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Speaker 1: three A and four A State High School championship games,

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Speaker 1: which we will air on nine to fifty KM. That

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Speaker 1: is coming up the three A game at seven o'clock tonight,

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Speaker 1: the four A game at eight o'clock tonight, and Hugh,

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Speaker 1: You and I started talking about Sam Donald the beginning

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Speaker 1: my expectations were of Sam Donald going in, and then

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Speaker 1: But Sam Donald was was a one quarterback for the

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Speaker 1: first six years of his career. He was another quarterback

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Speaker 1: last year, and so all I was expecting was something

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Speaker 1: my actual expectations was in Sam Darnold prior seasons, if

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Speaker 1: give me all his seasons pro rated on a seventeen

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Speaker 1: He was a sixty percent completion guy. He was a

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Speaker 1: Sixty percent went up to sixty six percent, forty three

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know you say last year. For me,

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Speaker 3: when I say last thirty six, we're talking four teams.

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Speaker 3: We're talking Carolina, San Francisco, Minnesota, and Seattle, four different

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Obviously, we hope he keeps going. But

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I think we all feel like whether

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Speaker 1: got unquestionably yes. The signs point to yes. The signs

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Speaker 3: I think it's mostly mostly yes. I think the signs

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Speaker 3: it's likely just because there's clear evidence that he's a

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Speaker 3: Remember last year when Seattle had to beat either Green

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Speaker 1: It's just it was unbelievable that the numbers on first down. Rick,

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Speaker 6: Like we were terrible passing the ball on first down.

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Speaker 1: They were two of eight with two interceptions and two

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Speaker 1: So how would you evaluate the irregular season overall? They

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Speaker 6: I think a fairly predictable eight and four.

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Speaker 6: Probably would have said, Yeah, that sounds about right.

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Speaker 7: That's exactly right. I think it was a very good season.

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Speaker 7: We'll see if they can get that done.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, twelve frank recruiting class helps, That's that's not bad.

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Speaker 1: Is this more what we're what we saw with Kiffen

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Speaker 7: There is no question that it's awkward. There's no question

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Speaker 7: The transfer portal shouldn't happen in the middle of a

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Speaker 1: It's just an impossibility for the lad You know, eight

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Speaker 7: Well, we're getting close to that anyway, and I think

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Speaker 7: It doesn't seem hard for Texas Tech, who have a

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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the play in games in the future.

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Speaker 7: Now you're talking that's exactly what needs to happen. It's

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's nice to have a big ten plaque

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Speaker 6: And what's interesting about that is had we had that.

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Speaker 1: What is the intrigue of watching Ohio State Indiana this week?

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Speaker 7: The big thing in this game is the quarterbacks because

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Speaker 7: If neither has a great game, and this is a

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Speaker 7: it's there's some intrigue involved. I just hope that Ryan

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Speaker 1: Be terrible if somebody got hurt for this one in

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Speaker 1: before the playoffs, Rick, if Texas would have played McNeese

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Speaker 7: Based on the brand? I mean, that's the same as

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Speaker 7: We don't start the season believing that Vanderbilt or Missouri

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Speaker 1: That going to make coaches fearful, especially big time programs,

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Speaker 6: Look at Texas.

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Speaker 1: All they needed to do is play Idaho instead of

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Speaker 7: I think the television people have too much clout for

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Speaker 7: Then they're going to have predetermined schedules that all create

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Speaker 1: Well to your point, if they go to a twenty

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Speaker 7: Well you should, but you have to win and the

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Speaker 1: You mentioned BYU. They are stuck between Miami and Notre

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Speaker 6: There's a thought that now the head to head.

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Speaker 1: Matchup that Miami won would be looked at more closely

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Speaker 7: I think the committee chair, the athletic director Markansas, said

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Speaker 7: which means that you're just kind of going by wins

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Speaker 1: All right, Rick, I can feel your heat through the phone. Man,

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Speaker 1: You're absolutely on fire. Seven and two of your Taco

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Speaker 1: Time pick of the week over the last nine weeks.

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Speaker 1: I'll take a couple of Chris Beef burritos and some

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Speaker 6: That'll be my pick of the week. What is yours?

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Speaker 7: We are going with the Ohio State Buckeyes. They're laying

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Speaker 7: No other team is even close to that. I am

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Speaker 1: Love it, love it. We'll talk to you next week.

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Speaker 1: I like that pick. Well, we'll see on Thursday. Thanks coach.

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Speaker 7: All right, babies, talk to you soon.

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Speaker 1: Great stuffrom Rick new Heisley has been absolutely in fuego.

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Speaker 1: He is taking Ohio State minus the five and a

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Speaker 1: half against Indiana in the Big Ten championship game.

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Speaker 6: We're gonna go from.

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Speaker 1: Talking college football to talking high school football tonight on

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Speaker 1: nine fifty kjr AM.

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Speaker 6: There is the three A State championship.

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Speaker 1: Tomorrow I'll have the call on nine to fifty kjr

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Speaker 1: AM of the four A State championship between Lake Stevens.

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Speaker 6: And Sumner and talk about it all.

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Speaker 1: Todd Millis are from from Varsity WA News coming up

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Speaker 1: next in our final segment in ninety three point three KJFM.

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Speaker 1: Rolling into the final segment of the show on a

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Speaker 1: Friday night, and if you flip over to nine to

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Speaker 1: fifty KJR AM in about fifteen minutes, you will hear

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Speaker 1: the dulcet tones of one Michael Benton calling a three

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Speaker 1: A state championship game and to preview it with us

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Speaker 1: from Varsity WA News, our friend Todd and Millis Todd.

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Speaker 2: How you doing good?

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Speaker 4: Good? I'm doing well man?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Wa are windy? You here at Husky Stadium? So I

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Speaker 4: imagine it, And it's supposed to stay throughout the day,

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Speaker 4: so it's gonna make it for very interesting state championship

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Speaker 4: games for the rest of the day.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this change from indoor, cozy climate and Tacoma

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Speaker 1: that we've had forever and ever and ever now to

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Speaker 1: Husky Stadium is going to be different.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 1: It does not sound like in the three A game

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Speaker 1: tonight is going to be much as much an impact

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Speaker 1: as it would necessarily in the four A game, because

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Speaker 1: it sounds like Mount Tahoma and Oday, these two big

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Speaker 1: time teams this year just want to grind it out

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Speaker 1: on the ground anyway, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 4: They're built very very similarly, Dick. And it's interesting because

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Speaker 4: we all know about Oday and Monte Cohler and the

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Speaker 4: Viera offense, and we're going to rotate three or four

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Speaker 4: guys play power football and we're gonna let our defense

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Speaker 4: do its thing. Montahoma's built exactly like that. They've got

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Speaker 4: three running backs that they will rely on. You know,

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Speaker 4: Nezzie White and Felix Diaz are kind of leading the

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Speaker 4: leading the committee, and they'll take some they'll take some

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Speaker 4: chances with Mika Cadero and Elijah Door. So Husky fans

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Speaker 4: get used to that name because he's signed with the

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Speaker 4: University of Washington and he's had a fantastic year, the

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Speaker 4: MVP of the three APSL. So, but I think tonight

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Speaker 4: it's going to be run the football and play defense.

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Speaker 4: That's the kind of whether it is. I mean, we've

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Speaker 4: got thirty thirty thirty mile an hour gusts of wind

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Speaker 4: going in one direction, so if you're going to the east,

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Speaker 4: if your offense is going to the east, you're gonna

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Speaker 4: have a really difficult time scoring.

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Speaker 1: Would this be an upset? I mean, I know Oday's

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Speaker 1: the one seed, Mount Tahoma is the two. Was it

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Speaker 1: first of all, was it an upset last week when

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Speaker 1: Mount Tahoma beat East Side Catholic even though Mountahoma had

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Speaker 1: a higher seed and we all think of East Side

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Speaker 1: Catholic as this big, huge megalith power and yet Mount

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Speaker 1: Tahoma got the win fairly easily twenty one to six.

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Speaker 2: Was that seen as an upset after that game? I

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Speaker 2: mean maybe marginally.

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Speaker 4: What I think what would took everybody back was was

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Speaker 4: the fact that mounts a home of controlled the football

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Speaker 4: game and Mountahoma's defense. I mean, they would fare very

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Speaker 4: well this year with their twenty sixteeniors in the three

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Speaker 4: A Metro League. So I don't think the fact that

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Speaker 4: they went toe to toe with Eastside Catholic doesn't surprise anybody.

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Speaker 4: But the fact that they they got out to the

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Speaker 4: big lead and East Side Catholic did not score until

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Speaker 4: the final minutes, yeah, that was a little bit of

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Speaker 4: a surprisal. So in that regard, Yeah, but hey, listen,

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Speaker 4: this team is I know it's it's difficult for people

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Speaker 4: outside Seattle, and I used to a brand of football

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Speaker 4: that wins, you know, the win t of Bellevue and

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Speaker 4: power football of Oday and East Side Catholic. You know

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Speaker 4: that that's kind of ruled the roost the last decade

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Speaker 4: or so, and Mounta Home has kind of taken a

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Speaker 4: little bit of everything there and and and kind of

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Speaker 4: applied it to their twenty sixteen years and they're just

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Speaker 4: playing great football. But much like oday, the defense from

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Speaker 4: Mounta Homa drives the bus stick and I expect that

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Speaker 4: to happen tonight, especially with this one and very low

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Speaker 4: scoring game. I'm anticipating well.

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Speaker 1: And then tomorrow night in the game I'll be calling

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Speaker 1: along with Chris Kidd at seven o'clock. We should see

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Speaker 1: more balls in the air, so we'll see if there's

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Speaker 1: a thirty five mill an hour wins tomorrow night. That

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Speaker 1: may favor Sumner a little bit as the Sumner Spartans,

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Speaker 1: the defending four A state champions taking on Lake Stevens,

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Speaker 1: who does love to chuck it around. What do you

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Speaker 1: think about this game matching two fabulous longtime coaches, Keith

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Speaker 1: Ross of Sumner in his twenty seventh year and Tom

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Speaker 1: Try from Lake Stevens.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's only the second time in state history in

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Speaker 4: the four A game where the past two state champions

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Speaker 4: have played the following year they played each other, So

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Speaker 4: Lake Stevens winning it in twenty two and twenty three.

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Speaker 4: Like you said, Sumner beating Camus last year for the

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Speaker 4: state championship its first in a very long time and

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Speaker 4: Keith Ross's first as a coach. You know, these teams

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Speaker 4: played in Week one. It was a rematch of the

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Speaker 4: season opener last year, and like last year, it came

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Speaker 4: down to the final play and Lake Stevens ended up

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Speaker 4: pulling it off on a last second touchdown pass from

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Speaker 4: Blake Moser. You're gonna have fun watching Blake Moser. If

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Speaker 4: he's not completing passes in the wind is affecting the

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Speaker 4: pass game, he can beat you with his legs. He

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Speaker 4: is a it's like, well, it's like he's sort of

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Speaker 4: like being shot out of the cannon so fast. And

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Speaker 4: then if you put too much attention with him, then

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Speaker 4: Jamian Ferrell, the really twitchy running back, can take it

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Speaker 4: the distance too. It's a very very dangerous offensive backfield

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Speaker 4: that Lake Stephens has. But if it's not Wendy, then

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Speaker 4: you got Mac. You know, you've got three really good

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Speaker 4: receivers that Lake Stephens has on the perimeter to throw

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Speaker 4: the football too. They're a really, really dangerous offense and

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Speaker 4: there's a reason why they put up fifty sixty seventy

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Speaker 4: points in the postseason. They're really really difficult to stop Dick.

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Speaker 1: And if anything, if last week's game has anything to

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Speaker 1: do with this week's game, for Sumner, all I have

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Speaker 1: to do is remember two names, and that's running back

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Speaker 1: Lance McGee and wide receiver Braylan Polp. Braylan Polp because

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Speaker 1: Coach Ross told me that those two got four forty

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Speaker 1: nine touches out of the fifty plays they ran last

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Speaker 1: year or last week. Rather, Lance McGee a two thousand

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Speaker 1: yard running back and then Braylan Pope was absolutely fantastic

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Speaker 1: ten catches, one hundred and thirty three yards and two

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Speaker 1: touchdowns last week.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Braylan Pope, like you mentioned, had a big

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Speaker 4: game against Lake Stephens the first time with four touchdown catches.

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Speaker 4: He's tough to stop. And so Lake Stevens is going

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Speaker 4: to have to figure out a way to bracket him

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Speaker 4: or get some help on him. But I think you're

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Speaker 4: going to see Lake Stevens defense gear to stop Lance McGee.

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Speaker 4: I mean, he cannot run for three hundred and thirteen

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Speaker 4: yards against Lake Stevens like he did last week against

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Speaker 4: If the Bikes think they're going to win the game,

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Speaker 4: So I think they're probably going to load the box

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Speaker 4: and really key in on Lance and find some help

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Speaker 4: against Braylin and and force Sumner to kind of go

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Speaker 4: to other guys. Like you said, those two really hogged

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Speaker 4: targets and touches last week. If those guys are allowed

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Speaker 4: to dictate the game like they did last week against

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Speaker 4: pull Up, it could be for a very long night

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Speaker 4: for the Lake Stephens defense, a defense that has struggled

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Speaker 4: at times here in the postseason against a good passing game.

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Speaker 2: Hey, enjoy the game tonight. I'll talk to you tomorrow night.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Before we let you go, tell everybody how we can,

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Speaker 1: especially old school fans of Todd Millis and the Tacoma

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Speaker 1: News Tribune. Where can we get Todd Millis now on

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Speaker 1: his on his Varsity News reports.

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Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate the support. Man. We're at Varsitylawnnews dot com.

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Speaker 4: It's myself and and former Tacoma you should be in

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Speaker 4: sportswriter Lawrence Smith, and we started our own website in

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Speaker 4: the in the summer, covering the whole state of Washington

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Speaker 4: and uh man, it's the you know the Uh, the

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Speaker 4: support's been unbelievable. Really appreciate all the listeners and the readers.

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Speaker 4: And we'll be here all weekend here at Husky Stadium, uh,

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Speaker 4: for for all six games, and then uh, you know,

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Speaker 4: we'll get one day off and then we'll give ourselves

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Speaker 4: toward basketball and girls like football and wrestling probably my

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Speaker 4: favorite favorite time of the year. So but I appreciate

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Speaker 4: the support for everybody that's that's logged on and subscribe

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Speaker 4: and supported us.

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Speaker 2: Love it. Hey, we have appreciate it. Todd, thanks so much.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the game tonight.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it, Dick. Thanks man.

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Speaker 2: Todd Millis Varsity one News.

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Speaker 1: He'll be covering the three A state title game tonight

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Speaker 1: and the four A state title game tomorrow. Both games

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Speaker 1: can be heard at seven pm. Mike Benton tonight, Dick

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Speaker 1: Faine tomorrow. Hey, that's me. I'm speaking in third person, Jackson.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to hear this with you tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: Benton.

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Speaker 2: Today, let's go.

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Speaker 9: It's been a while since I've done a football game.

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Speaker 9: I've done a billion basketball game. Has been a while

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Speaker 9: since I've done a football game. But this should be

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Speaker 9: an absolutely fantastic matchup. Both these games should be very

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Speaker 9: very good, so you'll have some high school football on

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Speaker 9: the radio on nine to fifty KJRM.

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Speaker 2: That's gonna do it for us.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff thanks to Hubreed, Love Millan, thanks to Todd

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Speaker 1: Millis there, Rick new Heisel don't forget picking the locks

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Speaker 1: on ninety three point three. KJRFM is coming up next

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Speaker 1: with our friend MJ in the Midday and Lee Sterling

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Speaker 1: say everybody have a great