He's not a quarterback, but he he had to do it. Last
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year and it was just it was just not you know, he's he you
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know, he had four blocking in front of him, to put it bluntly,
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and it just he just got beat up. And this year he got
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bigger, he got stronger, and he got moved a tight end and he
25:15
was fantastic over there. But as a as a linebacker, he was awesome
25:19
and just loved to see him playing the positions that he's kind of built to
25:25
play, he's made to play and do really well at them. Twenty seven
25:29
catches on the year for three hundred and sixteen yards and three touchdowns. Then
25:33
on defense, sixty tackles, nine and a half tackles for loss, three
25:37
passes broken up, one sack, one force fumble, one fumble recovery,
25:41
and he had an interception that he returned for four yards. You know,
25:45
we've talked about how Bellingham graduates all these guys that broke all these records and
25:48
everything like that, but they returned some key pieces and he's one of the
25:53
biggest pieces of that group. Now, I don't know who's going to play
25:56
quarterback next year. I don't know if it's going to be you lie good
26:00
Buffalo. I don't know if it's Ben Leonard. I'm not quite sure who's
26:03
gonna be that, but the guy with the experience is Gave van Hoffwigen.
26:07
But I think that you gotta keep him at tight end because he's just so
26:11
valuable there. And whether if they change to a wing tea or whatever they
26:15
do, he will still be a play a huge role on that offense.
26:19
But like I said, on defense, he's gonna lead that defense next year
26:22
as well. Great kid, Uh, super smart and it's been really fun
26:26
get to know him as well. Fact they move him or they go to
26:30
a wing tea, they could use him like like Ferndale use Connor Walker.
26:36
Yeah, yeah, yeah, just kind of all over the different place and
26:40
get get him the ball. You know, it's it'll be it'll be interesting
26:42
to see. I'm really curious for a couple of things repelling him. Will
26:47
they be in the conference, will they play a conference schedule? Yeah?
26:49
And and what kind of offense are they gonna run? I think the defense
26:52
will be very similar, but uh, there's gonna be some big questions they're
26:56
gonna need to be answered. Come a spring ball, number fifty three on
27:02
the top one hundred countdown, six foot two and sixty five pounds, quarterback
27:07
and defensive back. He's a junior from the Meridian Trojans. It's number five,
27:12
Jagger Fife. I'm not sure if there's ever been a quarterback who's put
27:17
up as good of a season he said he has. Going winless in the
27:19
conference. It's it's it's crazy, and that goes a lot to show about
27:25
how good the conference is. Uh, he had a big year, but
27:30
it was just the wins were hard to come by. And but what a
27:34
what an excellent player, another great leader. Every time I see I mean,
27:40
it seems like we've been talking about him forever and he's just a junior.
27:42
Yeah, uh, every every you know, I was looking back at
27:47
the old pictures and stuff, and you look at his freshman year, sophomore
27:49
year, junior year, like the head shots, and he's got a great
27:53
smile. And it's so funny because like they look identical. It looks like
27:57
he just put on a different shirt. It messed up his hair a different
28:00
way. Same smile, boom, same background, looks looks the exact same.
28:06
But when you see him physically, every year, he just keeps filling
28:08
out and getting bigger and stronger. I mean he's gained he's probably gotten an
28:12
inch taller each year, but he's but he's put on at least ten to
28:15
fifteen pounds each year as well. And he's still pretty skinny. But he's
28:21
strong, and he's very athletic. I mean, I'd be willing to say
28:23
that football is probably his third best sport and and uh, that says a
28:30
lot to say. That's not to take away from how good he is on
28:33
the football field exactly, And that just explains like kind of how good of
28:36
an overall athlete he is, because he is a great football player, really
28:38
good defensive back too. He's also in the running to break some records and
28:42
passes broken up, if for a career. You know, he's had two
28:48
interceptions in each of his three years as a defensive back, and uh,
28:52
you know, he's done some things that are pretty pretty amazing. One hundred
28:56
and forty completions for one eight hundred fourteen yards and fourteen touchdowns. He also
29:03
ran for eighty four yards and two touchdowns. He caught a pass for eight
29:06
yards, thirty three and a half tackles, eleven passes broken up a tackle
29:11
for loss. I talked about the two interceptions and then he also had two
29:15
punts in the last game of the year. He averaged thirty three and a
29:18
half yards of punt, So not sure why that doesn't normally punt exactly.
29:22
Yeah, I can't. I don't know exactly what happened Landon down He's usually
29:26
the punter. I don't know if he was banged up at that during that
29:29
last game, but he went back there and punted and did did great.
29:32
It doesn't surprise me at all. We're talking about a kid that as a
29:36
freshman was thrown in there to play some dB and would play. I think
29:40
he started the last game of the year at quarterback, and then you know,
29:44
go to basketball and he's starting at shooting guard. He go to baseball,
29:47
he's batt in fifth in the lineup, playing third base and pitching.
29:49
And this is as a freshman. So it's you know, he's he's been
29:53
part of the spotlight for a long time doing all these sports and excelling,
29:59
and you know, it's just fun to watch him grow and get stronger.
30:02
That arm gets stronger, the things can keep happening and get better and better.
30:07
So that's a good group of juniors that Meridian has, and he's the
30:11
he's the leader of that group, number fifty two on the top one hundred
30:15
count down, five foot ten, one hundred and sixty six pounds running back
30:21
and linebacker. He is a junior from Mount Baker High School. Sorry,
30:26
Coach Leap, I was a little slow there. It's number twenty five.
30:29
Brady Brulin, Big play. Brady Brulin a kid that I knew a little
30:37
bit about. Last year. He had that kickoff return for a touchdown,
30:41
so he had those moments of kind of those wow moments of watching him run
30:45
on turf is like at Blaine was unreal, Like the way he would run
30:51
away from guys, and even like when he runs track, he's not you
30:55
know, he's not. He's putting these blistering numbers together. But he's a
30:59
guy that when you put the ball pads on, doesn't look like he doesn't
31:02
look like he loses any speed, you know what I mean, Like just
31:04
looks even faster almost. It seems like, you know, I know his
31:10
parents went to high school with both of his parents both great athletes as well,
31:15
so it doesn't really surprise me. But you know, coming into this
31:18
year, it was you know, I knew, I knew Dylan mo is
31:22
gonna get moved back to running back, and I didn't know for sure who
31:26
the other running back was going to be. I thought it was probably gonna
31:29
be Brady, but I didn't know for sure. Go to practice, he's
31:32
filling that role and I thought, Okay, this will be this will be
31:34
fun to see. Well he still return kicks. How much will he play
31:38
on defense? He really impressed me, maybe more on defense because I didn't
31:45
know how much he was really gonna play. They have all those MOA's playing
31:48
linebacker, Sean Duggar playing linebacker, but boy, he would go in there
31:52
and make some huge plays. Ended up with forty eight and a half tackles,
31:56
four tackles for loss, two passes broken up in a forced fumble.
32:00
He also had an interception that it returned eighty six yards for a touchdown that
32:04
broke a school record for the longest interception return in school history. And they
32:08
broke a record for the longest kickoff return in school history a few weeks earlier
32:14
with a ninety eight yarder. Finished the year with fifteen kickoff returns for four
32:19
hundred and twenty seven yards and two touchdowns. So now he's got three touchdowns
32:22
in his career. You know, as far as what I've looked up,
32:28
that's the most. I'm still going back to find stuff, but at least
32:31
for the last fifty years, that's the most. I know that the Mount
32:35
Baker record book has other guys Jeff Curtis and stuff like that, but I've
32:39
gone back and looked at those numbers from the mid eighties with Jeff Curtis,
32:43
and I only see one kickoff return that he ever returned for a touchdown.
32:47
So there's some discrepancies there, but boy, and he still has another year
32:52
to go. He also ran the ball one hundred and four times for four
32:54
hundred and sixty four yards and three touchdowns. And he was a weapon out
32:59
of the backfield, catches for ninety yards and a touchdown, So he scored
33:01
a touchdown in four different ways this this last year. Big big plays.
33:07
Man. It's just you know, it was a it was a it was
33:10
a struggling year for the Mountaineers, but he was a bright spot that was
33:15
needed at at certain points. I mean, he made these plays against you
33:21
know, that eighty six yard interception return was against Lennon Christian, That ninety
33:24
eight yard tickoff return was against Kings. These are state, you know,
33:29
tournament teams that he's doing this against, and and UH really excited to see
33:32
what how the rest of his career unfolds. Number fifty one on the top
33:37
one hundred countdown, six foot three, two hundred and thirty five pounds,
33:43
right tackle and defensive end. A senior from the Nuksack Valley Pioneers. It's
33:47
number fifty six. Dalton Hickey. Yeah, boy put on about twenty five
33:53
thirty pounds of muscle over the year and carried it so well. Just has
34:00
a knack to get after the quarterback. They're just certain players We've talked about
34:04
this where guys just some reasons somehow are can just get to the quarterback.
34:12
They don't engage too much with the guy in front of them. They're looking
34:15
through that guy. They're they're finding ways to get through, whether it's with
34:17
you quick feet, quick hands, you know, just power speed. He
34:24
kind of has a little bit of everything. He's very, very strong,
34:28
but he's also he's a basketball player. He's very he's got quick feet,
34:30
he's athletic, he can move. Uh, and you love that with your
34:36
with your defensive end. Uh as an offensive tackle man that offensive line was
34:43
amazing, and I love that he was able to get some love in the
34:49
conference by being named an All Conference offensive linemen. Uh. Tough to do
34:53
when you know there's tons of All State guys you know, lined up next
34:59
to you and the rest the conference is really good. Finished the year with
35:01
twenty and a half tackles, seven and a half sacks, three passes deflected
35:07
that the line of scrimmage, two tackles for loss, two forced fumbles,
35:10
two fumble recoveries. He also had an interception that he returned for fourteen yards.
35:15
I thought I was gonna go for a touchdown. That was pretty close
35:19
there. I think it was that first state playoff game. But boy just
35:24
underrated, kind of the one of the unsung guys on that loaded Pioneer team
35:30
and it had just an awesome senior year and kind of had that the projection
35:37
that I was hoping for happened for him, and I'm just so glad that
35:40
he had such a great year. We were at the midway point. Tyler
35:44
so number fifty on the top one hundred countdown, five foot nine, one
35:49
hundred and fifty pounds wide receiver and safety, just a sophomore from the Bellingham
35:53
BayHawks. It's number twenty one. Owen Hanstead. What a year. You
36:00
know, started the year with you know, how many weeks in a row
36:02
did you have an interception, like five or six something crazy like that.
36:06
I don't know, but we did not pick him nearly enough in the fantasy
36:08
with what he was putting up. You're right, And it was just it
36:13
was crazy because it was it was just so consistent, and I think it
36:17
was the blame game where that where it stopped and it was just a trenchial
36:24
downpour of a game. So it kind of you know, it's tough to
36:29
intercept the pass sometimes when it's like that, but he had four that he
36:35
could have intercepted, like two that he had, one that was pretty close
36:38
and one would have been really hard. But and it was almost like he
36:45
it was almost like getting into his head all, you know, it seemed
36:46
like. But then as a season we're on, he did it. He
36:50
got some more. He had seven interceptions on the year. Led Walking County
36:53
returned him for eighty eight yards. Great athlete and and tough as nails.
37:01
Not the biggest kid, five nine, one fifty, but a guy that
37:07
you know, he's the holder. He ended up punting some when when Holden
37:10
Bates got hurt, Like he's the guy that's gonna do whatever's needed, you
37:15
know. I think even last year. I think even like he was the
37:17
older last year, and then he ended up having to kick an extra point
37:21
too, so then they had like call time out to who's the backup holder,
37:24
you know, because he's just both yeah, right, that'd be toughick
37:30
held his own kick. Yeah. And he was doing these things as a
37:31
freshman, you know, now as a sophomore, took on more of a
37:35
leadership role. Unbelievable defensive player and and is gonna kind of take over.
37:42
I think that Josh tole spot at wide receiver that the uh the slot receiver
37:47
spot because he because he's just that good. He's a guy that could,
37:52
you know, just get open and you could rely on him. He did
37:54
have seven catches on the year for sixty five yards. How about that he
37:58
as many catches as he had inner uh. Also on defense, forty nine
38:01
tackles, ten passes broken up, three tackles for loss. How about that
38:07
three tackles for lost. And he still had seven interceptions and one fumble recovery,
38:10
returned three kickoffs or twenty eight yards returned to punt for twelve yards.
38:15
He filled in as the punter and averaged thirty four yards of punt on seven
38:17
punts. And don't be surprised if he ends up playing quarterback next year,
38:24
because he's just that kind of guy that you can trust. You know,
38:29
these other guys are aren't ready. You know, that happens sometimes where like
38:34
I know who the next quarterback is, I know who the backup is.
38:37
I know, I know those things, and then I go into like summer
38:40
practices or whatever, and I'm like, oh, they're putting him at quarterback.
38:44
Well that makes sense that that's exactly how it would turn out for Owen
38:49
Hanstead. Like I could totally see myself going and going, oh, they're
38:52
putting him at quarterback. That makes sense because that's you know, that's just
38:55
thing that that's that kind of kid. And and well he could be really
39:00
valuable as a receiver, but quarterback touches the ball every play man, you
39:05
know, just like the center. Yeah, you know, you know,
39:07
you know what I mean, It's all I know, yeah, you know.
39:10
And so it's just really really curious about what the future is gonna hold.
39:15
I know what I got defensively, you know, I think Ethan Fields
39:22
intercepted fifteen passes for Blaine history. I don't know if that's the school record,
39:28
it's got to be pretty close. But Owen Hans said, who had
39:30
a pick six as a freshman in week one? And then he you know,
39:35
I had seven interceptions this year. He's just one of those ballhawks,
39:37
the ball the Bayhawk, ballhawk. You know. That's why I started calling
39:42
him and and and then I started seeing and getting put in the belly m
39:45
Harold a few weeks later. But that's a different story. But but what
39:50
a what what a player? And I love his attitude on the field.
39:53
Competitive, great great year for him. Can we can we trademark that?
40:00
How does that work? Yeah, well I'll look into it. Let's say
40:04
here, number forty nine on the top one hundred countdown, six feet tall,
40:07
one and ninety five pounds running back and defensive end. He's a senior
40:13
from the Ferndale Golden Eagles. It's number twenty three. Phoenix Fink Bonner.
40:17
Yeah, one of our favorites, you know, been talking about him for
40:21
a long time. This could be the I'm not gonna say the last Fink
40:25
Bonner, but it could be the last one for a little while because I'm
40:29
not quite sure of any of them coming up. But boy, Swiss army
40:36
knife, I mean so many different things. I'm so glad he got his
40:42
chance to run the ball this year because when he would come in as a
40:45
junior, even as a sophomore, he would have moments where you kind of
40:49
go, oh, this kid's gonna be good. But I just he was
40:52
buried behind some dudes, and you know, I didn't really know if he
41:00
was going to get that chance. With Zach Nielsen playing tennis, that kind
41:05
of opened up that spot, that halfback spot quite a bit, and I'm
41:09
so glad that he was able to take it and just dominate with it.
41:14
I mean, he ran for six hundred and seventy two yards and eleven touchdowns
41:17
and he ran hard. Man, it was it was so cool to see,
41:22
Uh, that kid just has one that one you know speed, there's
41:27
all full go all the time. I've never seen a guy who kicked off
41:31
that made as many tackles as the kicker on the kickoff team as him,
41:36
and it's not even close. I mean, he he seemed to get like,
41:38
you know, I'll be forty percent of them on kickoffs, and I'm
41:42
not talking like where they'd break through the line, like he's going down there
41:45
and making the tackle. That was fun to see over the years. He
41:50
also had two catches for forty nine yards and a touchdown. That was fun.
41:52
Seeing him kind of break out of the backfield to catch a pass and
41:55
take it for forty yards or a touchdown was awesome. And then learn a
42:00
new position on defense, you know, playing linebacker you know every year,
42:05
and then being switched to defensive end this year to help the team, make
42:08
the team better. You love that in a kid. Twenty six tackles,
42:12
five and a half tackles for loss, and two sacks. Was the kicker
42:15
for the first half of the year, had ten extra points and a field
42:19
goal, and but he did punt the entire year, averaging just over thirty
42:22
yards of a punt. Boy again, one of our favorites. Awesome career,
42:29
awesome season, and you know, gonna miss, gonna miss watching him
42:35
play football. It's just a guy again, another one of those kids that
42:38
rarely left the field, And yeah, I'm definitely gonna miss him next year.
42:43
Number forty eight on the top one hundred count down five foot eight and
42:46
fifty pounds. He's a strong safety, just a sophomore from the Seahome Mariners.
42:52
It's number four, Hudson nef Yeah. Holy cow. Yeah, another
42:58
one that's on my watch list for next year, you know what I mean.
43:00
Yeah, got to se him a little bit last year, last game
43:05
of the year against Cascade, they put him in the return kicks and boy,
43:09
he was all of five five, one hundred and twenty pounds maybe as
43:15
a freshman and returning kicks and not having a problem with it. Tough pops
43:21
right up and I was like, okay, okay, I see that.
43:27
Guys. Remember seeing his brother Carson as a freshman playing corner against you know,
43:31
six' five Linden receiver, you know, and Carson was five to
43:35
six. I mean it was you know, you just go out there and
43:37
you just give it all you got, you know. And so and then
43:43
I saw him play baseball, you know, a natural middle infielder, but
43:45
he started in center field on the varsity team as a freshman and played great.
43:52
You know. It was baton lead off for most of the year,
43:54
batt second some of the time, and coming into this year I knew they
44:00
had so many of these skill guys, especially the defensive backs. I mean,
44:02
they're just loaded defensive backs seal mirrors. And I even mentioned him when
44:09
I was interviewing coach young and after the August practice and we were going over
44:14
guys and stuff like that, and he was rattling names of guys off and
44:16
I think I brought up, yeah, you got Hudson f And he was
44:21
like, yeah, Huddy, and this guy and that guy. And I
44:23
just kind of thought, like, is he getting Maybe he's getting lost in
44:25
shuffle, Maybe he's not quite big enough yet. But boy, ride around
44:30
week three or four somewhere in there, he got put into the starting lineup
44:36
at safety and he might have been the leading tackler in all those games ever
44:43
since then except for maybe one. And he would And when you're small,
44:51
sometimes you have to come up with creative ways on how to tackle. And
44:55
sometimes it's just kind of throwing your body a certain way, in a controlled
45:00
way, but you know you're going to trip up the runner, you know,
45:04
or or whatever you do, whatever you have to do. And when
45:08
he was, you know, not able to maybe make the proper tackle,
45:13
he'd still make the tackle, you know what I mean, Like he he
45:15
and he saw plays. He reacted so fast and they couldn't get him out
45:21
of there. Finished the year with eighty one tackles and I think he only
45:24
started six games, seven games something like that. I mean, it's just
45:28
crazy numbers. Three and a half tackles for loss, two passes broken up,
45:32
returned nine kickoffs for one hundred and forty seven yards as well. I
45:37
don't know if he's going to play much offense coming up. He could be
45:42
like a slot kind of kid. You know, you just you don't ploy.
45:46
They found something special at the strong safety spot for the next few years.
45:52
And Hudson Nef's a great one, number forty seven in the top one
45:57
hundred countdown. Six foot five, it's got to be the tallest one on
46:00
this list, or so far or not so far. But this group of
46:04
nineteen here it looks like it. Six foot five, two hundred and fifty
46:07
two pounds, right tackle, defensive end. Just a junior from the Meridian
46:14
Trojans. It's number sixty two. Lincoln Hofer. Yeah, he's a kid
46:21
that colleges are gonna want to look at. Not just because of the size
46:24
that obviously stands out, but he's athletic. He's super strong, one of
46:31
the faster kids on the team. We're talking I mean defensive end, but
46:37
stand up outside linebacker at times just great speed can make can take over possessions
46:45
on defense a lot of the times. I mean, they'll be There was
46:49
a time against Kingsway Christian where he made two plays in a row. One
46:52
was a sack, the next one was a tackle for loss, and it
46:55
just kind of changed the momentum of the game. It would just boom boom
46:59
right in the middle of the field. It was a close game. He
47:01
was like the second quarter and it just went completely towards Meridian the rest of
47:07
the way. And and and when he's standing out there, especially next to
47:13
you know, Josh Nomer, Kelly Gray, where he's like a foot taller
47:15
than these guys, he really stands out. But and he gets keyed on
47:20
a lot. I don't know if I've seen a player held as much as
47:22
him and not being called for it, and I and I don't see those
47:28
things usually, but this stood out like he was getting pulled. You know,
47:32
you see the jersey getting pulled, especially when he's coming off the edge.
47:37
Man it seemed like it happened a lot, and it got called every
47:42
once in a while, but it looked like he was held constantly. And
47:46
then at right tackle and on that offensive line again, it's like it's that
47:51
great young offensive line, but he is the pillar. He is the man
47:57
very it just so athletic and can get for being six five, he can
48:00
get down, he can get into you. You know, he knows the
48:04
leverage game incredibly strong. Twenty nine and a half tackles, fourteen tackles for
48:09
loss. That's that's near the top. Four passes deflected, I mean those
48:15
big long arms. There was one where he deflected it and the ball went
48:20
out of the screen. I'm watching on huddle and it went I mean it
48:23
just went out of the screen. I couldn't even see it anymore. It
48:25
went so far in the air. It's like me swatting my nephew in a
48:29
game of like Hallway basketball. You know, yeah, I mean that's exactly.
48:32
I mean, he can just become dominant at times, and and boy,
48:37
if he you know, if he just keeps getting bigger and stronger and
48:42
faster, that's going to be really scary for those opponents next year because he's
48:46
just he's that kind of athlete and and really excited to see how that growth
48:52
goes. I mean I remember him as a freshman. They got put into
48:54
the fire right away at guard, you know, and because they just needed
48:59
guys him and Jackson a role. Telling me about him then, yeah,
49:02
just those two guys had to be playing it guard right away and it was
49:05
just kind of like, well, here we go. And and that's what's
49:08
fun about that is you get to grow into that spot where now you're the
49:13
dominant player, and next year it's going to be it's going to be a
49:17
fun year to watch him as he develops and keeps dominating. Number forty six
49:22
in the top one hundred count down, five foot ten one and eighty pounds,
49:27
just the safety only one side of the ball here. He's a senior
49:30
from the Linden Lions. It's the young man that gave us the intro number
49:34
seven. Zach Welch. Yeah, it's a kid that I think as a
49:37
sophomore, saw me practice or maybe it was after a game and he's like,
49:43
Hey, I follow you on Instagram? How come you don't follow me?
49:46
And I was like, I don't know who I know who you are?
49:50
And then I look on the roster. I go, okay, Zach
49:52
Wells okay, okay, I'll keep that in mind and we'll see how he
49:57
does. And he would do little things when the JV guys would come in
50:00
return a punt here, or he would do you know, he play some
50:01
defense or something like that. And last year it was he was, you
50:06
know, it's kind of that next tier of guys. And boy, they
50:08
had that great secondary. You know, they just were so good. And
50:12
I didn't know who we're gonna be the next guys coming in and I heard,
50:15
Okay, he's gonna start at safety. I said, Okay, that
50:17
makes sense. He's kind of that. He's kind of that next group.
50:20
But we'll see how he will see how he is, you know, I
50:22
don't know. And boy, every week, the improvement every single week.
50:27
I mean, he turned into a player that see some safeties you could like
50:31
at the high school level, you could watch and you could go he could
50:35
probably play corner two or you look at a guy and go, well,
50:37
he could probably play linebacker. He was a guy that like could legitimately play
50:45
either and even even at Lindon, I think he could have been an inside
50:49
linebacker at Lindon, which they're asked a lot to do, but they really
50:52
needed him at safety as well, and he was just such a physical player
50:55
that could come up and make plays. And man, just a kid that
51:04
waited until his senior year got an opportunity, ran with it, made the
51:07
most of it. I just I know I keep talking about that, but
51:10
I love that so much. And it's those kinds of players that opened my
51:15
eyes. They make you know, all conference teams. I think he was
51:17
an All Conference second team defensive back. Oh, by the way, Hudson
51:22
nef was too, All Conference second team defensive back, so good for him
51:24
as well. But just a really, really great year for a kid that
51:31
didn't have a lot of experience playing varsity up until this year. This year
51:36
he had forty eight and a half tackles, one tackle for lost, three
51:38
passes broken up, and a fumble recovery. He also had an interception.
51:43
I believe it was that in that North Kids that game. He's gonna be
51:46
playing in that Cleats versus Cancer game. So cool to see a kid that
51:53
I didn't know anything about two years ago. You know, he knew me,
51:57
I didn't know him, and all of a sudden, the whole conference
52:00
snows him and I love that development. And he had a great, great
52:02
senior year. Were forty five on the top one hundred countdown, six foot,
52:07
two hundred and fifty pounds running back and linebacker. He's a junior from
52:13
the Bellingham BayHawks. This young man is cold blooded. It's number forty four.
52:16
Tyler Frost, Eh Frost, I got you. Yeah, Yeah,
52:22
that's good boy. Yeah. Earl Campbell in high school, that's you know,
52:27
he doesn't didn't carry the ball a ton, but man, just I
52:31
don't know if players were afraid to tackle him or just I mean, it
52:37
was oh big time, you know, it was. It was interesting to
52:45
watch, you know. You see that in like fourth grade football or pee
52:49
wee football, like the first year with pads, where you just give it
52:52
to the big kid up the middle and guys are bouncing off him or dragging
52:54
off him or whatever, and just don't see that that much. And varsity
53:00
football, and and yeah, he just it's hard to go low on him.
53:06
He can get low, but he's not gonna He's not a guy that's
53:10
gonna carry the ball fifteen times a game. That's just not really his game.
53:15
He's so valuable in defense. Got to keep him fresh for defense,
53:19
they had holding baits, but they they kind of went into like a a
53:24
mode sometimes where they would try to run some clock or do some heavy formation
53:30
stuff with extra tight ends or you know, extra you know, they bring
53:32
in a fullback sometimes with a Hunter Bryant Pearson. They do some things where
53:37
they needed a yard and that's the guy you want to go to. Sixty
53:42
three carries for four hundred yards, nine touchdowns, so you scored touchdown every
53:45
seven carries. Definitely a goal line type of guy, right. He had
53:51
to carry early in the year where and it was a close game. I'm
53:55
trying to remember who was against. It might have been Meadowdale, I can't
54:00
remember where. It was a really close game. He broke off like a
54:04
sixty yard run down the left sideline and showed the speed that's not really known
54:08
in his game, and it was called back for a penalty and you could
54:15
tell he was gassed. He was just walking back into the sideline after that,
54:19
and it was like, man, he put forth so much effort for
54:22
that to be called back. It was kind of behind the play, but
54:25
they really need him on defense and sixty one and a half tackles, eleven
54:30
and a half tackles for loss, two sacks went past deflected and interception.
54:36
He's getting close to thirty tackles for lost in his career already. He's got
54:39
another year to go. There's not a lot of guys in Wakam County history
54:44
that have over thirty. He's getting pretty close to that number. You know,
54:49
I just wish she would wrap up a little bit more. He's definitely
54:52
one of those lights you up in the middle of the field type of guys.
54:55
But he loves to hit and I get that. But man, as
55:00
he keeps developing, you know, and you and I have talked about,
55:06
you could see a college saying we want you, but you're gonna be a
55:08
defensive tackle. You have natural speed, but you're you're a big kid.
55:13
You get up to like two eighty, we put some muscle on you and
55:15
you play some defensive tackle, kind of like Washington State mate dud did with
55:20
Bryson Lamb. You take a good natural, big kid, get him bigger
55:24
and Gordy has you know what I mean, Like yeah, yeah, thick,
55:29
but can move and like yeah, when you look at him, you
55:31
just go that guy shouldn't be moving like that, right, right, exactly,
55:37
and I think that, you know, that's a that's a great comparison,
55:39
and I you know, I'm not sure if he'll be you know,
55:44
the last two years, he's been a valuable piece as a running back,
55:46
but he hasn't been the featured back. You know, they had Logan Steves,
55:52
then they had Holden Baits. This year, I don't know if I
55:54
don't know if Tyree Jackson will be that guy next year for belling him,
56:00
but because you need that guy on defense. But maybe Frost will be ready
56:07
for it and just be a big time two way player next year. Again,
56:09
and a lot of it depends on the kind of offense they run.
56:12
But what a funness, what a fun run heavy and just pound him straightforward?
56:17
Good? Yeah? Yeah, I mean and that that could be.
56:21
He could be the full back in the wing tea you know where he just
56:23
died on the trap yeah belly, yeah, right, So we'll see.
56:28
It's gonna be fun. It's a guy again that we've seems like we've talked
56:31
about a lot over the years. He's had, you know, just had
56:34
some fun seasons. Again. He's just one of those players that you know,
56:37
when he's in the game, it's hard to keep my eyes off him,
56:40
and and uh exciting to watch the last one for this podcast. It's
56:45
number forty four in the top one hundred countdown six foot four and ninety pounds
56:50
wide receiver and safety. He's a senior from the Linden Christian Links, number
56:54
fourteen. Tyson Baima. Yeah, just super athletic rangy gamer, serious,
57:05
so serious on the field, you can see it. I mean I was.
57:09
I went to Holy Cow five or six Linnen Christian games this year,
57:15
and there were three of them in a row. Where at home those Saturday
57:20
games where I was up in the booth and I was just sitting up there
57:22
by myself, And it's so weird because when you're up there, you can
57:29
hear what's going on really well, you know, in a strange way.
57:32
You can hear the chatter on the sideline on the field that like you can't
57:37
really hear from the crowd because you're sitting next to people. You hear the
57:39
cheerleaders, you hear the band, But when you're up in the booth and
57:43
there's an open window, it seems like you can really hear things. And
57:47
you know, he was kind of that I could hear him. I could
57:52
hear how serious he was getting his team together, especially on defense, Like
57:54
just like he I don't even know how to explain it, would corral them
58:00
and be and be like come on, guys, and he was just kind
58:04
of like that, that motivator on the field, and uh, that was
58:10
that was awesome to see, you know, a mismatch offensively at six foot
58:15
four and played a lot in the slot, you know, at that size,
58:21
really good at finding a hole in the zone defense and pick up the
58:24
first down, which is awesome to see. Obviously provides a huge target.
58:30
I think he's been you know, I don't know for sure, but I
58:34
think he's been getting some looks. I don't know if he posted something on
58:36
Twitter about getting us an offer somewhere, but boy, what what a great
58:44
player. Thirty three catches for three hundred and sixty yards and three touchdowns and
58:51
then on defense thirty two and a half tackles, three tackles for loss,
58:55
seven passes broken up. He also had an interception a fun recovery. Just
59:01
you know a guy that you see that size and you go, man,
59:07
I can make something out of this. He was an All Conference first team
59:09
selection as a wide receiver, but man even he might even be a better
59:15
safety. He just a just a good overall two way player and a big,
59:21
big reason why Lenny Christian was able to make it to the quarterfinals.
59:25
Lynnfield, Tyler Linfield, that's right, that's right. Yes, that was
59:30
well, it was about a month ago as we record this, so a
59:35
little while back. But yeah, lynn Field, Yeah, Tyler, anything
59:38
else before we get out of here. Yeah, just like I said earlier,
59:44
it's a fun group of guys that, you know, some veteran guys
59:46
that feel like they've been on the list for a while, you know,
59:51
kind of moving around here and there with a bunch of kids that came out
59:55
of nowhere, and you know, the Auto Shelton and Carl Box and those
1:00:00
kinds of guys. I just, you know, I love those kind of
1:00:05
players that when I do that preseason All Conference team, I always put a
1:00:08
little thing in there too, where I say, and if you're not named
1:00:10
on this, then show me how stupid I am. Like I want to
1:00:15
know, because I'm gonna miss guys. I'm always gonna miss guys. And
1:00:21
now we just saw a bunch of them that I would have never named on
1:00:24
my first, second or third team. And they proved me wrong and I
1:00:29
love that. So, uh yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot
1:00:32
of players that put in a ton of work to get where they are.
1:00:36
Yeah, I think there's something to be said about those like preseason lists two
1:00:37
where it's like some of those guys should not have been on there. Yeah,
1:00:43
you know, like like you didn't do anything previously, so it's pretty
1:00:47
hard for us to put you into anything, you know. And it's always
1:00:52
funny when I see people like, oh, this guy was snubbed, this
1:00:53
guy was snubbed. But it's like, bro, he played four total varsity
1:00:57
snaps last year. Like's not like it's a little hard to project something when
1:01:01
somebody hasn't done anything yet. Let's see here, Tyler. Just a reminder,
1:01:07
we've got some podcasts coming up. The Weekly Winter Sports wrap Up is
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going full full boar now, Tyler, and I'm having a little fun with
1:01:19
that one. I like that one so far. And then we've got the
1:01:23
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on January third at noon, followed by twenty four down to six that will
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