
Coach’s comments: “Offensively, we have a lot of experience and size back; we do have eight guys up front we can depend on. Defensively, we lost a lot of our size and strength, but we have a lot of skilled position kids back. We have athleticism on the D-line, and they won’t let you tee off on them. Our conference, as a trend, has become spread-and-throw, so we may be more suited defensively than we ever have been. We may be just a little light up front (line). I was excited about our kicking game last year – gave it a B – but this year, I am not going to settle for anything but an A game. "With the kicking game you can protect your defense a little bit. Our game will be played around our kicking game. You really win with your defensive line, and we have some aggressive kids there. We have depth with our defensive backs, but our linebackers will have to develop. The wing-T is different and allows us to be good at our passing game, but the teams we play can’t concentrate on that because they need to figure out our running game. Our No. 1 key will be staying healthy and catching a little bit of luck along the way – Carson Steele had six TDs called back, and that’s no fun. We start out with the nation’s No. 20 team Warren Central, so we have to be ready out of the gate.