Although we would have liked to play a game, there are more important things in life than football. We understand the decision and our thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends affected by Hurricane Katrina. |
Drew, I think, is our hidden factor. I like our running backs, and Judd's [Lutz] a big kid who can control the middle. And we're good at receiver. The line's going to get better. Four of them, that's their first game. |
Every team's going to have adversity, |
Every year's a new challenge. Every game's its own separate entity. We just have to work through every game. It's a learning experience. People get frustrated when we lose, but we've been here before. And this week's a challenge; we don't get a week off. It's 10 weeks of a meat-grinder, but that's they way we want it. We like games like this. Our kids play well in games like this. |
I'm really proud of the kids and coaches, |
Our players are eager to compete against someone other than themselves, but sometimes things are out of our control. |
Right now it's Bellevue and Tiffin. But there is a lot of uncertainty with the new guys coming in to coach. |
That's a pretty good game, ... He hasn't played since Week 3 of last year. But, we saw, the kid can make plays. That's why we wanted him at quarterback. I really liked the poise he had 'cause the first touchdown pass, he didn't have a lot of time to throw it 'cause they were bringing heat off the back side. |
That's frustrating because after the scrimmages that's the one thing I thought we were doing well. We were running the football really well. |
The key is Opelt. We can't let him get comfortable. We can't let him sit back there and just pick away. What you try to do with a spread team is make them one-dimensional. Central did a nice job controlling the ball against them, and that's what we're going to try to do. Our best defense is going to be our offense. |
The longer I do this, |
The touchdown before the half we just said, 'We're just going to throw it up,' ... We wanted to take the pressure off Jake where he just had to deliver the ball. And he threw the ball really well. The kid, for his first start, really handled it well and did a nice job. |
There was huge animosity toward people (who bought foreign cars). |
They're as good of players as we have in the area. We've got to grow up right away. We always want to win league and we want to go deep in the playoffs. |
Watching film, (the problems) weren't anything major. It was just little missed assignments. We weren't releasing to the linebacker quick enough. We weren't moving our feet. We ran too wide. We had a multitude of little things that we've worked like heck this week to correct. |