Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 451 - Gatorade Gameday Football Preview - Week 5

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Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast. This is
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episode 451. It's the week five Gatorade game day football preview.
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And I am Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps. Of course,
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this episode is brought to you by Walton Beverage, who's
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been a staple in our community for 95 years. And
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I will continue to work harder every day to make
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the fantastic people at Walton Beverage proud. to sponsor youth
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sports and our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment,
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and I plan to do the very same. Also, do
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you live in Whatcom, Skagit Island, or San Juan County
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and want to become an official? Officiating is a great
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way to give back to your community and ensure our
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youth have an opportunity to compete in athletics. Go to nwofficials.com
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to find out how you can get involved. Well, let's
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take a look at the football slate for this weekend.
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And it is eight games. And a lot of them
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are jam-packed on Friday night at 7 o'clock. Seven of
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the eight are jam-packed at the same time, which means
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tonight's show on YouTube, the Walkin' Preps YouTube channel. There
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will be a lot going on. No Thursday games. A
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lot going on Friday night. There will be one Saturday
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afternoon game, which we will get to at the end.
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But we're going to start right off by talking about
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the Friday night games. I've got almost all the coaches
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lined up to talk about the games. So let's start
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out with Bellingham going on the road to Marysville-Pilchuck. Now,
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this used to be a conference game, but Marysville-Pilchuck has
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gone to an independent schedule this year. Who knows? And
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Sultan kind of took their place. So we don't know
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if Marysville-Pilchuck at some point will rejoin the conference. It's
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very possible. You just kind of never know at this point.
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So a lot of 2A teams have kind of come
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in and left. I think we saw it with Cedar
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Crest at one point. Solton just joining in this year.
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Archbishop Murphy, it wasn't that long ago that they joined.
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And so it's a lot of those teams from down
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south that are kind of looking for a conference to join.
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But the Tomahawks are now out of the conference, and
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Bellingham will go to them. Bellingham is 1-3 on the season.
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They're ranked 45th in Class 2A, according to Max Preps.
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Marysville Pilchuck still looking for their first win. They're ranked
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60th in Class 2A. I am now joined on the
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Gatorade Game Day podcast by Bellingham head football coach Adam Leonard. Coach,
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thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
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I'm doing okay, Tyler. How are you?
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Doing all right as well. Okay, we're going to start
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by talking food. So name a food that you love
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to eat, but most people don't like to eat. It's
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easy to name your favorite food, but what's something that
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you like? I love this. I don't know why everybody
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else hates it.
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What I love to eat, but most people don't like.
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I don't know if there's an answer for that. That's
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a tremendously good question. That's like those questions we put
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up in our office every day.
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That's a good one.
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I would say, you know, some people don't like eggs.
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I love working out in the morning, and I love,
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you know, you know, 10 to 12 eggs every day
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after my workout. And I know some people don't like
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them where they get, you know, I think it's too bland.
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You know, some people don't like, you know, plain chicken breast.
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They have to dress it up a little bit.
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I'm going to say that just, I don't like it.
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Plain chicken breast. That's, that's a food that most people
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find bland, but I love.
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Now, now the opposite. What's something that you can't eat
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that everybody else loves?
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Oh, I'm from the desert now. So yeah, I hate
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fish and seafood.
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Disgusting.
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Anything out of the ocean makes me sick.
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And everybody up here in the Northwest, Pacific Northwest, they
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love seafood.
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They love salmon.
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They love fish. I don't like any of that. And
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I find it quite disgusting.
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Oh, that's great. So last week, it was a tough
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loss on the road against a great Linden team. And
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it was kind of everything working against you. It was
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a short week. and you were without your three-year starting quarterback.
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At what point in the week did you find out
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that Ben Leonard was unavailable to play, and then how
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did you tell freshman Nick Leonard the news?
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So Ben did not feel anything after the Lakewood game.
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As you know, he led our team in rushing in
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addition to passing, and he had a rushing touchdown.
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It really kind of changed the outcome of that game
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against Lakewood.
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And so his adrenaline must have been pumping.
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He didn't feel anything. The next day he woke up
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on Saturday and he didn't make it to film. He
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couldn't get out of bed. His wrist hurt so bad. So, okay,
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we know something's up.
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We took him in to get looked at immediately. And
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they couldn't tell if it was just a severe sprain
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or a fracture in the growth plate in his wrist. And, uh, luckily, uh,
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Calvin Van Hoffwagon's, uh, father is Dr. Chris Van Hoffwagon.
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And he was an orthopedic surgeon. He was able to
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look at the x-rays and, you know, I can't tell you,
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but we definitely need to keep them out. We don't
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want things to get worse. You know, uh, you want
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to bring them back healthy. So obviously in our house,
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little brother, Nick is listening to all this conversation.
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And knowing, uh, you know, he's the next man up
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on our death chart.
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And, About Monday, we came in and we started repping
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Nick at getting QB1 reps. And by Tuesday, Wednesday, we
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were like, okay, you know, we're going to sit Ben
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out this one. Nick's going to be the starter. And
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he's not an old freshman either. He just turned 14,
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not 15. So he has a lot of QB experience
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under him. But playing high-level middle school and youth football
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versus playing on the field at Lyndon's homecoming was night
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and day.
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It was quite an experience for him and a couple
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other freshmen we had to start. But at the end
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of the day, I think they'll be stronger for it.
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And so that's kind of how that timeline went with
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going from Ben to Nick at QB.
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Yeah, and it's a memorable moment, too. It's something they're
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going to always remember, even though the score was not
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what you wanted. But it's something that they'll remember for
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the rest of their lives. And it was the first
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time you've coached against Linden. First impressions?
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I mean, just an amazing program.
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Coach Van Dalen and his staff just have, it's the
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well-oiled machine over there. They have everything going for them.
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They have the most terrific band I've ever heard. Their
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crowd comes out. It's like the whole town comes out
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to watch. We don't even practice on grass. And then
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it started raining hard. And so you have the muddy,
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wet turf. Our snaps were off. Our exchanges were off.
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It just takes the timing out a little bit. And
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they're just very physical. Their depth is what really impressed me.
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Their ones and twos, you know, sometimes you can't tell
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the difference. And, you know, they get into their threes
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and their other backups. And it's like they're just so
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fundamentally sound. They're so well coached. It's just a great program.
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I mean, I once, a few years ago, my son
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was at Swalicum. I was talking to them. We were
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down playing, already talking to them. Tumwater coaches were down there.
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And Tumwater told me how impressed they were. with coach Van.
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Dalen and the Lennon lions. And, you know, they lived
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up to every bit of it.
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It's a, it's a, it's something about it. You know,
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it's a, you build up a standard and then you
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have to keep that standard and they've kept it for
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a long, long time. Um, But that week has passed us.
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You're on to now a normal week where you get
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to play on a Friday night. You'll be back on
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the road, this time taking on Marysville Pilchuck. They aren't
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in the conference anymore, but you have familiarity having played
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them the past few years. What can you tell us
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about this year's Tomahawks?
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Watched a lot of film on them. You know, Kenny's
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doing a great job with them down there. I know
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he lost a lot of seniors, but he's got some
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athletes on there. He's also got a lot of big guys.
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Just Marysville Pilchuck, you know, last few years, they just
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have Big, big players on their O and D line.
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And we're well aware of what they're doing there.
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You know, they're coming in 0 and 4, but, you know,
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they've been competing. And, you know, there's no easy wins
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in high school football.
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And by all means, this is not one of them.
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We're going to have to go in and compete really hard.
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We're still a little unsure about our quarterback situation between
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Ben and Nick and who's going to be getting that start.
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Depends on Ben's health. So we have some other guys
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that have been dinged up for the Linden game.
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So we're going to have to come in, have a
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great game time, which Coach Nixon has already put together,
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and go out and compete and get back in that
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win column for sure.
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And, you know, playing on a Thursday night that opened
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up your Friday night, what was the game plan? Where
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did you go? Did you get to watch some football?
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How did that work out on Friday night for you?
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Well, Friday during the day, It was more rain than
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I've seen in a while. It rained all day. But
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then for those Friday night games, at least in the city,
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at Civic, the sky has kind of cleared up a
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little bit. I saw some of the highlights from the
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Nooksack-Swalcombe game.
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It was raining out there. But I watched Lakewood-Seaholmes.
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Seaholmes are our opponent after Pilchuck this week.
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So I wanted to get ahead of what they look
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like in person.
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And I'm very familiar with those players, obviously their coaches,
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half of what they do. But I was at Civic
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Friday night. Coach Scott Osk is our O-line coach. We
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sat together and watched the game in the cold.
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And that was a good game. That was, you know,
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I thought it was a good game plan by the
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Mariners running the ball and controlling the clock in the
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second half especially. And they ended up getting the win there.
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And you're right. It wasn't too bad in the first half.
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I think the second half probably rained a little more steadily.
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But out at Nooksack Valley, it was– I think it
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rained a couple inches just during the game alone. It
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was crazy out there and kind of a turnover flag
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fest there in the second half. half and Nooksack Valley
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was able to hold on to that one. So yeah,
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best of luck on Friday at Marysville Pilchuck. Thank you
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so much for joining me today on the Gatorade Game
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Day Podcast.
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Thanks for having me and have a great week, Tyler.
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Thank you very much, Coach Leonard, for all the information.
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And now we're going to go to Some 1B football.
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And this is probably the biggest 1B matchup in the
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state on Friday night as Tulalip Heritage comes to town
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to take on Lummi Nation. 7 o'clock kickoff. And these
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are two undefeated teams. And this was the rematch of
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the state basketball championship. And an amazing rivalry in basketball.
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And looks like it's going to start building one in
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football here. As I said, both teams are undefeated. Tulalip
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Heritage ranked second in the state at 1B. Lummi Nation
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ranked sixth. And these are, of course, Max Preps rankings.
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I was still waiting for the new coaches rankings to
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come out, but it didn't come out yet this week
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by the time I'm recording this. So we do not
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have that. I am now joined on the Gatorade Game
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Day podcast by Lummi Nation head football coach, Watiko Layton. Coach,
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thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
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I'm doing pretty good.
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Thanks for having me, Tyler.
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Yeah, you bet. We're going to start by talking food.
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So name a food that you love to eat, but
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for some reason most people don't like.
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Ooh.
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That's a difficult one.
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I know that's a tricky one.
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I mean, I guess I could say salmon. There's a
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lot of people out there that are fish types, but
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I like all kinds of fish, trout.
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Bass, salmon.
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So I would have to say that.
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I don't know if there's anything– crazy that everyone doesn't like,
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but I would say that's the most likely.
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Now the opposite. This might be a little easier. What's
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something that you're not a fan of, but everybody else
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seems to love?
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I think I've seen, I don't know if it's majority
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of the people, but I've seen a lot of people
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like asparagus. I've never Never really liked asparagus for some reason. Really?
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I love it.
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Oh, man.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You cook it up right and you put some garlic
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on it. Holy cow, it's good.
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But that's the thing, right? For me, it's cheesecake and
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potato salad. I can't stand either of those two things,
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but it seems like everybody loves those two things.
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I do like cheesecake. Potato salad, I'll agree. I'll agree
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with that. Yeah.
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I don't know.
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I'm just not a mayonnaise guy, but– All right, well,
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let's get back to football here. On Friday, you hosted
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Muckleshoot Tribal, picked up a huge win. You scored a
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lot of points early on. You scored 66 overall. You know,
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it was funny because before the game, I was talking
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to my broadcast partner, Jim Brang, and I was like,
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I think they're going to put up 70 in this one.
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And you made me look pretty good. What did you
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like about that game?
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We had a lot of ups and downs. We executed
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the ball well. Our blocking with our skill guys and
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our O-line was phenomenal. It was perfect throughout most of
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the game. Our defensive strategies was working pretty well. We
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had a couple hiccups in that second quarter to where
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they got two touchdowns, but.
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For the majority of the game, they did their job
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and executed well.
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You talk about the blocking, not just on the line,
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but like you said, the skill guys on the outside,
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which is huge in eight man football. Cause if you
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can get one good block, uh, that that's pretty huge.
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And speaking of blocking, uh, tell me about your senior
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Deandre James, uh, about six, four to 30. Um, now,
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now this is, this is a tough one. Is he
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a basketball player that just plays football or is he
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a football player that happens to play basketball? Or is
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he just a great overall athlete that you love to
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have on your, your side?
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I think majority of our kids want to be basketball players,
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but naturally ability. I think they're all football players and
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I can see Jerome Toby on the corner of my
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eye shaking his head. Um, but they're just athletes, you know,
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but they have that fierce dominant style to them. So I,
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in my opinion, I'm always going to say they're football players,
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but they love to play basketball.
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What's the biggest part of Deandre James? How does he
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help your team the most?
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Uh, I would say his leadership. He's real stoic.
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Um, he's calming, you know, when, uh, adversity comes he
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stays resilient is able to pull his team back together
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in a positive manner and um you know he's just
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real intelligent when it comes to football iq um growing
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up playing starting varsity since he was a freshman same
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with a couple other players but he's always had that
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grit and desire to get the job done no matter what.
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Yeah he's a guy who would not want lined up
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against me i'll tell you that he's a great guy
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he's a nice guy but man he's just so big
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and physical and athletic and and it's been great to
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get to know him over the last few years. And
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that's the thing that I'm sure you feel the same
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way is, man, it's going to be sad when some
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of these guys go because it's just you get to
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know them so well. Luckily for you, they might stay around.
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They might come back and coach. They might do that
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kind of thing. But for me, it's so long, and
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hopefully I'll see you again at a game. But this
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upcoming Friday night conference play, hosting Tulalip Heritage, Man, this
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looks like a big one. What can you tell me
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about that team?
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They're very athletic. So just like us, they have all
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their basketball players playing football. So they got the speed,
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the agility, the quickness. You know, their team's really good
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at executing their plays. But all in all, when it
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comes to the big plays, a lot of the athletes
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just step up and make those talented plays. So a
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really good, hard team.
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Yeah, you know, I was looking at their schedule and
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their scores that they've had so far. And, yeah, they're
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putting up a lot of points, but they've only allowed
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one touchdown in three total games. What's more impressive, their
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offense or their defense?
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I would say their offense. You know, their defense is
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really nice. They rally the ball well. Nothing too much
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wrong with them, but we have seen a couple flaws
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that we're going to try to target. on their defense,
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but offensively, if we can rally to the ball, stay
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in our gaps, fly around, it should be a really
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good game for us too.
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You know, obviously in basketball, it's a huge rivalry with
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these two schools. I mean, it's so fun to go
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to the, the atmosphere is completely different. It just, it just,
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I mean, I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it already
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right now. Has that developed at all into a football
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rivalry yet?
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It has in the past.
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I believe this year they're overlooking us a lot.
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But looking at our matchup with our athletic ability, our
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speed and quickness this year, I think it should turn
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back into a rivalry start of that first quarter.
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That's awesome, man. It's going to be great, and it's
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going to be under the lights at home, 7 o'clock kickoff.
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It's going to be great. Best of luck against Tulalip Heritage.
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Thank you so much for joining me today on the
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Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
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I appreciate it. Thank you for having me, Tyler.
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All right. Next up, we will go back to 2A now,
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and we've got some conference matches. 2A here with some
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local flavor as the Squalicum Storm will head down south
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to Everett to take on Archbishop Murphy. Squalicum 1 and
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3 on the season. Archbishop Murphy 3 and 1 on
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the season and was not able to catch up with
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Coach Lucy, but Squalicum ranked 24th in 2A. Archbishop Murphy
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is ranked third after suffering that loss a few weeks ago.
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But still, obviously, a very, very good team. These are
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two teams that really want to run the ball quite
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a bit. And it's going to be it's going to
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be a really tough one for the Storm. I mean,
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you know, still, I believe, still without their starting quarterback
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and starting outside linebacker. But last week, I thought, especially
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in the second half, they found some good things on
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the in the run game. And they really featured Maddox
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Strickland and Tucker Hofstede quite a bit as they each
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had 20 carries and combined for about 230, 240 yards.
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So that's what they're going to need to do. They're
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going to have to try to control the clock, keep
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the ball in their possession for the majority of the
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time and just slowly pick.
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Up first downs.
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And then on defense and special teams, they need something
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big to happen, whether it's a pick six, a fumble return,
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a kickoff return. something big's got to happen. And I
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tell you, the Squalicum Storm has that kind of defense
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that has historically always been really good at making a
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big play like that happen. And they've returned a lot
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of kickoffs and punts for touchdowns in the.
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Past as well.
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So to stay with the Wildcats, they're really going to
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need some stuff like that to happen. I'm not saying
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that it can't happen, but boy, it's going to be really,
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really hard as Squalicum now is on a three-game losing
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streak and Archbishop Murphy still probably not super happy about
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having that loss that stopped their winning streak a few
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weeks ago. So Squalicum down at Archbishop Murphy, 7 o'clock
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Friday night, Terry Ennis Stadium. And, yeah, we'll be rooting
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on the Storm from afar. We'll see if they can
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get it done. Also in 2A, the Linden Lions will
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be heading to Civic Stadium to take on the Sehome Mariners. Linden.
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Currently ranked 7th in Class 2A in the Max Preps rankings.
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Seaholm was ranked 40th in 2A. Linden 3-1. Seaholm 1-3.
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I was not able to catch up with Coach Brian Young,
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but I was able to track down Coach Blake Van Dalen.
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I am now joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast
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by Linden Head Football. coach, Blake Van Dalen coach. Thank
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you for joining me today. How are you doing?
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Awesome.
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Sun's back out. I feel like we're back in August.
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It's like, it's like September never happened.
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It's just kind of going around. And of course, October
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starts tomorrow. And, uh, as we're recording this anyways, and, uh,
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So a lot of moving parts there. And we're going
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to start by talking food. And it's easy to say
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what your favorite meal is or whatever, but name a
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food that you love to eat, but for some reason
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most people don't like to eat it.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh.
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In my family, it's crab. I love crab, but most
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of my kids do not. And so I love it
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when people bring us crab because I usually can't go
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crabbing during football season.
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Right.
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And I can just kind of be a pig. So
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there we go. I'm going to stick with crab.
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That's a good one. I know there's things like that
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when you're in the family, if it's the only thing
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that Or if it's something that you like and no
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one else does, man, you're like, this is fantastic. And
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now the opposite. What's something that everybody seems to love,
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but you're like, I don't get it. I just don't
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like it. When?
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During COVID, when I lost taste and smell, I was
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able to eat pickles. And I was like, oh, so
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these are basically cucumbers. But now that the smell and
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taste came back, it just causes a weird reaction in
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me that a pickle will ruin anything. It'll ruin a burger.
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It'll ruin anything.
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I can't eat pickles.
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Wow.
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That is unfortunate. I love pickles. I love cucumbers, too. But, man,
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pickles on a sub sandwich just does the trick for me.
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I know.
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Yeah, that's crazy. Well, on Thursday, you hosted Bellingham, scored
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two touchdowns on interception returns, another on a fumble return,
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and so I have a little trivia for you. Do
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you know the last time Linden scored three defensive touchdowns
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in a game?
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Three defensive touchdowns? Well, we had a really good defensive
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team in 2009, and that was my first year as
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defensive coordinator.
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That'll be my guess.
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Well, it would have been when you were probably a
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junior high school student. This was September 28, 1984. Wow.
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In a 54-0 win over Nooksack Valley, Les Powers had
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a pick six, and Brian Nelson and Lloyd Winterberg each
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had a fumble return for a touchdown, so.
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That is crazy. And Lloyd's son, Luke, played for us
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just a couple years ago. So that tells you how
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long ago that was.
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Yeah, incredible.
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Thank you.
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That'll be fun trivia. I was having fun with the
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kids because I said, how many players score in the game?
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And they were shocked that it was double digits, 10
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different players score.
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That's awesome. Yeah, that's a really cool thing. And to
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be able to get so many kids in the game
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at home, on homecoming, I mean, all those things combined.
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It's got to be great for your program. And and
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I saw those I saw those hockey line changes at
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the end on defense. And that was always fun to see.
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A player that stood out early in that game is
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senior linebacker Adam Holman. He's really come on strong this season.
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What makes him such a great football player?
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I think number one is instinct. You know, he plays
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00:23:06.430 --> 00:23:10.150
our inside backer position. And yes, there's a lot of
484
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coaching that goes into all the little details. But in
485
00:23:13.130 --> 00:23:15.410
the end, we've had a lot of really good dudes
486
00:23:15.450 --> 00:23:18.390
that couldn't play that because they didn't have those instincts.
487
00:23:18.890 --> 00:23:22.210
It's just a feel for where the pressure is coming from.
488
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And because we can't always do everything perfect. And when
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that happens, you need that guy to make a play.
490
00:23:28.789 --> 00:23:31.150
And that's usually been Adam for us. You know, he
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and Landon, the other inside backer they've had a great
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senior year so far and and and that we have
493
00:23:38.970 --> 00:23:41.690
them their third year linebackers so this is their time
494
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to shine.
495
00:23:42.769 --> 00:23:44.769
Yeah and it's when you have two of them that
496
00:23:44.809 --> 00:23:48.700
are both seniors things usually go pretty well for you
497
00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:51.319
so it's uh it's kind of nice to have that
498
00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:54.220
um friday night you'll be heading out to civic stadium
499
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to take on the mariners uh you've had close games
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with them recently but they have a pretty new team
501
00:24:00.420 --> 00:24:02.380
this year What can you tell us about this year's
502
00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:03.019
Seahawks squad?
503
00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:08.509
Yeah, they like to run the ball when they find
504
00:24:08.609 --> 00:24:11.089
something that you're not good at. So that's what we've
505
00:24:11.109 --> 00:24:14.289
been emphasizing this week is that you need to be
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ready that if they find a crease, they're not going
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to go away from it. If they find something that works,
508
00:24:21.339 --> 00:24:25.039
they will stay with that until they hammer it home.
509
00:24:25.539 --> 00:24:28.000
And so, you know, it's different. You have Nolan Wright
510
00:24:28.019 --> 00:24:31.609
for four years. That was a special human being, not
511
00:24:31.650 --> 00:24:35.089
just football players, a great kid. And they put a
512
00:24:35.130 --> 00:24:38.369
lot on his plate and he handled it well. And
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00:24:38.630 --> 00:24:40.910
now they look more like a normal high school football
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00:24:40.930 --> 00:24:43.160
team where everybody's.
515
00:24:42.730 --> 00:24:44.630
Got to do their part together.
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00:24:45.230 --> 00:24:47.480
And you can't expect Nolan to go back there and
517
00:24:47.660 --> 00:24:51.779
make something magical happen. And so that's probably the biggest difference.
518
00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:55.279
You know, we've had some very close, amazing games with
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00:24:55.339 --> 00:24:58.450
them the last couple of years. And so we are
520
00:24:58.509 --> 00:25:02.650
happy to see him graduate and get to go against
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00:25:02.670 --> 00:25:03.549
some fresh faces.
522
00:25:04.390 --> 00:25:07.049
You know, you brought up a good point about if
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they see something working, they will go back to it.
524
00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:13.400
And you're an offensive play caller, I believe, still, correct?
525
00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:14.140
Yep.
526
00:25:14.579 --> 00:25:18.539
Yeah, so there's something to that about when you see
527
00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:20.740
something and going back to it. But it's not just, hey,
528
00:25:20.779 --> 00:25:23.279
this worked last time, it could work again. But it's
529
00:25:23.380 --> 00:25:27.160
something about doing something to the opponent's psyche by doing that.
530
00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:29.730
Is there any truth to that? Do you feel like,
531
00:25:29.769 --> 00:25:31.529
have you had runs like that where you're like, do
532
00:25:31.589 --> 00:25:33.269
it again, do it again? All you have to say
533
00:25:33.309 --> 00:25:33.930
is do it again.
534
00:25:33.950 --> 00:25:38.289
Yeah, there's, you know, you got to be careful not
535
00:25:38.329 --> 00:25:41.640
to be too predictable. But there is something about, you're
536
00:25:41.660 --> 00:25:44.079
talking about imposing your will on your opponent. And we
537
00:25:44.099 --> 00:25:47.920
have a phrase, there's a moment in every game, a moment,
538
00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:50.900
sorry about that, in every game where you know and
539
00:25:50.940 --> 00:25:51.319
they know.
540
00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.680
And whatever that no is, it.
541
00:25:54.299 --> 00:25:56.519
Could be that, you know, we're able to run the
542
00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:59.920
ball effectively in a certain situation and they're realizing it, too.
543
00:26:00.009 --> 00:26:02.349
And it's on them to stop it. That's a really
544
00:26:02.390 --> 00:26:04.430
good feeling. That's a lot of work in the weight room.
545
00:26:04.470 --> 00:26:07.970
That's a lot of offseason time and conditioning and whatnot.
546
00:26:08.529 --> 00:26:10.730
And that's what I think CEO is trying to do
547
00:26:10.809 --> 00:26:13.130
is they're trying to create a situation where we know
548
00:26:13.150 --> 00:26:15.849
and they know. Now you got to stop it. You know,
549
00:26:15.910 --> 00:26:18.089
and there was times Ferndale did that to us two
550
00:26:18.109 --> 00:26:21.549
weeks ago. And so that's part of the chess match.
551
00:26:21.630 --> 00:26:22.130
Definitely.
552
00:26:22.670 --> 00:26:25.670
Yeah, there's something that's really fun about that. You know,
553
00:26:25.710 --> 00:26:27.940
Coach Lepp has talked about times when maybe on a
554
00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:31.759
fourth and two situation. He'll call timeout. He goes out
555
00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:33.740
there and he'll just say, what do you guys feel
556
00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:37.670
like running? Because it's sometimes it's if they if they
557
00:26:37.910 --> 00:26:40.309
know something, if they have a good matchup or something.
558
00:26:40.910 --> 00:26:42.970
And have you ever had that moment where you've called
559
00:26:42.990 --> 00:26:44.890
the timeout and you said, what do you guys like
560
00:26:44.950 --> 00:26:45.279
right here?
561
00:26:46.289 --> 00:26:48.140
Oh, yeah. I've had both sides of it.
562
00:26:48.170 --> 00:26:50.349
I've had times where I've signaled something that I think
563
00:26:50.430 --> 00:26:51.859
is going to work and I believe in it.
564
00:26:51.970 --> 00:26:54.109
But you can just tell the kids don't. And to
565
00:26:54.390 --> 00:26:56.630
be honest, if they don't believe in it, it won't work.
566
00:26:56.690 --> 00:26:58.089
And then you're right. Vice versa.
567
00:26:58.490 --> 00:27:00.589
There's my favorite time is when you go out there
568
00:27:00.609 --> 00:27:02.690
and you're like, hey, here's what we're thinking. And you
569
00:27:02.730 --> 00:27:05.819
get 11 kids nod their head or one vocal kid
570
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:09.319
saying yes. And then everybody's on the same page and
571
00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:12.940
they'll nod. you know, run through a wall because of
572
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:15.240
the ownership side of it. Same with quarterbacks. You know,
573
00:27:15.259 --> 00:27:17.880
there's a lot of times I want them or receivers,
574
00:27:18.160 --> 00:27:20.490
like if a receiver calls a certain play, I know
575
00:27:20.529 --> 00:27:22.650
that even if the ball's not perfect, they know they
576
00:27:22.670 --> 00:27:25.789
called that play and they're going to do something unhuman
577
00:27:25.829 --> 00:27:28.529
if they have to, to get that reception. And quarterbacks,
578
00:27:28.869 --> 00:27:31.210
if they see something they like, they're going to, you know,
579
00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:33.599
make it work because they don't, A, want to be
580
00:27:33.660 --> 00:27:35.079
wrong and they don't want to let the team down.
581
00:27:35.619 --> 00:27:36.180
Absolutely.
582
00:27:36.220 --> 00:27:38.759
That's a, there's so many insights to coaching that a
583
00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:42.069
lot of people don't understand into those It's those brief
584
00:27:42.170 --> 00:27:46.630
meetings sometimes, and it's those specific moments that you'll remember forever,
585
00:27:46.690 --> 00:27:49.170
and that's really cool. Coach, thank you so much for sharing,
586
00:27:49.529 --> 00:27:51.559
and best of luck on Friday at Seaholm. Thank you
587
00:27:51.579 --> 00:27:53.940
for joining me today on the Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
588
00:27:54.859 --> 00:27:55.220
You bet.
589
00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:56.079
Thank you much, Tyler.
590
00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:59.119
Thank you, Coach. As we will go now to the
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00:27:59.579 --> 00:28:04.180
3A ranks as Ferndale, they begin conference play finally as
592
00:28:04.220 --> 00:28:06.799
they will go on the road to take on Mount Vernon.
593
00:28:07.430 --> 00:28:11.289
who has a very deceptive 0-4 record because they have
594
00:28:11.349 --> 00:28:14.609
some athletes on their team, and they just have not
595
00:28:14.630 --> 00:28:16.710
been able to put together a win as of yet.
596
00:28:17.049 --> 00:28:21.329
They are ranked 38th in 3A. Ferndale is 3-1 on
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00:28:21.369 --> 00:28:25.589
the year, and they are ranked 16th in 3A. I
598
00:28:25.650 --> 00:28:27.970
am now joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by
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00:28:28.029 --> 00:28:31.380
Ferndale head football coach Jamie Plankovich. Coach, thank you for
600
00:28:31.410 --> 00:28:32.599
joining me today. How are you doing?
601
00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:34.319
Doing good. Thanks, Tyler.
602
00:28:35.470 --> 00:28:37.869
All right, we're going to start by talking food. It's
603
00:28:37.910 --> 00:28:40.430
really easy to say what your favorite food is, but
604
00:28:40.509 --> 00:28:43.309
name a food that you really enjoy, but for some
605
00:28:43.349 --> 00:28:45.299
reason other people just don't like it.
606
00:28:46.619 --> 00:28:47.279
Oh, man.
607
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:53.700
I'm pretty vanilla on what I like. I'm trying to
608
00:28:53.740 --> 00:28:58.470
think if I have something that maybe is a little odd.
609
00:28:58.490 --> 00:28:59.769
Okay.
610
00:29:02.589 --> 00:29:03.430
And I'm struggling.
611
00:29:04.190 --> 00:29:06.910
That's fine. That's fine. That's a hard question actually, but
612
00:29:07.109 --> 00:29:10.109
the opposite might be easier. What's something that, that you
613
00:29:10.150 --> 00:29:13.170
just can't eat, but everyone else seems to love.
614
00:29:19.220 --> 00:29:20.200
Look at my body.
615
00:29:20.299 --> 00:29:21.519
I can eat pretty much anything.
616
00:29:24.640 --> 00:29:26.160
Oh man. It's yeah.
617
00:29:26.339 --> 00:29:29.099
There are probably some things I shouldn't eat that would
618
00:29:29.140 --> 00:29:31.849
help me out a little bit, but I haven't, uh,
619
00:29:32.289 --> 00:29:34.309
I got to get a little more self-discipline, I think.
620
00:29:34.829 --> 00:29:36.440
Oh, whatever.
621
00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:38.579
I say you live your best life, Coach. I think
622
00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:39.599
you're doing the right thing.
623
00:29:40.099 --> 00:29:42.700
And sorry about that answer yeah.
624
00:29:42.619 --> 00:29:45.950
It's all good on thursday you hosted glacier peak a
625
00:29:45.990 --> 00:29:49.049
very good 4a team with talent all over the field
626
00:29:49.190 --> 00:29:51.970
up front uh and i mean skill guys it was
627
00:29:52.009 --> 00:29:55.250
crazy they scored early on a long play and then
628
00:29:55.269 --> 00:29:57.049
you matched them on a long play. And I kind
629
00:29:57.089 --> 00:29:59.529
of thought, oh, this might be a shootout. But then
630
00:29:59.549 --> 00:30:01.349
the Grizzlies kind of took control of the game for
631
00:30:01.369 --> 00:30:04.890
a little while, ended up winning 35-22. What was your
632
00:30:04.910 --> 00:30:07.390
biggest takeaway from that game?
633
00:30:08.470 --> 00:30:12.519
We just, not to take anything away from Glacier Peak,
634
00:30:12.539 --> 00:30:15.559
because they are a good football team with some talent.
635
00:30:16.099 --> 00:30:19.599
We did not do a good job coming out in
636
00:30:19.619 --> 00:30:25.410
that game. We didn't adjust to their quickness and speed,
637
00:30:25.470 --> 00:30:31.289
especially along the defensive front early, really till late in
638
00:30:31.309 --> 00:30:34.819
the game. And it's something we talked about on Monday
639
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:37.579
is we got to mature as a football team a
640
00:30:37.599 --> 00:30:38.140
little bit.
641
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:40.640
It was a little bit.
642
00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:47.359
Different style with really quick guys up front. And we
643
00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:51.299
didn't adjust our angles and, do the things that we needed.
644
00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:52.980
To do to match that.
645
00:30:54.339 --> 00:30:57.200
We finally did later in the game, and then we
646
00:30:57.220 --> 00:31:00.039
were consistently moving the ball. But we've got to figure
647
00:31:00.099 --> 00:31:03.200
those things out earlier in a game.
648
00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:05.319
To try to.
649
00:31:05.859 --> 00:31:09.220
Eliminate some of those mistakes and the amount of guys
650
00:31:09.269 --> 00:31:14.089
we had in our backfield for three quarters of that game.
651
00:31:15.069 --> 00:31:15.309
Yeah.
652
00:31:15.369 --> 00:31:17.630
It's, it's one of those things that's, there's certain things
653
00:31:17.670 --> 00:31:20.609
you can replicate with scout team and stuff, but just
654
00:31:20.710 --> 00:31:22.869
overall speed is one of those things that you just
655
00:31:22.910 --> 00:31:27.829
don't see it until game time and they were loaded
656
00:31:27.869 --> 00:31:30.309
with it. So, you know, and then having to make
657
00:31:30.349 --> 00:31:33.049
those adjustments on the fly sometimes and you're overwhelmed and
658
00:31:33.089 --> 00:31:34.589
it can be tough, but like you said, it has
659
00:31:34.630 --> 00:31:37.789
to happen. It has to happen earlier. And, and then,
660
00:31:37.809 --> 00:31:39.930
like you said, things started changing and they're in the
661
00:31:39.970 --> 00:31:43.069
second half and, and, but like, you know, it has
662
00:31:43.109 --> 00:31:45.940
to be done earlier. You had Chance Hatchett back on
663
00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:48.400
the field. He played well on both sides of the ball.
664
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:51.789
How was he feeling after the game, and is he
665
00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:53.049
still good going forward?
666
00:31:53.869 --> 00:31:57.769
Yeah, he's still good. He was very anxious to play.
667
00:31:58.150 --> 00:32:03.569
He's been standing on the sidelines for our first three weeks,
668
00:32:03.670 --> 00:32:06.390
which for a guy that's used to being out there
669
00:32:06.549 --> 00:32:09.779
on both sides of the ball is pretty tough. Handled
670
00:32:09.859 --> 00:32:13.099
it really well, was a good teammate throughout that. But
671
00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:16.960
it was exciting getting him back. We tried to limit
672
00:32:17.059 --> 00:32:21.119
his snaps a little bit so that we make sure
673
00:32:21.180 --> 00:32:24.660
he was acclimated to the physical part of the game.
674
00:32:26.039 --> 00:32:27.200
And he came out of it good.
675
00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:32.450
And we're just, you know, progressing now this week with him.
676
00:32:33.089 --> 00:32:34.430
And he'll get better, too.
677
00:32:35.089 --> 00:32:39.480
First game night, there's some things that he knows that–
678
00:32:39.809 --> 00:32:42.210
he needs to get better at and just adjusting to
679
00:32:42.250 --> 00:32:42.890
game speed.
680
00:32:43.450 --> 00:32:48.460
Yeah, absolutely. Um, and Friday night conference play finally coach.
681
00:32:48.980 --> 00:32:49.220
Yeah.
682
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:51.400
It's a, it seems like usually you'll, you know, you
683
00:32:51.420 --> 00:32:53.359
get into it a little early. You know, I remember
684
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:55.799
for a while you had early conference games against Oak
685
00:32:55.819 --> 00:33:00.119
Harbor and now it's finally, you're getting into conference play.
686
00:33:00.140 --> 00:33:02.599
You'll be on the road against Mount Vernon. Tell us
687
00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:03.420
about the Bulldogs.
688
00:33:04.700 --> 00:33:07.440
Oh, their, their record is deceiving.
689
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:12.359
Um, you know, they, They've struggled so far as far
690
00:33:12.400 --> 00:33:15.240
as the scoreboard goes, but I think they have the
691
00:33:15.289 --> 00:33:18.970
most dynamic receiver in the league who really caused us
692
00:33:19.230 --> 00:33:26.380
issues last year. He's very fast, very quick. So you've
693
00:33:26.390 --> 00:33:29.680
got to count for him wherever he's at in their formation.
694
00:33:29.960 --> 00:33:33.619
Try to keep him from having big plays. They've already returned,
695
00:33:33.660 --> 00:33:37.740
I think, two kickoffs for touchdowns. which they did against
696
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:40.460
us last year as well in our game. So we
697
00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:43.059
got to do a good job on special teams. They're
698
00:33:43.099 --> 00:33:47.559
really patient and they'll stick to the running game. So
699
00:33:47.579 --> 00:33:50.799
they're not just going to abandon that and throw it
700
00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.410
around the yard. But, you know, they may do a
701
00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:56.829
good job of matching their run game with a lot
702
00:33:56.890 --> 00:34:01.990
of quick screen stuff so that it's not tough throws
703
00:34:02.029 --> 00:34:04.730
for their quarterback and it just gets the the ball
704
00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:08.019
to guys in space quickly. It makes you defend the
705
00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:10.440
whole width of the field. So offensively, they're going to
706
00:34:10.460 --> 00:34:14.039
be challenged. They've scored, you know, points in pretty much
707
00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:18.949
every game. Defensively, they'll be similar to what we saw
708
00:34:19.590 --> 00:34:25.730
last Thursday with Glacier Peak in where they align. They
709
00:34:25.769 --> 00:34:31.199
run with maybe some bigger guys up front than Glacier Peak,
710
00:34:31.380 --> 00:34:34.590
but they're still very active. They're going to pack the
711
00:34:34.630 --> 00:34:37.210
box and, and try to take our run game away.
712
00:34:38.469 --> 00:34:38.570
Yeah.
713
00:34:38.630 --> 00:34:41.050
I was going to ask about that, how, you know,
714
00:34:41.090 --> 00:34:43.869
a lot of teams are in the spread right now.
715
00:34:44.340 --> 00:34:47.099
And so when teams are playing, they're kind of their
716
00:34:47.460 --> 00:34:50.780
quote unquote base defense. Do you see teams that come
717
00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.840
out differently to give you a different look because of
718
00:34:53.900 --> 00:34:56.070
your offense? And then you have to adjust to what
719
00:34:56.090 --> 00:34:57.690
you thought they might do every once in a while.
720
00:34:57.969 --> 00:34:59.610
Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
721
00:35:00.289 --> 00:35:04.139
It's you know, and that, it's something that we consider
722
00:35:04.179 --> 00:35:07.639
an advantage for teams to have to prepare for us,
723
00:35:08.980 --> 00:35:12.480
which is a different offense than really most everybody else.
724
00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.099
There's a ton of spread out there. So we have
725
00:35:15.139 --> 00:35:18.039
a little different style, but at the same time, yeah,
726
00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:22.119
then you can see sometimes it's hard to figure out
727
00:35:22.340 --> 00:35:24.280
what their game plan is going to be, where they're
728
00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:27.900
going to deploy their, their personnel and how they're going
729
00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.949
to try to stop what, what we like to do. So,
730
00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:34.820
First couple of series, we're trying to figure out, you know,
731
00:35:35.539 --> 00:35:37.659
what their plan was coming into the game.
732
00:35:37.980 --> 00:35:38.260
Right.
733
00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:40.699
And then you'll find out what the adjustments are. Then
734
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:42.409
you make your adjustments. And then that's when all the
735
00:35:42.909 --> 00:35:46.710
fun happens. And that's where the real coaching takes place.
736
00:35:46.789 --> 00:35:50.090
Because in-game adjustments, holy cow, that's when you see the
737
00:35:50.110 --> 00:35:52.610
wins and losses. And, you know, it's one of those
738
00:35:52.630 --> 00:35:55.360
things that I didn't really pick up on a ton.
739
00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:57.119
I mean, I'm just kind of looking for stats and
740
00:35:57.139 --> 00:35:59.519
all that stuff. And then you really see the changes
741
00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:03.929
in it. and how everything envelops after that, and it's
742
00:36:03.969 --> 00:36:07.170
pretty crazy. Best of luck on Friday at Mount Vernon, Coach.
743
00:36:07.190 --> 00:36:08.989
Thank you for joining me today on the Gatorade Game
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00:36:09.010 --> 00:36:09.710
Day Podcast.
745
00:36:10.070 --> 00:36:11.670
Thanks a lot, Tyler. Happy to be here.
746
00:36:12.630 --> 00:36:16.030
And now time to focus on the 1A Northwest Conference
747
00:36:16.130 --> 00:36:20.610
League games, and the league games are starting tonight, Friday night.
748
00:36:21.219 --> 00:36:24.820
Got a couple of them that'll be huge, and if
749
00:36:24.860 --> 00:36:28.570
you talk about top to bottom best 1A games, in
750
00:36:28.590 --> 00:36:30.550
the state year in and year out. It is the
751
00:36:30.610 --> 00:36:34.250
Northwest Conference, and so winning these games is extremely important.
752
00:36:34.269 --> 00:36:36.849
The first game we're going to talk about, Meridian at
753
00:36:36.929 --> 00:36:40.610
Linden Christian. Meridian 2-2 on a two-game winning streak. They're
754
00:36:40.650 --> 00:36:44.420
currently ranked ninth in Max Prep's 1A rankings. Linden Christian 3-1.
755
00:36:44.409 --> 00:36:48.610
They're ranked third in Max Prep's rankings, although that's a
756
00:36:48.630 --> 00:36:51.969
little deceiving because they don't take into account the win
757
00:36:51.989 --> 00:36:55.429
they had up north against Vancouver College. So I don't
758
00:36:55.469 --> 00:36:59.360
know how... you know, I would say Lenny Christian's probably
759
00:36:59.500 --> 00:37:02.809
closer to a two or one. Um, and again, I
760
00:37:03.070 --> 00:37:05.050
really want to see what those coaches rankings come out
761
00:37:05.110 --> 00:37:08.630
and show, um, after the big shutout win over the center,
762
00:37:08.670 --> 00:37:11.489
who was probably a top 10 team, but this is a,
763
00:37:11.570 --> 00:37:14.429
this is a great rivalry game, you know, kicking off
764
00:37:14.769 --> 00:37:18.210
a conference play and they had a really close game
765
00:37:18.250 --> 00:37:21.010
just a few years ago. Wasn't so close last year. Uh,
766
00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:24.380
but this is one that, um, You know, I think
767
00:37:24.420 --> 00:37:26.400
a lot of people will have their eyes on. It's
768
00:37:26.420 --> 00:37:29.480
an exciting game. I was able to talk to both coaches.
769
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:32.699
I'm now joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by
770
00:37:32.739 --> 00:37:35.940
Meridian Head Football Coach Patrick Ames. Coach, thank you for
771
00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.179
joining me today. How are you doing?
772
00:37:37.699 --> 00:37:38.199
I'm doing well.
773
00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:39.519
Thanks, Tyler. Always a pleasure.
774
00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:40.579
All right.
775
00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:43.949
We're going to start by talking food. So it's easy
776
00:37:43.989 --> 00:37:45.750
to say what your favorite food is, but name a
777
00:37:45.789 --> 00:37:48.710
food that you love to eat that most people don't
778
00:37:48.869 --> 00:37:51.769
enjoy eating. I know that's kind of a tough question.
779
00:37:53.710 --> 00:37:58.449
Yeah. I, um, that is a tough question.
780
00:37:58.469 --> 00:37:59.969
Uh, spam.
781
00:38:00.309 --> 00:38:01.860
A lot of people like spam though, don't they?
782
00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:05.219
Yeah, but that's, I think that's a good answer. It's
783
00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:07.170
hard to think of something because if you like it,
784
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:09.699
you would think everybody likes it. But, you know, I
785
00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:11.559
was trying to think of something like, you know, like
786
00:38:11.639 --> 00:38:15.760
Brussels sprouts or broccoli or, I mean, who knows, you know,
787
00:38:15.820 --> 00:38:19.559
something that's usually not liked by people that you, you're like, yeah,
788
00:38:19.579 --> 00:38:20.280
I really like this.
789
00:38:20.659 --> 00:38:21.219
Yeah.
790
00:38:21.260 --> 00:38:22.280
With spam anyway.
791
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:27.449
Um, it's, uh, it's a really common staple, you know,
792
00:38:27.489 --> 00:38:28.449
coming out of the islands.
793
00:38:28.530 --> 00:38:28.780
Right.
794
00:38:28.889 --> 00:38:32.420
And so Hawaiian street food, one of my favorite things
795
00:38:32.500 --> 00:38:37.360
to make it, they're called Musubi, a slice spam and
796
00:38:37.380 --> 00:38:39.940
you marinate it and you fry it. And then you
797
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:42.900
make a pot of rice and you got a little
798
00:38:42.940 --> 00:38:45.780
mold press and you, you, you press the rice down
799
00:38:46.139 --> 00:38:48.639
and you put a slice of that fried spam and
800
00:38:48.659 --> 00:38:49.900
then you wrap it up in seaweed.
801
00:38:50.500 --> 00:38:50.800
Oh, wow.
802
00:38:52.090 --> 00:38:52.429
So good.
803
00:38:53.429 --> 00:38:56.070
That's pretty good. Yeah, there's probably, there's lots of foods
804
00:38:56.090 --> 00:38:58.489
that I, just because of places I have never been,
805
00:38:58.510 --> 00:39:00.389
there's probably lots of things I don't even know about.
806
00:39:00.429 --> 00:39:01.650
And that's, that would be one of them.
807
00:39:02.090 --> 00:39:02.750
Yeah.
808
00:39:02.869 --> 00:39:05.510
And this might be a little easier. It's the opposite.
809
00:39:05.670 --> 00:39:08.010
What's something that you just can't eat, but everybody else
810
00:39:08.070 --> 00:39:08.829
seems to love?
811
00:39:09.389 --> 00:39:10.010
Pumpkin pie.
812
00:39:10.730 --> 00:39:11.869
Oh, really?
813
00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:14.840
And I love the idea of pumpkin pie and I've
814
00:39:14.880 --> 00:39:17.360
tried it several times, but I love that other people
815
00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:19.239
love it, but I just can't do it. And goldfish
816
00:39:19.300 --> 00:39:21.519
crackers and Cheez-Its don't do it for me either.
817
00:39:21.909 --> 00:39:25.289
Oh, my goodness. I'm sitting here staring at Cheez-Its right here.
818
00:39:26.469 --> 00:39:29.300
And we just picked up a pumpkin pie today from Costco.
819
00:39:31.449 --> 00:39:32.489
Um, well enjoy that.
820
00:39:32.769 --> 00:39:38.050
Yeah, I will. I will enjoy my orange foods and, um, that's,
821
00:39:38.070 --> 00:39:38.710
that's hilarious.
822
00:39:39.150 --> 00:39:39.469
Okay.
823
00:39:39.730 --> 00:39:43.320
On Friday, uh, you went, uh, South to on Alaska
824
00:39:43.340 --> 00:39:44.960
to take on the top two B team in the
825
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:48.019
state and did exactly what you needed to win. I
826
00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:50.699
thought you jumped out early and the loggers are not
827
00:39:50.820 --> 00:39:54.429
built to come back from being down three scores. What
828
00:39:54.469 --> 00:39:56.409
allowed you to get out early to that 21, zero
829
00:39:56.449 --> 00:39:57.050
lead in that game?
830
00:39:57.829 --> 00:40:05.599
Uh, defensively, we, um, We played resiliently. We legitimately caused
831
00:40:05.659 --> 00:40:08.880
a fumble there with a big strip. One of our seniors,
832
00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:11.920
Ryan Wynn, made a really big play. And we forced
833
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.869
a couple of punts. So we got three early stops
834
00:40:15.389 --> 00:40:17.929
and turned all of those into touchdowns. And then after that,
835
00:40:18.030 --> 00:40:19.949
like you said, I mean, they're a really good team.
836
00:40:20.670 --> 00:40:25.449
It was largely pretty even after that. But offensively, we
837
00:40:25.469 --> 00:40:29.519
found a little bit better rhythm this week. And then just,
838
00:40:29.739 --> 00:40:32.480
you know, had to keep up with them because they're
839
00:40:32.539 --> 00:40:35.059
not built, you know, to come back, but they also
840
00:40:35.099 --> 00:40:37.840
don't take negative plays, right? Unless they mishandle a snap
841
00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:40.800
or something like that. They're just a team that's moving forward.
842
00:40:40.820 --> 00:40:43.260
So they're hard to stop. They were, they were, they're
843
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:44.519
a lot to deal with. That's for sure.
844
00:40:44.539 --> 00:40:45.480
Yeah.
845
00:40:45.500 --> 00:40:48.639
I noticed Ryan, you know, trying to strip the ball
846
00:40:48.739 --> 00:40:50.639
once there's a lot of guys around and he actually
847
00:40:50.659 --> 00:40:53.280
stripped two of them. One of them was recovered by
848
00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:56.670
your team and I thought, you know, you're not going
849
00:40:56.690 --> 00:40:58.610
to get interceptions against them because they're not going to
850
00:40:58.650 --> 00:41:00.860
go to the air. So it's how do you get
851
00:41:00.889 --> 00:41:03.820
that ball back? Because they're going to take four plays
852
00:41:03.860 --> 00:41:05.909
to get 10 yards and they're probably going to do it.
853
00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:08.940
And getting them to punt, but getting that, you're right
854
00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:13.980
with that early fumble recovery too. just that added help and, uh, boy,
855
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:16.840
it really, it really, uh, led to something. I mean,
856
00:41:17.219 --> 00:41:18.679
you know, to be honest, I thought that was going
857
00:41:18.699 --> 00:41:20.300
to be a really tricky game for you. And I
858
00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:22.380
was keeping an eye on it that whole night, Friday
859
00:41:22.420 --> 00:41:25.079
night going, my goodness, they scored again, look at this.
860
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:27.239
And then having watched the film the next day and
861
00:41:27.300 --> 00:41:31.019
seeing how it happened, uh, that was awesome because, you know,
862
00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:33.260
bus legs are a thing. And I thought if you
863
00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:35.530
get down there and they get up early, that's going
864
00:41:35.550 --> 00:41:36.210
to be really hard.
865
00:41:36.570 --> 00:41:36.769
Yep.
866
00:41:37.110 --> 00:41:40.380
So, I mean, that's, uh, that was pretty awesome. You know,
867
00:41:40.389 --> 00:41:42.139
I want to talk about Casey Brennan a little bit.
868
00:41:42.139 --> 00:41:47.219
11 catches for 165 yards, three touchdowns. I remember us
869
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:50.139
talking about him before he ever played a varsity game.
870
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:52.739
Now he's a senior. What makes him such a great
871
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:53.340
football player?
872
00:41:54.360 --> 00:41:57.280
First of all, his speed, right? He's as fast as
873
00:41:57.320 --> 00:41:59.579
we've got. And he's one of the, you know, he
874
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:01.909
ran the state final of the 100 meters in 1A
875
00:42:01.929 --> 00:42:05.610
track last year, which is no joke, right? He's legitimately fast.
876
00:42:06.630 --> 00:42:09.940
And that's his greatest asset, right? That If he's going
877
00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:12.360
to run a race on a route that is a race,
878
00:42:12.440 --> 00:42:15.460
chances are he's going to have at least a step.
879
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:19.440
But most of his receptions, if you watch that game,
880
00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:24.429
were working underneath. He caught a lot of balls in
881
00:42:24.489 --> 00:42:27.199
space and had a really good feel and awareness in
882
00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:30.269
that game in their zone coverage where he needed to
883
00:42:30.349 --> 00:42:34.869
sit and present as open. I think maybe he was
884
00:42:34.889 --> 00:42:39.050
targeted defensively. 12 times and caught 11 which is um
885
00:42:39.309 --> 00:42:42.909
which is by far like his his uh his best
886
00:42:43.010 --> 00:42:45.889
catch percentage i think of any game that um that
887
00:42:45.929 --> 00:42:48.550
he's played in um so able to convert so many
888
00:42:48.610 --> 00:42:50.800
opportunities that he was able to create for himself by
889
00:42:50.820 --> 00:42:53.400
getting open um and in the calls he was the
890
00:42:53.539 --> 00:42:55.320
one that uh that trey was going to go to
891
00:42:55.340 --> 00:42:58.599
uh frequently in that game um and yeah he came
892
00:42:58.639 --> 00:42:59.860
up really really big for us.
893
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:02.019
Yeah i just thought he had a heck of a
894
00:43:02.059 --> 00:43:03.599
game and i was like i gotta look at these
895
00:43:03.679 --> 00:43:07.280
career numbers now He's only nine away from 100 catches
896
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.460
in his career, which is– 100 catches in a career
897
00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:15.159
is– I think only 23, 24 players in Whatcom County
898
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:17.900
history have done it. Only two from Meridian, which is
899
00:43:17.940 --> 00:43:22.239
hard to believe, Mitchell Tripp and Dominic Chambers. Um, and, uh,
900
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:25.280
a lot of guys over 90, but, uh, but he's,
901
00:43:25.420 --> 00:43:28.019
he's knocking on that door and he just passed, uh,
902
00:43:28.099 --> 00:43:30.800
one of his coaches, Ty Harrison, who he's, he's one
903
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:33.340
catch ahead of him. So, uh, they may be something
904
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:35.460
they can talk about at practice, but what an amazing
905
00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:38.420
career he's had. And, and, uh, so glad that he's,
906
00:43:38.940 --> 00:43:41.440
he's healthy, you know, at least from what I can see,
907
00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:44.989
because I know he's had issues, hamstring, different stuff. So
908
00:43:45.429 --> 00:43:48.210
a lot of fun to watch him, uh, on Friday
909
00:43:48.250 --> 00:43:51.519
night conference play finally begins, uh, And you'll be on
910
00:43:51.539 --> 00:43:54.780
the road once again, this time at Linden Christian, and
911
00:43:54.860 --> 00:43:57.099
they are loaded once again. Tell us about the Lynx.
912
00:43:58.139 --> 00:44:01.010
Well, you said it, right? They've got four or five
913
00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:03.710
players on that team that are maybe the four or
914
00:44:03.730 --> 00:44:07.530
five best players in the league. And anytime you've got
915
00:44:07.550 --> 00:44:10.989
a team that's loaded in talent like that, you're going
916
00:44:11.010 --> 00:44:15.679
to be looking downward probably at a lot of your opponents,
917
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:20.010
both figuratively and physically. And it's going to be up
918
00:44:20.050 --> 00:44:24.099
to us if the challenge is on us and the
919
00:44:24.139 --> 00:44:27.480
rest of the teams in our league to see if
920
00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:28.840
we're going to be able to step in and battle
921
00:44:28.860 --> 00:44:29.380
with those guys.
922
00:44:30.380 --> 00:44:32.389
I mean, and you look at the teams they've played,
923
00:44:32.409 --> 00:44:36.400
a lot of these run-heavy teams. you're not exactly a
924
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:40.480
run-heavy team, so it's hard to look at something and say, oh,
925
00:44:40.539 --> 00:44:43.820
this is how they do it against this look, right?
926
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:46.219
And even though you give a lot of looks, you're
927
00:44:46.260 --> 00:44:50.460
very heavy with the pass. So do you look at
928
00:44:50.500 --> 00:44:52.659
that as a positive or a negative, maybe because they
929
00:44:52.699 --> 00:44:55.260
haven't seen that much air raid stuff, or is it
930
00:44:55.380 --> 00:44:57.820
kind of a negative because you haven't seen what they
931
00:44:57.860 --> 00:44:58.719
can do against.
932
00:44:58.500 --> 00:44:58.980
It so much?
933
00:44:59.679 --> 00:45:02.019
Oh, we've seen what they can do. They're really savvy people.
934
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:04.980
I don't think it matters who they're going to play.
935
00:45:05.860 --> 00:45:07.260
They're going to match up with anybody.
936
00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:11.159
Yeah, I mean, they have athletes, right? That's just kind
937
00:45:11.179 --> 00:45:16.119
of the way it's been. And the really strange thing is,
938
00:45:16.659 --> 00:45:19.719
as dominant as they've been the last handful of years, five,
939
00:45:19.760 --> 00:45:22.559
six years, I think only one league championship, even though
940
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:24.960
they're right in it every year. It's just kind of
941
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:28.409
funny how that goes. Thanks again for the time, Coach.
942
00:45:28.449 --> 00:45:30.719
Best of luck against Linda Christian. And thank you for
943
00:45:30.739 --> 00:45:34.150
joining me today on the Gatorade Game Day podcast. Thanks, Tyler.
944
00:45:34.429 --> 00:45:35.349
Again, always a pleasure.
945
00:45:35.829 --> 00:45:39.630
Thank you very much, Coach Ames. And now we bring
946
00:45:39.650 --> 00:45:43.210
on Coach Terpstra. I'm now joined on the Gatorade Game
947
00:45:43.230 --> 00:45:47.230
Day podcast by Linden Christian head football coach Greg Terpstra. Coach,
948
00:45:47.250 --> 00:45:48.860
thank you for joining me today. How are you doing?
949
00:45:50.130 --> 00:45:50.489
Good.
950
00:45:51.130 --> 00:45:56.070
I'm dressed in some neon colors because I'm substituting today
951
00:45:56.159 --> 00:45:57.610
and it's 80s day today.
952
00:45:57.719 --> 00:45:59.960
So I hope you knew that. I hope you're old
953
00:46:00.019 --> 00:46:03.019
enough to be aware, but you're supposed to wear neon.
954
00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:06.519
Hey, look at me every day, man.
955
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:08.039
Oh, it's true.
956
00:46:08.099 --> 00:46:08.340
Yeah.
957
00:46:08.360 --> 00:46:09.079
What am I talking about?
958
00:46:09.099 --> 00:46:09.179
Yeah.
959
00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:09.559
Yeah.
960
00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:11.539
I grew up in the 80s. I loved it. So
961
00:46:11.599 --> 00:46:11.960
I get it.
962
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.880
I only had one neon shirt and ironically it's my
963
00:46:16.619 --> 00:46:20.079
Kurt Cramie 200th win t-shirt that I got when I
964
00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:20.769
was coaching with him.
965
00:46:21.260 --> 00:46:22.099
That's awesome.
966
00:46:22.539 --> 00:46:22.940
Yeah.
967
00:46:23.059 --> 00:46:24.570
Oh, that's fantastic.
968
00:46:24.590 --> 00:46:26.650
So still football related, which is great.
969
00:46:26.949 --> 00:46:27.449
That's right.
970
00:46:27.829 --> 00:46:31.170
We're going to start by talking food. So name a
971
00:46:31.309 --> 00:46:35.889
food that you enjoy to eat, but most people for
972
00:46:35.929 --> 00:46:37.179
some reason just don't like it.
973
00:46:40.340 --> 00:46:41.880
Is mushrooms too narrow?
974
00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:43.760
No, I think that's probably a good one.
975
00:46:44.139 --> 00:46:44.619
Yeah.
976
00:46:44.780 --> 00:46:45.659
I like them on everything.
977
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:46.320
Yeah.
978
00:46:47.170 --> 00:46:51.210
Yeah, that would be a unique one. Other than that,
979
00:46:52.550 --> 00:46:54.849
I do like to try kind of anything and everything.
980
00:46:54.869 --> 00:46:57.659
I don't know if I have the patience to cook
981
00:46:57.699 --> 00:46:59.219
at all, but we'll go with mushrooms.
982
00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:02.059
Yeah, that's a good one. And now the opposite. What's
983
00:47:02.079 --> 00:47:04.300
something that you're like, you're just not a fan of,
984
00:47:04.340 --> 00:47:06.039
but everyone else seems to love?
985
00:47:06.659 --> 00:47:07.079
Cereal.
986
00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:11.800
I have not had a bowl of cereal since COVID.
987
00:47:13.699 --> 00:47:16.559
And I don't know why I just, I gave up cereal.
988
00:47:16.699 --> 00:47:20.130
I went to just eggs every morning and gave up cereal.
989
00:47:20.409 --> 00:47:23.449
I think I've got a box of cornflakes somewhere in
990
00:47:23.530 --> 00:47:25.829
our closet that I'm just, I'm using that as like
991
00:47:25.869 --> 00:47:27.960
an experiment to see what happens to it.
992
00:47:28.369 --> 00:47:28.670
Right.
993
00:47:28.989 --> 00:47:31.250
Yeah.
994
00:47:31.309 --> 00:47:33.730
I haven't had one bowl of cereal since COVID.
995
00:47:34.030 --> 00:47:35.610
I think what's going to happen is it's going to
996
00:47:35.730 --> 00:47:40.440
clump together and make one giant cornflake or something. Oh,
997
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:44.099
it's crazy. And your substitute teaching today, how many days
998
00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:46.139
a month do you go in to be a substitute
999
00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:48.440
teacher on average, would you say?
1000
00:47:48.460 --> 00:47:51.179
It kind of depends on what time of year. When
1001
00:47:51.219 --> 00:47:53.440
it's kind of like cold and flu season, I might
1002
00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:59.280
get called three or four times a week. Otherwise, yeah,
1003
00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:01.469
sometimes it's crickets, but that's okay too.
1004
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:02.159
Yeah.
1005
00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:05.510
So let's go back to football a little bit. On Saturday,
1006
00:48:05.590 --> 00:48:08.369
you hosted the center, a tremendous program. You took it
1007
00:48:08.429 --> 00:48:11.900
right to them, 24-0 win. You have to be pleased
1008
00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:14.960
with the performance, especially with a lot of your top
1009
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:16.590
two-way players out of the lineup.
1010
00:48:17.590 --> 00:48:18.369
Yeah, yeah.
1011
00:48:18.409 --> 00:48:21.650
Our kids responded really well to that bit of a setback.
1012
00:48:21.909 --> 00:48:27.710
And I thought our passion, our intensity was just right
1013
00:48:27.869 --> 00:48:30.989
where it should have been. It didn't go over the
1014
00:48:31.030 --> 00:48:33.670
top where, you know, we had issues with, you know,
1015
00:48:34.889 --> 00:48:38.110
player conduct or anything. It's just between the whistles, they
1016
00:48:38.150 --> 00:48:41.309
were just really, really sticking it to them. And, uh,
1017
00:48:41.469 --> 00:48:44.550
it showed. And, um, you know, you get the, when
1018
00:48:44.570 --> 00:48:47.860
you get that compliment from the opposing coach that boy,
1019
00:48:47.900 --> 00:48:50.679
we just couldn't match your intensity. You kind of wear
1020
00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:54.460
that as a little bit of a, you know, you
1021
00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:56.059
wear it as pride on your shoulder, I think.
1022
00:48:56.500 --> 00:49:00.699
Absolutely. I mean, that's something that, um, I guess you
1023
00:49:00.719 --> 00:49:03.159
could say a player can control that. So when they're
1024
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:05.639
actually doing that, that's a great thing, right?
1025
00:49:06.199 --> 00:49:06.590
It is.
1026
00:49:06.860 --> 00:49:10.829
You know, it's something that you don't have to– it's
1027
00:49:10.849 --> 00:49:13.670
something you can control, right? I mean, that's basically what
1028
00:49:13.690 --> 00:49:17.829
I'm saying. Also, you have a few senties on your team,
1029
00:49:17.929 --> 00:49:19.969
Sam and Josh. Josh had an interception.
1030
00:49:20.059 --> 00:49:20.579
Last week.
1031
00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:23.619
You played with some senties, so help me out a
1032
00:49:23.659 --> 00:49:26.179
little bit. How are these current players related to your
1033
00:49:26.260 --> 00:49:26.880
old teammates?
1034
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:30.360
So Joel is their father.
1035
00:49:30.389 --> 00:49:33.449
Joel would have been a year younger than me between
1036
00:49:33.489 --> 00:49:34.590
my brother Grant and I.
1037
00:49:34.949 --> 00:49:35.250
Right.
1038
00:49:36.050 --> 00:49:39.789
Played with Chris. Chris was two years older. And that
1039
00:49:39.809 --> 00:49:40.690
would have been their uncle.
1040
00:49:41.170 --> 00:49:41.530
Okay.
1041
00:49:41.650 --> 00:49:42.949
These two guys are brothers.
1042
00:49:43.369 --> 00:49:44.170
Yeah.
1043
00:49:44.650 --> 00:49:48.250
The younger one is the defensive back. And, you know,
1044
00:49:48.269 --> 00:49:50.590
we've been kind of a little bit short there. So
1045
00:49:50.630 --> 00:49:54.800
we've elevated him sooner. And then Sam is, I think
1046
00:49:54.820 --> 00:49:56.820
the backup to almost everything on the team.
1047
00:49:56.840 --> 00:49:58.179
Yeah.
1048
00:49:58.460 --> 00:50:02.980
He just, a nice big body moves. Well, I can
1049
00:50:03.500 --> 00:50:05.530
plug and play a lot of different places. So, yeah.
1050
00:50:05.889 --> 00:50:08.050
Love having guys like that. And yeah. And those, those,
1051
00:50:08.610 --> 00:50:11.829
Chris and Joel were fantastic players. And so that's cool.
1052
00:50:11.889 --> 00:50:14.389
I love, I love seeing the generations come through and
1053
00:50:14.449 --> 00:50:17.460
it's always, it's always awesome. And when, you know, Josh
1054
00:50:17.500 --> 00:50:20.079
got that interception, I just, I just smiled because I
1055
00:50:20.099 --> 00:50:23.380
just thought, man, that's, you know, I love how there's
1056
00:50:23.420 --> 00:50:25.460
so many of these, every single school has that.
1057
00:50:25.539 --> 00:50:25.800
Right.
1058
00:50:25.860 --> 00:50:27.829
And so it's really fun to see.
1059
00:50:28.219 --> 00:50:30.119
They get their toughness from their mother, though.
1060
00:50:31.500 --> 00:50:33.699
Joel is a bit of a sissy. Their mom, she's
1061
00:50:33.760 --> 00:50:34.460
tough as nails.
1062
00:50:36.179 --> 00:50:36.840
I have to say that.
1063
00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:38.159
She's a teacher at Leonard Christian.
1064
00:50:38.699 --> 00:50:39.619
Oh, that's awesome.
1065
00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:43.030
And she played collegiately in softball, I believe. I think
1066
00:50:43.070 --> 00:50:43.889
she was really good.
1067
00:50:44.449 --> 00:50:45.010
Oh, nice.
1068
00:50:45.349 --> 00:50:46.710
Like an All-American, yeah.
1069
00:50:46.909 --> 00:50:50.750
Wow. How do you feel Dawson's setting into his role
1070
00:50:50.769 --> 00:50:52.349
as the starting quarterback at this point?
1071
00:50:53.050 --> 00:50:54.210
He's doing a great job.
1072
00:50:54.269 --> 00:50:56.969
Just the ins and outs of managing the offense, I
1073
00:50:56.989 --> 00:50:59.570
think he's really taken– some strides forward on.
1074
00:51:00.849 --> 00:51:03.570
And, you know, we got Blankers in there.
1075
00:51:03.949 --> 00:51:04.489
Yeah.
1076
00:51:05.110 --> 00:51:06.349
And he did a great job, too.
1077
00:51:06.789 --> 00:51:11.039
His drive was really impressive in that we had so
1078
00:51:11.099 --> 00:51:14.679
many penalties and we just kept shrugging forward, you know,
1079
00:51:14.739 --> 00:51:17.559
and just getting that first down and ended up with
1080
00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:23.679
another field goal from Jackson. But really pleased with Blankers' performance, too.
1081
00:51:24.219 --> 00:51:26.210
Yeah, I was, you know, you had mentioned something to
1082
00:51:26.269 --> 00:51:28.449
me I believe it was off the air that, you know,
1083
00:51:28.489 --> 00:51:31.369
Kellen might get a series, and he did play a few.
1084
00:51:32.150 --> 00:51:34.769
And he did really well, like you said, because you
1085
00:51:34.809 --> 00:51:38.789
kept having that adversity with holding and different things. But
1086
00:51:39.090 --> 00:51:43.010
that drive seemed like it took forever. I mean, just time-wise,
1087
00:51:43.050 --> 00:51:43.349
you know.
1088
00:51:43.849 --> 00:51:46.449
You know, I will say something about that drive and
1089
00:51:47.070 --> 00:51:51.480
those penalties. I'll take the blame for those in a
1090
00:51:51.500 --> 00:51:57.599
way because– Last week, we really got on our wide
1091
00:51:57.639 --> 00:52:00.219
receivers for not blocking as well as they should.
1092
00:52:00.579 --> 00:52:01.139
Okay.
1093
00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:06.110
Against Bellevue, it was really absent. And so we made
1094
00:52:06.150 --> 00:52:10.230
it a real point of emphasis. Well, they listened to
1095
00:52:10.250 --> 00:52:14.469
their coach, and they went after him. They just, when
1096
00:52:14.489 --> 00:52:18.920
the defensive back pulls away, they didn't let go fast enough. So,
1097
00:52:19.059 --> 00:52:20.619
you know, we saw it on tape. We saw what
1098
00:52:20.659 --> 00:52:23.360
they were calling. But in the back of our minds,
1099
00:52:23.380 --> 00:52:25.260
we were pretty proud of their intensity.
1100
00:52:25.340 --> 00:52:26.760
So we'll take it.
1101
00:52:26.780 --> 00:52:27.039
Yeah.
1102
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:31.530
And then Friday night, conference play begins finally, and you'll
1103
00:52:31.550 --> 00:52:33.909
be hosting Meridian, who's been on a little bit of
1104
00:52:33.949 --> 00:52:36.070
a run as of late, winning their last two games.
1105
00:52:36.489 --> 00:52:38.050
What can you tell us about the Trojans?
1106
00:52:39.150 --> 00:52:44.329
Well, we'll pray for a blizzard and a hailstorm or something,
1107
00:52:44.349 --> 00:52:48.119
trying to slow down their passing game. Yeah, that's been
1108
00:52:48.139 --> 00:52:50.960
pretty impressive, especially their deep shots. So we've got to
1109
00:52:50.980 --> 00:52:52.559
be really prepared for that.
1110
00:52:55.659 --> 00:52:56.900
They throw a.
1111
00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:01.900
Lot of creativity into it, especially their alignments offensively. So
1112
00:53:01.940 --> 00:53:05.260
we've got to be disciplined and up to speed on
1113
00:53:05.820 --> 00:53:08.679
where we align based on some alignments we have not
1114
00:53:08.780 --> 00:53:10.710
seen yet and might not see the rest of the year.
1115
00:53:11.389 --> 00:53:14.989
So that always keeps us on our toes. Offensively, I
1116
00:53:15.829 --> 00:53:18.070
think we're going to probably just remain balanced like we
1117
00:53:18.130 --> 00:53:20.829
have been and put our best foot forward.
1118
00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:22.300
Absolutely.
1119
00:53:22.510 --> 00:53:25.420
And you've coached against Patrick now for a while. You've
1120
00:53:25.440 --> 00:53:28.079
done it in multiple sports. But I want to go
1121
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:32.280
back to Patrick's father, the legendary Bob Ames, and you've
1122
00:53:32.320 --> 00:53:34.460
probably known him for a long time. Do you have
1123
00:53:34.539 --> 00:53:36.579
any Bob Ames story that you could share?
1124
00:53:39.739 --> 00:53:42.869
When I was a little kid going to games and
1125
00:53:42.969 --> 00:53:49.510
seeing this crazy big guy with Bermuda shorts on, my
1126
00:53:49.550 --> 00:53:51.340
mind couldn't get around that. I was just like, is
1127
00:53:51.570 --> 00:53:55.599
this guy completely unprepared? Does he not know what the
1128
00:53:55.619 --> 00:53:59.550
forecast is? And then I just, yeah, he's just an
1129
00:53:59.610 --> 00:54:03.389
enigma to me. And then I start hearing stories about how,
1130
00:54:04.730 --> 00:54:07.369
you know, kids who played for him just loved him
1131
00:54:07.389 --> 00:54:09.550
to death and would run through a brick wall for him. And,
1132
00:54:10.059 --> 00:54:11.960
you know, later on in my life, I realized how
1133
00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:15.440
important that was. So I think that's a testament to
1134
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:19.800
his longevity and the lives that he's touched. And we
1135
00:54:19.820 --> 00:54:22.559
even have a guy on staff, Terry Tolan, that played
1136
00:54:22.579 --> 00:54:26.809
for him. Terry remarks how Bob found him when he
1137
00:54:26.849 --> 00:54:30.929
was quite young, just middle school, elementary school. I don't
1138
00:54:30.949 --> 00:54:37.340
know when it was, but spoke very constructive words to
1139
00:54:37.380 --> 00:54:40.380
him and how Bob felt that he could be just
1140
00:54:40.420 --> 00:54:44.539
a terrific player and just really motivated Terry to play.
1141
00:54:45.300 --> 00:54:46.260
I think he's got a.
1142
00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:49.789
Real soft spot for Bob in his heart, and I
1143
00:54:49.829 --> 00:54:51.530
think he's not alone in that.
1144
00:54:52.050 --> 00:54:52.150
Yeah.
1145
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:55.840
Absolutely, and Terry was an All-State lineman and one of
1146
00:54:55.860 --> 00:54:57.800
the best players Meridian had in the whole decade of
1147
00:54:57.820 --> 00:55:01.079
the 80s, so pretty cool that he's able to continue
1148
00:55:01.119 --> 00:55:03.760
his knowledge and coaching with your staff, and that's a
1149
00:55:03.800 --> 00:55:06.679
great thing. Best of luck on Friday against Meridian, Coach,
1150
00:55:06.719 --> 00:55:08.400
and thank you so much for joining me today on
1151
00:55:08.420 --> 00:55:09.820
the Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
1152
00:55:10.500 --> 00:55:11.460
Hey, thanks so much, Tyler.
1153
00:55:12.099 --> 00:55:14.880
All right, there you have it. Meridian, Atlin, and Christian,
1154
00:55:14.880 --> 00:55:21.369
7 o'clock Friday night. Game on Friday night involves the
1155
00:55:21.409 --> 00:55:25.110
Blaine Borderites, who are 2-2, ranked 23rd in 1A in
1156
00:55:25.170 --> 00:55:28.230
max preps. They will be going to Sid Lambert Field
1157
00:55:28.250 --> 00:55:31.150
to take on Nooksack Valley, who is undefeated on the year,
1158
00:55:31.210 --> 00:55:35.329
currently ranked 4th in Class 1A in the max preps rankings.
1159
00:55:36.090 --> 00:55:39.750
And this is a game that over the years has
1160
00:55:40.030 --> 00:55:43.070
really gone Nooksack Valley's way as of late. But I
1161
00:55:43.110 --> 00:55:45.789
think last year's game was a little bit closer. And
1162
00:55:45.809 --> 00:55:49.230
I do believe that it's going to keep getting closer
1163
00:55:49.309 --> 00:55:54.949
as Blaine continues to improve. And Nooksack Valley, even though
1164
00:55:54.969 --> 00:55:56.849
they got the win last week, I don't think they
1165
00:55:56.869 --> 00:56:00.179
were super excited with how things turned out. There's a
1166
00:56:00.219 --> 00:56:03.460
lot of things they can clean up on. But we
1167
00:56:03.500 --> 00:56:06.380
were able to hear from both coaches. I am now
1168
00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:09.239
joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by Blaine head
1169
00:56:09.280 --> 00:56:12.579
football coach Andy Olson. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
1170
00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:13.159
How are you doing?
1171
00:56:13.670 --> 00:56:15.309
I'm doing great. Thanks for having me, Tyler.
1172
00:56:15.630 --> 00:56:18.429
You bet. All right, we're going to start by talking
1173
00:56:18.469 --> 00:56:23.550
about food. Name a food that you love, but most people,
1174
00:56:24.780 --> 00:56:26.889
it's not their thing, but you love it.
1175
00:56:29.139 --> 00:56:30.280
I'm a savory guy.
1176
00:56:30.300 --> 00:56:34.719
Man, I like, I mean, not shocker here, I like
1177
00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:35.360
most things.
1178
00:56:38.780 --> 00:56:40.820
That's really hard. This is probably your hardest one that
1179
00:56:40.840 --> 00:56:41.239
you've asked.
1180
00:56:42.239 --> 00:56:44.719
I would go with anything that's seafood related. Like people
1181
00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:47.059
usually get grossed out by things like raw oysters or.
1182
00:56:46.980 --> 00:56:47.539
Things like that.
1183
00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:48.599
Right.
1184
00:56:48.960 --> 00:56:51.960
I really enjoy them. I grew up in a commercial
1185
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:55.309
fishing family. I was the first male Olsen not to
1186
00:56:55.349 --> 00:56:59.369
go to the University of the Bering Sea. So seafood
1187
00:56:59.389 --> 00:57:01.769
things and me usually go kind of hand in hand.
1188
00:57:01.849 --> 00:57:03.289
So anything in that genre.
1189
00:57:04.210 --> 00:57:08.130
Well, you're coaching in the right place then. a lot
1190
00:57:08.150 --> 00:57:10.929
you can have there. And now the opposite. What's something
1191
00:57:10.969 --> 00:57:13.329
that you don't like to eat, but everyone else seems
1192
00:57:13.389 --> 00:57:15.449
to like, this might be tougher for you.
1193
00:57:15.550 --> 00:57:16.699
No, this one's easier.
1194
00:57:16.719 --> 00:57:19.619
Um, well, I mean, I have a boatload of kids
1195
00:57:19.900 --> 00:57:22.780
and they love candy and sweet things. And that's just
1196
00:57:23.099 --> 00:57:26.159
outside of nerds, gummy clusters, which are fantastic. And maybe
1197
00:57:26.179 --> 00:57:27.820
that would be a Halloween question later on.
1198
00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:31.039
Um, not a big fan of candy.
1199
00:57:31.519 --> 00:57:32.559
Yeah. Not my thing.
1200
00:57:33.099 --> 00:57:33.360
Yeah.
1201
00:57:33.440 --> 00:57:33.960
Interesting.
1202
00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:38.449
Um, All right, well, let's go back to football, I suppose.
1203
00:57:38.690 --> 00:57:41.469
You had to wait 15 days to play a game,
1204
00:57:41.989 --> 00:57:44.449
and then Kings came to town on Saturday, picked up
1205
00:57:44.530 --> 00:57:47.260
a 20-0 win. Do you feel like maybe there was
1206
00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:49.099
some rust from not playing for a while, or is
1207
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:50.739
that just an easy excuse to go to?
1208
00:57:50.760 --> 00:57:52.880
That's an easy excuse to go to.
1209
00:57:52.960 --> 00:57:55.639
I think that ultimately we didn't execute to the level
1210
00:57:55.679 --> 00:57:57.900
that we're capable of, and as coaches we've got to
1211
00:57:57.980 --> 00:58:01.559
own that and say, look at what we did going
1212
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:03.500
into that game and do a better job preparing our
1213
00:58:03.519 --> 00:58:04.780
kids to go out and play their best.
1214
00:58:05.909 --> 00:58:08.880
Um, you went with Connor Brown on the ground quite
1215
00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:10.659
a bit. Was there some, was that part of the
1216
00:58:10.699 --> 00:58:13.000
game plan as far as what you saw from Kings
1217
00:58:13.179 --> 00:58:16.000
or was that more him reading and reacting?
1218
00:58:16.860 --> 00:58:18.639
Uh, it's stuff that we saw from Kings that we
1219
00:58:18.679 --> 00:58:21.280
wanted to try out. Um, you know, it's the last
1220
00:58:21.380 --> 00:58:24.900
non-conference game and our early slate of them before we
1221
00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:25.619
get into conference.
1222
00:58:25.699 --> 00:58:27.469
And we still had a couple of questions we wanted
1223
00:58:27.489 --> 00:58:29.550
to answer it. And we probably would have done it
1224
00:58:29.570 --> 00:58:31.869
the week before too, but we didn't have that game
1225
00:58:31.889 --> 00:58:35.210
and opportunity. So we thought there was something there that
1226
00:58:35.230 --> 00:58:36.809
we could take advantage of, but we also wanted to
1227
00:58:36.869 --> 00:58:37.829
see what it would look like.
1228
00:58:38.130 --> 00:58:40.050
So it was a little bit of both.
1229
00:58:40.210 --> 00:58:45.840
Yeah, yeah. And you brought up that conference play is beginning,
1230
00:58:45.900 --> 00:58:47.840
and Friday night you're going to be on the road
1231
00:58:47.900 --> 00:58:51.860
against the undefeated Nooksack Valley Pioneers. What can you tell
1232
00:58:51.900 --> 00:58:52.679
us about this team?
1233
00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:55.800
They're just really good across the board.
1234
00:58:56.380 --> 00:58:59.670
Two really, really good running backs, probably, in my opinion,
1235
00:58:59.710 --> 00:59:01.449
the two best backs that we have in the conference
1236
00:59:01.489 --> 00:59:04.199
right now for the 1A' s. They return a lot of
1237
00:59:04.219 --> 00:59:07.489
guys up front, a couple of really strong, big tight
1238
00:59:07.590 --> 00:59:09.969
ends that are going to be physical on the defense.
1239
00:59:10.139 --> 00:59:11.460
side of the ball, they fly around. They do a
1240
00:59:11.460 --> 00:59:14.219
really nice job. In the secondary, probably two of the
1241
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:19.030
better skilled guys. The Jones kid and then Martin fly
1242
00:59:19.050 --> 00:59:20.969
around and do a great job. They got Ladenbach back
1243
00:59:21.210 --> 00:59:24.590
as well at the linebacker level. They're just a well-rounded
1244
00:59:24.690 --> 00:59:28.929
football team. I'm not surprised at all by the success
1245
00:59:28.949 --> 00:59:29.739
that they've had so far.
1246
00:59:30.889 --> 00:59:34.369
And, and, uh, this is interesting because you teach at
1247
00:59:34.389 --> 00:59:37.219
Nooksack in the middle school or junior higher or whatever
1248
00:59:37.260 --> 00:59:39.449
they call it out there. But, uh, so are you
1249
00:59:39.489 --> 00:59:42.619
playing against any kids now at this point that you've
1250
00:59:42.659 --> 00:59:44.840
taught against, or I'm sorry that you've, that you've taught?
1251
00:59:44.860 --> 00:59:49.960
Yeah, I'm definitely not playing anymore, Tyler, but, uh, yeah.
1252
00:59:50.019 --> 00:59:51.780
No, um, it was kind of fun.
1253
00:59:51.840 --> 00:59:53.840
So we talked about how we went down that Kings
1254
00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:56.519
game and just timing had it. We walked up the
1255
00:59:56.559 --> 00:59:59.309
trail and, and the pioneers were coming off a pregame and,
1256
00:59:59.889 --> 01:00:03.090
Myself and our offensive coordinator, who also teaches in this building,
1257
01:00:04.059 --> 01:00:05.460
stood there and gave a lot of high fives and
1258
01:00:06.179 --> 01:00:07.940
said hi to the kids as they're jogging off the
1259
01:00:07.960 --> 01:00:09.039
field to go get ready to play.
1260
01:00:09.860 --> 01:00:12.219
It's one of those things where, you know, I can
1261
01:00:12.239 --> 01:00:13.139
say that me and.
1262
01:00:13.059 --> 01:00:15.889
Coach Anderson both root for the Pioneer success pretty much
1263
01:00:15.949 --> 01:00:16.840
every Friday but one.
1264
01:00:16.860 --> 01:00:19.750
Yeah, it's fun.
1265
01:00:19.630 --> 01:00:22.489
To watch them grow up and go play and have
1266
01:00:22.530 --> 01:00:26.250
a small hand in kind of their growth as kids.
1267
01:00:27.170 --> 01:00:29.559
Is there... I don't even know how to explain this,
1268
01:00:29.599 --> 01:00:34.510
but like, because you have current, like very recent common opponent,
1269
01:00:34.969 --> 01:00:37.269
is there something you can pull from that at all?
1270
01:00:37.349 --> 01:00:39.369
Or are you thinking, you know what, it's just a
1271
01:00:39.429 --> 01:00:40.050
new Friday.
1272
01:00:41.289 --> 01:00:42.690
Every Friday is a new Friday.
1273
01:00:42.710 --> 01:00:45.670
Um, you know, I think when you look at things
1274
01:00:45.710 --> 01:00:48.429
that you can pull, you look at schemes and see, okay, well,
1275
01:00:48.730 --> 01:00:50.670
you know, how did they defend something that looks like us,
1276
01:00:50.949 --> 01:00:54.659
you know, or something like that. So, That probably means
1277
01:00:54.719 --> 01:00:57.960
more to coaches than common opponents, I'd say, because that
1278
01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:00.179
common opponent maybe had a different game plan one week
1279
01:01:00.199 --> 01:01:00.920
to another as well.
1280
01:01:01.380 --> 01:01:01.659
Right.
1281
01:01:02.179 --> 01:01:06.039
Yeah, that's an interesting thought because, you know, it's one
1282
01:01:06.059 --> 01:01:10.250
of those things where all these teams, they just know
1283
01:01:10.289 --> 01:01:12.690
each other so well at this point. So you have
1284
01:01:12.710 --> 01:01:15.389
to really kind of dig a little bit deeper and
1285
01:01:15.750 --> 01:01:18.639
find other things or pull something out you haven't done or,
1286
01:01:19.409 --> 01:01:22.809
or just something, and so it's going to be great
1287
01:01:22.849 --> 01:01:26.809
because for Whatcom County, it's fun when finally those conference
1288
01:01:26.849 --> 01:01:30.150
teams are playing each other, and that's when it really
1289
01:01:30.230 --> 01:01:32.110
changes once it gets into October, so it's going to
1290
01:01:32.130 --> 01:01:33.829
be a lot of fun. Best of luck on Friday
1291
01:01:33.869 --> 01:01:36.139
at Nooksack Valley. Thank you so much for joining me
1292
01:01:36.179 --> 01:01:37.840
today on the Gatorade Game Day Podcast.
1293
01:01:38.500 --> 01:01:39.480
Thanks, Tyler. Take care.
1294
01:01:40.199 --> 01:01:42.980
Thank you very much to Coach Olson, and we're going
1295
01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:46.130
to give Coach Bartle equal time here. I am now
1296
01:01:46.210 --> 01:01:49.070
joined on the Gatorade Game Day podcast by Nooksack Valley
1297
01:01:49.090 --> 01:01:51.909
head coach Craig Bartle. Coach, thank you for joining me today.
1298
01:01:51.929 --> 01:01:52.530
How are you doing?
1299
01:01:52.989 --> 01:01:55.320
I'm doing well. Thank you for having me today.
1300
01:01:55.659 --> 01:01:58.880
You bet. And we're going to start off by talking food.
1301
01:01:59.599 --> 01:02:00.260
Food, all right.
1302
01:02:00.539 --> 01:02:03.460
So it's easy to say, what's your favorite meal or
1303
01:02:03.500 --> 01:02:05.380
all that kind of stuff. But how about this? Name
1304
01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:09.050
a food that you love, but for some reason most
1305
01:02:09.090 --> 01:02:10.010
people don't like.
1306
01:02:11.570 --> 01:02:15.699
Food that I love that most people don't like. Um, boy,
1307
01:02:18.329 --> 01:02:22.679
that's it. You know, razor clams. I love razor clams.
1308
01:02:24.739 --> 01:02:27.460
That's a good one. I think that, uh, I think, uh,
1309
01:02:27.559 --> 01:02:29.659
coach Olson had something similar with that.
1310
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:30.619
Yeah.
1311
01:02:30.679 --> 01:02:33.949
Yeah. That brings back childhood, like a 4th of July.
1312
01:02:34.389 --> 01:02:36.170
There's a bunch of families that would get together. Uh,
1313
01:02:36.570 --> 01:02:39.250
and then we'd go down to, we'd go in and
1314
01:02:39.289 --> 01:02:41.690
just get razor clams in the morning on the 4th
1315
01:02:41.710 --> 01:02:46.780
of July. And then, come back and boil them all up. And,
1316
01:02:47.420 --> 01:02:49.420
and yeah, good, good memories on that.
1317
01:02:49.820 --> 01:02:52.519
Yeah, absolutely. And now the opposite, which might be a
1318
01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:55.760
little easier. What's something that you just can't eat, but
1319
01:02:55.840 --> 01:02:57.239
everyone else seems to love.
1320
01:02:59.139 --> 01:03:01.559
Boy, those are good questions.
1321
01:03:01.900 --> 01:03:04.460
I like a lot of food, so it's hard to
1322
01:03:04.699 --> 01:03:05.219
find something.
1323
01:03:05.300 --> 01:03:05.889
It's hard.
1324
01:03:06.139 --> 01:03:13.480
It's hard to narrow it down. Boy, something that, I
1325
01:03:13.539 --> 01:03:20.239
don't like that everybody else does. Boy, I think you
1326
01:03:20.260 --> 01:03:21.199
stumped me on that one.
1327
01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:22.159
Really?
1328
01:03:22.179 --> 01:03:22.960
Yeah.
1329
01:03:23.260 --> 01:03:27.030
Yeah, for me, cheesecake. I do not like cheesecake. And
1330
01:03:27.230 --> 01:03:29.289
I do not like potato salad. But it seems like
1331
01:03:29.389 --> 01:03:30.570
everybody loves those things.
1332
01:03:31.050 --> 01:03:31.369
Okay.
1333
01:03:31.889 --> 01:03:32.130
Yeah.
1334
01:03:33.570 --> 01:03:39.550
Gosh, you know, all the meats, chicken, beef, seafood, I like.
1335
01:03:41.659 --> 01:03:44.500
You know, a lot of people, I don't like escargot,
1336
01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:45.900
but a lot of people do.
1337
01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:48.820
Okay, there you go. See, there had to be something.
1338
01:03:49.199 --> 01:03:54.070
Yeah, yeah, I can't do that. Boy, it sounds like
1339
01:03:54.489 --> 01:03:59.469
I like clams and escargot, or not escargot. But I
1340
01:03:59.510 --> 01:04:00.849
cook at Nookzak, by the way.
1341
01:04:00.869 --> 01:04:02.730
Yeah, exactly.
1342
01:04:02.809 --> 01:04:03.449
So it's all.
1343
01:04:04.199 --> 01:04:04.920
It's all good.
1344
01:04:04.940 --> 01:04:07.840
And we're going to get back to that football talk now,
1345
01:04:07.860 --> 01:04:10.420
because on Friday you hosted Squalicum in a game where
1346
01:04:10.860 --> 01:04:13.510
you jumped out to a 19-0 lead after one quarter,
1347
01:04:13.610 --> 01:04:18.150
held on for the 19-12 win. Maybe takeaways is a
1348
01:04:18.190 --> 01:04:20.789
touchy word after Friday, but what were your takeaway from
1349
01:04:20.809 --> 01:04:21.170
the game?
1350
01:04:21.989 --> 01:04:26.929
Well, I mean, we, as a staff, we were very
1351
01:04:26.969 --> 01:04:31.480
happy at all with how the kids performed. And so
1352
01:04:31.500 --> 01:04:37.440
it was, we watched Saturday, Thursday, film and, um, you know,
1353
01:04:37.480 --> 01:04:41.099
it was, it was pretty rough, but as coaches, this
1354
01:04:41.159 --> 01:04:43.000
is that time of the year now where if the
1355
01:04:43.059 --> 01:04:45.579
kids are making the same mistakes, then is it really
1356
01:04:45.639 --> 01:04:46.940
on the kids or is it on us?
1357
01:04:47.039 --> 01:04:49.780
And so maybe it's our style.
1358
01:04:49.820 --> 01:04:52.050
We've got to change how we're doing things a little
1359
01:04:52.070 --> 01:04:55.750
bit of practice or how we're saying things. And so, uh,
1360
01:04:55.809 --> 01:04:57.909
I think this week has been a, has been a
1361
01:04:57.929 --> 01:04:58.809
reflection from.
1362
01:04:58.769 --> 01:05:01.210
All of us of, all right, what do we need
1363
01:05:01.230 --> 01:05:02.250
to do a little bit differently?
1364
01:05:02.840 --> 01:05:07.159
And this week will be a very intense practice week.
1365
01:05:07.460 --> 01:05:09.800
And we're going to get back to some basics.
1366
01:05:09.860 --> 01:05:14.050
And as coaches, you know, we'll adjust some things that
1367
01:05:14.110 --> 01:05:15.599
we keep making the same mistakes on.
1368
01:05:15.610 --> 01:05:18.309
Because at some point, if we.
1369
01:05:18.730 --> 01:05:21.090
Can say, hey, you know what, we changed how we
1370
01:05:21.530 --> 01:05:23.230
talked or how we taught something.
1371
01:05:23.530 --> 01:05:25.690
And if the kid still isn't getting it, then maybe they're.
1372
01:05:25.570 --> 01:05:27.690
Just not going to get it. But we have to
1373
01:05:27.750 --> 01:05:30.409
make sure that we give every effort to it. have
1374
01:05:30.469 --> 01:05:32.690
our players succeed. So that's the focus going to be
1375
01:05:32.710 --> 01:05:33.090
this week.
1376
01:05:33.510 --> 01:05:36.349
Yeah, that's, and that's kind of, I don't want to
1377
01:05:36.369 --> 01:05:38.929
say the dream for a coach, but to be still
1378
01:05:38.969 --> 01:05:41.510
where you're at in the season and still have things
1379
01:05:41.530 --> 01:05:43.309
that you can coach on and work on.
1380
01:05:43.670 --> 01:05:43.849
Yeah.
1381
01:05:43.989 --> 01:05:46.309
Kind of a nice place to be in, in a
1382
01:05:46.349 --> 01:05:51.059
weird way. And so, and all coaches, you know, will
1383
01:05:51.099 --> 01:05:54.389
tell you or tell me that it's the teaching part
1384
01:05:54.469 --> 01:05:56.510
that they really love. And so when you get to
1385
01:05:56.590 --> 01:05:58.489
be able to do that, there's nothing wrong with that
1386
01:05:58.510 --> 01:06:00.449
at all. And then, and then you will see things
1387
01:06:00.510 --> 01:06:02.570
that will click from different ways and you'll kind of
1388
01:06:02.590 --> 01:06:05.369
look at another coach and go, Hey, look at that, that, that,
1389
01:06:05.449 --> 01:06:08.489
that worked that time. So, um, so that's good to hear. Um,
1390
01:06:09.210 --> 01:06:11.179
a big part of your success so far this year
1391
01:06:11.889 --> 01:06:14.679
has been the play of your secondary, uh, even with
1392
01:06:14.699 --> 01:06:17.519
an unfortunate injury to trace Palumbo, who I did see
1393
01:06:17.579 --> 01:06:19.820
on Saturday, talked to a little bit and he's hopeful, uh,
1394
01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:23.429
to come back. You know, Tyler Martin's having a huge season.
1395
01:06:24.030 --> 01:06:26.630
Jaden Jones sticks on his guy wherever he goes. Evan
1396
01:06:26.670 --> 01:06:29.389
Lairley is playing beyond his years. But I want to
1397
01:06:29.429 --> 01:06:32.210
talk about Max Lautenbach. That kid continues to have a
1398
01:06:32.289 --> 01:06:34.670
nose for the ball. What makes him such a great
1399
01:06:34.690 --> 01:06:35.329
football player?
1400
01:06:36.690 --> 01:06:38.469
He just, I think you hit it on the head.
1401
01:06:38.550 --> 01:06:40.219
I mean, he has a nose for the ball. He
1402
01:06:41.019 --> 01:06:44.659
sees stuff really well. He kind of sees what's going
1403
01:06:44.800 --> 01:06:48.780
on in the backfield. And he's pretty disciplined in making reads.
1404
01:06:48.860 --> 01:06:55.280
And so, Yeah, and he loves contact. So he's a
1405
01:06:55.340 --> 01:06:56.719
guy that's not going to be afraid to get in
1406
01:06:56.739 --> 01:07:01.880
the mix. But he's smart about what he does and
1407
01:07:01.900 --> 01:07:04.699
where he plays. And so, yeah, he's been a constant
1408
01:07:04.739 --> 01:07:07.670
last year and this year back there. He's that senior
1409
01:07:07.690 --> 01:07:11.030
kind of leader in the secondary with him. I mean,
1410
01:07:11.050 --> 01:07:13.750
Jaden's at the corner. But in that safety kind of
1411
01:07:13.789 --> 01:07:18.539
spot or type spot, he has to– you know, tell
1412
01:07:18.579 --> 01:07:21.300
everybody kind of what to do. And so he's been,
1413
01:07:21.320 --> 01:07:24.349
he's been really good and, and he's got a comedic
1414
01:07:24.369 --> 01:07:27.550
side to him that keeps things light at practice.
1415
01:07:27.610 --> 01:07:31.829
And so, you know, he's a captain. And so he's
1416
01:07:31.869 --> 01:07:32.929
a great kid to have around.
1417
01:07:33.650 --> 01:07:33.929
Yeah.
1418
01:07:33.989 --> 01:07:37.130
It's another thing I love too, is that, you know,
1419
01:07:37.150 --> 01:07:38.889
I remember when I first saw him as a sophomore
1420
01:07:38.929 --> 01:07:40.909
and he's wearing number 48 and I was like, man,
1421
01:07:40.949 --> 01:07:44.079
that's not a, that's not a desirable number. You know,
1422
01:07:44.179 --> 01:07:45.940
by the time he's a senior, he'll be, you know,
1423
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.829
number four, number eight or whatever. he's sticking with that 48, man.
1424
01:07:49.869 --> 01:07:53.349
He just, he's, he's, he's making that number his. And
1425
01:07:53.369 --> 01:07:55.230
when I think of 48, I can't think of a
1426
01:07:55.269 --> 01:07:58.690
guy in any sport that, that, that, you know, 48
1427
01:07:58.690 --> 01:08:01.489
does not ring up the, you know, the tongue too well,
1428
01:08:01.510 --> 01:08:02.340
but he makes it his.
1429
01:08:02.360 --> 01:08:03.800
He does.
1430
01:08:04.480 --> 01:08:08.960
And, you know, we hand out uniforms Thursdays before practices and, and,
1431
01:08:09.820 --> 01:08:13.110
you know, it's like, gosh, yeah, it's, it's, we have a,
1432
01:08:13.139 --> 01:08:15.980
we have a laughing moment together. We don't really say anything,
1433
01:08:16.020 --> 01:08:19.840
but it's like, here's your, 48 jersey and he smiles.
1434
01:08:19.460 --> 01:08:21.300
And he takes it and off he goes. But yeah,
1435
01:08:21.319 --> 01:08:21.960
I mean, you're right.
1436
01:08:22.060 --> 01:08:25.279
It's not, it's not a popular jersey and that's kind
1437
01:08:25.319 --> 01:08:26.500
of Max, you know, he's unique.
1438
01:08:27.140 --> 01:08:27.420
Yeah.
1439
01:08:28.020 --> 01:08:30.199
I love that. And it's always, I'm always fascinated with
1440
01:08:30.260 --> 01:08:32.699
numbers and maybe why a player chooses them. And a
1441
01:08:32.760 --> 01:08:34.520
lot of times the answer is, was, well, that's what
1442
01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:36.430
they gave me and I just stuck with it. So
1443
01:08:37.470 --> 01:08:41.869
that's pretty cool. On Friday night, finally conference play begins.
1444
01:08:42.630 --> 01:08:45.270
And you'll be hosting Blaine. What can you tell our
1445
01:08:45.310 --> 01:08:47.180
listeners about this year's border right team?
1446
01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:51.119
They're, you know, Andy does a great job over there
1447
01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:54.989
and they, they get better every year and they've got
1448
01:08:55.029 --> 01:08:57.989
more kids out. uh i think this year that he's
1449
01:08:58.029 --> 01:09:00.829
had maybe in the last you know four or five
1450
01:09:00.869 --> 01:09:04.350
years and you know him and his staff they do
1451
01:09:04.409 --> 01:09:06.600
they do a really good job and their kids are
1452
01:09:06.640 --> 01:09:08.840
flying around and they're playing with a lot of confidence
1453
01:09:08.920 --> 01:09:11.279
and and i think they're more physical than they have
1454
01:09:11.319 --> 01:09:14.100
been in the past um you can just you could
1455
01:09:14.140 --> 01:09:17.260
just see an aura of you know that that confidence
1456
01:09:17.300 --> 01:09:20.100
out there on the field now And things are starting
1457
01:09:20.119 --> 01:09:24.229
to happen for them. And so, you know, they're disciplined.
1458
01:09:25.189 --> 01:09:28.930
They've got some playmakers that they're trying to get the
1459
01:09:28.970 --> 01:09:32.590
ball to. And so they're really tough to.
1460
01:09:32.489 --> 01:09:33.149
Try to defend.
1461
01:09:34.409 --> 01:09:37.210
And while recording this interview, as I look out my window,
1462
01:09:37.270 --> 01:09:39.869
I see the pouring rain. And I'm not quite sure
1463
01:09:39.909 --> 01:09:42.710
what it's like out there, but probably similar. How much
1464
01:09:42.750 --> 01:09:45.779
do coaches look at the weather forecast today? during the
1465
01:09:45.819 --> 01:09:48.789
week and does that alter your game plan at all?
1466
01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:51.430
I'm really curious about that when, you know, this last week,
1467
01:09:51.510 --> 01:09:53.590
I mean, it was a downpour that you played in.
1468
01:09:53.609 --> 01:09:56.390
Did you, did you know that coming up and then
1469
01:09:56.409 --> 01:09:58.729
did you prepare during the week for that? And is
1470
01:09:58.770 --> 01:10:01.010
it similar this week? I'm just, I'm just curious how
1471
01:10:01.029 --> 01:10:03.609
much coaches really look into that kind of stuff. Yeah,
1472
01:10:04.090 --> 01:10:04.489
we do.
1473
01:10:04.890 --> 01:10:09.439
And I would assume that a lot of coaches do. Yeah, absolutely.
1474
01:10:09.460 --> 01:10:12.800
So last week we, you know, we knew it was
1475
01:10:12.819 --> 01:10:14.789
going to be raining and, Didn't know it was going
1476
01:10:14.810 --> 01:10:18.289
to be raining that much. You know, I had heard
1477
01:10:18.829 --> 01:10:20.729
it rained a half inch to three quarters of an
1478
01:10:20.770 --> 01:10:25.199
inch just on Friday night. But we hosed the ball
1479
01:10:25.239 --> 01:10:28.079
down with water and, you know, tried to simulate snaps
1480
01:10:28.119 --> 01:10:29.000
and throwing a little bit.
1481
01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:31.119
And so, yeah, absolutely.
1482
01:10:31.159 --> 01:10:33.850
I think, you know, those are the little details that
1483
01:10:33.890 --> 01:10:37.449
I think every coach tries to do or should do
1484
01:10:38.630 --> 01:10:41.069
just to I mean, that's just getting your kids set
1485
01:10:41.149 --> 01:10:44.720
up for success if you can practice those things. If
1486
01:10:44.729 --> 01:10:46.189
you use a dry ball all the time and all
1487
01:10:46.220 --> 01:10:48.659
of a sudden you go and it's raining, your kids
1488
01:10:48.680 --> 01:10:52.300
don't know what to do with that and what to expect.
1489
01:10:52.899 --> 01:10:54.140
Things happen a little bit slower.
1490
01:10:54.960 --> 01:10:57.520
Running backs have to slow down a little bit when
1491
01:10:57.539 --> 01:11:00.640
you're taking handoffs because everybody's trying to get the ball.
1492
01:11:01.319 --> 01:11:03.340
The center's trying to make sure the ball goes back
1493
01:11:03.359 --> 01:11:03.880
to the quarterback.
1494
01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:05.420
The quarterback's trying to make sure you hold on to
1495
01:11:05.439 --> 01:11:08.189
the ball. So a lot of things happen. Um, we
1496
01:11:08.229 --> 01:11:10.189
did look for this week and it looks like it's
1497
01:11:10.210 --> 01:11:14.149
gonna be nice, nice night. So, um, and then, you know, coaches,
1498
01:11:14.229 --> 01:11:16.590
we have to, I mean, we got to figure out
1499
01:11:16.609 --> 01:11:20.710
what to wear on Friday. So that's a constant, you know, uh,
1500
01:11:20.770 --> 01:11:23.149
thing throughout the week. How many layers do I bring?
1501
01:11:23.250 --> 01:11:25.010
Do I need to do more laundry? You know, what
1502
01:11:25.430 --> 01:11:27.510
do I need to bring extra clothes? And so, yeah, it's,
1503
01:11:27.729 --> 01:11:29.430
it's a big deal across the board.
1504
01:11:30.109 --> 01:11:33.210
It's funny. Cause there was a game. Boy, I think
1505
01:11:33.250 --> 01:11:35.069
it was, it might've been when you guys played in
1506
01:11:35.210 --> 01:11:39.060
one of those, uh, like tie breakers things out at
1507
01:11:39.119 --> 01:11:43.640
Blaine years ago and it was raining pretty hard. And
1508
01:11:43.659 --> 01:11:46.470
I remember being out there and I was out there
1509
01:11:46.510 --> 01:11:49.609
for all the matchups. And at the end of it,
1510
01:11:49.989 --> 01:11:51.630
I was talking to you and some of your assistant
1511
01:11:51.689 --> 01:11:54.449
coaches and, One of them, it might have been Britt,
1512
01:11:54.470 --> 01:11:56.789
he just said, Tyler, you need to get some rain gear.
1513
01:11:58.010 --> 01:12:00.399
And I just thought, I never really thought about it. Like,
1514
01:12:00.840 --> 01:12:02.560
I have all, you know, I have my hoodies and
1515
01:12:03.460 --> 01:12:07.199
I did find long pants, which was very hard for
1516
01:12:07.220 --> 01:12:10.100
me to find. But yeah, rain gear is one of
1517
01:12:10.140 --> 01:12:11.920
those things that you don't really think about that. I
1518
01:12:11.979 --> 01:12:13.899
still don't have, I got to get some Waka Preps
1519
01:12:14.300 --> 01:12:17.859
rain gear. That'd be good. But yeah. But, yeah, it's–
1520
01:12:18.199 --> 01:12:20.960
and are there things as coaches now that it's been
1521
01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:24.279
a month and you haven't even played a league game yet,
1522
01:12:24.760 --> 01:12:26.819
are there things that you still kind of hold on
1523
01:12:26.890 --> 01:12:30.569
to that you will unveil during– I'm not saying what
1524
01:12:30.689 --> 01:12:32.430
are they, but there's got to be things that you
1525
01:12:32.470 --> 01:12:34.689
haven't shown yet that, you know, as you go into
1526
01:12:34.729 --> 01:12:38.109
conference play, this is much more important now. Yeah.
1527
01:12:39.060 --> 01:12:40.479
Probably a little bit yes and no.
1528
01:12:40.579 --> 01:12:43.359
I mean, there's, there's some things that you probably keep there's,
1529
01:12:43.760 --> 01:12:45.859
I mean, everybody's got a trick player too, that they
1530
01:12:45.899 --> 01:12:47.550
have or have not, you.
1531
01:12:47.470 --> 01:12:49.689
Know, displayed yet, but you know.
1532
01:12:49.729 --> 01:12:52.630
Those first four games, as you're getting into league, you
1533
01:12:52.649 --> 01:12:54.310
want to figure out, Hey, what are we good at?
1534
01:12:54.949 --> 01:12:56.590
And what do we, what do we need to scrap,
1535
01:12:56.829 --> 01:12:59.409
I guess, for, for league playing. So I think for
1536
01:12:59.430 --> 01:13:02.869
the most part, we've tried everything and other teams have
1537
01:13:02.909 --> 01:13:05.479
tried everything. And, and, you know, do we keep stay
1538
01:13:05.489 --> 01:13:08.039
with it and practice it more or, or toss it out?
1539
01:13:08.100 --> 01:13:12.260
And so, That's kind of what those non-league games are for,
1540
01:13:12.399 --> 01:13:16.319
to figure that part out. And so I think there's
1541
01:13:16.340 --> 01:13:19.119
a little bit of that, but, you know, not too much. Like,
1542
01:13:19.479 --> 01:13:21.500
Leper's not going to come out and do a spread offense.
1543
01:13:22.300 --> 01:13:24.779
I mean, now that I say that, he probably will. But,
1544
01:13:25.979 --> 01:13:30.239
you know, everybody knows kind of what everybody's doing. So, yeah,
1545
01:13:30.340 --> 01:13:33.630
there's little tweaks here and there. But, yeah, I mean,
1546
01:13:33.670 --> 01:13:36.750
for the most part, everybody's displayed what they're going to
1547
01:13:36.810 --> 01:13:36.989
do now.
1548
01:13:37.430 --> 01:13:37.689
Right.
1549
01:13:38.289 --> 01:13:41.149
Awesome coach. Best of luck against Blaine at home on Friday.
1550
01:13:41.189 --> 01:13:43.130
And thank you so much for joining me today on
1551
01:13:43.149 --> 01:13:44.569
the Gatorade game day podcast.
1552
01:13:44.949 --> 01:13:46.500
Appreciate it. Appreciate everything you do.
1553
01:13:46.539 --> 01:13:46.880
Thank you.
1554
01:13:46.899 --> 01:13:50.539
Thanks coach. Well, that wraps up the Friday night slate
1555
01:13:50.560 --> 01:13:53.460
and we do have the one Saturday afternoon game. And
1556
01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:55.880
I tell you what, you better get there early because
1557
01:13:57.260 --> 01:14:00.100
that first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, fourth quarter, they're
1558
01:14:00.119 --> 01:14:02.060
going to move fast with two teams that love to
1559
01:14:02.100 --> 01:14:04.979
run the ball as on Alaska, the loggers come to
1560
01:14:05.020 --> 01:14:07.500
town early. They suffered their first loss of the season
1561
01:14:07.539 --> 01:14:10.619
last week to the hands of Meridian. They dropped down
1562
01:14:10.640 --> 01:14:14.659
to number 6th ranking in the Class 2B. They are
1563
01:14:14.680 --> 01:14:16.760
3-1 on the year, and they will be taking on
1564
01:14:16.779 --> 01:14:20.449
the Mount Baker Mountaineers at Bob Tisdale Field. Also 3-1
1565
01:14:20.529 --> 01:14:23.329
on the season, and they are also ranked 6th in
1566
01:14:23.350 --> 01:14:25.590
Class 1A. So I think this is going to be
1567
01:14:25.609 --> 01:14:28.170
a really, really good game as far as two teams
1568
01:14:28.210 --> 01:14:30.850
that love to run the ball, smash mouth. It's going
1569
01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:34.699
to feel like 1950s football. Uh, it's going to be
1570
01:14:34.720 --> 01:14:38.420
a site to see a lot of hard hitting and, um,
1571
01:14:38.819 --> 01:14:42.239
and just good sportsmanship and, and you're not going to
1572
01:14:42.260 --> 01:14:44.729
see the ball in the air a whole lot. Um,
1573
01:14:44.899 --> 01:14:47.789
believe it or not, Mount Baker passes the ball probably
1574
01:14:47.949 --> 01:14:50.649
three times as much as on Alaska does. So that
1575
01:14:50.689 --> 01:14:53.270
gives you an idea of what the loggers like to
1576
01:14:53.310 --> 01:14:55.869
do on the ground. I am now joined on the
1577
01:14:55.909 --> 01:14:58.829
Gatorade game day podcast by Mount Baker head football coach,
1578
01:14:58.909 --> 01:15:01.329
Ron Lepper coach. Thank you for joining me today. How
1579
01:15:01.350 --> 01:15:01.810
are you doing?
1580
01:15:02.390 --> 01:15:04.270
I'm doing well, and a pleasure always to be able
1581
01:15:04.310 --> 01:15:05.710
to have a conversation with you.
1582
01:15:06.369 --> 01:15:09.609
Thank you, Coach. My pleasure as well. All right, you're
1583
01:15:09.630 --> 01:15:13.979
going to like this. We're going to start by talking food.
1584
01:15:14.039 --> 01:15:15.880
It's easy to say what your favorite food is, but
1585
01:15:15.979 --> 01:15:18.979
name something that you love to eat but most people
1586
01:15:19.180 --> 01:15:19.720
don't like.
1587
01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:24.180
Okay, something I like to eat that most people don't like. Menudo.
1588
01:15:25.119 --> 01:15:25.699
Menudo.
1589
01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:26.770
Menudo.
1590
01:15:27.100 --> 01:15:28.829
Were you introduced to that when you were down in
1591
01:15:28.890 --> 01:15:29.630
Southern California?
1592
01:15:29.989 --> 01:15:30.970
I was introduced to that.
1593
01:15:31.789 --> 01:15:34.470
Oh man. I don't be honest. I don't even know
1594
01:15:34.489 --> 01:15:34.909
what it is.
1595
01:15:35.729 --> 01:15:37.819
It's a Mexican, uh, soup.
1596
01:15:38.140 --> 01:15:41.720
It's got, uh, some tripe in there, you know, uh,
1597
01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:46.579
cow intestines and stuff and some other things. I, you know, um, first.
1598
01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:48.210
Time I ate it, I didn't ask what was in it.
1599
01:15:48.199 --> 01:15:50.789
You know, it's.
1600
01:15:50.729 --> 01:15:52.890
Got a little spice to it and stuff. It's, uh,
1601
01:15:53.050 --> 01:15:55.890
but yeah, it's a miracle cure for numerous things. And
1602
01:15:55.930 --> 01:15:57.029
I'll let you just go with that.
1603
01:15:57.590 --> 01:15:58.109
Oh, all right.
1604
01:15:58.189 --> 01:15:59.909
I like that. And I love Mexican and I love
1605
01:15:59.930 --> 01:16:04.760
spicy stuff. So, uh, I'll just stay with that. Now
1606
01:16:04.779 --> 01:16:08.520
the opposite. What's something that you just don't like at
1607
01:16:08.640 --> 01:16:10.340
all but everybody else seems to love?
1608
01:16:10.359 --> 01:16:12.539
Oh, man. I'm not a.
1609
01:16:12.539 --> 01:16:16.880
Big fan of chocolate chip mint ice cream. I just
1610
01:16:16.939 --> 01:16:19.520
don't like it. I know a lot of people really
1611
01:16:19.539 --> 01:16:20.760
like it. I'm not a fan.
1612
01:16:21.319 --> 01:16:24.060
You know, Ms. Walkenpreps is right there with you. She
1613
01:16:24.149 --> 01:16:26.250
loves her ice cream, but she's like, whatever you do,
1614
01:16:26.489 --> 01:16:28.590
don't get chocolate chip mint ice cream.
1615
01:16:29.069 --> 01:16:30.789
Perfect. That's just another reason why I like her.
1616
01:16:31.090 --> 01:16:32.090
Yeah, exactly.
1617
01:16:32.909 --> 01:16:33.449
All right.
1618
01:16:33.550 --> 01:16:37.029
Well, I guess we can talk football. On Friday, you
1619
01:16:37.069 --> 01:16:39.680
traveled over to OMAC, and despite turning the ball over
1620
01:16:39.729 --> 01:16:42.539
numerous times, you were still able to get the shutout win,
1621
01:16:42.579 --> 01:16:46.119
holding them under 100 yards. What was working in that game?
1622
01:16:47.039 --> 01:16:50.000
Well, first of all, our defense played really well. Defensive
1623
01:16:50.060 --> 01:16:52.500
line did a nice job of controlling the line of scrimmage,
1624
01:16:52.720 --> 01:16:55.779
and then we really kind of started playing Mount Baker
1625
01:16:55.840 --> 01:16:59.520
defense with a lot of red hats on the ball. Um,
1626
01:16:59.779 --> 01:17:01.859
and then we were able to run the ball and, uh,
1627
01:17:02.300 --> 01:17:05.039
have some success doing that. And so, you know, when
1628
01:17:05.060 --> 01:17:07.199
we're able to run the ball and kind of do
1629
01:17:07.239 --> 01:17:09.899
what we want to there, that kind of opens things
1630
01:17:09.979 --> 01:17:12.340
up for us a little bit. So the overall, it
1631
01:17:12.359 --> 01:17:13.979
was a good game of both sides ball, except for
1632
01:17:14.000 --> 01:17:16.159
the turnovers. And we had some penalties that, you know,
1633
01:17:16.199 --> 01:17:19.649
we were a little, a little creative, but you know,
1634
01:17:19.670 --> 01:17:22.189
we were able to overcome that. And so, um, overall,
1635
01:17:22.250 --> 01:17:24.170
it was a really good road win for us against
1636
01:17:24.210 --> 01:17:27.119
the team that, you know, um, that we've, that we've
1637
01:17:27.140 --> 01:17:29.279
seen for, you know, multiple times over the last couple
1638
01:17:29.300 --> 01:17:31.380
of years and that, uh, you know, they play hard,
1639
01:17:31.399 --> 01:17:34.020
they play physical, but, um, uh, I think, you know,
1640
01:17:34.039 --> 01:17:35.479
we kind of got the better of them on last
1641
01:17:35.520 --> 01:17:35.979
Friday night.
1642
01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:39.340
You know, there was that play, uh, and you probably
1643
01:17:39.359 --> 01:17:41.720
know exactly where I'm going, but there was that, uh,
1644
01:17:42.399 --> 01:17:46.939
early whistle. Um, and I could see, and I, I mean,
1645
01:17:46.960 --> 01:17:49.779
it completely had me fooled maybe because maybe cause Danny's, uh,
1646
01:17:50.170 --> 01:17:52.149
camera work had me fooled a little bit too, but
1647
01:17:52.189 --> 01:17:54.829
you could see the coach on their sideline, put his
1648
01:17:55.069 --> 01:17:56.750
hands on his head. And I don't know if he's saying,
1649
01:17:57.029 --> 01:17:58.890
Oh man, they just ripped us for a long one.
1650
01:17:59.229 --> 01:18:02.720
Or if he's saying, Oh no, they just blew the whistle. Um, is,
1651
01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:05.680
and I, I, I talked about this on a prior podcast.
1652
01:18:05.739 --> 01:18:08.039
Is there any way you could talk to a side
1653
01:18:08.079 --> 01:18:10.619
judge and say, Hey, on this one, is there a
1654
01:18:10.680 --> 01:18:12.159
code you can give to the other officials or do
1655
01:18:12.199 --> 01:18:12.619
you just.
1656
01:18:12.539 --> 01:18:13.000
Kind of play?
1657
01:18:13.430 --> 01:18:15.329
Well, I mean, maybe you could do that, but, you know,
1658
01:18:15.350 --> 01:18:17.149
we talked about it before the game. You know, I said,
1659
01:18:17.170 --> 01:18:18.039
you know, they.
1660
01:18:17.880 --> 01:18:20.159
Always ask, do you have any trick formations or, you know,
1661
01:18:20.180 --> 01:18:22.140
different formations or trick plays? I said, no, but we
1662
01:18:22.159 --> 01:18:24.800
try to do a good job hiding the ball. And
1663
01:18:24.819 --> 01:18:26.819
they're all like, yeah, we talked about that. You know,
1664
01:18:26.859 --> 01:18:28.319
it's like, as soon as they say that, I know
1665
01:18:28.359 --> 01:18:30.560
it's going to happen. I know we played Linden a
1666
01:18:30.600 --> 01:18:33.479
couple years ago over at their place, and we were
1667
01:18:33.510 --> 01:18:34.989
talking about it. One of the officials was saying, well,
1668
01:18:35.029 --> 01:18:36.909
you know, I'm a college official, and he's the guy
1669
01:18:36.930 --> 01:18:38.430
that blew the whistle, and he looked at me, and
1670
01:18:38.449 --> 01:18:41.310
I just smiled, you know, and The guy knew it.
1671
01:18:41.420 --> 01:18:44.880
I mean, and the white hat came over and apologized.
1672
01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:47.289
And that's just the way it happens. But, yeah, that
1673
01:18:47.329 --> 01:18:50.170
might have been a touchdown on that play because there
1674
01:18:50.229 --> 01:18:51.770
was no one around. There was a lot of grass
1675
01:18:51.869 --> 01:18:54.029
for him to go on. But, you know, that's the
1676
01:18:54.069 --> 01:18:56.109
way it goes. And then we just, you know, regroup
1677
01:18:56.149 --> 01:18:57.029
and get going again.
1678
01:18:57.569 --> 01:19:01.739
And Gage had a great game defensively. Moved from safety
1679
01:19:01.779 --> 01:19:08.680
to corner. Had two interceptions. Was this kind of something personnel-wise,
1680
01:19:08.689 --> 01:19:10.739
or did you think, let's give him a shot out
1681
01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:11.579
here and see what happens?
1682
01:19:12.100 --> 01:19:14.739
Well, Jayden Louie was not probably able to go, and
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01:19:15.060 --> 01:19:20.020
we found that out during pregame a little bit. And
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01:19:20.100 --> 01:19:22.140
so we decided, you know, what's going to be the
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01:19:22.159 --> 01:19:24.779
best move here. So we put Gage at corner, and
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01:19:24.810 --> 01:19:26.189
like I said, he had a really good game for
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01:19:26.250 --> 01:19:28.489
us there, defensively for us last week.
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01:19:29.170 --> 01:19:29.710
Absolutely.
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01:19:29.869 --> 01:19:33.449
And I want to talk about Aaron Torres because, my goodness,
1690
01:19:33.710 --> 01:19:36.899
every single week he is just a monster out there.
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01:19:37.149 --> 01:19:39.439
And when I think back at all these great defensive
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01:19:39.460 --> 01:19:42.819
linemen you've had over the decades, a lot of them
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01:19:42.859 --> 01:19:46.180
are ends, you know. And interior linemen, there's been some
1694
01:19:46.220 --> 01:19:49.359
good ones, but I can't remember one like him since
1695
01:19:49.939 --> 01:19:53.689
Carl Fromley, perhaps. It's been a long time. He is
1696
01:19:54.170 --> 01:19:57.569
what makes him such a force in the middle there.
1697
01:19:58.199 --> 01:20:01.550
He just likes playing football. You know, he watches film.
1698
01:20:02.430 --> 01:20:05.329
He's got a lot of, you know, wants to go
1699
01:20:05.369 --> 01:20:07.970
get his ounce of flesh every time, right? I mean,
1700
01:20:08.010 --> 01:20:09.350
he wants to get in there and be involved with
1701
01:20:09.369 --> 01:20:13.470
what's going on. And, you know, sometimes he maybe gets
1702
01:20:13.510 --> 01:20:15.590
himself out of position because he's a little too aggressive.
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01:20:15.649 --> 01:20:18.829
But when he's on, you know, he's a huge part
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01:20:18.850 --> 01:20:20.649
of what we do on defense. And like you said,
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01:20:20.680 --> 01:20:22.600
he had a really good game. You know, he's been
1706
01:20:22.619 --> 01:20:25.079
solid all year long, played well, and he just kind
1707
01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:26.420
of really got after it on Friday.
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01:20:27.069 --> 01:20:29.949
Yeah, he's going at a different speed. He's so strong
1709
01:20:30.649 --> 01:20:33.500
and so awesome to see. I mean, he's been great
1710
01:20:33.600 --> 01:20:35.880
for a while, but now as a senior, just the
1711
01:20:35.920 --> 01:20:40.260
dominance has been apparent. Saturday afternoon, you'll be back at
1712
01:20:40.340 --> 01:20:43.869
home for the first time since week one, and you're
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01:20:43.909 --> 01:20:46.850
hosting on Alaska. The game is at 1 o'clock, so
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01:20:46.869 --> 01:20:49.369
you better get there early. Both teams love to run
1715
01:20:49.390 --> 01:20:52.210
the ball. It's going to be a fast game time-wise.
1716
01:20:52.289 --> 01:20:53.350
Tell us about the Loggers.
1717
01:20:54.750 --> 01:20:56.470
They want to run the ball. They probably run the
1718
01:20:56.510 --> 01:21:00.430
ball more than we do. They've got some really good backs.
1719
01:21:00.449 --> 01:21:05.029
Their number 45 kids, he's a dude. They have their
1720
01:21:05.069 --> 01:21:09.010
system they believe in. We're trying this week to make
1721
01:21:09.029 --> 01:21:12.470
sure we recognize what they want to do in certain formations.
1722
01:21:13.409 --> 01:21:18.670
Knowing that they've got a strong history in football. They
1723
01:21:19.590 --> 01:21:24.609
came up short against Meridian last week, but You know,
1724
01:21:25.720 --> 01:21:27.939
they beat, you know, Aden and Appelwein, which are big,
1725
01:21:27.979 --> 01:21:30.260
you know, games for their league early this year. So
1726
01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:32.760
we know it's going to be a battle. Again, it's
1727
01:21:32.779 --> 01:21:34.260
going to be up front. We just got to make
1728
01:21:34.319 --> 01:21:36.729
sure that, you know, we fly to the ball and
1729
01:21:36.750 --> 01:21:38.489
that when we wrap it up and we're tackling, we
1730
01:21:38.510 --> 01:21:39.489
get the opportunity to do that.
1731
01:21:40.270 --> 01:21:43.029
You know, without, you know, giving away game plans and
1732
01:21:43.050 --> 01:21:45.050
all that kind of stuff, when you play a team
1733
01:21:45.090 --> 01:21:48.319
that's got a completely different offense than you've faced, you know,
1734
01:21:48.539 --> 01:21:51.979
perhaps all year or, you know, whatever, you know, is
1735
01:21:52.050 --> 01:21:55.310
it a personnel thing on defense or is there something
1736
01:21:55.350 --> 01:21:58.149
that you make tweaks to defensively and say, well, this
1737
01:21:58.210 --> 01:22:00.329
is just different. This is, this is different than what
1738
01:22:00.350 --> 01:22:02.270
we usually do. And this is how we're going to
1739
01:22:02.310 --> 01:22:04.310
game plan it. Or do you just go out there
1740
01:22:04.350 --> 01:22:06.590
with your base defense and kind of see how that goes?
1741
01:22:06.989 --> 01:22:09.289
Well, I mean, obviously, I mean, one of the scout
1742
01:22:09.390 --> 01:22:12.880
guys made the, made the comment yesterday, like this office
1743
01:22:12.899 --> 01:22:13.380
doesn't make.
1744
01:22:13.300 --> 01:22:14.140
Any sense, you know?
1745
01:22:14.149 --> 01:22:17.840
You know, like I said, you know, we played tonight
1746
01:22:17.880 --> 01:22:19.500
a couple of years ago and we kind of changed
1747
01:22:19.619 --> 01:22:22.380
up how we run things. you know, we got to
1748
01:22:22.420 --> 01:22:24.460
make some adjustments. It's just not, you know, stay in
1749
01:22:24.500 --> 01:22:26.079
your base. Cause if you do that, you're going to,
1750
01:22:26.100 --> 01:22:28.340
you know, they're going to outnumber you. Their, their whole
1751
01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:31.439
idea is they want to get more people to the
1752
01:22:31.479 --> 01:22:33.890
point of attack than you can stop them, you know?
1753
01:22:33.930 --> 01:22:37.329
And so, but depending on the formation, we'll line up
1754
01:22:37.369 --> 01:22:39.229
a certain way and then, you know, we'll change some
1755
01:22:39.250 --> 01:22:42.750
responsibilities and then, you know, obviously hopefully that works. And
1756
01:22:42.789 --> 01:22:44.329
if it doesn't, then we'll have to make some adjustments
1757
01:22:44.369 --> 01:22:44.850
on the fly.
1758
01:22:44.880 --> 01:22:46.300
Yeah, absolutely.
1759
01:22:46.479 --> 01:22:49.760
And, You know, the splits, the whole thing, one side's
1760
01:22:49.779 --> 01:22:52.260
got big splits, the other side has tight splits, all
1761
01:22:52.300 --> 01:22:56.140
that stuff. It's just, is there a bigger concern of
1762
01:22:56.840 --> 01:22:58.989
who has the ball, or is it a bigger concern
1763
01:22:59.050 --> 01:23:01.710
of don't have one of the DBs fall asleep?
1764
01:23:02.449 --> 01:23:03.909
Well, yeah, I mean, you know, it's hard.
1765
01:23:03.949 --> 01:23:05.510
Like, when you're running the ball, run the ball, and
1766
01:23:05.529 --> 01:23:07.670
all of a sudden, you know, play-action pass can get
1767
01:23:07.689 --> 01:23:08.409
you in some trouble.
1768
01:23:08.449 --> 01:23:10.390
So, you know, they've just got to be disciplined that way.
1769
01:23:10.409 --> 01:23:13.760
And then for us, like I said, you know, we're
1770
01:23:13.779 --> 01:23:15.680
going to, you'll see us move around a little bit
1771
01:23:16.239 --> 01:23:19.180
depending on, what formation they come out on. And then,
1772
01:23:19.380 --> 01:23:22.119
you know, and then obviously bottom line, once the ball snapped,
1773
01:23:22.140 --> 01:23:24.600
you got to go execute. And so, um, you know,
1774
01:23:24.619 --> 01:23:26.439
we got an extra day of practice this week for
1775
01:23:26.479 --> 01:23:29.329
that because we're playing on Saturday. So, um, you know,
1776
01:23:29.350 --> 01:23:31.750
that's our goal with we're building towards, you know, over
1777
01:23:31.770 --> 01:23:33.189
the next couple of days, kind of getting ready to
1778
01:23:33.229 --> 01:23:35.010
make sure that we understand what they're trying to do
1779
01:23:35.069 --> 01:23:36.369
when they're in certain formations.
1780
01:23:37.109 --> 01:23:37.449
Awesome.
1781
01:23:37.470 --> 01:23:41.550
Well, coach, it's a Saturday game, everybody listening, uh, It's
1782
01:23:41.569 --> 01:23:43.250
the only game in town. So head out to Bob
1783
01:23:43.289 --> 01:23:46.050
Tisdale field Saturday afternoon, check it out. Best of luck
1784
01:23:46.090 --> 01:23:48.550
coach on Saturday against on Alaska. And thank you for
1785
01:23:48.590 --> 01:23:50.829
joining me today on the Gatorade game day podcast.
1786
01:23:51.310 --> 01:23:53.109
Thank you, Tyler. Appreciate it.
1787
01:23:53.189 --> 01:23:55.640
And as always, I'm glad to be here and be
1788
01:23:55.689 --> 01:23:57.020
part of what you're doing for the kids.
1789
01:23:57.060 --> 01:23:57.609
So thank you.
1790
01:23:58.270 --> 01:23:58.909
You're welcome, coach.
1791
01:23:58.949 --> 01:24:02.939
Thank you. All right. Well, you've heard from all the coaches.
1792
01:24:02.960 --> 01:24:05.260
I just want to thank them all for answering my
1793
01:24:05.340 --> 01:24:09.850
silly questions, especially coach left and his, his love for Menudo,
1794
01:24:10.090 --> 01:24:13.109
as we all have learned. So thank you very much
1795
01:24:13.149 --> 01:24:17.850
to everybody. This has been episode 451, the Week 5
1796
01:24:17.850 --> 01:24:21.029
Gatorade Game Day Football Preview. Be sure to tune in
1797
01:24:21.109 --> 01:24:24.390
tonight at 6 o'clock for the pregame. We're going to
1798
01:24:24.409 --> 01:24:26.270
talk about all the games. We're going to be covering
1799
01:24:26.289 --> 01:24:29.590
them all. We're going to show you highlights as soon
1800
01:24:29.630 --> 01:24:32.560
as they happen with updated scoring. All of that's going
1801
01:24:32.569 --> 01:24:35.689
to be happening on Gatorade Game Day Live tonight on
1802
01:24:35.720 --> 01:24:39.260
the Whatcom Preps YouTube channel. So it's all free to
1803
01:24:39.319 --> 01:24:42.779
watch and you get to keep update with every single game.
1804
01:24:42.859 --> 01:24:45.779
So if you're a Mount Baker fan and you're not
1805
01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:47.359
going to a game tonight, you're going to only going
1806
01:24:47.380 --> 01:24:49.460
to go on Saturday. This is a great way to,
1807
01:24:49.880 --> 01:24:52.600
to see kind of how those other 1A teams are doing,
1808
01:24:52.659 --> 01:24:54.500
or even if you're at a game and you just
1809
01:24:54.560 --> 01:24:57.229
want to kind of have something on your phone going,
1810
01:24:57.239 --> 01:24:58.649
so you can always check it to see what the
1811
01:24:58.810 --> 01:25:02.130
scores are around the, around the County. You can do that.
1812
01:25:02.310 --> 01:25:05.119
Just go to the, uh, walk and preps YouTube channel.
1813
01:25:05.159 --> 01:25:07.699
And there will be a live showing starting at six o'clock.
1814
01:25:07.760 --> 01:25:10.260
It won't end until the final game is over. So
1815
01:25:10.359 --> 01:25:13.390
be there. Uh, and you'll be able to hear myself
1816
01:25:13.470 --> 01:25:15.989
and Jim bring, talk about all the games and keep
1817
01:25:16.029 --> 01:25:18.729
everybody up to date with the live scoring until then.
1818
01:25:18.750 --> 01:25:22.069
This is Tyler Anderson of walk and preps. This has
1819
01:25:22.109 --> 01:25:25.270
been episode 451, the week five Gatorade game day football preview.
1820
01:25:25.289 --> 01:25:27.149
And I'll talk to you in a couple of days.