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The problem with your analysis is that Jim Matney is no idiot. Jude will not be running wind sprints on every play because at the behest of Highland's coaching staff. The Johnson Central secondary will probably get beaten a few times but Matney is not going to allow Highlands to take Jude away on both offense and defense by letting him be run to exhaustion by a simple minded strategy that any armchair quarterback can devise from the comfort of their Mom's basement.

Highlands will try to make fatigue a factor by running fresh people at Jude all night long but he is used to being hit on every play by teams that cannot defend him by employing their normal defensive schemes. It takes a platoon system to have any chance of wearing him down because no high school player is in better physical condition that J. J. Jude. Without big, experienced blockers like Ousley and Bratton, Highlands may have more success this season than they did last year - but last year Jude was still running strong at the end of the game.

This is not one of those "teams". This HHS team is the best that he has faced since last year, and I'd argue this years team is even better!