Latest / Bothell Football Coaches Show / Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 32
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- 0:13Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Bothell Football Coaches Show. I'm
- 0:16Speaker 1: your host, Rylan Spencer. Along with me, as always, is
- 0:18Speaker 1: the head coach of the Bothell Cougars, Tom Bainter. Coach,
- 0:20Speaker 1: how are we doing?
- 0:21Speaker 2: Doing great, thank you.
- 0:23Speaker 1: The Coaches Show is brought to you by Passion Tequila
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- 0:29Speaker 1: perfect pre- or post-game spot for any event at Popkini. Coach,
- 0:33Speaker 1: we've got a lot of things to talk about. We're
- 0:34Speaker 1: going to start, as always, with the freshman and JV games.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Last week, the freshmen finished off the sweep of Woodinville
- 0:40Speaker 1: with a 27-14 win on the road. You were there, Coach.
- 0:44Speaker 1: What did you see?
- 0:45Speaker 2: I got there at halftime and watched the second half, and,
- 0:48Speaker 2: you know, I saw a good football game. You know,
- 0:51Speaker 2: it was, I think we were up at half 13-0,
- 0:53Speaker 2: and they ended up being... maybe it's 14-0, but it
- 0:57Speaker 2: was 27-14 game. So I saw two scores on each side.
- 1:01Speaker 2: You know, the Woodinville sideline had a lot of kids
- 1:04Speaker 2: on it. So it's good to see the numbers are
- 1:06Speaker 2: good over there and, you know, hopefully growing in our
- 1:10Speaker 2: area again. Our kids played well. We forced a lot
- 1:14Speaker 2: of turnovers. We capitalized on them with long runs and,
- 1:18Speaker 2: you know, we executed pretty well. So certainly fun to
- 1:22Speaker 2: see those guys flying around and having some fun and
- 1:25Speaker 2: They look like they enjoy themselves out there, and it's
- 1:27Speaker 2: good to see.
- 1:28Speaker 1: You know, I talk about it every year with the
- 1:30Speaker 1: freshman team, and this year we're going to have to
- 1:31Speaker 1: make sure it happens. We've got to get Coach Legault
- 1:33Speaker 1: on maybe at the end of the season or something
- 1:37Speaker 1: just to give a full-year freshman recap. One, I feel
- 1:41Speaker 1: like he'd be hilarious on a headset. I think he
- 1:44Speaker 1: would be incredibly uncomfortable, but I think it would be
- 1:47Speaker 1: good to let him just sit there and talk about
- 1:49Speaker 1: the freshman and kind of let the people know what
- 1:51Speaker 1: the future looks like here at Bothell. Uh, Monday night,
- 1:54Speaker 1: the JV Cougs hit the road for a game at Juanita, uh,
- 1:57Speaker 1: and they pitched a shutout 42, nothing. Uh, I heard
- 2:00Speaker 1: Bryce Trammell scored a few touchdowns. Aiden Leonard had a
- 2:02Speaker 1: pick six Paul, Paul Charleston. I was told had a
- 2:05Speaker 1: great game. Riley Mahachek, a tip drill touchdown, but, uh,
- 2:08Speaker 1: you were there. It sounds like it was an overall
- 2:10Speaker 1: team effort though. Yeah, it sure was.
- 2:12Speaker 2: It was, uh, in the Bryce Trammell show, I guess
- 2:14Speaker 2: it looked like at first it was 20 to nothing,
- 2:17Speaker 2: you know, and he had all of our points and,
- 2:19Speaker 2: and then, uh, I think it was a combination of
- 2:22Speaker 2: really good defense and flying around to the football. There
- 2:27Speaker 2: was some popping going on out there on both sides.
- 2:29Speaker 2: It was fun to see the physicality of it, but
- 2:34Speaker 2: a lot of our kids got touches for the first
- 2:37Speaker 2: time maybe this year and some for the first time
- 2:40Speaker 2: ever catching balls and then seeing what they can do afterwards.
- 2:43Speaker 2: We had blocked punts and the return on that and
- 2:47Speaker 2: You know, it was just a fun game for the
- 2:49Speaker 2: blue guys and fun to see.
- 2:51Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like the JV life, as we call
- 2:54Speaker 1: it here at Bothell, is starting to come together a
- 2:57Speaker 1: little bit. They started 0-2 on the season but have
- 3:00Speaker 1: quickly won three straight games. They will be at home
- 3:05Speaker 1: next Monday on the 12th of October as they play Arlington.
- 3:09Speaker 1: So come out and support those guys. Coach, let's get
- 3:12Speaker 1: in and talk about the Juanita game from Saturday. 44-21
- 3:15Speaker 1: win at Pop County Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Another great
- 3:19Speaker 1: crowd on the Bothell side, but there was a little
- 3:21Speaker 1: bit of something that happened towards the end of the game,
- 3:23Speaker 1: and we just want to kind of address it. There's
- 3:25Speaker 1: been a lot of people reaching out. Jackson Andreessen went down,
- 3:30Speaker 1: and then out of an abundance of caution, did end
- 3:33Speaker 1: up in an ambulance to head to the hospital. Can
- 3:38Speaker 1: you give us an update on Jackson? Yeah, you know,
- 3:41Speaker 1: we normally don't talk about injuries here. But, you know,
- 3:44Speaker 1: I think.
- 3:45Speaker 2: There's an outpouring of support. And I got texts and
- 3:51Speaker 2: things from people in different states and hearing about it.
- 3:55Speaker 2: And so it was one of those deals. You know,
- 3:56Speaker 2: Jackson makes a really nice form tackle. And, you know,
- 4:00Speaker 2: he stays on the ground. And I could tell that,
- 4:05Speaker 2: you know, I've done this long enough, that he was
- 4:08Speaker 2: going to be fine. But like you said, out of
- 4:11Speaker 2: an abundance of caution, it was decided that we should
- 4:14Speaker 2: just go in and get all the tests done. And
- 4:17Speaker 2: they all came back negative, which was great. He went
- 4:20Speaker 2: to the hospital and all the tests were negative. He
- 4:23Speaker 2: was released and he was at school yesterday and all
- 4:26Speaker 2: back to normal. So, yeah, happy to report that everything's
- 4:30Speaker 2: fine there and he should be ready to go this week.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Yeah, he was already in the training room yesterday trying
- 4:38Speaker 1: to convince Dan that he's good to go. And he's like, hey, bud,
- 4:42Speaker 1: let's go slow here. We're not in a huge hurry
- 4:44Speaker 1: to get back. You know, let's do our thing. But
- 4:46Speaker 1: it was great seeing him, like you said, on campus
- 4:48Speaker 1: at school. And then, you know, even out on the field,
- 4:52Speaker 1: he goes walking by me and he's like, I'm going
- 4:55Speaker 1: to go stand real close to what's going on. I said, good, good.
- 4:57Speaker 1: You need to hear everything that's going.
- 4:59Speaker 2: On, you know.
- 4:59Speaker 1: So it was good having him back. But yeah, it's Look,
- 5:03Speaker 1: it's one of those things that, you know, say 25,
- 5:06Speaker 1: 30 years ago, it might have just been, oh, just
- 5:09Speaker 1: go sit down. You'll be fine here in a little bit.
- 5:10Speaker 1: Now it's, look, it doesn't hurt. It doesn't hurt at
- 5:14Speaker 1: all to go make sure we get checked out. So,
- 5:16Speaker 1: you know, I think we need to give a shout
- 5:18Speaker 1: out to, and this is where we are very fortunate here.
- 5:21Speaker 1: As soon as he stayed down, you had Doc Locke,
- 5:24Speaker 1: you had Trainer Dan, you had Coach Spivey instantly running
- 5:28Speaker 1: to his side and making sure that everything was okay.
- 5:31Speaker 1: And I even noticed the trainer from Juanita came out,
- 5:33Speaker 1: and she was there to help. So just the truly
- 5:37Speaker 1: tremendous care that our athletes get here at Bothell. And
- 5:42Speaker 1: it was, unfortunately, had to be on display on Saturday.
- 5:45Speaker 1: So really good there. But let's talk about the game itself. Offensively,
- 5:50Speaker 1: a lot of points to be scored, 44 in all. Now,
- 5:54Speaker 1: how do you get to 44? A couple of two-point
- 5:56Speaker 1: conversions that we don't see every day. That was kind
- 5:58Speaker 1: of fun to see Colin Dunn get in the end zone.
- 6:01Speaker 1: Not every day your kicker scores a two-point conversion. But offensively, though,
- 6:06Speaker 1: you know, big day. A couple of guys kind of
- 6:08Speaker 1: stand out. Miles Welch had a big day. You know,
- 6:11Speaker 1: Kyson Warnock just kind of did a little bit of everything.
- 6:13Speaker 1: He had a punt return touchdown. He had a receiving touchdown.
- 6:16Speaker 1: He had a rushing touchdown. As a matter of fact, Coach,
- 6:20Speaker 1: in your time here at Bothell, have you ever seen
- 6:21Speaker 1: anybody score a special teams of receiving and a rushing touchdown?
- 6:25Speaker 1: I mean, that's tough to do.
- 6:26Speaker 2: It is. There's been a few, and the few that
- 6:28Speaker 2: have done it have had tremendous careers, and so he's
- 6:32Speaker 2: on his way to do the same thing. Yeah, it
- 6:34Speaker 2: was fun. We marched down the field. We follow our
- 6:38Speaker 2: script of our opening plays, and the first play we
- 6:41Speaker 2: gained nine yards, and that would be the worst of
- 6:43Speaker 2: the yardage that we gained. We completed a pass for 14,
- 6:46Speaker 2: and then it's like a run for for 13, uh,
- 6:49Speaker 2: and then we, we, we rushed for 10 and a
- 6:51Speaker 2: touchdown pass for 11. And, uh, it just kept going.
- 6:54Speaker 2: You know, we, we, um, we stopped our drives. We,
- 6:57Speaker 2: we committed to turnovers and, and, um, those are the
- 7:00Speaker 2: things we'll continue to work on and improve on. But,
- 7:02Speaker 2: you know, offensively, we were kind of running the ball well,
- 7:05Speaker 2: throwing it well, and, and just real pleased with that
- 7:07Speaker 2: part of our game. And, you know, we'll continue to
- 7:10Speaker 2: try to grow that, that offense around the, you know,
- 7:12Speaker 2: the explosive people we have to, to get the ball to. So, uh,
- 7:16Speaker 2: fun and exciting to see that and excited for what's
- 7:21Speaker 2: to come still yet.
- 7:22Speaker 1: I think overall, I don't have the stats directly in
- 7:24Speaker 1: front of me, but I think overall it was pretty
- 7:27Speaker 1: close to 200 on offense, 200 passing, 200 rushing. Again,
- 7:33Speaker 1: like we've talked about the last few weeks is having
- 7:35Speaker 1: that balance. Let's talk about the defensive side of things.
- 7:39Speaker 1: Give up 21 points. Seven of them came in the
- 7:42Speaker 1: final couple minutes of the game, but Defensively, some great things. Defensively,
- 7:47Speaker 1: a couple of mistakes, but I thought overall there were
- 7:49Speaker 1: some guys that really stepped up, and it's kind of
- 7:52Speaker 1: become the theme a little bit on the defensive side
- 7:54Speaker 1: of the ball where every week there's a couple of
- 7:56Speaker 1: guys here or there that really step up their game,
- 7:58Speaker 1: and now maybe a little more consistency as we go forward,
- 8:02Speaker 1: and we can see some really nice things continuing to happen.
- 8:06Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to say there were probably four or
- 8:08Speaker 2: five players who started that game who were not on
- 8:12Speaker 2: the opening line week one or two starting, you know, 11.
- 8:17Speaker 2: And so we've had some injuries and some guys who,
- 8:21Speaker 2: you know, who have just dinged up a little bit.
- 8:24Speaker 2: And guys have taken over and done a wonderful job.
- 8:27Speaker 2: And now they're starting to feel, you know, their rhythm
- 8:30Speaker 2: and get into, you know, the comfort zone of, you know,
- 8:34Speaker 2: playing their position and what it all encompasses. So excited
- 8:38Speaker 2: about that. We did, we had a couple of lapses.
- 8:42Speaker 2: where you just take a second off and the other
- 8:45Speaker 2: team's good enough to get you. I thought their play
- 8:48Speaker 2: calling on offense was really good and outstanding. I thought
- 8:51Speaker 2: they had a great game plan. I thought their kids
- 8:54Speaker 2: executed it well. We get a key takeaway on the
- 8:57Speaker 2: first drive. They march all the way down the field
- 9:00Speaker 2: and then we get a caused fumble. We recover it
- 9:06Speaker 2: and then we had the ball on our four and
- 9:09Speaker 2: we move it out to midfield before we give it back.
- 9:11Speaker 2: But the fact is They moved the ball well, and
- 9:14Speaker 2: yet we did some things that were pretty outstanding as well.
- 9:17Speaker 2: So excited about the little tweaks we're going to make
- 9:21Speaker 2: and we can do and know the direction that our
- 9:24Speaker 2: defense is headed for sure.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Yeah, you even mentioned in the coaches meeting on Sunday that,
- 9:28Speaker 1: I mean, it almost seemed like a, I hate to
- 9:30Speaker 1: say it this way, it almost seemed like a surprise.
- 9:32Speaker 1: You were like, they did some really nice things. They
- 9:35Speaker 1: were really well coached. And they were. I mean, you
- 9:38Speaker 1: could see them at times. They would do something that
- 9:39Speaker 1: was like, wow. We kind of were not prepared for
- 9:42Speaker 1: that one. Well, I wouldn't say we weren't prepared. What
- 9:45Speaker 1: I would say is they do a good job of
- 9:48Speaker 1: combining three plays that look like the same for the
- 9:53Speaker 1: first two or three steps. So they're outside zone, they're
- 9:57Speaker 1: boot game off of it. And then they got a
- 10:00Speaker 1: boot look and play action pass deep, you know, all together,
- 10:05Speaker 1: throw in RPOs. And then, you know, again, their quarterback
- 10:08Speaker 1: was really good at running the show. They're talented over
- 10:13Speaker 1: there and they did some great things. And You know,
- 10:16Speaker 1: they converted third downs really well, and that's, you know,
- 10:19Speaker 1: that's a goal of any offense. And so hats off
- 10:22Speaker 1: to them, and we'll continue to, you know, find ways
- 10:25Speaker 1: to be a little bit better in those situations, and
- 10:29Speaker 1: no doubt in my mind we will be. Let's talk
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- 10:55Speaker 1: from either Alexis Cafe or Passion Tequila, two of Bothell's
- 10:58Speaker 1: favorite restaurants. Let's start on the offensive side of the ball, Coach.
- 11:01Speaker 1: And it's kind of funny in a way because we're
- 11:04Speaker 1: talking about a tight end that didn't have a catch
- 11:06Speaker 1: on Saturday. But when you watch the film, and if
- 11:09Speaker 1: we could show you the film through an audio podcast here,
- 11:14Speaker 1: Kane and Justin, really, I mean, when you talk about
- 11:18Speaker 1: a guy that just had an unbelievable day from a
- 11:21Speaker 1: blocking standpoint, it was almost like having a true sixth
- 11:25Speaker 1: offensive lineman all day.
- 11:26Speaker 2: Well, you know, we grade all of our players and,
- 11:30Speaker 2: you know, some of the grades are, they're not, it's
- 11:32Speaker 2: not equal. You know, your quarterback, for instance, if you're
- 11:35Speaker 2: handing the ball off 35 times in a game, I mean,
- 11:38Speaker 2: those are easy checks and you should do well on those.
- 11:40Speaker 2: And so, When you're a blocker and they give you
- 11:45Speaker 2: multiple fronts and they shift and they stem guys, it's
- 11:51Speaker 2: a tough job, and you've got to be thinking on
- 11:53Speaker 2: the go. Sometimes you have tenths of a second to
- 11:57Speaker 2: change your decision-making and then get out there and execute it.
- 12:01Speaker 2: When you scored 90%, like he did, it was phenomenal.
- 12:05Speaker 2: We had other guys who played very well. Miles ran
- 12:08Speaker 2: the ball really well. Our receivers caught the ball and
- 12:11Speaker 2: ran with it really well. But when you look at
- 12:16Speaker 2: his game at a 90% and he's just becoming a
- 12:20Speaker 2: wonderful edge blocker. He's super smart. He understands the game
- 12:25Speaker 2: of football really well. This is why football is so great.
- 12:30Speaker 2: There's 11 people. It's not always the one that gets
- 12:33Speaker 2: their name announced that might be the most significant part
- 12:37Speaker 2: of what you're doing. So certainly He's had a great
- 12:40Speaker 2: season so far, and he keeps getting better each week.
- 12:44Speaker 2: I'm happy for him. He's well-deserved.
- 12:47Speaker 1: When you look at some of the offensive numbers from
- 12:50Speaker 1: the day, and then the fact that we're giving the
- 12:52Speaker 1: offensive player of the game to KJ, and this is
- 12:54Speaker 1: a guy, too, that you talk about just buying into
- 12:57Speaker 1: the we on things. His job is to block a
- 13:01Speaker 1: lot of times, and he accepts it. He has tremendous hands, too.
- 13:05Speaker 1: We saw it last year in the Bellevue game when
- 13:07Speaker 1: He got absolutely blasted but held on to a crucial reception.
- 13:13Speaker 1: So it's really cool to see him getting honored. On
- 13:15Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, Trey Rocky. You know,
- 13:20Speaker 1: one thing that we don't really keep stats for is
- 13:23Speaker 1: PBU's passes broken up. And I'll tell you what, he
- 13:26Speaker 1: had a handful of them over the weekend and came
- 13:29Speaker 1: up with an interception that was truly a tremendous read
- 13:32Speaker 1: and then just a great athletic play right in front
- 13:34Speaker 1: of our bench.
- 13:37Speaker 2: He keeps growing exponentially. What he's doing really well now
- 13:42Speaker 2: is I think he enjoys competing. He looks at the
- 13:46Speaker 2: guy across from him and says, it's you and me.
- 13:51Speaker 2: He's becoming dominant. He's a ball hawker. He finds where
- 13:55Speaker 2: it's at. He gets his hands on it. He got
- 13:57Speaker 2: a pick as well. The kid is playing great football
- 14:02Speaker 2: and we're excited about his growth and development and He'll
- 14:06Speaker 2: continue to get better as he feels more and more
- 14:10Speaker 2: comfortable with what he's doing out there. He's had a
- 14:14Speaker 2: tremendous last couple of games and it was fun to
- 14:17Speaker 2: see him excel and certainly deserving of the defensive player
- 14:22Speaker 2: of the week for sure.
- 14:23Speaker 1: Those are the players of the week. Again, thank you
- 14:26Speaker 1: to Team Breda Real Estate for their continued support of
- 14:29Speaker 1: Bothell Athletics. Let's talk about Arlington coach. The Eagles are
- 14:32Speaker 1: 2-3 on the season. Started 0-3, but they are on
- 14:36Speaker 1: a two-game winning streak right now. Bothell 2-1 all-time against
- 14:39Speaker 1: the Eagles. The Cougars got a 10-7 win back on
- 14:43Speaker 1: October 8, 1982 under head coach Dee Hawks. And this
- 14:47Speaker 1: will be the third straight season the two teams have
- 14:49Speaker 1: faced off. So even though it's a non-league game, it's
- 14:52Speaker 1: an opponent that you're pretty familiar with because obviously different players,
- 14:57Speaker 1: but a lot of the same things kind of going
- 14:59Speaker 1: on between the two teams.
- 15:01Speaker 2: Yeah, we've played them the last two years and we've
- 15:05Speaker 2: had a couple of really good football games with them
- 15:07Speaker 2: and they're well coached. They play football the right way.
- 15:10Speaker 2: It's fun to go up there. Their community loves it
- 15:13Speaker 2: and they turn out on Friday nights and it's one
- 15:16Speaker 2: of those great football atmospheres. So we're excited to go
- 15:19Speaker 2: up there. We're excited to play yet another team that
- 15:22Speaker 2: will challenge us greatly and that's what we need. We
- 15:26Speaker 2: need to continue to be challenged to grow and And
- 15:29Speaker 2: so this should be a wonderful contest. They have athletes
- 15:32Speaker 2: coming out their ears. They move well. Not the biggest
- 15:37Speaker 2: team up front, but athletic and lean. And so sometimes
- 15:41Speaker 2: those are more difficult at times. So again, a fun
- 15:44Speaker 2: challenge for us. And we're just going to try to
- 15:47Speaker 2: focus on what we can do to become better in
- 15:49Speaker 2: our three facets of the game. And so excited. Yeah.
- 15:53Speaker 1: And if you're at all thinking about going up to
- 15:55Speaker 1: the game, I highly suggest it. Like you said, it's
- 15:57Speaker 1: a great atmosphere up there. Their band is huge and
- 16:00Speaker 1: they're loud and they're fun. You know, they do a
- 16:02Speaker 1: tremendous job and I know we got a rooter bus
- 16:05Speaker 1: going coach and the, the students are, I love our
- 16:08Speaker 1: students section this year. I mean, I love them every year,
- 16:10Speaker 1: but this year I think what they're doing is awesome and,
- 16:13Speaker 1: and they're being super proactive and it's going to be
- 16:16Speaker 1: really fun.
- 16:18Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 16:18Speaker 1: Friday night, 7 PM, you know, excited to get up
- 16:21Speaker 1: there to Arlington third Westco non-conference game of the season.
- 16:26Speaker 1: So we're, we're kind of, playing in two leagues this
- 16:30Speaker 1: year almost, Coach. So, yeah, that's all I got for
- 16:34Speaker 1: this week, Coach. You know, again, thank you for your
- 16:37Speaker 1: time as always, and best of luck, and we'll talk
- 16:40Speaker 1: to you next week.
- 16:41Speaker 2: Thank you, Ryland.
- 16:42Speaker 1: A reminder, the freshmen are home later tonight for a
- 16:44Speaker 1: 7 p.m. kickoff against Juanita. Admission is free. The concession
- 16:47Speaker 1: stand will be open. Come on out and support Bothell football.
- 16:51Speaker 1: I'm Ryland Spencer. He's Tom Bainter. You've been listening to
- 16:53Speaker 1: episode 32 of the Bothell Football Coaches Show. We will
- 16:56Speaker 1: talk to you next week, and as always... Go Cougs!