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Bothell Football Coaches Show Ep 19 · Bothell Football Coaches Show

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome to the Baffle Football Coaches Show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host Ryland Spencer. Along with me, as always, is
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  Speaker 1: the head coach of the Baffle. Cougar's Tom Painter coach.
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  Speaker 1: How we doing doing great? Good morning, Rylan, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: As always, recording here Tuesday morning, so we can't really
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  Speaker 1: announce the Beersly Public House because this is coming out
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, but hopefully a lot of people got out
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  Speaker 1: there to the fundraiser on Tuesday night and had some
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  Speaker 1: great food and great times and you know, help support
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  Speaker 1: the Kougs. So this is a week six podcasts. We'll
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  Speaker 1: be talking about last week's game against Woodenville JV game
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  Speaker 1: against Glacier Peak, and the freshman game last week at Bellevue. Coach.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the freshman coog's fall last week at Bellevue.
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  Speaker 1: But do you ever read Coach Lagoz right up that
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  Speaker 1: he sends to Christy Tran.
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  Speaker 2: I do, and he and I we had a nice
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  Speaker 2: text conversation right after the game, and so you know,
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  Speaker 2: he fills me in and yeah, you know, I try
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  Speaker 2: to get to every game, but you know, when they're
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  Speaker 2: away and they start kind of when we're ending it's
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  Speaker 2: tough to get to. But yeah, tough, tough game for
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  Speaker 2: us last week.
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  Speaker 1: I like coach of the goes right up because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: he he has a way of wording things that makes
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  Speaker 1: it feel maybe a little bit better than it was.
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  Speaker 1: At times. It's, you know, it was kind of a
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  Speaker 1: lopsided loss, if you will, But he says at the end,
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  Speaker 1: Koog's fault just short is what he said, And it's
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  Speaker 1: it's funny reading and stuff. But also I love seeing
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  Speaker 1: how many names from the team he can manage to
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  Speaker 1: throw into a game report. But yeah, tough one out
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  Speaker 1: there for the Kougs. The first time they've had to
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  Speaker 1: hit the road this year. And they are back home
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  Speaker 1: this coming week when no, excuse me, are they back
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  Speaker 1: home this week? No, because we'd go to Mount Sai.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know.
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  Speaker 1: They are home this week because they get wooden Ville
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  Speaker 1: at home. That's what it is. I'm a week ahead
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  Speaker 1: of myself the freshman. It's always tough because it's like
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  Speaker 1: we're almost that game week with varsity. So yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: are home this Wednesday against Woodenville seven pm. Admissions, free
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  Speaker 1: concessions are always available. Let's talk sub varsity game JV.
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  Speaker 1: The Kougs lose eighteen to six against Glacier Peak on
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  Speaker 1: Monday night. You were out there, What do you have
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  Speaker 1: to report from that one?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was probably closer than the score. It
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  Speaker 2: was a really good football game. They come down and
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  Speaker 2: scored early and on their first possession. Then we shut
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  Speaker 2: them out about three or four possessions in a row.
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  Speaker 2: We have an opportunity right before, you know, in the
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  Speaker 2: third quarter, I should say to you know, make it
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  Speaker 2: a one score game, or to even tight, or go up,
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  Speaker 2: and we just fall short on a fourk down inside
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  Speaker 2: the five and and we get the ball back again.
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  Speaker 2: We can't. You know, it's just you know, the good
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  Speaker 2: football team. You know, good teams stop, yet good teams
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  Speaker 2: move the ball. And you know Glash your Peak did
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  Speaker 2: that a little bit and so did we. But in
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  Speaker 2: the end, they capitalized more in the red zone than
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  Speaker 2: we did. And so that's you know, that's part of
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  Speaker 2: the game. And very proud of the way our kids
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  Speaker 2: fought and played and and you know, that's a good
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  Speaker 2: football team we just lost to last night.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's something that's kind of important with
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  Speaker 1: those subvarsity games is finding teams that match up well
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  Speaker 1: teams that are going to challenge you because you know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these guys next year are going to
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  Speaker 1: see prominent varsity time, and so it's it's definitely I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you don't ever want to lose, right, but an eighteen
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  Speaker 1: six loss against a really good team like Gleaser Peak
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  Speaker 1: is way better than just going and blowing somebody out
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  Speaker 1: by fifty or something, you know, So I do like
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  Speaker 1: that we're getting a few challenging games here. This is
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  Speaker 1: good stuff. J V Koog's. They are back home next
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  Speaker 1: week when they host Mount Size seven pm kickoff here
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  Speaker 1: at the high school. Let's talk varsity game coach. You
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  Speaker 1: know Saturday games, you kind of never know what you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get with a crowd on a Saturday game,
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  Speaker 1: especially at one pm. There's a lot of college football
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  Speaker 1: going on. There's you know, brothers and sisters have soccer
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  Speaker 1: matches or you're I think the junior Coogs might have
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  Speaker 1: even been playing at the same time we were. But
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Train, Man, they really showed up again. Nike
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  Speaker 1: and the Seahawks came together for a rivalry series. Former
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  Speaker 1: players Orlando Huff and Jordan Babmina were out there. DJ Supa,
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  Speaker 1: Sam was out, There's pregame spinning, some music, just an
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  Speaker 1: all around great atmosphere. There was a lot of free
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  Speaker 1: T shirts. You're wearing one right now. I loved the
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  Speaker 1: blue towels that they were handing out, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: they did the same thing for Woodenville. They had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of T shirts and towels and different things going on.
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  Speaker 1: They also gave fifteen hundred dollars to both the Junior
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  Speaker 1: Coogs and Junior Falcons. Really cool to see what the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks are doing in the community, which they've kind of
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  Speaker 1: always done that, but I think they're ramping it up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more now. It's really cool to see
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  Speaker 1: On the field though. Coogs really come out flying first
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  Speaker 1: half thirty one. Nothing was the halftime score there, and
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  Speaker 1: the running game on the day ends up over four
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards rushing. Now that sounds great and everything, but
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  Speaker 1: that also means you probably didn't throw all much, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not a ton of yards passing. But one thing I
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  Speaker 1: think gets overlooked at times too is maybe the play
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  Speaker 1: of quarterback Matt Small. He's the one that has to
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  Speaker 1: make the fake here or hand it here, or kind
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  Speaker 1: of run and control the offense and keep everybody you
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  Speaker 1: know focused. You know, it's really cool to see his
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  Speaker 1: development over the over the season too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna back up. Could you said a lot
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  Speaker 2: right there? And I think I think, uh, we've got
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  Speaker 2: to recognize the Seattle Seahawks and what they do in
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  Speaker 2: their community outreach program. And you know, it was fun
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  Speaker 2: to have all the gang out there. It helps in
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  Speaker 2: the crowd, it helps in the energy and and it
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  Speaker 2: is a great rivalry. And you know, I just want
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  Speaker 2: to I want to thank uh super Sam for what
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  Speaker 2: he brings in. And you know he's been doing stuff
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  Speaker 2: at Pop Kinni for years now and he's been in
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  Speaker 2: a long time friend of ours. You know, you talk
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  Speaker 2: about Kyle, you talk about Jordan, you talk about Orlando
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  Speaker 2: and and and those guys who you know who spoke
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  Speaker 2: with us and did all that. The drum line was there,
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  Speaker 2: we had, we had cheerleaders there. Uh they did. They
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  Speaker 2: support both of our programs really well. And you know
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  Speaker 2: our youth programs that that you know kind of need
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  Speaker 2: we need to you know, regeneralize those re energize or
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  Speaker 2: you know, we need to grow them. And we need
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  Speaker 2: our young kids to love football and play and what
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  Speaker 2: they did, you know, sold football to I think two
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  Speaker 2: communities on Saturday, and so many things to the Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Seahawks and what they do. Our fans are incredible. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I've been to a couple of Saturday games because now
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  Speaker 2: that's just part of the schedule. And and you know
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  Speaker 2: we have a full crowd and and our band is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Our cheerleaders are great, like we always say, and and
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  Speaker 2: so that was all special. Uh, now get in to
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  Speaker 2: the game. Yeah, we we did.
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  Speaker 1: We did.
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  Speaker 2: We had Uh we have an unbelievable offensive line and
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  Speaker 2: kids who you know, work hard and fight to the end,
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  Speaker 2: and tight ends who will will set edges and and uh,
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  Speaker 2: running backs run hard. And receivers you know, let's let's
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  Speaker 2: not forget those guys. They had their best game getting
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  Speaker 2: off the ball, getting into the secondary and you know
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  Speaker 2: they they turned you know, eight ten yard plays into
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  Speaker 2: fifteen twenty thirty yard plays. And so we had all that.
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  Speaker 2: We ran hard, We ran well, you know against a
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  Speaker 2: very good football staff over there Woodenville, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: players who always play hard against us. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: first half was awesome and really proud of our guys
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  Speaker 2: and the way we handled that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, coach, we got to back up because I
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  Speaker 1: forgot to put something on their show sheet today and
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  Speaker 1: normally I copy and paste. Didn't moving on over because
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  Speaker 1: we only do it every couple of weeks. But we
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  Speaker 1: need to talk about Mike Dale for a minute. We
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  Speaker 1: had our you know, he comes out to pull the
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  Speaker 1: horn before the game, and Mike Dale, if you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a Baffle alum, nineteen seventy five Baffle alum. Then
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  Speaker 1: he went into the military, comes out, starts working for
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  Speaker 1: the North Shore School District and for a very very
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  Speaker 1: long time he was the head of pop Kinni. When
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  Speaker 1: you showed up to pop Kini, you knew a couple
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  Speaker 1: of things. One, everything was going to look spectacular. It
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  Speaker 1: was going to be you know, well taken care of.
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  Speaker 1: Everything was going to work well for what you needed
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  Speaker 1: on a game day. And you knew you were gonna
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  Speaker 1: find Mike Dale in his red jacket because it was
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  Speaker 1: it was what he did, it was who he was.
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  Speaker 1: And then he became part of the Wall of Honor
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. It was him and his grandson
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  Speaker 1: out there, and I think he made his grandson pull
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  Speaker 1: the chain. I think he was Mike Dale. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's a great friend of yours. He's a great friend
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  Speaker 1: of the program really and just can you just speak
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  Speaker 1: about Mike and kind of the things he brought and
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  Speaker 1: who he is and what he means to Baffle in general.
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  Speaker 1: But you know pop Kini Stadium as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, back then, they let Mike Dale run
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  Speaker 2: that whole show down there, and he did it like
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  Speaker 2: like nobody else. That was his baby, if you will,
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  Speaker 2: And he had a nice crew and they worked their
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  Speaker 2: tails off all the time. The thing I respect most
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  Speaker 2: about Mike Dale is first and forem most you know,
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  Speaker 2: pop Kini and and game nights and how the stadium
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  Speaker 2: looked was important to him above all else. And and
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  Speaker 2: you always love a guy who's got a job and
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  Speaker 2: he does it to the fullest of his abilities. You know,
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  Speaker 2: over the years Mike and I've grown our friendships grown greatly,
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  Speaker 2: and uh have utmost respect for him and the way
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  Speaker 2: he carries on his life and what he does when
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  Speaker 2: he when he's supposed to be doing the things he's doing.
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  Speaker 2: And so it was great to see him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I know there's a little bit of you know, a
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  Speaker 2: time when when it didn't maybe end well in our
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  Speaker 2: district with him and little animosity at times, but I
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  Speaker 2: think he's he's overcoming that too. And fun to see
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  Speaker 2: him down there. He's a huge part of of I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know what what happens down at pop KINI and
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  Speaker 2: the you know, over the years, and and uh, it
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  Speaker 2: was fun to have him up there pulling that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he was he was responsible for that that horn. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we uh, he and I and and Donna Tile back
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  Speaker 2: in the day, went to UH Arlington and checked it out.
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  Speaker 2: They had one of those, and you know, he ordered it,
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  Speaker 2: got it all going, and so it's fitting that he's
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  Speaker 2: the one who got to pull it on that great night.
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  Speaker 1: He kind of told me a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: story before the game. He goes, you know, there was
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  Speaker 1: another school in our district that was kind of complaining
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  Speaker 1: that Baffel had a horn. I said, oh yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: he goes, I told them, buy your own, I'll install it,
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  Speaker 1: he said. He said. The thing was it kind of
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  Speaker 1: ended the UH ended that question because I never installed
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  Speaker 1: one for another team. Let's get back to the game
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  Speaker 1: a little bit here. But you know, one thing I
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  Speaker 1: think when people watch from the stands, they go my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: they're just running the ball like crazy over the left side,
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  Speaker 1: over the left side. It looks like the same play
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  Speaker 1: every time. Was it the same play every time? Is
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  Speaker 1: it same philosophy? Kind of what goes through your head
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  Speaker 1: when something is working like it is?
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's been a couple of times in my
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  Speaker 2: long career here where we've run a play twenty five
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  Speaker 2: thirty times in a game, and you know, if it's
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  Speaker 2: if it's working, you run it. And you know, one
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  Speaker 2: of the things I forget my my on line coaches
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  Speaker 2: remind me of over the weekend was that, Yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: play we're running, We're asking two guards to run a
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  Speaker 2: long way over and over again, and you know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't even consider that when I'm I'm focused
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  Speaker 2: on what we're doing. And so we were. We were
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  Speaker 2: getting the edge really well. We've got athletic guards who
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  Speaker 2: get out there. Downs were perfect, our backs were setting
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  Speaker 2: up blocks. It was it was It's tough to defend
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  Speaker 2: the boundary in high school football because it's different than
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  Speaker 2: the other two levels. You know that the the NFL
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  Speaker 2: games played right in the middle of the field. The
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  Speaker 2: college game is just outside of the middle and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: high high school football can be played on the edge,
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  Speaker 2: and and uh, you know, I think you've got to
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  Speaker 2: take advantage of that, and and uh, but defensively, it's
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  Speaker 2: hard to overload it because there's two thirds of the
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  Speaker 2: field on the on the other side of the ball,
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  Speaker 2: and and so, uh, you know, I think we we've
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  Speaker 2: got something good going there with the way we move
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  Speaker 2: and and it was just hard not to keep calling
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  Speaker 2: it because it was just doing so well.
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  Speaker 1: And I think what you're talking about there for the
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  Speaker 1: people listening is the hash marks in the NFL are
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  Speaker 1: real tight. College goes a little bit further out, high
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  Speaker 1: school goes further out. So when you're on the left
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  Speaker 1: hash there is a lot of wide open space on
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  Speaker 1: the on the right side, and vice versa. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean even when you're kind of in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the field, there's still a lot of space to run
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  Speaker 1: either way, or you know, sometimes you just go right
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  Speaker 1: up the middle. And I think there's got to be
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  Speaker 1: you know, you mentioned it earlier, a lot of credit
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  Speaker 1: to the offensive line, you know, the tight ends with
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Smole and Caanan Justin and Colton Bryan done submit
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  Speaker 1: damage as well. I mean, it was truly a team effort,
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  Speaker 1: even though on the stat sheet it really comes up
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  Speaker 1: with two guys Miles Welchin Sionzoum, who both you know
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  Speaker 1: two places. Let's start with the defense. This week's selection
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  Speaker 1: did not stand out on the stat sheet necessarily, but
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  Speaker 1: seem to anchor the defense at times against the Falcons
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  Speaker 1: a great game this past week for the defensive Player
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  Speaker 1: of the Game number fifty eight. Zach Foltz and I
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  Speaker 1: think this is something that kind of talks to the
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  Speaker 1: defensive line almost in general. When you look at the
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  Speaker 1: stat sheet, you know, mo comes in, mobile Al comes
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  Speaker 1: in some tackles, every week. But a guy like a
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  Speaker 1: Britton Hubbard or Zach Foltz, they might only get one
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  Speaker 1: or two tackles, but the amount of work and an
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  Speaker 1: amount of heavy lifting they're doing on the defensive line
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  Speaker 1: is truly incredible.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've always said that a D lineman can
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  Speaker 2: be a player of the game and have no tackles.
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  Speaker 2: Oftentimes their job is to, you know, take on two blockers,
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  Speaker 2: solidify a gap, open up a lane for a linebacker
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  Speaker 2: to flow through and make a tackle. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of like the OL line and the D line.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they just don't get credit, but again that's where
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  Speaker 2: games are won in lit. So you know, I will
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  Speaker 2: tell you this about about Zach. He is he's one
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  Speaker 2: of the smartest linemen I've ever been around, and we've
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  Speaker 2: had some really talented, intelligent kids play the offensive line
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  Speaker 2: over the years, and he gets the game. He sees
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  Speaker 2: it a little bit like a coach. He's uh, he
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  Speaker 2: sets up his his teammates well with with uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: before before they're about to kick a kid out or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: he's got him coming up field. So it's a little easier.
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  Speaker 2: But but here's one thing that kind of was an
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  Speaker 2: eye opener for me that people listeners won't know it all.
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  Speaker 2: We got three offensive linemen that are that are playing
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  Speaker 2: defense too, that are that are playing over one hundred
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  Speaker 2: snaps in a game, and uh, that's an incredibly difficult
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  Speaker 2: thing to do. Uh. You know, football is tough enough,
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  Speaker 2: but in the trenches, every play, somebody's grabbing you, push
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  Speaker 2: and you holding you, and and and you're you're like
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  Speaker 2: a mini wrestling match for four or five seconds, over
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  Speaker 2: and over one hundred times, and it builds on you.
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  Speaker 2: So they're they're playing really good there. You know, we
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  Speaker 2: we've had ask some of our old line to play
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  Speaker 2: more d because we're we're missing one of our key
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  Speaker 2: guys on defense and you know, hopefully he's he's healing
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  Speaker 2: Diego and and you know he sure wants to be
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  Speaker 2: out there. It's killing him, but uh, you know, injuries
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  Speaker 2: are part of the game, and he's he's patient and
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  Speaker 2: he's working with our medical staff and so we get
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  Speaker 2: him back and that'll ease up some of the the
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  Speaker 2: play numbers. But yeah, Zach played a you know, a
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  Speaker 2: great game, and then you know, you get over. Did
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  Speaker 2: you talk about the offensive one? Yet? We're getting to
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  Speaker 2: the offense. I won't I won't jump the gun. Sorry
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: We'll go to the offensive side, they said, first tip
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: of the cap to the offensive line. Not sure how
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: many rushing yards on the day. I believe it was
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: four oh eight for the team Sion assumes who they're
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: going to give it to. But Sion was over two
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: hundred rushing yards on the game, four touchdowns, you know.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: And and to do it against your your your biggest rival,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: that's what they were most excited about. From Steven Millon.
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and Sion would be the first one
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: to jump on this headset and tell you that the
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: guys in front of him are are just moving p
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: people and creating holes. And you know, we got to
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: watch film yesterday a little bit, and it was fun
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: to see some of the matchups and fit ups on
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: counter and sweep and the things we do and really
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: really special. But you know what, that's that's uh, that's
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: to take nothing away from Son. He never never loses
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: the yard. He'll get hit in the backfield on rare occasions,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: but he'll break a tackle or two. He's really a
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: smart football player. We run a counter in the goal
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: line early and and and he he could probably stand
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: up and get all the way through, but he gets
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: low enough and sees the goal line and kind of
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: dives across to to make sure that it's a touchdown.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: And he sets up blocks well, he breaks tackles. He's
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: got a slipperiness. That's uh, that's that's you know. I
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: don't I don't think people realize. You watch film and
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: you go, oh wow, he just did a spin move here,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: and he's a he's a really good running back who
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: had a really good day and and we gave him
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: the ball twenty eight times, and that's that's a lot
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: in high school football game. You know.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Something I think with special too, is you mentioned the
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: moves that he's able to pull off, and he does
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: it really really quickly, but you kind of mentioned, you know,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: he's able to pick up an extra yard, two yards
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: here or there. In this day and age with football,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: he used to just be lower your head and run
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: somebody over. Sion doesn't lower his head. He lowers his shoulders,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: and he lowers his pad level and really runs behind
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: his pads, and it's it's truly fun to watch.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, both of our running backs have extremely
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: strong legs and you know, that's that's the key to
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: breaking tackles and continuing to run through armed tackles and
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: maybe guys who just lay his shoulder into you without wrapping.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: And our two guys do a great job, and so
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: glad they're run for us.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the opponent preview. This week's opponent preview
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: is brought to you by Passion Tequila. Family Mexican restaurant
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: just a few blocks north of Popkini Stadium and open
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: seven days a week. Passion Tequila is serving great food.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: You can enjoy it with your family and friends. Coach,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: we head out to maybe one of the more scenic
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: stadiums in the state with Mount Saia this week, Wildcat Stadium. Uh,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: you can't really see the mountain as much as you
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: used to with the new school, but from the what
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: would it be like the south half of the stadium,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I guess you can still see it pretty well. It's
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: it's it is a sight to see. But uh, you
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: coached out at Mount Side for quite a while before
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: this stadium was built. I remember it just used to
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: be a mud patch by this time of the year.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: But truly, some great games. I've seen some awesome games
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: out there back in the day and at the new
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: stadium as well. It's a program that is always well
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: respected and very well coached.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know I have. I was there for three
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: years and I coached three sports in my early early career,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, there's some people out there I'm
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: really fond of and it's always a fun place for
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: me to go back to. You know, this staff this
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: year and in the last year is they're like an
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: all star team. You know, youve got former head coaches
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: and longtime assistants who have have proven their worth over
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: time and and their success. They've all accomplished, and what
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: we see it is fun. And I considered many of
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: those guys really close friends to me, so I'm I'm
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: excited to go up there. It's always good to see
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: and uh, you know, learn from those guys that that
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you know, you kind of listen to and clinics and
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: see at camp and and and a good football team.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: They're still young. They're not as long as young as
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: they were last year, but you know they're young and
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: and the thing with young teams is you get better
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: week by week by week. And they got a quarterback
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: back their their other quarterback who filled in was outstanding.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: He's a big, tall receiver. They've got they've got physicalness
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: up front. They're well coached up there with coach Linker,
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: and Bartel's got the defense going, and you know, Botoleinsky's
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: got his whole staff doing their thing, and everybody does
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: their job really well. And and so I'm telling you
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: it's going to be a fun challenge, a wonderful challenge.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: But that's that's Tier one. You know, every single week
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: is a challenge and good staffs and and good players,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: and so we look forward to heading up there. I
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: I uh, like I said, I'm very fond of of
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the Kwamie and North Bend area and had three great
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: years there and and I will always relish those times.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: But I look forward to stepping in there and going
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: to battle with them.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, now we have our horn. They also have kind
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: of a buzzer horn out there that almost wakes up
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the whole valley, if you will. One of the things
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I always loved about going out there to Wildcat Stadium
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: one no no track. The fans are right on top
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: of you. When you talk about great atmospheres, this is
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: one of those places and you know it's no POPKINI
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I have to say, but I do love it out there.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: It's exciting. It's when you think of like high school football.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: This is like a place that you know, there's there's
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: only a few places in the state that don't have
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a track. So when you take that track out, man,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it's high school football and in its peers form out
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: there and they do a tremendous job. So I'm excited
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to get out there. I love going to games at
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Mount Side and I think one of the things that
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I've learned over the years is staff, you know, fans, players,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: they have a love for that city. Two cities, I guess,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: because North Bend is technically part of it as well.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: So I'm excited to get out there Friday night, seven pm,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: kickoff at Wildcat Stadium in mount in snow qualm at
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Mount Side High School. Yeah that's all I got for
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: this week. Coach, thanks for your time and we'll talk
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: to you next week.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Thanks Rylan.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: A reminder really quickly, the Koks do hit the road
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: this Friday Wildcat Stadium. We expect to see a lot
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: of people out there, kind of small stands on the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Boffel side, so we expect it to be full. Get
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: out there, it'll be a fun one. I'm Ryland Spencer.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: He's Tom Bayner. You been listening to episode at nineteen
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of the Baffel Football Coaches Show. We'll talk to you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: next week and as always, go cook.