[Blau Vogel]

Scheduling teams that play a particular offense is not the same as practicing against it every day in practice. Johnson Central will continue to run the ball effectively against Highlands because there is no way that Highlands can devote enough practice time during the season to replicate JC's offense well enough to stop it completely. They can and do effectively shutdown teams that run similar offenses to their own. Conversely, Johnson Central's defense is usually very good against teams that run option offenses when they face those teams in the playoffs.

There really is no good argument for teams like Johnson Central to scrap potent offenses so that they can look more like Highlands.

I don't think anyone is suggestiing JC or any other team needs to scrap what they do best. The idea is to open things up a "little" with more than one or two forward passes per game. going into the Highlands game this year, JC had accumulated a whopping 344 yards through the air...roughly equivelant to one Highlands game. If that were trippled or even just doubled, opposing teams would at least have to have DB's respect the chance the ball might be thrown.

As I said before, I would prefer the smash mouth teams keep it on the ground and make NO changes to the way they do things. In doing so, it gives my team a better than even chance of getting up by enough points that it is impossible for grind it out teams to catch up.