[Hoot Gibson]

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.

I would bet that Highlands' coaching staff finds it easier to prepare for teams that play more like their own team does and that is true of any good team.

Eventually, Highlands will find itself a couple of early touchdowns behind a team like Johnson Central and maybe then, Highlands' fans will come to appreciate the virtues of an offense that allows a team to dominate the time of possession and shorten the game. It's impossible to mount a comeback if you don't get enough possessions and interceptions and fumbles happen to the best of teams.