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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 323 - Top 100 Countdown 43-25 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Nuksag Valley Senior Adley Whitworth, and you're listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Top one hundred Countdown on the Welcome Preps
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  Speaker 1: Podcast with Tyler and Ryland Rally the Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the Watcum Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 2: episode of three hundred and twenty three, the fourth of
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  Speaker 2: ten podcasts in the twenty twenty four Top one hundred
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  Speaker 2: football Countdown. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always
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  Speaker 2: is Tyler Anderson no of Watcum Preps.
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  Speaker 3: Tyler, how we doing doing great? Not a ton of
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  Speaker 3: negativity in the Top one hundred this year. So every
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  Speaker 3: year it seems like it gets worse and worse with people,
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  Speaker 3: you know, complaining about.
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  Speaker 4: Things and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: But I think people are starting to just kind of go, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: it is what it is.
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  Speaker 4: We're not going to complain. So it's been that's been
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  Speaker 4: a good thing. And uh now we're you know, we're
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  Speaker 4: past the halfway point, so we're starting to head down
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  Speaker 4: the I and it's going to be we're gonna be
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  Speaker 4: picking up some steam with some big time players in
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  Speaker 4: this episode really excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and by big time also means there's some Big
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  Speaker 2: Ben because there's some linemen in this one. Yes, we've
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  Speaker 2: got some with some good looking guys here. Let me
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  Speaker 2: tell you, but Tyler, we need to give a thank
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  Speaker 2: you to Adalie Whitworth of k Nooksack Valley, And I
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  Speaker 2: think we've kind of exposed ourselves at times with this
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  Speaker 2: that that means he's going to be in this here,
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  Speaker 2: So he will be in it at some point. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to tell you where As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: if you're listening to this, you could probably just go
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  Speaker 2: look at Instagram and go find out which one he is,
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  Speaker 2: but or Facebook or I don't even know, like you
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  Speaker 2: could go all over the place and look and figure
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  Speaker 2: it out for yourself. But hey, listen to the podcast. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we need to give a thank you to any Time
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  Speaker 2: at Fitness in Linden Linden North and Ferndale, the official
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  Speaker 2: sponsors of the Top one hundred Football Countdown. Great sponsors.
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  Speaker 2: They do multiple things all over the place like they
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  Speaker 2: have been just absolutely tremendous. Tyler. If somebody would like
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  Speaker 2: to be a spont there, how do they get a
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  Speaker 2: hold of you? What do they got to do? Well?
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  Speaker 4: The best way is to look me up on social
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  Speaker 4: media and you know, send a message through there look
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  Speaker 4: walk the look up, walk the preps to send a message,
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  Speaker 4: Explain who you are, how you you know, how you
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  Speaker 4: can get involved. There's lots of things available. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we talk about it every every episode. You know, there's
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  Speaker 4: it's amazing how there's just you know, so many local companies,
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  Speaker 4: local local businesses have jumped on board, and it's just
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  Speaker 4: I love how it's growing, and it's just it's I
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  Speaker 4: can't believe. And you know, you you told me this
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  Speaker 4: years ago. You're like, it'll once it happens, it it
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  Speaker 4: will get you know, it'll really start happening. I just
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm always it's weird because a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people have a have a fear of failure. I
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  Speaker 4: kind of have a fear of success, and so I'm
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  Speaker 4: always just kind of like like I don't care about failing,
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  Speaker 4: like I you know, I'll fail here and there, but
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  Speaker 4: I have this weird fear of success. So I it
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  Speaker 4: took me a while to kind of jump all in
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  Speaker 4: on this, and I'm so glad that I now. And
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  Speaker 4: I took guys like you and Coach Whitman and different
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  Speaker 4: people to kind of push me a little bit. But
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  Speaker 4: but it is so exciting. But the reason why it
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  Speaker 4: is is because all these local businesses and we still
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  Speaker 4: need more because to keep this thing going, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's if I can get you know, a good, good
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  Speaker 4: handful to you know, to to jump on every single
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  Speaker 4: season every year and just keep it going. And man,
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  Speaker 4: this is going to be a great thing. And what
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  Speaker 4: I love is hearing about so many people come up saying,
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  Speaker 4: I'm so glad you're doing this. I'm so glad you're
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  Speaker 4: doing this. You know, the newspaper is gone, you know,
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  Speaker 4: blah blah blah. The funny thing is is there are
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  Speaker 4: still newspapers out there, but they're just not they're just
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  Speaker 4: kind of do us a game a week or a
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  Speaker 4: little bit here and there, a featured story. So I'm
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  Speaker 4: really happy that I could provide, you know, information about
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  Speaker 4: everything that's happening, whether it be through the posts or
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  Speaker 4: the podcasts and and and for. But like I said,
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  Speaker 4: to keep it going, we need those sponsors and and
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  Speaker 4: I'm so confidence it's going to happen. So I'm really
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  Speaker 4: excited about it. And I just want to thank everyone
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  Speaker 4: who's jumped on board. And if you're thinking about it,
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  Speaker 4: just just just reach out because we can work something out.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there's nothing really set in stone.
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  Speaker 2: We'll we'll work something out. I remember at one point, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about just giving a couple of free,
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  Speaker 2: like commercial type things to businesses. Yeah, And the whole
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  Speaker 2: idea was like, once we can prove that this is
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  Speaker 2: a really good thing and that people are going to
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  Speaker 2: get good value out of a sponsorship, other people are
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  Speaker 2: going to instantly jump on board once they start hearing things,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And I don't even know if we ever
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  Speaker 2: truly got around to it, but once a couple of
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  Speaker 2: people started kicking I remember. I think the first one
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  Speaker 2: that I can remember was weak you wasn't it like
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  Speaker 2: doing the game of the week type thing, you know?
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  Speaker 2: And then it just kind of like slowly started to
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  Speaker 2: matriculate downfield if you will. You know, was it Hank
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  Speaker 2: Stram that.
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  Speaker 4: Used to say that the ball down the field?
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  Speaker 2: By the way, I was watching Coach the other day
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  Speaker 2: and I saw him on there. It was it was
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  Speaker 2: Hank Stram and Barry Switzer sitting at the table and
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  Speaker 2: what's his name coach Hayden Fox was trying to talk
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  Speaker 2: to him.
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  Speaker 4: But I loved that show.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a great show, and it's all on
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  Speaker 2: Amazon Prime. You watch it for free. And I've been
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  Speaker 2: watching them a lot lately. So what can I say.
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  Speaker 2: I had two weeks off. I'm not used to this
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  Speaker 2: two week off thing, you know, because of winter break.
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  Speaker 2: Is Now that I work in the school district, all
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  Speaker 2: of a sudden, here I got got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: free time. Let me tell you. I slept in way
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  Speaker 2: more than I would like. But man, there's nothing to do.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't really have anything going on. So yeah, anyway, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: this is the Football Top one hundred Countdown. Today we'll
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  Speaker 2: be going from forty three down to twenty five. The
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  Speaker 2: next Top one hundred podcast we'll be released this Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: the twelfth at two pm. That one, we will be
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  Speaker 2: counting all the way down to number six. If you'd
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  Speaker 2: like to hear any of the previous three installments of
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  Speaker 2: the Top one hundred Countdown, go back and find episodes three, seventeen, three, nineteen, three,
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  Speaker 2: twenty one. That'll take you from one hundred all the
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  Speaker 2: way down to forty four in nineteen Athlete increments if
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  Speaker 2: you will.
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  Speaker 4: Because we like to do things, we like to round
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  Speaker 4: them up.
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  Speaker 2: Don't we yeah, yeah, you know, it's funny. I remember
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  Speaker 2: the first time that we started, we were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like we should give like a you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the the top five should get their own, like
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  Speaker 2: you know, each individual one. And it's like, that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of a weird number though, like, well what happened if
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  Speaker 2: we go from like six to one hundred, Like how
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  Speaker 2: do we divide that up? And it was like, wow,
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  Speaker 2: it actually works out perfectly for nineteen, like kind of
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  Speaker 2: a weird number, but all right, let's roll with it
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  Speaker 2: and here we go. Yeah, so no, pro oh it's
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  Speaker 2: been great. I mean the only thing I was thinking
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  Speaker 2: about at one point was like, you know, what if
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  Speaker 2: we did you know, like twenty and you know, or
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how much saying this like twenty at
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  Speaker 2: a time and then doing twenty down to ten, ten
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  Speaker 2: down or nine down to six you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: like do like the that and then give each of
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  Speaker 2: the top five. But I think it works out great. Nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: It can get a little long at times if we
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of players that have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: like big time stats or something, you know. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but overall it works out perfect. So uh, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: we've got forty three down to twenty five tonight, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: let's uh, let's get right into it on what do
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  Speaker 2: you say, Let's do it. Let's do it all right.
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  Speaker 2: Number forty three on the top one hundred countdown, six
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  Speaker 2: foot two, two hundred and twenty five pounds, tight end, linebacker,
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  Speaker 2: and kicker. He's a senior from the Ferndale Golden Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: Is number five. Lincoln Thomas.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I love that you included and kicker because coming
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  Speaker 4: in the season we had no idea. Yeah, and then
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  Speaker 4: he goes in and has this unbelievable year as the kicker,
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  Speaker 4: and I believe he was named All Conference first team
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  Speaker 4: as the kicker. Wow, I mean, I mean he was
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  Speaker 4: so good, so good, incredible lift and power every single
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  Speaker 4: kick I don't remember him ever, like shanking one, like
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  Speaker 4: every single one was great. And kickoffs too, I mean
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  Speaker 4: kickoffs he was unbelievable, like inside to five, inside to
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  Speaker 4: ten constantly and uh but what it just what a
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  Speaker 4: great this overall football player. You know, a kid that
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  Speaker 4: you know was a quarterback at one time and then
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  Speaker 4: developed this body to where it was like perfect for
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  Speaker 4: tight end, especially for the Ferndale program where your tight
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  Speaker 4: end is gonna be asked to be athletic and strong
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  Speaker 4: and and just rugged, you know, and you're gonna run
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  Speaker 4: out to catch a pass, you know, four times a
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  Speaker 4: game and uh, and they're not gonna you're not gonna
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  Speaker 4: be thrown to the ball to you four times a game.
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  Speaker 4: You're just gonna run out there four times a game.
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  Speaker 4: And and he just fit that bill and stepped into
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  Speaker 4: it last year, did great, had another great year this year.
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  Speaker 4: Great great linebacker. I mean, uh, you know, the perfect size,
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  Speaker 4: kind of speed, everything combined for a for a good
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  Speaker 4: three a high school linebacker six twenty five. Uh, so
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  Speaker 4: that was awesome too. And he's just a great kid.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so many, so many awesome qualities. Combine them
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  Speaker 4: all together and it just makes a tremendous football player.
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  Speaker 4: Eight catches this year for one hundred and twelve yards
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  Speaker 4: on defense, forty two and a half tackles, four and
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  Speaker 4: a half tackles for loss, three passes broken up. And
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  Speaker 4: then he kicked those twenty seven extra points and I
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  Speaker 4: tell you what, I I think he may have missed one.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know. I mean he was lights out
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  Speaker 4: as a kicker and uh, and just had a great,
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  Speaker 4: great year. Ferndale kind of had a weird year, you know,
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  Speaker 4: kind of had its ups and downs and a weird
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  Speaker 4: start to it. But when you needed to get that
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  Speaker 4: win against Sedro Wooley, you got it. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: you picked up the wins against against the teams that
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  Speaker 4: you needed it. You needed to and you got into
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  Speaker 4: that round of thirty two. You couldn't make it happen there,
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  Speaker 4: but hey, I mean there was a moment there where
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't even don't even look like you had a
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  Speaker 4: chance getting into the round of thirty two. So so
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  Speaker 4: I think they finished pretty pretty strong. And and him
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  Speaker 4: being a leader of that of that program, and I
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  Speaker 4: think that he had a he had a great year
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  Speaker 4: that will be remembered for a while.
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  Speaker 2: Number forty two on the top one hundred countdown, five
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  Speaker 2: foot eleven and seventy six pounds a running back and
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  Speaker 2: outside linebacker. He is a senior from Bier High School.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks coach number two.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, a great, great year. Got injured at the very
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  Speaker 4: end of his year. His hand still kind of dealing
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  Speaker 4: with some stuff too. Is not able to play basketball
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  Speaker 4: this year. Beat beat because of it and had to
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  Speaker 4: play with it at the end of the year. In
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  Speaker 4: that game against uh Man, I came to Zilla and
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  Speaker 4: so he didn't get a ton of carries because of
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  Speaker 4: the hand injury. Played you know, played on defense, got
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  Speaker 4: a big you know cast club over it. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: but he's just tough and wants to play football. The
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  Speaker 4: perfect Mount Baker halfback where he's gonna be able to
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  Speaker 4: you know, get that carry on that counterplay and then
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  Speaker 4: see exactly when you need to cut it up. And
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  Speaker 4: it's like you could tell he'd ran that play one
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  Speaker 4: hundred times in his career because he just knew exactly
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  Speaker 4: when to do, what to do, uh everything, and then
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  Speaker 4: he had the great open field speed to break away.
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  Speaker 4: So was named All Conference first team as a run back,
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  Speaker 4: which I love to see. There's some great great running
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  Speaker 4: backs in the one A conference for the north for
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  Speaker 4: the Northwest Conference. And a good, good receiving threat out
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  Speaker 4: of the backfield. Caught three touchdowns, which not a lot
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  Speaker 4: of Mount Baker running backs can say they've done in
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  Speaker 4: a season, catch three touchdown passes, and a really good
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  Speaker 4: defensive player. I know that ups is looking at him.
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  Speaker 4: They've reached out and said, what do you think about
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  Speaker 4: being playing defense? You know this is a kid that
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  Speaker 4: has been has always shined on offense, but he's got
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  Speaker 4: some really big time grit to him where he just
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  Speaker 4: you know, on film you could see he's the one
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  Speaker 4: kind of you know, giving the most effort and finishing
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  Speaker 4: the plays off and stuff like that, and you're just like, man,
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  Speaker 4: I love guys like that. And then, of course I
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  Speaker 4: mean him as a kick returner we've talked about over
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  Speaker 4: the years. You know, he returned four kickoffs for touchdowns,
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  Speaker 4: which is just incredible, uh, breaking the school record, and
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  Speaker 4: he only had five kickoff returns all year this year,
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  Speaker 4: and you know a lot of it's because he just
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  Speaker 4: built this reputation of don't kick it to that guy.
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  Speaker 4: And in my goodness, I mean when they when they
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  Speaker 4: finally did, it was like, oh, there he goes again,
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  Speaker 4: returning another touchdown. I mean, it was just it was
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  Speaker 4: really really cool to see on the season, one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and two carries for eight hundred and twenty three yards
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  Speaker 4: and eight touchdowns. And then like the receiving I cant
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  Speaker 4: talked about when he caught five balls but three of
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  Speaker 4: them went for touchdowns and he totaled seventy six yards.
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  Speaker 4: And then on defense forty three tackles, four passes broken up,
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  Speaker 4: one tackle for loss, one sack, one fumble recovery, and
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  Speaker 4: then the five kickoff returns he told one hundred and
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  Speaker 4: forty yards and a touchdown, So you're talking, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're talking almost thirty yards of return there, which is
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  Speaker 4: no surprise. That's what he's done his whole career. So
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  Speaker 4: you know, I would not be surprised to see him
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  Speaker 4: play it at a ups you know, a place like that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a tremendous student. He might be a
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  Speaker 4: four point oh student if I remember correctly, So you know,
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  Speaker 4: those kind of schools love that. And you know, wouldn't
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  Speaker 4: be surprised to see if he's in on kickoff returns
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  Speaker 4: and different things like that, because it's you just get
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  Speaker 4: a football player that's a great kid and wants to
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  Speaker 4: work hard and you know, and just learn, and he
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  Speaker 4: could be a valuable piece at the next level.
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  Speaker 2: Number forty one in the top of one hundred countdown,
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  Speaker 2: six foot one, two hundred and ten pounds. He's an
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  Speaker 2: inside linebacker, a senior from the Seahome Mariners. It's number
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  Speaker 2: twenty two of Fisher Hall.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if he wouldn't have gotten injured, he
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  Speaker 4: would have been higher up on this list. He was
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  Speaker 4: having one heck of a year, putting up huge numbers.
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  Speaker 4: I mean we talked about it all the time we
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  Speaker 4: were picking him on Fantasy.
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  Speaker 2: I was picking him like every other week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that one time when you were really
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  Speaker 4: sick and you picked him and I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: because he's perfect for if you have a cold. Because
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  Speaker 4: of Fisherman's friends and balls. Yeah, but he's a guy
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  Speaker 4: that is just there's just certain guys that can tackle anything.
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  Speaker 4: And what I loved about him too, is they put
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  Speaker 4: him on kickoff because now he's doing that on kickoff.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he just kind of lay off the defense
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  Speaker 4: or the offense, and you know, he's carried the ball
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  Speaker 4: a lot in the past, and they just said, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and he's playing like some defensive tackle and different things.
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  Speaker 4: It was perfect him putting him right in the middle
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  Speaker 4: of the field, the inside linebacker getting the job done.
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  Speaker 4: He did carry the ball twice this year for fifteen yards,
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  Speaker 4: but you know that was just kind of a you know,
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  Speaker 4: just kind of a little thing here and there. He
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  Speaker 4: was all defense did get he did get hurt and
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  Speaker 4: then came back and then had another injury. I'm trying
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  Speaker 4: to remember what the two injuries were. I know the
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  Speaker 4: probably think the really bad one was the shoulder injury.
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  Speaker 4: It's just toughest nails. Seventy three tackles on the year,
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  Speaker 4: and that's with missing a hand like three or four games.
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  Speaker 4: Seventy three tackles the way I do tackles, that's incredible.
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  Speaker 4: Five tackles for lost, two sacks, pass deflection, and a
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  Speaker 4: fumble recovery. Again, if you would have been healthy all year,
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  Speaker 4: you're talking a top twenty type of player, which is
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  Speaker 4: really hard to do when you only play on one
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  Speaker 4: side of the ball. But that's how special.
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  Speaker 2: He was number forty in the top one hundred, countdown
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  Speaker 2: five to eleven to forty eight running back. I know
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  Speaker 2: he played some offensive line too, Tyler inside linebacker. He's
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  Speaker 2: a senior from the Bellingham BayHawks at number forty four.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler Frost.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe Game one he started at guard, but
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  Speaker 4: he was back at running back the rest of the
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  Speaker 4: bread the rest of the season.
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  Speaker 2: Give him the credit he deserves though.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he played a little offensive line. Did I think
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  Speaker 4: he did it? It was weird too, because I think he
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  Speaker 4: may have done it in the last game of the
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  Speaker 4: year his junior year, so he had a two game
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: streak there on the offensive line, wearing a seventies number. Gorgeous,
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: so fun watching him, just you know, it might not
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: always be the game plan, if that makes sense. On defense, yeah,
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: he goes cowboy a little bit, but holy cow, when
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: he when it works, it's the it's I don't know
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: if there's been more ooh moments from a crowd than
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: than you know what watching him play. I think he
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: had like six tackles for loss in his finale and
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: that is just incredible to accumulate that in one game,
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: and that was that's been kind of his specialty. I mean,
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: I've I've done defensive stats for the last nine years
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: complete for every team, and only one player over those
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: nine years out of all ten schools have more tackles
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: for loss than him. And you know, so that's that's
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: just you know, that's a his what he did is
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: incredible as a goal line back, you know, the tough
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: to tackle, especially late in games. You put him in
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: and and inside the twenty and guys just don't want
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: to tackle. And he he he runs in a weird
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: kind of way where he's he's kind of fighting. It's
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: almost like he's it's almost like he's playing a video
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: game and like the eight button is like karate chop
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: or something like he's carrying the ball, but he's just
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: fighting guys off, and he's just he just he knows
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: that he's, you know, the big man with the ball,
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: and and he knows what he's capable of, and it
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: was just fun to see him dominate in Like when
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: they got down down to the goal line. He did
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: carry the ball ninety two times for three hundred and
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: sixty seven yards and six touchdowns, and then defensively fifty
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: six tackles. He forced a fumble out Of those fifty
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: six tackles, sixteen of them were behind the line of scrimmage. Yeah,
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: just just a beast and a guy that is going
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: to be tough to replace next year. You know. He
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: came on as a sophomore and just and just was
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: lights out. I saw him play like ten plays as
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: a freshman, and I remember just from watching those ten plays.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: The first one of the first things we asked Coach
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Leonard about was like, tell me about Tyler Frost. I
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: guarantee you he's going to be in your plan this
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: year and all I saw was ten plays and and
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: he's like, I'm glad you asked he is. He is
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: a good one. And I was so I was excited
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: that I was able to see it early and then
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: see it blossom and and yeah, it was just so much,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: so much fun to watch. And it's too bad it's over.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: But but yeah, Tyler FoST On one of the great ones.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Number thirty nine in the top one hundred countdown, six
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: foot one, two and eighty pounds, He's a right tackle
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: and defensive lineman senior from the Lyndon Lions Sumber seventy
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: six of Blake Holeman.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, another kid that if that got injured this year
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: and missed missed a chunk of the middle of the season,
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: and if he wouldn't have been another guy that was
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: a kind of a top twenty type guy, you know.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just the ability that he has. One
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: of the few guys that was that played a lot
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: on that last state championship team that Linden had. So
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: he's got a ton of varsity experience, extremely strong and
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: moves really well for his size, I mean really well.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: You would not think that he was two hundred and
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: eighty pounds could move like that. So that's you know,
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: that was pretty scary when you put all that stuff together.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Did have a couple of tackles, didn't play hardly any defense.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: You know. They they would, you know, bring in their
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: big boys on the defensive line every once in a
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: while if they got to that point. But for the
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: most part, I mean, just an offensive lineman, extraordinary, playing
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: a lot of different spots on the offensive line. Settled
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: in at right tackle this year once he came back
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: from his injury and was just a beast, you know,
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: up and down. Just a great, great football player that Yeah,
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I just wish, I just wish he would have been
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: one hundred percent the whole year because uh yeah, love
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: love watching him run block especially.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that guy's really good. I mean, he's a really
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: really good football player. Uh number thirty eight in the
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: top one hundred countdown. Five foot eleven, two hundred and
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: ten pounds a running back, inside linebacker. He's a scene
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: year from the Nuksack Valley Pioneers. It's number five. Colby Martin.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I love these pleasant surprises, and it's hard to say
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: if it's a surprise, because I know I've known Colby
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: since he was a freshman, mostly from baseball. I mean
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: he started at third base day one as a freshman
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: and batting in the middle of the lineup, and you know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: he was you could tell he's an athlete, he's a
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: good player. He was just behind so many great players
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: on that Knooks in that Knuksac program. You know. As
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: a junior, he played, you know, he played a little bit.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: He came in late in games. I remember he had
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: to pick six. I think he started the game out
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: at Blaine, you know, I think Stremler missed like the
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: first half or something like that. So he started an
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: inside linebacker and he you know, he did pretty well
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: there and got a handful of tackles. And so when
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I knew that they were going to put Lentz and
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Martin both at linebacker, I was like, well, I know
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: what to expect out a Lentz, but you know, is
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: he is Colby Martin going to be ready for this step?
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: And everything I heard it was like, oh, yeah, he's
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: he's good. He's good. But I was like, man, I
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: just I want to see it, like, you know, starting
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: the game playing against the ones, all that stuff, and
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: right out and right off the bat. They play on
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Alaska in week one, who you know runs the ball
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: a lot and it's between the tackles and and he
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: showed everything right there. I mean, I think he led
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: everybody and tackles in week one and I and and
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: he tackles through you, and it is it is nasty,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: and it is and he pops right up and he's
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: you could tell he's loving the game of football. And
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: then when he'd have his moments there offensively to spell Lens,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: he was great. He carried the ball sixty three times
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: for three hundred and thirty seven yards and four touchdowns.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: He was named an All Conference first team linebacker. And
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: I love that when they get their chance, the seniors
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: get their chance, they come in and they just they
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: just take advantage of it and they go above and beyond.
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, coming in this year, I didn't watch him
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: play a lot of football. They said, if you said,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: do you think he'll be in the top one hundred,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I said, yeah, probably, just based on what I've heard,
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: but I haven't really seen him a ton. And then
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: every week just was doing so many great things defensively,
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: eighty six tackles, eighty six six tackles for lost, three
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: passes defended two forced fumbles. He also returned a couple
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: of kickoffs for thirty seven yards. Just a tremendous, tremendous
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: football player that you know. I know, the knoksat coaches,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: if they're listening to this, they're thinking, I just wish
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: we had him another year because it just you know,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: there seems like there's a lot of players that are
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: like him that are graduating this year. I mean, they're
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: gonna they need to fill out running back and linebacker.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: That's what that's the biggest holes they're gonna have. And
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: you know, for a guy that's the same class as
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Colton Lentz, that's really tough, you know, because how how
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: do you get that spotlight? Well, he grabbed that spotlight
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: and and he did awesome with it. Like I said,
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: All Conference first team selection. He had a great, great year.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Number thirty seven in the top one hundred countdown, six
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: foot two and eighty five pounds. He is a wide
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: receiver and corner a senior from the Ferndale Golden Eagles.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: It's number two Eli Kennerley.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: He kind of defies what he did, and what I
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: mean by that is you know, he played a lot
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: of wing back, and most wingbacks are little. I mean
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: they're short, you know, and they they they and they can,
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: they're kind of they kind of dart around, and they're
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: very shifty, and he is all those things except for short.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: It was really unique seeing a guy at six line
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: up in that spot and run the way he did.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I mean he would run away from guys, great great receiver,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: I mean averaging you know, twenty five yards of catch
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: something like that, maybe more. I mean he was a big,
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: big play guy down the field. Eleven catches on the year,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: five of them went for touchdowns. Eleven catches on the year,
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: two hundred and seventy eight yards. So yeah, you're talking
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: big time production there. But he would do some great things.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: And you know, they did that a little bit with
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Connor Walker last year, who was about the same height,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: maybe a little thicker. But Kennerley, you know, he just
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: kind of defied what that position usually calls for and
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: was great and sixty four carries in the year for
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: three hundred and ninety seven yards and two touchdowns. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: also I thought he played really well as a corner,
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: a great size as a corner, twenty four tackles, eight
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: passes broken up, three interceptions and a tackle for loss
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: who was very physical. And then they found a lot
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: of ways to you know, get him the ball and
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: in you know, in space as they say, and I
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: know Dan Patrick always says, you know who was really
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: good in space is Neil Armstrong.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: He's so stupid because he just hates that term.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: You know, Oh he plays well in space.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: But it is a real thing too, like it is
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it is. There's some guys that you get him in space.
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: It's a real problem those same guys a lot of
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: times like you put them between the tackles, maybe not
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: a you know what I mean.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Right right exactly, And there's there's certain guys who get
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: the ball outside maybe a one on one move and gone.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: And he's a lot like that. He he had ten
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: kickoff returns for two hundred and six yards and he
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: had nine punt returns for one hundred and nine yards.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: So they got him the ball a lot of different ways.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: You know, he had a lot of you know, catches, carries,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: kick returns, punt punt returns, all sorts of things like that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: And that speaks a lot to just his ability overall.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: And he had to go against a lot of ones.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: I mean he was running up and down the field
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: with Isaiah Audman in week one and it was just
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: constant where it was. It was him going against some
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: big time receivers all year, and I thought he had
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: a great, great year.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Number thirty six in the top one hundred countdown, five
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: foot nine, one hundred and eighty pounds. He's a safety,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: a junior from the Seahome Mariners. It's number four. Hudson nef.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm really curious to see what happens next year
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: if he's gonna play some offense. He's just a he's
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: just a defensive juggernut. I mean he he it's almost
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: seems like he used at a different speed than everybody else.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: And it's you know, a lot of it could be
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: because you know, he gets to rest when they're on offense,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: and he comes out there and he's one hundred percent
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: and he just he goes all out.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: He's fun to watch and he and he defies it
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: a little bit too. Just with his overall size. He
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: will get in there and rough it up with anybody.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: And it was always in on a ton of tackles.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Sixty four and a half tackles this year six and
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: a half tackles for lost, four passes broken up, two interceptions,
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: a sack. I think he had like a blocked kick
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: as well. Uh, there was a lot of moments when
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: the big time moments like the third and eight's and
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: stuff like that, where he'd be the one making the
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: stop or the goal line stand. I remember there was
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: a goal line stand where he was the one making
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: the tackle on fourth down and like things like that.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: It's like that's when the big players, you know, big
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: time players come to play. And that's what's so fun
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: about watching him play. Just to eight great overall athlete
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: and really excited for his future and and uh, he's
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: he's one of those guys too that I could see him,
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: you know, getting pretty close to that one hundred tackle mark.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: And I mean it's a he's a strong safety, so
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: he is up on the line of scrimmage a little bit.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: He can he can do that that kind of thing.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: But man, he's just, like I said, a safety to
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: have six and a half tackles for loss. You know,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: he's definitely playing the run extremely well and and just
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: a lot of fun watching him play football and not
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: you know, not overly huge like you said, and that
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: five nine could be a little generous. But but boy,
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: just what a what a great football player and excited,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: excited that there's still another year for him.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: This one cracks me up. Tyler number thirty five on
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: the top one hundred countdown, the first player in Meridian
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: history and maybe actually be the weight that he is
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: on the roster and the hype five six, one sixty
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: running back, inside linebacker, he's a senior from already and
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Trojans number twenty six. Real spark plug here. Kelly Gray, Holy.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Cow, Yeah, the clone of Josh tin Elmer. You know
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: when they played together, it was just those guys would
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: hide behind the defensive lineman. You never knew where they
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: were coming from. And boy, he's a good football player.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: And I you know that game against Blaine, that Week
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: nine game, you know they needed to have that and
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: it was so close. Blaine pulled it out at the end.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: But I tell you a really tough thing for Meridian
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: was not having Kelly Gray for that game. He was
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: injured and wasn't unable to play in that game. And
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: that's on both sides of the ball, because you know,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: even running the ball. He was really really tough. He'd
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: always get that little extra yard or two that was needed,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: and that was really awesome to see. And he's already
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: low to the ground, but he would run really low
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: to the ground and keep his shoulders low and he
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: could and he could still move around really well and
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: juke a guy. And boy, he's just tough. I mean,
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: I got a picture of him playing in a game
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: where his jersey is just his jersey is gray, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: I was, you know, we've heard of Kelly green, the color.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I was like, he just created the new color called
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Kelly gray, and it just you know, he's just all
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: over the field making so many plays. Was named All
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Conference first Team as a linebacker, which was awesome. Came
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: back at the end to play in the mini playoff.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Was definitely not one hundred percent, but you know, he
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: just wanted to be there for his team and just incredible.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: One hundred and seven carries on the year, four hundred
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: and sixty three yards and seven touchdowns, four catches for
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: fifteen yards, He returned three kickoffs or twenty three yards,
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: and on defense forty three and a half tackles, six
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: and a half tackles for lost, two sacks, a forced fumble,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: and a pass defended. What a great improvement every single
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: year that he had. I think his numbers were a
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: little better last year just overall defensively, but I thought
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: he had a better this year defensively. And you know
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: that's just kind of somettimes how it goes, how teams
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: scheme against you and different different, different things like that,
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: and he was. He was a big time difference maker
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: this year.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Number thirty four in the top one hundred countdown, five
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: foot nine two and twenty pounds, gorgeous center. He's a
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: junior from the Squalicum Storm. It's number seventy seven. That
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: Joseph Boyd.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what a great player. You know, played quite a
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: bit as a sophomore. And then I remember hearing like,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it was it was I think
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: it was less than forty eight hours before the first
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: game of the season. He's told, I think we're gonna
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: need I think we're gonna move you to center. Less
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: than forty eight hours for week one and it's a
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: conference game against Berlinton Edison.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: And good luck kid, Yeah, And he.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Had an awesome game, and it you know a lot
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: of people took notice and he was He was an
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: All conference, you know, lineman for the for the Two Way,
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: for North for the Northwest Conference, which is saying a
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: heck of a lot. I mean, obviously with all that talent,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: especially in the line with a lot all those teams
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: with Lyndon and Ana Chortus and Archbishop Murphy and and Lakewood.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, these are some big series, you know. I mean, yeah,
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: I see them exactly. So I mean it is it's
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: it's incredible, and he moves extremely well. And that offense,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: the center in that offense has to be perfect, you know,
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: every time. Everything is timing with that, you know, not
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: just as far as you know when the quarterback gets
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: the ball, but a lot of times the quarterback's gonna
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: be faking a handoff here with the fly sweep and
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: all the sorts of different things. And and we've seen
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Squalicum centers in the past that maybe they snapped it
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: the timing was right, but the quarterback had to jump
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: to get it or whatever. Everything was right on point.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Just a junior, I think he's going to be one
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: of the top guys next year. And uh, you know,
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: looking at him as a future you know, in the
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: running for Lineman of the Year stuff like that. I
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: just I'm really excited about his future and just a really,
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: really good football player. I love watching him play.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Number thirty three in the top one hundred countdown, six
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: foot two, two hundred and twelve pounds tight end, inside linebacker.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: He's a senior from the Bellingham Bayhawk BayHawks. Just one
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: guy now, number forty two, Gabe van Hofway.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Holy cow, where do I start with? Gave Van Hoffway.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Started at quarterback.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's yeah, he was a quarterback for a while.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's done it all. I mean, and then
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: he lined up at fullback a bunch this year when
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: they would run some power stuff with Frost behind him.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Oh boy, that was some. That was some big time football.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: They'd go double tight with him at full back and
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: just have one lonely receiver out there picking flowers. But man,
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: and as a linebacker, he had everything because he's he's
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: not super fast, but he's quick. You know, he's not
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: He's not like the strongest guy in the world, but
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: he's sure is strong enough. And his amazing tackler. He
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: would just every single game he's all over the place
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: and doing a lot of different things. And and but
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: like really good soft hands as a tight end, you know,
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: for receiving. And and didn't catch as many balls this
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: year as he did last year, but they were a
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: little bit more run heavy in the beginning of the
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: year especially, And and he also played a lot of fullback,
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: and he wasn't going to run out of the backfield
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: and catch passes from the fullback spot. But man, what
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: a just what an awesome football player and tremendous kid.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: You know, I've been it's supposed to just been so
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: great getting to know him over the years and having
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: conversations with him. And he's one of those kids that
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: and you know this you deal with kids every day,
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: is you kind of can point to a guy and say,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: he's whatever he does after high school, he'll be great
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: at it, or he'll be he's gonna live life the
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: right way and he's gonna do things the right way,
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: and he's he's just one of those guys. And that's
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: that's what gave ben Hofwagens like he's just he's just fantastic,
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: super humble, awesome kid. This year, he had twenty seven
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: carries for seventy five yards and two touchdowns. He had
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: thirteen catches for one hundred and fifty nine yards and
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: two more touchdowns. And then on defense, fifty six tackles,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: twelve tackles for loss, three passes broken up, two sacks,
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: two fumble recoveries, one forced fumble. I mean, he did
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: it all. He did that, He checked all the boxes
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: on defense. It was awesome, great, great season for him.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Number thirty two in the top one hundred countdown five
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: foot nine, two hundred pounds. I can't imagine there's anybody
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: on this list that has more positions listed than him.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Running back, inside linebacker, kicker, and punter. And he's just
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: a sophomore from the Linden Lions. It's number nine, Malachi Canaan.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a good group here of Lennon sophomores. You know,
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: there's you know, he's the first of three that were
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: that will bring it well too that we're gonna talk
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: about today and one later. Even he really stepped up
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: his game this year from last year. And I know
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: last year he was named Freshman of the Year when
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: we did our voting and everything like that, and you
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: know a lot of it was based on his extra points,
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: his field goals, punting, and but he had a few
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: carries and he played a little a little bit of defense.
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: But this year, you know, stepping right in and being
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: that main guy in the middle of the field as
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: a sophomore, you know, you're asking a lot of a
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: sophomore to do that. And I remember going to practice
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: when he was a freshman and he was popping guys
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: and I was like, who's that, And you know, one
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: coach said, oh, he's a freshman, and I thought, who
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: is it like, because it's it sounds different when he's
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: hitting guys and he's just practice, he's just doing the
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: drills and uh. And I find out, oh, that's Canaan,
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Oh okay, okay. And there were someone say, oh, that's
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: our kicker, oh okay. But I was like, no, he's
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: he's a he's gonna be a really good defensive player.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: And they moved that. I think it might even have
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: been that day at practice they moved him from safety
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: to linebacker, and then they were talking about moving back
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: to safety and then all that stuff. And then when
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: they got it all figured out, they were like, no,
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: he's going to be a linebacker. And boy, he had
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: he had a great year, I made eighty eight and
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: a half tackles. From the way I do tackles. I
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: mean that is, you're not expecting your kicker to you know,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: lead your team in the tackle from the middle linebacker spot.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: I mean maybe at the like eight man level, you
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah, not a
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: two way in the toughest conference in the state. He is.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: He is a legit football player. And like, I'll never
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: forget that game against Lakewood, Like in that first quarter
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: where hem, I'm probably gonna get it wrong, but I
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: think he had Holy cow, he had three extra points,
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: a field goal kicked, he intercepted two passes, and scored
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: a rushing touchdown in the first quarter. Ridiculous, you know,
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: I was like, holy cow in one quarter. I don't
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: I don't think is that he've been done in walking
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: cunt of history.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Who is that against?
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: It was against Lakewood at home, gotcha?
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: So he's not allowed back there in two years when
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: they go down, Yeah, like they're gonna stop, They're gonna
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: stop the Linden bus on the off ramp and just
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: be like, hey, we need that number nine.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just I And I was there for it.
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: I was you know, and I was standing on that
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: end the whole time and it was just you know,
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: and I could see proud Pop over there taking pictures.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: I was like, my goodness, like he's having the game
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: of his life in the first quarter. This is crazy.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: On the year, twelve carries for fifty nine yards and
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: three touchdowns. He did have a catch that he had
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: he picked up twenty four yards. On he also returned
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: to kickoff twelve yards. But on defense, eighty eight and
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: a half tackles, nine tackles for lost, two interceptions, a
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: fumble recovery, a pass broken up in half of a sack,
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: and then oh, as a kicker, he's pretty good. Thirty
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: seven points and eight field goals kicked. That's an incredible number.
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: And he also averaged thirty five point two yards a punt,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: only punted the ball ten times the team played twelve games.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: You know, if you're if you're averaging less, if you
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: have less punts than games, that's pretty incredible as well.
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: And yeah, I was shocked when he was not anything
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: on the first or second team for the All Conference
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: and I just kind of thought, I know that, I
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: know Archbishops kicker is awesome, and you know he's a
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: good punter and all that stuff, and I get it's
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: a really tough conference, and I know he's just a sophomore,
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: but I just it just stood out that he wasn't
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: named anything, and I just thought, these That's what's cool
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: about this list in a way is I feel like
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: I have my kind of my my moment to speak
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: out a little bit about it and say this is
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: where I think he belongs. He's that kind of player,
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: and you know barely that that's all to it. I
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: just I think that he was an amazing football player
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: and and what he know, he's probably gonna be in
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: the running now for Sophomore of the Year, and I
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: wouldn't be surprised if he wins that.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he had himself quite the year and we still
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: get to see him two more years, So yeah, gotta
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: be a fun one. Number thirty one in the top
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: one hundred countdown, six foot three, two hundred and sixty pounds.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: He's a guard in defensive tackle. A senior year from
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: the Blaine Border Heights. It's number fifty six Otto Shelton.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what a great offensive lineman. Awesome size, technically sound
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: and really good on defense too. I mean, he was
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: named All Conference first team as an offensive lineman, but
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: really good on defense as well. Twenty and a half tackles,
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: six and a half of him for loss, and he
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: also knocked down a pass at the line of scrimmage.
• 39:54
  Speaker 4: You know. I mean, the Blaine run game this year
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: was incredible, and he was the best offensive lineman. I mean,
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: when you put those things together, you're usually looking at
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: a pretty durn good offensive lineman. Moves really well, especially
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: for his size, and he's got great, great size, really
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: good wrestler. And I think what was funny about this
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: was I went out to Blaine High School on Friday
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: night to watch the basketball game, and I'm standing next
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: to coach Olson and We're talking a little bit about
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: the top one hundred list, and he's like he looks
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: up at me and goes, I'm waiting for Shelton, you know.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: And I kind of laughed and I said, well, you know,
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: it's it's got to be pretty close now, because we're
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: in the thirties, I think, and and lo and behold,
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: the next morning he was named. I didn't even I
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: didn't realize. I was like, I knew it was gonna
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: be close, but I didn't realize it was gonna be
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: that close, but holy cow, he was. He was awesome.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: I mean awesome, awesome. He's a player that you would
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: have loved, and he's a guy that when you get
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: those wrestlers, especially that are just good football players, there's
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: just something different that it's it's scary, and he he
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: was all of that and a big, big reason why
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Blaine won seven games this year.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Number thirty in the top one hundred countdown, six foot
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: two oh one. He's a running back and inside linebacker,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: a senior from high school. Thanks coach number twenty four
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Dylan Moa.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the I think the highest ranked player from Mount
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: Baker on this list.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Oh that's too bad. I can put the put coach
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: away for the rest of the year.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: Huh yeah. I mean we've been talking about him forever,
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: you know, I know this is just about his senior year,
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: but you know, coming into this year, it was it
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: was you know, it was a lot of it was
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: going to be on him, and and he didn't disappoint.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, there was a lot of tough running that
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: he did. I thought that he I thought he picked
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: up his game the most on defense as opposed from
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: like just from last year to this year. He was
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: named All Conference first team as a linebacker, which is
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a three year starter. This is his
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: first time getting the recognition, which is really cool. He
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: means an All conference running back as a junior, All
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: Conference linebacker as a senior. Just great, great football player,
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: another great kid. You know, comes from an awesome family.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: We've talked about all that. But another wrestler too, and
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: you get does those guys just have another gear and
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: they just don't get tired. And he's the guy that
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: you know, if you had to give them the ball
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: twenty times, you know you could depend on that did
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: not go down easy. That was so much fun to
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: watch because you know, a lot of running backs, you know,
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: especially if you haven't carried the ball much, you get
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: hit once or twice and it's like whoa. You know,
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: it's a little little differer. But when you've carried the
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: ball as many times as he has and he's used
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: to it and he's you know, he's running, he's just
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: running that way, it's it's uh, it's a law. It's
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: it's it's tough, especially with that wing tea in the
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: full back and the wing t and all of a
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: sudden you pop a trap for fifteen yards and you
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: don't notice it for the first seven or eight and
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: you're like, oh man, and it just happened. He could
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: just demoralize you. And when he's scored, I mean, this
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: tells you everything too. When they when they go for
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: two in that that the mini playoff thing, and you
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: know it's basically you're going for the win here and
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: you're putting the season on the line and you give
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: it to Dylan Moa. That tells you everything right there.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: You do you you depend on him. You know he's
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: going to get the job done. I thought he was
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: awesome in that he had a great year. One hundred
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: and twenty seven carries for seven hundred and ninety six
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: yards and twelve touchdowns, two catches for fifteen yards, and
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: then on defense sixty nine tackles, five passes broken up,
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: three tackles for loss, two sacks, two interceptions, and a
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: forced fumble. Another one of those guys that kind of
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: checked all the boxes with multiples in all the boxes. Yeah,
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: he did a lot of stuff and big time shoes
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: to fill on both sides of the ball. Three year
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: starter on both sides of the ball. Was one of
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: the very few players that had a lot of experience
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: on that state title run. I don't know how you
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: say that, the run to the state chaff title State. Yeah,
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: and so yeah, just you know, it's gonna be tough
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: to not see him play football anymore. And and but
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: I just always have a feeling there's Moa was on
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: the way. So we'll be watching Camden a lot next year.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: His cousin Tyler. This next guy. So I've mentioned many
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: times how much I think his name is awesome. I
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: saw the post the other day of him and the
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: other two guys. If you took the names off of
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: that and you just said which one of these three
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: based on the the way they look is Evan Bravo,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: You're gonna get it right. One hundred out of a hundred.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: He looks like Evan Bravo, which is who we're talking
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: about here. At number twenty nine, five to ten, one
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty pounds wide receiver and corner. He's a
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: senior from the Knicksack Valley Pioneers. It is number seven,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Evan Bravo.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's the guy. We've obviously been talked about him
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: a long time. Yeah, you know, three year starter played
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: a lot even as a freshman and a guy that
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: has always just kind of been there and been a
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: good player, and this year really really stood out, like
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: really jumped off the page, played great, played huge in
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: the playoff games, became kind of an unstoppable player at times,
• 45:52
  Speaker 4: especially on that quick on the quick, you know, just
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: the quick out there and have him do kind of
• 45:57
  Speaker 4: the work and follow his blockers. I mean he had
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: multiple touchdowns called back. You know, I always call it
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: on the flag on the offense for playing football too good,
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: you know. I mean it was just they just created
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: this wall and they're just demolishing guys and and and
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: Evan Bravo is so good at, you know, picking those spots.
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: I thought he had a really good game against tumb Water,
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: Like when those guys have the big games against the
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: big time teams. That really shows me a lot love
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: that he got recognized on both sides of the ball,
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: offense and defense as an All Conference first team player.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: That's huge. He deserved it. The game, the game they had,
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: I want to say it was the I'm trying to
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: think of it as the Round of thirty two game
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: or was the game after that, but he finished it
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: off with by just wrestling the ball out of the
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: receiver's hands. It was just unbelievable. I know Mikayla caught
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: like some really good video pictures of it, stuff like that.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: It was just a really really cool play. Finished the
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: season with thirty five catches for four hundred and ninety
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: two yards and five touchdowns. He also had carried the
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: ball twice for four yards, and then on defense, thirty
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: three tackles, eleven passes defended. That's an incredible number. Three
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: fumble recoveries, two interceptions, two forced fumbles. He also returned
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: sixteen kickoffs for two hundred ninety nine yards, and he
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: returned just three punts for seventy three yards. Just you know,
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: just a terror on the football field and not the
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: biggest guy, but my goodness, huge playmaker. And I always
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: laugh about. I believe there was that week when it
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: was something like we both had Nuksac receivers going yeah
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: or something like that, like one of us had only
• 47:48
  Speaker 4: and the other one had Coppinger and so bravoll cout
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: all the touchdowns or something.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: We were choking, like, oh, of course they're just gonna
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: have Bravo do all the work that it's you know,
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: it was an embarrassment of riches. But but yeah, what
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: a great, great player. Glad we got to talk to
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: him about talk about him one last time, and and uh,
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: just a fun fun player to watch.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Number twenty eight in the top one hundred countdown, five
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: foot eleven one and fifty five pounds. He's a wide
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: receiver in a corner, just a sophomore from the Linden Lions.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: It's number one, that sam Orango.
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: Here's a kid that there's a few of them here
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: where I go to practice. He stands up there and
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: holds his little sign with his name and everything on it.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: And I'm taking a picture of him, and I'm thinking, myself,
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: never heard of this guy. Don't know, I don't know anything. Yeah,
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: and different, everybody's different. Sometimes I go and I take
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: pictures of all the seniors, juniors and sophomore something. I
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: take a picture of everybody grades nine through twelve. And
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: some schools they run practice a little different, so they
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: got like different color jerseys on, and those those are
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: the main guys. So sometimes to take pictures of just
• 48:56
  Speaker 4: those guys and Linden's one of those squads. So if
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: I'm taking a picture of a Lyndon player, he's probably
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: a player that's going to play a lot. That's just
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: kind of based on how it works. So and I'm like, well,
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: I've never even heard of this kid. What great is he?
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: Know it's a sophomore, well you know. And now I
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: start talking to coach Van Dalen, like right after practice,
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: We're in his office and he's telling me about him,
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, okay, okay, well let's you know, you
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: just never know and he's and he's like, no, he's
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: the way he runs routes, it's just different. Like I
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: he goes, I don't know if I've seen this. And
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: we had Isaiah Stanley who can really run routes, and
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: he's like, this is this is He's been working with
• 49:33
  Speaker 4: Brant in the off season and he wants to be great,
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, I'm I just keep saying I'm in
• 49:38
  Speaker 4: my head. I'm like, well, that's awesome. I need to
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: see it. And right off the bat I saw it
• 49:44
  Speaker 4: and it was evident over and over and over again,
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: and he is holy cow, crazy good. Forty two catches
• 49:55
  Speaker 4: this year for eight hundred and ninety three yards and
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: eight touchdowns, huge number for a sophomore. Played a little
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: bit of corner, was you know, usually like the third
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: or fourth corner. But there were some injuries. I know
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Danny Boehler had had some injuries. Jay Noaks had some injuries,
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: so he would come in and play a lot of corner.
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: He had nine tackles, three passes broken up, also returned
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: a couple of kickoffs from fifty seven yards, returned to
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: punt for ten yards. Really excited to see what he's
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: gonna do the next the next couple of years. You know,
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: you look at different guys that have the you know,
• 50:29
  Speaker 4: the numbers that he did as a sophomore, and you
• 50:32
  Speaker 4: start looking at guys like an Andrey Watson or you know,
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: Jordan Wittenberg or you know guys that have put up
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: numbers like that. At that age, it's like, holy cow,
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: the projection is is mighty, and so really excited to
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: see what he's he's gonna do, and I think he's
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: gonna be just a fantastic player in the next couple
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: of years.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Number twenty seven on the top one hundred countdown, six foot,
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty pounds guard nose tackle. He's a
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: senior from the Knuksack Valley Pioneers, number fifty seven. The
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: young man that gave us the intro tonight, it's Adlie Whitworth.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, another guy that battled injuries all the way through.
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: Shocked that he was not an All Conference the first
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: team guy on either side of the ball. But sometimes
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: when you have these meg alignment on your team and
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: he's you know, they you know, he could be the
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: third best lineman on your team. Well, it's tough to
• 51:26
  Speaker 4: get votes that way. You know, It's just that's just
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: kind of the way it goes. Boy, he could play
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: on my team any day. He's got he's got everything.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: He's he's an extremely hard worker, great kid, strong, just
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: super super strong. I know that. I was talking to
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: Ethan Larson, he was up from you know, from college
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: and during the winter break and stuff like that, and
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: they've been, you know, he's been telling the coaches about
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: him trying to get him out there to Montana Western.
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Is that yea?
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: And so you know, I think that'd be an awesome
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: you know, they got Alex Mololi last year. You know,
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: you get these strong, strong County kids that would be
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: a good fit over there. And the thing about Atlie Whitworth, though,
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: is he's fast, Like he is really fast, like he's
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: running back fast. So you tie that in with the
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: size and the speed and it's it's something that's just
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: different than most players. And that's why I'm not shocked
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: that he could run down on kickoffs and do all
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: the kinds of things that he did. And they really
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: really missed him in next state quarterfinal game. I mean
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: they really missed him. Especially on the offensive side of
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: the ball. They have really had trouble running the ball
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: between the tackles and you know you don't have your
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: best interior alignment in there, that's what's gonna happen.
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: And it was.
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: Pretty evident and it just shows what kind of a
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: great football player he was on defense this year as
• 52:52
  Speaker 4: a nose tackle fifty four tackles, five tackles for lost,
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: two sacks, and a forced fumble. Those are not nose tackles.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: It is incredible what he did and I just think
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: he I just think the world of him. Just an
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: awesome football player.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: Number twenty six on the top one hundred countdown, six
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: foot one hundred and seventy five pounds, a wide receiver
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: and safety. He's a junior from the Linden Lions. It's
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: number ten.
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: Brody Price, another kid where I knew about him, but
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: I would have not guessed he would have been on
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: the top one hundred list this year. Before the season started,
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: I had heard that he had a chance of starting
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: at safety. I said, well, that's good. They need to
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: replace their safeties and Linden usually has really good safety,
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: so they must see something. And holy cow, especially as
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: the year went on, he he When you're watching the film,
• 53:54
  Speaker 4: it's kind of scary. And I love watching the because
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: Linden does the why and tight you know film, And
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: I love watching the Tight film a lot because a
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: lot of times because it's easier to do the defensive
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: stats because it's zoomed in a little bit more. I
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: could see he was getting the tackle and stuff like that.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: But when you're doing that and his safety just kind
• 54:14
  Speaker 4: of comes out of this from out of the frame
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: into the frame and just lights them up, it really
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: jumps off, you know, it's like, whoa, what was that?
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: Like I didn't even catch a number on that what happened?
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: And it was always Brodie price. I mean, he just
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: and I was like, am I the only one seeing this?
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: Is he? I don't I don't know if I don't
• 54:34
  Speaker 4: know if people were really realizing how good he was.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: And I was so excited when I saw the All
• 54:39
  Speaker 4: conference team and he was an All Conference first team
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: player and I was like, Okay, good it was noticed.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: I'm so glad it was noticed, because holy cow, he
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: was awesome. And he played a little offense too, which
• 54:53
  Speaker 4: you know, they usually have guys they don't need to
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: do that, but man, he you know, he had eight
• 54:58
  Speaker 4: catches for one hundred and sixty yards average twenty yards
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: a catch. He had a touchdown, and he was he
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: caught that big touchdown against Archbishop Murphy in the in
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: the playoff game. And you know, it's really interesting to
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: see what they're gonna do with him as a senior
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: because he's such a good safety. They really like having
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: guys played just one way. But I think he could
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: also be a heck of a of a like a
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: slot receiver or something, because he's tough as nails. He
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: can get those first downs. He had three kickoff returns
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: for fifty six yards. He had four punt returns for
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: forty six yards, but then on a defense sixty one
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: and a half tackles, ten passes broken up and sometimes
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: in the mightiest of vicious ways too, three tackles for loss,
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: two interceptions that he returned seventy eight yards, one for
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: a touchdown, and he forced a fumble. Just from the
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: week one to week twelve, elevation of his game was
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: off the charts. And again, like I said, a guy
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: that I didn't think would have been on the top
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: one hundred list when the season started, and maybe maybe
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: by week three, I was still not thinking that, And
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: for him to be almost in the top quarter of
• 56:10
  Speaker 4: it really says a lot about his overall play as
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: a safety. I just thought it was super dynamic and
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: just awesome.
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: Number twenty five on the top one hundred count now
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: last one for today. Six foot one, one hundred and
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: seventy five pounds. He's a quarterback and a punter. He
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: is a junior from the Linden Christian Lynx and he
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: just started following me on Instagram about an hour ago. Tyler,
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: it's number nine, Eli Mayberry.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: That's hilarious. What I mean personally, I think of it
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: as just always does the right thing. Super smart, three
• 56:46
  Speaker 4: sport kid. He's a baseball kid. He's gonna play baseball somewhere.
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: But my goodness, he took the reins at quarterback this
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: year and then just shattered every school record and I
• 57:00
  Speaker 4: would not thought that would have happened. I mean, he
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: was in a quarterback battle with Dawson Heinz before the
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: season started. And you know, you can go one to
• 57:08
  Speaker 4: two ways. You say, well, Mayberry's the is the typical
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: proto prototypical quarterback in the pocket. You know, knows the
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: offense inside and out all that stuff. Dawson Heinz is
• 57:20
  Speaker 4: you know the play is gonna break down, He's gonna
• 57:23
  Speaker 4: spin and then flip over somebody and then just keep running.
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: And that's exciting. And you know if that I think
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: you know when it when it, When you really look
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: at it, you go, well, if Heinz plays quarterback, Maybury
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: probably won't be a receiver. So if you want your
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: best eleven out there, you can have a heinespeed receiver.
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: And that's the way they went. And he was just
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: awesome this year. I mean every single number he put
• 57:50
  Speaker 4: up for a season, he broke the school record for
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: completions attempts, yards, touchdowns, everything. The really cool thing is
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: that is that the touchdown one he broke against Royal
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: late in the game. He probably didn't even know this,
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: but he at that time going into that game, he
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: was tied with his uncle Mark Holman for the most
• 58:10
  Speaker 4: touchdown passes in a season for Lennon Christian history. And he,
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: you know, he completes that final touchdown and he breaks
• 58:17
  Speaker 4: the school record for that, and you know, he he
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: had a great year, one hundred and ninety nine out
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: of three hundred and nineteen passing for two four hundred
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: and fifty one yards and twenty seven touchdowns. That's quite
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: a year to you know, to begin your career as
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: a varsity quarterback. He did play a little bit last year.
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: He would come in and you know, Elsie, you know
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: there there was a lot of times where they put
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: him in for a drive here and there, especially again
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: him blowout games and stuff like that. And then he
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: got he had to play the whole second half of
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: that state quarterfinal game against Nuxsack Valley as a sophomore,
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: and he got kind of thrown into it at that point.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: But so he had some experience and my goodness though,
• 58:59
  Speaker 4: he really just took over it this year and had
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: a tremendous year. And then as a punter, you know,
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: he averaged thirty four yards of punts, So that's that's
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: a pretty darn good job as well. It's funny because
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: I was talking to coach Derbstra about I go, does
• 59:17
  Speaker 4: he play defense? And this is the words from Church
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: Jay said, he's terrible at defense.
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: It was just funny.
• 59:25
  Speaker 4: It was so candid and so honest and so refreshing
• 59:30
  Speaker 4: the way he said it. And he's like, but he's
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: smarter than me and any of the coaches, and I
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: just I love him as a quarterback. And you know,
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: if you got a guy that's really good at quarterback,
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: you don't have to play him at defense. And it
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: just and it just works out really well. I think
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: next year is going to be scary for a lot
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: of teams in the one A level. I think this
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: ELSA team is going to go a long way, and
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: it's a lot of it's because of Eli Mayberry. I mean,
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: he is he is the real deal. And and I
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: knew how good of an athlete he was, and he
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 4: still surprised me, and that that says a lot. And
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: and I loved it. I loved every minute of it.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: I thought it was just awesome. And if he can,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 4: if he keeps surprising me, I don't know if I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: could be surprising anymore with him, because there's I don't
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: there's not a lot that he can't do right now,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: and and uh yeah, just good for him, and I
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: just hope he keeps it going.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Tyler, that's it. Wow, we are done for the night. Nice.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 4: I like, I do want to add that, you know,
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: now that we are into a new year, I remember
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: saying last year or I should yeah, I should say,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: I guess I could say last year when the year started,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: I was, I was. My goal was for Welcome Preps
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: to have a million hits clicks the actual website.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking yeah, not Instagram and face on social media,
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: just the website alone.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: Just the website.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't remember what you told me what your
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: goal was for every day, but I remember going it
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: could be a little ambitious at times, but we know
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: we're gonna pull big numbers at certain times of the year.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I you know, especially on the summer, especially July.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 4: I mean it really dies off because you know, the
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: top fifty for baseball and fast picture no longer happening,
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: and there's no football practice yet. So July is really
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: a down month, like I got it month by month here. Actually,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: in the month of July, I only had eighty eight
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 4: hundred views. I get that now in you know, three
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: days that this time of year. But I did end
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: up with eight hundred and twenty eight thousand, so I
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: didn't hit my goal of a million, but still huge.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: I'm telling it's going to happen. I'm telling it's gonna happen.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, I you know, when I actually hit a
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 4: million overall for the like that was a couple of
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: years ago, and I remember, you know, I told Laura
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: about it, and she broke out the sparkling cider and
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 4: we did it. She like she like, she like pulled
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: me away. She's like, we gotta we gotta celebrate and
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: take pictures. And I'm always like, but I'm on the grind.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 4: I gotta, I gotta keep keep going on this.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: I gotta.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: Can't you just break away for like five minutes. I'll
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: take a picture, We'll do we'll do a screenshot of
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: the million and everything and me pouring you the sparkling sider.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: So okay, and then I was right back at it.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 4: And then I thought, well, you know, it took me,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: you know how many years to get to a million overall?
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: And then I thought, okay, I'm gonna try to get
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: a million this calendar year. I almost got there. I
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: really think it's gonna happen next year because everything when
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: when when I look at it every single year, I
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: mean it's been it just keeps going up. It looks
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: like the how many bars you got on your phone?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: So it's, uh, it's gonna happen this upcoming year. I'm
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: excited about it. And uh yeah, it's a I just
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 4: can't believe. I can't believe this is what I do.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: It's uh, how many do you know how many you
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: have total all time? Yeah?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: I could figure it out. Let's see here, I have to.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: I'm just doing the range here. So I started. I
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: started like the February of twenty nineteen.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know, I think, I mean, would it be
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: on the front page of the site, on the archives
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: on the right, let.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: Me just see if it's twenty eighteen, or I.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Mean, why do you have twenty seventeen girls basketball on here? Oh?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 4: Because it was a seventeen eighteen season. So yeah, it
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: was February of twenty eighteen, gotcha. Uh So yeah, so
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: I have two point six million total total all time
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 4: that's on the site. That's awesome, just on the site.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: I should have one of those little counters.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And the thing that's crazy is what.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 4: Like, if I did, it would start at zero, right.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but think about it. A third of those came
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: within the last year.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: I mean that's more than sad.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: And I've been doing it since yeah, twenty eighteen, so
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 4: this Yeah, so it's been over six years that I've
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 4: been doing it, almost.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: Seven I mean, that's just insane.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: So yeah, I really shows that it's you know, Yeah,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: twenty eighteen had one hundred and sixty one, twenty nineteen
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: had two hundred and ninety five thousand. Twenty twenty dipped
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 4: way down because COVID and there was no sports.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't have a lot going on, right.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: Only eighty eight thousand that year. Then it went up
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 4: to two sixty five, then three forty two, then in
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty three it went to five seventy eight, and
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: then this year eight twenty eight. So it's it is
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: really shooting up by you know, by a few hundred
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: thousand each year. Yeah, so that's good. I published one
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: thousand and thirty three posts in twenty twenty four.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: My goodness, that wild.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 4: So that's pretty cool. I didn't know I could see that.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: So yeah, so I'm putting more stuff out there and
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: that's good. And it sounds like, you know, sounds like
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: it's been about three day so that's crazy. It's kind
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 4: of like the Top one under Canton, so awesome. So yeah,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: it's been great and so thank you everybody for clicking
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: in and and and checking it out. So it's awesome.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: A reminder, the Top one hundred Countdown continues in the
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: next podcast will be Sunday the twelfth, So this coming
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: Sunday here, that'll be live at about two pm. Yeah.
• 1:05:25
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• 1:05:26
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• 1:05:30
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• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: He's Tyler Anderson of wacom Preps Walcome preps dot com.
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