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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 268 - 2024 Squalicum Storm Football Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is senior Marcus Nixon and you're listening to the
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  Speaker 1: Walkom Preps Calcom football Preview with Tyler and Ryland roll Storm.
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  Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 2: episode at two hundred and sixty eight, the fifth of
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  Speaker 2: ten football team previews. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me
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  Speaker 2: as always this Tyler Anderson. Whata COUM preps. Tyler, are
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  Speaker 2: we doing doing great?
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  Speaker 3: It's so close, man, It's so close to Friday night football.
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe it's right around the corner. I know
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  Speaker 3: you're jacked. I'm Jack's We're getting there. After this will
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  Speaker 3: be halfway through the team previews and then then it's
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  Speaker 3: just full on, all the time sports, high school sports.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's actually kind of awesome. This first week
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  Speaker 2: we play on a Saturday. Yeah, so I gotta go
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  Speaker 2: scout Thursday and Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Nice.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I can watch two games before we even play,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like, Yeah, I mean talk
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  Speaker 2: about a way to enter the season. I mean, my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: and we're actually even in the state this year, so
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  Speaker 2: I can scout. Let's see here, Tyler, Marcus Nixon provides
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  Speaker 2: us with the intro. So obviously we are talking Squalicum
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  Speaker 2: storm today. We need to give a thank you to
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned this podcast previewing the squal Comb Storm, yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: we posted previews of the two Linen schools, and we
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  Speaker 2: started with belling Him and Blaine a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 2: So'll be sure to go back and listen to all
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  Speaker 2: four of those podcasts if you have about two hours,
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  Speaker 2: maybe even more three hours, which every what he does,
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  Speaker 2: So go ahead and sit down.
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  Speaker 4: Do that.
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  Speaker 2: Later today five pm the Meridian at Trojans Team preview
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  Speaker 2: will go live, so be sure to head over to
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  Speaker 2: watkompreps dot com find all that information and you can
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  Speaker 2: we post a new one, so tomorrow Ferndale Mount Baker.
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  Speaker 2: We finished with Seahome at Nixack Valley on what would
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  Speaker 2: that be Wednesday?
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  Speaker 4: Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: Then after we finished the team previews. We will have
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  Speaker 2: the week one preview that we will do every week.
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  Speaker 2: Well it won't be a week one preview every week,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll have a week one preview going out on
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  Speaker 2: Thursday morning and then the County Volleyball preview on Thursday evenings.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean Tyler right into games right after that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there we go, boom, right into it. You
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  Speaker 2: were out at three schools on the second day of
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  Speaker 2: fall camp, started with Lyndon and Bellingham. We've already talked
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  Speaker 2: about those two schools. Now we are talking about Squalcom,
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  Speaker 2: who was the third one of the day, Tyler, So
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  Speaker 2: you had to have been a little bit tired. But uh,
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  Speaker 2: general thoughts from the day out there with no Lucy Land.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was awesome and it was late. A ton
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  Speaker 3: of kids with with freshmen. You're talking a hundred kids
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  Speaker 3: out there, which they've been close to that before.
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  Speaker 4: They've kind of dipped down a little bit, but they're.
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  Speaker 3: Back up now and uh yeah, just a lot of athletes.
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  Speaker 3: It's again Coach Lucy. He's just kinda you never know
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  Speaker 3: what drill he's gonna be at. He's kind of going
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  Speaker 3: all around and he's you know, he's got it with
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  Speaker 3: a whistle in his mouth, and he's just the general
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  Speaker 3: you know out there, and and uh, it was, it
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  Speaker 3: was good.
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  Speaker 5: It was.
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  Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: I think last year when I went out there, I
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  Speaker 3: got there like really late, like they were all huddled
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  Speaker 3: together about ready to break practice, like it was over.
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  Speaker 3: And I got there really really late, and I didn't
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  Speaker 3: even get.
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  Speaker 4: To see them practice.
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  Speaker 3: I just was able to get headshots and do an
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  Speaker 3: interview and and but this time I got I got
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  Speaker 3: to see them and and there were some kids that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they have some transfers, they have some new kids.
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  Speaker 3: They kids that haven't turned out for football for a
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  Speaker 3: while that maybe played other sports that I'm recognizing. So
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  Speaker 3: it was, it was, it was, It was great to see.
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  Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun watching them.
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  Speaker 5: Tyler's got some nuggets.
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  Speaker 4: Man, that's our guy, Nick Lucy. Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: While you were out there, you sat down for a
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  Speaker 2: little interview with coach Lucy. And now, the interesting thing
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  Speaker 2: most of these coaches long winded, long winded guys, is
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  Speaker 2: what we got in the county. Tyler, not Nick Lucy. No,
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  Speaker 2: straight to the point. He talks fast, but he tells
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  Speaker 2: you exactly what you need to know and he and
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  Speaker 2: that's it.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's not He's not messing around. Three minutes
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  Speaker 2: and thirty seconds is all you got out of coach Lucy. Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: what the heck is going on here? This guy is
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  Speaker 2: just right to the point. I love it. That being said,
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  Speaker 2: this year, we decided to put in a coach's interview
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  Speaker 2: with every single team preview. So three minutes, thirty seconds, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: Coach Lucy, take it away, right.
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  Speaker 3: This is Tyler Anderson from Walking Preps and I am
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  Speaker 3: on location at Squalicum High School as we're standing here
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  Speaker 3: with coach Nick Lucy of the football team.
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  Speaker 4: Coach, I just want to.
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  Speaker 3: Start off by talking about Marcus Nixon. He's been a
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  Speaker 3: guy that you've seen it, I don't know, seven eight
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  Speaker 3: different positions.
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  Speaker 4: What's it been like coaching him? And what do you
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  Speaker 4: see for his senior year?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's been a Swiss Army knife for us. It
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  Speaker 6: was fun having a quarterback last year. It's good to
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  Speaker 6: get him back at running back and being able to
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  Speaker 6: run and throw the ball with him. But we're excited
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  Speaker 6: about him. He just brings so much versatility, so much speed.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, even more so than that, he's an
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  Speaker 6: excellent leader and works his butt off in a way
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  Speaker 6: that makes his teammates better. So you know, when you
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  Speaker 6: put that all together, combined with this talent, you got
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  Speaker 6: a special player that's makes you a lot better coach
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  Speaker 6: and makes your team a lot better.
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  Speaker 3: A new rule this year, the three A and four
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  Speaker 3: I have kind of had it for a while now,
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  Speaker 3: but now it's coming down to the two A and
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  Speaker 3: one A is the round of thirty two week ten
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  Speaker 3: more berths. A lot of coaches in the conference say, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: the Northwest Conference is the SEC of the state of Washington.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's kind of like the expansion playoffs
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  Speaker 3: for them. How can this benefit the storm.
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  Speaker 6: You know, anything that's done where we can get more berths,
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  Speaker 6: Like you know, you look at Seedrow last year. Who heck,
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  Speaker 6: I think they.
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  Speaker 4: Could have been a semi finalist team.
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  Speaker 6: There's get a lot of as good as a lot
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  Speaker 6: of teams there, and that they weren't, you know, didn't
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  Speaker 6: have a shot in the week in the round of
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  Speaker 6: thirty two. Is you know, that's just a shame. They
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  Speaker 6: had a good crew, and I mean this league stacked.
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  Speaker 6: So the more the merrier, and I think that's a
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  Speaker 6: step in the right direction.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, you know, this is your eleventh year now as
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  Speaker 3: head coach. Was just just crazy to think. And it's
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  Speaker 3: just been going by so fast. In the first sixteen
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  Speaker 3: years of Squalkum's existence for football, they piled up sixty wins,
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  Speaker 3: not a ton. You came in, changed the culture from
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  Speaker 3: day one. You already have seventy one wins in just
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  Speaker 3: ten years. What's it been like and how you feel
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  Speaker 3: like you're entrenched in this and it's just been a
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  Speaker 3: fun ride.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's hard to believe it's year eleven. I still
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  Speaker 6: feel like that long. But you know, it's all testament
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  Speaker 6: to the people that I've gotten to work with, the
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  Speaker 6: players coming through a program, the parents, our administration. One
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  Speaker 6: one constant in that has been our athletic director Patrick Brown,
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  Speaker 6: who I can't say enough like he's just far like
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  Speaker 6: he's the GM of our team. Like as far as
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  Speaker 6: you ask, what do we need? How can you support us?
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  Speaker 6: Been really fortunate to have some just awesome assistant coaches.
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  Speaker 6: We've got a great staff this year and it makes
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  Speaker 6: it fun. It's always a work in progress, but I
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  Speaker 6: just feel like we get so many tools and things here,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, and it's really all about the kids.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's talk about your offense right now. Your offense
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  Speaker 3: is always fun to watch. I mean every year there's
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  Speaker 3: so much timing involved in intricacies and for the average
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  Speaker 3: squalkin fan that comes out and watches football, are they
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  Speaker 3: going to kind of see that same style of offense.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll be similar. We're always evolving a little bit,
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  Speaker 6: we get a little bit bored, but you know, at
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  Speaker 6: the end of the day, we're trying to put the
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  Speaker 6: ball in our athletes hands out in space, create space
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  Speaker 6: on offense. So we'll be you know, we'll be similar
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  Speaker 6: to how we've been, although kind of take advantage of
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  Speaker 6: some of the different strengths we have. You know, defensively,
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  Speaker 6: we're really excited to feel like we're gonna be a
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  Speaker 6: lot more athletic, a lot more physical, a lot more
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  Speaker 6: matchups that we really like and that makes it fun
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  Speaker 6: trying to game plan and decide how we're going to
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  Speaker 6: play things.
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  Speaker 5: Tyler's got some nuggets.
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  Speaker 2: Man, he does have some nuggets. Thank you, coach Lucy again,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for his time too. I mean, I can
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  Speaker 2: tell you as a guy who is now coaching and
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  Speaker 2: on the field for a long time in a day.
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  Speaker 2: Last thing you want to do is talk to some shlub,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, some guy out there wearing
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  Speaker 2: bright colors. Although were you're wearing bright colors? Or was
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  Speaker 2: it like the red or the blue?
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  Speaker 4: I at the red on.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, and one of the assistants coaches goes, you act
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  Speaker 3: the wrong color on.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I came from Bellingham practice, so I
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  Speaker 4: had the red hoodie on.
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  Speaker 2: Instead of lighting up the field, Tyler, you were over
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  Speaker 2: there making people think you're Bellingham who by the way
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  Speaker 2: they play them this year. Yeah, let's see here, Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about last year just a little bit. And
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  Speaker 2: coach Lucy eleven season at Squalicum. I mean, my goodness,
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  Speaker 2: Like I remember when he got the job, thinking to myself,
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  Speaker 2: this could be a really really good thing for Squalcum.
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  Speaker 2: Like you know, Coach Lucy is a smart guy. I
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  Speaker 2: knew him a little bit eleven seasons later. What the
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  Speaker 2: heck is going on here? Seventy one and thirty over
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  Speaker 2: those eleven seasons, they obviously play their games at Civic Stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Last season four and six on the year, and Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: you and I were talking beforehand. This is a team
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  Speaker 2: that struggled through a you know, a good chunk of
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  Speaker 2: the season, and I think we kind of felt, you know, preseason,
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  Speaker 2: like we know Lucy will find a way to get
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  Speaker 2: it together, but you know, Marcus Nixon was playing quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: and so it was it was kind of like we
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  Speaker 2: just don't really know. But then you look at you
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  Speaker 2: look at it, you go, wow, four and six, like
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  Speaker 2: that's actually a better record than I felt like they had.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's it's kind of weird to say that,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, at times they just you know, I mean, well,
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  Speaker 2: let's just look at the schedule here, and you go
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  Speaker 2: back to back games thirty five to nothing lost to
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  Speaker 2: Linden and then thirty eight six loss against Archbishop Murphy.
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  Speaker 2: But then they turn around and kind of put it
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  Speaker 2: on Burlington Edison a little bit, lose a couple of games,
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  Speaker 2: then finish off with a twenty one to fourteen win
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  Speaker 2: over the Mount Baker Fighting Laps. So when you look
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  Speaker 2: at it overall, like this was actually, you know a
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  Speaker 2: team that was that had some and actually they had
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  Speaker 2: a chance to even win a few games here that
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  Speaker 2: maybe people didn't think. I mean, thirty eight thirty four
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  Speaker 2: against Seahome. I don't think too many people saw that
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  Speaker 2: one happening, but it was kind of one of those
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  Speaker 2: weird seasons last year. Now they're back to it. Tyler,
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  Speaker 2: you told me Marcus Nixon moving back to running back.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got some running backs, some quarterbacks here. Let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the backfield there for the Storm.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm really.
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  Speaker 3: Excited about this because it's kind of looking like what
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  Speaker 3: we are used to with Squalkum. Now again at quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: they have senior Col Burke who's looked really, really good.
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  Speaker 4: He's about six.
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  Speaker 3: Two, two hundred pounds. Reminds me of Garrett Sorenson a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, makes quick reads, very accurate thrower, and an
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  Speaker 3: athletic basketball player.
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  Speaker 4: And uh so that will allow Marcus.
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  Speaker 3: Nixon to be back at running back. We all know
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  Speaker 3: how dynamic he is signed with or not signed but
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  Speaker 3: committed to Eastern Washington. So that's a really really cool deal.
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  Speaker 3: Eastern Washington just seems to be bringing in a ton
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  Speaker 3: of Walking County kids. I love that Phoenix Price is
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  Speaker 3: a sophomore that will be the backup quarterback, and he
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  Speaker 3: looked really sharp. He made a few throws where it's
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  Speaker 3: almost reminded me of like watching Hard Knocks, Like you've
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  Speaker 3: seen that show Hard Knocks, I'm sure where you know,
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  Speaker 3: a quarterback will make a throw and then it'll show
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  Speaker 3: the guys on the sideline look.
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  Speaker 4: At hether like, oh, you know, look look at the
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  Speaker 4: look at the kid throw.
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  Speaker 3: And that's kind of what it reminded me of. So
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  Speaker 3: they have a capable backup as well.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then you know at the running back position, obviously
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  Speaker 3: Mark Snickson who's ran for over eight hundred yards each
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  Speaker 3: of the last two years.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, there's all you know.
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  Speaker 3: He's joined by Malachi Smith, who at two hundred pounds
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  Speaker 3: is you know, I mean, if they if they were
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  Speaker 3: trying to get that that you know, three yards for
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  Speaker 3: a first down, that's what they're gonna go to. He's
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  Speaker 3: a really strong kid with a good forward lean and
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  Speaker 3: awesome kid too, just a great person. And so they
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  Speaker 3: have a great one two punch at running back with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of varsity experience. And then Avery Wiener has
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of varsity experience, but he's bulked up
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  Speaker 3: to about one ninety five as well, so he'll be
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  Speaker 3: that third running back. And I would expect Cole Burke
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  Speaker 3: to run a little bit, so they're gonna have all
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  Speaker 3: those options. It's gonna look more like the traditional powerhouse
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  Speaker 3: Squalicum offense back there.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the weird thing is Tyler, So I'm sitting here
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  Speaker 2: looking over the stats from last year. They didn't throw
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  Speaker 2: for a ton of yards in jet. Did they even
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  Speaker 2: throw for a thousand as a team?
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  Speaker 4: No? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So the weird thing is though, when you look at
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  Speaker 2: who they return in the receiving game. They got four
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  Speaker 2: guys over one hundred yards. Now, one of them is
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  Speaker 2: Malachai Smith, but four guys over one hundred yards in
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  Speaker 2: the receiving game and six touchdowns coming back.
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  Speaker 4: So overall, like, you know, sure.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't throw for a ton of yards last year,
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  Speaker 2: but when he started looking at the receiving options that
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  Speaker 2: they have, yeah, there's actually some nice pieces here.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean, Jakie Ortiz is a veteran. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he's started as a sophomore. He's caught a ton of
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  Speaker 3: balls in his career, right around sixty so far, and
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  Speaker 3: finding ways to get him the ball will be really unique.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he'll be kind of in that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I call it like the Ben Peterson role, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or the guy coming in motion or you just got
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  Speaker 3: to be aware of him at all times.
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  Speaker 4: But they're going to find ways to get him the
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  Speaker 4: ball on.
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  Speaker 3: The outside and the slot, all sorts of different things.
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  Speaker 3: He's a playmaker. He's really really hard to tackle. You
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  Speaker 3: mentioned Malachi Smith coming out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 4: Anson as as.
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  Speaker 3: Bernson is very very steady, but he's gotten bigger, he's
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  Speaker 3: gotten faster, I really, I mean he was averaging over
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  Speaker 3: twenty yards of catch last year with he's kind of.
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  Speaker 4: Has that big playability.
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  Speaker 3: Lackie Fagato is just a man child at tight end.
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  Speaker 3: He's got great speed and great hands to go along
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  Speaker 3: with the six foot four, two hundred and fifteen pound body.
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  Speaker 4: Just a junior still too, So I.
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  Speaker 3: Think they're going to feature him more than traditionally. Squaalking
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  Speaker 3: him has featured tight ends before because they've probably never
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  Speaker 3: really had one like him. So it's it's really really interesting.
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  Speaker 3: You do have a lot of these guys coming back. Plus,
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  Speaker 3: Marcus Nixon did not catch a pass last year because
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  Speaker 3: he was throwing passes.
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  Speaker 4: That's true. You did not even think about that. Imagine
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  Speaker 4: that you add that to it.
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  Speaker 3: Who he caught like twenty five balls as a sophomore.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he made some great plays in the receiving game.
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  Speaker 3: You could do a thing where you put him out
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  Speaker 3: wide and Malachai Smith could be at running back. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Marcus Nixon is going to be, as I like to
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  Speaker 3: call an offensive weapon, not just a running back.
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  Speaker 4: You might see him all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: And so you add that to the receiving core and
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  Speaker 3: it's only going to help this first year varsity quarterback
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  Speaker 3: Cole Burke throw the ball. You got a lot of
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  Speaker 3: different options. And then you know Zach Watt, who didn't
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  Speaker 3: catch a ball last year.
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  Speaker 4: He's in the mix. Reheesnolton.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: There's a transfer named Khalil Benta who looks really really good.
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: Donnel Harden looked good at practice. You got a lot
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: of depth here at the receiver spot and at tight end.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: Another kid is Jacob Clark. I really liked him watching
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: him on film last year as a backup, so he
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: could be that next guy, that next tight end as well.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: So you're talking like seven or eight guys that can
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: really make plays on the offense, which they just didn't
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: have a ton of depth recently. But now it started,
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: like I said, it's starting to look more like the
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: traditional Squalicum offense that we're used to.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean that's Tyler something you could go.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: You could go Marcus Nixon and Malachi Smith both out
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: at receiver. You go empty and have them one on
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: one side, one on the other, and you never know
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: which one's going to take a fly sweep.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: You never know.
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, there is so much you could do. Not
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: to mention a guy like Lacki fog Autu. You put him,
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: you know, split out where he's just huge. Talk about
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: a tough guy to try to defend my goodness, right.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: It's a lot like what Lynnon Christian did last year
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: with Cayden Stite.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: They're built very similarly, and then they would put three
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: receivers on one side and Caden Stite on the other.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: And if you don't put two guys on Stite, well
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: they're probably gonna throw that way.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: And they end up doing that in the.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: State playoffs in the first round where there was one driver,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: they just threw to them every play.
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: Until they scored. Yeah.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: I vaguely remember that. I remember just being like, I mean,
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: not a terrible idea.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: You're like, right, but you know you have options, right?
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, Tyler's got some nuggets, man.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: That's an option we don't have. Tyler's just got nuggets now, Tyler.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: The one thing when I'm looking over this preview here
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: and again, if you're listening to this and you're at
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: a computer or even on your phone, might as well
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: head over to walkompreps dot com and pull up the
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: team because you can sit here and see exactly what
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: we're talking about. You can reference it as we go.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: H That being said, though, Tyler Colby Lewis he is gone.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: He's down at I believe Puget sound if I remember Chrissy.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Is he and he's looking good like they're they're you know,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: he's looking at getting some time right away.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: Nice, that's awesome. But then they also lose Elijah Ingram
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: at center. Yep, so not a lot coming back on
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the offensive lines. Although you know, one thing that we've
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: well offensive and defensive lines. But one of the things
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: that we've learned over the years is Squalkumb doesn't always
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: have the biggest guys on the offensive line, but they
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: always find a way to make it work. So I'm
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: sure that they're going to have some guys in there
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: that we maybe haven't heard of yet that you're going
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: to talk about right now that we need to know
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: about because they're probably going to be pretty good.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of molding together pretty well. I mean,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: you're right there. You know, Colby Lewis was huge, but
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: the rest of the guys weren't that big. And I
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: mean when you go back to like the Ben Paz
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: days and those guys, and those guys were big, but
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: it hasn't been it's been a while since there's been
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: really big offensive lineman and this year's you know, kind
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: of the same.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: I think Bryson Vereen is the main guy. He's at
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: right guard.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: He's about five ten two twenty five, built a lot
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: like a high school guard, and he's he's probably their
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: best overall offensive lineman. I would say I really like
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Ezra Nichols at right tackle. He's about six three, two
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: thirty power forward on the basketball team, Very very athletic,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: and he's picking it up really really fast. I think
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: he played before, but it's been a little while. Nolan
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Parrish at center, I think he'll be able to take
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: take over right where Ingram left off. Very it's so
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: important to play center at Squalcump because it's probably the
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: most timing oriented offense in Walka County as far as
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: with guys coming in motion and in the shotgun snap
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: and you have to really be ready.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: You have to time it just right.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: If it's a high snaper throws everything off and we've
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: seen that in the past as well.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Joseph Boyd returns at left guard.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: He got some playing kind of he started last year
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: as a sophomore, and so he he comes back there,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: that'll be that'll be pretty good. And then they got
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: another transfer about six three two and fifty pound left
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: tackle named Wyatt Johnson and he started at I want
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: to say, like Hoquiam or something like that. So so
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: they kind of have their five that they're pretty happy
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: with and they're gonna be a little bigger than last
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: year over like averaged overall, uh, even with the loss
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: of Colby Lewis. But yeah, I mean, if if they
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: can get five guys that all gel and they all
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: start like, you know, consecutive games together, that's a that's
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: a huge bonus to have at the high.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: School level, at any level. I mean, you want those
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: five playing as one.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing here Wyatt Johnson from Aberdeen. Okay, could be
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing a Wyatt Johnson from nine Mile Falls. I
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: think it was down in the down in the Aberdeen
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: area though. Okay, yeah, here's here's Wyatt Johnson from from Squalacum.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: But it doesn't We can't go back any other years,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I'm saying. So let's see here. Do we talk defensive
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: line yet, Tyler?
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Not yet?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Okay, defensive line now, Tyler. I'm looking over the stats
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: just in general of the defense. Yeah, you know, we
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: talked about how many guys like Bellingham returns. Yeah, I'll
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: tell you what. Squalcum is no slouch here either. They
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: returned guys all over the place. It is actually pretty
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: impressive to look at this and you see how many
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: guys have stats in multiple categories. I mean, they returned
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: guys with tackles, tackles for a loss, sacks, force fumbles, fumbles,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: recovered lots of guys that defended passes, and they returned
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: four interceptions. As a defense. But I think the one thing,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: if you're just kind of looking at it on paper,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that they do lack. Again, it's kind of on that
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: defensive line where it looks as though Bryce and Verien
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: might be a little bit of the leader.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Again.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say he definitely leads the defensive line,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: like the charge of that. They'll usually play just three
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: and they're you know, they're not really kind of like
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Linden's defensive line. They're just there to kind of muck
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: things up, but they're not there really to get a
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: ton of stats. We've seen guys in the past get
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: some decent stats from from the squall defensive line, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: and it could be you know, Verreen.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Might be be be that guy.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: I think Ezra Nichols is going to help out a
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: little bit in that spot. He's very very athletic, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: and Joseph Boyd and Wyatt Johnson, you know, everybody that
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: starts on the offensive line other than the center. I
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: think it's going to get a pretty good There's gonna
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: be a pretty decent rotation among those guys. You know,
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: they'll play three at a time. I think they'll have
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: five that are kind of constantly going.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: But but yeah, I think.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: That I think I think you're right about Bryce and
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Vereen kind of leading that that charge, and we'll see
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: kind of how it goes up that I remember, like
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Adam McCluskey you know, would be a guy that would
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: that would pick up some numbers and you'd play like
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: a defensive tackle spot and every once in a while
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: there'd be some guys that could put up some numbers
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: from that spot, but it doesn't traditionally happen too often
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: based on that style of defense.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Now, when we start talking about maybe a strength of
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the defense here, I'm looking at linebackers Tayler, I see
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Marcus Nicks, and I see Laka Lockie Faka Auto, I
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: see Malachi Smith. I mean there are some guys here
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: that have some serious numbers and some guys that can
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: do some serious things. I mean, just Smith, you talk Malachi,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Locke and Marcus that alone is what four and a
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: half that's seven and a half sacks, or excuse me,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: tackles for a loss. That's six sacks and it's about
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: I don't even know one hundred and thirty tackles. I
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: mean there's a lot of numbers here from those three
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: guys specifically.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they'll all be back and playing quite a bit,
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: you know, they'll be Locke and Mark Snicks won't be
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: on the outside again.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: We've it seems like a broken record.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: We've been talking about this with other teams where you
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: got your two studs on the outside to contain the
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: edge a lot like what Squalkum did with you know,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: schlim Baker and Lamb. I mean that was just that
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: was such a good thing, and they want to, you know,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: try to have that again. And with those two guys,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: the speed, the size, the strength of both of them,
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be really hard to get outside. Malachi Smith
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: in the middle is just as steady as ever. He
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: makes the sure tackle. He's gotten bigger and stronger. He's
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: a really good athlete too. I mean it's on the
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: basketball court. He's got big time hops and and a
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: really good shot. So I think that I think that's
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: a really good thing. And then who's gonna be that
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: other inside linebacker. I think I think Avery Wiener is
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: gonna step up. He got a little bit of time
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: last year. Donnelle Harden got a little bit of time.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: Donald Harden's about five six five seven, but he's well,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: he's solid, one eighty one eighty five. It always seems
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: like Squalkum has these kids that just kind of come
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: in and and they could be a sophomore and it's like,
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: where'd this guy come from. I had no clue about
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: this guy, And that could be like a Deshaun LeBlanc
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: who's a sophomore, who's who's looking really good at practice
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: and playing some inside linebackers. So they have some options
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: because you know, those three guys that you mentioned are
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: very valuable on the offensive side of the ball as well,
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: and you got to find ways to, you know, give
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: guys breaks here and there, and and it could.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Be on the defensive side of the ball. We'll see.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how many times Malachi Smith
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: and Marcus Nixon will be lined up together in the
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: backfield on offense, but it could be. I mean, you
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: want your best eleven out there, but they're going to
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: have to find creative ways to keep everybody fresh. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: because it's a it's a brutal game as we know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: but it's a brutal schedule for them as they jump
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: right into the conference play, which we'll get into that
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: a little later.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: When you start looking at the numbers, Tyler, I'm sitting
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: here talking about these guys as though they're putting up
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: great numbers, but the guy that actually returns with the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: best numbers on the defense is a safety walking or
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: he's fifty one tackles, five and a half tackles for
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a loss, one forced fumble, and six passes defended. I mean,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: that's that's a pretty nice piece to return on a
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: defense when you've got a lot of nice pieces kind
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: of in front of him if you will, you know,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: because he's going to be on the back end. But
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: when we start talking defensive backs, what do we looking
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: at here? Yeah, he definitely leads that that that charge.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: At only five seven, one hundred and forty five pounds,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: you wouldn't think a guy that small playing safety would
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: have that many, you know, returning tackles for loss. But
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: he can really shoot the gap and make some things happen.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: And he's he's a sure tackler. I mean for that size,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: he knows how to get low obviously, and he could
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: take the legs out and make the tackle. So I
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: really like him as the returning safety. Zach Watt will
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: probably be the other safety, and he did some good things.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: He had interception last year, really really dynamic interception. And
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: he's a good sure tackler. He's got great size, bigger
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: than his brother Nick. He's probably boy, I don't know,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: probably about six three, probably close to two hundred pounds,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: so he's a little more physical safety. So those two
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: guys together I think would be really good. Hunter Callaway
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: returning as a corner. He got thrown into the fire
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: last year as a freshman and did really really well.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Played the rest of the way started corner, made a
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: lot of really good plays. I think that he you know,
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: he led the team in passes defended. I think that
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: he's because I think they went to him a lot.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: You know, they they tried him, you know, because if
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you I mean, you know how it is if you
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: see a freshman come in at corner on the what
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: that side, that's where you're gonna go and uh eventually
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: you know he'd make plays and they go, oh, he's
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: not a normal freshman. He's about six two, one seventy five.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: He's gonna lock down one corner. I think Anson Esbernsen
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: is gonna take the other corner. And those guys, you know,
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: are both really really fast, and you got a lot
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: of backups here. Rehes Nolton's a good third safety. I
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: think Khalil Benta's in the mix as a corner. Solomon Durius,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: uh Tong dang is really good. So you got a
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: lot of guys that could play those spots. And you know,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Squalkm's gonna have a lot of guys going both ways,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: like we were talking about with the linebackers, So you know,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: you never know what's gonna happen.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: Injuries happen, different, different things like that.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: So you got to have depth and and they've got
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: you know, they got five guys they could play at corner,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: three guys they could play at safety, and they're pretty.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Happy with it.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So Tyler, I'm looking at special teams numbers here. First off,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: is there anybody in the county that returns as much
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: kickoff returning as these guys do? I mean, my goodness,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: they return a lot of guys, especially Joaquin Ortiz, who
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: averages thirty four point nine yards of return, which is
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: absolutely incredible. But then also he returns in the punt
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: return game. I mean he only had three for ninety
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: three yards, which is also dumb, but then punting itself.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I'm blown away here, Jakie foga Aato, you're telling me
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: this guy averages it's only twenty four yards, but can
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: they roll them out?
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Is that?
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: Like, who's going to tackle that guy when he's got
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: a fifteen yard sprint going on.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it reminds me. I mean, it reminds me a
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: lot of when you know they had Schlimbaker punt. Yeah,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: you know, And you're right, a lot of these guys
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: are returning. Slade Kaiser is going to return as the
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: as the kicker, and so all these guys have special
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: teams experience. Walking Ties is holy Cowie's dangerous in the
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: return game.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: He's just he can.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: And you and I were talking off air about this
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the other night where it was like guys that can
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: kind of like kind of can like on a dime
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: and not lose speed. Yeah, you know, it's like he
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: has that kind of ability. And when you have that
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: in the return game, and there's you know, let's be honest,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: when you're on kickoff team or on punt team, there's
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: some guys out there that are you know, first year players,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: that are seniors, or some guys that quite aren't ready
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: yet but they're good sophomores or whatever. You know, it's
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: when you try to rest some guys and if you're
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: you're running like the way Ortiz does, it's gonna be
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: really hard to tackle.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: Him.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Malchi Smith had that kick return for a touchdown against Lakewood.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: I'll never forget that because I had.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Him on my on my fantasy team as a running
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: back and I didn't get the kick return points with
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: the touchdown, and I think I lost to you by
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: three or some It was some crazy thing where I
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: would have got the points for that, So I'll never
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: forget that. It's amazing how you never forget those things,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: and you gotta focus. You gotta focus, or you gotta
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: you gotta have Marcus Nixon be a guy that you
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: got to think about in the kick return game. He
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: didn't return a ton last year because he was playing quarterback,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: but he had a return for a touchdown against Archbishop
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: two years ago.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: So he got three.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Guys coming back that have kick returns for touchdown. So
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: you're absolutely right about just the talent they have in
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: the return game. I really, I really see a huge
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: improvement overall for this Squalicum team, just with the you know,
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: with the coaching staff they have, plus last year was
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: just kind of a it was just you know, just
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: turn the page now, go to go to this year,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: and it seems like there's a lot of positivity and
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: things to be, you know, to look up and say, man,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: I this this could be something kind of special. So
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: uh and with the round of thirty two, now you
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like you never know, you never
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: know it's right there.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: So I'm pretty excited, never know that mad scientists Lucy
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: might just might just something off there.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: Tyler, I have a feeling. Do you remember remember Nick
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Watts senior year?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Yea, how it got to a point where it seemed
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: like we were just passing him back and forth on
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: the Old Fantasy team.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: You know, I have a feeling walking Ortiz could be
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: that guy. Yeah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: The only thing stopping us from making him that guy
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: this year is the fact that the three linebackers in
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: front of him just do so much damage, you know
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: what I mean. But still somehow he finds a way,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: you know. So, I don't know, I got a feeling
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: we're gonna be hearing a lot of walking Orties on
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: the on the Old Fantasy this year. Let's see where
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: are we at Tyler, oh, Breakout player of the Year,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Breakout Player of the Year. Let's get to it. Where
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: are we at here? Hunter Calloway, sophomore corner. Now, Tyler,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: this is what blows me away. Yeah, just a corner
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: doesn't play multiple positions, isn't an insideline. This is a corner.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: So there's something here there that maybe, I mean, what
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: do we need to know? What are we looking at?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Because because this is a weird one, I don't normally
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't just pick a corner, you know what I mean?
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, I just I just I.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Think the kid's awesome. I just think that again, it
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: kind of like Dawson Heins on the basketball court. What
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: I saw in the basketball court. I saw a lot
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: more of Hunter Callaway play football than I did HEINZ.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: So I've seen what he can do playing football. I
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: saw what he did playing basketball.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: He's grown.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I mean he's a couple of inches taller now, he's bigger.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: I'm sure he's faster.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: And from what I'm hearing, he just wants to play defense.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: And I think that I think maybe because they have
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: so many weapons on offense, it's not needed right now,
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: just just being a sophomore. But you never know, man,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: if something happens, he could go in there. I mean,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Ky Posey was kind of like that. He reminds me
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: of Kay Posey, and so when he ended up playing receiver,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: he ended up being an awesome receiver, you know what
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: I mean. It just I think he just wanted to
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: play defense at first, and this is very, very similar.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: And I think that I think he's gonna you know,
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: make a lot of plays. I think it's gonna end
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: up being you know, they a lot of teams tested
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: him this this last year. I think, you know, it
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: might be one of those things where he'll have one
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: pass defense and and one tackle and he had an
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: awesome game because just knowing nobody went that way.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: I think there was a year that Dion Sanders had
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: zero interceptions and he made All Pro just because nobody went.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: That way, you know, and when they did, they paid
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: for it without interceptions, but they paid for it other ways.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Right, And so I think that I think that he
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: can he has that ability to be one of those
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: shutdown corners at a very young age. And so as
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: he you know, as he gets better and better. And
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: I think that you know, that freshman is sophomore year
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: jump can be really big for certain athletes, especially ones
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: that played quite a bit as a freshman. Uh And
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: so I just I just see that for him, I
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: just I think everything about it is uh is going
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: to be really bright as far as his future goes.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: And and I think he's a I think he's a
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: basketball first guy. And for you know, for I mean
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: I would be too if I was in just because
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: how talented he is. But man, he's a really really
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: good football player.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: You know, it's pretty wild, Tyler.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: When you look over these numbers too, It's like he
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: had eight passes defended, which is ridiculous. Yeah, and sure
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: he puts him first on the team, but they had
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: they returned twenty eight total passes defended. Yeah, I mean
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: that's a lot of That's a lot of passes defended. Man, Like,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: that is a lot of them for one team. I mean,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. So let's see here, Tyler. Let's take
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: a look at the schedule a little bit before we
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: head out straight down the list. I mean, you've got
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: you start at home versus Burlington Edison. Then they hit
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: the road for Marysville, Pilchuck and Archbishop Murphy, so two
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: you know, decent little trips down south. Then they return
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: home for Lakewood, got to go to Ana Chordis home
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: for Lyndon, and then they go on the road in
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: week seven for a long drive out to Port Angelis,
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: which I assume includes a ferry, which is why the
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: game starts at six thirty, and then at sea Hoome
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: quote unquote at Seahome and home for Bellingham. So they
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: finish it off with games against the other two Bellingham schools,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: which I'm sure in a way somehow excites you.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Tyler.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, those games are you know, we haven't you know,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: we haven't seen Skulk and Bellingham in a little while.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: It's so I'm pretty excited about that one, especially to
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: end the year. You're right about the Seahome one, the
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Linen one. I'm really intrigued with the Lakewood game as well,
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: just because that was such a I remember watching that
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: game because I think it was like on a Thursday
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: night last year, and and I remember like it was
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: possible for you to maybe go to that game of
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: everything worked out right, but it ended up not happening,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: and I sat here and watched it on the live stream,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: and it was just, you know, it was just a
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: crazy game. I mean, it was back and forth, you know,
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: close to one hundred total points score. I think Squalicam's
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: gonna have a little revenge for that one, you know,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: but yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be. I mean,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: it's league games right out of the gate here, so
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: we haven't said that about many of these teams yet, so, uh,
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be interesting.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Uh I am. I am excited about some of these.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: I think that the I think that the one of
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: these games is like on a I don't know, I'm
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: trying to remember. They play like a Thursday game somewhere too,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: so I always like those when they're standalone games and
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. So uh yeah, just really really excited
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: about all of it, and and just get the show
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: on the road because I think I really do think
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Squalicum's gonna, you know, definitely improve on the four win
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: season from last year.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: It does look like they have a Saturday Saturday Saturday. Yeah,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Saturday against Lakewood is a seven pm game.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Two.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've told you, Tyler, but we
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: played four Saturday games this here at Bothel and three
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: of them are one pm.
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's almost like LC.
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: They had three one pm Saturday games in a row
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: and they were all at home.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: I totally forgot about that. So it was like it
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: was almost became because I'm very schedule oriented.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so it almost became this thing where Okay,
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: you do this, you get two stories done, head out
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: to Lyndon.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: You know, go that game, come back like it was
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: just boom boom boom boo boom.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: It all worked out. Yeah, and then the fourth week
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: you did it again. Then you got out there and
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: you were like, hey, wait what.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: I was like, where is everybody? This is so weird?
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Why is there nobody out here? You're like, times this
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: game start? Oh yeah, oh I already wrote the game
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: story from yesterday.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: Crap.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Tyler, anything else, anything else before we
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: get out of here.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: I think we said it all. I think that there
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: is going to be improvement.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I think there's going to be excitement, and especially with
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: this coaching staff and the guys they have coming back,
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: Be a pretty good year for the Storm. I feel
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: like I didn't do this enough.
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: Tyler's got some nuggets, man.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Tyler's got some nuggets. Man. You ever just feel like
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: you don't do Tyler's got some nuggets man?
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: That enough?
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta feel you yeah, alrighty well, that is it.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Before we get out of here, I want to give
• 37:17
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• 37:20
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• 37:22
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• 37:25
  Speaker 5: Tyler's got some nuggets man, Thanks coach.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: He's Tyler Anderson.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Tyler's got some nuggets man, He's got nuggets.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: He's Tyler Anderson of watcom Preps. Walkompreps dot com is
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: the website on Ryland Spencer. You been listening to episode
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: at two hundred and sixty eight, the fifteen preview. As
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: we head towards a football season here on the walkcom
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Preps podcast, we will talk to you later today.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: Tyler's gets some nuggets