I can not believe the jibberish that consumed pages 7-9 of this thread....can we get a moderator to delete them? Really took away from the hype of the thread. It was like watching two sloths in a UFC cage battling it out.
Just remember it took a fake punt to lead us to our ONLY score last week. If we don't do a great job on defense we could be in trouble.
I think we all expected a bit of a let down game after the South Point game. We were at least a 3 TD better team than MP. We played down to their level. Fortunately it wasn't against a better team or we would have lost. Granted MP had a good defensive front....our o-line didn't do us any favors this past Friday. I feel that these guys will get back up for this game. It is the western finals. I think you see more intensity out of our squad this week. Defense wins championships, and we have one of the best there is.
South Points "bone" worked so well because they had really incredible linemen. I remember hearing prior to the first South Point game that Coach Ware had watched film on South Point and said that their #72 (I believe it was) was the best offensive linemen he had ever watched on film. Considering he has been watching film for 20 years now, that's a huge statement. As a lineman, it was actually entertaining to watch South Point's linemen. They did an incredible job of getting to our linebackers and sealing them off. Our LBs rose to the occasion in the second game and thus the victory!! No way does Hibriten block as well as South Point. I believe this will be the difference in the game....the trenches. Our defense will be in hot pursuit all night. Word is Hibriten never throws the ball and when they do rarely is it completed. I see a lot of three and outs coming for them Friday night. Over the last several years, we have faced a lot of these "great" running backs only to shut them down. The same will happen this Friday.
It's exciting....it's the Western Finals and the winner goes to the State Championship.