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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 356 - 2025 Lynden Christian Lyncs Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Elsie Senior Maybury and you're listening to the
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  Speaker 1: Lennon Christian Football Preview on the Walcome Preps podcast with
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  Speaker 1: Tyler and and Go Links. Greetings and welcome into the
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  Speaker 1: Walkham Preps podcast. This is episode three hundred and fifty six.
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  Speaker 1: It's the twoenty twenty five Lindon Christian Links Football Preview
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  Speaker 1: and I am Tyler Anderson of Walkam Preps. You know
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be It's gonna be a good one.
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  Speaker 1: I've I've for the last nine months, all I've been
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  Speaker 1: thinking about is what Elsie can do this year in football,
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  Speaker 1: and I just and now it's here because I really
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  Speaker 1: think the path is kind of set for them with
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  Speaker 1: so much talent returning. And we're gonna get into that
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  Speaker 1: talent in just a second. But I want to thank
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  Speaker 1: Lennon Christian senior quarterback Eli Mayberry for the intro. That
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  Speaker 1: kid is gonna do good things. He's so smart, a
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  Speaker 1: great kid, three sport athlete. We'll talk about him a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later on in the program. Here, I also
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  Speaker 1: want to give a thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm.
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  Speaker 1: Then in Christian football, man, it's been a force the
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  Speaker 1: last few years, you know, I mean, my goodness, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's been a force pretty much for the last forty years.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a lot to like about this year's team
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  Speaker 1: because you know, in the past there's been some big
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  Speaker 1: time talented players, but there there might be you know,
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  Speaker 1: groupings you know that were you know, could be better.
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  Speaker 1: But this year I did there's just not that you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's no holes, and boy, they returned a lot of talent.
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  Speaker 1: Head coach is Greg Tursha, one of the great Linda
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  Speaker 1: Christian Link players of all time. He's in his fourth
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  Speaker 1: season now as the head coach. He's got a career
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  Speaker 1: record of twenty three wins and just nine losses. Last
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  Speaker 1: season went seven and five, and so as far as
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  Speaker 1: just wins and losses goes, that was coach Turps. You know,
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  Speaker 1: worst year, believe it or not, even though they're a
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  Speaker 1: very very good team that got to the quarterfinals, and
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  Speaker 1: they do lose some guys that that people know. Obviously.
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  Speaker 1: The big one is Trey Bosman, who was a great
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  Speaker 1: tight end linebacker over the years, tons of tackles, great leadership,
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  Speaker 1: could do it all. Hallis Owen and Mick Owen, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a couple of tough dudes, Jade and Hooliott caught a
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  Speaker 1: lot of passes, put some great safety and then and
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  Speaker 1: Cole Larson as well, who did not graduate from Lyndon
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  Speaker 1: Christian but he was going to be a senior, but
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  Speaker 1: he has transferred to Ferndale so he'll be playing there.
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  Speaker 1: So those are kind of the main names from last
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  Speaker 1: year that will not be there this year. But boy,
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  Speaker 1: they return a lot. And we're just going to start
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  Speaker 1: out with what I like to call the featured four,
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  Speaker 1: something I do every year, and so we'll begin that
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  Speaker 1: with Boyce Robertson, the senior wide receiver and safety. Boy,
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  Speaker 1: he really came on the scene last year. I was
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  Speaker 1: pretty excited about him as a sophomore, and he had
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  Speaker 1: an injury and was out the whole year, so it really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it made it so the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: league just didn't know what was what he was. And
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  Speaker 1: obviously good jeans, you know, the the Holoman twist in there,
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  Speaker 1: and boy, there's there's some you know, big time players
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  Speaker 1: in that family. And he really turned out on last
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  Speaker 1: year and had some huge games. Broke all the school
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  Speaker 1: records for you know, catches in the season, receiving yards
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  Speaker 1: in the season, had some major major games, got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of touchdown passes, and it wasn't a threat on
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  Speaker 1: defense too, and in the return game. So he will
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  Speaker 1: be a big time player. Was named All State first
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  Speaker 1: team last year and was my highest ranked player on
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  Speaker 1: the top one hundred list that's returning this year, so
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  Speaker 1: you know, that says a lot right there as well.
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  Speaker 1: And then his first cousin, Eli Mayberry, is the quarterback
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  Speaker 1: now a senior. Those two have such a great relationship.
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  Speaker 1: It shows on the field. You could tell they've been
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  Speaker 1: playing catch, you know, for a long time. And he
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  Speaker 1: as well, broke a lot of school records, passing records
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  Speaker 1: for you know, completions in a game and you know,
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  Speaker 1: collisions of the season, yards in the season. There was
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of records being broken there. So that's pretty
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  Speaker 1: exciting too. The third of my featured four is an
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman, just a junior Kyler Sturk. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: was thrown in right He was thrown right into the
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  Speaker 1: fire as a freshman at right tackle and did a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful job last year playing guard. This year will probably
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  Speaker 1: be a guard again. Maybe get a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: run on the defensive line as well in opportune moments.
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  Speaker 1: But that kid about six one six two, about twoint
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  Speaker 1: eighty can move. You know. We'll talk about that offensive
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  Speaker 1: line because I believe it's going to be a strength
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  Speaker 1: for Lyndon Christian when in the past it's been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just trying to find five guys that are out of
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  Speaker 1: position and just put you know, just put five guys
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  Speaker 1: in there. It's a little different this year, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into that once we start talking about the position groups.
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  Speaker 1: My fourth of the featured four is Trace and Johnson
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  Speaker 1: just a load as a running back and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Wiz probably he's played more linebacker over the years, but
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of run as a nose tackle last
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  Speaker 1: year and he made a ton of plays, you know,
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  Speaker 1: right at the line of scrimmage and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times behind the line of scrimmage. You know, plays with
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  Speaker 1: the chip on his shoulder, is very emotional player, but
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  Speaker 1: he gets guys fired up, does a lot of good things,
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  Speaker 1: and he's a load to bring down when he's carrying
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  Speaker 1: the ball as well. So great to have him back
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  Speaker 1: for the Linda Christian Lynx and I also have this
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  Speaker 1: thing where I said, who is my breakout player going
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  Speaker 1: to be? And this is probably the first time I've
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  Speaker 1: ever done this. I've been doing this breakout player I
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  Speaker 1: don't know for nine or ten years, and this will
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  Speaker 1: be I think the first time ever that it's the
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  Speaker 1: same kid from last year. And you're like, well, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: how does that work? Well? I have Dawson Heights, the
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  Speaker 1: junior wide receiver and defensive back. I thought he was
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  Speaker 1: gonna break out last year. Unfortunately he got injured. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: he did play a little bit and you saw glimpses
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  Speaker 1: of how dynamic of an athlete that he is. But
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  Speaker 1: because he didn't because he missed most of the season,
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  Speaker 1: I'm putting him again here as my breakout player. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he has the ability to be the best player on
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  Speaker 1: the team. He's just that kind of athlete. And so
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  Speaker 1: obviously we've seen what he could do in the basketball court,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just the measurables or off the charts with
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  Speaker 1: some of his agility testing type stuff. And you know
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  Speaker 1: him on a football field could be pretty dynamic at times.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm kind really excited to see kind of how
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  Speaker 1: he can be s just a one on one player
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  Speaker 1: in space, get him the ball and watch him make
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  Speaker 1: some moves. So, whether that's going to be as a
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  Speaker 1: receiver in the return game or even as like a
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  Speaker 1: wildcat option, it's going to be pretty scary. So so
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  Speaker 1: those are my featured four plus my breakout player. Let's
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  Speaker 1: look at last year's results and Lindon Christian has no
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  Speaker 1: problem playing a really tough non league schedule. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Coach Turfser and I have talked about this a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about you know, now with a seating committee and
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. They really look at who
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  Speaker 1: else are you playing? Are you playing some cupcakes? Are
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  Speaker 1: you playing some some some really tough teams, And you
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  Speaker 1: look at their schedule and it was it was pretty
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  Speaker 1: rough and they you know, it was tough for them.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the five non league games, well they
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  Speaker 1: lost three of them, but again, these are tough opponents.
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  Speaker 1: They started out the year with Vancouver College, a really
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  Speaker 1: big school out of British Columbia that came down and
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  Speaker 1: they and they got the Links twenty eight seven there
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  Speaker 1: in Week one. Lynn Christian turned around the next week
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  Speaker 1: played on the road against North Kidsap who's traditionally been
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  Speaker 1: one of the better two way schools the last few years,
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  Speaker 1: and Linny Christian won that game twenty six fifteen kind
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  Speaker 1: of opened some eyes at that point. Then Okanagan came
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  Speaker 1: across the mountains and put it on the Links thirty
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  Speaker 1: six to twenty two. And I think at this point
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  Speaker 1: I was probably oh and three with my pick them
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  Speaker 1: with with with the Links, because it's every time I
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  Speaker 1: thought they were gonna win, they did, and every time
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  Speaker 1: I thought they were gonna lose, they didn't. And but
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  Speaker 1: Okanagan one of the you know, the best, if not
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  Speaker 1: the best two B team in the state, and they
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  Speaker 1: proved why in that game. Then Lennon Christian played Lakeside
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  Speaker 1: nine Mile Falls, who's been pretty good in the past,
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  Speaker 1: they were a little bit down last year. That Elsie
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  Speaker 1: got him forty nine to fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: And then they opened up league play against Blaine and
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  Speaker 2: you know did they took advantage of Blaine mistakes in
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  Speaker 2: that game, and they were out gained by over one
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  Speaker 2: hundred yards, but they still found a way to win
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  Speaker 2: by three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: That just does not happen. They won twenty eight to
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  Speaker 1: seven in that game. That's a that's a really rare
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  Speaker 1: thing to be out gained by over one hundred yards
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  Speaker 1: and still win by three touchdowns. So and that point's
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  Speaker 1: right to you know, taking advantage of mistakes that the
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  Speaker 1: other team made. And that's what they did. The next
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  Speaker 1: week they played against Seahome. That was another that was
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  Speaker 1: their last non league game of the year. Seehom got
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  Speaker 1: them forty seven to twenty five in a really fun
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  Speaker 1: game to watch live. There was the ball was in
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  Speaker 1: the air a lot, and you know, it was a
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  Speaker 1: day game, it was sunny, it was really it was
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  Speaker 1: a really cool atmosphere. And so I'm really glad those
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  Speaker 1: two teams are playing again. And I tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: I I love it when Walkin County teams play each
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  Speaker 1: other in a non conference game. Selfishly, for me, it
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  Speaker 1: means that's you know, because I'm covering all the teams,
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  Speaker 1: so when they play each other, that makes it for
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  Speaker 1: one less story to write. But still it's it's great
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  Speaker 1: because I know both teams so well, so it's it's
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  Speaker 1: always fun for me. And I know that you know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the two A teams won't play the
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  Speaker 1: one A teams when they're trying to find a schedule,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of that's just because they don't they
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  Speaker 1: don't have as many openings for non league opponents, where
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  Speaker 1: the one A they're looking for five non league games.
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  Speaker 1: And but you know, some of it is what's the
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  Speaker 1: advantage to playing a one A team. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: hurt you know later on down the line for their
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  Speaker 1: ranking and all that stuff. But man, I love it
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  Speaker 1: when it happens, So I'm really glad it's happening again.
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  Speaker 1: And then they Lindy Christian went back to league schedule
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  Speaker 1: there and they had some squeakers here. They beat Mount
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  Speaker 1: Baker thirteen to seven in a really rainy game where
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  Speaker 1: there's some turnovers that kind of made the difference in
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  Speaker 1: that one. And then they came back to be Meridian
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  Speaker 1: thirty to twenty nine. That was a game that Meridian
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  Speaker 1: was up twenty two zero after through the third and
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  Speaker 1: Elsie found a way to come back tied up and
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  Speaker 1: win it in overtime. That was a big, big one
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  Speaker 1: for the Links. There. They finished the season at home
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  Speaker 1: final week of the year, the final week of the
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  Speaker 1: season in for the conference championship against Nuksack Valley, but
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  Speaker 1: the Pioneers proved to be too much in that one,
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  Speaker 1: winning thirty two to seven. Lindy Christian don't finish in
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  Speaker 1: second place in the conference, so guaranteed a spot in
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  Speaker 1: that round of thirty two. In that state play in
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  Speaker 1: game where they played Kingsway Christian, and they had their
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  Speaker 1: way with Kingsway Christian, winning forty nine to zero, which
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  Speaker 1: put them into the state playoffs. In the first round
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  Speaker 1: game they played Cascade Christian where they won forty to fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: which put them into the quarters where they faced Royal
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  Speaker 1: and Royal did their thing, winning fifty six to twelve.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where what I look at is Royal
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of seniors last year. And I know
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  Speaker 1: Royal is Royal, and there are the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: favorites to win the one A state championship year in
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  Speaker 1: and year out, and they usually do. But boy, they
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of seniors last year, and so even
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  Speaker 1: though they're gonna have a lot of new you know,
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  Speaker 1: even though they have a lot of talent, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be new varsity guys, and so I kind of feel
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  Speaker 1: like if there's a year to to kind of get royal,
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  Speaker 1: this might be it. But I could just be completely
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  Speaker 1: you know, over selling this too, because they could, you know,
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  Speaker 1: if they I'm sure they got guys they're gonna come
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  Speaker 1: up and and be these new legendary players. But right
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  Speaker 1: for right now, Lennon Christian, this you know, it kind
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  Speaker 1: of sets up well for them. They bring back so
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  Speaker 1: much and we're going to get into that here in
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  Speaker 1: just a second. The schedule, it's identical to last year.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's just flipped. So start off the year
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  Speaker 1: going up to Canada, and that's always a tricky thing.
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  Speaker 1: You just don't see that a lot where teams around
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  Speaker 1: here go up to Canada play. They usually come down here.
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  Speaker 1: But with all the logistics involved in paperwork and make
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  Speaker 1: sure that happens, they got that taken care of. So
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  Speaker 1: they'll be playing there on a Saturday at one thirty
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  Speaker 1: in week one and they we'll host North kidsap then
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna travel across the mountains twice and then over
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  Speaker 1: the next two weeks. The first time going to Okanagan
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  Speaker 1: and then they're gonna go to Weinnachi to play in
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  Speaker 1: the Apple Bowl against Lakeside nine Mile Fall. So that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of cool. They don't have to go all the
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  Speaker 1: way to Spokane there to play Lakeside. They're gonna meet
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to say it's in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the state, but it's not exactly halfway for
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  Speaker 1: both of them. Elsie, you probably travel a little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: But playing in the Apple Bowl and when NATCHI that's
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  Speaker 1: really really cool. A noon game there on a Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Then they start league play, hosting Blame. Then they will
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  Speaker 1: host Seahome in a non league game, and then finish
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  Speaker 1: that the year at Mount Baker hosting Gradient and at
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  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley. So we're going to go through the positions here,
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  Speaker 1: and like I said earlier, there are dudes everywhere. So
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  Speaker 1: you start out at quarterback. And of course Eli Maybury
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  Speaker 1: last year one hundred and ninety nine completions for twenty
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  Speaker 1: four and fifty one yards, twenty seven touchdowns. That is
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  Speaker 1: getting the job done. I mean, he's he's just super
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  Speaker 1: smart with the football and the physical traits are really
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  Speaker 1: starting to show. They really did last year. He's starting
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  Speaker 1: to kind of grow into his body and boy, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he he's just so fun to watch. He's just and
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  Speaker 1: so many of these quarterbacks and Walkome County are like
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  Speaker 1: this where there's just there're just these cool, calm, collected
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  Speaker 1: guys and that's exactly what you want. He's he is
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  Speaker 1: just like that. He is He's always going to get
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  Speaker 1: the job done, does a really great, great job, you know,
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  Speaker 1: backup quarterback right now. I think it's probably soft more
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  Speaker 1: Kellen Blankers, who's very similar to Eli. And then you know,
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  Speaker 1: you could look at the Dawson Heinz, who you know
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  Speaker 1: probably could has taken some reps at practice, I'm sure,
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  Speaker 1: and he was in the running last year with Eli
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  Speaker 1: Mayberry as a quarterback, and that's you know, that's purely
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  Speaker 1: where you look at a kid and go, man, he's
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  Speaker 1: such a great athlete. And I think when you know,
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  Speaker 1: I remember going to practice a few years ago at
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  Speaker 1: Lennon Christian and Turk Show was telling me, like Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Sipma was in the running to play quarterback, and it
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  Speaker 1: was because he was such a great athlete and he
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  Speaker 1: ended up playing receiver and he was a great one.
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  Speaker 1: But You know, Coach Turp loves having those dudes back there.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, if you ask him, he wants seven
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  Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are ready to go. And but right now
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  Speaker 1: he definitely has this guy with me with Maybury, Kellen
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  Speaker 1: Blankers will be a capable backup. And I hear there's
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  Speaker 1: a really good freshman too coming in, so so yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the room looks good there. Running back wise, I tell
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  Speaker 1: you what, not a lot of schools bring back the
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  Speaker 1: running backs that Lyndon Christian does, and especially in the county.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I brought it up before Blaine, Meridian, Nookzack Valley.
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  Speaker 1: These they returned, you know, very very little experience at
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  Speaker 1: the running back position. First, the experience that is and
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  Speaker 1: Lynn and Christian returns quite a bit. Yes, gone are
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  Speaker 1: Holiz and Mick going guys that got carries over the years,
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  Speaker 1: but and and Cole Larson as well. But they bring
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  Speaker 1: back you know, the big one that they bring back
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  Speaker 1: is is Chris Coyman. You talk about a running back
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  Speaker 1: who's six' four two twenty five with the kind of
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  Speaker 1: feet that he. Has. Uh he ran for four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and forty three yards last, year averaged nearly five yards
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  Speaker 1: of carry had six, touchdowns and, uh he's just a.
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  Speaker 1: Load he's a load to bring. Down. Uh you, Know
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  Speaker 1: Trason johnson is very very. Similar he averaged over four
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  Speaker 1: yards of, carry had a couple of, touchdowns ran for
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty nine. Yards and it's another that's
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  Speaker 1: another kid that you're talking to twenty five two thirty
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  Speaker 1: that you're going to try to bring. Down powering it
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  Speaker 1: up the middle like that they had to play last.
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  Speaker 1: Year they ran a few times where it Was Trey
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  Speaker 1: johnson on a fly sweep, basically and that's just you,
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  Speaker 1: know just getting that load already going before the snap
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  Speaker 1: and then get giving him the ball and you, know
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: here HERE i, am try and try and tackle. Me
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: and so they will find ways to get him the
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: ball in the most opportune, positions you, know to make things.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Happen and that's that's what Coach turps was really good,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: at is devising plays that is not only best for his,
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: offense but maybe something that can confuse the defense a
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: little bit and take them off. Guard and sometimes that's
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: all it takes for a high school. Player you, know
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: other guys that could get carries in the backfield could
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: be like A gavin Van, low A wyatt Camp house
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: who's played a lot of, receiver but he's he's built pretty.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Sturdy he could be a running back. Type Justin, cuick
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: who's you, know playing some h backs some. Time end
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: played offensive line last. Year he could get moved back
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: into the. Backfield that's another big. Body you. Know we're
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: talking six, three two hundred and twenty pounds there, too
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: so it's pretty. SCARY i, also he's got some major
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: size and usually in the past it's been, yeah they
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: all look, like they all look the, same they all
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: look like basketball. Players they're all six three, six four
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five. Pounds it's not the way right,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: now they look like football. Players and that's the big
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: difference this year with the, links and that's what's kind
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: of scary for everybody else receiver. WISE i, mean we're talking, one, two, three, four, five, six,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: seven eight. Nine ten different guys are returning this. Year
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: ahead of, THAT i have at least caught one varsity.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Pass no other team in the county can say that
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: they returned ten guys and. Boys robertson caught sixty two
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: of them for twelve hundred and seven yards aftering nineteen
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: and a half yards to catch and fourteen, Touchdowns so
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: obviously he will be the focal point of opposing. Defenses
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and but you, know you try to take him, Away
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Dawson heinz is going to make you. Pay he's just so.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Athletic he had sixteen catches last, year but that was
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: a very very limited, time missing more than half the.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Season Caden, VELDMAN i haven't can't. BELIEVE i havn't brought
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Up Cayden veldman. YET i, mean he is a mismatch
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: problem as. Well you're talking six four two thirty. Five
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: you can split him out wide and it's, like uh,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: oh and you got That caden stite type. Player you
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: know it probably plays some h back tight, end but
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: boy does he fit that spot. Perfectly and he's a scary.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: PLAYER i, mean he's a kid that, like you, know
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: if he was a left, tackle he'd be the you,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: know one of the best in the. County you, know
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: if he's, this he'd be one of the Be it
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: just depends on where you put. Him and those guys
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: tend to be kind of that tight end defensive end type,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: guys and that's exactly where he. Fits especially with that.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Size Jackson juliet as another. Guy, uh he caught a
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: touchdown pass last. Year he had eight catch last. Year
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: he's a great possession guy for when you need that,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: catch you need that first. Down Chris coyman caught six
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: passes out of the backfield as a running. Back Jacob
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: penner caught four, passes so you could see him in.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: There Wyatt campus had a thirty one yard touchdown. Reception you,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: know if it depends kind of where he's gonna. Play
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: is he going to be a running? Back is he
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: going to be a? Receiver as another KID i said,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: earlier solidly, Built so you just you, know you got
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a lot of options, here Justin, cuick LIKE i said,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: earlier you know as a running, back he's probably going
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to get more reps as a tight end or an h.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Back so a lot of toys to play with. Here
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and that's you, know right Up Coach turf's, alley because
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: the more toys he, sees you, know the more opportunities
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: he's going to have to really open up the playbook
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and make some things. Happen so it's it's a pretty
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: it's a pretty exciting. Thing and you talk about you,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: KNOW i talked about ten different guys that caught. Passes
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: he also got, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: eight nine different players that scored points for EL c
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: last year that are returning this. Year so that's that's
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: pretty impressive as. Well offensive. Line AND i say this
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: with a big smile on my face because it seems
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: like in the, PAST i don't, know four or five,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Years elsie's offensive line always was, like well we returned
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: one guy and the rest are all, new and so
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of times they'd be all like first year starting,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: seniors and then they'd all graduate and it was just
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: kind of the same. Deal well we're returning one guy
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and the rest are all. New they're actually returning guys this,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: year and they're returning real. Lineman you, know they're. Not you,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Know Tommy meyer was An All league. Center he was a.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Quarterback they had to put him at center because they needed.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Lineman you, KNOW i was talking About Justin. Cuick he
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: was playing offensive line last, year but he's not an offensive.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Lineman but they had to force him to play that
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: position because they needed their best eleven on the field
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: and you needed guys that could be big enough to
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: figure it out and now they actually have those wide,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: bodied you, know Strong elsie, kids the kids THAT i
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: remember growing up in the you know back in the,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: day you know you went up against A Dan lenson
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: that was six' one two sixty, five that was a
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: big farm. Kid it's, like, yep that's AN lc. Kid
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: but you, know it just hasn't been that way for
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a little, while but now it starting to. Happen Kyler
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: sturk feels that fits that bill. Perfectly about six two
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: two seventy, Five, Luke Van, Royan Judah. Calvin these are returning.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Players these are gonna be good. Players i'm really high
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: On Moses. Hemnis big kids, sophomore got a little nasty to.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Him uh he could you know he's gonna be in the.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Future he's gonna be kind of their go to guy
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: on the offensive. Line BUT i think he's showing out
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a lot right now that he could be starting this
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: year and to start on that offensive line as a
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: sophomore really tells me a. Lot so, uh really excited
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: about that group and how quickly they're gonna come. Together and,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: man there's just LIKE i, said there's just there's no
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: holes on this. Team it's really really exciting when you
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: jump to the defensive side of the. Ball you, know
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: they've been playing a three to four for a while
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and it's worked really really well for. Them and the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: three down linemen a lot of the times have been
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: guys that are how DO i put, this you, know
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: maybe backup linebackers or backup running backs or just kind
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of but, boy they find a spot for them on
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the defensive line and they say go after them and get.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Them now you will see your traditional you, know you
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: could Put Kyler sturk as a nose tackle and stuff like,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that but especially if there's a you, know goal line.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Situation but, yeah we'll just kind of see kind of
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: how they do. This you, know the main GUY i
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: look at Is trace And. Johnson you, know he's a.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Linebacker he got moved a nose tackle last year and
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: made a ton of. PLAYS i, mean he. Returns out of,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: everybody he returns the most, tackles nine and a half,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: tackles four and a half tackles for, Loss he had three,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: sacks he forced a, fumble he broke up a, pass
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: and you, know right, now in my, eyes it's kind
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: of fifty to fifty if he's going to be moved
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: back to, linebacker you, know you, Know Trey, bosman you
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: got to fill that slot with, somebody and he's got
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the experience and he's got that linebacker. MENTALITIES i could
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: totally see. That but that's the that's the luxury is
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: that he's a guy that could do either. Thing so you,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: know if a guy if if they're down some defensive,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: lineman he can fill that. Spot if you're down some,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: linebackers he could fill that. Spot so that's the beauty
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of That Gunnard DeCosta is a kid that kind of
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: fits that, bill that that of that toughness down, low,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: undersized you, know it doesn't. Matter you, know he, could he.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Could he could do some things in that spot as.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Well he had thirty eight tackles last, year two tackles for,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: loss a. Sack you, know you can See Judic Juda
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: calvin down. There he had twenty, tackles three and a
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: half tackles for, loss he had a, sack a fumble.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Recovery so those are kind of some of the guys
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: THAT i could see in. There you, know maybe even
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: A Justin quick as. WELL i mean he's more of
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: an outside, linebacker but they got they they returned their
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: two outside. Linebackers so if you want your best eleven
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: on the, field and If kwick isn't getting the reps
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: on offense like he did last year as an offensive,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: lineman he might find some run on the defensive. Line
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: so we'll just have to, see but it'll be a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: pretty darn good group linebacker. Spot Eli stamps as an
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: inside linebacker was fantastic last year playing next To Trey.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Bosman he had twenty seven, tackles three tackles for, loss
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: a pass broken. UP i think he's definitely secured one
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: of those inside linebacker. Spots the other one you know at,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: times will definitely Be Trey. Johnson but could there be
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: other Guys i'm not quite sure, there but the outside linebacker's.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Return you talk About Chris, Coyman Cayden, feldman both these
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: kids six four thirty to thirty. Five it's, uh they
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: filled that they fit that bill of the classic outside
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: linebacker That els has had over the. YEARS i mean you're,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: talking you, know tons of these guys With Jeremiah wright
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and and you Know Brody bowman and they just they
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: they you, know caden'stite before he got moved to the.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Inside they're just all kind of that same big long
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: wing span can get and can make place in the,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: box but also can cover in the flat and it's
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: really really. Exciting Chris coyman last year forty nine and
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: a half, tackles three, Sacks he had four passes broken,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: up forced two. Fumbles Kateen feldman was just a. Force
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: fifty two, tackles five and a half tackles for, lost three,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: sacks two fumber. Recoveries he had an, interception he broke
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: up four passes as. Well that's a big time strength
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: for that. Team those guys on the edge, there they
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: just fit that bill. Perfectly especially at a high school football,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: level it's pretty scary and at the ONE a level
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you just do not see. That the secondary last year
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: had a lot of, injuries and not just, that but
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: playing hurt. TOO i mean guys that had to, play
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: but they were playing injured and it was, tough you,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Know and so you come starting the season and and,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: uh you, know everyone's healthy. NOW i really, like you,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: know the guys back there talk about Whyatt Camp, Palace, Dawson,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Hinz Boyce, Robertson Jacob, penner that's a good that's a good.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Group you, Know Jackson juliet he had a couple of
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: interceptions last, year so did so Did. Penner you, Know
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Boyce robertson had an interception last. Year so you're bringing
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: back guys with experience back, there and that's just you,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: know you can't ask for more than. That whyatt Camp
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: house broke up four passes last, year so did so Did,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Hewliet so Did. Robertson so that's pretty. Cool LIKE i,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: said there's no holes. Anywhere they also bring back a
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: couple of, Kickers Jacob, Penner Jackson. June both these guys.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Kicked Eli mayberry was their punter last. Year he averaged
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: thirty four yards of punt he's, back so there's just
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: so much coming. Back and then in the return, GAME i,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Mean Boyce robertson had two hundred and fourteen kickoff return.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Yards he had one hundred and seventy seven punt return.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Yards Dawson heintz in his limited, time averaged over twenty
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: five yards a kickoff, return seven and a half yards
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of punt. Return you could also see Camp house back
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: there Or. Hewliott it is it's a, great great group
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and they have the you, know the ability to go
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: pretty far this. Year So i'm really excited to see
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: what they. Do i've, been LIKE i, SAID i mean
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: ever since Like. DECEMBER i was watching them in. Basketball you,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: KNOW i would see guys on the court At Dawson
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: heins or A Caden veldman or A Eli mayberry Or Boyce,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: robertson AND i was realizing that all these guys are
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: coming back for, Football Chris coyman And wyatt Camp. House
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: it was just, like, oh, boy football could be pretty
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: crazy for them next. Year so in my, EYES i
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: see them as the team to be in the ONE
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: a for The Northwest. Conference you, KNOW i don't know
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the rest of the state very. WELL i just you,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Know i'll JUST i just don't you. KNOW i would
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: rather know the backup left guard of all The Walkame
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: county teams than how good cashmir. Is you, Know i'll
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: just be, honest BECAUSE i don't focus on the rest
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: of the, state and you, know so you just never.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Know and and but that's what's fun about the non league,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: schedule you, know with them Playing Vancouver college And North
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: kitsap And okanagan and See home And lake Sad naymouth.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: FALLS i, mean that's they're gonna find out how good
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: they are as far as across the state. Goes so
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: that's that's a pretty that's a pretty fun deal for
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: The links and you, know get your popcorn and go
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: check them out because it's gonna be. FUN i think
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be very. BALANCED i think that they're gonna
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: be a little bit more run heavy than they've been
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: in the, past and for a couple of. REASONS i
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: think that offensive line is bigger and stronger than it's
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: been in the. PAST i think they've got some thumper running,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: backs guys that don't you, know when people do not
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: want to tackle. Them AND i think they're going to
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: be in the lead in games and so they're gonna you,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: know lean on the big guys and just run out the.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Clock and so it's gonna look a little, different AND
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: i think that's a good formula to win. Games if
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: they have to, pass they got the, dudes so there's
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with. That but it's gonna be. Interesting you,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: know how much will the non league take its toll
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: before the league. Schedule and that's you, know it's a
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: double edged sword because you got all these, games well
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that's where you can figure, Out, okay who will our
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: three defensive linemen b you know who will Be where
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Is Trey johnson going to be on? Defense is gonna
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: be a nose, tackles they're gonna be inside. Linebacker these
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: are the questions you can get figured. Out who's our
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: who is our is our offensive line going to be
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: set tackle to tackle with guys that we know going.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Forward but at the same, time you go against these
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: really good teams and there's five games of, them you,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: know are there going to be? Injuries you know? Who
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: you just never? KNOW i mean there's always injuries every single,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: year and and but at the ONE a level that
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: they might not get in much deeper THAN lc right,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: now they've got a lot of guys that can step
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: up and and and make plays as well if the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: guys do go, down which has happened the last couple of.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Years so so, YEAH i think it's a very exciting
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: season for The links coming. Up and boy they. Are
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: they were right on the cusp ofvot last. Year but
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: seeing all the guys that they, return it's there for
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the for the taking for, them and it's just, about you,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: know getting the job. Done AND i know that they're
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: going to look at it game to game and they,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: should but this is gonna be a season they're going
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: to remember for a long. Time it's a, great great.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Groove so so, Yeah so that has been The lynn
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: And Christianly links football. Preview if you missed the earlier,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: previews the ones that are already up Are, Blaine, Meridian,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: bellingham And. Squalicum so as of right, now well once
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: we take this off the air here we'll be halfway
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: through these previews and the next one coming up will
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: be The Seahome, mariners, who, boy they had a great
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: year last, year very similar to The. Links they return a.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Ton they have what it takes to make a, big
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: big run in the. Playoffs we'll talk about that later on.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Today as now up the later