The last time we played them there, they got us and went on to win the conference championship. If we want to be a good football team, we need to compete and play well against the other top teams in the league, and it starts right there.
Despite the weather (rain was prevalent throughout the night) and the field being muddy, I thought our running game established our offense on the night. Our offensive line played a great game.
Our plan is to get ourselves ready for the conference schedule with these early games.
Our running backs really took care of the football (with only one Bulldog fumble). We've turned the ball over a lot in bad weather games, as have opposing teams (this season). We took care of business in that regard, and Ronan didn't.
On film, he looked like the best running back we have faced thus far. A couple of his long runs were helped because of missed tackles. He does have good speed, and that showed.
It's homecoming. There will be a lot of activities to occupy the kids time and attention, but we need to take care of business on the field.
They've got one of the better defenses in the conference. Everybody has had a difficult time scoring against them. I expect a low scoring game.
I thought we responded well after the Libby game (a 49-6 loss in Libby on Oct. 7) and came out and played the caliber of football, at least emotion-wise, that we can play.
I thought we were OK after we got that score in gaining some of the momentum back. The way things went in the third quarter, I wasn't sure how we would respond.
Offensively, I thought we clicked. We were able to keep things going by not committing mistakes. It was our best game so far.
